REPORT OF
THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL
MEETING OF
THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEO-
LOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
HELD IN THE
MUSEUM AND LI-
BRARY
BUILDING OF THE SO-
CIETY MARCH
26, 1931.
The Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical Society
met in
annual meeting March 26, 1931, at 10 o'clock
a. m. in the
auditorium of the Museum and Library
Building.
On motion of
the Secretary, Mr. Arthur C. John-
son,
President of the Society, was chosen President of
the meeting.
The minutes
of the previous meeting having been
published,
the reading of the same was dispensed with.
Mr. Oscar F.
Miller read the Treasurer's report for
the last
fiscal year as follows:
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE TREASURER
For the
Year Ending December 31, 1930
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand
January 1st, 1930:--
Current Funds ................. $3,431.19
Endowment and
Foundation Funds 5,175.00
Battlefield
of Fallen Timbers Sub-
scription
Fund ................ 1,745.62
$10,351.81
Life
Membership Dues ........................ 695.00
Sustaining
Members' Dues....................... 80.00
Active
Membership Dues ...................... 646.50
(517)
518 Ohio
Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Junior Members' Dues ......................... 31.00
Subscriptions ................................ 46.00
Books Sold .................................. 783.44
Contributions--
C. F. Kettering ......... ................... 843.13
C. H. Lewis ...................... ........ 100.00
Battlefield of Fallen Timbers ................... 248.33
Interest
on Above Fund ....................... 134.59
Interest on Permanent Fund .................... 1,050.00
Interest on
Other Funds ........................ 270.26
Interest on Trust Fund ........................ 52.25
Miscellaneous Refunds ......................... 36.46
Refunds of Cash advanced in 1929.... $681. 14
Refunds of Cash advanced in 1930.... 3,259.42
$3,940.56
Received from State Treasurer on Various Appro-
priations as follows:
Administration Building, Museum and Library,
Columbus
.............................
$111,728.40
Miamisburg Mound ....................... 566.29
Big Bottom Park .......................... 88.58
Campus Martius
.......................... 2,562.19
Fallen Timbers
............................... 1,225.05
Fort Ancient
.............................. 2,389.52
Fort Amanda ............................. 505.44
Fort Laurens
............................. 3,681.25
Fort St. Clair ............................ 2,394.62
George Rogers Clark
..................... 220.57
Logan Elm ....... ..
...................... 461.30
M ound City
.............................. 3,023.32
Spiegel Grove
............................. 16,774.54
Schoenbrunn
............................. 3,750.08
Seip Mound .............................. 1,900.51
Serpent Mound .......................... 7,376.64
Custer Memorial ......................... 3,593.
70
Total ............................. $181,551.33
DISBURSEMENTS
Museum and Library Building, Columbus, Ohio
Salaries .......................... $55,089.44
Museum and Library Wages ........ 3,736.37
Wages Special Labor ..... ........ 160.65
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 519
Postage
1,446.25
Communications ....567.83
Express, Freight and Drayage.... 515.75
Travel
Expense................... 1,972.89
Publications
...................... 9,408.84
Water, Light, Heat and Power...... 1,329.30
Repairs
......................... 260.78
Office Supplies .................... 1,075.96
Museum Collections ............... 1,495.68
Books, Etc. ....................... 3,392.99
Subscriptions ..................... 37.00
Sundry Expense .................. 38.57
Annual Meeting .................. 48.40
Steel Stacks ...................... 21,631.12
General Plant Supplies............. 606.17
Motor Vehicle Repairs............. 316.93
General Plant Materials ............ 2,566.73
Print Plant Supplies.............. 169.98
Archaeological Field Work.......... 2,952.47
Natural History
.................. 3,571.28
Endowment and Foundation Fund... 5,034.75
$117,426.13
MIAMISBURG MOUND
Wages
..........................
$411.34
Maintenance ..................... 154.95
Improvements .................... 843.13
$1,409.42
BIG BOTTOM PARK
Wages ........................... $78.20
Repairs .......................... 10.38
$88.58
CAMPUS MARTIUS
Salaries
.......................... $1,620.00
Wages ........................... 119.25
Supplies, Office.................... 31.58
Repairs
.......................... 33.50
Light, Heat and Power............. 292.59
Communications .................. 68.75
General Plant Supplies............. 316.94
Water ........................... 17.50
Grading .......................... 62.08
$2,562.19
520 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society
Publications
FALLEN
TIMBERS
Wages
........................... $1,182.51
General
Plant Supplies ............. 42.54
Improvements
..................... 379.70
$1,604.75
FORT
ANCIENT
Salaries .......................... $600.00
Wages
........................... 1,030.65
Supplies
......................... 33.98
Communications
.................. 24.00
General
Plant...................... 94.71
Roadways
........................ 409.71
$2,399.52
FORT
AMANDA
Salaries .......................... $120.00
Wages
........................... 167.70
Repairs .......................... 12.00
Supplies
......................... 27.42
Sanitation
........................ 28.50
Roadways
........................ 149.82
$505.44
FORT
LAURENS
Salaries .......................... $999.96
Wages
........................... 756.55
Repairs .......................... 655.34
General
Plant ..................... 531.00
Agricultural
Supplies ............... 21.15
Electric
Light Line ................ 83.04
Shelter
House ..................... 512.06
Rest Rooms ....................... 122.15
$3,681.25
FORT
ST. CLAIR
Salaries
.......................... $1,200.00
Wages ...................... ..... 387.15
Repairs
.......................... 611.93
Communications
................... 24.00
General
Plant .................. 171.54
$2,394.62
GEORGE
ROGERS CLARK
Wages ........................... $207.65
Supplies ......................... 12.92
$220.57
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 521
LOGAN
ELM
Salaries ............................ $50.00
Wages
........................... 235.57
General
Plant Supplies ............. 150.73
Communications
................... 25.00
$461.30
MOUND
CITY
Salaries
.......................... $733.26
Wages
........................... 689.40
Repairs .......................... 763.63
General
Plant ..................... 589.67
Sanitation ........................ 110.94
Communications
.................. 12.20
Tables
and Benches ................ 149-55
$3,048.65
SEIP
MOUND
Wages
........................... $1,199.05
Supplies
......................... 184.09
Improvements
.................... 377.24
Landscaping
Shelter
House .......... 517.37
$2,277.75
SERPENT
MOUND
Salaries
.......................... $590.00
W
ages ........................... 786.79
Repairs
-- Communications ......... 30.85
General
Plant Supplies ............. 346.07
Sanitation ........................ 26.90
Road
Repairs ...................... 125.62
Building
Repairs ............... ... 649.95
Fence ........................... 50.02
Insurance ........................ 29.70
Shelter
House .................... 4,770.44
$7,406.34
SPIEGEL
GROVE
Salaries .......................... $5,000.00
W
ages ......... .................. 161.65
Office
Supplies .................... 485
88
Postage ....... .................. 5.00
Repairs .......... ................ 8,016.38
Water,
Light, Heat & Power ........ 2,747.45
Express,
Freight & Drayage......... 2.88
Travel
Expense................... 29.47
Communications
................... 65.01
General
Plant Supplies ............ . 260.82
$16,774.54
522 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society
Publications
SCHOENBRUNN
Salaries ......................... $1,500.00
W
ages ........................... 1,411.38
Office
Equipment ................. 27.70
General
Plant Supplies ............ 749.92
Sanitation ....................... 5.00
Landscaping ..................... 30.20
Agricultural
Equipment ............ 25.88
$3,750.08
CAMPBELL
PARK
Wages .......................... $17.40
$17.40
GEN.
