REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF
THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This is the title of a substantially
bound, appropri-
ately illustrated and carefully indexed
volume of 643
pages compiled and edited by Mrs. Annie
Jopling Les-
ter, Ohio State Historian of the
Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution.
The dedication is to Mrs. Lowell
Fletcher Hobart,
State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926.
There is an opening sketch of three
compact pages
giving full instructions how to become
a member of the
D. A. R. including references to
sources of proofs of
Revolutionary ancestry.
There is also in the introductory part
of the volume
a timely contribution on, "Our
Flag," by Louise Vance
Brand, National Chairman on correct use
of the flag.
There is a beautiful cut in colors of
the State Flag
of Ohio. There are biographical
sketches of past Vice-
Presidents General from Ohio, State
Regents and others
prominent in the history of the
Society.
The body of the work is devoted to a
history of all
of the chapters in Ohio. The sketch of
each chapter
contains a list of the charter members
with names and
in many instances portraits of the
organizing regent
and other matters of interest in the
history of the chap-
ter. Following this is a list of the
members of each
chapter together with the present
address and registered
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lineage number, and the name and state
of the Revolu-
tionary ancestor.
This makes the volume most valuable for
reference
purposes. It is a distinct contribution
to any Public
Library and especially valuable for
Libraries devoted
primarily to the history of Ohio, as is
the Library of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society.
Mrs. Lester and the Daughters who have
contrib-
uted are to be highly congratulated on
the production
of this volume.
THE OLD FREE STATE
The production of a local history of
first importance
and authenticity requires, an editor
personally interested
in the subject, with an ancestry
identified with the re-
gion under consideration and an
indefatigable industry
in research work;--an editor with the
literary ability
to evaluate, arrange, and express in
lucid and attractive
style the results of his research.
That these qualifications are united in
an eminent
degree in Landon C. Bell, M. A. and LL.
B. is attested
by his two volume work, entitled, The
Old Free State,
A Contribution to the History of
Lunenburg County
and Southside Virginia. Lunenburg, originally a part
of Brunswick County, began a separate
existence by act
of the House of Burgesses, March 26,
1745.
The original County of Lunenburg
embraced the
territory now included in Lunenburg,
Halifax, Bedford,
Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania,
Henry, Patrick,
Campbell and Franklin counties in the
southern part
of Virginia.
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The early chapters of this work,
"1607-1746;" "The
Indians;" "The Pioneers;
Settlement; Development;"
are full of interest and give a very
readable review of
the early history of this section. Especially interest-
ing and valuable is the chapter on
"The French and
Indian Wars," and the two
following, "The Revolu-
tion," and "The War of
1812." In writing of the diffi-
culty that confronted him in the
preparation of this
work, Mr. Bell makes a statement that
will be fully
appreciated by others who in their
respective sections
have had similar experiences. He says:
Lunenburg has shared the common fate of
all peoples who
neglect their own history. What is known
by everybody of one
generation is known by none of
succeeding generations unless
someone takes the pains to record the
facts. The gathering dust
of the passing years dims any neglected
record, and is sufficient,
if it be long enough neglected, to
entirely obscure and even to
destroy it. Many of the participants in
the Revolutionary
struggle do not even have their names
preserved to posterity,
and many exist as names only, so that
present day investigators
find it difficult, if not impossible, to
assign them a definite lo-
cality or to trace their
descendants."
The author then tells us that few of
the old original
records, muster rolls and pay rolls of
the Revolution,
are in existence and that some of those
still to be found
are in such a state of disintegration
that it is difficult
to decipher many portions of them. In
spite of these
difficulties, Mr. Bell has gathered
from original sources
a surprisingly large collection of
material, including
muster rolls, names of Revolutionary
soldiers and, in
many instances, records of service
where application
has been made for pensions. He has put
these in gen-
erally available printed form that will
be a boon to
many who trace their ancestry to the
region included
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in the scope of this work. The same is
measurably true
of his contribution to "The War of
1812."
Although Virginia took a prominent part
in the war
with Mexico and doubtless southern
Virginia filled her
quota of soldiers who served under
Taylor and Scott,
this chapter seems to have been omitted
from the his-
tory. There are many pages devoted to
the chapters:
"The Courts: County Courts;
Circuit Courts"; and "The
Early Churches." These two
subjects have been thor-
oughly documented and exhaustively
treated. The first
volume concludes with 191 pages devoted
to "Slavery,
Secession and the Civil War."
