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HISTORICAL NEWS

HISTORICAL NEWS

Historical Societies

BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Brecksville

Ernest M. Green, President

Present officers of the society are Ernest M. Green, president; Alice

Green Lewis, vice president; and Mrs. Minnie Bartlett Jones, historian,

secretary, and treasurer. Trustees are Betty Teter Barrett, Susie McCreery

Birdsall, Benjamin P. Forbes, Raymond J. Thayer, Raymond B. Perry,

and Harriet A. Wright.

 

CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Springfield

Orton G. Rust, President

The society is now engaged in filing and cataloging a collection of

historical material consisting of several thousand pieces accumulated

over a period of fifty years. Much of it will be printed in forthcoming

issues of the society's Yesteryear in Clark County, Volume 3 of which

is now available.

 

CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Crestline

Ernest G. Hesser, President

An historical pageant was recently put on by the membership of

the society for the Crestline Woman's Club in the Crestline High School

depicting "Rensselaer Livingston and the Founding of Crestline." The

story portrayed was of his distinguished New York state background

and his coming to Crestline in 1850. There was music and dancing of

the period, and honored guests were the Crestline descendants of the

original settlers.

The president of the society gave an illustrated talk for the Consti-

tution Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at Mansfield,

February 1, on "The Life and Times of Colonel William Crawford,

Friend of George Washington."

 

DARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Greenville

J. Lendall Williams, President

New officers of the society, elected at the annual business meeting

held at the Garst Museum, Greenville, Friday, February 3, are J. Lendall

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