G. A. CUSTER MEMORIAL
Site Monument
.........................$3,593.70
Cash
advances made from time to time and refunded
3,259.42
Transferred
to Permanent Fund:
Life
Memberships ............ $695.00
State
Treasurer refund on En-
dowment
and Foundation fund 2,500.00
Cash
to make even money...... 664.75
Endowment
and Foundation Fund
transfer .................. 140.25
$4,000.00
Cash
on Hand January 31st, 1931....
............... 4,669.68
Total .............................. $181,551.33
After
some comments by President Johnson on the decrease of
the
permanent fund, the Director, H. C. Shetrone, read his an-
nual
report, as follows:
REPORT
OF DIRECTOR
For the Year Ending March 26, 1931
The
Director is pleased to report satisfactory progress in
every
department of the Society. Thanks to our little monthly
news
organ, Museum Echoes, the Trustees and the members of
the
Society have been informed from time to time of all impor-
tant
activities, so that only a brief summary, with emphasis on
outstanding
achievements, is necessary at this time.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 523
With reference to the several
departments of the Museum:
The Department of Archaeology, Dr.
Emerson F. Greenman, Cu-
rator, assisted by Robert Goslin of the
staff, conducted a pro-
longed and satisfactory season's
exploration during the past sum-
mer. Several important Iroquoian sites
in the vicinity of Cleve-
land yielded a quantity of valuable
material and much data, while
the exploration of a small group of
mounds near Huron resulted
in the extending of the noted Hopewell
Culture a full hundred
miles farther north than hitherto known
in the State. The latter
half of the season was devoted to the
examination of a large
mound near Athens, Ohio, and the finding
therein of the most
pretentious timbered structure so far
discovered in Ohio. The
head of this Department and his
assistant spent the winter in
cataloging and classifying the material,
and in assisting the Di-
rector in writing the report on the Seip
Mound of Ross County.
This report is now ready for the printer
and will appear in the
July Quarterly. It is one of the
most extensive and important
that the Society has published.
The Department of Natural History
suffered a severe loss
in the death of Professor James S. Hine
on December 22, 1930.
Fortunately, the excellent work done by
Professor Hine during
his incumbency will be ably continued
through his successor, Ed-
ward Sinclair Thomas. The Society is
fortunate in securing the
services of Mr. Thomas, who already has
demonstrated his nat-
ural and acquired ability not only as an
outstanding authority in
his line but as a museumist of unusual
ability. Mr. Thomas is
being ably assisted by Mr. Charles F.
Walker, assistant in the
Department. Accessions to this
Department during the past year
have been numerous and valuable, the
most outstanding of which
are a habitat group of Alaskan Brown
Bear and a similar group
of Rocky Mountain Sheep, financed and
presented to the Society
by Mr. William Rindsfoos and Mr. Julius
F. Stone respectively.
The newly organized Department of
History, Dr. Harlow
Lindley, Curator, has made notable
strides toward the develop-
ment of this field. Dr. Lindley's work
during the past year has
been mostly in the nature of
foundational activities, an important
feature of which has been the
organization of an Ohio historical
524 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
conference. This body is made up of
representatives of the his-
torical interests of the several
universities and colleges of Ohio,
and the various historical societies,
with the Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society as the nucleus.
This conference is the
culmination of a long-felt need and will
make possible concerted
and effective accomplishment along the
lines of historical research
and development in Ohio. Plans of
importance have been formu-
lated for the conference and the outlook
for the future is excep-
tionally bright.
A major activity of the Museum staff
during the past year
has been the development and maintenance
of the twenty parks
in the Society's custody. Mr. H. R.
McPherson, as Business
Agent, has had active charge of these
properties and has effected
numerous improvements and betterments.
The following parks
have been added during the past year:
Custer Memorial State Park.
Buffington Island Memorial State Park.
Fort Jefferson State Park.
William Henry Harrison Memorial Park.
U. S. Grant Memorial State Park.
A unique undertaking was the partial
exploration, under the
supervision of Mr. McPherson late in
1930, of the site of old
Fort Jefferson in Darke county. While
the general location of
Fort Jefferson was known, very little in
the way of historical de-
tails have been preserved. The
application of archaeological re-
search methods to a site having its
origin within historic times
but which virtually had been lost to
historic record, is only par-
alleled in the experience of the Society
by the identification a few
years ago of the site of the old
Moravian town.Schoenbrunn. Mr.
McPherson succeeded not only in locating
the foundations, out-
lines, basement and well of the old
fort, but in securing a great
quantity of interesting relics from
which a good idea of the oc-
cupancy and activities of this
pre-revolutionary stronghold are
being reconstructed.
Although not strictly a department, it
is a pleasure to report
that the Mineral Collections of the
Museum have been greatly
augmented through the interest and
efforts of Mr. H. R. Goodwin,
Registrar and Staff Artist.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 525
Late in 1929 the Board of Trustees
authorized the expendi-
ture of a specific sum in an attempt to
augment the Society's
membership and to secure for it bequests
and endowments.
Owing to the prolonged industrial
depression, these plans were
only partly realized, but your Director
feels certain that sufficient
interest was aroused and important
contacts made to insure in
the not distant future more than a
justification of the amount
expended. While the trustees found it
impractical to continue
these expenditures subsequent to Jan. 1,
1931, Mr. Iowa D. Smith,
who was in charge of the work, has
continued his efforts in this
direction voluntarily and without
remuneration, in the expecta-
tion that he will be able eventually to
realize in full the goal
which he has had in mind. Through Mr.
Smith's efforts the fol-
lowing members have been added to the
Society's membership
roll:
1 Patron--Mr. Frank C. Long, a Life
Member of the Society
17 Life Members
19 Sustaining Members
80 Annual Members
105 Junior Members
Under the heading of Museum Service to
the Society's mem-
bers and to the public there may be
mentioned the following
activities and accomplishments:
To satisfy an increasing demand for
something in the way
of a souvenir of the Museum and a guide
to its exhibits, an
artistic booklet entitled The Ohio
State Archaological and His-
torical Society, its Museum and
Library and the Parks in its
Custody was prepared by the Director and is now available
gratis
to members and at a nominal price to
non-members. Reprints of
an article on The Mound Builders by the
Director, prepared for
Natural History Magazine, were secured in numbers and have
been made available to everyone
interested at cost price. Mr.
Harold T. Clark of Cleveland, a trustee
of the Society, generously
contributed funds for the purchase of
2500 of these reprints, re-
ceipts from sales of which are being
placed in a rotary fund for the
purpose of financing future similar
publications. Through the ef-
forts of Mr. Smith an arrangement was
effected whereby the
526 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Standard Oil Company of Ohio financed
the publication for free
distribution of a booklet entitled Pictorial
Ohio, compiled and
edited by members of the staff. This
publication takes care of a
long standing and insistent demand for
exact information con-
cerning Ohio's archaeological,
historical and scenic attractions.