Volume 2 begins with a
continuation of the concluding chapter
of volume 1, in a
chapter entitled, "Post
Bellum." This deals with the
condition of the south after the war
and especially the
section of which Mr. Bell writes. This
is followed by a
real contribution to the history of
aviation in the chap-
ter, "Dr. Boswell Invents An Airplane."
It is indeed
fortunate that Mr. Bell has given a
prominent and per-
manent place to the invention of Dr.
Boswell, who seems
to have been approaching very close to
the goal of suc-
cess before the Wright Brothers reached
it.
Mr. Bell is to be congratulated that he
has given so
much space in his valuable work to
genealogy in the
five chapters each entitled,
"Lunenburg Cousins." In
recent years the usual county History
is largely a re-
vamping in the first volume of what has
been written
by earlier local historians, with a
second volume of paid
biographies relating chiefly to the
achievements of sub-
scribers to the work and those who are
able and willing
to pay for space and illustration. Even
these histories
have a value and readers may be a
little surprised at
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our statement that their chief value is
in these biogra-
phies. If every subscriber who
furnishes a sketch
would include in it a carefully
prepared genealogy of
his ancestors, this section of the
history would be of a
still greater value. Mr. Bell has
written the genealogy
of families with an ancestry reaching
back to the early
history of Lunenburg county. This
appears to have
been largely the result of his own work
and must rep-
resent years of research and no little
amount of travel
and correspondence. He is to be
congratulated espe-
cially on this unusual and highly
commendable feature
of his history.
One of the two contributions to the
appendix is en-
titled, "John Marshall: Albert J.
Beveridge as a Biogra-
pher." In this Mr. Bell criticizes
Beveridge, whom he
considers too partial to John Marshall
and unfair to
Thomas Jefferson. In this view he is at
variance with
most of those who have reviewed
Beveridge's monu-
mental work, The Life of John
Marshall.
In chapters from "Slavery,
Secession and the Civil
War" and a contribution to the
appendix entitled,
"Abraham Lincoln: The Lincoln
Myth," Mr. Bell writes
as a son of the South who believes the
North was wholly
wrong in its attitude, preceding,
during and immediately
following the Civil War. It follows, as
he believes, that
the South was right and deserved to
win. Of the
civic and military leaders of the
Confederacy he in-
variably speaks in terms of praise and
approval. He
protests that the youth of both
sections were fed upon
"error, misrepresentation and
falsification," "while the
South was prostrate and endeavoring
painfully to re-
build its institutions and its altars
destroyed in defiance
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and violation of the laws of God and
man and of usages
of all civilized nations, even in war,
by such vandals
and savages as Sherman, Milroy,
Sheridan, Hunter and
Pope."
He writes in language almost equally
uncomplimen-
tary of Abraham Lincoln whom he
considers "a human
being made of a very ordinary quality
of human clay
with but a small measure of the
qualities of justice, con-
sistency, nobility, and greatness of
such men as Wash-
ington and Robert E. Lee."
He vigorously defends the right of his
native state
to secede from the Union when it chose
to do so, evi-
dently believing that the National
Constitutional Con-
vention failed in its effort to form
"a more perfect
union."
Mr. Bell's two volumes close with a
biographical
sketch of Isaac Bonaparte Bell, the
author's father, who
was in his youth a Confederate soldier
and for many
years after the Civil War a prominent
attorney and
highly respected citizen of Lunenburg County.
This
sketch appeared originally in the South
Hill Enterprise.
Mr. Bell is a member of the Columbus
Bar, a schol-
arly gentleman and a patriotic citizen.
His views on
the Civil War period may be read with
entire equanimity
and without a trace of bitterness by
those who entertain
diametrically opposite opinions. If the
Confederate
States of America were in existence
today with the con-
stitution adopted by the seceding
states in 1861, it would
doubtless now be unsatisfactory to many
Virginians,
who, failing to have it changed, would
probably fall
back on their "sovereign
rights" and secede from the
Party Politics in Ohio,
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Confederacy. It is even conceivable
that the author of
The Old Free State might be one of their number.
Following are brief extracts from
reviews of this
work:
In our judgment, among the most
remarkable contributions
that have been made to the history of
the counties is the recently
published History of Lunenburg by Mr.
