HISTORICAL NEWS
Historical Organizations
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, Cincinnati
Jacob R. Marcus, Director
The Ohio Sesquicentennial Judaica
Exhibit prepared by the archives is
available for loan to institutions,
synagogues, societies, and schools in Ohio
and neighboring states. The exhibit
comprises thirty items: photographs,
portraits, and photostats of documents
relating to the history of the Jews
in Ohio. A list of the items and
information regarding the loan of the
materials may be obtained from the Director,
American Jewish Archives,
Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio.
ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD, Columbus
J. Richard Lawwill, Director
The board has recently issued A
Report of Progress, 1950-1952, a sixteen-
page, illustrated brochure relating its
accomplishments during the past two
years.
A marker at Fort Meigs was dedicated on
May 6 by the United States
Daughters of 1812, State of Ohio, and
presented by that organization to
the Fort Meigs Commission. Seven similar
markers were dedicated on Flag
Day, June 14. The Anthony Wayne Parkway
Board planned and coordinated
the marking program.
ASHTABULA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Ashtabula
Walter Beckwith, President
The first issue of the society's
quarterly bulletin has recently been pub-
lished. Mrs. John A. Talcott is the
editor in chief, and Mrs. Arnold D.
Burton, the associate editor. The
bulletin carries a picture of Shandy Hall
at Harpersfield, and tells the story of
Colonel Alexander C. Harper, the
first settler of Ashtabula County.
CLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Wilmington
Robert A. Hussey, President
The Clinton County Sesquicentennial
Association and the historical
society are cooperating closely in the
observance of the state sesquicentennial.
The association has set up as its prime
objective the acquisition of a home
or museum for the county historical
society. The president of the association,
C. Clayton Terrell, and the
sesquicentennial planning and advisory committee
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headed by Emmett H. Bailey met regularly
with the society from February
through May. A majority of the members
of the association have recently
joined the society.
A map committee was formed to plan and
publish a county map with a
descriptive pamphlet identifying Indian
mounds, old building sites, and
other places of historical interest. The
maps and pamphlets will be sold, and
the proceeds used to finance a major observance
on the last night of the
county fair in August.
CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Crestline
Ernest G. Hesser, President
The society took a very active part in
the Crestline Sesquicentennial
Home Coming, May 30 and 31. On May 30,
the first day of the home coming,
Miss Janet Bailey, Ohio sesquicentennial
queen, placed memorial wreaths at
the Pioneers Monument and at the grave
of Rensselaer Livingston, founder
of Crestline. On the same day John Q.
Shunk of Bucyrus, Ohio, formally
presented a fine old Victorian house to
the society as the future home of
the Crestline Museum. The nine-room
frame house, the former residence
of the late John Hoffman, located at 211
North Thoman Street, is well
adapted for museum use. A committee has
been appointed to supervise
the restoration of the house, and the
project is under way.
DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Delaware
Thomas D. Graham, President
On March 23 a dinner meeting was held at
the new Asbury Methodist
Church educational building with 120
members and guests present. This
was an informal meeting featuring
exhibits of early Delaware County relics,
coverlets, books, tools, and so forth.
Watt P. Marchman, director of research
of the Hayes Memorial Library
at Fremont, Ohio, was the speaker at the
April meeting. The topic of his
address was, "The Life of
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the
United States."
ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Sandusky
Paul L. Laning, Chairman
An organizational meeting for an Erie
County Historical Society was
held at the Sandusky public library on
Thursday evening, March 19. The
society will seek the preservation of
anything of historical significance
relating to Erie County, with special
emphasis on old letters and papers. It
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is planned to publish an occasional
bulletin and to hold quarterly meetings.
Officers elected were Paul L. Laning,
chairman; Al Wakefield, vice chairman;
and Marjorie Owings,
secretary-treasurer. A temporary advisory board was
set up with the following members: Mrs.
E. W. Altstaetter, Mrs. Edwin
Gundlach, Kathryn Heiser, Lucille
Hutson, Theodore Lauber, Dr. Norbert
Lange, Gordon Wendt, and Judge E. H.
Savord.
FAIRPORT HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Fairport Harbor
George Gedeon, President
The annual election of officers held on
March 27 resulted in the election
of the following: George Gedeon,
president; George Henry, first vice
president; Lillian Luthanen Robinson,
second vice president; Mary M.