In addition to augmenting and improving
its displays, the
Museum has conducted additional
activities of an educational
nature as follows: The program of Museum
Service to the pub-
lic schools of Columbus and Franklin
County has continued with
decided success. Under the guidance of
Professor J. C. Hamble-
ton and Miss Olive Clevenger, teachers
assigned for full time
service in the Museum by the Columbus
Board of Education, a
total of 15,169 pupils, representing 445
classes, have received in-
struction at the Museum within the
twelve months since the 1930
Annual Meeting. A total of 445 lessons
and lectures, supple-
mented by study material from the
collections of the Museum.
have been given, apportioned as follows:
Introduction to Nat-
ural History, 121; Birds, 105;
Mound-Builders, 73; Mammals,
56; Insects, 49; Minerals, 25; Fishes,
7; History, 4; Pottery, 2:
Invertebrates, 2. Under the able
management of Mrs. Margaret
P. Cope, who for the past two years has
been a valued voluntary
assistant on the staff, a series of
special exhibits, comprising such
subjects as: Art Found in Nature; Loan
Exhibit of Chinese and
Japanese Collection; History of Musical
Instruments; History of
Architecture; has been offered during
the past year. In addition,
under Mrs. Cope's guidance, there has
been furnished to the
Junior Members of the Society and to the
pupils of the public
schools, a series of Saturday afternoon
Junior programs. These
have comprised such interesting subjects
as Appreciation of
Music, History of Art, Architecture,
American History, and
Yale Historical Films. The usual winter
lecture course which the
Society offers to its members and
friends has included lectures by
such authorities as Dr. Clyde Fisher,
Dr. Lewis A. Warren, Prof.
Dixon Ryan Fox, Mr. George B. Smith and
General Edward
Orton. The concluding lecture in the
course will be that of Ham-
lin Garland on the evening of April
30th, at which time the lit-
erary-historical-social features of this
Annual Meeting are to be
observed.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 527
Individual activities of an educational
nature by members of
the staff include numerous lectures and
addresses before schools
and organizations, and radio talks over
the University Broadcast-
ing Station. During the past autumn the
Director gave a series
of ten weekly radio talks covering the
entire subject of Prehistory,
while at present he is participating in
a radio symposium on Mass
Education.
The list of gifts to the Society is so
long that no attempt will
be made to enumerate them in this
report. The accessions for
the year number about 130 and the full
list will be presented in
an early issue of the Quarterly. Outstanding
among these are
the two fine habitat groups previously
mentioned; a fine old In-
dian birch-bark canoe presented by Mr.
Julius F. Stone, together
with the boat and camping outfit used by
Mr. Stone in his notable
trip through the Canyon of the Colorado;
a silver service and
other relics deposited by Albert G.
Giddings of Jefferson, Ohio;
a bronze Memorial Tablet to former
Senator Frank B. Willis by
Charles A. Jones and others of Senator
Willis' friends and
admirers.
The fact that the Museum is making
substantial progress is
evidenced by the greatly increased
number of visitors and by the
constant requests by educational,
patriotic and other organizations
for the use of the Museum auditorium.
The outstanding educational activity now
under way is the
preparation of 300 portable loan
collections, divided equally
among the subjects "The Mound
Builders," "Insects" and "Min-
erals." These will be ready for use
by the public schools of Ohio,
one for each county, beginning next
autumn. Samples of these
loan collections are on exhibition in
the room adjoining the
auditorium and it is hoped that members
of the Society will in-
spect them and make any suggestions
regarding their improve-
ment.
As regards the future activities of the
Society, it may be said
that in addition to what is now being
done, numerous projects,
long contemplated, will be developed in
the order of their impor-
tance and as rapidly as funds and
personnel are available. It
has been the aim of the director and his
staff to devise a long-
528 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
time program, through study of
conditions and methods utilized
by other organizations, and to
crystallize these in definite form
for presentation to the Legislature in
1933. Special emphasis is
being given the requirements of the
public and of tourists in the
matter of developing historical,
archaeological and other out-
door attractions, and to providing that
they may be properly
marked so that they may be readily
intelligible.
On motion of Mr. Hinkle, the report was
ordered printed
for distribution.
REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR
(Accessions are by gift unless
otherwise designated)
The following accessions to museum
collections have been
recorded since the last annual meeting
of the Society:
Robert B. Hutcheson, picture of Gen. Sir
Douglas Haig.
Obsolete copper tools, and burr-stone
dressers; purchase.
Mr. Weil, Mansfield, Ohio, unfinished
banner-stone.
Miss Rose Baker, Columbus, Ohio, bag of
gold dust.
Mrs. C. Fisher, Columbus, Ohio, Indian pottery;
loan.
Paul Baker, Columbus, Ohio, old
photograph.
Mr. Stephen Richards, Bexley, Ohio,
archaeological specimens.
Mr. Leon Thompson, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs.
Belle Miller, Spo-
kane, Washington; Mrs. Gail McDowell,
Findlay, Ohio;
Civil War relics.
Dept. of Agriculture, State of Ohio, two
paintings of race horses,
by E. Troye; loan.
Rev. S. R. Martin, Columbus, Ohio,
German machine-gun belt.
Mrs. William Rhoads, Columbus, Ohio, six
silver spoons.
Mrs. Mary Neiswender, Columbus, Ohio,
blue china plate.
Mr. Charles Jarvis, Columbus, Ohio,
aerial bomb.
Dr. Harvey Whitaker, Columbus, Ohio,
trunk with military uni-
forms, straw hats from Philippines, and
three pictures.
Archaeological specimens; purchase.
Mr. W. G. Wheaton, Columbus, Ohio;
Maynard rifle and reload-
ing tools.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 529
Miss Kate M. Litzenberg, Utica, Ohio,
brass candle snuffers.
Senator Simeon D. Fess, Washington, D.
C., United States flag.
Mr. Larry D. Bartlett, Fredericktown,
Ohio, archaeological and
historical specimens.
Mr. Fred Sharer, Columbus, Ohio, account
book, 1825, and pam-
phlet, 1811.
Mr. Julius F. Stone, Columbus, Ohio,
boat and camping outfit.
Col. John Edwards, Columbus, Ohio,
Spanish War relics.
Mr. W. Ross Teel, Indianapolis, Ind.,
correspondence of Elna-
than and Jay Cooke.
Mr. Herbert A. Hard, Columbus, Ohio, ox
yoke.
Mrs. K. H. McCloy, Columbus, Ohio,
picture of Battle of Stone
River.
Mr. L. Ridgeway, New York, Bible found
at Harper's Ferry,
1860.
Mr. F. A. Bellus, Columbus, Ohio, old
clock.
Mrs. T. C. Clark, Brilliant, Ohio,
archaeological collection of late
T. C. Clark.
Miss Ollie J. Baum, Bourneville, Ohio,
archaeological collection
of the late William Keran, and old
books.
Dr. Westfall, Coshocton, Ohio, sandstone
cone.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Watkins,
Blanchester, Ohio, china plate.
Prof. C. M. Garber, Aikiak, Alaska,
Eskimo material; loan.
Sheriff Gail Sesler, Lancaster, Ohio,
copper still 100 years old.
Mr. Clarence E. Baum, Duvall, Ohio, pad
for horse collar.
Mr. Grover Koons, Sarasota, Fla.,
travertine and photos.
Mrs. J. W. Potts, Columbus, Ohio, Civil
War relics.
Mrs. John Overly, Columbus, Ohio,
archaeological and historical
specimens.
Mr. Philip P. Bascom, Columbus, Ohio,
block matches.
Mr. D. D. Ketch, Plain City, Ohio,
photo.of old Court House.
Mr. J. A. Kight, Columbus, Ohio, World
War relics.
World War ribbons, purchase.
Mrs. Nora B. Turner, Columbus, Ohio,
archaeological specimens
and books of the late Frank S. Turner.
Mr. Mathilda Natho, Columbus, Ohio, two
samplers.