Landon C. Bell, a native
of that county, and sprung from one of
its oldest and most
distinguished families. His work is more
than the history of
one county; it is more even that the
history of one region. It
is also a history of some of the most
significant aspects of the
past of the State as a whole. Throughout
the narrative there is
the background of a large canvas. How
wide is that background
may be shown by the enumeration of the
contents, which are, in
outline, as follows: "The
aborigines; the pioneers; the subse-
quent inhabitants of the region; its
social, political, legislative
and judicial history; its churches and
vestries; the French and
Indian wars; the War of the Revolution;
the wars of 1812-1815
and of 1861-65; the period of
Reconstruction; and finally, our
own era. * * *" In addition a
voluminous list of genealogies
adds much to the value of the book; and
not less interesting is
the description given of Dr. Boswell's
experiment with the aero-
plane.--Dr. Philip Alexander Bruce, in William
and Mary Quar-
terly.
It is unique in being the first and only
comprehensive account
of the great region of the State south
of the James River known
as "the Southside," including
not only the county which gives
its name to the book, but in briefer
measure those other counties
into which it came subsequently to be
developed. It is a region
that has been the home of great men and
the theatre of great
events, and it remains the habitation of
a civilization as charac-
teristic of Virginia's past as any
section within its borders.
Here developed and has continued a
popular organization, eco-
nomic, social, and religious, which has
persisted and flourished
longer perhaps than in most other
sections of the Commonwealth.
Until comparatively recent years no
railroads had penetrated its
broad expanses; no close contacts
wrought by the mechanical
devices of a new age had broken the
integrity of its ancient cus-
toms and manners and its old descent;
and here still linger the
grace of life and the adherence to old
creeds and ancient princi-
ples which adorned Virginia in her best
days.--Mr. Armistead
C. Gordon, in Virginia Law Review.
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The history of Lunenburg County which
this important work
presents is distinctly a pioneer effort. Not even, it
appears, has
there ever been issued so much as a handbook, or
pamphlet re-
specting the County. Now Mr. Bell comes
nobly to the rescue
in these two splendid volumes. In carefully digested
chapters he
presents the history of Lunenburg from
the times when the In-
dians were the sole inhabitants to the
present time, when not an
Indian is to be seen. Its early white
settlers, its political, social
and religious institutions, its part in
the American Revolution,
in the War of 1812, and in the War for
Southern Independence,
its agricultural industries, and its
more prominent families--all
receive an adequate and extensive
treatment. But this is not all.
Not content with the local history of
Lunenburg, the author has
deemed it proper to give us some
excellent chapters on Slavery,
Secession and the Civil War, considering them as essential to
proper understanding of the motives,
views, and acts of the
Lunenburgers during that epoch of
strife. The authentic history
is given for the first time in any
printed work of how Lunenburg
earned the sobriquet of the "Free
State."--Dr. Lyon G. Tyler,
in Tyler's Quarterly Historical and
Genealogical Magazine.
In the first chapter is given a brief
sketch of the early history
of Virginia and the genesis of the
various Southside counties.
Then follows an account of the Indians
inhabiting that part of
the country with many interesting
details from contemporary
writers. The third chapter describes the
creation of Lunenburg
and its subdivisions, followed by
chapters on the French and
Indian Wars, the Revolution, the War of
1812, the Courts, the
early Churches, then four very valuable
chapters on Slavery, Se-
cession, and the Civil War.
The second volume begins with a history
of the Reconstruc-
tion period in Lunenburg, followed by
others on Dr. Boswell's
Invention of an Airplane, and another on
the lawmakers. Under
the general title Lunenburg Cousins,
there are five chapters
treating of the genealogy of the County
families. Chapter IX,
of Vol. II, has genealogical data
comprising abstracts of the
marriage bonds and ministers' returns of
marriages.--Dr. William
G. Stanard, in Virginia Historical
Magazine.
A notable thing about Mr. Bell's book is
his citation of au-
thority for the statements it contains;
and the variety and num-
ber of such citations show the wide
range of the author's studies.
The book begins with the arrival of the
ships at Jamestown, and
ends with a wealth of genealogical data
hardly to be found else-
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where in so well-ordered an
arrangement.--Dr. Rosewell Page,
in The Researcher.
The most sensational chapter of the
"Old Free State" is that
in which Mr. Bell breaks a lance
battling the "Lincoln Myth."
The Lincoln of poetic idealism is
roughly handled. Perhaps the
attack is too vigorous. Abraham Lincoln
was undoubtedly a
man of many sides. That he made many
errors and even
egregious blunders cannot be denied.
