Ohio History Journal
Reviews, Notes and Comments 353
a year we will have a highway of a splendid character, and when
the highway has been built the argument
that was made in the
State Senate last year against the
removal of the house in which
Grant was born, from the State Fair
Grounds to its original
foundation, will be entirely
dissipated."
The foregoing is a succinct and
informing state-
ment of fact, so far as the road is
concerned, supple-
mented by a prophecy in regard to the
dissipation of
the "argument made in the State
Senate." The matter
of the removal of the Grant cottage will
probably be up
again before the General Assembly at its
coming session.
DEATH OF BASIL MEEK
Basil Meek, veteran local historian,
life member of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society
and one of the oldest practicing lawyers
in the State
of Ohio, died in his home city, Fremont,
April 16, four
days before he was ninety-three. He contributed a
number of articles to the QUARTERLY,
his last appear-
ing in the April number shortly before
his death. He
made some corrections in the proof after
he was con-
fined to the hospital in his last
illness. A sketch of his
life together with an autographed
portrait was pub-
lished with his contribution and will be
found on page
129 of the April QUARTERLY. A number of sketches
from the Fremont and other northern Ohio
papers are
before us, all bearing testimony to his
high character,
his long and useful life and the regard
in which he
was held by all who knew him. He had long been
Secretary of the Sandusky County Pioneer
Historical
Association, a position which he held at
the time of his
death.
Mr. Meek is survived by a daughter, four
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