REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Forenoon Session--10 A. M.
In the absence of the president and
first vice-president, the
Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society was called to order
by its second vice-president,
Wilber Stout, on April 21, 1936, in the
auditorium of the Museum.
The attendance at this session was
smaller than usual, but was
quite representative.
The presiding officer called for the
report of the secretary
which follows:
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
APRIL 23, 1935--APRIL 21, 1936
To the trustees and members of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society:
The secretary makes the following report
for the year ending April
20, 1936.
Secretarial Duties.
Since the last Annual Meeting of the
Society, the Board of Trustees
have held three regular meetings, one
call meeting and one adjourned
meeting.
The July meeting was devoted largely to
a consideration of the
Society's budget for 1935 and 1936.
Due to the fact that a quorum was not
available for the regular
October meeting, one was called for
November. Upon the recommendation
of the secretary, a definite policy for
the distribution of the publications
of the Society was adopted as follows:
1. That a copy of each quarterly and
monthly periodical be given to
each life and annual member of the
Society.
2. That a copy of each of these
publications be sent to each officially
recognized public library in the State,
and to each approved college and
university library in the State.
3. That a copy of each publication be
furnished some approved in-
stitution in each county where there is no
public or college or university
library, provided such an approved
institution is available.
4. That provision be made for exchange
with similar historical or-
ganizations in other states.
5. That a limited distribution be made
for reviews and publicity
purposes.
6. That copies of Museum Echoes be
available to the public, upon
request, in so far as such copies are
available.
7. That the Collection series,
published at State expense, be distrib-
uted on basis of Recommendations 2-5
above.
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8. That all remainders of periodical
publications, Collections, and
special publications be available at a
regularly established sale price.
At this meeting an Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees,
consisting of five members, was created,
this Committee to act in an advis-
sory capacity, with the director and
secretary, subject to the approval of
the Board.
At the January meeting of the Board, Dr.
George W. Rightmire pre-
sented a memorial tribute to the late
Lowry F. Sater, which was accepted,
and it was ordered that a copy be sent
to the family and that a copy be
placed on record in the Minutes of the
Society.
The Board also approved a resolution
endorsing the movement being
directed by the Greenville Treaty
Memorial Association to secure a National
Memorial at Greenville, Ohio, in honor
of General Anthony Wayne and
the Treaty of 1795.
At an adjournment meeting held April 9
two matters of major im-
portance were considered. The first of
these was a consideration of a propo-
sition to accept an offer to establish a
State historical monument and
museum at Zoar, Ohio. Final action was
deferred in order to give time
for securing further data.
The other matter considered was a
retirement policy for members
of the staff of the Society. The Board unanimously approved a policy
providing for the automatic retirement
of staff members, after October 1,
1936, on the first day of May following
their seventieth birthday.
The terms of Beman G. Dawes, Oscar F.
Miller and Mrs. O. D.
Dryer, as trustees elected by the
Society's members, expire this year.
During the year the secretary has
attended meetings of the Mississippi
Valley Historical Association, the
American Historical Association, and
the Annual Conference of State and Local
Historical Societies, without
expense to the Society. He has addressed
twenty-eight public meetings of
various kinds since the last Annual
Meeting, on invitation, in the interests
of the Society.
Correspondence relating to the interests
of the Society, which falls to
the secretary, constantly increases, and
the amount cared for this past year
has been just about double the amount of
the preceding year.
Since the last Annual Meeting there has
been added to the membership
a total of thirty-four names, thirty-two
being annual members, one sus-
taining, and one contributing. So far as our records show, twenty-two
members have been lost by death, sixteen
of whom were life members. The
total membership of the Society at
present is 675.
The secretary and director agree that
one of our most important prob-
lems is securing a larger and more
representative membership from all parts
of the State.
Editorial Duties.
The Constitution provides that the
secretary edit all the Society's
publications. Two special volumes in the
Collection Series were issued the
day of the Annual Meeting in 1935. These
were Dr. Randolph C. Downes'
Frontier Ohio and James H. Rodabaugh's Robert Hamilton Bishop. These
were made possible by private funds
guaranteeing the cost of printing and
binding.