Surveyor's transit; purchase.
Vol. XL--34.
530 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Guilford College, N. C., quartz crystal.
Mr. John Starr, Berne, Ohio,
burr-stones.
Dr. C. E. Rice, Alliance, Ohio, board
from birthplace of John
Brown.
Mr. C. S. Westcott, Jr., White Cottage,
Ohio, sausage grinder;
loan.
Mrs. Lola Hunter, Columbus, Ohio, pillow
cover of featherwork.
Mrs. Jeanette S. Lohmann, Columbus,
Ohio, melodeon; loan.
Pennsylvania Railroad Co., patriotic
posters.
Mrs. H. V. Weil, New York, N. Y.,
historical specimens.
Miss Ollie J. Baum, Bourneville, Ohio,
old letters.
Miss Elizabeth U. Sullivant, Columbus,
Ohio, historical speci-
mens, maps, books, pictures, etc.
Mr. Carl C. Danford, Lewisville, Ohio,
ciphering book of Tilgh-
man Brashar; loan.
Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., archaeological
specimens from England
and France.
Archaeological specimens; purchase.
Miss Emma Jones, Columbus, Ohio,
Kilbourne letters.
Mr. J. W. Miles, Pittsburgh, Pa., two
wooden bowls.
Dr. Alexander, Newark, Ohio, historical
specimens.
Robert C. Frame, Ralph G. Young, Guy
Ellison, -- Smith, West
Union, Ohio, old letters, books, etc.
Mr. Calvin Sohl, Columbus, Ohio,
hardware bill of 1816.
Mr. Frank J. Soday, Dept. of Chemistry,
O. S. U., photos and
relics of penitentiary fire in Columbus.
Dr. C. C. Pheanais, Versailles, Ohio,
minerals.
Mrs. Fred A. Williams, Ashtabula, Ohio,
letters, diaries, etc., of
the late Joshua R. Giddings.
Mr. W. E. Miller, Columbus, Ohio, Civil
War relics.
Mr. Albert G. Giddings, Jefferson, Ohio,
silver service, chair, etc.
of the late Joshua R. Giddings; loan.
Mrs. Lucy H. Washburn, Columbus, Ohio,
fossil fern.
Prof. Roderick Peattie, Dept. of
Geography, O. S. U., specimen
of barite.
Archaeological specimens; purchase.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 531
Mrs. Joseph O. Gregg, Columbus, Ohio,
sword, picture, papers,
and fossil fish.
Miss Olive F. McKim, Parkersburg, W.
Va., doll and book.
Mr. Rodney Gragg, Bainbridge, Ohio, old
account book.
Mr. Robert E. Lanich, Columbus, Ohio,
sword bayonet.
Dr. Emerson F. Greenman, Columbus, Ohio,
Algonkian Indian
head-dress.
Mr. James W. McLaughlin, Newark, Ohio,
safe destroyed by
Morgan's raiders.
Mrs. Foster Tyler, Alexandria, Ohio, two
lamp chimneys.
Miss Sarah Williams, Circleville, Ohio,
doll of 90 years ago.
Mr. M. S. Brown, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
the Symmes E. Brown
collection of books.
Capt. J. R. Benjamin, Columbus, Ohio,
World War insignia; loan.
Mr. Eli Gabriel, Columbus, Ohio, Chinese
opium outfit, and pipe
made by soldier of Civil war.
Mr. Harry R. McPherson, Columbus, Ohio,
Darke County rec-
ord books.
Dr. Harlow Lindley, Columbus, Ohio,
wooden butter mould.
Mr. Homer Zimmerman, Sugar Creek, Ohio,
glass flask.
Miss Bertha Eisenbeis, Columbus, Ohio,
valentine of 1830.
Mr. J. Russell Hayes, Swarthmore, Pa., 170 Quaker books.
Robert M. Miller, Columbus, Ohio, gas
mask.
The Hastings Museum, Hastings, Neb.,
archaeological specimens.
Mr. Hugh Hardy, Columbus, Ohio, stone
mortar and pestle.
Mr. George W. Gehman, Bethlehem, Pa.,
minerals; in exchange.
Prof. W. McPherson, 0. S. U., bill of
sale of slave, 1856.
Mr. C. H. Murphy, Columbus, Ohio,
Alaskan canoe, sled, har-
poons, etc., in miniature.
Dr. Frank Warner, Columbus, Ohio, great
barred owl.
Mr. H. F. Pancake, Columbus, Ohio,
specimen of barite.
Mr. D. E. Puckett, Columbus, Ohio, Civil
war sword.
Mr. Alfred H. Leaman, Columbus, Ohio,
lead pipe from Pompeii.
Mr. Robert E. Gardner, Columbus, Ohio,
books on military tac-
tics.
Cherokee Ochre Company, Cartersville,
Ga., barite.
532 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Johns-Manville Corporation, Cleveland,
Ohio, asbestos, and ex-
hibit of asbestos products.
Buckeye Steel Castings Company,
Columbus, Ohio, iron ore.
American Rolling Mills Company, iron
ore.
Mr. Dudley Fisher, Sr., Columbus, Ohio,
photos of Columbus
Cadets.
Mr. George W. Gehman, Bethlehem, Pa.,
asbestos; exchange.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Great
Falls, Mont., copper
ore.
Miss Josephine Klippart, Columbus, Ohio,
sofa and chair.
Mr. Charles Snyder, Columbus, Ohio,
mammoth tooth.
American Gypsum Company, Port Clinton,
Ohio, gypsum.
Dr. B. H. Moffatt, Shelby, Ohio,
archaeological specimens.
Mr. W. C. Fisher, Shelby, Ohio, two
grooved axes.
Mr. C. J. Laser, Shelby, Ohio, minerals.
Eagle-Picher Lead Company, Chicago,
Ill., lead and zinc ore.
Mr. David S. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio,
Civil War envelopes.
Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, Ajo,
Ariz., copper ore.
Mr. T. J. Andrews, Newark, Ohio, and
Mrs. M. J. Lewis, New-
ark, Ohio, historical specimens.
Mr. Bernard S. Mason, Dept. of
Sociology, O. S. U., Indian
drum; loan.
Mr. Albert C. Spetnagel, Chillicothe,
Ohio, calcite crystal.
Donald Dell, Columbus, Ohio, Betty lamp.
Mr. H. Dale Kuhn, Shelby, Ohio, four
stone pipes.
The United States Graphite Company,
Saginaw, Mich., graphite.
The Grasselli Chemical Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, sulphur.
Mr. Edward A. Day, Columbus, Ohio,
poster of 1865.
Mr. William J. Nonnenmacher, Columbus,
Ohio, collection of
watches and watchmakers' obsolete tools.
Mr. Byron Blake, Columbus, Ohio, Civil
War musket.
Mr. W. G. Pengelly, Columbus, Ohio,
three land grants.
Mr. H. P. Leiendecker, Groveport, Ohio,
antique watch.
Mr. A. D. Sproat, Chillicothe, Ohio,
minerals.
Mr. Laurence B. Webster, Columbus, Ohio,
archaeological speci-
mens.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 533
Mr. Julius F. Stone, Columbus, Ohio,
habitat group Rocky
Mountain sheep.
Mr. William Rindsfoos, Columbus, Ohio,
habitat group Alaskan
grizzly bear.
Remarks were then made in regard to the
proposed
new constitution for the Society by the
President, Mr.
Hinkle and Mr. Harrop.
