Ohio History Journal

MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEET- ING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY   MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING, COLUMBUS, OHIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1927.   FORENOON SESSION 10:00 A. M. The meeting was called to order by Secretary C. B. Galbreath. There were present:

Dr. B. F. Prince, Arthur C. Johnson, Dr. W. O. Thompson, Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., George F. Bareis, Dr. Frank C. Furniss, C. B. Galbreath, Mrs. C. B. Galbreath, Mrs. Orson D. Dryer, Edwin F. Wood, Joseph C. Goodman, Fred J. Heer, Gen. George Florence, Mrs. George Florence, J. E. Tritsch, Dr. W. C. Mills, Clarence D. Laylin, Mrs. Dr. Howard Jones, Mrs. Anna M. Keirn, Clinton Cockerell, Mrs. Clinton Cockerell, Harriet Cockerell, John R. Horst,

Hon. Robert H. Day, John F. Wilson, Frank C. Amos, Jerry Dennis, H. R. McPherson, Homer Charles, Hazel Charles, Marshall A. Smith, James A. Braden, Prof. T. N. Hoover, Walter D. McKinney, Dr. J. H. Wyscarver, Carl D. Sheppard, Oliver H. Wolcott, Michael G. Heintz, Dr. Edward C. Sherman, Judge Van A. Snider, Mrs. Van A. Snider, Mrs. Vernon Barrett, Frederick W. Hinkle, Philip Hinkle, Hon. John J. Lentz, James S. Hine,

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Dr. H. O. Whitaker, Tiffin Gilmore, H. R. Goodwin, Mrs. Ada M. Hipple, Mrs. H. V. Weil, J. S. Roof, Mrs. J. S. Roof, R. C. Baker, Mrs. R. C. Baker, Mrs. J. E. Clark,

H. C. Shetrone, Dean M. Hickson, C. W. Justice, J. W. Deffenbaugh, S. K. Mosiman, Morten Carlisle, Mrs. Rhea M. Knittle, H. G. Simpson, W. E. Peters.

Mr. C. W. Justice moved that President Arthur C. Johnson be elected Chairman of the meeting. Carried. Director Mills moved that Charles W. Justice act as secretary of the meeting. Carried. Mr. C. B. Galbreath: "Our President suggested a plan of speeding up the business of this meeting. We have delivered to you, in printed form, the reports of the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Director and the Chairman of the Committee on Parks. These reports will not be read. Included in the report of the Di- rector are the reports of the Curator of Natural His- tory, of the Department of Archaeology and of ac- cessions to the Museum during the past year. The Chairman of the Committee on Parks has included in his report a statement of conditions at Logan Elm Park. Mound City Park, Fort Laurens, Schoenbrunn, Serpent Mound, Fort Ancient and Campus Martius." Mr. Galbreath then read a brief summary of the re- ports of the various committees of the Society. Mr. Joseph C. Goodman: "I move that the complete reports, represented by this outline presented by the Secretary, be accepted and spread upon the minutes of the meeting." The motion carried.

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

The Secretary submitted the following reports of

officers and committees:

The past year has been one of unusual activity in every

department of the work of the Society. Evidence of this fact

is detailed in the reports of the officers and committees herewith

submitted. It is hoped that the members of the Society will read,

at least once, each of these reports. They exhibit generous and

devoted effort and substantial achievement.

Soon after the last Annual Meeting, the importance and mag-

nitude of the work of the Finance Committee which had in prep-

aration the budget of the Society for the forthcoming fiscal period

of eighteen months, became apparent.

When your present secretary began his service with the

Society it was obvious that salaries paid the Museum and Library

staff were inadequate, in some cases ridiculously so. A compar-

ison of appropriations for the year 1919 with those for the com-

ing year, presents many striking contrasts. The progress toward

a fair remuneration and "living wage" has been slow. Some way

or other legislative committees in the year 1919 were still clinging

to the idea that service in The Ohio State Archaeological and His-

torical Society was worth only about one-half as much as similar

service in other state work. The precedent had been set and it

was difficult to overcome. The autumn of 1926 found the com-

pensation of almost every member of the staff below what was

currently paid elsewhere, not only on the University grounds

but in other state departments.

The Finance Committee on October 20, 1926, in the prepara-

tion of the budget, determined to ask again for better pay for

those in the employ of the Society. At a meeting of the Board of

Trustees on November 1, 1926, the recommendations of the

Finance Committee, with only slight changes, were approved.

To the President of the Society went the responsibility of pre-

senting to the legislative committees the budget request for a new

wing to the Museum and Library Building. Upon the shoul-

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ders of the Secretary fell, in large measure, the task of piloting

through the remainder of the budget. Fortunately, as in the past,

both the President and the Secretary had back of them the

united support of the Board of Trustees and the members of

the Society.

Less fortunate, however, was another confronting condition.

The state treasury was reported short on funds and sufficient

revenues were not in sight to meet the necessary expenses of the

coming fiscal period. Announcement was widely made through

the press that provision would not be made for additional posi-

tions in any department and that there would be no increase in

salaries. This made the outlook for the budget of the Society

rather gloomy. It early became manifest that nothing short of

an earnest and adequate presentation of present and pressing

needs would secure the appropriations imperatively demanded to

meet the increasing activities of the Society. Such a presenta-

tion was attempted with substantial results.

To make a long story short, when the appropriation bill

finally passed, for the first time in the history of the Society the

compensation of its salaried staff had been placed on a basis ap-

proximating that of other departments of the state service. The

precedent having now been set, it is not probable that diffi-

culty will in the future be experienced in maintaining a "living

wage" for the staff of the Society. Further adjustments may be

necessary but they will not be numerous. The Society will not

be compelled to appear biennially before the Legislature in a

begging attitude for the means of livelihood.

Not only was better pay provided for the staff, but other

requests were given liberal consideration by the committees of

both houses of the General Assembly and approved by the

Governor.

The collection of the source materials of their history has

for many years claimed the active interest of many states. The

failure to gather and make accessible for ready reference the

documents and manuscripts, collectively denominated state ar-

chives, has long been a subject of reproach to Ohio.

On April 6, 1926, the memorial wing of the Museum and

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Library Building of this Society was dedicated with appropriate

and impressive ceremonies. The forenoon session was devoted

to a conference on "Cultivating the Field of Ohio History."

The valuable addresses delivered on this subject may profitably

be considered for years to come in shaping the policy of this

Society. In speaking of state archives, Dr. Alexander C. Flick,

Director of Archives and History of the State of New York,

said in part:

These records not only give the history of the State and its political

subdivisions but are the foundations for all land titles; for highways, rail-

roads, canals, public parks and reservations; for vital statistics and mar-

riages; and for laws and court decisions. The safeguarding of public records

and maps is indeed one of the fundamental obligations of the state. Yet

our public records are notoriously neglected, and Ohio is one of the worst

sinners. The local records have disappeared in some instances. Those that

are left are too often given inadequate fire protection; many are shamefully

neglected by local officials who have no idea of their value; and they are

seldom catalogued and arranged for convenient use. The state records are

given better attention but they are incomplete; are scattered among the

various departments of the state government; and are neglected, badly

arranged, and inadequately catalogued for use.

 

On this theme Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western

Reserve Historical Society, said on the same occasion:

I have been anxious to see some action by the Legislature for the

preservation of the real history of Ohio, as contained in the state archives.

I think it would make anyone here sick to go into the basement of the

State House, as I have many times, and see the records and files of this

state, manuscripts of the period of the Civil War, scattered over the floor,

where any one going into the room would walk on them. Go into the

Governor's office and try to find papers of the previous governors that have

been in office. If the State Historical Society could in some way get hold

of those records and safeguard them, I think it would be one of the greatest

advance steps they could take.

The General Assembly, at its regular session this year, passed

what is known as the Romans Law, introduced by Mrs. Viola D.

Romans, a representative from Franklin County. It is the first

measure enacted in Ohio looking toward the custody, preservation

and care of the state archives. It is brief, comprehensive,

explicit and so evidently fair that it passed without opposition.

The text in full is as follows:

Any department, commission, board, officer or other administrative

agency of the state government, having charge of documents, books, manu-

scripts, records or papers, may arrange with the Ohio State Archaeological

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and Historical Society for the transfer of such documents, books, manu-

scripts, records or papers, in whole or in part, to the custody of said so-

ciety on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by such depart-

ment, commission, board, officer or other administrative agency of the

state and the board of trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and His-

torical Society; and such transfer shall be made on approval of such agrce-

ment by the governor. (Ohio Laws, Vol. 112, p. 108.)

This act forms Sections 154-159 of the General Code of Ohio.

It is not mandatory. When any department or other adminis-

trative agency of the State wishes to transfer documents or

archives to the custody of the Ohio State Archaeological and

Historical Society and the latter is willing to receive them, the

transfer may be made with the approval of the Governor. This

prepares the way for the acquisition by the Society of valuable

sources of Ohio history now inaccessible and in many instances

not even known to exist.

But all the favorable action of the General Assembly would

have been largely in vain, so far as the immediate future is con-

cerned, had not provision been made for additional room in the

Museum and Library Building. The prompt addition of a new

wing was necessarily preparatory, not only for the reception of

the state archives but for the growth of the library from other

sources. The basement room assigned to newspapers, for more

than six months past, has been full to overflowing. With the

acquisition of other important files in immediate prospect, more

space is needed, even if nothing is secured from any state de-

partment. It was, therefore, most fortunate that appropriation

was made for a new wing to the building of the Society. This

not only meets an imperative need, but we might almost say,

tides over a crisis in the history of the Society.

Gratifying progress has been made in additions to the li-

brary.  Especially is this true of the newspaper department.

Eighteen months ago the collection of Ohio papers, here accessible

for research purposes, was a very modest one. Today this col-

lection is by far the largest and most representative in the city

of Columbus. In this brief period more Ohio papers have been

added to the library of the Society than have been added and

preserved in the State Library in the last one hundred years.

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In a short time, with continued encouragement and effort this

can be made the largest collection of its kind in the world.

The acquisition of the Winthrop Sargent papers, fully noted

at the last Annual Meeting, has been increased through the kindly

interest of Winthrop Sargent VII, by the contribution of a num-

ber of manuscript letters and documents, all relating to the early

history of this country, and most of them to the Northwest Ter-

ritory. The Winthrop Sargent collection, in the possession of

the Society, is now one of the most notable owned by the State.

It is planned to have, at a not distant date, photostat copies made

of each of these manuscripts for use by students. The originals

can then be placed in the vault for safe keeping.

For the past six years the library of the Society has been

dependent for its cash gifts upon a member of our Board of

Trustees, Hon. Claude Meeker. He commenced by the purchase

of the large library of Ohioana, collected by the late Daniel J.

Ryan, and presented the same to the Society. Since then, when

cash was needed to make some valuable additions to the library

and money from our regular appropriations was not available,

Mr. Meeker has come forward and generously furnished funds.

Within the past year there was offered to the Society an im-

portant collection of papers left by Samuel Medary, Territorial

Governor of Minnesota and Kansas, and for many years editor

of The Ohio Statesman and The Crisis, published in Columbus.

These were offered for sale and Mr. Meeker generously furnished

the funds for the purchase. The Society has been fortunate in

cash gifts for other departments of its work, but thus far Mr.

Meeker almost alone has given money for the upbuilding of the

library. For this reason his interest is the more highly appre-

ciated and stimulates the hope that in time other donors will come

to our aid.

While money donations to the library are thus limited to a

single donor, very valuable gifts of books, papers and pictures

have been made in recent years: the library of the Old Northwest

Genealogical and Historical Society, through the generosity of

Messrs. George F. Spahr and Theodore E. Glenn and the in-

terest of General Edward Orton, Jr. and Walter D. McKinney;

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the Gard Library presented by D. H. Gard, the last surviving

charter member of the Society, and a number of other gifts

of lesser note but of distinctive importance.

Within the past year, Mrs. Oscar Lear has transferred to

the Society the library of her late husband, for many years a

life member.

Miss Marietta Comly, of Washington, D. C., a life member

of the Society, presented a collection of books including rare

items on Indian Basketry.

Miss May Siebert and Mrs. Orlando Miller presented a

collection of war books from the library of their father, the late

Mr. John Siebert, and also a beautiful banner of his regiment.

Miss Elizabeth Sullivant and Miss Jane B. Sullivant, grand-

daughters of Lucas Sullivant, the founder of Franklinton, now

a part of Columbus, made a notable gift to the Society including

a copy of the "Genealogy and Family Memorial," by their father,

Joseph Sullivant; the very rare map of the Northwest Territory,

by Samuel Lewis, published in 1796; and a large detailed wall map

of Ohio, published in 1815, by B. Hough, A. Bourne and J.

Melish. The Society is most fortunate in securing these two

maps for which it had long searched in vain.

Within the year the unpublished manuscripts and a number

of books left by Col. W. L. Curry, a veteran of the Civil War

with an enviable military record and long a life member of the

Society, came into the possession of the library. Col. Curry had

been engaged for a number of years in preparation for publish-

ing a "History of Ohio in the Civil War." He died before his

manuscript was published. It is our purpose to arrange this manu-

script systematically with a view to preservation in such form that

it may be available for future publication by the Society or other

interested parties. For years Col. Curry had been recognized

by his veteran comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic as

the best informed survivor of the Civil War on all questions re-

lating to Ohio's participation in that conflict.

A few days ago, Mrs. Daniel J. Ryan presented a collection

of photographs left by her husband, a number of which had been

used in the Randall and Ryan "History of Ohio." With these

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were included some valuable manuscript letters from eminent

public men. Mrs. Ryan has loaned to the Society an oil painting

of her husband, the late Daniel J. Ryan, a life member and long

an officer and devoted worker in the upbuilding of this Society.

It is now on exhibition in the office of the Secretary. Grateful

acknowledgment has been made for these gifts and the loan of

the portrait.

The fine, large portrait of Abraham Lincoln, over the en-

trance to the library, was presented by Miss Maude Collins.

A number of important committee meetings have been held

since the last Annual Meeting. Following precedent a few only

of these are here noted.

On September 21, 1926, a meeting of the Library Committee

was held. At this meeting the need of additional room and the

creation of an "Archives Department" was considered. Professor

W. H. Siebert moved "that the President appoint a committee of

three members whose duty it shall be to visit Governor Donahey

and solicit his interest and cooperation in ways and means for

the preservation and systematic arrangement of the archives of

the state government." The motion was unanimously adopted and

the chairman appointed the committee.

The Finance Committee held a meeting on October 20 and

21, 1926, to consider and formulate a budget for the ensuing

fiscal period of eighteen months.

On November 1, the Board of Trustees met for the trans-

action of business, including the consideration of the report of

the Finance Committee on the budget requests to be presented at

the coming session of the General Assembly. The report of the

Finance Committee, with slight changes, was approved with sus-

taining statements.

On April 14, 1927, the Board of Trustees met to authorize

the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Society to sign the

contract and documents necessary to the construction and erection

of a suitable memorial at the site of the Battle of Fallen Timbers,

"said memorial to be designed, constructed and erected by Bruce

Wilder Saville, sculptor, in conformity with models and speci-

fications furnished and approved by this board."

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On May 31, 1927, the Board of Trustees met at the call of

the President. The Treasurer made a comprehensive report of

appropriations granted at the recent session of the General As-

sembly. Following this, the President outlined a program for

the remainder of the year, assigning to each committee a definite

statement of the work to be done. The chairmen of the various

committees thereupon submitted reports in accordance with the

suggestions of the President, which were in every instance unani-

mously approved.

Full reports of this important meeting and others herein

noted are found in the Minute Book of the Society.

Among the new activities authorized by the General Assem-

bly are the operation of photostat equipment and the indexing

of the publications of the Society. A photographer and an in-

dexer have been employed and the results of their labors will

be available for the next Annual Report.

Mr. Harold G. Simpson, who has recently made an inventory

of the newspapers in the Ohio State Library, makes to me the

following comparative report.

Newspapers in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

Society Library:

Bound volumes ..................... 3701

Unbound volumes ................... 4404

Total ........................... 8105

Newspapers in the Ohio State Library:

Bound volumes ..................... 5714

Unbound volumes ...................                                   639

Total  ...........................                                      6353

This shows that there are 1752 more volumes, bound and

unbound, in the library of the Society than in the State Library.

Within the past year there have been numbered and recorded

on cards, 2865 books, partly duplicates and partly volumes not

appropriate for use in the library of an historical society.

There have also been accessioned since November 15, 1926,

1286 books and bound pamphlets.

Vol. XXXVI--38.

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The most important problem now claiming the immediate at-

tention of the Secretary of the Society is the upbuilding of the

Library. A large extension of its newspaper collection, in the very

near future, is in prospect. The present opportunity may not

continue indefinitely. The library is accumulating, gradually, a

creditable collection of county histories of Ohio. This can be

supplemented at any time. After a thorough canvass of the Ohio

newspaper field, an intensive campaign for the collection of every-

thing relating to local source materials may be inaugurated.

Regardless of temporary delays, misunderstandings, and other

trivial hindrances, it is the purpose of the Secretary to push the

work of establishing here a reference library creditable to the

State of Ohio and worthy of its incomparable history.

In conclusion I wish to thank the Board of Trustees and the

officers of the Society for continued support and cooperation,

and the members of the library staff for faithful service and

loyal assistance in carrying forward the work which devolves

upon the Secretary as Librarian. Without presumption, I am sure

that I may also express the gratitude of our entire membership for

the kindly consideration of state officials and the generous financial

aid of the General Assembly of Ohio, which has made 1927 a

bright year in the history of this Society.

C. B. GALBREATH,

Secretary.

REPORT OF DIRECTOR

I take great pleasure in submitting my sixth annual report

as Director of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

Society Museum. This Museum was established by the Society

by inserting as one of the articles of incorporation that the So-

ciety should establish and maintain a Museum of prehistoric

relics and natural or other curiosities or specimens of art or

nature promotive of the objects of the Association.

Your Director has passed through a year of untold anxiety

on account of a severe illness which was a handicap in every

respect. At no time during the year has the Museum received

the attention that it should have from the Director, but the staff

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of the Museum and workers in the building have contributed

in every way to assist me in seeing that the work of the various

departments went forward as usual and I am greatly indebted

to them for the interest they have shown in carrying forward

the work at the proper time. The time, whenever I could give

it, was taken up with the various departments in formulating

and carrying out plans for the various exhibits.

Mr. Starling L. Eaton, Superintendent of the Building, has

devoted a good part of his time to painting the rotunda and

adjoining rooms; a number of these rooms were also repaired

by removing the cracked plaster and replacing it with cement.

The system employed by the Superintendent of the Building

and Grounds in having someone present in the building at all

hours has been working to the satisfaction of all.  We now

have a new clock system with keys located at six different points

in the building. The clock is carried by the watchman who,

when he arrives at the station where the key is fastened to the

wall, rings the clock which records the time when he visited this

particular point. In this way each hour of the night the watch-

man is compelled to visit all of these stations and make notation

by ringing the clock, and we find that this system is very good.

The Superintendent has also installed a new scrubber and

the terrazzo floors of the building are constantly cleaned and

kept in condition by this machine. He feels that this is a great

improvement. Mr. Eaton has also had charge of the printing

and during the year has set up 337 forms and printed a little

over 40,000 impressions. During the year he has also made a

number of repairs on the roof, as well as repairs upon toilets

and sweeping devices, all of which service has been very satis-

factory.

The Cabinet-maker has also been very busy during the

year, turning out twenty-two new cases and dividing off several

rooms on the first floor with a railing three feet high. He has

constructed 133 feet of this railing. A number of old cases

have been repaired and put in shape for exhibition purposes.

He has made for the Natural History Department, 154 perches

for birds and also 276 base blocks for birds and animals. He

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has also repaired a number of chairs, tables, and other things

about the museum.

During the year the Natural History collections have grown

rapidly and we have secured the great collection of birds' eggs

collected by Dr. B. R. Bales, of Circleville, Ohio. In this col-

lection there are more than 10,000 specimens, being almost a

complete collection of eggs from  our Ohio birds.   I take

great pleasure in adding the report of Prof. James S. Hme.

Curator of Natural History, which speaks for itself:

 

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY

Two years ago the Department of Natural History of the

Ohio State Museum was organized. With the aid of friends,

distinct progress has been made. Without help from members

of the Wheaton Club and others, a large part of what has been

done could not have been accomplished.

One of the major tasks finished is the labelling and cata-

loguing, by Charles F. Walker, of 2965 specimens of birds, par-

tially mounted and partially skins, for study. More than 2000

of these specimens were turned to the Museum by the Univer-

sity and much other material now in the Museum is from the

same source.