Whitmore, secretary; and Elma Converse,
treasurer. Helen Kovach and Pearl
Killinen were elected trustees for
three-year terms.
The village of Fairport Harbor acquired
title to its historic old lighthouse
by deed from the federal government in
May of this year. This has been
a major objective of the society for a
number of years. The society's Marine
Museum, maintained in the keeper's house
which adjoins the light, is open
to the public on Sundays and legal
holidays from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
from May 30 through Labor Day.
FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Columbus
Frank A. Livingston, President
The April issue of the bulletin of the
society inaugurated a genealogical
section which is under the supervision
of Frank A. Livingston, who was
named recently as the director of
genealogy. Mr. Livingston is the last
president of the defunct Columbus
Genealogical Society and has long been
interested in genealogical research.
The Lucas Sullivant Memorial and the
Franklinton Memorial Marker
were rededicated with appropriate
ceremonies at the Convent of the Good
Shepherd, West Broad and Sandusky
streets, on April 30, 1953, which
marked the sesquicentennial of the
formation of Franklin County. The
society, together with the Columbus
Metropolitan Sesquicentennial Com-
mission and the West Side Board of
Trade, sponsored a Sesquicentennial
Pageant Parade on Sunday, May 3, which
was viewed by an estimated
150,000.
Work is progressing on a tour guide of
Franklin County, a sesquicentennial
project to be completed in June, and on
the October annual, which will
be devoted to agriculture in Franklin
County. The Alfred Kelley House of
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Columbus, Ohio: The Home of a Pioneer
Statesman, by Abbott L. Cummings
was published April 30 as a special
sesquicentennial project. This at-
tractive 52-page book is available from
the society for $2.50.
The society conducted a tour of historic
homes and sites in Worthington
on Saturday afternoon, May 23. The tour
was followed by a supper at the
Worthington Presbyterian Church and a
showing of three moving pictures
on the history of Ohio.
GEAUGA COUNTY HISTORICAL AND MEMORIAL
SOCIETY, Burton
B. J. Shanower, President
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Beales became
curators of the historical museum on
April 1, 1953. They succeeded Ina
Taylor, who had been curator of the
museum since its establishment in 1938.
Mrs. Taylor was honored by her
friends at a reception in the Burton
Congregational Church, Sunday after-
noon, April 26, when she was presented a
purse by President Shanower
in behalf of the society. Mrs. Taylor,
who was eighty-two at the time of
her retirement, has returned to her farm
home north of Burton.
The society sponsored an art show at the
museum barn, June 13-14. The
history of Geauga County, which has been
a project of the society for the
past several years, is being published
by the Stoneman Press of Columbus.
It will be available this fall.
GNADENHUTTEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Gnadenhutten
James F. Gross, President
The society recently voted to accept an
offer of the Ohio State Archae-
ological and Historical Society for the
use of a stone building on the
east corner of the original Indian
village in Gnadenhutten founded 180
years ago. A museum with relics to the
late 18th century will be established.
The Rev. Allen Zimmerman, treasurer of
the society, is seeking relics and
antiques related to the history of
Gnadenhutten. A committee composed of
J. W. Rennackar, Walter Begland, and
Paul Schreiner recently made a trip
to Columbus to confer with officials of
the state society.
Membership dues of $1.00 will now enroll
an entire family instead of an
individual member.
GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Cleveland
Donna L. Root, Executive Secretary
The annual business and program meeting
was held on May 8. Dinner
was served to sixty members at 6:30. The
dinner was followed by a
business session and the showing of
fifty color slides of early Great Lakes
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ships made from the original drawings of
Eric Heyl of Buffalo. Mr. Heyl
accompanied the slides with a talk on
the histories of the ships based on
knowledge derived from his extensive
research for the sketches.
John W. Braidwood of the Wedgwood
Company, Toronto, flew to
Cleveland for the meeting bringing two
samples of the Wedgwood plates
in the Historic Ships of the Great Lakes
series, sponsored by the Great Lakes
Historical Society. These ten-inch
plates are modern in design and sea
green in color, with carefully executed
drawings of the Griffon and the
Niagara made by Rowley Murphy of Toronto, a pioneer member of
the
society and a contributor to Inland
Seas, the society's quarterly journal. The
plates cost $3.25 each and are the first
of the series. Orders may be placed
through the society.