The Secretary called attention to the
fact that there
were three vacancies to be filled on
the Board of Trus-
tes. Mr. Goodman nominated for the
three vacancies
Mr. Arthur C. Johnson, General George
Florence and
Mr. Oscar F. Miller. On motion of Mr.
Bareis the
rules were suspended and the Secretary
instructed to
cast the vote of the society for these
three members. The
motion was unanimously carried and the
Secretary cast
the unanimous vote of the Society for
the three members
nominated.
Remarks were then made, bearing
appreciative tes-
timony to the life and character of
Edwin F. Wood who
had recently passed away.
Somewhat extended remarks were made by
Mr.
Hinkle on the proposed new constitution
though none of
its provisions were read.
Mr. Shetrone gave reasons for the
change of the
name of the Society from the Ohio State
Archaeological
and Historical Society to the Ohio
State Historical So-
ciety.
On motion of Mr. Hinkle, seconded by
Mr. Pengelly,
the following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED: That the Articles of
Incorporation of The
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society be and the same
are amended so that its corporate name be changed from
The
534 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society to The Ohio
State Historical Society.
President Johnson suggested the
following resolu-
tion:
WHEREAS, The Ohio State University is
seeking author-
ity and funds from the General Assembly
for enlarging and im-
proving the institution's broadcasting station WEAO,
and in
view of the further fact that this station has proven
of ines-
timable value to this Society in furthering its
educational pro-
gram throughout the State, and since
manifestly the broadcasting
station of a state university should be
second to none in efficiency,
therefore,
Be it resolved, that the Ohio State Archaeological and His-
torical Society which was, now the Ohio State
Historical Society,
its officers, trustees and members in
annual meeting assembled this
26th day of March, 1931, does hereby
approve and endorse the
efforts of the Ohio State University in
its effort to provide ade-
quate radio facilities for tendering its
educational services to the
people of Ohio.
Mr. Edward S. Thomas moved the adoption
of the
resolution. His motion was seconded and
unanimously
carried.
At this point Secretary Galbreath drew
attention to
the fact that the Secretary's report
required by the con-
stitution had not been read. The
President stated that he
had overlooked this and called upon the
Secretary to
read his annual report.
The Secretary read his annual report as
follows:
REPORT OF SECRETARY
For the Year Ending March 26, 1931.
The last Annual Meeting of the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society was held in this
room on March 29, 1930.
Our present meeting is held just three
days earlier in the year,
1931. When we adjourn today both will
have been held strictly
within the requirements of the
constitution, which provides that
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 535
the Annual Meeting should be held within
ninety days after
December 31.
It is the duty of the Secretary to keep
the minutes and rec-
ords of the Society and attend the
meetings of the various
standing committees of the Board of
Trustees. These duties
within the past year have not been
arduous.
There was only one meeting of the Board
of Trustees. This
was held at the call of President
Johnson, in his office, June 9,
1930. He stated that the object of the
meeting was to consider
the purchase of the Squier and Davis
collection of Ohio pre-
historic material now in the Blackmore
Museum in Salisbury,
England. He presented communications
received from General
Edward Orton, Jr., then in Europe,
stating that the collection
could be purchased for the approximate
sum of $7,500. The
Board unanimously agreed to a motion by
Mr. Hinkle authoriz-
ing General Orton to expend not to
exceed $8,000 for the col-
lection. On motion of Mr. Wood, the
Treasurer of the Society
was authorized on behalf of the Society
to borrow this sum for
the purchase of the collection. The
action of the Board of Trus-
tees was cabled to General Orton. It was
learned later, however,
that the purchase could not be
negotiated.
There is no committee of the Board of
Trustees that has
held a meeting within the last year.
The second duty of the Secretary is to
"edit all publications
of the Society." This is a large
opportunity with a corresponding
responsibility. The appropriation made
for the legislative bien-
nium proved sufficient for the issue of
the Quarterly and a num-
ber of reprints from the same. An
unusually large number of
copies of the Museum Echoes have
been circulated and some other
printed matter has been prepared and
distributed designed to
promote the work of the Foundation
Department. In addition
to this there has been inaugurated the
publication of a series en-
titled, Ohio Historical Collections. The
first volume has been
issued in bound form and is here for
inspection. The Secretary
plans that at least two other volumes of
the series shall be issued
within the present year. In connection
with this arrangement it
may not be improper to explain a little
more fully the inaugura-
tion of this work.
536 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
For some time there has been manifest a
desire of the His-
tory Departments of the Colleges and
Universities of the state to
cooperate in writing a critical history
of Ohio. It was thought
best to publish this in the form of a
series of monographs, each
covering a certain phase or period of
that history.
In Museum Echoes for July-August, 1930, the following
news item appeared under the caption
COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION
Pursuant to the action taken at the Ohio
History Conference held
February 7, 1930, President Arthur C.
Johnson appointed the following
Committee on Cooperation:
Prof. Carl Wittke, Ohio State
University.
Prof. W. T. Utter, Denison University.
Prof. B. W. Bond, University of
Cincinnati.
Mr. Wm. A. Duff, Ashland Co. Historical
Society.
Prof. E. J. Benton, Western Reserve
Historical Society.
Mr. O. G. Rust, Clark Co. Historical
Society.
Dr. Harlow Lindley, Ohio State Arch. and
Historical Society.
Dr. Harlow Lindley called a meeting of
this committee for 10 o'clock,
July 12th. The entire committee was
present. Mr. Iowa D. Smith, Su-
pervisor of Foundation and Endowment,
was also in attendance.
Dr. Lindley opened the meeting and was
elected chairman. Dr. Utter
was elected secretary. After
introductory remarks by Dr. Lindley, the fol-
lowing basis of discussion was
suggested:
A. That a check-list of Ohio newspapers
should be prepared.
B. That a calendar of manuscript
material bearing on Ohio history
in libraries outside the state is
urgently needed.
C. That a program of photostating such
materials might well be con-
templated.
D. With regard to the publications of
the Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Society.
1. A closer contact with local centers
of historical writing, not-
ably the departments of history in the
various colleges and
universities, would enrich the content
of the Quarterly.
2. That the publication of a historical
series, comparable to that
of the State Historical Society of Iowa,
might well be con-
templated.
In the discussion that followed these
points were endorsed
and emphasized:
1. Importance of increasing the public
interest in local his-
torical societies.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 537
2. The preparation and publication of a
check-list of Ohio
newspapers also.
3. The preparation and publication of a
calendar of unpub-
lished manuscripts bearing on Ohio
history in libraries outside of
the state.
4. The preparation by Ohio libraries of
their manuscript
sources of Ohio history.
5. The preparation of a
Sesqui-Centennial history of Ohio.
Your Secretary was not present at this
meeting but he was
an interested reader of the proceedings.
Upon a careful survey
of the proposals, he concluded that the
program could not be
carried out in the current Society year.
Such, of course, was
not the intention of the Committee on
Cooperation. They doubt-
less had in view a comprehensive program
covering a number of
years. Your Secretary has been striving
to accomplish one thing
at a time outside of his regular routine
duties. A few years ago
a friend said, "Well, now, you have
made a pretty good showing
in the newspaper line, why not take up
something else?" Well,
the Secretary was not through with that
work and he is still at it.
