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The Secretary, Mr. Galbreath, closed the afternoon session

with an account of the capture, imprisonment and execution of

Edwin Coppoc, who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry,

dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape

from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc

which is now in the museum of the Society. This account in

ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the

QUARTERLY.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEEES

SOCIETY BUILDING,

October 12, 1921.

1 :30 P. M.

Present: Messrs. James E. Campbell, Daniel J. Ryan, E. F.

Wood, George F. Bareis, Webb C. Hayes, W. H. Cole, Arthur

C. Johnson and W. O. Thompson.

Mr. C. B. Galbreath, Secretary, Editor and Librarian, and

Curator W. C. Mills were also present.

Mr. Wood moved that James E. Campbell act as chairman

of the meeting and nominated Mr. Campbell for the position of

President of the Society. The motion was unanimously carried.

On motion of Mr. Wood, duly seconded, George F. Bareis

was elected First Vice President.

Mr. Bareis nominated Daniel J. Ryan for Second Vice Presi-

dent. Seconded and carried.

On motion of Mr. Ryan, duly seconded, C. B. Galbreath was

elected Secretary, Editor and Librarian.

MR. WOOD: "Might it not be well, before we go any further

in this organization, to consider the question raised by Mr.

Johnson in the meeting this morning?"

Mr. Johnson stated that his motion was that the matter of

reorganization be referred to the Board of Trustees for such

action as it deemed best.

On motion of Mr. Wood, seconded by Mr. Johnson, it was

decided to consider the question of reorganization of the Society's

activities.

On motion of Mr. Wood the President was authorized to

appoint a commitee of three to draw a plan for the reorganiza-

tion of the Society along lines suggested by Mr. Johnson and

present the same at a meeting to be held next week.

After a short discussion it was agreed to hold the meeting

to consider the report of the committee on reorganization on

Tuesday next, at 2:30 P. M. at the office of Treasurer Wood.

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The President appointed Mr. Arthur C. Johnson, Mr. E. F.

Wood and Mr. George F. Bareis as the committee to draft the

suggested plan.

Mr. E. F. Wood was elected Treasurer, on motion of Mr.

Johnson.

Col. Hayes asked that Mr. Alfred Goring be elected care-

taker at Spiegel Grove. Mr. Goring was duly elected.

MR. RYAN: "Mr. Williams, at Princeton, has been paying

out his own money for proofreading. The manuscript of the

Hayes diaries reached him from this point in such bad shape

that he had to hire an accurate proofreader. Here are bills for

that work, amounting to $493.15, paid by Charles Richard Wil-

liams up to September 30, 1921. We should not permit him to

pay this from his own means. I move that these bills be ap-

proved and ordered paid out of the general funds of the So-

ciety." Seconded by Mr. Bareis. Carried.

MR. WOOD: "The employes of the Society have not been

elected. Shall we have the understanding that that will be taken

up at the adjourned meeting, and salaries fixed?" By common

consent it was so understood.

COL. HAYES: "I came here very anxious, Mr. President,

to have a resolution considered by the Trustees, and if they favor

it, adopted. This is in reference to a Memorial to the American

Soldiers in France. Our kindred society, The American Science

and Historical Society, has prepared a resolution, in general

terms, requesting the President to appoint a commission to see

that the American soldiers in France are properly memorialized,

the committee to consist of prominent citizens of the United

States. I would like to have the President, Vice Presidents and

Secretary, if you will authorize them to do so, prepare such a

letter and send it. This is the resolution:

"'Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested

to appoint an American Memorial Highway Commission to include the

American Ambassador to France and the American Ambassador to Bel-

gium, together with nine American citizens distinguished in civil or

public life to co-operate with the appropriate authorities in France and

Belgium in laying out a memorial highway leading from Paris over the

existing French and Belgium highways nearest to the positions held by

American divisions in the different sectors during the World War and

passing the American military cemeteries in France and Belgium, one on

the French highways nearest to the battle fronts between Paris, Chateau-

Thierry, and Montfaucon, with an extension around the San Mihiel

salient, and thence through Luxemburg on the route pursued to the

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Coblenz bridgehead by the American Army of Occupation under the

terms of the armistice, and the other from Paris to Chateau-Thierry and

thence northerly on the French and Belgium highways nearest to the

positions held by the Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth American Divisions

in the British sectors, and thence northerly past the American Cemetery

at Boni to the positions held by the Thirty-seventh and Ninety-first Amer-

ican Divisions in Belgium, and thence on the line of advance with the

Belgium Army under King Albert into Brussels after the armistice. Along

these memorial highways simple roster and historical tablets to be erected

giving the names of American and allied divisions engaged at the desig-

nated points and other simple memorial tablets indicative of the sacri-

fices and triumphs of the allied forces in the World War, to make the

memorial highway interesting and instructive to the 2,000,000 American

soldiers and their relatives and descendants who will visit the battle-

fields in increasing numbers annually to the end of time.' "

On motion of Mr. Bareis the matter was referred to the

President, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Wood, with power to act.

Mr. Hayes introduced the following resolution, which was

duly adopted:

"Resolved, That immediate steps be taken with the funds now in

possession of the Society to begin the erection of a World War Memorial

Annex to the society building in memory of the soldiers of Ohio who

served in the World War, for the purpose of preserving all records and

references, muster rolls, maps, news clippings and papers relating to the

World War, particularly Ohio's part therein, in such manner as to make

them immediately available to the soldiers of Ohio and for the exhibition

of the numerous relics and memorials of that great combat in which

Ohio soldiers so worthily participated.

"Be it further resolved, That the trustees of the Ohio State

Archaeological and Historical Society respectfully invite attention to the

manner in which Sandusky county, Ohio, has memorialized her heroic

dead of the World War by the construction, through the property of the

trustee for Spiegel Grove, of the Soldiers' Memorial Parkway of San-

dusky county, consisting of a boulevard 100 feet in width with two rows

of buckeye trees, the insignia of the 37th or Ohio Division placed thirty-

five feet apart, to which are affixed enameled metallic tree labels, four

by eight inches, containing the name, organization, place of death and

date of death of each soldier. On either side of the 50-foot lots two

14-foot paved drives have been constructed, while in the center of the

parkway an ellipse 60 by 110 feet in diameter has been constructed in

which has been planted a mammoth Red Cross in flowers while flower

insignias of the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation

Army and the Jewish Welfare have been placed in the four sections of