The so-called Hayden Collection of mounted birds and

nests has been extensively repaired and added to, so that it now

furnishes a display collection which is used extensively by school

pupils and others.

Special effort is being made to collect the animal life of the

state. Many of the more conspicuous mammals and birds es-

pecially, are no longer to be found within our limits so it is the

plan to secure these from outside so that we can have a full

representation of Ohio's fauna as it formerly existed. The pair

of moose procured by James W. Stuber and now in the Mu-

seum, is an example. Others are being considered. A note-

worthy addition to the collection is a pair of the rare gray foxes

secured by H. R. McPherson, of our staff. A notable state

record is the capture of a badger by Samuel C. Coon, in North-

west Township, Williams County, September 1, 1926, and sent

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in to the Museum by B. H. Vollmer of the State Fish and Game

Division.

Work on the smaller mammals of the state has resulted in

collecting about 500 skins for study. With the aid of Milton B.

Trautman we have secured nearly a hundred specimens of bats

recently. They have been found flying at dusk in various places

and were secured with a shot gun. One species not heretofore

known from Ohio, has been collected, and another species known

previously from a single Ohio specimen, has been observed in

various localities.  Much interest has resulted from  trapping

mice and shrews. It shows that there are species present in the

state that have been overlooked in the past.

The Museum has received as a donation thirty-five speci-

mens of birds, mainly ducks, swans, pheasants and the like, from

Hon. Claude Meeker, of Columbus. Mr. Meeker's donation added

several species to the Museum Collection.

The Museum has acquired by purchase the Dr. B. R. Bales

Collection of 10,000 specimens of birds' eggs. About 650 species

of North American birds are represented in this fine collection

of eggs. It will be of much value to the Museum.

The reptiles of Ohio have received attention. About twen-

ty-five specimens of snakes, including five rattlers and a copper-

head, have been collected within a year. A collection of turtles

consisting of nine species has been made this summer. Many

of these are mounted, so that we shall have a case in the Mu-

seum showing a representative collection of Ohio reptiles.

A collection of frogs and salamanders, made this summer,

consists of from twenty to twenty-five species.

There are about 125 species of fishes in Ohio. Due to the

help of Mr. E. L. Wickliff and Milton B. Trautman the Mu-

seum has material for a full collection of Ohio fishes and as soon

as we can make arrangements it will be available for study.

The molluscan shells of Ohio are numerous. Nearly 400

species are known from the state; one hundred or more of these

have been taken this season and are ready for display as soon as

suitable cases for them are available.

Respectfully submitted,

JAMES S. HINE, Curator.

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During the year the Department of Archaeology has gone

forward in its field explorations, spending the entire time upon

the great Seip Mound, the largest of the Seip Group. I append

herewith the report of the Curator in charge, Mr. H. C. Shet-

rone:

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHEOLOGY

Report of the Curator for the year 1926-1927:

During the past autumn and winter, the activities of the

Curator centered in the routine duties of the Museum, compris-

ing classification, study, arrangement and display of archaeo-

logical material. A graphic display, "The Story of Flint," was

worked up and placed on exhibition, the object of the display

being to demonstrate in a readily intelligible manner every phase

of the use of flint and similar materials by primitive man, from

its discovery down to the time when it was supplanted by mod-

ern inventions and substitutes. In cooperation with Mr. Good-

win, the Registrar of the Museum, the Curator prepared a care-

fully executed model, in detail and to scale, of the Seip Group

of Prehistoric Earthworks comprising the several mounds and

enclosures and the adjacent topography. A number of lectures

and talks were made during the winter and spring before vari-

ous schools, clubs and other organizations.

A preliminary examination of a dry cave, known as Kettle

Hill Cave, near Lancaster, Ohio, was made in April, ten days

being consumed therein. Reports of evidences of occupation by

prehistoric peoples were completely verified, and numerous speci-

mens of the handiwork of the occupants were secured. These

include specimens of stone, flint, pottery-ware, and objects made

from perishable materials, such as woven fabric, basketry, moc-

casins, leather, featherwork, corn, seeds, nuts and so forth.

The entire summer, from June 1 to September 15, was

spent in pursuing the Society's explorations at the great central

Seip Mound, Ross County. The season's work was satisfactory

in returns, yielding a quantity of cultural material and relics

throwing further light on the life story of the Hopewell Cul-

ture of Ohio mound-builders. A total of 40 burials were dis-

closed, and a careful floor map, photographs, measurements and

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field notes were made to afford a complete record of explora-

tion.

Members and friends of the Society having subscribed a

fund for the purchase of ten acres of land on which the Seip

Mound is located, and for the restoration of the mound and

the parking of the tract, the work was planned and executed

with these objects in mind. The acreage was purchased, and a

deed and abstract of title are now in the possession of the So-

ciety. Through the kind cooperation of the State Highway De-

partment, a driveway was constructed leading from the main

highway to the mound, a distance of one-eighth of a mile, thus

making it accessible to visitors. Exploration activities were mod-

ified from the usual course of procedure in order that a mini-

mum of the displaced earth will have to be handled a second

time, in effecting restoration. Approximately one-sixth of the

mound remains to be examined next season, after which com-

pletion of restoration, and preliminary parking of the tract will

be effected. The State Highway Department is entitled to the

Society's thanks for its hearty cooperation in constructing the

driveway and for the loan of power machinery, which ma-

terially aided in the work of restoration and exploration.

The names of the contributors to the fund for the pur-

chase of the land and restoration of the mound are:

Gen. Chauncey B. Baker, Mr. George F. Bareis, Mrs. Vernon

Barrett, Mr. Ralph H. Beaton, Miss Eleanor Beaton, Mr. James

A. Braden, Mr. Herman Braun, Sr., Miss May G. Cummings,

Mr. B. G. Dawes, Mr. E. A. Deeds, Mr. John G. Deshler, Dr.

John M. Dunham, Mr. Angus W. Dun, Mr. Marcus G. Evans, Dr.

Lee Good, Mr. Joseph C. Goodman, Mrs. W. D. Hamilton, Mr.

W. S. Hayden, Mr. Chas. M. Haynes, Prof. J. S. Hine, Mr. Phil-

ip Hinkle, Mr. R. N. Hubbard, Mr. Arthur C. Johnson, Mr. C.

F. Kettering, Miss Josephine Klippart, Mr. Charles M. Krumm,

Mr. Clarence D. Laylin, Mr. F. C. Long, Mr. H. R. McPherson,

Hon. D. M. Massie, Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., Prof. B. F. Prince,

Mr. Walter L. Roche, Mr. Erdis G. Robinson, Mr. Azariah S.

Root, Mr. Henry N. Rose, Mr. John Seip, Mr. George D. Selby,

Mr. E. C. Shaw, Mr. Carl D. Sheppard, Mr. H. C. Shetrone, Mr.

H. G. Simpson, Mr. George B. Smith, Hon. Daniel H. Sowers,

Mr. A. C. Spetnagel, Mr. Julius F. Stone, Mr. W. F. Sulzbacher,

Mr. Charles R. Wheeler, and Mr. H. R. Wolfe.

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The Registrar has reported the additions to the Museum

from October 1, 1926, to September 1, 1927, as follows:

 

Accessions to Museum Collections

October 1, 1926 to September 1, 1927

The most important additions to the Archaeological collec-

tion, aside from the material secured by explorations, have been

the collections of the late Dr. G. Miesse, Lancaster, Ohio, which

was bequeathed to the Society; of Mr. C. O. Tracy, Bexley,

Ohio, presented by his son, Mr. William P. Tracy; and the col-

lections of Dr. B. R. Bales of Circleville, and Mr. George W.

Gossard of South Solon, Ohio, which were purchased. The col-

lection of Mr. H. R. McPherson has also been loaned to the

Society.

A number of fine examples of Indian beadwork have been

presented, notably the collection of Dr. H. Lee Good, Hamilton,

Ohio, and Mr. Tiffin Gilmore of Columbus. The collection of

Dr. Good is exhibited in one of the new wall cases in the De-

partment of Ethnology.

A fine collection of native hats and other material from the

Philippines, and specimens of Apache Beadwork have been de-

posited in the museum by Col. William F. Martin, U. S. A.,

General Reserve Depot at Columbus.

The Egyptian Mummy presented last year by Dr. J. Morton

Howell, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to

Egypt, has been placed in the sarcophagus in which it was found,

and a copy of the decoration on the inside of the sarcophagus

has been framed and hung upon the wall adjacent to the ex-

hibit. The sarcophagus was received from Dr. Howell during

the past year, and the exhibit is now complete.

Various relics of the Civil War are still being added, among

those recently received being the military equipment of the late

Col. W. L. Curry of Columbus.

The collection of Minerals has been enlarged by specimens

presented by Mr. James G. Manchester of New York, Mrs.

Theodore Leonard of Columbus, and others. Mr. Philip Kientz

of Columbus has also contributed generously, making several

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trips to Ross County localities to secure material, One of the

specimens secured, part of a large geode, contains five different

minerals in crystallized form.

An entire case is given to the fine collection of Quartz

Geodes selected from several hundred specimens presented by

Mrs. Cora Cromer and sons, Springfield, Ohio. The geodes

were collected in Indiana by the late Dr. P. E. Cromer, who was

an ardent collector, and they make a very attractive and inter-

esting addition to the collection.

During the past year 88 accessions, consisting of over 2500

specimens, have been recorded, specimens numbered, and lists

filed. The general record follows:

Gray Foxes, male and female; presented by Mr. H. R. Mc-

Pherson, Eldorado, Ohio.

Collection of Motion Picture Films; presented by the Co-

lumbus Industrial Film Co..

Portrait of Thomas Walker Cridland; presented by Mr.

Walter D. McKinney, Columbus, Ohio.

Bows and Arrows from South America; presented by Mr.

E. V. O'Rourke, Columbus, Ohio.

Miniature Earthenware Utensils, Philippine Islands; pre-

sented by Mrs. Selden L. Trumbull, Columbus, Ohio.

Harpoon Point; presented by Mr. Thomas M. Earl, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

Shields, Axes and Bolo from the Philippine Islands; loaned

by Dr. Albert W. Dumm, Columbus, Ohio.

Jinrikisha from China; loaned by Mr. Earl Thurman.

Totem Pole, Alaskan; purchased.

Minerals and Shells; presented by Mrs. O. E. Legg, Clin-

tonville, Ohio.

Minerals; presented by Mrs. Ella McKee Erdman, Chilli-

cothe, Ohio.

Archaeological collection of the late C. O. Tracy, Bexley,

Ohio; presented by his son, Mr. William Tracy.

Archaeological specimens; presented by Mr. Clarence Ball-

mer, Canal Winchester, Ohio.

Rifle; loaned by Mr. Lee E. Deem, Divide, Montana.

Letter written by Salmon P. Chase; presented by Mr. Wil-

bur H. Young, Montclair, N. J.

Minerals; the collection of the late Dr. P. E. Cromer, Spring-

field, Ohio, presented by Mrs. Cora Cromer and sons.

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Antique china plate, books and daguerreotype; presented

by Mrs. Oscar Lear, Riverside Drive, Columbus, Ohio.

Cloth from catafalque used at funeral of President Gar-

field, presented by Mr. David Garfield Stockman, Ravenna, Ohio.

Artificial Teeth, made in 1862; presented by Dr. E. C. Mills,

Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological specimens; presented by Mr. Hubert Rees,

Rees' Station, Ohio.

Banner-stone (unfinished); presented by Mr. W. W. Kem-

per, Bremen, Ohio.

Minerals; presented by Mr. James G. Manchester, New

York.

Coverlet, Quilt and Scarf; presented by Prof. W. A. Fos-

ter, Urbana, Ill.

Antique Locks; presented by Prof. F. C. Caldwell, Ohio

State University.

Powder Horn; purchased.

Archaeological specimens; the collection of Mr. G. W.

Gossard, South Solon, Ohio; purchased.

Books of Prose and Verse, by C. K. Hann; presented by

Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., Columbus, Ohio.

Foreign Coins; presented by Mrs. Dahlia Hart, Columbus,

Ohio.

Copy of "The Daily Citizen," Vicksburg, Miss., 1863; pre-

sented by Prof. F. H. Eno, Ohio State University.

Historical specimens from the site of old Portsmouth, O.;

presented by Mr. George T. Waters, Buena Vista, Ohio.

Sword of the Civil War; presented by H. W. Johnston, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

Lincoln and Hamlin button; presented by Mr. Charles Jus-

tice, Columbus, Ohio.

Tusks (boar); presented by Mr. E. H. Pugh, Nelsonville,

Ohio.

Bowl (loan), and Tile (presented) from Mr. E. J. Bognar,

Alliance, Ohio.

Stone Axe; added to collection by Mr. Rodney Gragg,

Bainbridge, Ohio.

Archaeological and Natural History collections of Dr. B. R.

Bales, Circleville, Ohio.

Canes and Calabash from Hawaii; added to collection by

Miss Zarel Jones, Honolulu, T. H.

Indian Bow, and two Celts; loaned by Mr. O. P. Hopkins,

Columbus, Ohio.

Mealing Stone, presented by Mr. T. B. Bowers, Columbus,

Ohio.

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Pewter Tankard; loaned by Mrs. Minnie B. Bowers, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

Collection of Birds; presented by Mr. Claude Meeker, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

Marble bust of Samuel S. Cox; presented by Mrs. William

V. Cox, Washington, D. C.

Samples of Wool and Flax; presented by Mr. R. E. Hedges,

Scio, Ohio.

Belgian Musket; loaned by Mr. Ray S. Ball, Huron, Ohio.

Aztec Musical Instrument (cast); presented by Prof. Her-

bert A. Miller, Ohio State University.

Historic Cane, formerly belonging to Gov. Tod; pre-

sented by Capt. Austin Kautz, U. S. N., Philadelphia, Pa.

Revolver, belt and holster used in Civil War; presented by

Mr. E. D. Chambers, Columbus, Ohio.

Banderillas used in Bull Fight in Mexico, 1910; presented

by Mr. W. G. Wheaton, Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological and Historical specimens of the late Dr. G.

Miesse, Lancaster, Ohio; bequeathed to the Society.

Fossil; presented by Mr. H. M. White, Grand Rapids, Ohio.

Picture of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College; pre-

sented by Mrs. W. A. Perley, Ojibway, Ontario, Canada.

Sarcophagus for the Egyptian Mummy; presented by Dr. J.

Morton Howell, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-

tiary to Egypt.

Indian Beadwork and Silver Ring, of Chief Red Cloud;

presented by Mr. Tiffin Gilmore, Columbus, Ohio.

Fragments of the "Shenandoah"; presented by Miss Mary

E. Downey, Granville, Ohio.

Minerals and Shells; presented by Mrs. Theodore Leonard,

Sr., Columbus, Ohio.

Military Equipment of the late Col. W. L. Curry, Colum-

bus, Ohio; bequeathed to the Society.

Bow, Arrow and other curios from Philippine Islands; loaned

by Dr. R. S. Moynan, State Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.

Spinning Wheel; presented by Mrs. Joseph R. Taylor, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

Bookcase; loaned by Prof. Joseph R. Taylor, Ohio State

University.

Medal commemorating the Iooth Anniversary of the Balti-

more and Ohio Railroad Company; presented by the President

and Directors of the Company.

Indian Beadwork, Robe, Vest, Leggings, Moccasins, etc.;

presented by Dr. H. Lee Good, Hamilton, Ohio.

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Hand-made brick from Chester, Meigs Co.; presented by

Prof. Wilbur Stout, Ohio State University.

Old Letters; presented by Mr. Edward Eyman, Lancaster,

Ohio.

Archaeological specimens; presented by Mr. T. J. Clark,

Chillicothe, Ohio.

Account dated March 30, 1827; presented by Mr. Herbert

S. Atkinson, Columbus, Ohio.

Shells, Minerals and Botanical specimens from  Hawaii;

added to collection by Miss Zarel Jones, Honolulu, T. H.

Books and Veterinary Instruments; presented by Mrs. H. J.

Houston, Columbus, Ohio.

Howe Sewing Machine; presented by Mrs. Ingle Morris,

Columbus, Ohio.

Philippine and Apache specimens; loaned by Col. W. F.

Martin, U. S. A., General Reserve Depot, Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological specimens; presented by Mr. J. R. Smith,

Canal Winchester, Ohio.

Minerals; presented by Mr. H. R. McPherson, Eldorado,

Ohio.

Envelopes of Civil War period; presented by Mr. C. W.

Reeder, Columbus, Ohio.

Archaeological and Historical Specimens; loaned by Mr. J.

L. Robinson, Chillicothe, Ohio.

Marine curios; added to collection by Mr. A. O. Glock,

Stuart, Fla.

Quilting Frame and Kraut Stomper; presented by Miss

Blanche C. Addison, Columbus, Ohio.

Ethnological specimens, Alaskan Eskimo material; loaned

by Prof. Clark M. Garber, Wales, Alaska.

Copy of "Daily Constitutional," Augusta, Georgia, 1864;

presented by Mr. William B. Drake, Columbus, Ohio.

Fragment of stone from Perry Monument, Put-in-Bay, Ohio;

presented by Mr. A. B. Clark, Columbus, Ohio.

Rifle; loaned by Mr. Phillip G. Horton, 86 Fairfield Ave.,

Newark, Ohio.

Sword of the Revolutionary War; loaned by Mr. John

Dougherty, Logan, Ohio.

Bracelet of Human Hair; presented by Miss Mary E. Coil,

Columbus, Ohio.

Specimens of Pyrite in Shale; presented by Mr. Arthur M.

Brant. Department of Mineralogy, Ohio State University.

Archaeological Collection of Mr. H. R. McPherson, 2174

Summit St., Columbus, Ohio, loaned to the Society.

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Historical specimens added to the collection by Miss Rachel

Trimble, Columbus, Ohio.

Land Grant; signed by President Monroe; presented by Mr.

R. L. Wildermuth, Columbus, Ohio.

Historical specimens added to the collection by Miss Comly,

Washington, D. C.

Banner stone; presented by Mr. H. C. Mercer, Greenfield,

Ohio.

Archaeological material from Kettle Hill Rock Shelter, Lan-

caster, Ohio.

Respectfully submitted,

WM. C. MILLS, Director.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER

FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1927

 

RECEIPTS

Cash on hand July 1st, 1926:

In General Fund ................. $1,217.64   $1,217.64

Life Membership Dues ................                                                             595.00

Active Membership Dues ..............                                                          76.00

Books Sold         ..........................                                                               515.34

Subscriptions   ........................                 18.50

Refund account of Field Work ad-

vanced  1925  ....................               300.00

Refund Natural History Field Work by

J. S. Hine .......................               208.33

Refund of Express on Model by B. W.