That he was a paragon of
all virtues certainly cannot be
affirmed. That he was a colossal
figure, that the good in him vastly
overbalanced the evil, that he
was a true friend of the South despite
his hatred of both slavery
and secession, we believe.--Dr. W. H. T.
Squires, in The Nor-
folk Ledger-Dispatch.
In his discussion of the great issues of
slavery and Virginia
politics, and of what he calls the
Lincoln Myth, Mr. Bell gives
evidence that though he may have shifted
his residence to Ohio
he is still thinking as a
Southerner.--Mr. Harry Stilwell Ed-
wards, in The Atlanta Journal and
The Asheville Citizen.
Mr. Bell, fortunately, is not willing to
content himself with
the simple recital of Lunenburg's
history. He fares somewhat
afield to write extraordinarily
interesting and convincing discus-
sions of Virginia's attitude toward
slavery and secession. Bot-
toming his conclusions upon unusually
thorough knowledge of
Virginia's history and upon a searching
study of the utterances
of Virginia statesman, he writes a
chapter to the state's history
which is deserving of careful reading by
every Southerner who
would understand the origins of the War
between the States. His
views will not receive the absolute
approval of all. The present
reviewer finds himself in sharp
disagreement with some of Mr.
Bell's opinions. But Mr. Bell has placed
Virginia's position in
the best light and supports every contention with deep
and pene-
trating scholarship.--Mr. D. Hiden
Ramsey, in The Asheville
Times.
As a history of a comparatively small
section of the country,
Mr. Bell's work is most unusual in
volume and detail. Whatever
he has touched of the past he has
vitalized into new being. The
larger history, of which the history of
the county is a part, has
been introduced to give the necessary
background. For what he
has done for Lunenburg, "The Old
Free State," the residents
of that locality ought to canonize him;
if they take pride in
the past, he has rendered them an
incalculable service. As for
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the rest, it can only be said that Mr.
Bell has clearly and vig-
orously written from the southern
viewpoint. He has said some
things that will be unpalatable to
northern readers, especially in
his discussion of Lincoln and the
leaders of the northern armies.
But the time has come, doubtless, when
we can all listen with
equanimity to a voice from the South
that is so sincere and truly
patriotic as that of Mr. Bell. What is
true will withstand all
assault, and what is fiction we do not
need.--Dr. Osman C.
Hooper, in The Columbus Dispatch.
THE ROUSH FAMILY IN AMERICA
This is the subject of a most
interesting contribution
to genealogy and history by Reverend
Lester LeRoy
Roush, a citizen of Ohio, a Methodist
minister in Ports-
mouth, Ohio, and a life member of the
Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society.
A beautiful
frontispiece to this ample volume of
713 pages is the
coat of arms of the "Rausch"
family in colors. This
is the original spelling of the name of
the family in
Germany. Chapter one of the book
discusses in an in-
teresting way the history of the family
under the topics,
"Whence They Came," "Why
They Came," "When
They Came," and "Where They
Came." Under the
first of these captions the author
says:
Whence They Came
Our Research has revealed some variation
of opinion as to
the place from which our early ancestors
came. While tradition
usually has a strong element of truth it
may also have an ele-
ment of error; but he who will take the
necessary steps to pursue
cautiously his way in untrodden paths
can find the place where
truth and error meet. The writer can
speak with the authority
of one who has observed these
precautions.
Swiss Tradition
A tradition comes from the Highland
County, Ohio, branch
of our family that we are of Swiss
descent and of the early
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Moravian faith. This we account for in
the following manner:
In the days of severe religious
persecution in the Rhine regions
there was an interchange of residence from parts of the
Palati-
nate to certain parts of Switzerland, so that not a
small number
of families from this section of Germany had at one
time a very
close contact with the Swiss people, and
when the reverse con-
ditions later prevailed in Switzerland
these families returned to
the Rhine Valley and many of the Swiss people in like
manner
took up their abode over in Germany.
The Dutch Tradition
The tradition that our early ancestors
were a Dutch people
is not well founded and warrants no
argument here. Sufficient
it is to say that this error may have
had its origin from the fact
that they sailed from Rotterdam and
Amsterdam, the sailing
ports for practically all of the early
German emigrants. We are
largely indebted here to Professor
Rupp's valuable collection,
Thirty Thousand Names of German,
Swiss, Dutch and French
Immigrants. which lists the country from which they came, the
port from which they sailed and the
vessel on which they came.