During the year four regular issues of
the QUARTERLY
and twelve
of Museum Echoes have been issued. The July,
1985, issue of the QUARTERLY
was made a Fiftieth Anniversary Number.
One reprint, a bibliography of
historical material relating to the
counties of the State, prepared by Clar-
ence L. Weaver, cataloguer and editorial
assistant, and Miss Helen Mills,
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reference librarian, which appeared as
the leading article in the April issue
of the QUARTERLY, has been issued.
The appropriation for printing for the
year 1936 will provide for both
Museum Echoes and the QUARTERLY, but is not
sufficient for a volume for
the Collection Series. It is
possible, however, that a volume may be issued
by securing the underwriting of the cost
of printing and binding.
At least one such volume should be
issued each year. One distinct
service we can render to our members,
and the State as a whole, is the
editing and publishing of valuable Ohio
material which probably never
would be published unless such provision
were made.
The editor wishes to call to the
attention of members the desirability
of the Society's sponsoring the
publication of a scholarly, reliable history of
Ohio which might be made commemorative
of the settlement and establish-
ment of civil government, in 1788, in
what is now Ohio. Most of the pre-
vious histories of the State of Ohio
have been written by amateurs and
some of them are distinctly commercial
in nature. Many are inaccurate,
badly proportioned and emphasize
picturesque incidents to the neglect of
important movements. They treat very
inadequately the period since the
Civil War, and most of them are out of
print or difficult to obtain. Such
a plan should provide for dividing the
State's history into a number of
periods corresponding to the number of volumes
to be published, and each
of these volumes should be assigned to
an expert in that particular field
and the whole work supervised and edited
by a capable, responsible, editorial
committee.
It would now be impossible to complete
such an undertaking by 1938,
but definite plans could be worked out,
and announced, and the work begun
before that time. What more permanent and worthy
memorial of Ohio's
first century and a half could be
undertaken by such an organization as
this one?
The Library.
The secretary is also assigned the
responsibility of serving as librarian
of the Society.
The activities of the Library during the
past year have been unusually
varied and distinctive. The possibility
of more efficiently organizing the
library has been made a reality by the
help secured through the WPA and
NYA agencies.
A complete rearrangement of the books
has been made, simplifying
very much their availability and
use. Special credit should be given to
Mr. William McKinley, assistant reference
librarian, for supervising this
work.
Although the Library book fund for 1935
was vetoed by the governor,
yet by gift, exchange, and purchase a
total of 1665 volumes were added
to the Library, of which 799 were gifts,
535 secured through exchange, and
331 purchased. This was 259 more than
were added the year previous.
Among the gifts to the Library special
mention should be made of
the following:
The Columbus Audubon Society presented
five valuable books on birds
and a subscription to a bird magazine.
The Toledo Public Library presented
sixteen dry point etchings of
the historical Maumee Valley.
Miss Carolyn Treffinger, of Wadsworth,
Ohio, a writer of children's
books, presented two of her books.
Mrs. O. D. Dryer presented forty-five
volumes.
Mrs. J. G. Cramer, a descendant of
General U. S. Grant, loaned fifteen
volumes.
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Miami University presented sixty-two
early pamphlets relating to the
university.
David K. Webb, of Chillicothe, has
presented the Library a number
of items during the year.
Since the last Annual Meeting the
Manuscript Division of the Society's
Library has been augmented by the
following accessions: the John Roth
"Diary of the Indian Migration from
Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1771," de-
posited in our Library by Rev. C. C.