Saville ..........................                 5.00

Refund of Expense of H. C. Shetrone

to  Chicago  ......................               30.00

Subscriptions for Restoration of Seip

Mound  ..........................                                                                  1,510.000

Interest on Permanent Fund .........                                                             1,200.00

Interest on Savings Account...........                17.87

Rent Account of Schoenbrunn .........                150.00

From State Treasurer on Sundry Appropriations as follows:

Main Building, Columbus, Ohio

Salaries  ............................                                           34,493.02

Wages ..............................                                            1,669.01

Office  Supplies  ......................                                   149.50

Postage .............................    202.38

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General Plant Supplies ...............   296.28

General Plant Materials ..............                                  1,079.53

Print  Paper  ........................                                          182.93

Repairs  .............................                                                421.70

Water .............................                                                   60.00

Light, Heat and Power ...............                                     1,422.91

Express, Freight and Drayage .........                              101.33

Traveling Expenses .................                                          842.16

Communications ......................                                         144.89

Contingencies ........................                                            61.85

Publications  ........................ 7,373.72

Explorations and Field work..........                                3,068.28

Natural History Work ................                                   1,504.46

Books, Manuscripts, Etc .............                                    625.44

Museum   Collections .................                                      861.85

Restoration of Mound City Group ......                            26.18

Cases ...............................                                              3,004.12

Shelving  ...........................                                            12.00

Roller Shelves ......................                                           2,635.70

Type  ...............................                                                 50.03

Fence for Mound City Group..........                                 411.18

Refitting Basement Room for Library...                            399.24

Printing Plant Supplies ..............                                       7.76

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$61,117.45

Division of Spiegel Grove State Park

Salaries       ............................   $4,879.45

Wages      .............................                                              752.40

Fuel         ................................                                          750.00

Office Supplies ....................                                            314.78

General Plant Supplies ...............                                      277.58

Repairs      .............................                                           382.48

Water      .............................                                             32.73

Light, Heat and Power ...............                                   2,177.46

Communications  ......................                                    51.29

Cabinet Making .....................                                           269.68

Steel Book Stacks .................... 2,500.00

Roof for Residence ..................  1,122.91

Roadway   ...........................     86.60

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$13,597.36

Division of Fort Ancient Park

Salaries  ...........................                                                 360.00

Repairs ........................                                                     234.70

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Communications .....................                                           17.90

Fence  ..............................                                                  105.86

---------

$718.46

Division of Campus Martius

Salaries   .............................  265.00

Wages      .............................                                         148.73

Repairs     .............................                                         115.87

----------

$529.60

Division of Serpent Mound Park

Salaries  .............................                                               240.00

Communications .....................                                        6.05

Well ...............................                                                   300.00

Roadway   ............................                                            61.20

Mowing Machine ....................                                       90.00

----------

$697.25

Division of Logan Elm Park

Salaries  ............................                                                50.00

General Plant ........................                                           287.89

----------

$337.89

Division of Schoenbrunn

Salaries ...........................                                                  300.00

Wages .............................                                            175.00

----------

$475.00

Division of Battlefield of Fallen Timbers

Monument ..........................                                              600.00

General  Plant  ......................                                             82.75

----------

$682.75

Division of Fort St. Clair

Salaries   ............................                                               300.00

Wages    ............................                                               300.00

Repairs   .............................                                              45.00

Mower .............................                                                 75.00

Water Motor .........................                                          50.00

Bridge .............................                                                  300.00

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$1,070.00

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Division of Fort Laurens

Residence     ...........................                                            862.00

Roadway     ...........................                                       1,447.50

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$2,309.50

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Total  ................................  $87,378.94

 

DISBURSEMENTS

Museum and Library Building, Columbus, Ohio

Salaries        ............................                                      $34,493.02

Wages    ..............................                                          1,673.01

Office    Supplies  ......................                                  149.50

Postage ............................                                                 202.38

Office Equipment  ....................                                         208.53

General Plant Supplies ..............                                         296.28

General Plant Materials ...............                                1,079.53

Print  Paper  ........................                                             182.93

Repairs ............................                                                 421.70

Water  Rent  .........................                                        60.00

Light, Heat and Power...............                                     1,422.91

Express, Freight and Drayage .........                             130.04

Traveling Expenses ...................                                        906.76

Communications .....................                                          144.89

Contingencies     ........................                                       129.60

Publications        .........................                                  7,373.72

Exploration and Field Work...........                               3,068.28

Natural History and Field Work.......                            1,504.46

Books, Etc.  .........................                                             625.44

Museum    Collection  ...................                               1,661.85

Restoration of Mound City............                                   26.18

Cases      ...............................                                         3,004.12

Shelving       ............................                                      12.00

Roller     Shelves  ......................                                    2,635.70

Type     ...............................                                             50.03

Restoration of Mound City............                                   26.18

Fencing at Mound City Park..........                              411.18

Refitting Basement Room for Library...                            399.24

Print Plant Supplies  .................                                       17.76

Annual Audit  ........................                                           35.00

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$62,326.04

Division of Spiegel Grove State Park

Salaries  .............................  $4,879.45

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Wages    ..............................                                              752.40

Fuel        ...............................                                             750.00

Office    Supplies  .......................                                     314.78

General Plant Supplies ...............                                      277.58

Repairs       ............................                                           382.48

Water     ...............................                                             32.73

Light, Heat and Power ...............  2,177.46

Communications .....................                                              58.44

Cabinet Making .....................                                           269.68

Steel Stacks .........................                                         2,500.00

Roof for Residence ..................                                     1,122.91

Roadway ...........................                                               86.60

Insurance  ...........................                                              222.00

---------

$13,826.51

Division of Fort Ancient

Salaries  ............................                                                $360.00

Repairs ..............................                                               234.70

Communications .....................                                              17.90

Fencing      ............................    105.86

Insurance    ............................  52.45

---------

$770.91

Division of Campus Martius

Salaries       ............................  $265.00

Wages        ..............................                                    148.73

Repairs      ............................                                      115.87

---------

$529.60

Division of Serpent Mound Park

Salaries  .............................  $240.00

Communications  .....................                                             6.05

Well  ................................                                                 300.00

Roadway  ...........................                                                    61.20

Mowing Machine ....................                                             90.00

---------

$697.25

Division of Logan Elm Park

Salaries  .............................                                                $50.00

General Plant  .......................                                            287.89

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$337.89

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Division of Schoenbrunn

Salaries  ............................                                              $300.00

Wages ...............................                                              175.00

----------

$475.00

Division of Fallen Timbers

Monument ..........................                                           $600.00

General Plant .......................                                               82.75

----------

$682.75

Division of Fort St. Clair

Salaries ............................                                               $300.00

Wages      .............................                                               300.00

Repairs    .............................                                               72.78

Mower     .............................                                               75.00

Water Motor .......................                                               50.00

Bridge .............................                                                    300.00

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$1,097.78

Division of Fort Laurens

Residence ..........................                                             $862.00

Roadway  ............................                                           1,447.50

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$2,309.50

Division George Rogers Clark Monument

Care  of  Park .........................  $83.31   $83.31

Division Seip Mound

Purchase of Land for Park ............ $1,500.00 $1,500.00

 

Transferred to Permanent Fund........              600.00

Traveling expenses advanced to C. B.

Galbreath .......................                                                                     50.00

Cash advanced for Field Work........                                                             550.00

Salary advanced Alice Davis ...........                                                            37.50

Balance on hand June 30, 1927........                                                            1,404.90

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$87,378.94

Respectfully Submitted,

E. F. WOOD,

Treasurer.

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REPORT OF THE AUDITORS

COLUMBUS, OHIO,

OCTOBER 1, 1927.

MR. C. B. GALBREATH, Secretary,

The Ohio State Archaeological and

Historical Society,

Columbus, Ohio.

DEAR SIR:--

Our audit of the books of account and records of The Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society for the fiscal year

ended June 30, 1927, has been completed. We submit herewith

our report containing summary statements of the Society's finan-

cial transactions during the period under review and reflecting

the condition of the Treasury on June 30, 1927.

The balance of the Current Fund on July 1, 1926 was:

 

$1,217.64

Direct receipts during the year amounted

to $4,626.04, of which credits to

Current Fund were ..............  $4,026.04

Appropriations were paid by the State in

the  amount  of ..................  80,952,51

Making total receipts of............... $84,978.55

The total disbursements for the year was  84,831.29

Indicating an excess of Receipts over

Disbursements of  .................             147.26

Resulting in a Current Fund Balance at

June 30, 1927, of................            $1,364.90

On pages 3 and 4 is a Statement of Cash Receipts and Dis-

bursements for the year ended June 30, 1927, giving a detailed

analysis of the above.

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The balance of the Permanent Fund at July 1, 1926, was

 

$24,000.00

During the year receipts from Life

Memberships were .............     $595.00

And Interest earned on Permanent

Fund was .....................     1,200.00

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Making  a  total  of ...................  $1,795.00

Of which amount allocation to Perma-

nent Fund was .................                600.00

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Making the balance at July 1, 1927 ....         $24,600.00

 

The balance of the Permanent Fund is represented by Ohio

State Savings Association Certificate of Deposit No. 25610, dated

July 1, 1927.

The remainder of income from this fund was retained in

the Current Fund.

The Society's Permanent Investment at the beginning of the

Fiscal  Year  was..............................  $1,012,034.23

During the year additions were made as follows:

Land:

Mound City..........                             $437.36

Fort Ancient .........                             105.86

Serpent Mound ......                           361.20

Fort Laurens ..........                             1,447.50  $2,351.92

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Buildings and Structures:

Museum   .............                             $399.24

Fallen Timbers ......                            600.00

Fort St. Clair........                              300.00

Fort Laurens ........                               862.00   2,161.24

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General Plant Equipment:

Serpent Mound ......                           $90.00

Fort St. Clair........                               125.00     215.00

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Library and Museum

Equipment ...........                                                   $8,680.06

Books .................                                                         625.44

Museum Exhibits .......                                                 1,661.85

Gifts and Director's Valu-

ation upon additions to

Books and Museum Ex-

hibits acquired through

field work:

Books--Gift .........    $8,000.00

Museum Exhibits--

Gifts and Field Work   8,30.00  16,300.00

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Total Additions to prop-

erties .................          $31,995.51

Less--Depreciation on

Automobile ..........                  50.00

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Net Additions during

year  ............                        $31,945.51

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Total Permanent In-

vestment June 30,

1927  ............                     $1,043.979.74

 

During the course of our audit all checks and vouchers were

examined and found to be correct.

The balance of appropriation accounts was verified by com-

parison with the Auditor of State's records.

Respectfully submitted,

(Signed)    W. D. WALL,

Certified Public Accountant

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STATE PARKS

As Chairman of the Committee on Parks, I have the follow-

ing report to submit. Acting under the instruction of our Presi-

dent, Mr. Arthur C. Johnson, I visited the following properties

during the year:

Logan Elm Park

Mound City Park

Fort Laurens Park

Schoenbrunn Park

Seip Mound Park

Serpent Mound Park

Fort Ancient Park

Campus Martius

Observing the magnitude of the task assigned to me in try-

ing to visit and direct improvements in all of the parks under

the control of the Archaeological Society, I was advised by the

President to devote my efforts during this year to two or three

of these parks, to get all possible work done in them and then

at a later period to take up the work at the others. It was de-

cided, after a conference with officers of the Society, that Fort

Ancient, Serpent Mound and, if possible, Fort Laurens, be given

attention this year.

Fort Ancient. This prehistoric fortification, considered by

many archaeologists to be of first importance in Ohio, is situated

in Warren County about six miles east of Lebanon. Several

roads lead from the Three C's Highway to this Park, so that

it is easily reached, being about three and one-half miles from

this highway. Fort Ancient is situated on a plateau overlooking

a sharp bend in the Little Miami River, above which it rises

to a height of two hundred and seventy feet, affording a mag-

nificent view of the river and valley below.

The fortifications consist of an irregularly shaped wall

averaging about ten feet in height. The fort is virtually divided

into two equal sections by a constriction in its formation near

the center and a wall extends across it at this point. There are

several small mounds within the inclosure. An interesting fea-

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ture of this ancient work is a stone pavement located outside the

eastern wall. The approximate linear extent of the wall is about

three and one-half miles.

This park is visited by thousands of people each year and

for this reason is entitled to more attention and better care than

has been given it in the past. The first visit revealed a condi-

tion of neglect. Much work was necessary to place this park

in a condition fit for tourists and visitors. Upon our return

to Columbus we consulted our President and Treasurer. As a

result of this conference it was decided to employ a new care-

taker. This has been done, and judging from the work that has

been accomplished, we have made a wise selection from upward

of two hundred applicants for the place.

There were some funds available from the previous legisla-

tive appropriations which were used in painting the house, which

had not been done for over ten years. Fencing, hardware and

supplies were purchased, so that none of the remaining fund was

allowed to lapse. The new caretaker, Mr. J. W. Satchell, has

moved into the house and already has accomplished a great many

improvements. Accumulations of waste material and debris have

been removed. Brush and dead trees have been cleared away.

The fields have been mowed and altogether the park presents

a far better prospect than it has for many years. It was neces-

sary to purchase a new mowing machine and a lawn mower, and

these have been used to good advantage.

The roadway has been improved insofar as the Society's

finances permit. In this connection, I wish to state that we have

promise of fine cooperation from the State Highway Depart-

ment as the following letter will indicate:

SEPTEMBER 29, 1927.

MR. H. W. WALSH,

Court House,

Cincinnati, Ohio.

DEAR MR. WALSH:

Please advise what progress you have made with the Warren County

Commissioners with reference to the improvement of the road in the State

Park at Fort Ancient concerning which I wrote you under date of July 30,

1927.

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Dr. F. C. Furniss of the State Archaeological and Historical Society

has again been referred to this Department by Governor Donahey.

Very truly yours,

G. F. SCHLESINGER,

Director of Highways and Public Works.

GFS :M

CC--DR. FURNISS.

The barnyard has been cleared of refuse and the barns are

being repaired. The residence has been replastered and dec-

orated within and is in good condition. The expenses of the re-

pairs and decoration of the residence is borne by a special ap-

propriation from the Ohio State Emergency Board.

The roadway leading from the Three C's Highway west of

Clarksville is under reconstruction at this time.

New pumps have been placed in the wells and there is now

an adequate supply of good drinking water. The shelter house

is to be painted and repaired and sanitary toilets will be built.

The Department of Highways has placed in the park a number

of painted barrels similar to those you have observed along the

highway and picnickers are cooperating in keeping the park clean.

The rear inclosure will be plowed and sown to grass. Signs will

be provided by the Ohio State Highway Department through

the courtesy of Mr. Kirk and these will be placed in appropriate

positions within the park.

We have tried to make the best use of available funds but

find our appropriations inadequate to carry on many of the

needed improvements.   However, we feel well satisfied with

the progress that has been made and already we can visualize

one of the finest and best kept parks in Ohio.

Professor B. F. Prince, Chairman of the local committee

on Fort Ancient, has made a good suggestion regarding a second

entrance with a roadway circling close to the residence of the

caretaker. This will be a great convenience to visitors who seek

information.

The National flag should be flown near the entrance to this

park. In fact, each of our state parks should be provided with

the National emblem and this should be unfurled whenever the

weather permits.

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As your Committeeman, I visited this park eight times

within the year and will make another trip of inspection before

the close of this year.

Serpent Mound Park. This park is situated in Adams

County sixteen miles south of Hillsboro and four miles north

of the village of Peebles. It comprises an area of about seventy

acres and is famous for the remarkable Serpent Mound effigy.

The serpent measures about thirteen hundred feet in length and

rises some four feet in height above the surrounding ground.

It is well formed and proportioned. It lies on a gently rolling

field, rising above a ravine some ninety feet in height. The

origin and purpose of this interesting earthwork is still a mys-

tery, has excited the curiosity of thousands and has enlisted the

attention of many famous archaeologists. Upward of thirty

thousand persons visited the park last year.

I visited Serpent Mound Park on numerous occasions

within the year and after making a thorough survey of it, au-

thorized some changes and improvements. A steel safety fence

has been erected on the rock ledge near the head of the serpent

as a safeguard against accidents, as the cliff at this point is

ninety feet high. A new mowing machine and lawn mower

have been purchased and provided for this park and the in-

closure is being mowed regularly. One new well has been drilled

and another deepened. New pumps have been put in and there

is now an abundant supply of fine drinking water. A new toilet

has been erected; also a garage and shed to house tools and ma-

chinery.  The roadway has been improved and the Highway

Department has placed barrels in convenient places as recep-

tacles for refuse. This park is in excellent condition and is being

well cared for by Mr. Guy Wallace, the caretaker.

I conferred with Professor Cole, the local chairman of the

Committee on Serpent Mound, on one occasion, and discussed

with him plans for improvements necessary for this park. Some

trees should be planted in suitable locations. A highway guard-

rail has been erected for the safety of visitors. The work of im-

provement will be carried on as rapidly as possible with the

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available funds, and this will continue to be one of the real at-

tractions among Ohio's archaeological parks.

Fort Laurens Park. This park is situated near Bolivar,

Tuscarawas County, Ohio, six miles from Zoar and about twelve

miles from Massillon. It is the site of the oldest fort built by

white settlers in Ohio and comprises about twenty-two acres. The

park has been much neglected for years. However, activities

have begun, a resident caretaker has been employed and the

work of clearing, plowing and cleaning up the inclosure is under

way. The residence of the caretaker has been remodeled and

repaired and is in first class condition. There was an appropria-

tion of two thousand dollars for this park for landscaping and

shrubbery. In this connection I went to the Agricultural Ex-

periment Station at Wooster and conferred with Mr. Secrest,

the State Forester. Arrangements have been made with the

Forestry Department to secure from the State, varieties of ever-

green and hardwood trees and shrubs sufficient to do the neces-

sary planting in this park. Also, enough nursery stock has been

promised to start a small nursery in this park to be developed

and cared for by the caretaker.

Fort Laurens can be converted into a very attractive and

interesting place but it will require another year before much can

be accomplished. This park will receive our earnest attention

during the coming year.

Schoenbrunn Park. This old Moravian missionary settle-

ment is situated two miles west of New Philadelphia and is now

under reconstruction. An engineer's survey has been made and

records studied. A complete restoration of the old log school

house, church and dwellings is planned and is already under

construction. A liberal appropriation from the Legislature makes

this possible. This work is under supervision of a local com-

mittee of able men who are qualified and anxious to push the

work to completion. Additional land has been purchased and

the present program, if carried out, will make this park a most

interesting attraction. It is our intention to visit this park at in-

tervals during the coming year and to render whatever assistance

we can from the Society to the local committee.

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Logan Elm Park. The work at this park has been nicely

handled by General Florence, Chairman of the local committee.

Improvements have been made. The park is kept clean and the

Logan Elm is being properly cared for. Sanitary toilets have

been constructed and, altogether, this park provides a very pleas-

ing appearance. General Florence has spent considerable time

and effort in bringing about this work. This park is visited by

many tourists and is the scene of many meetings and celebra-

tions by various historical societies.

Mound City Park. The work at Mound City is well under

way under the supervision of Mr. Spetnagel and Mr. Shetrone.

Campus Martius. I visited Campus Martius at Marietta

and inspected the work of restoration of the Rufus Putnam

house which is being performed under the direction of Miss

Willia D. Cotton and the local committee. The work on this

site has been ably performed. New timbers have been placed

within the structure to strengthen the walls, ceiling and roof.

A new roof has been put on. The interior has been restored in-

telligently by treatment in plaster and stain, and the house will

soon be in shape to receive visitors. This is one of the most im-

portant historical sites within the State of Ohio and is visited by

thousands of tourists from all over the country. The lot just

north of the block house should be purchased and beautified.

This would lend much to the attractiveness of the surroundings.

The park situation in Ohio is one that should be carefully

studied. If the State of Ohio is going to continue to acquire

lands for park purposes it should see that these parks are prop-

erly maintained. The importance of these historic spots, com-

memorating as they do, the great events that made possible a

great commonwealth, cannot be over-estimated; and Ohio has

many of these. Most of the sites should be preserved in as nearly

their original condition as possible. Only such buildings should

be erected and improvements made as are necessary for the con-

venience, comfort and enlightenment of the numerous visitors

who frequent these places.

The Chairman of your committee recommends that a com-

mission of three, two from the membership of this Society, be

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appointed by the Governor to make a complete survey of all the

historical and archaeological parks and sites, to outline a pro-

gram for their improvement and maintenance and to submit an

estimate of the amount that should be appropriated by the Legis-

lature for the purpose. Our experience with the work of caring

for these parks has shown us that in most instances even the

essential needs of these parks cannot be adequately met because

of insufficient funds.

Respectfully submitted,

F. C. FURNISS,

Chairman of Parks Committee.

 

EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS

The past year has been one of interesting activity and sub-

stantial progress. Much remains to be done. The collection of

early school books, many of which are now rare, requires per-

sistence and patience.

The outstanding feature of the work of the past year is the

acquisition of practically a complete set, all copyrights, of the Mc-

Guffey Readers. These were presented to this Society by the

McGuffey Society of Columbus, Ohio. There are one hundred

and twenty-eight volumes, some of the same being duplicates.

The presentation was made at a joint session of the McGuffey

Society with this Society. A complete report of this meeting

has been published in the QUARTERLY. The kindly acceptance

of these books by your president was greatly appreciated by the

McGuffey Society. Your committee believes these books to be

of historical value.

Your committee now brings to you, through the kindness of

the author, a complete set of the works of Prof. Frank V. Irish,

well known to all of us. These books were provided upon the

solicitation of your committee, to-wit:

American and British Authors.

Grammar and Analysis by Diagrams.

Orthography and Orthoepy.

Treasured Thoughts.

To the collection already made of the works of Alfred Hol-

brook and his pupils, the following have been added:--

Normal Methods, by Alfred Holbrook, copyright 1857, pre-

sented by Dr. John M. Dunham, of the Society, a pupil of Alfred

Holbrook in the early days of the school.

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Outlines of Psychology, by Dr. Henry G. Williams, now Presi-

dent of Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.

One lot of school publications by R. Heber Holbrook, in

the interest of the Lebanon School, to-wit:

The Reunion.

The National Normal.

The Home and School.

The National Normal Exponent.

Also catalogues of the school for the years 1873-74, 1875-76,

1882-83, 1883-84, and 1891-93.

Among the noted graduates from this school were Dr. T. C.

Mendenhall and W. H. Venable. Your committee hoped to

present to the society, at this session, the works of these emi-

nent scholars; but it has not yet been able to obtain the same.