This original list of signatures was
made according to the re-
quirement of the laws at that time, and
even tho they contain
only the names of men over sixteen years
of age, they have
been of much value to us. In each and
every case where the
names of Roush (Rausch) appears they are
listed among the
sailors from the Palatinate. Both from
tradition and from some
old written accounts we know they came
from, or from near,
Darmstadt, a small division of the
Palatinate on the Rhine
River.
Of German Origin
The Palatinate was not the country in
which the family
originated. It is quite evident that the
origin of the clan was
in Middle Germany.
Why They Came
The author next proceeds to tell us why
they came
to America.
The reason for their coming requires a
longer and more
detailed consideration; it is a problem
more intricate and com-
plex, yet not impossible of solution.
Here again tradition ap-
pears on the scene, as it always must in
a family history, and
from this source we learn that they came
partly because of re-
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ligious persecution. It is necessary for
us to either disprove or
to establish this theory. The beginning
of the great German
immigration is practically parallel with
the beginning of the
eighteenth century. The Carolinas, New
York, Virginia, but
mostly Pennsylvania, supplied homes for
them. From Kuhn's
German and Swiss Settlements, pp. 1-30; 62ff, we learn that
the chief causes for these German
home-loving people severing
their home ties and coming in such large
numbers to the untried
wilderness of a new country, subject to
various European powers,
were religious persecutions, devastating wars,
political oppression
and social unrest. One of the strong
characteristics of the Ger-
man, which he gets both by nature and
training, is that he is a
great lover of home and homeland. This characteristic
made him
the better American. It was fortunate,
indeed, for the American
nation that so large a number of this
home-loving people found
permanent abode in this new country, destined to
become, and,
the more so by them, the greatest Land
of Liberty in the realm
of man.
The Place to Which They Came
We next learn that they were influenced
as were
many other settlers to choose as their
homes in the land
of freedom the state of Pennsylvania,
where under the
gentle rule of William Penn and the
Quakers all men
were assured civil and religious
liberty. The author
has well stated why they came to
Pennsylvania and
afterward migrated to Virginia:
We turn now to our third
consideration--the place to which
they came. For many members of the
family there is need to
explain why we came from the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia,
instead of from Pennsylvania as is
commonly stated. The earliest
German emigrants, as might naturally be
supposed, came to New
York. But dissatisfaction soon arose
there because of the com-
plex land laws, and because of the
profiteers, who were glad to
allow these immigrants to take up their
lands, ignorant of some of
the details concerning the land titles.
Thus they found themselves
financially embarrassed, and oftentimes
deprived of their lands for
which they had paid either in full or in
part.
This word soon went back to the
Fatherland with the advice
that their friends come to Pennsylvania,
to which the majority
of these New York settlers themselves
later came.
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By reason of William Penn's policies
Pennsylvania had come
to be looked upon as a place of religious liberty--so
much cher-
ished by our early family--a place of
refuge for the politically
oppressed. Hence those distressed in heart and
conscience, as
well as those seeking good financial
investments, sought Penn-
sylvania as their American home. Thus
came to this land of
refuge between 1727 and 1776 more than
30,000 home-seekers.
These came mostly to Philadelphia,
Germantown and the sur-
rounding region.
It is evident that with this rapid
influx land in this region was
rapidly taken, and the population soon
became so dense that they
had to look farther beyond the horizon
for more room and bet-
ter farms. The regions beyond the
mountains must next have
consideration. Discoveries, settlements,
and exploration hereto-
fore had been confined mostly to the
coast line. Density of
population in the European countries had
been a strong contri-
buting cause for the American
immigration. Unless new lands
were opened the Atlantic coast plain was
doomed to the same
objections.
Because of the rapid settling up of
eastern Penn-
sylvania, the Roush family, in the
pioneer spirit, turned
their eyes to the west and found ample
room and at-
tractive lands in the primeval forests
of Virginia, in
the valley of "the beautiful
Shenandoah."
When They Came to America
Rev. Roush then gives us the result of
his research
in attempting to determine when they
came to this coun-
try. He tells us that his quest has
been fairly satisfac-
tory but admits that much light may yet
be thrown upon
the date of the arrival of his
ancestors in this country.
We quote again from what he has to say
on this subject:
We have come now to our last question,
When did they
come? Our answer to this question will
be highly satisfactory
to all but the most exacting. Our
research has been as thorough
as we are able to make it at this time.
