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OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
DOCUMENTARY DATA
BY BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON
Among comments evoked by the April-June
issue was a sug-
gestion that researchers might like to
learn more about the private
papers of Ohio governors in possession
of this department. The
official or public executive
correspondence from 1803 to 1928 and
from 1941-1944 are under custody here as
State Archives. For
the period from 1803-1878 there is an
unpublished calendar to
the official correspondence.
Researchers, however, are not always
aware that, in addition to the public
letters, there a number of
collections of a private nature which
supplement and in some cases
are, perhaps, of greater historic
importance than the official docu-
ments.
An examination of the manuscript vaults
reveals the existence
of the following collections. Governors starred are those for
which we have sizable or extensive
collections. Information from
individuals or institutions who have
collections of letters or other
personal papers of Ohio
governors--especially the ones for which
there are but scattered items will be
welcomed.
*Arthur St. Clair, Governor of Northwest
Territory, 1788-1802.
Charles W. Byrd, Acting Governor of
Territory, 1802-1803.
Edward Tiffin, first Governor of Ohio,
1803-1807.
Thomas Kirker, Acting Governor,
1807-1808.
Samuel Huntington, 1810-1812.
Return Jonathan Meigs, 1810-1814.
Othniel Looker, Acting Governor, March-December,
1814.
*Thomas Worthington, 1814-1818.
Ethan Allen, 1812-1822.
*Allen Trimble, Acting Governor,
January-December, 1822, and Gov-
ernor by election, 1826-1830.
*Jeremiah Morrow, 1822-1826.
*Duncan McArthur, 1830-1832.
Robert Lucas, 1832-1836
*Joseph Vance, 1836-1838.
Wilson Shannon, 1838-1840, 1842-1844.
Thomas Corwin, 1840-1842.
Thomas W. Bartley, Acting Governor,
April-December, 1844.
Mordecai Bartley, 1844-1846.