Mr. Jerry Dennis of the committee is in charge of the col-

lection of Ray's Arithmetical Works. He will be able to report

on the same at the next session of the Society. In addition your

committee has many other old school books, not yet in shape for

presentation.

Your committee has undertaken to restore the "Ohio School

Library," as far as possible. In the fifties and sixties, of the

past century, the State of Ohio installed in every township of

the State, a library known by the above name. The books of

these libraries circulated for a time but were finally absorbed

by the readers, scattered far and near. Your committee believes

that a set of these books should be in the library of the Society.

Hence, the attempt to restore the same. Already, fifty-three

volumes are in the hands of the committee. Forty-six other

volumes have been located but have not yet come into our pos-

session.

Respectfully submitted:

(Signed)    JOHN R. HORST, Chairman.

JERRY DENNIS,

ALICE BOARDMAN,

JOHN G. DESHLER,

Committee.

 

FORT ANCIENT AND WARREN COUNTY SERPENT

MOUND

Your committee on Fort Ancient and the Warren County

Serpent Mound asks the privilege of making the following re-

port:--

The Committee has had but one meeting at which the ma-

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jority of the members were present. Several other meetings were

called, at which only the chairman was present.

The sums of money expended at Fort Ancient for purposes

named are as follows:

Salary          of   Custodian.....................$                                        360.00

Repairs        ................................                                                          489.82

Fencing       ...............................                                                           275.86

Telephone  .............................                           17.90

Total ..........................$1143.58

At the meeting in June, last, your committee directed Mr.

Cowen, the custodian, to expend the funds, left to the credit of

Fort Ancient, in regraveling the roadway and repainting the

house occupied by the custodian. The amount thus expended

has not yet been reported to the committee.

Owing to the change of custodians, August 1, the usual

trimming up of the grounds was delayed somewhat, but the new

custodian, Mr. J. W. Satchell, is now on the grounds and is en-

tering earnestly upon his new duties. A mowing machine has

been secured to aid him in putting the grounds in good shape.

Your Committee recommends:--

1 -- That a new section of road be made to run from

the entrance gate to the custodian's house and re-

turn to the main road.

2 -- That a gateway be opened in the fence near the

front of the house, the object being to accommodate

the public in getting such information as they need.

3 -- That the present roadway be widened to allow cars

to pass each other with safety.

4 -- That the present road be extended to Lookout

Point.

The above recommendations, your committee believes, if

complied with, will contribute to the improvement of the grounds,

and meet the approval of the visiting public.

The following item, concerning the Warren County Serpent

Mound, will be of some interest. When the Committee met in

June, last, Mr. J. C. Smith, who shows much interest in the

Mound, was requested to visit it, and learn from the tenant there

whatever he could of the situation. He made a visit and then

sent me a report of certain facts. This report was sent to Dr.

W. C. Mills. It noted that the person who had a life interest in

the farm, had recently died. The heirs are numerous, and some-

what widely scattered; some are at present traveling in Europe.

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Mr. Smith thinks no executor has been appointed up to this time.

He will learn definitely in regard to this soon. If the Society

thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the Mound, now is

the time to institute active measures.

(Signed)    B. F. PRINCE,

Chairman.

 

FORT LAURENS PARK

The situation at Fort Laurens Park, one mile east of Bolivar,

Ohio, has been unsatisfactory for a long time. Very little has

been done since the building, some years ago, of the park house,

which got in very bad repair, until it was learned early this sum-

mer that there was a balance of about $1400.00 of the last appro-

priation by the State Legislature, which remained unexpended.

Steps were taken at once to have these funds used for repair of

the park building and work on the driveways. This work was

done under direction of Mr. Harry Lash, local member of the

committee at Bolivar, in conjunction with Mr. Clarence J. Lebold,

of Bolivar, who was recently nominated for membership on the

committee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel W.

L. Curry.

The last Legislature made an additional appropriation for the

improvement of the Park through the efforts of the Representa-

tive, Charles T. Greenlee, of Tuscarawas County, which will put

the Society in position to lay the Park out with some landscape

gardening and beautify it with trees.

It is also planned to employ a caretaker at a moderate salary

who will occupy the park house and keep it in respectable condi-

tion. After the proposed improvements are made, funds should be

provided for the erection of an appropriate monument near the

highway and the site of the fort, bearing an inscription setting

forth briefly the history of Fort Laurens. It is probable that

aid could be secured from the United States Congress to this end.

(Signed) EDWIN D. MOODY

 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORT MEIGS,

FORT MIAMI AND FALLEN TIMBERS

FORT MEIGS:

While the restoration of Fort Meigs was initiated by the

people of the neighboring Village of Perrysburg, the preservation

and maintenance of this historic site is in charge of a special com-

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mittee appointed by the Governor, known as the Fort Meigs Com-

mission.

The property is in fine shape and is well cared for. It at-

tracts thousands of visitors during each of the four seasons. The

beautiful granite shaft, erected by the State of Ohio, and the

more modest, but very appropriate monument to the memory

of the "Pittsburgh Blues," erected by the Pennsylvania Historical

Society, attract much favorable comment.

It is to be regretted that the county authorities, in earlier

days, deemed it necessary to construct a highway through the

center of this reservation, and to cut the otherwise well preserved

ramparts in two places.

FORT MIAMI:

The acquisition of the site of this old Fortress and its com-

plete restoration is the work of the future. The conditions here

are the same as set forth in our last report.

FALLEN TIMBERS:

During the past year, much has been accomplished, looking to

the proper monumenting of this Battlefield and at the same time

honoring the memory of Anthony Wayne, the great soldier and

statesman.

Under date of March 30th, 1927, a contract was entered into

with Bruce Wilder Saville, of New York, for the design of a

granite pedestal, properly embellished with bronze reliefs on the

four sides and erected in the center of the 2.29-acre tract, hereto-

fore donated to the State of Ohio, by Miss Clarissa Cook Moor,

owner of the adjoining property.

The total appropriations by the Legislature, prior to the exe-

cution of this contract, and available for this work, aggregated

$17,000. Of this amount, there has been expended, to date, ap-

proximately $12,000 for the monument and $5,000 for a driveway

to the site. This latter work was undertaken by the State High-

way Department and is not yet completed.

The monument was erected in November, 1927, and is pro-

nounced by all, who have seen it, to be a most beautiful work of

art. The four bronze reliefs represent: (a) "The Eternal Conflict

between the Whites and the Indians"; (b) "The Battle of Fallen

Timbers"; (c) "The Treaty at Greenville"; and (d) "Peace at

Last." The four inscriptions in bronze lettering read as follows:

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Front Inscription:

"To General Anthony Wayne, who organized the

'Legion of the United States' by order of President

Washington and defeated Chief Little Turtle's

Warriors here at Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794.

This victory led to the Treaty of Greenville, August

3, 1795, which opened much of the present State of

Ohio to white settlers."

Left Inscription:

"In memory of the white settlers massacred 1783-

1794."

Back Inscription:

"To Chief Little Turtle and his brave Indian War-

riors."

Right Inscription:

"To the Pioneers of Ohio and the great Northwest."

As indicated in a previous report, it is the plan of your

Committee to surmount the granite pedestal, now completed, with

a bronze group with Anthony Wayne as a central figure, a

Pioneer Settler on one side and an Indian Warrior on the other.

The estimated cost of this heroic bronze, together with the com-

pletion of the landscaping, planting, road and fence building, is

$25,000. For this work the 87th General Assembly appropriated

$15,000 and it is the hope and expectation of your Committee to

raise the necessary $10,000 additional among the patriotic citizens

of Toledo. Meanwhile, we have requested Sculptor Saville to

undertake the necessary preliminary studies for the bronze group

in question.

Respectfully submitted,

W. J. SHERMAN,

Chairman of Committee on Fort Meigs,

Fort Miami and Fallen Timbers.

 

FORT MEIGS

The Secretary has also received from George J. Munger, Sec-

retary of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Meigs Memorial Com-

mission, a communication which reads in part as follows:

"We have in our care and charge, on the old Fort Meigs

Grounds and Park, which is state property, a large number of

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trees which are greatly in need of expert attention and care. Some

of these fine old trees have already died and others are dying

for want of proper attention. The appropriations for Fort Meigs

have never been adequate to care properly for the most necessary

things and it is utterly impossible to even think of taking care of

trees, much as we would like to do so.

Our appropriation for this year, for all purposes at Fort

Meigs, is $625.00. We have charge of about 45 acres, most of

which is a public State Park; so you can see we have to do. figur-

ing to keep even on the most necessary things."

FORT ST. CLAIR PARK

The writer, until August 1, the President of the Preble

County Historical Society, the committee in charge, of Fort St.

Clair Park, Preble County, begs leave to submit the following

report:--

Fort St. Clair Park, near Eaton, Preble County, is still

undergoing a gradual but systematic improvement, and during the

past year has taken on added beauty. Interest in this historic

spot does not wane but, on the contrary, gains impetus as the

days go on and the public is able to visualize what has been in

contemplation and what is now a reality.

During the past year the Preble County Historical Society

has been active in the effort to further beautify the Park and

advertise its presence in that section of the State.

Within the past few months many changes have been effected

which might be noted. A lunch stand was erected within the

grounds in order to provide the general public with certain forms

of delicacies which they depend upon purchasing there. Profits

from this source are devoted to Park improvements. A bridge,

for general traffic, was erected early this summer to replace one

that had become unfit for further use. The new one was very

substantially built and should serve for years. In addition, two

rustic foot-bridges have been built across the small stream which

wends its course through the Park.

A tractor, with mowing attachment, recently purchased with

state funds, proves very helpful in keeping the large grass acre-

age in trim. This is now accomplished expeditiously, economic-

ally and effectively. About twenty picnic tables, with attached

seats, have been built with State funds. These, with others pre-

viously provided, now make it possible to care for several large

groups at the same time.

Roadways within the Park have recently received a liberal

coating of washed gravel. Two new wells were recently drilled

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and a copious flow of water attained at a depth of about twenty

feet. The committee in charge caused the wells to be drilled in

order to better serve the large public gatherings with sufficient

drinking water, quickly and easily accessible.

The young forest tract, of about eleven acres in extent, in

which are growing both evergreen and deciduous species, is be-

ginning to show up splendidly and, within another year or two,

will make a very good showing.

Arbor Day was observed at Fort St. Clair last spring in a

very appropriate manner. Various schools of Preble County

donated many trees and, in addition, sent boys to set them out

under the supervision of their instructors. Many public-spirited

citizens furnished from one to several trees for the occasion. In

this manner several hundred trees and shrubs found a home

within the Park and an acre or more was set to trees. Much

interest in Arbor Day was thus created in the schools of the

County, due, to a great extent, to the kindly interest manifested

by the County Superintendent of Schools, Mr. C. R. Coblentz,

and the superintendents of the various contralized schools of the

county.

On July 4, the Preble County Historical Society sponsored

a very fine patriotic observance, which included the dedication of

a sun-dial at the park. Patriotic addresses were made, a flag

salute of twenty-one guns (cannon fire) was given, and the sun-

dial was dedicated. The sun-dial was a gift from the hands of a

very generous member of the Preble County Historical Society,

Dr. C. M. Wilcox, of New Paris, who also designed the dial.

Interest in the Park, I am indeed glad to say, continues and

thousands of visitors have availed themselves of a welcome oppor-

tunity to spend a time there. Very large Sunday gatherings have

been held there this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Charles, park

custodians, report that on different occasions, several reunions,

in addition to a number of smaller gatherings, have been held

there on the same Sunday.

If anyone had undertaken to tell the people of Preble County

ten years ago, that Fort St. Clair would now be in existence in

its present state of development and that the public would mani-

fest such an interest, therein, as at present, he would have been

derided.

But such has come to pass and the interest manifested in

Preble County is no different from that manifested elsewhere,

under proper leadership, or from what might be manifested any-

where else where opportunity affords.

The writer recently severed his active relationship with the

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Preble County Historical Society, due to his removal from Preble

County, but predicts continued growth and development of Fort

St. Clair Park in the days to come.

H. R. MCPHERSON

Columbus, Ohio, September 26, 1927.

 

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK MONUMENT

During the year the committee has sought to care for and

improve the grounds. The monument is located on high ground

overlooking the Mad River Valley, with a rather steep slope to

the south and west. Before the local society acquired the grounds,

there was a gravel pit on the west side, and in grading and level-

ing this part, the soil was left with gravel on the surface, which

made it difficult to get grass and our other plants started. We

think that good progress has been made and that eventually it

will be in good shape.

In May, 1927, we rendered a bill for expenses in caring for

the grounds to your Society, for $44.61 (which was paid), and

there has been other expense incurred during this summer season

for which we have not yet rendered a bill. It will approximate

$50.00.

The committee believes that, for the present, there should be

available, for the proper care of this site, $100.00 per year, and

we recommend that an appropriation for that amount be secured,

if possible. After a few years, that amount will probably not be

needed.

Mr. A. L. Slager, the Secretary of the Clark County Histori-

cal Society, has been in charge of the work on the grounds and

has given good attention to it.

(Signed) WM. W. KEIFER,

Chairman

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

In the report presented a year ago the chairman of this com-

mittee indicated that, as quickly as matters could be arranged,

something might be expected from the hands of this committee.

It was also recommended that an effort be made to secure the

services of an organizer who might go afield in Ohio and endeavor

to organize Historical Societies, crystallize interest in historical

matters, and possibly increase membership in the State Society.

Mr. Johnson immediately replied that he would pledge his best

efforts in support of the plan.

To that end, during the past year, officers of this Society

have taken measures to employ such an organizer, or agent, who

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can devote his attention to matters of the sort, and such has been

finally accomplished.

Matters should now soon be adjusted which will permit some

activity on the part of the agent, and the purpose for which he

was employed, and for which the Historical Societies Committee

was organized should now, in the not distant future, become

apparent.

Officers and members of this Society and members of this

committee should now have reason to expect some action, and

we hope, visible results from the plan in general.

H. R. MCPHERSON, Chairman

October 3, 1927.

LOGAN ELM PARK

During the past year there has been no unusual deterioration

of the Great Elm.

The Park is in good condition. The young trees are grow-

ing very well and the sod has improved until there is little except-

ing blue-grass now covering the ground.

The sanitary conditions of the Park have been brought up to

state requirements by building new toilets and making a few

minor repairs to the well.

Thousands of people continue to visit the Park. More than

2000 persons registered the first ten days of August.

Ohio History Day was observed October 2. The weather

was fine and a large crowd--estimated at over 5000 people--was

in attendance.

(Signed) GEORGE FLORENCE, Chairman

 

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

On May 7, 1927, the membership committee met and agreed

upon a tentative plan of membership which was reported to the

Board of Trustees and approved.

At the meeting various items in this report were discussed at

length and the committee agreed that circularizing should be the

first step undertaken to increase the membership. On August 18,

1927, another meeting of the committee was held at which it was

decided that the chairman should prepare, first, a circular letter

to the members of the Society asking them to submit the names

of persons whom they can recommend for membership in the

Society; and, second, a circular letter to be sent to persons rec-

ommended for membership in the Society.

Since this meeting the following have been prepared:

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1. A circular letter to members of the Society asking them

to submit names of prospective members

2. A blank form for the names and addresses of prospec-

tive members.

3. A stamped envelope for the return of the list of pros-

pective members.

4. A circular entitled "Ohio State Archaeological and His-

torical Society--Notes on Present Activities, Past Achievements

and Future Prospects."

This material will be mailed from the office of the Secretary

of the Society, October 15, 1927.

(Signed) MRS. ORSON D. DRYER, Chairman

 

MOUND CITY PARK

As chairman of Mound City Park, I wish to report that we

have made certain progress at the Park, this progress being as

follows:

This spring we allowed the United States Reformatory to

sow oats on the Park Site with the understanding that they

were to furnish the oats and have the crop. They were also to

sow timothy and blue-grass seed with the agreement that we

furnish these two seeds. This was done and the crop of oats has

been removed. It looks as if we were to have a fair crop of

timothy and blue-grass, but, as all know, it will take some little

time yet before the blue-grass makes any real showing.

We have also remodeled a part of the Y. M. C. A. Building,

which is on the site, by putting in partitions, giving the caretaker

five rooms for his own use and one large room for the use of

any visitors during inclement weather. We remodeled another

small frame building to be used for a tool house. Both of these

buildings have been painted.

We are beginning to feel that things are assuming such shape

that the public can be invited to see and enjoy the Park as a

public spot. Before very long we hope to ask the Professor of

Landscaping of the Ohio State University to come down and

visit us and give us the proper idea as to what should be done

in order to really beautify the place.

In closing, we extend to all an invitation to visit us and see

what has been accomplished.

(Signed) A. C. SPETNAGEL, Chairman

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MUSEUM COMMITTEE

(1)  The Committee desires to extend SPECIAL invita-

tions to certain cities and communities to visit the Museum on

certain week days or Sunday afternoons.

(2)  The Committee suggests that the Library retain the

use of the south rooms of the main building for the present, and

suggests that the present Board of Directors' Room and Director

Mills' Office Rooms be set aside and fitted up for special exhibits.

Director Mills and Curators Shetrone and Hine will explain

the need for separate suitable rooms.

The reports of Director Mills, Curator Shetrone, Curator

Hine and others will no doubt cover all other items concerning

the Museum.

(Signed)    GEORGE F. BAREIS, Chairman.

 

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE

This committee has not met since the last Annual Meeting

of the Society, but some important items may be reported at this

time.

Several thousand copies of Scenic and Historic Ohio have

been distributed in the State. The largest demands for these

come from Automobile Clubs, Schools, and County Agricultural

Agents.

The Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes, in five sub-

stantial volumes numbering over 550 pages each, edited by the

late Charles Richard Williams, has been published by the Society.

An ample index of 57 pages, by Lucy E. Keeler, concludes the

last volume of this important work.

The General Assembly, at its recent session, appropriated

money to publish, in two volumes, uniform with the "Diary and

Letters" in typography, paper and binding, the Life of Ruther-

ford B. Hayes, by the late Charles Richard Williams. These

volumes are to be printed from plates originally used by Hough-

ton, Mifflin and Company, and later presented to the Society by

Colonel Webb C. Hayes.

Within the year there has been published, under the direction

of the Secretary, a neatly illustrated pamphlet, entitled, Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society -- Notes on Present

Activities, Past Achievments and Future Prospects."  This

pamphlet is conveniently available for use in the membership cam-

paign soon to be inaugurated.

Some unusual delay has been occasioned in the issue of the

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Quarterly but all numbers are promised from the printer before

the close of the calendar year.

From this brief report it will be seen that the publications of

the Society are increasing in volume and value.

(Signed) JOSEPH C. GOODMAN,

Chairman

SCHOENBRUNN

Your committee has been steadily at work throughout the

year in seeking to make the Schoenbrunn Memorial Park one of

the outstanding historic spots of Ohio.

An appropriation of $7,500 by the previous Legislature en-

abled us to secure three important tracts of land, viz., the "White

Tract," of eight acres, for $3,000; the "Brown Tract," of eleven

acres, for $1,600; and the "McDevitt Tract," of five acres, for

$2,245. The "Brown Tract" embraces the right wing of the

lagoon which is an important link in the plan of development.

The "McDevitt Tract" squares the State land on the east. The

"White Tract" was the most important of all, because the Com-

mittee had for some time been of the opinion that the Schoen-

brunn Cemetery would be found on this tract. Great was the

satisfaction of the Committee therefore, when on March 12, 1927,

the first grave was discovered after less than four hours of

digging.

During the next three weeks forty-four graves were found.

We have David Zeisberger's record of forty-one of these burials,

and their custom of burying the men, women, boys and girls in

separate rows will enable us, we hope, eventually to mark every

grave correctly. We were even enabled to discover twenty-four

of the post holes around the cemetery.

The present Legislature appropriated $25,000 for the pur-

chase of land and for improvements at the Park. The Legisla-

tive Committee took up its work promptly, and has secured an

option on the Morris farm, of about 114 acres, for approximately

$15,000, and also an option on a tract of about 7 acres, owned by

the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for $500. Thus by the end of

the year we hope to have approximately 165 acres.

The object of your Committee is eventually to rebuild most

of this, the first town in Ohio, each building to be equipped so

that it will stand as an object lesson of pioneer life. An old pen-

and-ink sketch of the town gives us the location of the Church,

the School House, and eighteen homes, and who lived in each.

Other records discovered in Bethlehem this summer will enable

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us to give the names of the members of most of the households.

The first log cabin is nearly completed and is attracting a large

number of visitors. Most of the logs have been hewn for the

Schoolhouse and the hand-split shingles are ready.