Clarence S. Metcalf, vice president of
the society and curator of the new
Wakefield Museum of the society at
Vermilion reported progress in the
preparation of the museum for the
opening, July 1. The museum is being
established in the homestead of the
Wakefield family, which has been
presented to the society by the
Wakefield Foundation of Vermilion. One
room will be devoted to records and
trophies in honor of Commodore
Wakefield, a pioneer in lake yachting.
An alcove will be dedicated to the
memory of Alva Bradley, the first and
only president of the society, who
died recently.
GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Xenia
W. A. Hammond, President
The society was reorganized at a meeting
Tuesday evening, March 17.
W. A. Hammond was elected president,
Vaughn P. Lewis was reelected
vice president, and Mrs. William
Hagenbuch was elected secretary-treasurer,
subject to her acceptance. Florence
Swan, who had been secretary of the
society since its organization in 1929,
declined the nomination for re-
election.
A current project of the society is
repair work on the Galloway cabin, in
the rear of the county museum.
In April this year the Greene County
Museum Association, which has been
inactive for a number of years, took
steps toward dissolution and the
transfer of its museum collections to
the historical society.
HANCOCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Findlay
W. Albert Hogle, President
The entire slate of officers of the
society was reelected for another term
at a meeting on April 11. They are as
follows: W. Albert Hogle, president;
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Tennyson Guyer, vice president; William
D. Humphrey, secretary; Chester
Pendleton, treasurer.
A program for participation in the
observance of the state sesquicentennial
is being developed. A display of
historical articles during the Hancock
County fair was approved by the society.
The meeting was addressed by
Representative Jackson E. Betts.
President Hogle made a ten-day trip to
Washington and New York City
to continue his research on General
William Hull.
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF
OHIO, Cincinnati
Virginius C. Hall, Director
The society announces the publication of
A Buckeye Titan, a biography of
John H. James of Urbana, a prominent
Newchurchman and one of the
founders of Urbana University. The
authors, William E. Smith and Ophia D.
Smith, who are well-known writers on
historical subjects, produced the
work under an Ohioana Library grant. It
is based largely on the family
papers of John H. James, which extend
from 1813 to 1870.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MOUNT PLEASANT, Mount Pleasant
J. C. Wilson, President
Officers for the current calendar year
are J. C. Wilson, president; Elisabeth
Lupton, Lewis Thompson, and Leland
Thomas, vice presidents; Adeline
Bainbridge, secretary; Ruthana Lupton,
treasurer. Directors for a three-year
term, 1953-55, are Roy Call, W. J.
Schuster, and Charles Wilson.
A community-wide sesquicentennial
committee has been organized. A
tentative date of dedication of the
Yearly Meeting House has been set for
Sunday, September 27. A historical
pageant is scheduled for October 23.
A committee was appointed to investigate
the cost of publishing an annual
report or informative booklet.
KNOX COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Mount
Vernon
James Beam, President
Anna E. Cromley was elected vice
president of the society at a meeting
on April 28, 1953.
The president of the society is chairman
of the county sesquicentennial
committee and members will participate
actively in the celebration.
LAKE COUNTY CHAPTER, WESTERN RESERVE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Mentor
Mrs. William Ahlstrom, President
The following officers were reelected on
April 18 for one-year terms:
president, Mrs. William M. Ahlstrom;
first vice president, D. R. Rice;
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second vice president, C. R. Kimball;
treasurer, William Wyman. Elected
to the board of trustees for three-year
terms were Mrs. Newton Bailey,
G. E. Bartholomew, R. V. D. Booth, Mrs.
H. R. Collacott, Mrs. Robert
Collacott, L. H. Norton, J. A. Easton,
and Mrs. Logan Monroe.
The annual dinner of the society, held
Wednesday evening, April 18,
at the Old Tavern in Unionville, honored
Ohio's sesquicentennial. Tables
were attractively decorated with
cardinals, red carnations, and buckeyes.
Place cards, shaped like a Lake County
map, featured the sesquicentennial
seal. The speaker of the evening was
Ernest J. Wessen of Mansfield, who
spoke on "Forgotten Ohio
Authors."
William Wyman and Mrs. William Ahlstrom
are respectively president
and vice president of the Lake County
Sesquicentennial Committee. One
project of this committee has been a
commemorative plate showing the
Mathews House in Painesville (built by
Jonathan Goldsmith in 1829), the
lighthouse at Fairport Harbor, and the
Mormon Temple at Kirtland.
