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Hist. Society Publications.
erected their temple on the hilltop to
the day of the traction car. But
that car like the one of Juggernaut is
the irresistible chariot of the
present that ruthlessly rolls over the
veneration for the past.
The pamphlet prospectus in question
devotes several pages to the
history and description of the mound and
properly presents it as one of
the leading features which will make the
proposed traction line a valuable
and paying institution. The pamphlet is
published at Peebles, Ohio, by
the Hillsboro, Belfast and Peebles
Promoters' Company. It can be
secured for the asking by addressing Mr.
P. M. Hughes, president of the
Company, Lovett, Ohio, Mr. W. B.
Cochran, secretary of the company,
Hillsboro, Ohio, or Mr. S. M. Rucker,
one of the directors, Peebles, Ohio.
NYE FAMILY REUNION AT MARIETTA.
We have received through the courtesy of
Miss Minna Tupper Nye
of Brooklyn, New York, a handsomely
published pamphlet of 100 pages
or more giving the proceedings of the
third annual reunion of the Nye
Family of America, held at Marietta,
Ohio, August 16, 17 and 18, 1905.
Benjamin Nye of Bedlenden, Kent county,
England, was the first to come
to America as early as 1637. His
numerous descendants are now in every
state and territory of our country.
Among the first pioneers into the Ohio
valley after the Revolution were Ichabod
Nye of Tolland, Connecticut, a
soldier of the Revolution, with his
family. They settled in Marietta in
1788 where Mr. Nye resided until his
death in 1840. From the descend-
ants of this early settler a very
cordial invitation was extended to the
Nye Family Association to hold the third
annual reunion in Marietta.
The eight branches of the Ichabod family
are scattered from the Medi-
terranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean and
yet not one of these branches
failed in showing their loyalty and
devotion by contributing in some way
to the entertainment. Great interest was
sustained throughout all the
meetings. The leading citizens of
Marietta joined with the family in
extending hospitality to the visiting
guests. Mr. James W. Nye of
Marietta was the local chairman and a
most interesting and successful
program was carried out. Mr. James W.
Nye welcomed his family
guests with a most pleasing and
appropriate address in which he said:
"On the walls at the relic room,
hangs a banner bearing the following
inscription, taken from an address delivered
here in 1888: 'The paths
from the heights of Abraham led to
Independence Hall. Independence
Hall led finally to Yorktown, and
Yorktown guided the footsteps of your
fathers to Marietta. This, my
countrymen, then, is the lesson which I
read here.' This refers to the little
band of stalwart men and brave
women, who in 1788, left their New
England homes, and turning their
faces westward, journeyed by the crude
means then in use, in search of
new homes, in the then unknown wilds of
the territory northwest of the