When the Secretary looked over the
program of the Com-
mittee on Cooperation he concluded that
there was one thing that
we might begin at once. That was the
publication of a series of
monographs on Ohio History. At his
request a meeting of the
Committee on Cooperation was called for
November 1, 1930. A
statement of the proceedings of that
meeting is found in Museum
Echoes for November. The opening paragraph related to the
publication of this series and is here
quoted:
The Committee on Cooperation
representing the Ohio State Archae-
ological and Historical Society, the
local historical societies of the state
and the colleges and universities met
Saturday, November 1, and approved a
plan presented by Secretary C. B.
Galbreath for the immediate publication
of the first volume of a regular series
of historical collections relating to the
history of Ohio. Following the
suggestion of Mr. Galbreath, an editorial
committee was appointed consisting of
Mr. Galbreath, Dr. Carl Wittke and
Dr. Wm. T. Utter.
It is at present planned to issue three
volumes within the
year. The second volume has been printed
and is in the hands
of the State binder.
538 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
In addition to this series another
publication, biographical
and literary in character, has been
printed and is now passing
through the binder's hands. The title of
this book is An Inter-
pretation of the Poetry and Life of
Coates Kinney by Miss Deb-
ora M. MacNeilan. This is the most
extended biography of a poet
that has been published by the Society.
It is well written and it
is believed that it will prove
sufficiently interesting to encourage
other contributions of this character.
The reprints from the Quarterly outside
of the series already
mentioned, include the following titles:
The Negro in Early Ohio, by Charles Ray Wilson.
Americans Before Columbus, by Gerard Fowke.
Ohio's Monument to General Anthony
Wayne Unveiled.
It will, therefore, be seen that the
output of printing within
the past year by the Society has been
commendably large.
For the years in the immediate future
the Society will con-
tinue to be dependent largely upon State
appropriations for its
printing. In view of this fact it is the
opinion of your Secretary
that the Quarterly and the Museum
Echoes should be furnished
free to all the public libraries of the
State as they are issued.
There are in Ohio about 200 public
libraries to which these pub-
lications should go. The County
Superintendents of Schools, by
action of the Society, have already been
placed on the member-
ship list free of charge. The same
courtesy should be extended
to the University, College and Public
Libraries of the State and
they should be encouraged to keep a full
file of the publications
continually accessible to their patrons.
Years ago partial files of our
publications were distributed
through members of the General Assembly.
These occasionally
got into private libraries and there has
been a somewhat frequent
demand for books to complete these sets.
Of course the Society
could not undertake to do this and the
State should not under-
take to furnish these volumes free upon
request of individual cit-
izens. However, it could very properly
reprint from the plates
these publications and distribute them
generally to citizens of the
State at the actual cost of publishing.
This would not be in
excess of $1.00 a volume and many
citizens of the State would
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 539
probably purchase these volumes at that
price, if they had the
opportunity to do so. It is suggested
that two years hence a re-
quest should be made for the
republication of the volumes to be
distributed at cost to those desiring to
purchase.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY
Within the past year progress has been
made in additions to
the library. Books and bound pamphlets
to the number of 882
have been accessioned since the last
report. As stated, one year
ago, many of these are from the private
library of the late Wil-
liam C. Mills. Among the interesting
genealogical items that have
been added are a number of volumes from
the library of the late
Mr. Farrand Felch. Mrs. Felch presented
his entire library to
the Society, numbering 872 volumes.
These have not yet been
accessioned but they are in one of the
new vaults and the volumes
of genealogy have been conveniently
placed for reference use.
There are also unaccessioned and ready
for addition to the
library from the Dawson collection, 274
volumes; a general col-
lection of books, 921 volumes; bound
pamphlets, 1,663; making
a total unaccessioned of 3,730 volumes
and bound pamphlets.
At the last Annual Meeting the Secretary
in announcing the
large number of newspaper volumes added
within the previous
year, stated that it was not probable
that so many volumes could
be added this year. Eight hundred
volumes were mentioned as
the assured increase for the year that
ends today. By actual count,
however, 2,198 volumes have been added. The
total number of
volumes of newspapers in the library at
the close of the previous
year was 18,617. The additions for the
year that ends today
bring the total number of volumes now in
the library up to 20,815.
This is much larger than anticipated one
year ago.
As previously stated, the Committee on
Cooperation at its
meeting favored the preparation and
publication of a check-list
of newspapers in the libraries of the
State. At some time in the
near future such a work may be
undertaken. It will not be diffi-
cult with the data at hand for the
library of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society to
prepare its check-list.
But while newspapers continue to come
into that department at
540 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
the rate of over 2,000 volumes a
year, it probably would not be
wise to publish such check-list. Later,
when the State has been
pretty thoroughly covered and the
available sources of additions
have become, in a measure, exhausted,
the published list, of
course, should be undertaken.
Mr. Simpson, the assistant in charge of
the newspaper room,
has furnished the following information
in regard to these addi-
tions:
There are 555 volumes transferred here
from the various
courthouses, where they had been
accumulating since the law of
1850 was enacted; 464 volumes have been
contributed by news-
paper publishers; 118 volumes were sent
by other libraries; 372
volumes came by current daily mail; 510 volumes came
from the
Ohio State University library; 36
volumes of Columbus dailies
were delivered by carriers; and 143
volumes were from miscel-
laneous sources, mostly gifts.
Among the papers received during the
year the following
may be mentioned as of unusual value for
reference purposes:
Lancaster.
Gazette. Complete 1826-1833, 3 volumes. Same incomplete 1834-
1844. 1 volume. Same complete--March,
1860.
Lancaster.
Ohio Eagle, March 1858-March, 1860.
McArthur.
McArthur Republican. April 13,
1850 (vol. 1, No. 1) to August
19, 1852.
New Lisbon.
Buckeye State. 1860-1872. 4 volumes.
Ripley.
Ripley Bee. 1850-1852.
Warren.
Trump of Fame. Numbers 1-28 of volume 1. June-December, 1812.
Ohio Miscellaneous Papers.
1 volume including dates from 1811 to
1854.
Ohio Miscellaneous papers. 1 volume
including papers from 1800-1865.
London, England.
Times. June 22, 1815. This issue contains the first published
news of the battle of Waterloo.
Manila, Philippine Islands.
A volume containing copies of newspapers
published in Manila
during and immediately after the
Spanish-American War.
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 541
In the gathering of newspapers and
especially a number of
the rare volumes, credit is here given
to the Business Agent of the
Society, Mr. H. R. McPherson, whose
duties call him to the
various properties of the Society in
different parts of the State
and who has found it possible to look up
newspapers and rare old
volumes relating to the early history of
the State. His interest
in this work has been continuous and is
appreciated by your Sec-
retary and Librarian.
This occasion must not pass without a
fuller expression than
has yet been accorded to Mr. Harold G.
Simpson for the splendid
work that he has done in building up the
newspaper collection of
the library. From the inception of this
work to the present time
he has been the "right arm" of
the librarian in faithfully and effi-
ciently planning and administering this
important work. He has
at his desk, as well as designated on
the volumes themselves, the
period that each volume covers and can
furnish this information
promptly to the patron. The work that he
has done to make
these papers accessible indicates to
anyone who will make inquiry
in regard to details, the expenditure of
patient and long sustain-
ing energy and never-flagging industry.
He knows his job, enjoys
it and pursues it with genuine
enthusiasm.
