Ohio History Journal

HISTORICAL NEWS

 

 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY

S. K. Stevens, President

The Association is publishing a new quarterly journal titled

American Heritage. It will deal exclusively with the teaching of

local, community history in our schools, historical societies, mu-

seums, and similar agencies throughout the United States and

Canada. The editor will be Miss Mary Cunningham, well known

for her work as editor of New York History and the New York

State Historical Association's publication, The Yorker, devoted

to local history in the schools.

The American Association feels there is a genuine need, and a

place in the educational and historical world on a professional

level, for a publication devoted solely to the objectives and tech-

niques necessary in promoting more effective teaching of our

American heritage at the state and local level.

The American Heritage is available at an annual subscription

rate of $1.50. Those who are members of the American Associa-

tion will be allowed a special subscription rate of $1.00. Send

subscriptions to Miss Mary E. Cunningham, Editor, Cooperstown,

New York.

 

 

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY

William F. Savoy, State Chairman

At the February 18 meeting of the Columbus Branch of the

Association the following officers were elected: A. P. Bentley,

President; Oramay Pate, Vice President; Mary Jane Rodabaugh,

Recording Secretary; Thelma V. Watkins, Corresponding Secre-

tary; Cora M. Thurman, Treasurer. The Columbus Branch is

planning a program for the coming year which will give to the

people of Columbus some knowledge of the Negro's contributions

to American art, music, literature, economic life, religion, etc. The

 

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Association sponsored National Negro History Week in Columbus,

assisting in preparing several public displays, and appearing in two

radio programs on the Negro in Ohio.

 

 

 

THE HAYES MEMORIAL

Watt Marchman, Director of Research

Recent accessions to the Hayes Papers include eighteen

original letters and notes written by Rutherford B. Hayes. Two

letters written by Hayes to George W. Willard were the gift of

J. C. Root, Fremont, and were included with a gift of 35 volumes

of early Americana. Twelve letters written by John Sherman

also were acquired recently.

The Memorial is making plans for new arrangements of its

exhibitions. Modern exhibit cases will be installed in the near

future.

 

 

 

HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Virginius C. Hall, Director

The following officers were elected at the last annual meeting:

Chalmers Hadley, President; Lucien Wulsin, First Vice Presi-

dent; Robert L. Black, Second Vice President; Herbert F. Koch,

Recording Secretary; Thomas McEvilley, Jr., Corresponding Sec-

retary, and Lawrence C. Bucher, Treasurer.   Lee Shepard is

serving as Editor of the Society's publications. The Society showed

an increase in membership of 133 during the year. The Library

now contains more than 40,000 volumes, many of which are ex-

tremely rare. One of these is a little volume by M. le Marquis

de Lezay Marnezia, the title of which is translated as "Letters

written from the banks of the Ohio." This book, by a leader of

the French who were enticed to Gallipolis in 1790, was published

in Paris in 1801. An article on it was carried in the Society's

Bulletin, IV, No. 4 (December 1946), 9-16. Another article in

the Bulletin, p. 18-22, is entitled "Fort Finney."

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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Herbert A. Kellar, President

The annual meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Asso-

ciation will be held in Columbus, April 24-26. Headquarters for

the meeting will be the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, where all sessions

will be held. The meeting is sponsored by the Ohio State Archae-

ological and Historical Society and the Ohio State University,

with Dr. Francis P. Weisenburger and Dr. James H. Rodabaugh

serving as chairman and co-chairman of the committee on local

arrangements. The Ohio Historical Society will give a reception

for the members of the Association Thursday evening, April 24.

 

 

 

OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Erwin C. Zepp, Director

The 62nd annual meeting of this Society will be held on Fri-

day, April 11, at the Ohio State Museum. The meeting will be

opened Thursday evening, April 10, at 8 P.M., when Ernest J.

Wessen, Mansfield collector, dealer, and historian, will relate

some "Anecdotes of a Collector." On Friday, Dr. Ernest H.

Hahne, President of Miami University, will speak at 3 P.M. on

some of Ohio's educational problems, and Alan Lomax, noted folk

song and ballad collector, will speak and sing at the banquet at

7 P. M. Special seminars on local historical societies, education,

and Ohio medical history will begin at 1 P.M. on Friday.

 

 

 

STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

E. T. Heald, Secretary-Treasurer

The annual meeting was held January 23, 1947. The follow-

ing officers were elected: Paul B. Belden, Sr., President; H. T. O.

Blue, Vice President; E. T. Heald, Secretary-Treasurer. The

Stark County Historical Society was organized during 1946, and

is affiliated with the State Historical Society.

Its projects during the past year were as follows: 1. The

writing and publication of church histories of Stark County; 2.

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The writing and preservation of family histories; 3. The preser-

vation of the old Deed Books in the County Recorder's Office

(Originals were photostated and taken out of circulation, and the

phostatic copies were made available for public use); 4. The ac-

quisition by purchase or otherwise of old copies of The Democrat

and other items of historical value and interest; 5. Publicizing the

wants and needs of the historical society; 6. The preparation of

scripts for WHBC weekly broadcasts of the series, "Get Ac-

quainted with Your Stark County Neighbors"; 7. The publication

of E. T. Heald's book on Bezaleel Wells, the founder of Canton;

8. The filing and storing of materials received by the Society. The

Society published two issues of its Quarterly during the year.

At the end of 1946 there were 178 individual and 17 institu-

tional members. The total membership by January 20 reached 215.

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