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Viola M. Harrison letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 14, 1914
No full textOn August 14, 1914, the executive secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, Viola M. Harrison, sent this letter to Lucile Atcherson, a suffragist in central Ohio and executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Harrison wrote to Atcherson to confirm that the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association's state banner, which had been on loan with the FCWSA, had arrived safely in Lincoln, Nebraska. Harrison also congratulated Atcherson on a successful petition event in Ohio, and expressed her hopes for both Ohio and Nebraska to achieve equal suffrage for women.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
Tippecanoe and slavery too: Jonathan Jennings, William Henry Harrison, and the battle for free labor in Indiana
No full textIn the first few decades of the nineteenth century, the expansion of the young United States beyond those original thirteen began to take shape. In the development of the Old Northwest and the states that would eventually emerge from the region, some of the nation’s first real debates on expanding slavery beyond the states where it already existed commenced. In what would become the Indiana Territory, and later the State of Indiana, political divisions regarding slavery were largely embodied by two men. William Henry Harrison was the first Governor of the Indiana Territory. A Virginian, Harrison grew up as a member of the planter class in his home state. The politics and economics of the plantation system would have seemed to work well in the new territory north of the Ohio River, and Harrison, in an effort to more quickly populate the region with proper men of means, especially those wanting to import slavery, would advocate for its legalization.
Leading the free-soilers in Indiana was Jonathan Jennings. An arch enemy of aristocratic themes in politics, and therefore a consistent opponent to William Henry Harrison, Jennings would spend two decades in public life in Indiana, working to eradicate slavery from within the territory’s borders and ensuring that Indiana’s first constitution would prohibit the practice. Though Indiana entered the Union as a free state, the story of Jennings and the battle for free labor is not widely known, even in the Hoosier state. This essay examines the story and its main characters, as well as how the story has been told over the years and has almost been forgotten. (Author abstract)Northcutt, J.R. (2017). Tippecanoe and slavery too: Jonathan Jennings, William Henry Harrison, and the battle for free labor in Indiana. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster ArtsHistoryCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio
The influence of atmospheric circulation on surface marine temperature
No full textAtmospheric circulation is an important influence on local climate, affecting meteorological variables such as temperature, precipitation, cloud cover and humidity. There are strong relationships between surface meteorology and atmospheric circulation in many areas. The extent to which these relationships can explain past climate variability however is unclear, especially over the oceans. A statistical model is developed that can capture the relationships between temperature anomalies and atmospheric circulation. This is then used to estimate the contribution of atmospheric circulation to variations in marine air temperature from as far back as 1770 until 2010. The uncertainty in the relationships is also calculated. Atmospheric circulation patterns are defined from calculations of flow direction, flow strength and average sea level pressure. Estimated and observed marine air temperature anomalies show significant correlations; especially over the northern hemisphere and mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere. We show that atmospheric circulation has an important influence on past marine air temperature variability. The estimated marine air temperatures are also accompanied with suitable uncertainty estimates. It was concluded that atmospheric circulation is a key factor only in localised short-term climate variability and not the overall global temperature variability. The globally averaged marine air temperature estimates often have an anomaly close to zero. Other factors are more important when considering global marine temperature variability, such as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and climate change. When focusing on differences between marine air temperature and sea surface temperature (SST) the climate change signal becomes less important and atmospheric circulation is the main contributor to differences seen
William Henry Harrison letter to Return Jonathan Meigs regarding troop movements
No full textThis letter was signed by William Henry Harrison as Commander of the Northwest Army at its headquarters in Delaware to Ohio Governor Return J. Meigs. The letter informs the governor of troop movements and cutting of military road to Miami Rapids where Harrison was to concentrate his forces.
The United States, angered by British attempts to impress American sailors into the British Navy and fearing the British presence in Canada, declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. William Henry Harrison, commander-in-chief of the Northwestern Army, built Fort Meigs, named for the governor, near present-day Perrysburg. In one of the most significant battles of the war, Colonel Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. The British Captain Robert Barclay surrendered his entire fleet. Harrison learned that Perry had effectively cut the British supply line through Perry's message: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." The War of 1812 destroyed American Indian military power and confined them to reservations
CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2018). CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223946
'If I should die tonight' poem
No full textHumorous poem copied by Harrison Kerr and written by Benjamin Franklin King ca. 1890. The poem, titled "If I should die tonight," jokes about money owed to the author and the shock he would experience at being repaid upon his death. It was written as a parody of a serious contemporary poem of the same title.
Harrison Henry Kerr (1839-1901), born in North Georgetown, Ohio, served along with his brother, Ezra, as a private in Company D of the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, on December 29, 1862., and held for three months before being exchanged and returning to his regiment. He was discharged on January 14, 1865. Following the war, he was married to Elizabeth (Rettig) Kerr. The two lived in Cleveland and had one son, Harrison McKinley Kerr. In 1888, he joined the Memorial Post No. 141, Grand Army of the Republic. He is buried in North Georgetown Cemetery
Scott Harrison: Founder and CEO of Charity: Water and New York Times Best-Selling Author
No full textScott Harrison spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia. Returning to New York two years later, he founded the nonprofit organization charity: water in 2006.
To address the global water crisis and help the world\u27s 663 million people without clean water to drink, charity: water has raised more than $350 million and funded nearly 30,000 water projects in 26 countries. When completed, those projects will provide more than 8.5 million people with safe drinking water.
He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
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