The author is still hope-
ful that something yet hidden will come
to light that will enable
some future writer to fix with
definiteness the exact date, but
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until something further is revealed the
reader must content him-
self with our present findings.
We are then told that Rupp, the
historian, states that
four immigrants by the name of Rausch
came from the
Palatinate to America in the years
1736-1738. The
author adds:
That a relationship existed between
these immigrants seems
almost certain. It is the opinion of
the writer that it must not
have been more distant than cousins.
Some, at least, surely
were brothers. The truth of this,
however, is a problem for
future students of this family.
A Worthy Family
The record of the family is a very
honorable and
patriotic one. From the coming to
America of its first
representatives, its members have been
interested in
education and zealous in their religious
affiliations.
Their patriotism has been conspicuously
manifest
throughout the entire history of the
United States. They
participated in the Dunmore War and
representatives
were present in the battle of Point
Pleasant. In the
Revolutionary War which soon followed
they promptly
took up arms in the service of the
patriot cause. The
portrait of George Roush, who was born
in 1761, is given
along with the statement that he was one
of nine broth-
ers who fought in the Revolutionary War.
Other rep-
resentatives of the family were in the
American army
from the outbreak of the Revolution to
the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktown. A goodly number of them
volunteered under the leadership of the
preacher patriot,
John Peter Muhlenberg, who organized the
Eighth Vir-
ginia Regiment in the Valley of the
Shenandoah. Muh-
lenberg, one of the picturesque
characters of the Revolu-
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tion, commanded a brigade of infantry
at the battle of
Yorktown.
The Roushes were also numerously
represented in the
War of 1812. The index to the work
contains the names
of thirty-nine Roushes who served in
the Civil War,
while twenty-five of this famous family
are listed as
serving in the World War.
The genealogy of this family, covering
the entire
period of our national existence, is
also a fruitful source
of American history--of the triumphs of
peace as well
as achievements in war. The
genealogical sketches are
very complete and include extended
notices of many
members of the family. The work is
published by the
Shenandoah Publishing House, of
Strasburg, Virginia.
It is appropriate that this beautifully
and substantially
wrought book should be printed in the
Valley of the
Shenandoah from which members of this
family have
gone to all parts of the United States
to build homes and
become worthy, substantial, and devoted
citizens.
CHARLES A. JONES
Charles A. Jones was born at Deer Park,
Maryland,
February 25, 1885; was educated in the
West Virginia
Wesleyan University and the Ohio
Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Delaware, Ohio, graduating from
the latter in
1907 with honors in economics and
government and the
degree of A. B.; served on the staff of
the Delaware
Gazette from 1907 to 1914; was secretary of the Ohio
Tax Commission, 1915 and 1916; in
publicity work,
1917 to 1918; in 1919 and 1920 was in
China on the
198 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications staff for the advancement of the Methodist Centenary movement; secretary to United States Senator Frank B. Willis, 1921 to 1928; secretary to Governor Myers Y. Cooper since his inauguration January 14, 1929. Mr. Jones has been prominently connected with the staff of every Republican state committee in Ohio since 1914. He is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and has been helpful in getting some notable exhibits for its museum. Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Ireta Lowe, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, in 1907. They have a family of three children--Robert, Betty and Vir- ginia Lee. The home residence is 139 Tibet Road, Co- lumbus, Ohio. |
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REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF
THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This is the title of a substantially
bound, appropri-
ately illustrated and carefully indexed
volume of 643
pages compiled and edited by Mrs. Annie
Jopling Les-
ter, Ohio State Historian of the
Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution.
The dedication is to Mrs. Lowell
Fletcher Hobart,
State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926.
There is an opening sketch of three
compact pages
giving full instructions how to become
a member of the
D. A. R. including references to
sources of proofs of
Revolutionary ancestry.
There is also in the introductory part
of the volume
a timely contribution on, "Our
Flag," by Louise Vance
Brand, National Chairman on correct use
of the flag.
There is a beautiful cut in colors of
the State Flag
of Ohio. There are biographical
sketches of past Vice-
Presidents General from Ohio, State
Regents and others
prominent in the history of the
Society.
The body of the work is devoted to a
history of all
of the chapters in Ohio. The sketch of
each chapter
contains a list of the charter members
with names and
in many instances portraits of the
organizing regent
and other matters of interest in the
history of the chap-
ter. Following this is a list of the
members of each
chapter together with the present
address and registered
(183)