LOGAN COUNTY ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Bellefontaine
Elmer O. Heath, President
Officers for the current fiscal year,
which ends in March 1954, are
Elmer O. Heath, president; Herman
Hostetler, vice president; Guy W.
Furbay, secretary; and Guy Inskeep,
treasurer.
Herman C. Marmon, teacher in
Bellefontaine High School, has given
several historical addresses in schools
and for various organizations in
observance of the Ohio sesquicentennial
in Logan County.
Secretary Guy W. Furbay, a member of the
Logan County Ministerial
Association and also of the Logan County
Sesquicentennial Committee,
acted as chairman of a committee of
seven ministers who arranged a
religious celebration in the First
Methodist Church, Bellefontaine, on
March 1, 1953.
LORAIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Elyria
Mrs. James B. Thomas, President
The annual dinner of the society was
held at the Oberlin Inn. Tristram
Coffin of Denison University and
secretary of the Ohio Folklore Society
spoke on "The Cowboy Myth in
American Folklore."
Officers elected at the annual meeting
the second Monday in April are
as follows: Mrs. James B. Thomas,
president; Victor D. Lytle, first vice
president; Robert S. Fletcher, second
vice president; Carrie Hanks, secretary;
Mrs. Frank Horan, corresponding
secretary; and Curtis Haines, treasurer.
Frank Phelps of Elyria talked on
"Birds and Their Historical Aspect,"
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at the May meeting. The June, July, and
September meetings are held in
the townships. No meeting is scheduled
in August.
OHIO ACADEMY OF MEDICAL HISTORY, Columbus
Howard Dittrick, President
The Ohio Academy of Medical History
served as host to the American
Association of the History of Medicine
during its annual meeting at the
Ohio State Museum on April 10-12.
Seventy-seven delegates from fifteen
states, the District of Columbia, and
Ontario, Canada, were in attendance.
The joint sessions, with the exception
of the annual dinner of the asso-
ciation, were held in the auditorium at
the Ohio State Museum.
During the course of the sessions of the
academy, Dr. Linden F. Edwards,
the retiring president, presented
honorary life-membership certificates to
Dr. Frederick C. Waite of Dover, New
Hampshire, and to Dr. Edward C.
Mills of Columbus, for distinguished
professional service.
At the annual business meeting of the
academy Howard Dittrick, M. D.,
Cleveland, was elected president; and
David A. Tucker, Jr., M. D., Cin-
cinnati, was elected vice president.
John O. Marsh, curator of history of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society, was reelected secre-
tary and treasurer.
OHIO SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION, Columbus
Harvey S. Firestone, Chairman
Plans are being made for a
sesquicentennial pageant, "The 17th Star,"
to be presented at the Ohio State Fair
Grounds, August 27-September 7.
The script for the pageant is being
written by Paul Green, noted play-
wright. W. Hayes Yeager of Columbus is
the general manager and Helen
Tieken Geraghty of Chicago is the
director.
OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, Columbus
Erwin C. Zepp, Director
The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the
society was held on Friday,
April 10. The society and its affiliate
the Ohio Academy of Medical History
were hosts to the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the American Association
of the History of Medicine at the museum,
April 10-12. William H.
Hildreth of Ohio State University was
the speaker at a joint session on
Friday afternoon, April 10. At the
society's business meeting William M.
Summer of Marietta was elected to the
board of trustees to fill the vacancy
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caused by the death of Verner E.
Metcalf. The annual dinner of the society
at the Ohio Union featured an address by
Walter Havighurst of Miami
University, noted Ohio author.
The Library of Congress Ohio
Sesquicentennial Exhibition and a com-
plementary exhibition of manuscripts
relating to the Middle West sponsored
by the society were formally opened on
Sunday afternoon, May 3, in con-
junction with the annual meeting of the
National Society of Autograph
Collectors, which was held in Columbus,
May 3-5.
SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Shaker Heights
Mrs. Harry D. Piercy, Secretary
A cobbler's shop and a children's room
have been added to the society's
collection of miniature Shaker rooms.
Two books by the secretary, Caroline
Piercy, are scheduled for pub-
lication this summer, Victoria Enters
a Doll Museum and Not By Bread
Alone.
STARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Canton
Donald K. Merwin, President
As a part of its sesquicentennial
program the Stark County Historical
Society has ordered and received for
sale sixty dozen McKinley Monument
commemorative plates from the
Kettlesprings Kilns, Alliance, Ohio. The
design and conventional border on the
plates are in blue on a white back-
ground. The names of the McKinley High
School, McKinley Law School,
McKinley Post No. 25, G. A. R., and
McKinley Lodge F. & A. M., are
worked into the border design. On the
back of the plate there is a brief
biography of William McKinley. The sale
is sponsored by the historical
society and Betsy Ross Tent No. 22,
Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War. Proceeds are divided between
the two organizations. The plates
sell for $1.25, and can be ordered from the
office of the Stark County
Historical Society, Box 483, Canton,
Ohio.
SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Akron
Carl H. Pockrandt, President
Monthly programs during the spring
months featured a program of color
pictures of a trip to Spain and Portugal
by Willard P. Seiberling in March,
a program of music by Mark Houser's
concert band in April, and a talk
on "Firsts in Akron" by
Secretary Robert E. Mohler in May.
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WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Lebanon
William Mason Phillips, President
The society is continuing its project of
erecting historical markers. In
observance of the sesquicentennial,
special emphasis is being placed on
the annual pilgrimage to Warren County
homes. Eight homes have been
included in this year's tour.
WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Cleveland
Russell H. Anderson, Director
Bessie H. Kelsey, assistant librarian
since 1946, suffered a heart attack
and died Wednesday, April 29.
The following officers and trustees were
elected at the annual meeting
of the board of trustees: president,
Laurence H. Norton; vice president,
Herman L. Vail; secretary, Russell H.
Anderson; treasurer, Henry S.
Sherman; trustees, George W. Bierce,
Frederick C. Crawford, Hiram
Garretson, Elton Hoyt II, Gilbert W.
Humphrey, James N. Sherwin, and
Frank E. Taplin.
A sesquicentennial dinner, the fourth in
a series of special events, was
held at the University Club on May 8
with an attendance of 452. Harlan H.
Hatcher, president of the University of
Michigan, delivered an address on
"The Buckeye Country" and
President Norton presented citations of merit
to Dr. Hatcher, Walter Havighurst, Grace
Goulder Izant, Caroline Piercy,
Frank Siedel, Carl F. Wittke, the Ohio
Bell Telephone Company, and the
Standard Oil Company of Ohio, for their
work in promoting the understand-
ing of Ohio history, and to Mrs. William
G. Mather, representing the
Ohio Roadside Council, for that
organization's work in facilitating historical
study through travel.
About Historians
Marvin Becker of Baldwin-Wallace College
received a Fulbright scholar-
ship for study in Florence, Italy, for
the coming academic year. Dr. Becker's
interest is in the representative
principle of government in medieval
Florence.
The history department at Bluffton
College is planning increased activity
in acquiring materials for its archives
of Mennonite history and local
history. The collection of microfilms on
Swiss Mennonite history has been
begun. Some publication in this field is
being contemplated.
Donald R. Edington resigned from the
history department at Cedarville
College the first of June.
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Paul Knaplund of the University of
Wisconsin delivered two Charles
Phelps Taft lectures this year at the
University of Cincinnati.
C. William Vogel has been promoted from
associate professor to pro-
fessor of history; Oscar E. Anderson has
been promoted from assistant
professor to associate professor of
history.
Wilfred J. Steiner, associate professor
and head of the department of
history at the University of Dayton, has
been granted a Fulbright scholar-
ship for study at the University of Rome
during the coming academic year.
He has been granted a leave of absence
from the university for the year.
He will do research in the Vatican
archives to obtain material on the
relations of Francis I of France and
Pope Clement in preparation for his
doctoral dissertation.
Raymond D. Cahall, chairman of the
history department at Kenyon
College, retired this year after
teaching thirty-eight years at Kenyon. He
was named professor of history,
emeritus, and was awarded a degree of
doctor of humane letters at the Kenyon
commencement in June. Hoyt Landon
Warner has been appointed to the
chairmanship of the department, while a
new appointee is Charles R. Ritcheson. Dr.
Ritcheson comes to Kenyon
from the Oklahoma College for Women.
The Agricultural History Society has
recently announced the establish-
ment of two annual awards, known as the
Everett Eugene Edwards Memorial
Awards, which are to be given to the
authors of the two best articles
which are published in Agricultural
History each year. Prizes of fifty dollars
will be awarded, one to an author who is
working toward a degree, and
the other to a more advanced scholar.
