... 48 OHIO HISTORY 48 OHIO HISTORY THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN EXCERPTS FROM A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW edited by LLOYD J GRAYBAR In 1874 Albert Shaw later the distinguished editor of the American Review of Reviews and friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson was in his seventeenth year An intelligent youth able to observe events with some discernment he kept a diary of his life in the southwestern Ohio village of New London better known as Paddy's Run1 Renamed Shandon in 1893 ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY 1835-1858 FURTHER ASPECTS CONTRIBUTION OF OHIO PHYSICIANS TO THE MEXICAN WAR By LEON GOLDMAN MD One of the wars least interesting to and least popular with the people of the United States was of course the Mexican War of 1846 Yet this war should be of some interest to the physician for it was at this time that in spite of great difficulties definite advances were made by medical officers in the army Their conduct in the field went far to ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTOROHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 19 1888 To the Members The annual reports of the Treasurer and the Secretary have been by them submitted to this Committee which in the absence of a meeting of the Trustees is authorized to act upon them We have examined them find them correct and approve and recommend them to your careful attention From the Treasurer's report you will learn that ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 85 It is fitting that Mr Hooper should speak for the Club on this occasion Mr Hooper is a charter member of the Club was its first President and has been for many years its Secretary and active Executive I have the privilege of presenting Mr Osman C Hooper RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT BY OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Kit-Kat Club The Kit-Kat Club meets today in sorrow Death has entered our circle and taken our President Emilius Oviatt Randall who ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Frontier Republic Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country 1780-1825 By Andrew RL Cayton Kent Kent State University Press 1986 xii 197p map notes essay on sources index 2700 The intellectual history of the early republic has undergone considerable revival in recent years Led by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard whose The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 1967 was a classic when published and continued by his pupil Gordon Wood of Brown University in the ...
... NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY By RAYMOND F FLETCHE R Time's out of joint when a newspaper man ventures to speak at an annual gathering of a great state historical society Whenever a member of the Fourth Estate appraises history he must agree with the sages that it is at the root of all science the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature the unrolled scroll of prophecy the record of man in quest of complete living What possible connection can there be between proud ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D ANDREWS William T Coggeshall Boosterof Western Literature Students of nineteenth-century America have long been familiar with a type of person that intellectual historian Daniel Boorstin precisely labeled the booster1 Typically he was a small-town midwestern newspaper editor or dry-goods entrepreneur anxious to make a killing for himself and a reputation for his town--the order of his desires was never clear Promotion was his method the most insignificant occurrence in his ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ADDRESS to the People of the Western Country An by Daniel Drake 10 Adena 143-144 illustration 145 African Colonization Society 151 Albrecht Carl W bk notes 93 Allen William 149 Aller Kenneth P 135 Allison Col C W B 38 41 42 43 America Enters the World A People's History of the Progressive Era volume seven by Page Smith rev 77-79 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 105 American Art Its Awful Attitude by John Frankenstein 8 16 23 American Philosophical ...
... ANTHONY GENE CAREY ANTHONY GENE CAREY The Second Party System Collapses The 1853 Maine Law Campaign in Ohio As he sat at his desk in Cincinnati in late September 1852 Rutherford B Hayes recorded his thoughts on the apparent disintegration of a party system that had held the loyalties of Americans for a generation Government no longer has its ancient importance he wrote Its duties and its powers no longer reach to the happiness of the people The people's progress progress of every sort no ...
... OHIO'S MADONNA OF THE TRAIL OHIO'S MADONNA OF THE TRAIL BY MRS LIDA KECK-WIGGINS Ohio's Pioneer Mother Statue-- the Madonna of the Trail is located three miles west of Springfield on the grounds of the State Masonic Home The statue is a warm pink in color and is moulded of Missouri granite as the main aggregate in the poured mass of algonite stone The foundation upon which it stands is two feet above ground and the monument is 18 feet tall The design is of a pioneer mother clad in garb ...
... The National Negro Convention 1848 The National Negro Convention 1848 By HOWARD H BELL ON SEPTEMBER 6 1848 a small but determined group of men gathered at Cleveland Ohio to discuss the peculiar problems facing them and to lay plans for improving their position in the land of their birth They were mainly men of the Old Northwest but there were also representatives from Canada where the escaped slave was finding a haven of refuge in ever increasing numbers1 They were carpenters editors barbers ...
... BIRTH PLACES OF THREE OHIO PRESIDENTS BIRTH PLACES OF THREE OHIO PRESIDENTS BY FELIX J KOCH Ohio has been well-named The Mother of Presidentsand while to give the list of all the Chief Executives who were either born or who grew up -for some years at least - within her confines were tedious -it is an interesting play of the Fates worthy the noting that three Presidential birthplaces are so closely located one to another that a day's motor jaunt out from Cincinnati permits of one visiting them ...
... THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL Soon after the close of the World War it was realized that the growth of the Museum and the Library of the Society had reached the limits of available space and that additional room would be needed not only for the exhibits that were coming in larger measure from the archaeological field of work but for newspaper files and for the trophies documents pamphlets books papers and manuscripts relating to the World War In the years 1919 and 1920 the need ...
... 676 Ohio Arch 676 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tiers of imperishable renown such as our Millikans Eliots Burbanks Fords Shapleys and Grenfells have given the world Professor Hulbert was generously applauded at the conclusion of his address Dr Thompson then introduced the second speaker of the afternoon Dr G Clyde Fisher Curator of Visual Instruction in the American Museum of Natural History New York City Dr Fisher is a native Ohioan whose scholarly attainments and enviable record ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Harry Hopkins Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy By George McJimsey Cambridge Harvard University Press 1987 xiv 474p illustrations notes index 2500 Perhaps it was the common bond of a Grinnell College education that lured George McJimsey to Harry Hopkins as a biographical subject Certainly few men other than heads of state and a handful of generals were more important than Hopkins during World War II and no one including Franklin D Roosevelt himself was more ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Best Intentions The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy Johnson and Nixon By Irwin Unger New York Doubleday 1996 399p notes index 2795 Guns or Butter The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson By Irving Bernstein New York The Oxford University Press 1996 x 606p illustrations notes index 3500 Irwin Unger's The Best of Intentions and Irving Bernstein's Guns or Butter offer timely accounts of the Johnson years tracing the ideas programs and agencies that ...
... HENRY KURTZ HENRY KURTZ MAN OF THE BOOK by DONALD F DURNBAUGH At 900 AM on Monday January 12 1874 Elder Henry Kurtz of Columbiana Ohio was found in his favorite rocking chair his lifeless hands holding one of his well-loved volumes The septuagenarian publisher communitarian advocate and Brethren churchman expired as he had lived -- as a man of the book1 Kurtz was born on July 22 1796 in the duchy of Wtirttemberg the son of George Jacob d 1846 and Regina Henrietta Kurtz d 1857 His ...
... JOSEPH RAY1 JOSEPH RAY1 By JERRY DENNIS Joseph Ray was born in Ohio County Virginia now Ohio County West Virginia on November 25 1807 His ancestry was of English origin and can be traced back to John Ray the naturalist William Ray his father was born in Ireland in 1782 and had settled with his parents near West Liberty Virginia in 1789 On February 25 1807 William married Margaret Graham a native of Westchester County Pennsylvania They were among the early pioneers of the Upper Ohio Valley The ...