Through the personal interest of Mr. C. B. Galbreath we

have secured from Dr. W. N. Schwarze, Archivist of the Mora-

vian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, over 100 pages of

translation of the Zeisberger Diary. This is of intense interest,

not only to us, but the record deals with many important matters

bearing on the relations of the Colonial Government and the

Indian tribes in this section. We greatly appreciate the personal

interest in the whole project taken by Dr. W. C. Mills and Mr.

C. B. Galbreath. We hope to have further items of interest to

report next year.

(Signed) JOSEPH E. WEINLAND, Chairman

 

SERPENT MOUND

The general conditions of Serpent Mound Park during the

past year have been good.

In addition to the usual upkeep, the following improvements

have been made: A substantial guard-rail has been constructed

at the head of the serpent-effigy overlooking a dangerous point

of the cliff side. This was done at a cost of $105.00.

A highway guard fence has also been provided at a danger-

ous point on the driveway along the road up to the plateau, where

the road approaches dangerously near a precipitous cliff. This

will cost, when completed, about $170.00.

To provide for the greatly increased number of visitors at

the Park, a new toilet for men has been erected at a cost of

$145.00.

An additional well has been drilled at a point on the plateau,

midway between the residence of the custodian and the Putnam

Memorial, at a cost of $268.98. The well at the house was also

drilled deeper and a new pump provided at a cost of $14.00.

A garage has been built for use of the custodian at a cost

to the Society of $155.00.

The road up to the plateau from the entrance to the Park is

being resurfaced with a heavy coating of gravel and marl. This

road is quite steep but the grade cannot well be changed without

re-locating the road. This would require the services of a skilled

road engineer and a cost of several thousand dollars. It would

seem to be an enterprise to be undertaken by the Highway De-

partment of the State.

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During the year there has been a large number of visitors

at the Park. The custodian reports more than twenty-five thous-

and. While many of these, doubtless, have been the usual Sun-

day and holiday visitors, they have been orderly while at the Park

and, let us hope, have carried away with them some wholesome

impressions of the significance of the Great Serpent Effigy.

(Signed) W. H. COLE,

Chairman of Committee.

 

 

REPORT OF SPIEGEL GROVE COMMITTEE

A. E. CULBERT, Chairman

On the fourth of October, the birthday anniversary of Ruth-

erford B. Hayes, in accordance with our annual custom, a cele-

bration and observation of the day was held at the Hayes Home-

stead and the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum    in the

Spiegel Grove State Park. The twenty-five members of the

lately organized Hayes Historical Society had been invited by

Colonel and Mrs. Hayes to be their guests at a dinner on October

3rd in preparation for the annual meeting of the Society on the

morning of the fourth.

Notwithstanding the gloom that was cast over the assemblage

by the sudden death of Professor Azariah S. Root, who was the

distinguished Secretary, Librarian and Chairman of the Book-

Purchase Committee of the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society, and also Director of

Research at original sources in Spain, France, England and Can-

ada, relative to the State of Ohio, the Northwest Territory, the

United States of America and the Western Hemisphere, which

had recently been endowed by Mary Miller Hayes, in an amount

equal to the bequests of her husband, a most successful meeting

was held.

The Rev. Dr. Thompson had hurried home to attend the

celebration and here met former Secretary of War Newton D.

Baker, former Justice of the Supreme Court, John H. Clarke,

who, with Representative Theodore E. Burton--absent in Europe

--and the American Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick--

slowly recovering at his home in Cleveland--constituted, with

Colonel and Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, the Board of Trustees of the

Rutherford B. Hayes-Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation.

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This meeting was held in commemoration of the fact that,

during the last twelve years of the life of Rutherford B. Hayes,

after the termination of his administration of four years as Presi-

dent of the United States from 1877 to 1881, he associated himself

and took an active interest in connection with many charitable

and philanthropic semi-public duties, as well as of military and

educational nature, throughout the United States, and, in partic-

ular, associated himself with educational and historical institu-

tions in his native state of Ohio.

In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreements

of the donors, the Trustees had appointed an Honorary Advisory

Council of twelve, consisting of the persons, who, from time to

time, are successors in the following positions formerly held by

Rutherford B. Hayes, or as a trustee or member of the Society,

viz.:

The Governor of the State of Ohio (Hon. A. V. Donahey)

The President of Kenyon College, Gambier (Rev. Dr. W. F.

Peirce)

The President of Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Rev.

Dr. R. E. Vinson)

The President of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware (Rev. Dr.

J. W. Hoffman)

The President of Ohio State University, Columbus (Dr. G. W.

Rightmire)

The President of Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Soci-

ety, Columbus (Hon. Arthur C. Johnson)

The President of Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland

(Hon. W. P. Palmer)

The President of the Firelands Pioneer and Historical Society,

Norwalk (Hon. H. L. Peeke)

The President of the Maumee Valley Historical Society, Toledo

(Represented by Judge J. H. Tyler)

The President of the Cincinnati Literary Club, Cincinnati (Dr.

G. B. Rhodes)

The Commander Ohio Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal

Legion (Captain E. L. Buchwalter)

The Occupant of the Hayes Homestead in Spiegel Grove, Fre-

mont (Colonel Webb C. Hayes)

The Trustees, as authorized, had further appointed an Exec-

utive Subordinate Body to have local charge of the management

and care of the memorial properties at Spiegel Grove and such

other service in connection therewith, consisting of the following,

who constituted also the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society:

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Judge A. E. Culbert, Fremont, Chairman of the Executive Body

in charge of the memorial properties and Chairman of the

Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio State Archaeological

and Historical Society.

Judge A. W. Overmyer, Fremont.

Miss Lucy E. Keeler, Fremont.

Mr. H. D. Messick, Vice-President Union Trust Company, Cleve-

land, Custodian of the funds and bequests, Treasurer.

Miss Linda E. Eastman, Librarian Cleveland Public Library.

Professor A. S. Root, Librarian of Oberlin College, Secretary,

Librarian and Chairman of the Book-Purchase Committee of

the Spiegel Grove Committee of the Ohio State Archaeologi-

cal and Historical Society, and Director of Research at orig-

inal sources in Spain, France, England and Canada, relating

to the State of Ohio. the Northwest Territory, the United

States of America and the Western Hemisphere.

Professor C. C. Kohl, Bowling Green State Normal College.

The reports of Professor Root and Professor Kohl, on the

policy to be pursued, were read and considered and referred to a

special committee, consisting of Dr. Thompson, Mr. Baker and

Colonel Hayes.

Resolutions were adopted by the Trustees on the passing of

Professor Root, whose funeral at Oberlin was later attended by

the Trustees present, and also resolutions of sympathy to Ambas-

sador Herrick and of welcome to Theodore E. Burton, now on

the ocean, on his return from his public service at Geneva, Swit-

zerland.

Regret was voiced over the failure to be present of the mem-

bers of the Archaeological Society, whose Vice-President, Mr.

George F. Bareis, had announced they would make a pilgrimage to

Spiegel Grove and to the Battlefield of Fallen Timbers, for which

a cordial welcome had been tendered. It was specially desired,

in view of the pilgrimage last year to the southern portion of the

state and Marietta, as the first seat of civil government under

Rufus Putnam in 1788, to call the attention of the members to

the fact that the illustrious patriot, Israel Putnam, the hero of

Bunker Hill and many other similar military achievements, had

been sent as the commander of the Connecticut Battalion of two

hundred and fifty men, jointly with battalions from the colonies of

New York and New Jersey and five hundred British Regulars,

which formed the Bradstreet Expedition under orders of General

Gage, the British Commander-in-Chief in America, to recover

the seven British forts captured in Pontiac's Conspiracy of the

previous year and had conducted an expedition from Albany to

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the relief of Detroit and had reached, as its westernmost point, the

lower rapids of the Sandusky River at Fremont, where they

forced, by their presence in the center of the Indian country,

the surrender of all the white prisoners, held by them, to Colonel

Bouquet's Expedition, which had started from Fort Pitt and

reaped the glory and rewards gained by Bradstreet, whose treaty

with the Indians had been disapproved by the British Commander,

General Gage, with whom he was not in sympathy.

Israel Putnam and the Bradstreet Expedition encamped along

the ridge overlooking the Sandusky River, Brady's Island and

the Indian town, through the center of which the unfortunate

white prisoners, captured in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and

on the Ohio River, were forced to run the gauntlet, including

among the latter, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, as well as the

unfortunate Moravians under Heckewelder and Zeisberger. This

occupation of the Sandusky country by the Bradstreet Expedi-

tion and the settlement resulting therefrom occurred some twenty-

four years before the organization of civil government at Marietta

under the younger Putnam, the distinguished Colonel Rufus Put-

nam, a distant relative.

The Colonel George Croghan Chapter, Daughters of the

American Revolution, after greeting the distinguished guests, had

an interesting meeting, the theme of which was "Israel Putnam,"

prepared by Mrs. H. G. Edgerton, a copy of which we present

herewith and urge that it be included as our report in the forth-

coming QUARTERLY of the Society, together with the portrait of

General Israel Putnam, which is found in Volume XVII of the

Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, for 1908.

Great regret was expressed at the inability of President

Johnson and Secretary Galbreath to honor us with their presence

and, in closing, we wish to express our appreciation of the prompt

and efficient service, especially of Mr. Galbreath, during the last

session of the Legislature and up to the present time.

Although it is but fifteen years since the construction of the

original Hayes Memorial Building, under funds prepared par-

tially by the State, but largely from Colonel Hayes' bequest, we

regret that the defects in the architectural plans by the original

architects, Howard and Merriam, and the later plans of the addi-

tions made under the supervision of the last two State Architects,

have nearly caused the destruction of some of the most valued

exhibits and made it necessary to request assistance from the

Board of Control for the revamping of the drainage and a cir-

culation of air through the building, as well as the defective heat-

ing plant, which we are now engaged in endeavoring to remedy.

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The report of the Librarian, Mrs. Dorothy E. Wright, shows

that there have been added to the Hayes Memorial Library, by the

acquisition of the Birchard A. Hayes collection, approximately

2200 volumes, from Miss Lucy E. Keeler 50 bound copies of the

Fremont Weekly Journal from 1849 to 1900, and 748 books pur-

chased through the Book Purchase Fund of which Professor Root

was Chairman.

After the address of the Regent of the Colonel George

Croghan Chapter, Mrs. Mary-Elizabeth Truesdall Williams, she

expressed the hope that the Hayes Birthday Meetings, on October

fourth, be devoted to at least one theme, to be delivered by a

member of the Chapter, on our forefathers who participated in

one of the expeditions prior to the close of the Revolutionary

War, or at least prior to the close of General Anthony Wayne's

Expedition, terminating in the final defeat of the Indian tribes

at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 8, 1795.

After well-delivered patriotic songs by the double quartet,

the program called for the christening, by the "laying on of

hands," of trees named in honor of the three "Life Trustees"--the

Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, President Emeritus of Ohio

State University; the Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War

during the World War; and the Hon. John H. Clarke, late

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

who were present; and Major General Robert L. Howze and

Major General Dennis E. Nolan, both Commanders of the Fifth

Corps Area at Fort Hayes, Columbus, former comrades of Colonel

Hayes in the War with Spain and the World War.

It is suggested that the photographic illustration of the Spiegel

Grove State Park, shown on page 13 of the Illustrated Catalog,

with the Hayes Homestead, the Hayes Memorial Library and

Museum, the old Sandusky-Scioto Trail from Lake Erie to the

Ohio River (the Harrison Trail of the War of 1812) and some

of the native trees which have been christened by the "laying on

of hands" and named after distinguished guests, a custom estab-

lished by President Hayes during the twenty years prior to his

death in 1893 and since continued by Colonel Webb C. Hayes,

M. H., the donor of the Spiegel Grove State Park, be inserted

with our report and the attached roster.

The Regent called attention to the photostat copy of the

Connecticut Archives, giving the names of the following as mem

bers of three of the companies of the Connecticut Battalion under

Major Israel Putnam, which are here printed in order to secure the

names of any descendants of the Connecticut Battalion who still

reside in this county. These were kindly furnished by Mr. George

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S. Godard, the distinguished Librarian of the Connecticut State

Library at Hartford, Connecticut, who has indicated his continu-

ing interest in similar work:

Connecticut Archives. Manuscript Index

War. 1675-1774. Vol. 10. Doc. 203,204.

This Assembly Doth Appoint Israel Putnam Esq. to be

Major of the Forces now ordered to be Raised in this colony.

Past in the Lower House

Test Abr'm Davenport Clerk

March 1764     Concurred in the Upper House

Test George Wyllys Sands

This Assembly do Appoint

Israel Putnam                  Capt.}

Levi Willer                       1st Lt.}of the 1st Company

Daniel Moulton              2nd Lt.}

xAmos Hitchcock              Capt.}

xJames Arnold                   1st Lt.}of the second Company

xJosiah Stow                      2nd Lt.}

John Tyler                       Capt.}

James Chapman              1st Lt.}of the third Company

Alexander Chalker 2nd Lt.}

xJoseph Hait                      Capt.}

xNoble Benedict                1st Lt.}of the fourth Company

xDavid Rumsy                   2nd Lt.}

Roger Eno                       Capt.}

Nathan Tibbles               1st Lt.}of the fifth Company

Eli Cathing                      2nd Lt.}

 

In the forces now ordered to be raised for his Majesty's Service

against the Indian Nations, who have been guilty of Perfidious

and cruel Massacres of the English; and Desire they may be

commissioned Accordingly--And In case any of the above named

Persons shall Refuse to Engage therein--His Honor the Gover-

nor is hereby desired to fill such Vacancy, and give Commissions

Accordingly

Past in the upper House

March 1764       Test George Wyllys Sands

Concurred in the Lower House

Test Abr'm Davenport Clerk

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Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting      641     THIRD COMPANY Conn. archives. War x:231 Muster roll of Captain John Tyler's Company in the Con- necticut battalion commanded by Lieut.-Col. Israel Putnam, in the year 1764. Men's Names:

John Tyler, capt. James Chapman, lieut. Nath'l Humphris, lieut. Moses Jones, serg't Thomas Atwell, sr. Martin Humphris Henry Herrick, sar Daniel Pierce, sar Preserved Brumbly, cor. Daniel Eaton, cor. Simeon White, cor. Joseph Hewit, cor. Joseph Turner, priv. James Commer Naman Mosure Josiah Smith John Haley Robert Jakways William Carpender Jonathan Nonesuch John Daniels Moses Mils Edward Quin Edward McElroy Timothy Beckwith never joined William Wood

Jacob Clark Edward Murphy Simeon Mills Jonas Sanders William Gallup Daniel Norten never joined Joseph Ols    never joined Abraham Covil never joined Hezekiah Capron Jonathan Herrington James Harris John Meason Jacob Wolly Samuel Wheler Asa Seaton James Abner Phinehas Stewart Benjamin Suckiant Abraham Brown never joined Stephen Shippy never joined John Hunt      never joined Daniel Armstrong Elisha Guild Peleg Hart William Tatson William Wilson

A true copy made from the original list. Attest: (Signed)    EFFIE M. PRICKETT, For State Librarian. FOURTH COMPANY Conn. archives. War X:227ab Pay roll for Joseph Hait's Company. Stamford, December 20, 1764. Vol. XXXVI--41.

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Joseph Hait, capt. Noble Benedict, lieut. David Rumsey, lieut. Jer. Jager, serg't Edward Tharp, serg't Abra'm Lockwood, serg't Moses Nichols, serg't Hez'h Williams, serg't Dan'l Barns, corp. Eph'm Lockwood, corp. Nath'l Jesup, corp. Dan'l Nichols, corp. Niel McNiel, corp. Samuel Tryon Joseph Hait Rich'd Lodge John Nicklas Abrah'm Farres James Mead Jn'o McCormack Dan'l Raymond Amos Hait Sam'l Palmer John Moor, deserted Thomas Church Joseph Murry Sam'l Merchant

Sam'l Andrews William Dunbar Nath'l Taylor Benja. Frost Patrick Malrany, died Francis Baxter, deserted James Burns Aaron Knap John Knap, died Thomas Allen Abel Seely Peter Closhee Matthew Clark Sam'l Lenard Thos. Burt Solomon Tucker Thomas Barber Joel Botchford Isaiah Greenis Gilbert Ferris Reauben Wright, deserted Silas Palmer, deserted Amos Partilo, deserted John Dorchester, deserted Sam'l Lyon, deserted Rob't Cosgrove, deserted

A true copy made from the original list. Attest: (Signed)       EFFIE M. PRICKETT, For State Librarian.   PAY ROLL OF CAPT. ABRAHAM FOOT'S COMPANY FOR THE CAMPAIGN, 1764 Weeks & Time of   Time of Days in                          Sums Due Men's Names                 Enlistment Discharge Service                          ?? s d Abraham Foot Capt.......... March 8                                Dec. 12 40-          80 Josiah Stow Lieut............ Do                                          8            Do            4 38-6               58-5-9 Isaac Kimberley Do.......... Do                                         8            Do            4 38-6               58-5-9 Asa Jones Serg't............. Do                                            26         Do            4 36-2               19-19-1-3/4 John Garrett Do............. Do                                             27         Do            4 36-1               19-17-6-1/2 Benj'm Stillwell Do.......... Do                                         16         Do            4 37-5               20-14-10-3/4 David Butler Do............. Do                                           26         Do            4 36-2               19-19-1-3/4 Jacob Curtis Do............. Do                                             23         Do            4 36-5               20-3-10 Rob't Bradford Corp ......... Do                                        26         Do            31 40-1            21-?-?

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Weeks &

Time of    Time of         Days in         Sums Due

Men's Names                 Enlistment Discharge   Service                   ?? s d

Benj'm Bates Do............ Do                    27     Do       4    36-1     18-19-6

John Tooley Do............. Do                   27     Do       4    36-1     18-19-6

Tho's Kumley ? Do......... Do                   21     Do       11 38         19-19

Amos Curtis Drum'r     ...... Do                28     Do       4    36         18-18

Ezra Bruster................ Do                       28     Do       4    36         18-18

Will'm  Boddington.......... Do                  29     Do       4                35-6 ?

Hez'h Bracket.............. Do                      17     Do       17 39-3      19-14-3

Purmort Bonfoly? .......... Do                  26     *Dd.Ag 13 20-1     10-?

Jonathan Bristol ............. Do                   19     Dec. 4       37-2     18-?

Waitstill Cook............... Do                    28     Do       4    36-       18

Abr'm  Cooper............... Do                    29     Do       11 36-6      18-?

Israel Deaton................ Do                     26     Do       31 40-1      20-?

Samuel Fenn ................. Do                    16     Do       4    37-5     ?

Nathan Frisbie ............... Do                   24     Do       18 38-4      ?

John Gardner ................ Do                     27     Do       31 40-        20-?

Joseph Hawkins............. Do                    24     Do       11 37-4      18-15

Jonathan Hastings   ........... Do                26     Do       4                36-2 18-?

John Jacobs................. Do                       28     Do       4    36-       18

?  Kelsey................. Do                      29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

James Lymon................ Do                     26     Do       31 40-1      20-1-5

? Murry ................. Do                        30     Do       4    35-5     17-17-1-1/2

Samuel Negos ............... Do                     29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

Gains Pritchard.............. Do                    18     Do       4                37-3 19-14-3

Chris'r Pate................. Do                       28     Do       4    36         18

Will'm Robinson............. Do                   26     Do       31 40-1      20-1-5

Henry Radnor ............... Do                    26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-¼

George Sexton ............... Do                    27     Do       4    36-1     18-15

Ezekiel Sandford ............. Do                  29     Do       4                35-6 17-18-6-3/4

Brigham  Stephens ............ Do                26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

?  Foaley ................. Do                     26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Oliver Thorp................ Do                     ?        Deserted                2-0-0

Willard ? Thackery.......... Do                  28     Dec.    4    36         18

?  Utter.................. Do                       28     Do       4                36    18

Peter Yenduson .............. Do                  27     Do       4    36-1     18-1-5

Daniel Webb ................ Do                     24     Do       4 36-4        18-5-8-1/4

David Warner............... Do                     26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Ezekiel Welton .............. Do                   26     Do       4    36-2     18-2-10-1/4

Reuben Webb................ Do                     28     Do       4    36         18

Wait Yail ................... Do                       29     Do       4    35-6     17-18-6-3/4

James Dumb ................. Do                     29     Do       4    35-6     17-18-6-3/4

Nath'l Allen.................                                     Deserted                2-

Will'm  Russel ...............                                   Ditto                     2-

Benj'm Cook .................Ditto                                      2-

John Wampea ...............Ditto                                      2-

----------------

1042-11-19

A. E. CULBERT,

Chairman of Committee.

* Died August 13.