He finds time also to do some important
work not imme-
diately related to the newspaper
collection, in shelving and listing
duplicates. This has proven a helpful
service. At present he is
industriously engaged, while serving
patrons of the newspaper
department in the library, in indexing
and placing in the new cases
provided for them, about 4,000 halftones
and etchings. Most of
these cuts bear on them no indication of
what they are intended
to represent. The identification of the
cuts and the supply of
proper titles is a work of considerable
magnitude. Some of them
when the work is concluded will perhaps
remain unidentified. In
some instances cuts outside of those
used in the publications of
the Society have become a part of the
collection and this increases
the difficulty of identification. But
the great body of these, of
course, are identified, properly named,
labeled and indexed so that
they will be just as readily accessible
as the newspaper volumes.
This will place within easy reach of the
Society, a large collection
of illustrative material.
542 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Mr. Simpson has had three able
assistants, physically strong
and industrious, who have done much of
the heavy work involved
in moving the newspaper files and
keeping them in order, with
no expense to the Society except that in
furnishing to each of
these workers one meal a day. He has
gotten along harmoniously
and pleasantly with these assistants and
from this source has suc-
ceeded in getting a service that would
have cost the Society thou-
sands of dollars.
And right here permit us to say, thanks
for this service are
due to Warden P. E. Thomas. He has
certainly sent us the best
of his men whose generous response to
every word and act of
fairness and kindness has been most
gratifying.
Your Secretary could not let this
opportunity pass to pay
this modest tribute to the valuable
service of Mr. Simpson, and
his whole-hearted interest in the work.
Something must be said also in
appreciation of the service
of the cataloguer, Miss Alice S. Davis.
Not only has she been
diligent in the work but she has
conducted much important genea-
logical research, the results of which
have greatly pleased many
of the patrons of the library. Her
equipment for this work is of
a high order. She is also an excellent
proof-reader and your
secretary is dependent upon her
assistance in the publications of
our Society, including the indexing of
all the annual volumes of
the Quarterly.
Many of the books in the library of Dr.
William C. Mills
were duplicates of those already in the
Library. His daughter,
Miss Helen Mills, before her present
illness, prepared and sent
through the mails to other libraries a
list of about three hundred
of these duplicates with a letter
soliciting an exchange. As a re-
sult, a number of books needed here were
added to the Library.
Among those received was one volume
priced by the publisher at
$50.00. This was one of the very rare
issues of Western Travels,
edited by Thwaites, which fills a break
in our set.
RARE MANUSCRIPTS ADDED
Some notable additions have been made to
the manuscript
department within the past year.
Especially notable are the fol-
lowing:
Report of the Forty-fifth Annual
Meeting 543
Joshua R. Giddings Collection
1. From Mrs. Fred A. Williams, of
Ashtabula, Ohio, a gift has been
received of five volumes of mounted
letters; 1 file of miscellaneous
letters; 1 package of annotated letters.
Two volumes of Diary 1838-1839,
1848-1849 and one congressional
album. These are all manuscript letters
and papers of Joshua R.
Giddings and constitute the only
important collection of Giddings
papers in existence.
2. A loan by Albert G. Giddings of
Jefferson, Osio, of seven scrap-
books collected by Joshua R. Giddings.
These added to a similar
scrap-book already in the library, throw
much light on the issues
and activities to which Joshua R.
Giddings devoted his energies
through his remarkably active career.
3. Loaned by Albert G. Giddings of
Jefferson, Ohio. One silver serv-
ice and glass case for same; 3 souvenir
canes, 2 oil paintings of
Joshua R. Giddings; 1 plaster bust of
Joshua R. Giddings by J. Q.
A. Ward; 1 congressional chair; 1
parchment roll in metal case,
appreciative of his services as consul
to Montreal, Canada.
These valuable Giddings items were
secured through the
service of Prof. Harlow Lindley, through
whose efforts were
procured also a complete set of the
printed minutes of the Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1821-1923,
including a large member-
ship from Ohio.
From the Collection of Dr. Charles E.
Rice
Your Secretary for a number of years has
been personally
acquainted with Dr. Charles E. Rice, a
manuscript collector,
writer and traveler, of Alliance, Ohio.
While an enthusiast in
collecting manuscripts for the past
forty years, Dr. Rice has been
indifferent to fame and has not
advertised the large results of his
labors which include the bringing
together of interesting Ohio
materials. It was through your Secretary
that Governor James
E. Campbell and Dr. Rice were brought
into pleasant correspond-
ence which resulted in substantial
additions to the Campbell col-
lection, which some of his heirs wished
to transfer to this Society.
Less than a year ago, Dr. Rice intimated
to me that he was
thinking of distributing his large
collection. After some corre-
spondence he proposed at a very
reasonable price to transfer a
portion of these to our Library. The
result was that five volumes
of these are now the property of the
library of the Society. All
544 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
of these are properly designated as
strictly Ohio material. They
are as follows:
1. Letters and signatures of all the
members of the Ohio Constitu-
tional Convention of 1802. This
collection contains autograph let-
ters from all the members of that
Convention except three. The
signatures of these three are included
with documents that they
signed. There are biographical sketches
of each of the members;
photographs from paintings of fifteen of
the thirty-five; and letters
to the collector, chiefly from
descendants of the members, attesting
the genuineness of many of the
manuscripts and their sources.
2. Autograph letters, portraits of the
members of the Supreme Court
of Ohio and the Northwest Territory from
1787 to 1851, when the
new Constitution went into effect.
3. Autograph letters, portraits and
biographical sketches of all the
members of the Supreme Court of Ohio
from 1851 to 1913.
4. Autograph letters, portraits and
biographical sketches of all the
governors of the State.
5. Autograph letters and biographical
sketches of all the United States
Senators from Ohio and portraits of
almost all of them.
Soon after the arrival of these, seven
additional volumes were
acquired, all carefully mounted.
6-12. Autograph letters with signature
of persons prominent officially
or otherwise in the different periods of
Ohio History.
These twelve incomparable volumes of
autograph letters
rank especially high in the manuscript
collection of the Society.
The statement may be added here, that
Dr. Rice who, the past
winter has been making another journey
around the world, inti-
mated before he left that he was
considering the transfer of his
large collection of autograph letters
from prominent literary men
and women of the United States as a free
gift to the library of
this Society.
Journal of the Northwest Territory
Presented by John H. James
The most notable addition to the
manuscript department
within the year and the one that has
received the widest publicity
is the Executive Journal of the
Northwest Territory. An accu-
rate statement of the scope and
character of this unique contribu-
tion from the library of Mr. John H.
James of Urbana, Ohio,
was published in Museum Echoes for
February, 1931, and a copy
Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual
Meeting 545
from that statement is here included for
permanent record in the
Minutes of the Society. It reads as
follows:
For years an effort has been made to
complete the official record of the
Northwest Territory. In this volume
which has been preserved by the
James family the record is absolutely
complete. The first entry bears the
date of July 9, 1788, the day on which
Winthrop Sargent arrived at Fort
Harmar. The first important record noted
by the Secretary is the speech
made by Governor Arthur St. Clair on the
15th day of that month. This
is given in full.
The dates following, record the
important transactions of the govern-
ment through the entire succeeding
period to the 15th day of January, 1803.
The last record enumerates appointments
that were made on this date.
It was customary, as evidenced in this
record, at stated periods to
make a transcript of the record and
forward it to Washington, D. C. On one
of the pages we have this notation:
Copy of this journal to the first day of
January, 1795
has been transmitted to the President of
the United States.
Another instance near the close of the
record bears testimony to the
fact that this order had been maintained
throughout the period. It reads
as follows:
The Secretary transmitted to the
Department of State a
copy of the official proceedings of the
governors of the
Territory from the 16th of October 1799
to the 1st of
July, 1800.
