THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION
REPORTED BY HELEN S. FULLER
The joint session of the Columbus
Genealogical Society and
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society took place
at 7 P.M., April 1, in the auditorium of
the Ohio State Museum.
Frank A. Livingston presided and John F.
Carlisle presented a
paper on "William Holmes McGuffey,
His History and
Genealogy," in which he pointed out
McGuffey's position con-
cerning the selection of reading
material adapted to the minds of
children. He then traced the ancestry of
McGuffey and his life
activities and told the story of the
McGuffey Readers and the basic
ideas upon which they were developed. He
also told of the origin
of the McGuffey Societies. The second
paper of the evening was
an informal one by Mrs. William S. Van
Fossen who discussed
the subject: "Records as Related to
Patriotic Hereditary Socie-
ties." She discussed the relation
of data to membership in the
various patriotic societies, including
the Daughters of American
Colonists, the Daughters of the American
Revolution and the
Daughters of 1812. She pointed out
the difficulties in establishing
a record of a lineage for the Daughters
of 1812 because military
records for that period are so sketchy.
Mrs. Van Fossen's paper
will be published in the Ohio
Genealogical Quarterly sometime in
1942.
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