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NECROLOGY

Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alpha-

betically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and

mailed to members in various parts of the state, with a request

that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member.

A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for

the use of the President.

During the year the Society lost, by death, the following

members:

LIFE MEMBERS

Mr. A. M. Woolson, Toledo, Ohio. October 7, 1925.

Mr. H. P. Ward, 329 North Third Street, Hamilton, Ohio.

October 3, 1926.

Mr. Robert F. Wolfe, 714 East Broad Street, Columbus. Janu-

ary 13, 1927.

Professor Andrew J. Waychoff, Hoffman Street, Waynesburg,

Pa. January 16, 1927.

Hon. Judson Harmon, 2957 Annwood Street, Cincinnati. Feb-

ruary 22, 1927.

Mr. C. D. Closson, Circleville, Ohio. March 14, 1927.

Mr. Charles Bozman, Zanesville, Ohio. April 13, 1927.

Colonel William L. Curry, Box 645, Columbus, Ohio. April 27,

1927.

Professor J. A. Shawan, DeGraff, Ohio. May 4, 1927.

Professor Charles Richard Williams, Benedict House, Princeton,

N. J. May 6, 1927.

Judge Daniel H. Sowers, 1134 East Broad Street, Columbus.

June 8, 1927.

Mr. D. M. Massie, Chillicothe, Ohio. September 3, 1927.

Professor Azariah S. Root, 150 N. Professor Street, Oberlin,

Ohio. October 2, 1927.

Mrs. Thomas J. Emery, Edge Cliffe, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.

October 11, 1927.

ACTIVE MEMBERS

Mr. Fred W. Schueller, 814 Bryden Road, Columbus. March 19,

1927.

CHARLES W. JUSTICE.

NEW LIFE MEMBERS ADDED SINCE ANNUAL

MEETING OF 1926.

Mr. Henry N. Rose, 190 S. Drexel Ave. (Bexley) Columbus,

Ohio.

Rev. Mark T. Warner, Montrose, California, P. O. Box 356.

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Mr. Edward S. Lewis, 2217 McGregor Place, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mrs. Rhea Mansfield Knittle, 177 E. Main St., Ashland, Ohio.

Mr. C. Allen Boughton, 125 W. Fifth St., Mansfield, Ohio.

Mrs. Henry V. Weil, 126 E. 57th St., New York City, N. Y.

Mr. Ralph H. Beaton, 1578 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio.

Rev. L. L. Roush, 5725 Gallia Ave., Portsmouth, Ohio.

Mr. C. E. Spindler, Ashville, Ohio.

Miss Gertrude H. Terrell, New Vienna, Ohio, R. F. D. No. 3.

Mr. Edward S. Thomas, 1116 Madison Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Isaac Newton Bowman, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Miss Kate M. Litzenberg, Utica, Ohio.

Mr. J. M. H. Frederick, 1429 Wagar Ave., Lakewood, Ohio

Dr. H. M. Brundage, 370 E. Town St., Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Tiffin Gilmore, 95 W. Third Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Karl E. Burr, 35 S. Champion Ave., Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. John Thompson, 9213 Miles Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Morten Carlisle, 71 E. Hollister St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr. Oliver H. Wolcott, 890 Stadelman Ave., Akron, Ohio.

Mr. Rufus C. Dawes, 1800 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, Ill.

Mr. Charles H. Bosworth, 225 Hamilton St., Evanston, Ill.

Prof. Joseph Manley, 328 Fourth St., Marietta, Ohio.

Prof. Arthur E. Beach, 508 Fourth St., Marietta, Ohio.

Prof. James S. Hine, Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. H. E. Smith, Marietta, Ohio.

Mr. Clinton P. Smith, 129 Fairfield Ave., Newark, Ohio.

Miss Elizabeth J. Ruggles, 1022 Second St., Santa Monica, Cali-

fornia.

Mr. Ivor Harris, New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Dr. Harry Cope, 327 E. State St., Columbus, Ohio.

 

NEW ACTIVE MEMBERS ADDED SINCE ANNUAL

MEETING OF 1926

Mr. M. Q. Allyn, 712 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. July 12,

1927.

Dr. George Blackford, Eldorado, Ohio. September 19, 1927.

Mr. Fred H. Caley, 712 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. July 12,

1927.

Mr. John Dougherty, Logan, Ohio, R. F. D. No. 3. September

17, 1927.

Mr. Robert Goslin, 515 Madison Ave., Lancaster, Ohio. October

30, 1926.

Mr. A. Middleton, 235 N. Main St., Mansfield, Ohio. June 20,

1927.

Mr. John D. Overholt, Wooster, Ohio. October 10, 1927.

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Mr. S. E. Somers, Brookville, Ohio. September 30, 1927.

Mr. H. S. Wagner, 1026 Emma Ave., Akron, Ohio. February 21,

1927.

Mr. Homer Zimmerman, Sugarcreek, Ohio. September 28, 1927.

MR. ARTHUR C. JOHNSON: "I see the program calls

for remarks by the President. The Secretary has al-

lotted to me about five minutes. I promise you that I

will not take even that length of time. I hope that we

will always keep in mind the fact that the measure of

our worth to the State of Ohio is represented by the

character and amount of service we render to the people

of the State. In attempting to lead in the work of the

Society during the past year, your President has sought

to keep in mind the fundamental object which we should

all have in view in pursuing the activities of this organi-

zation. I feel that we have made considerable progress

along certain lines. I think that our parks have been

improved, and we have added to the number of them.

We have ample funds to carry out the plans under which

these parks are being maintained. We have made prog-

ress in the organization of the work of the Museum and

of the Library.

"It is necessary that, in pursuing this work, we do

not dwell too much upon what we may have done or

may not have done in the past. We should plan and

look forward to what we are going to do in the coming

year and in the future years. The President is deeply

indebted to the Board of Trustees and to the members

of the Society for their cooperation, interest and effort

to make this administration a success, not for the Presi-

dent himself, but for the organization. We have been

particularly fortunate in having the friendship and co-

operation of the Governor of Ohio, Honorable Vic Don-

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ahey, and in finding the Legislature inclined to be gen-

erous to the Society. I believe that, in the past, at no

time has a Legislature shown such an interest in our

work, or treated us as generously, as the last Legisla-

ture.

"We have been very slow in coming to a conclusion

in regard to historical societies, but we now have a com-

mittee with the personnel to go forward with that move-

ment, and it seems to me it will be wise for the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society to adopt a

policy of fostering and encouraging the organization of

county historical societies, with some sort of mutually

agreeable form of relationship between this Society as

the parent body and these county societies. In that man-

ner a great deal of the Society's responsibilities and ac-

tivities, which are constantly growing, can be bestowed

upon the local historical societies, thereby reducing the

amount of attention we must give to the parks and insti-

tutions. This has been very clearly illustrated by the

case of Fort St. Clair, which has been under the care

and jurisdiction of the Preble County Historical Society,

and is one of the best kept and most attractive parks in

the state.

"In the past, some of our parks have been neglected

but that probably will not be true at the end of this sea-

son. By the earnest activities of a member of the Board

of Trustees, Doctor Furniss, two of our parks have been

put in perfect shape -- Fort Ancient and Serpent

Mound. I wish to make clear to the minds of the mem-

bers of the Society that in appointing a general Parks

Committee, with power to act directly in reference to

these important parks, your President had no intention

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of supplanting the powers and authority of the local

park committees; it was simply placing in their hands a

greater authority to act than had, seemingly, theretofore

been given. The President was only anxious to put

these parks in shape, make them safe, make them a

credit to the State of Ohio, and to make them attractive

to the thousands of visitors who annually visit, particu-

larly, these two parks -- Fort Ancient and Serpent

Mound. The general Parks Committee is open to sug-

gestions, in fact to orders, from the local committees. It

was thought that with a committee here in Columbus, in

close touch with the Treasurer and Director, greater

efficiency will be obtained than is possible through com-

mittees operating at a distance. I trust you will feel

kindly toward this arrangement and give it your en-

thusiastic cooperation.

"A memorial is being erected -- will be erected be-

fore the end of the month-- on the Battlefield of Fallen

Timbers. Mr. Sherman, of Toledo, the Chairman of

the Committee, has been very active in general in this

project. Mr. Bruce Wilder Saville has had the bronzes

cast and the stone work is finished. The local com-

mittee has not yet set a date for the dedication of the

monument, but I believe the Society will do itself credit

by being very largely represented on that occasion --

you will surely have a fine time if you go to the dedica-

tion of the monument on the Battlefield of Fallen Tim-

bers."

MR. GALBREATH: "In reading the summary of the

various committee reports, I, perhaps, omitted the most

important suggestion in the report of the Committee on

Parks -- that is, that a survey of scenic, archaeological

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and historical sites, in the State, be made as a guide to

future improvements."

MR. JOHNSON: "I might add to what the Secretary

has said that the making of such a survey seems ad-

visable, in view of the fact that through local influences,

and otherwise, some historical spots have received un-

due attention while other more important places have

been neglected in the past -- that has been our experi-

ence. I believe it is in the mind of the Governor that a

survey of this nature be made, in order that the Legis-

lature may have some definite information upon which

to base appropriations, to the end that relatively unim-

portant places be not unduly financed while important

historical sites are neglected. That seems a good sense

view, and I believe the Society can well afford to work

to that end, and at least approve that policy."

DR. FURNISS: "Mr. President, in order to express

my idea as Chairman of the Parks Committee, I beg

leave to read the last paragraph of my report:

The Chairman of your committee recommends that a com-

mission of three, two from the membership of this Society, be

appointed by the Governor to make a complete survey of all the

historical and archaeological parks and sites, to outline a program

for their improvement and maintenance and to submit an esti-

mate of the amount that should be appropriated by the Legisla-

ture for that purpose. Our experience with the work of caring

for these parks has shown us that in most instances even the es-

sential needs of these parks cannot be adequately met because of

insufficient funds."

DOCTOR THOMPSON: "Mr. Chairman, I move the

adoption of that recommendation." The motion was

duly seconded and carried.

DOCTOR THOMPSON: "I am very heartily in favor

of this plan for a preliminary survey. I was deeply in-

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terested, and trust the members of the Society were, in

what the President said concerning county historical

societies. It seems important that we take the initiative

in these enterprises, which should cover the area of the

state. The history of the State of Ohio may have been

neglected, and it is important that we discover that his-

tory, find out what has been lost. Books go out of print.

If we knew what was once in existence in a certain

county that is no longer there, and if we take the right

attitude toward the local organizations, in a spirit of co-

operation, I think we can develop in our State, even at

this late date, much concerning our history. You hear

the cry that our history has gone out of the State, to

Wisconsin and other places, but it seems to me if we

utilize the county papers we can discover a lot of infor-

mation. This can be done through local historical so-

cieties. I want to see the day when people will come

here, officially, as representatives of county historical

societies, at our annual meetings. I believe this prelim-

inary survey, Doctor Furniss advocates, will be of great

value, and perhaps other surveys can be made."

PRESIDENT JOHNSON: "I might say, Doctor Thomp-

son, that during your absence the Board of Trustees

adopted a resolution looking to the extending of the

work of the Society over the area of the State. The

specific item was the expressed wish of the Trustees that,

after the close of the present major operation in the

department of archaeology, the next major operation be

carried on somewhere in the northern half of the State.

That is only incidental to the policy of extending the

influence and operations of the Society to all of the

counties in the State. We have succeeded in adding a

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member to our staff, Mr. McPherson, who has been

active in the Society's work for years and was the mov-

ing spirit in the Preble County Historical Society in its

relation to Fort St. Clair. It is the intention, a little

later on, to have him work on the organization of these

county historical societies, and to have this Society act

as a parent body."

MR. WOOD: "The State of Ohio has changed its

fiscal year, which ran from July 1st of one year to June

30th of the following year, by making its fiscal year

correspond to the calendar year. Our present Consti-

tution provides that our fiscal year shall end June 30th.

In order that our fiscal year may conform to the fiscal

year of the State, it will be necessary to amend Section 1,

of Article V, of the Constitution, which now reads:

'The fiscal year of the Society shall end June 30, and

the Annual Meeting shall be held at Columbus within

ninety days thereafter at the discretion of the Presi-

dent and Secretary. Due notice of the meeting shall be

mailed by the Secretary to all members of the Society

at least ten days before such annual meeting is held.'

I propose that we amend Article V by striking out the

words 'June 30,' and substitute, therefor, the words

'December 31,' making the first sentence read:

The fiscal year of the Society shall end December 31, and

the Annual Meeting shall be held at Columbus within ninety days

thereafter at the discretion of the President and Secretary.

 

"Another amendment is to be proposed, if there is

no objection. Amend Section 6, of Article IV, by

striking out all of the same as it now reads, and substi-

tute, therefore, the following:

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Section 6. Curators -- The curators shall have charge of the

work appropriate to their respective divisions. They shall keep

all articles that come under their charge in proper order, prepare

and keep a catalogue or card list of the same, carefully label them

and perform such other duties as the Director of this Society may

prescribe."

MR. WOOD: "Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption

of these amendments." Mrs. Dryer seconded the mo-

tion.

DOCTOR THOMPSON: "Since it is largely a technical

matter, I move that we adopt these changes, as proposed

by Mr. Wood, to take effect immediately."

The amendment to the motion was accepted by Mr.

Wood, who made the motion, and Mrs. Dryer, who

seconded the same.

The motion, as amended, carried unanimously.

MR. WOOD: "Mr. President, in order to make these

amendments effective immediately it occurred to me that

some resolutions were desirable. To explain, we are

now within less than three months of the ending of the

fiscal year, 1927. It would be a needless burden, I think,

to place upon the shoulders of the administrative offi-

cers, to hold an Annual Meeting next January or Feb-

ruary. The resolution I shall introduce simply permits

omitting any Annual Meeting until the end of Decem-

ber, 1928. I move the adoption of the following reso-

lutions:

WHEREAS, In order to have the fiscal year of this Society

conform to the fiscal year of the State of Ohio, the Constitution

has been amended to provide that the fiscal year of the Society

shall end December 31; and

WHEREAS, The present Trustees of the Society have all been

elected for terms ending on June 30, of each year, now therefore

be it

Resolved, That the term of three Trustees expiring on June

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30, 1928, be extended for a period of six months making such

term end on December 31, 1928, and that the term of the three

Trustees, expiring on June 30, 1929, be extended for a period of

six months making said term expire on December 31, 1929, and

be it further

Resolved, That in electing three Trustees at this present An-

nual Meeting they be elected for a term expiring on December

31, 1930, and be it further

Resolved, That all officers and agents of the Society, elected

at this Annual Meeting, shall be elected for the full term expiring

on December 31, 1928, and be it further

Resolved, That, for the fiscal year ending December 31,

1927, the Rules and Regulations be suspended and the President

and Secretary be, and they hereby are, authorized to make no

provision for the holding of any Annual Meeting at the close of

said fiscal year."

The motion was seconded, carried, and the resolu-

tions declared adopted.

Mrs. Dryer asked whether the resolution applied to

the terms of Trustees appointed by the Governor. Mr.

Wood replied that it did not, the Society has no control

over that matter.

Mr. Bareis called attention to the recommendation

in the report of the Museum Committee -- that people

from various counties be invited, on specified days, to

visit the Museum. The President stated that he was in

favor of the plan.

Secretary Galbreath stated that the Trustees, whose

terms expire with this Annual Meeting, are George F.

Bareis, Beman G. Dawes and Edwin F. Wood.

The President appointed, as a committee to nomi-

nate Trustees, Messrs. Walter D. McKinney, Joseph C.

Goodman, Edwin F. Wood and Fred J. Heer.

Hon. John J. Lentz, being requested to address the

meeting, said: "A distinguished English speaker said

that a speech that isn't worth preparing is not worth

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being delivered, much less being listened to. That is

the speech I have today. I have been a member of this

Society for some time. This is the first year, for sev-

eral, I have had an opportunity to attend your meeting,

and now I think I am safe in saying that hereafter I

will put on my calendar the meetings of this Society,

because I want to participate, and would like to know

just what you are thinking about, and would like to

profit by what you are thinking about. I thank you,

Mr. President." (Applause).

PRESIDENT JOHNSON: "I will ask Doctor Mills, our

Director and long-time friend, the 'daddy of this or-

ganization,' to stand up and say a few words to us."

Mr. Mills was greeted with applause. He said:

"Mr. President, Members of the Society: It really gives

me pleasure, as a matter of course, to speak to you for

a short time. This is really the first opportunity I have

had, for some little time, to appear at any gathering

where there would be any of the members of the Society.

However during all of this time I have really not been

on duty to any very great extent. I have still been in

touch with everything that has been going on, and I,

myself, am agreeably surprised to know that the various

departments are going straight ahead and doing what

they should do to make this institution a greater and

better one. The archaeological work has been going for-

ward for so many years that it has been taken account

of by the National Research Council, and they have ex-

erted every influence that was possible, over the Central

and Middle States, to have them follow out the plans

that have been carried out here in Ohio. I have had the

pleasure on many occasions, of speaking to various

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groups who have been interested along archaeological

lines, and they have started in the various states now,

and plan to come up and see if they can do something

like Ohio.

"We were speaking a moment ago about the various

historical societies throughout the State. I think this

one of the most interesting of all the things we should

do. A dozen years or more ago we made an attempt to

establish several societies, and got in a few as an aux-

iliary to the main Society. I think it is a wonderful

thing. A few years ago I had occasion to visit the In-

diana Historical Society at their annual meeting, and I

was surprised to find that, in the various counties

throughout Indiana, they had historical societies. They

were all represented at that annual meeting, and you

never saw such a wonderful outpouring of interest

throughout a state. I said 'I do not understand why it is

you have not gone forward archaeologically as well as

historically,' and they were willing to take on the idea

and expressed themselves along that line. Now, I feel

that if we could organize various historical societies in

the counties, as Indiana has done, and have them rep-

resented at our Annual Meetings, it would be a wonder-

ful thing, and should be done. I thank you very much,

Mr. President." (Applause).

PRESIDENT JOHNSON: "I have been hoping that Gen-

eral Orton would come into the meeting, in order that he

might explain to you what progress has been made, or

is being made, in the matter of the addition to this build-

ing. As he has not arrived, with your permission I will

simply say that, since the last Annual Meeting, we have

succeeded in obtaining from the Legislature an appro-

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priation of $139,500 for the construction of an addition

to the library feature of this building, which will take

the form of a wing on the south side, parallel to this

World War Memorial Wing, and will complete all of

the south side of the structure except the corner, the

building of which would have cost about $46,000 more.

"The plans for this library wing are well developed,

well under way, and we hope to have the money made

available by the first of the year in order that contracts

can be let. The preliminaries have been taken care of,

and contracts can be let next spring, and if the construc-

tion work can be rushed with sufficient rapidity -- there

is General Orton now -- I am sorry I started in about

the building. I just reached the point where I said we

have the plans completed and hope soon to let the con-

tract. Will you pick the story up there and go on for

a few minutes?"

GENERAL ORTON: "There is not much to tell you,

friends, except what your President has already told

you. I may say we would not have the prospect of erect-

ing this building this year if it were not for the magnifi-

cent generalship and leadership which he displayed. But

we have the money, or will have. The appropriation

has been legalized, and the money will be available, we

think, very soon. The plans have been prepared and

are about ready, now, for the official sanction of the

Board of Trustees. The money appropriated is to cover

the south wing of the building, which extends one hun-

dred and thirty-two feet from the present end of the

building, running west. It will not include the southwest

corner structure of the building, a room which would

be the same shape and size as this, without the 'L' shape.

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That room will not be included in the structure, but the

wing, one hundred and thirty-two feet in length, lead-

ing up to it, will be there. That will provide a stack-

room with a capacity of about three hundred and

seventy-five thousand volumes as measured in the usual

unit of calculation. Of course our library, being largely

in newspaper volumes, is extremely bulky, and it will

not hold three hundred and seventy-five thousand of

them, but it is going to be a very large wing. The space

will be two stories, and four decks, the middle deck will

correspond to this room, one deck below and two above

it. The gangway for access to the books will be along

the south side of the room, with little tables scattered at

intervals, so that it will be possible for students to go

back there and get what they wish without carrying the

volumes out to the library reading-room.

"The offices will be transferred, under the present

plan, to the second story of the new wing. The thought

is that the present space, occupied by the offices, will be

vacated and made use of for exhibits. Ultimately, when

the corner structure is erected, which will require

another appropriation, there will be a room of this size,

in the corresponding position due south, which will lead

into the new reading room; pending that, the present

reading room will still be used in connection with the

stack room.

"I have here a drawing, which I will be pleased to

show you, and also a photograph showing how the build-

ing will look when the new wing is completed."

