Ohio History Journal

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MINUTES*

MINUTES*

 

OF THE

 

SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

 

OF THE

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

SOCIETY,

 

Held at Columbus, Ohio, February 24 and 25, 1892.

 

 

The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeo-

logical and Historical Society opened at the Board of Trade on

the evening of the 24th inst., with an address by Hon. Benjamin

Butterworth, Secretary of the Columbian Exposition.  There

was a fair sized audience. Admittance was by invitation.

Among the prominent people present were Governor Wm. Mc-

Kinley, Hon. L. B. Wing, Representative W. H. Dicks, T.

Ewing Miller, Hon. L. N. Bonham, Hon. J. H. Bingham, S. S.

Rickly, Prof. J. A. Shawan, Prof. H. A. Thompson, E. L. Hin-

man, Gen. John Beatty, and others. In the absence of Mr. F.

C. Sessions, President of the Society, Gen. R. Brinkerhoff, Vice

President, presided.  He made some introductory remarks re-

garding the Society, its organization, objects, etc.

The Society was formed with a view to preserving for the

State the prehistoric relics, which were going beyond its borders.

Ohio, he said, was the richest in prehistoric relics of any State

in the Union. There were over 10,000 ancient mounds, many

of which had been despoiled of their treasures. In the museums

 

*The proceedings of the previous six annual meetings of the Society

were published in Volumes I, II and III of the Society's publications-

the last volume (III) of which appeared in 1891--reprinted in 1894.

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