Information concerning the awards
may be obtained from Wayne D. Rasmussen,
Acting Secretary-Treasurer
of the Agricultural History Society,
Room 3906, South Agriculture Build-
ing, United States Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, Washington 25, D. C.
In September 1953, Dwight L. Smith of Ohio
State University will
become assistant professor in the
department of history at Miami University.
Mrs. James Carson is resigning to go
with her husband to do graduate work
at Syracuse University the next two
years.
William E. Smith, chairman of the department
at Miami, and his wife,
Ophia D. Smith, are the authors of A
Buckeye Titan, a biography of
John H. James, published by the
Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio.
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A. T. Volwiler, chairman of the
department of history at Ohio University,
was the speaker at Marshall College on
March 7 at the annual banquet and
initiation exercises of Phi Alpha Theta,
honorary history fraternity. Faculty
and student delegates from other
institutions were guests.
John F. Cady, professor of history, read
a paper, "Post-war Political
Problems in Southeastern Asia," on
March 20 at the meeting in Columbus
of the social science section of the
Ohio College Association.
Lowell Ragatz of Ohio State University
has been named chairman of
the American Historical Association's
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize Com-
mittee for 1953. Dr. Ragatz delivered
five lectures on current world problems
the week of March 15 at Findlay College.
During the summer he will
teach at the Whittier College Summer
School and also participate in the
International Relations Institute in
Southern California.
James M. Smith is the author of two
recent articles, "The Case of John
Daly Burk and His New York Time
Piece," which appeared in the
Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1953, and "The Aurora and the Alien
and
Sedition Laws. Part II: The Editorship
of William Duane," in the Penn-
sylvania Magazine of History and
Biography for April 1953. Dr. Smith
has
been awarded a grant-in-aid for 1953-54
by the Social Science Research
Council to continue his study of the
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
and other opposition to the alien and
sedition acts.
E. C. Murdock, chairman of the
department of social sciences at Rio
Grande College, has been appointed
assistant dean of the college, effective
in September this year.
John Hall Stewart, professor of history
at Western Reserve University,
has been given a leave of absence from
the university for the winter
session. He will return to Ireland to
continue his researches on Ireland and
the French Revolution under a grant from
the American Philosophical
Society.
The history profession in Ohio has
suffered an irreparable loss in the
death of David Lattimer of the history
department of Denison University,
whose death occurred on April 23 as the
result of injuries sustained in an
automobile accident on Monday evening,
April 20.
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AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, Cincinnati
Jacob R. Marcus, Director
The Ohio Sesquicentennial Judaica
Exhibit prepared by the archives is
available for loan to institutions,
synagogues, societies, and schools in Ohio
and neighboring states. The exhibit
comprises thirty items: photographs,
portraits, and photostats of documents
relating to the history of the Jews
in Ohio. A list of the items and
information regarding the loan of the
materials may be obtained from the Director,
American Jewish Archives,
Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati 20, Ohio.
ANTHONY WAYNE PARKWAY BOARD, Columbus
J. Richard Lawwill, Director
The board has recently issued A
Report of Progress, 1950-1952, a sixteen-
page, illustrated brochure relating its
accomplishments during the past two
years.
A marker at Fort Meigs was dedicated on
May 6 by the United States
Daughters of 1812, State of Ohio, and
presented by that organization to
the Fort Meigs Commission. Seven similar
markers were dedicated on Flag
Day, June 14. The Anthony Wayne Parkway
Board planned and coordinated
the marking program.
ASHTABULA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Ashtabula
Walter Beckwith, President
The first issue of the society's
quarterly bulletin has recently been pub-
lished. Mrs. John A. Talcott is the
editor in chief, and Mrs. Arnold D.
Burton, the associate editor. The
bulletin carries a picture of Shandy Hall
at Harpersfield, and tells the story of
Colonel Alexander C. Harper, the
first settler of Ashtabula County.
CLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Wilmington
Robert A. Hussey, President
The Clinton County Sesquicentennial
Association and the historical
society are cooperating closely in the
observance of the state sesquicentennial.
The association has set up as its prime
objective the acquisition of a home
or museum for the county historical
society. The president of the association,
C. Clayton Terrell, and the
sesquicentennial planning and advisory committee
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