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historic building, but no one has come
forward with
the money to purchase and preserve it.
It is likely to
share the fate of the house in Niles in
which William
McKinley was born.
JUDSON HARMON
Judson Harmon, jurist, attorney general
in the cabi-
net of President Cleveland and twice
elected governor
of Ohio, died in Cincinnati, February
22, 1927. He
was a graduate of Denison University, a
lawyer of emi-
nent ability and a life member of the
Ohio State Arch-
aeological and Historical Society.
During his admin-
istration as governor of the State,
provision was made
for the front wing of the present
Museum and Library
Building on the University Grounds and
for the Hayes
Memorial Building, at Fremont, Ohio.
His law part-
ner, Hugh L. Nichols, former Chief
Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio, will write a
sketch of Governor
Harmon for the QUARTERLY.
HENRY FORD AND THE McGUFFEY READERS
The interest of Henry Ford, the Detroit
automobile
manufacturer, in the McGuffey Readers
and the Mc-
Guffey Society is worthy of note in
this issue. Evidence
of his interest in the Readers has been
manifest in his
effort to acquire a complete set of
them, and in articles
that have appeared at different times
in the Dearborn
Independent.
He has had reprinted at considerable
expense the
First, Second, Third and Fourth
Readers, editions 1866-