... LOUIS W LOUIS W POTTS Manasseh Cutler Lobbyist On August 3 1787 the parson of the Congregational Church in Ipswich now Hamilton Massachusetts returned to his hamlet He calculated he had traversed 885 miles in his one-horse sulky in the past two months and considered it one of the most interesting and agreeable journies I ever made in my life It had in every view been prosperous but in many respects infinitely exceeded my expectations1 Somewhat the polymath he could cite among his feats the ...
... 102 Ohio Arch 102 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications was introduced by Mr Burdell and asked to invoke the Divine blessing REVEREND NAPHTALI LUCCOCK Our Father's God from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand We stand in this sunlit hour of privilege with grateful hearts for the splendid inheritance thou hast given us in the midst of the years We thank thee for the happy memories which crowd our hearts and for the great opportunities which open before us Put thy blessing ...
... JOHN OFFNER JOHN OFFNER President McKinley's Final Attempt to Avoid War With Spain By April 1 1898 war between the United States and Spain seemed certain Rebellious Republican congressmen had forced President William McKinley's diplomatic pace by threatening to join Democrats in declaring war and were kept in line only by promises that the president would shortly turn over the Cuban issue to Congress McKinley had informed the Spanish government of his terms for a settlement and Madrid's March ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLTIONISTS amp the South 1831-1861 The by Stanley Harrold rev 195-196 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia An 37 Adjutant General Ohio office of 26 28 37 African-American soldiers 34-35 149n 14 Agnew Margaret Mrs Harman Blennerhassett 137-138 Agriculture 80-81 Aides-de-Camp Ohio office of 26 29 Akron Beacon Journal 10-11 Alcoholic camphor 180 Alexander Charles C book rev 205207 Allen Howard W book rev 112-113 Allopathic medicine 177 Ambassadors and ...
... array of current social array of nail engravings and factory views than is suggested in the few line drawings that appear in the text The circumstance of this work being published pretty much as Loveday typed it for his Ohio State University dissertation does not make the absence of good illustrations more forgivable It does cheapen the high quality of his writing The care and attention now ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AM ERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director An archival expedition to the West Indies was made by the American Jewish Archives in July 1952 The research group was composed of Rabbi and Mrs Theodore S Levy of Huntington West Virginia Dr Ferdinand M Isserman of St Louis and Dr Jacob R Marcus director of the archives There were a number of Jewish settlements in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the ...
... Lucy Lucy Webb Hayes and her Family by EMILY APT GEER The public life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes has been studied by many historians but little has been written about the friendly sparkling woman he married and their large and active family of eight children Lucy Webb Hayes's concern for people helped her develop a lively interest in politics that served her equally well as the wife of a city solicitor in Cincinnati and as mistress of the White House while her husband was President Their ...
... THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO BY ERWIN H PRICE CHAPTER I THE LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND In the year 1848 in Ohio the Whig administration under Governor William Bebb was drawing to a close In the Legislature there was a Whig majority whose efforts were sometimes embarrassed by an energetic group of Democrats This opposition moreover had the advantage of working with the party in power in national politics at Washington The Ohio representation in Congress ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 393 left little or nothing to be desired in the treatment of his subject To the presentation of his facts he gives logical organization and from the results draws a judicial and convincing conclusion After a painstaking minute and unprejudiced investigation the author sums up the evidence -in his chapter on the Legal Aspects and the Equities - and elicits the verdict that the seating of Mr Hayes was a justifiable compromise of a doubtful perversion of political rights ...
... Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor By EUGENE C MURDOCK One day in the early fall of 1897 thirty friends of Henry George closeted themselves with the great single-taxer in Tom L Johnson's New York offices The question before them was Should George be a candidate in the approaching New York mayoralty election Some of those present observed that their leader's health was not good and that an exhausing campaign could render permanent damage to him An eminent doctor ...
... FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI FLATBOATING DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI 1867-1873 Correspondence and Diaries of the William Dudley Devol Family of Marietta Ohio PART II edited by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College V More material remains from William Dudley Devol's fourth flatboating expedition than from the other three put together In addition to the letters which passed back and forth it includes two diaries covering the first six weeks of his trip printed ...
... WILLIAM WILLIAMS MATHER WILLIAM WILLIAMS MATHER BY JOHN H NEWVAHNER William Williams Mather was the first State Geologist of Ohio and chief of the first Geological Survey of the State In this capacity he discovered and brought to light a knowledge of the vast mineral resources of the State And the development of these resources has brought untold wealth to Ohio and to the Nation Who was this man who was entrusted with such responsibility by our great commonwealth Why was he chosen for this ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 399 we need most in this great work of rescue and preservation Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen are more Lyman C Drapers-men who with knapsack on their backs are not only willing but anxious to go on foot if need be many miles to the left and to the right to secure a journal a diary a memorandum an autograph letter that shall be preserved and become a priceless document to those who are to come ...
... array of Washington politicians in attendance it was less than she had wished for Had she married a Catholic boy she could have had a real Catholic wedding She understood that Well educated Catholic young gentlemen are scarce and Catholic girls cannot all have an opportunity of marrying suitably in the church21 To marry a man such as Sherman belonging to no church was a tolerable alternative to Ellen but she never fully accepted it It was ...
... MATTHIAS LOY MATTHIAS LOY Leader Of Ohio's Lutherans by C GEORGE FRY Among the names of the pioneers who labored to establish a strong Lutheran Church in Ohio that of Matthias Loy deserves a prominent place At the time of his death in 1915 he was regarded as one of the most distinguished theologians of the Lutheran faith in the United States1 and in his long and productive life he had been a Churchman of varied attainments and wide usefulness pastor professor editor author and church leader2 ...
... AN EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION AN EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION BY ALFRED J WRIGHT Miami Valley College For both sexes near Springboro Warren County Ohio Under the care of Friends term opens Ninth Month 4th 1877 Term fees for the year 230 from which will be deducted amounts earned at suitable industries two hours daily for boys on the farm and in Mechanics Hall and girls in household duties also cost of railroad fares once each way from the fees of the first and the last terms respectively For ...
... THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON BY REV EDWARD S LEWIS One of the most notable campaigns for the presidency of the United States was that of 1840 in which Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison contended for that high office This was perhaps the most picturesque of the presidential campaigns The Democrats were strong and confident Harrison the Whig candidate was ridiculed by them as being only a western soldier living in a log ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... Samuel A Samuel A Hudson's Panorama Of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers By JOSEPH EARL ARRINGTON John Banvard and John Rowson Smith were the pioneers in applying the panoramic art form of enlarged and continuous views to the western river system1 Samuel A Hudson followed close behind them with his panorama of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers the first to picture the majestic Ohio He had earlier created such a panorama of the Hudson River2 and later was to make one of the Gold Regions in ...
... Leo Lesquereux Leo Lesquereux 279 LEO LESQUEREUX BY EDWARD ORTON The revocation of the Edict of Nantes inflicted an irreparable injury upon the French nation in depleting it of its middle class from which its industrial energy its science literature and art were mainly drawn but the Protestant neighbors of France gained correspondingly thereby England Holland Switzerland and the English colonies in North America were greatly enriched by this enforced emigration These Huguenot exiles brought ...