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406 Ohio Arch

406       Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.

 

TERMS EXPIRE IN 1917.

Col. Webb C. Hayes, Fremont.

Dr. W. O. Thompson, Columbus.

Dr. G. Frederick Wright, Oberlin.

 

APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR.

Hon. J. W. Harper, Cincinnati, 1915.

Hon. J. W. Yeagley, New Philadelphia, 1915.

Hon. James E. Campbell, Columbus, 1916.

Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Cleveland, 1916.

Prof. B. F. Prince, Springfield, 1917.

Mr. E. O. Randall, Columbus, 1917.

 

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES.

SOCIETY BUILDING, JUNE 29, 1914.

The annual meeting of the trustees of the Society was

held on June 29th., instead of the date of the annual meeting

of the Society, because of lack of time on above-named date,

(May 30,) the dedicatory exercises immediately following the

proceedings of the annual meeting.

There were present at this meeting of the trustees, Messrs.

Bareis, Harper, Hayes, Schaus, Prince, Wright, Ryan, Camp-

bell, Wood, Randall, Gallup. Absent, Messrs. Herrick, Douglas,

Thompson and Yeagley.

Prof. Wright stated that, in accordance with his appoint-

ment by the Trustees as a committee of one for such purpose,

he had conferred with Mr. Thomas Nelson, Washington, D. C.,

concerning the transfer of Mr. Nelson's historical and genea-

logical collection of references to the Ohio Society. Mr. Nelson

is one of the assistant editors of the Records of the Past, pub-

lished at Washington, D. C., and is a professional historian and

antiquarian. He was present at the meeting of the Trustees, and

was called upon for a statement of his proposition. At some

length he set forth the extent and value of his collections of data

concerning the leading characters in American history. These

references were collected on cards, nearly a million in number,

supplemented by a library of between seven and eight hundred

volumes. Mr. Nelson stated the conditions upon which he de-

sired to transfer this collection to the Ohio Society. The mat-