 

 

 

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658     Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS Mr. Walter D. McKinney, for the Committee on Nominations, reported that the committee recommended the election of George F. Bareis, Beman G. Dawes and Edwin F. Wood, to succeed themselves as Trustees of the Society, Mr. McKinney stating that the committee was not unanimous as to Mr. Wood, but prevailed upon him to accept. Doctor Thompson moved that the Secretary be au- thorized to cast the ballot of the Society for the election of the three Trustees named. Carried. Secretary Galbreath cast the ballot of the Society for George F. Bareis, Beman G. Dawes and Edwin F. Wood, who were declared duly elected Trustees for the term ending December 31, 1930. On motion of Mr. McPherson the meeting ad- journed.

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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD

OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEO-

LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING,

COLUMBUS, OHIO,

OCTOBER 8, 1927.

11:00 A. M.

The meeting was called to order by President John-

son.

There were present:

Messrs. Johnson, Thompson, Wood, Furniss, Or-

ton, Bareis, Laylin, Goodman and Florence, and Mrs.

Dryer.

Trustee Emeritus Prince, Secretary Galbreath and

Director Mills were also present.

MR. WOOD: "I move that Mr. Arthur C. Johnson

be elected President of this Society and Board of Trus-

tees." General Orton seconded the motion. Carried.

President Johnson: "I thank you, gentlemen. I

appreciate the honor, and hope to be able to accomplish

more for the benefit of the Society during the coming

year than I have in the past year. You will have to

be satisfied with the limited time I am able to give to

the Society, but if I could devote more time to it I think

I would make a more satisfactory executive. However

if you are satisfied, I think I should be."

SECRETARY GALBREATH: "You still have to elect a

First Vice President, a Second Vice President, a Treas-

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urer, a Director, and a Secretary, Editor and Li-

brarian."

Doctor Thompson moved that the incumbents of the

offices just named be elected by acclamation, or by such

other formalities as may be necessary to make the record

complete. Mr. Laylin seconded the motion. Carried.

Mr. Wood moved that all agents and employes of the

Society, in the various departments, be elected and their

employment continued. The motion was. duly seconded

and carried.

The following is a list of the employes thus elected:

William C. Mills, Director.

C. B. Galbreath, Secretary, Editor and Librarian.

H. C. Shetrone, Curator of Archaeology.

H. R. Goodwin, Registrar.

J. S. Hine, Curator of Natural History.

H. G. Simpson, Collector of Historical Material.

J. S. Waite, Cabinet-maker.

H. R. McPherson, Indexer.

M. B. Binning, Photographer.

Elmer Hart, Binder.

Helen M. Mills, Assistant Librarian.

Alice S. Davis, Cataloguer.

Clara Crabbe, Library Assistant.

Marjorie Fischer, Stenographer.

Winnie G. Waite, Stenographer and Index Clerk.

Irene Cotton, Stenographer.

Starling L. Eaton, Superintendent of Building and Grounds.

Alfred L. John, Day Watchman.

James Orr, Night Watchman.

B. M. Fickel, Janitor.

P. A. Benedict, Janitor.

Frank Siders, Janitor.

Murray Moore, Janitor.

O. F. Miller, Bookkeeper.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON: "I believe General Orton nas

something to say concerning the building project."

General Orton stated that he did not wish to ask the

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Board to approve the plans for the new wing, for the

reason that the Building Committee had not seen the

latest plans. The essential features of the building, as

shown in the report of a year ago, have not been

changed. The appropriation for the erection of the

wing will not be available until the latter part of Novem-

ber, and it will be possible for the Board to meet between

now and that time.

President Johnson stated that a meeting of the

Board can be called, at any time, to consider and ap-

prove the plans.

Doctor Furniss said that a great service can be ren-

dered to the members of the Society by incorporating

in the QUARTERLY a report of the activities of the va-

rious departments of our organization, which can be

done by having the heads of the different departments

furnish to Mr. Galbreath data and material for that

purpose; the members of the Society do not know what

is being done by their officers and committees -- the past

work of the Building Committee was wonderful, but the

first the members knew of this was when they received

notice that the World War Memorial Wing was to be

dedicated.

After a long discussion of the plan suggested, Gen-

eral Orton moved: "That the Publications Committee be

requested to study carefully the whole system of pub-

lications issued by the Society, with the privilege of se-

lecting from the members of the Board of Trustees, or

members of the Society at large, any additional col-

leagues they need in considering the question, and

formulate a plan and bring it back at some subsequent

meeting of this Board, not too distant."

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Mr. Laylin seconded the motion. Carried.

SECRETARY GALBREATH: "I wish advice on this

question -- here are the reports of the officers in printed

form, and I have in pretty good shape, half of the report

of this Annual Meeting. What do you think about print-

ing the reports of all of the committees, adding them to

this pamphlet, and circulating it among the membership,

separately from the QUARTERLY, and then repeat in the

QUARTERLY?

Mr. Wood moved that, with the necessary appended

reports, this report be sent, separately, to all members

of the Society, to all leading newspapers of the State of

of Ohio, and to all members of the Legislature.

Mrs. Dryer seconded the motion. Carried.

Mr. Galbreath asked whether it was intended to omit

the report of the Annual Meeting from the QUARTERLY.

Mr. Wood replied that it was not so intended -- the

minutes should be published in the QUARTERLY.

MRS. DRYER: "I move that Miss Elizabeth Ruggles,

of Santa Monica, California, be elected a life member --

she is the woman who furnished the money for the pur-

chase of Logan Elm Park, and Mrs. Dr. Howard Jones

requests that she be made a member." The motion was

seconded by Dr. Thompson, and carried.

MR. LAYLIN: "The fiscal year of the Society hav-

ing been changed by amending Section 1 of Article V

of the Constitution, I move the adoption of the follow-

ing resolution:

"Resolved, that all officers and agents of the Society

elected at this Annual Meeting shall be elected for the

full term expiring on December 31st, 1928."

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The motion was duly seconded and unanimously car-

ried.

MR. JOHNSON: "I wish to suggest the reimburse-

ment of Mr. Shetrone for damages suffered to his au-

tomobile at a time when he was in the service of the

Society. He was transferring material from the Seip

Mound to the Museum, and on a return trip to the

mound, his machine collided, through no fault of his,

with another car. He has not only suffered a consid-

erable loss, but has been sued by the other party, which,

however, is not alarming since there is very little dan-

ger of judgment. I have, in my possession, at the office,

the garage bill for repairs, amounting to $225, and

there is an additional amount of $70 which Mr. Shet-

rone has offered to bear himself. Mr. Shetrone cannot

afford, in the service of the Society, to suffer a loss of

$295 out of the salary the Society pays him."

DR. THOMPSON: "I move that the matter be re-

ferred to the Finance Committee, with the President.

with power to act."

MR. LAYLIN: "I am certain it will be entirely law-

ful, if the Society has funds from which this can be paid,

to reimburse Mr. Shetrone. I second the motion."

Carried.

On motion the meeting adjourned.

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AFTERNOON SESSION

 

AUDITORIUM OF THE MUSEUM

AND LIBRARY BUILDING,

1:30 O'CLOCK.

The addresses delivered at the afternoon session of

the meeting were of an unusually high order. Members

of the Society and their friends came in large numbers to

hear the two noted speakers on the program. They soon

filled the auditorium to the limit of its capacity and a

number were turned away for lack of room. The high

anticipations of the audience were not disappointed.

Both speakers were from outside of the State, but

each had a distinctive Ohio connection and their pres-

ence was, in a measure, a home-coming after the

achievements of honorable distinction in other fields.

 

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR ARCHER BUTLER

HULBERT

After a few remarks President Johnson invited Dr.

William Oxley Thompson, President Emeritus of the

Ohio State University, to preside over the afternoon

session. Dr. Thompson was given an ovation on as-

suming the chair. In a few words he introduced the

first speaker of the afternoon, Archer Butler Hulbert,

college professor and historian, who delivered his ad-

dress on "The Provincial Basis of Patriotism."

From his first sentence, Professor Hulbert held the

close attention of his audience. The interest grew until

it reached a climax at the conclusion of his address of

one hour. He did not rehearse merely the facts of his-

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tory, but he used those facts as a basis for a philosophy

of history which was not commonplace and hackneyed.

In other words, he exhibited originality of thought in

tracing the development of our national patriotism from

love of home, locality and province.

He manifested none of the tendencies of recent writ-

ers of history to depreciate patriotism, to hold up to

public view the delinquencies of patriots, or to use a

slang expression of modern writers, to "de-bunk his-

tory." Those who heard him must have felt a healthy

optimism in regard to the future and a higher apprecia-

tion of an intelligent and all-embracing love of country.

He introduced his subject of American provincialism

by a description of his acquaintance with the topic at

first hand -- of his eighteen years in New England,

twenty years in the Ohio Valley, ten years in the Rocky

Mountain Region, and four years' experience in recent

days on the Pacific Coast. "I have begun in a slight

way," he said, "to become acquainted with this country

of ours; it is only by experience that one can come to do

that most important thing, To Love America First, how-

ever little in one brief lifetime one may happen to see;

for when one has seen the 'famous' places of interest, he

has read only the first page of a book of gigantic size."

The speaker said that, from the very colonial begin-

ning of our history, the United-States-to-be was a mar-

velous collection of curious provinces, kingdoms, prin-

cipalities and dukedoms, regal in their expanse, rich be-

yond counting, in their resources. In each province was

developed that province's own "peculiar people," so to

speak. As each region differed in conformation, soil

and products, so the people in each differed. This gave

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rise to a vast series of antagonisms based on different

outlooks, political bents, religious convictions, social cus-

toms, local conceits and prejudices. The speaker gave

many humorous illustrations of these antipathies, em-

phasizing especially the boundary-line disputes, taking

Pennsylvania's quarrels over each of her four boundary

lines as an illustration.

By such means, the speaker established his tenet that

the people of every one of these American "nations" (as

they would have seemed to a European) "discovered a

distinct pride in and love for their own section or prov-

ince, the peculiar type of provincialism which makes

Texans believe no land equals theirs, the Kentuckian to

hold the 'Blue-Grass Region' as the choice bit of God's

whole earth and the Oregonian to consider his North-

west a Heaven compared with either Texas or Kentucky.

The characteristics of such provincial affection was dis-

cussed from the standpoint of the various psychologists

of patriotism, that craving for the sense of 'at-homeness'

which made Webster, on his death-bed, desire the cows

should be driven from the barn to his window that he

might once more smell their breath; that longing which

made Napoleon cry out from his island prison for one

more smell of Corsican soil; that aching pain which

makes the 'mountain white,' a-dying in a stuffy city

apartment house, long to be carried back to his mountain

spring, certain that its waters will effect a cure."

"The roots of patriotism," the speaker insisted,

"thrive in provincial soils. He is a real patriot who is

truly fond of his 'home,' his 'section'; and the greatest

of patriots is he who truly loves the greatest number

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Archer Butler Hulbert, college professor, historian and author of many standard publications, is widely and favorably known in Ohio. He was graduated from Marietta College in 1895; was editor of the Korean Inde- pendent in the Far East; Professor of American History in Marietta Col- lege, 1904-1918, and in Colorado College, 1920-1925. He has been a lecturer in the University of Chicago and other universities. He is a voluminous writer. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and author of almost forty volumes of standard books, including the Historic Highways of America, in sixteen volumes. His latest published book is The Making of the American Republic. His contribution in the December Atlantic, of last year, entitled "The Habit of Going to the Devil," is said to have been the "most widely quoted magazine article published in 1926."  Professor Hulbert is a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and has contributed to its publications. (667)

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of provinces -- sees why Kentuckians and Texans and

Oregonians are so biased and loves them for it! The

Man Without a Country' could never have been so

dubbed had he had any real affection for Gratiot, He-

bron or Kirkersville," said Professor Hulbert. This

development of his theme was happily illustrated by the

fact that seldom in any land do the so-called "national"

songs have the vital hold upon the masses that do the

songs redolent of section and province. "The songs

which humanity hugs to its bosom through generations

are the songs vibrant with specific local phenomena, sat-

urated with provincial color, redolent of indigenous

things; songs of Maxwelton's breezes, of Alsatian

Mountains, of Beautiful Ohios, of Kentucky Homes, of

Silv'ry Rio Grandes, of Suwanee Rivers." The song

"Goodbye Broadway, Hello France," the speaker said,

"would hardly have made the hit it did had it been

worded 'Goodbye America, Hello France.' The local

tang was requisite and, while few men in those armies

could have given the various verses of 'My Country 'Tis

of Thee' or 'God Save the King,' every man-jack in any

of them could have told every word of 'Tipperary' (with

its provincial references to Piccadilly), or every word of

'My Indiana Home' or 'Dixie'."

"This exceedingly necessary place of provincialism

as a true basis for nationalism," the speaker said, "has

been ignored by the formal historian, largely because

the geologist has been the historian's guide and mentor

and not the agriculturist. We have been taught how the

frame-work of the continent was put together; we have

learned much of 'faults' and 'anti-clines' and all the rest

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of the important story of the building of the continent's

skeleton; but we have been told little about the super-

ficial background of our soils. We have learned much

about the framework of which the pioneers knew noth-

ing and we have remained in ignorance of the soils

which meant everything in the world to those pioneers;

for soils were the one and only topic of vital importance

to our migrating fathers; they dominated the planting

of colonies, determined whither men should go and how

far; where turn and when to stop. The planting of

every frontier was always a soil proposition, whether it

were the founding of an Ohio, a Texas or an Oregon.

Strike out, from migration, propaganda to any impor-

tant zone of colonial expansion the soil arguments and

you have practically a blank page. Yet what of our

school histories even mention the subject?"

"This story of province-creation has been neglected,"

said Professor Hulbert, "just as, formerly, the story of

the European background of American history was neg-

lected. Here the geologist has his important funda-

mental story; yet when he is done, the most important

part of the tale remains to be unfolded, so far as man's

actual experience in Republic-making is concerned. For

only by seeing such a thing, as the Valley of Virginia,

come into existence, and noting how it resembled the

limestone Pennsylvania lands and differed from tide-

water Virginia, on the one side, and the Ohio Valley on

the other, can we sense the creation of a distinct prov-

ince which gave birth, let us imagine, to a distinct 'race

of giants'; a provincial type of pride, attitude to the rest

of the world; a granary thrust providentially into the

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Southland from which Lee and Jackson might get their

grain in times of trouble." The speaker illustrated the

profusion of these distinct American "nations" within

our Republic by letting them pass in review before a

traveling automobile:

All delights of touring are, to me, as nothing compared to

the sensation of crossing, every now and then, an unseen

Tropic of Capricorn, so to speak, and entering a new world.

Leave the western gate of Yellowstone, for instance, and

cruise southward for a day. From Fire Holes, Mud Pots, and

Geysers, you pass into the Big Woods, another world; and on

to the Henry Lake Country; and on to a former desert valley

now blossoming as only water can make calcareous soil blossom;

and on to the magnificent farming lands of northeastern Utah;

by eventide you are sliding down into the lovely meadows and

orchards and fertile truck gardens about princely Salt Lake

City. In the morning the smell of spruce gum was in your

nostrils, and mosquitoes, big as bats, hummed in your ears. At

night, boys and girls were offering you, from the roadside,

peaches, plums, pears, grapes -- and you are in a new King-

dom.

Head north from the "High Tide of the Confederacy," at

Gettysburg, and you soon enter the more fertile of the Penn-

sylvania Dutch country; on nearing the Hudson, further north,

the gates of another land swing open to you on the Divide -- a

world too busy, almost, for agriculture; beyond the Hudson

your engine tells you that the Berkshires are at hand, and you

cross that beautiful barrier which once half-guarded New Eng-

land from the savage raids of the Iroquois; stone walls, long

white houses, cod-fish and rustless window-screen signs herald

the fact that you have, indeed, entered another land.

Strike west from Santa Fe and you cross the Rio Grande

and climb up and up to Gallup-land; painted deserts and petri-

fied forests bespeak a strange new province; the pines of Flag-

staff betoken another; faring south from Ash Fork you cross

the rangy Bradshaws into an immense mesa when -- look! as

the little boy said, "There are trees with their pants on."

Palm trees! Giant cactus! Gila Monsters! And from shiver-

ing in the cold by the Grand Canyon (in February), in the morn-

ing, by night you are star-gazing through the Phoenix palms.

And all that, to me, is my country. I am the heir of my

friend on Long Island, with its lovely vistas between glorious

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roads; princely houses; exquisite gardens; foam-covered rocks

white with the spray of the sea. I love the swift tide of his

life; the crush and crash of commuting; the intensity of business

rush; pleasure rush; contact with men who are moving the

world, preaching its great sermons, writing its great books and

plays, curing its great maladies, building its Woolworth towers;

I revel in his pride of life, sense of power, thrill of victory.

And yet I smile at the thought of his suave certainty that the

world is bounded by his roads, skyscrapers and offices!

I am heir of my friend in his ranch on Wagon Hound

Creek. How interminable are those level plains -- "where thar's

plenty o' elbow room to spit," as he would say. How he de-

tests cities -- where folks live so "hunched up" that you "can't

cuss a cat without gittin' hair in yer mouth." How he glories

as King of a Royal Domain. How little mere miles mean to

him -- with a Pharaoh's train of horses! He looks abroad and

sees things I will never learn to see; hears things I can never

expect to hear; senses changes, signs and wonders on a dead

level prairie, where I sense nothing,

. . . .  The stars break out in millions on a velvet summer sky;

and feels:

. . . . the ardent yearning pain

Wide sage lands bring when damp with summer rain.

The way the buffalo grass slants informs him, but leaves me

ignorant. The piercing notes of birds tell him a story; to me it

is but a song. In vast lands, he tells me, the bird notes must carry

further, for flocks are few and far between, and, if mates are to

find each other, the call must be louder than in a hilly land "where

echoes live." The eyes of wild life are, similarly, sharper, he says,

because distances are greater, and foes and prey must be sighted

from afar, if at all. There is a sweep, a majesty, in his outlook,

in his planning, in his care of loved ones and stock, in the way his

latch-string hangs out his door. I am a dullard in his presence

because I am only educated while he has been educed.

Likewise, I am heir of my friend on that old homestead in

Vermont; of my fisherman-friend in an Alleghany cove who

knows "hants"; of my poet-friend. "Joe, the Desert Rat," in his

Arizona foothills; of my golfing-friend in his California orange

grove. No one of these friends would feel much at home in the

shoes of another. Each is of his own land -- knows its peculiar

secrets, cherishes the glories and illusions belonging to it, breeds

its traditions. If you know them all well enough to catch at least

a faint glimpse of their happiness and virile pride, you are the

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American patriot par excellence because of your pride in so many

"nations" within your Country. I could fight for "my" Otter

Creek in Vermont, for "my" Goshen Hole in Wyoming, for

"my" Staked Plains in Texas, for "my" Black Pool of the Little

Blue in Kansas, for "my" Sapphire Land of the Carolinas, "my"

Squaw Hollow in Ohio.

 

The succeeding phase of the speaker's theme was

also illustrated from nature:

A maple's patriotism is illustrated in two ways; by growing

strong where it is -- right there -- not somewhere else; in devel-

oping, let us imagine, a real love of environment, of "home"; and

then, paradoxically, throwing all its life, all its strength, enthusi-

asm and ardor into creating winged seeds which will do everything

except stay at howe. We have long been taught that our nation,

politically, was of a curious two-fold, two-in-one form; part na-

tional, part federal. So, too, we have had a similar two-fold de-

velopment socially, psychologically. Men, deeply loving New

England, or Virginia, or Tennessee, have gone out to plant and

cherish just as lovingly an Ohio, a Kentucky or a Missouri; and

Kentuckians and Missourians have, while holding those home-

lands to be the garden-spots of the world, readily cut home ties

to plant Californias, Montanas and Arizonas and find nesting-

places for new broods of Americans; and while these sang "My

Colorado" or "Little Gray Home in the West," with the same

ardor with which their forebears sang "The Hills of My Old New

Hampshire Home" or "Beautiful Ohio," all were ready to unite

in "America" without any loss in national affection, because they

had conceived so royal a provincial pride and love of a specific

section.

This breeding of frontiers by frontiers is as perfectly illus-

trated by the Rhode Islanders who, with other Yankees, founded

Marietta in 1788, as in any instance afforded by American history.

Let us turn to another type of breeding-ground, one termed

by the late Professor Dunning, the most "delicious" instance of

that lunging-forward instinct of American frontiersmen. Many

of the New Englanders, whom General Rufus Putnam led to

Marietta, were from the seafaring towns of Rhode Island and

Massachusetts; block and tackle, mast and jib, hawser and an-

chor-lore was a part of their very blood. Before them they saw

the "Beautiful Ohio" stretching away to the Mississippi, and that,

in turn, to their beloved ocean -- two thousand miles away.

