Ohio History Journal

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OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

 

REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

BY THE EDITOR

 

FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR.

It may be too soon to write a great history of the

World War. We still stand in the shadow of that vol-

canic upheaval. We are too close to it, in time and in-

terest, to measure in due perspective, its mighty pro-

portions.

It is not too soon, however, to record the facts upon

which that history is to be built. The part of the United

States in that war is the aggregate contribution of the

States and territories; the part of Ohio in that war

is the sum total of the activities of the eighty-eight coun-

ties of the State. It is not too soon to record, in con-

nected and convenient form, the contributive effort of

each of these political subdivisions. This should be

done while many of the actors are still living, before

contemporaneous records are scattered or permanently

lost.

There has recently been presented to the Library of

the Society, a neatly printed and substantially and beau-

tifully bound volume that may well be noted as a model

for counties whose World War history has not yet been

written. The title of this book is Fairfield County in

the World War. The author is Judge Van A. Snider,

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