It was, therefore, thought that a
complete record of the proceedings
had been filed in Washington.
Unfortunately, however, about half of that
record disappeared years ago.
When William Henry Smith was editing the
St. Clair papers for pub-
lication, he employed a clerk in
Washington to make a copy of the record
of the proceedings of the Northwest
Territory. This copy was attested on
the 10th day of June 1873, by Hamilton
Fish, Secretary of State. At the
conclusion of this copied report appears
this significant statement:
No records of the government of the
territory northwest
of the Ohio are found in the Department
of State of the
United States of a date subsequent to
June 1795.
Through all these years research workers
have looked in vain for the
record subsequent to June 1795. In this
volume, which has now been brought
to light, the complete record is found.
It is remarkably well preserved and
every word is perfectly legible.
As students of early Ohio history know,
there were three men who held
the office of Secretary of the Northwest
Territory. The first of these was
Vol. XL--35.
546 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Winthrop Sargent, a soldier of the
Revolution, with an excellent military
record, a graduate of Yale college. The
Sargent family was eminent in
the colonial history of America and has
fully sustained that eminence
through succeeding generations. Winthrop
Sargent was Secretary of the
Northwest Territory from July 9, 1788,
to May 31, 1798, when he resigned
to become Governor of the Mississippi
Territory.
On the 28th of June, 1798, the President
of the United States appointed
William Henry Harrison, Secretary of the
Northwest Territory. His record
in this old volume begins with that date
and continues until October 1, 1799.
This is the last date in the record of
Harrison, though he probably continued
in office until the appointment of his
successor.
The record kept by Harrison's successor
contains the following as its
first item:
The executive of the United States on
the 31st day of
December in the year 1799 appointed
Charles Willing Byrd
secretary of, in, to, and for the
Territory of the United
States northwest of the River Ohio.
When Ohio was admitted into the Union,
Charles Willing Byrd be-
came the first judge of the federal
district of Ohio.
The foregoing is a brief description of
this old record. Illustrative of
the use which has already been made of
it is a request from a member of
the Supreme Court of Michigan for a list
of officers appointed by the gov-
ernors of the Northwest Territory for
the county of Wayne, which in-
cluded Michigan before it became a part
of Indiana Territory. The names
of the officers which he wished to get
were included between the years 1776
and 1800. They were in the portion of
the record that had been missing for
perhaps over a hundred years. The
reference librarian in the Museum and
Library Building has copied about two
hundred names to send in response
to this request. They could not have been
found in any other record.
It will be noticed that we have used the
term "governors of the North-
west Territory." In the absence of
the governor, the secretary of the Ter-
ritory acted as governor. A large
proportion of Winthrop Sargent's service
was in the position of acting governor
in the absence of St. Clair. Harrison
and Byrd also at times acted in this
capacity.
Prominent mention of the discovery of
this item and its
transfer to the Society was made in the
Columbus Evening Dis-
patch of January 22, 1931, and the news was promptly carried
to
all parts of the United States. Within a
few days after this pub-
lication, clippings of telegraphic
reports of varied length were re-
ceived from papers published on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts
and from the Lakes to the Gulf. More
recently proposals to
Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual
Meeting 547
publish this record complete have come
to the Secretary from
reputable publishing houses.
The special value of this item lies in
the fact that until it was
found there was no record anywhere of
the proceedings of the
Northwest Territory from June 20, 1795 to March
1, 1803. It is
now possible to complete the record.
There has been in the
library here a copy of the record up to
and including June 20,
1795.
The Secretary plans to have the remainder
of the record
typewritten in the very near future and
added to the record pre-
viously in the library. This will make
two complete copies that
will be in safe-keeping until the
Executive Journal of the Terri-
tory Northwest of the Ohio River is
available in printed form.
This Journal covers 535 pages of legible
written manuscript,
the major portion of which is in the
handwriting of Winthrop
Sargent. With the 1,070 Sargent
manuscripts that were pre-
viously in the possession of the library
through the kindness of
Winthrop Sargent VI of Philadelphia, the
collection of letters
and documents relating to the early
history of the Northwest Ter-
ritory now in the possession of the
library is unsurpassed in im-
portance. The St. Clair Papers, edited
and published years ago
by the State, have been available for
years, but the Sargent
Papers, equally important, were not
available until collected by
this Society.
The Executive Journal of the Northwest
Territory is the
first volume of a number of journals now
in the possession of
the library. There is here also the
first volume of the Executive
Journals of the Governors of the State.
All of these in time
should be published. They include the
record from day to day
of the executive departments from the
beginning of constitutional
government in Marietta from the year
1788 down to the present
time. All official appointments,
including militia and civil officers,
all proclamations and other executive
details of interest are
recorded therein. The genealogists and
the historians may find
in these records items of interest and
importance.
I congratulate this Society on becoming
the custodian of these
valuable original source materials with
an ever widening prospect
of valuable additions to the same.
548 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
The law creating the Ohio Revolutionary
Memorial Commis-
sion made the Director and the Secretary
members of that com-
mission. The latter was made also
secretary of that commission.
He kept the minutes of some of the
earlier and the later meetings
of that commission. He passed final
judgment on the text of the
seventy-three major markers erected in
the western part of the
State. This sometimes was not an easy
job, especially when there
were local disputes in regard to the
historical facts and the spell-
ing of names. However, the work was
satisfactorily concluded
after a somewhat voluminous
correspondence which is on file
here and eloquently attests the fact
that while there was but one
meeting of our Board of Trustees, the
pen of your Secretary has
been kept rather warm within the past
year.
It becomes our sad duty to record the
decease of a member
of the staff of the Society, Prof. James
S. Hine, who passed away
after a very brief illness, December 22, 1930; and the
very recent
death of Edwin F. Wood, our worthy and
faithful Treasurer and
for forty years a trustee of the
Society. These two friends and
co-workers are sadly missed and long the
vacancies that they left
behind will be felt in this Society.
In concluding this report I wish to
thank the members of
the Board of Trustees for kindly counsel
and assistance, the
patrons of the library for words and
letters of appreciation, and
the assistants in my department without
exception, from the as-
sistant librarian, the cataloger and the
librarian of the newspaper
department, to the student help for
faithful and efficient service
and kindly cooperation in all the work
that comes to the Secretary
and Librarian of this Society.
On motion of Mr. Hinkle the meeting
adjourned until
April 30 to consider whatever business
may come up on
that day.
REPORT OF
THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL
MEETING OF
THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEO-
LOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
HELD IN THE
MUSEUM AND LI-
BRARY
BUILDING OF THE SO-
CIETY MARCH
26, 1931.
The Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical Society
met in
annual meeting March 26, 1931, at 10 o'clock
a. m. in the
auditorium of the Museum and Library
Building.
On motion of
the Secretary, Mr. Arthur C. John-
son,
President of the Society, was chosen President of
the meeting.
The minutes
of the previous meeting having been
published,
the reading of the same was dispensed with.
Mr. Oscar F.
Miller read the Treasurer's report for
the last
fiscal year as follows:
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE TREASURER
For the
Year Ending December 31, 1930
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand
January 1st, 1930:--
Current Funds ................. $3,431.19
Endowment and
Foundation Funds 5,175.00
Battlefield
of Fallen Timbers Sub-
scription
Fund ................ 1,745.62
$10,351.81
Life
Membership Dues ........................ 695.00
Sustaining
Members' Dues....................... 80.00
Active
Membership Dues ...................... 646.50
(517)