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Washington had foreseen, in 1784, the phenomenon of ocean-

rigged vessels descending the Ohio River. But within three years

of Wayne's victory at Fallen Timber, those irrepressible Ohio

Yankees had a brig, the St. Clair, of 110 tons on the stocks at

Marietta! From the forests they had dragged the black walnut

for the hull; from their fields they plucked the hemp for cordage;

and soon iron-works at Pittsburgh were, to quote a pious contem-

poraneous advertisement, "sufficiently upheld by the Hand of the

Almighty" to be able to furnish the necessary metal. In every

major port on the Ohio, ship-building yards were soon echoing

with tools of migration and commerce. Far up on the Monon-

gahela, men of Delaware were constructing the Monongahela

Farmer. These ships set sail for the Atlantic Ocean in the first

year of the Nineteenth Century and without a doubt the pessimists

laughed loudly at the idea of their ever getting there! "How can

they make the innumerable bends in the rivers ?" sneered the icon-

oclasts. But Yankee ingenuity met this test as nonchalantly as

all the others -- and let the heavy tubs down backwards, with

anchors dragging from the prows! By alternately tightening and

slacking those anchor-lines, the ships were safely eased around

the bends. Within seven years a hundred ocean-rigged vessels.

some with a tonnage of 500 rating, had been built between Pitts-

burgh and the mouth of the Ohio. How far afloat these land-

lubber ocean vessels went will never be known. The first to ar-

rive at Liverpool was the Duane, of Pittsburgh, on July 8, 1803.

Two years later, "in the Year of Human Salvation, 1805," the

non-plussed harbor master of Trieste, Italy, at the head of the

Adriatic, made out papers, (now in the Marietta College Li-

brary), which permitted the Louisiana of Marietta, to set sail

from Trieste for London with a cargo of oil, wood, box-wood,

apples, juniper berries and "other things."¹

And not the least "delicious" phase, of this unique episode in

pioneering, was the consciousness of those irrepressible Yankees

that they were doing clever things!

He hath oped the way to Commerce,

sang a poet, on the occasion of the sailing of the St. Clair, from

Marietta, in honor of the captain of the ship, who was none other

than Admiral Abraham Whipple, who had helped to fire the

Gaspee in Narragansett Harbor and precipitate the Revolution-

ary War.

1 Hulbert, A. B., "Western Shipbuilding," American Historical Review

XXI, No. 4.

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Sirens attend with Flute and Lyre

and bring your Conks my Tritons

in chorus Blow to the Aged Sire

in welcome to my Dominions

continued the poet of the day, Col. Jonathan Devol, picturing

Neptune, welcoming to his waves once more, a hero of Narra-

gansett Bay.

By such a spectacular thrusting of one frontier, the Ohio

Valley, upon another, the Mississippi Valley, with all the inter-

national complications involved, a great chapter in history was

written; because of the demand of the West for an open Missis-

sippi channel this million-dollar fleet of the Pittsburgh-Cairo fron-

tier was the dominating factor in securing the Louisiana Purchase.

It may have surprised Jefferson's delegates to Paris to be con-

fronted suddenly with the project to purchase all of Louisiana, in

1803, instead of just the island at the Mississippi's mouth, which

they intended to buy. But if the idea was new to them, they had

not been reading the pugnacious western newspapers, for, a whole

year earlier, in 1802, Pittsburgh papers were advising the purchase

of the whole province and were even stating the exact price,

of Fifteen Millions, (which was later paid), as one which Na-

poleon would take for the entire province.

In this necessarily brief and somewhat random re-

view, we have touched only upon the speaker's chief

lines of argument. In one instance, he tellingly outlined

the distinctive characteristics of provincial life by form-

ing a reception line from great American novels and

holding a unique inter-provincial reception. The au-

dience was asked to "shake hands, for instance, with

such outstanding individuals as Hester Prynne, Ruggles

of Red Gap, David Harum, Ramona, Peter Sterling,

Huck Finn, The Despot of Broomsedge Cove, The Vir-

ginian, Janice Meredith, Old Man Enright, Specimen

Jones, and an Outcast of Poker Flat."

In conclusion, Professor Hulbert applied the theme

of his address to present day frontiers.

"The need of equal individuality is as great in this

day as it was in a former," he said; he expressed a lik-

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ing for the picturesque provincialisms put in circulation

today by intercollegiate athletics, for the flavor, (which

has its genuine background components), carried by the

words "The Golden Bears of California," the "Huskies"

of Washington, the "Badgers," "Buckeyes," "Jayhawk-

ers," and "Sooners" who, in athletic togs, epitomize the

sense of provincial strength, local pride, a virility ex-

uded by specific environments. "After all," the speaker

asked, "is not provincialism the merriest thing in our

national kaleidoscope, if not the most American thing,

if carefully considered? It is even illustrated today in

antipathies which echo the old colonial bitternesses; as

when the Oklahoma gentleman stands back from his

recalcitrant Ford and tells it, in an even tone of voice

more deadly than if accentuated, that it 'can go straight

to Hell and New England,' for all of him!"

In conclusion Professor Hulbert said:

Today, frontiers are still planting frontiers; tools for con-

quering our "Seas of Darkness" in the air, are in the making,

just as in Henry of Portugal's time, tools for the Lindberghs

and Chamberlains of centuries ago were being fashioned; and

as boldly as ever do Hudsons and Magellans and Cabots sail away

-- never to return. Let us not fear to preserve the idiosyncrasies,

the colorful individualities, the unpremeditated oddities of section

and province; for in them, in essence, we have the factors which

make up a sincere and genuine patriotism, virile with that confi-

dence that our national sense and tolerance and even-mindedness

will always be equal to the gigantic emergencies of the future.

Insofar as the erroneous educational theory is abroad that any

educational institution puts a peculiar "stamp" on its sons or

daughters, let us combat the implication vigorously. Just so far

as resources are used to produce a peculiar, institutional "stamp,"

instead of being used to develop the individuality of the student

and prospective graduate, to just that degree, human provincial-

ism is being stifled and our country is being deprived of inherent,

creative assets -- perhaps blighting a soul-frontier which might,

if encouraged to develop its own individual role, plant new fron-

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tiers of imperishable renown, such as our Millikans, Eliots, Bur-

banks, Fords, Shapleys, and Grenfells have given the world.

Professor Hulbert was generously applauded at the

conclusion of his address.

Dr. Thompson then introduced the second speaker

of the afternoon, Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, Curator of Visual

Instruction in the American Museum of Natural His-

tory, New York City. Dr. Fisher is a native Ohioan,

whose scholarly attainments and enviable record are a

source of pride to nature lovers within and beyond the

limits of his native and adopted states. His lecture was

instructive and entertaining.    It was illustrated by a

large number of colored lantern slides. The delighted

audience felt that they, through their speaker, were

 

"WITH JOHN BURROUGHS IN HIS FAVORITE

HAUNTS."

This subject Dr. Fisher introduced briefly as fol-

lows:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Ohio State Archaeological

and Historical Society:

It is a privilege and an honor to be welcomed back to my

home State, and to speak before this Society this afternoon.

I do not intend to try to talk about the literature that John

Burroughs produced; except casually. It was my privilege to

know John Burroughs a great many years. In fact, I began

correspondence with him when I was a boy on a farm in western

Ohio more than twenty-five years ago. I later knew him per-

sonally, and had the privilege of visiting him, during his last

years, in his various haunts.

It will be my plan to bring before you, if I can, John Bur-

roughs the man, John Burroughs the very human man. To know

John Burroughs was to love him. I have been told by his pub-

lishers, who also publish the works of other eminent naturalists,

that many more copies of Burroughs' books have been sold than

of the others. I do not wish to make comparisons, and I do not

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mean to say that John Burroughs knew more about animals, birds

and nature than the others. John Burroughs was not an encyclo-

pedia, a walking dictionary of facts. John Burroughs was, first,

a man and, second, a naturalist. Mr. Burroughs said that man

can have but one interest in nature--to see himself interpreted

there. I think he might have extended that statement to literature

and art, as well as nature. He is the great interpretative naturalist

for us.

His friends urged him to write his autobiography, and he said

"my books are my autobiography," and I think that is true. Mr.

Burroughs was better able to put himself into his books than

most of our men of letters. He wrote with a simplicity of style

that makes us forget the style. We read John Burroughs; his

essays read so smoothly that we do not realize how much hard

work has gone into the making of his books. One critic said,

"John Burroughs writes with a style that we all feel we can go

home and imitate, but we can't." I consider myself fortunate

in the opportunity to know John Burroughs. His first book was

written when Abraham Lincoln was President. He continued

writing until 1921, the year of his death.

I have played with a camera all my life -- if any of my

friends from western Ohio are here they will know that. When

I got my camera I felt that if I could make one picture of John

Burroughs I would be satisfied. I made one, but I was not satis-

fied. I have made something like two hundred pictures of John

Burroughs. I am not going to show all of them to you, but I

want to show some of them to you -- some made on my first

visits with him, some on my last visits and some on intermediate

visits. Since we have so many pictures to show, I will begin

with John Burroughs on his eighty-third birthday, the last birth-

day he lived to celebrate.

From Dr. Fisher's "Reminiscences of John Bur-

roughs" we quote the following:

The first visit was on a bright November day in 1915, an ideal

day for such a pilgrimage. Mrs. Fisher and I were to be the

guests of Dr. Clara Barrus, Mr. Burroughs' physician and friend,

while we visited our hero. Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs were then

living in the stone house, at Riverby, but were taking their meals

with Dr. Barrus, who lived in "The Nest" on adjoining grounds.

This cottage, which Dr. Barrus, on making her home there, had

rechristened "The Nest," had been built for Mr. Burroughs' son,

Julian. It is one of the most attractive little houses I have ever

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seen. There is no varnish or paint or veneer anywhere. The

naked beams and ceilings of chestnut, the wainscoting of curly

birch and other woods that had grown on the surrounding hills,

the panels of white birch with the bark intact -- all these reminded

one of what Mr. Burroughs had written in "Roof-Tree":

"The natural color and grain of the wood give a richness and

simplicity to an interior that no art can make up for. How the

eye loves the genuine thing; how it delights in the nude beauty

of the wood!"

*    *    *    *    *

Knowing that Mr. Burroughs did his writing in the fore-

noons, we proposed not to disturb him until lunch time. He had

said, "My mind works best, and my faith is strongest, when the

day is waxing and not waning." He was not a burner of mid-

night oil.

I had brought my camera hoping to get one picture of the

great poet-naturalist. Before noon I started out to secure a few

photographs about his home. First, I undertook to make one of

the Summer House on the banks of the Hudson, just a few steps

from the bark-covered Study between the stone house and the

River. In this Summer House, which commands a wonderful

view up and down the river, Mr. Burroughs used to sit by the

hour during the warmer months of the year, reading or thinking

out the essays he has given us. While focusing my camera on the

Summer House, I was discovered by Mr. Burroughs, who ap-

peared at the door of his Study, and after cordially greeting me,

said, "I thought you might like to have me in the picture." I was

so delighted that I could hardly operate my Graflex camera.

However, I made a picture of "John o' Birds" examining a wren-

box on the big sugar maple by the Summer House, one of him

standing in the door of the Study, looking out over the Hudson,

and one of him sitting by the fireplace in the Study. So, my wish

was more than fulfilled on that first visit.

*    *    *    *    *

At luncheon, in deference to my training, Mr. Burroughs told

us about some of the botanical rarities he had found in the

vicinity -- the showy Lady's-Slipper. Climbing Fumitory or

Mountain Fringe, and others, the finding of which he so vividly

describes in the volume of outdoor essays entitled, Riverby.

Since his first discovery of Mountain Fringe, it has become a

common plant around Slabsides. Last November, on the anni-

versary of our first visit, we found it blooming in profusion

around that cabin.

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After luncheon, Mr. Burroughs conducted us up to Slab-

sides -- which is located about a mile and three-quarters in a

westerly direction from Riverby. After leaving the main high-

way, we followed a somewhat winding woods road which led

through a beautiful stretch of hemlock forest. As we walked

along, Mr. Burroughs would occasionally pluck a gorgeous oak

leaf from a young tree and, holding it between his eye and the

sun, would comment on its beauty. I never realized, until then,

how much more beautiful an autumn leaf is by transmitted light

than by reflected light.

On the way, we flushed a ruffed grouse, or partridge, from

the road in front of us, and it whirred away through the woods.

We were all delighted with this glimpse of wild life. As Mr.

Burroughs watched its flight he said, "I hope it will escape the

gunners this fall." Subsequent visits to Slabsides have shown

that there are ruffed grouse still to be found about this cabin.

Late in May, two or three years after this first visit, I surprised

a mother ruffed grouse and her family of downy young, on this

very road. It is to be hoped that the woods about Slabsides will

be made a permanent sanctuary, so that the birds, which meant

so much to Mr. Burroughs and about which he has written so

charmingly, may be found there always.

*    *    *    *    *

For the best description of Slabsides that has been written,

read two chapters in Our Friend, John Burroughs, by Clara Bar-

rus -- one entitled "The Retreat of a Poet-Naturalist" and the

other "A Winter Day at Slabsides."  These suggest the atmos-

phere of the place and give much of the man who tarried there.

Mr. Burroughs built Slabsides in 1895, to get away from an-

noyances of civilization. At Slabsides, on this first visit, I asked

Mr. Burroughs about a number of distinguished visitors he had

had there. Dr. Chapman, of the American Museum, had gone

to see him when he was clearing the ground for the rustic cabin,

and was one of his earlier visitors after the cabin was built.

These pilgrimages were written up in the first number of the first

volume of Bird-Lore and in a chapter in Camps and Cruises of an

Ornithologist. Whenever I went to see Mr. Burroughs, he al-

ways asked about Dr. Chapman.

His friend, Walt Whitman, visited him where Slabsides was

subsequently built, and wrote a vivid description of Black Creek

and the surrounding region, which was later printed in Specimen

Days. Black Creek, whose falls are within hearing of Slabsides,

is a wild place, where Mr. Burroughs used to go every May for

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warblers. More than once, in May, since my first visit, I have

tramped along this creek, (in "Whitman Land"), looking for

warblers and finding them, too. All wild life about this mountain

cabin is unusually interesting, because it has been immortalized

in the essays of the great naturalist.

*    *    *    *    *

Upon bidding farewell to his guests at the railroad station

at West Park that evening, Mr. Burroughs said, "Whenever you

want to come to Slabsides, the key is yours." In response to this

generous invitation, we have camped in this mountain cabin, for

two or three days at a time, about twice a year since that first

visit. We have been there in May when the warblers were

abundant, and we have been there the last week in November,

with the thermometer down to twenty at night, when, instead of

Warblers around the cabin, we had the Winter Wren, the Junco,

and the Chickadee.

First things make lasting impressions, and so it is with my

first visit with John Burroughs, but the visits that have meant

the most to me, have been subsequent ones. Perhaps the most

inspiring have been those at Woodchuck Lodge, on the home

farm near Roxbury, in the western Catskills, where, for many

years, it has been his custom to spend his summers. The farm,

on which he was born, is situated "in the lap of Old Clump,"

which has since been rechristened "Burroughs Mountain."

Woodchuck Lodge is only about a half mile distant from his

birthplace. It gets its name from the abundance of woodchucks

in the vicinity.

*    *    *    *    *

At the hay barn, at Woodchuck Lodge, one day, Mr. Bur-

roughs was discussing Thoreau, speaking very highly of the es-

says, "Walking" and "Wild Apples," both of which are included

in Excursions. Then he referred to certain peculiarities, and to

a number of surprising inaccuracies to be found in the writings

of this author. "But," he said finally, "I would rather be the

author of Thoreau's Walden than of all the books I have ever

written."

While I do not sympathize with that statement, it must be

admitted that Burroughs could hardly have paid a higher compli-

ment to Thoreau. For myself, I would rather be the author of

Burroughs' Wake-Robin than all I have ever read of Thoreau's

Works.

Nearby is the Deacon Woods, where Mr. Burroughs, wher

a boy, saw his first warbler -- a Black-throated Blue -- originally

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G. Clyde Fisher, Ph. D., Curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, was born in Sidney, Ohio, about forty-nine years ago; was graduated from Miami University in 1905; spent five years in teaching botany and zoology in high school and college; in 1913 was granted the degree of Ph. D. by Johns Hopkins University. For eleven years he has been a member of the Scientific Staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Explorers' Club, American Ornithologists' Union, Linnaean Society of New York, Wilson Ornithological Club and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. His long and eminent service in the American Museum of Natural History is a high testimonial to his scholarship and ability. He is an entertaining speaker and his services on the lecture platform are in frequent demand. (681)

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described in Wake-Robin, in the chapter, "The Invitation." On

my first visit to Woodchuck Lodge, as we walked past this

woods on our way down to the birthplace, Mr. Burroughs re-

told this story to me. He said, "My brothers were with me, and

they saw the bird; however, they did not remember it -- but it

'stuck in my craw'." I often think how much the sight of that

beautiful little warbler may have influenced him to become a

naturalist; how much it may have added to his natural bent; how

much this and the early fishing trips to Montgomery Hollow, with

his grandfather, may have had to do in preparing him for the in-

fluence that the Audubon books had upon him, when he discov-

ered them many years later in the library of the West Point Mili-

tary Academy. It happens that Mr. Burroughs was the first per-

son to find an occupied nest of the Black-throated Blue Warbler,

which had been his first warbler. This reminds us of other con-

tributions to ornithology made by Mr. Burroughs, such as the

finding of the first nest of the Mourning Warbler and the first

description of the flight-song of the Ovenbird. However, his

actual discoveries in natural history are not his most important

work. It is his literary interpretation of the common things about

us -- in short, his books, that are his great legacy to mankind.

 

*    *    *    *    *

In "The Heart of the Southern Catskills," in Riverby, Mr.

Burroughs describes his favorite valley in that Range. Twice I

nad had a wonderful tramp in this, the Woodland Valley, along

the brook where our naturalist friend had camped and tramped

and fished for trout. Once I climbed Wittenberg and slept on

its summit with his grandson, John Burroughs, 2d. In like man-

ner years before, the elder had climbed it and slept on the top

with a companion. On these tramps I had seen the Painted Wake-

Robin (Trillium undulatum) growing in great abundance, and I

naturally suspected that this was the flower that had suggested

the title for his first book. So, one morning in the kitchen at

Woodchuck Lodge, while Mr. Burroughs was frying the bacon

and making pancakes for breakfast, I asked him whether it was

the Painted Wake-Robin for which his first book was named.

"No," he replied, "it was not, but it was the large-flowered White

Wake-Robin (Trillium grandiflorum).

"I had several possible titles, and I took them to Walt Whit-

man. He looked them over, and when he came to 'Wake-Robin,'

he asked, 'What's that?' I told him it was the name of a wild

flower. He then said, 'That's your title' -- and this helped me

to decide upon the name 'Wake-Robin'.

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"After the book was published, in speaking to me about it,

Emerson said, 'Capital title! Capital title!'"

 

My last visit with John Burroughs was during the week-end

of November 6-8, 1920, the first of these three days being the

anniversary of my first visit. We camped in Slabsides, and on

the second day, (November 7), Mr. Burroughs ate his midday

meal and spent several hours with us. He cooked one of his

favorite brigand steaks for luncheon -- the last he ever cooked at

Slabsides. While preparing the steak, we talked about his latest

book, Accepting the Universe, which had appeared a little while

before. He told me of a number of letters he had received con-

cerning it, and that two or three preachers had thanked him

warmly for writing such a book.

On the afternoon of that day, I made what proved to be the

last photographs of him at Slabsides. In fact, he visited Slab-

sides only once after this late. We found the Herb-Robert in

bloom near by, as we found it on my first visit. We also found

the Climbing Fumitory, or Mountain Fringe, and the Witch-hazel

in bloom.

When he left Slabsides toward evening, we walked with him

to the bend of the road in the hemlocks, and there bade him

good-bye. Little did we think that this would be the last time

we would see him alive. While we shall not be able to talk with

him again, or to shake his hand, or to look into his honest gray-

blue eyes, he still lives in our hearts. The spirit of John Bur-

roughs will live on.

The presentation of the Yale Educational Motion

Picture -- "Old Vincennes" -- portraying the Conquest

of the Northwest Territory, by George Rogers Clark,

was not a success. Announcement was made that it

would be presented, on the day following, in the Uni-

versity Hall on the Campus of the Ohio State Univer-

sity. At the time announced, a large and appreciative

audience saw the picture.

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