Roth, of Kenosha, Wisconsin; the
records of the firm of Henking and
Cadot, of Gallipolis, Ohio, which give
a picture of the typical general store
of the period 1852-1879, consisting of
approximately 1900 items. Miss Helen
Jacoby, of Indianapolis, presented
to the Society a group of Joseph Eaton
and Michael Jacoby letters of the
1840's which will be valuable for
genealogical research in Delaware and
Marion Counties; Mrs. Martha Richardson,
of Bryan, Ohio, presented
several manuscripts among which was a
sermon preached in Columbus in
1819; Miss Mary E. Hunter presented a
group of Civil War letters; the
official Record Books of the Columbus Presbytery dating
back to 1820
were transferred to the Society by the
Presbytery of Columbus through
Rev. George L. Willets of the First
Presbyterian Church.
The Society has also acquired a French
manuscript of the early
eighteenth century containing a
description of North America; an original
journal containing a summary of a
journey taken by a volunteer from
Gallia County, Ohio, for the purpose of
destroying Indians and the invasion
of Canada in 1812; a collection of
approximately 100 Alfred Kelley letters
and a group of two or three hundred
letters concerning Ohio Canals;
forty letters of David Harrison Thomas
to his family, written in the South
during the Civil War; forty-eight
letters concerning Worthington, Ohio,
1818-1830; and a considerable number of
Ohio county archives which
would have been destroyed had not the
Society taken them into custody.
These represent Hocking, Pickaway,
Lawrence, Stark, Franklin, Crawford,
Muskingum, Darke, and Ross Counties.
They number about 2000 indi-
vidual items.
Two manuscript maps of unusual interest
have come into the posses-
sion of the Society during the past
year; a map of the State of Ohio (about
1820), and a plat of the town of Athens,
Ohio, made by Rufus Putnam in
1804.
The personnel of the Manuscript Division
with the aid of WPA and
NYA funds has been augmented by two
capable assistants and the work
of arranging and cataloguing the
manuscript collections is well under way.
The Division now has the equipment for
properly caring for manuscript
collections and experiments are now
under way which we hope will solve
some of the knotty problems connected
with the work of rejuvenating and
repairing worn manuscripts.
Some years ago a law was passed
providing for the possible care of
the State archives by the Library of the
Society. This historical material
began to accumulate at once until
thousands of items had been deposited,
but no adequate provision was made for
their care and organization. This
work was begun last year under the
immediate supervision of Dr. William
D. Overman, the Society's curator of
history and State archivist. In addi-
tion to the material already in our
possession Dr. Overman moved eight
tons of archival material from the
basement vaults of the Department of
Public Works in the State House this past
year. The material consists of
the correspondence, original surveys,
maps, engineers' reports, superin-
tendents' reports and records of tolls
for the Miami and Erie Canal, the
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Western Reserve and
Maumee Road and the National Road. This ma-
terial, after its
removal to a safe place in our Archives Division, has been
cleaned, arranged,
labeled and a shelf list made, so that it is now accessible
for use. Considerable progress has been made in
further cataloguing the
State archives which
were moved to this building several years ago, by
the use of four NYA
students from September, 1935, to date.
Considerable use is
being made of the archives by public officials and
by students.
The Newspaper
Division of the Library continues and is of increasing
value and
interest. It is perhaps the most
seriously used department of
the institution. This is due to the fact that it contains
research material
which is not
available in any other library in the country.
Accessions of
newspapers, bound and unbound (duplicates not included)
through the year from
April 1, 1935, to March 31, 1936, have been:
Ohio English language
dailies, by mail.... 307 vols.
Ohio English language
non-dailies, by mail. 35
vols.
Ohio foreign language
papers, by mail..... 18
vols.
Columbus dailies, by
carrier ............... 36
vols.
Non-Ohio dailies
(from O. S. U. Library). 227 vols.
From publishers and
miscellaneous sources. 651 vols.
-----
Total 1274 vols.
At this time we are
receiving:
44 Ohio dailies
37 Ohio non-dailies
18 non-Ohio dailies
--
99 Total
In addition to these
a large number of old newspaper files have been
secured by gift,
exchange and purchase.
Because of the
increasing demands made upon this department the
librarian received, through
the Legislature in 1935, sufficient funds to se-
cure an assistant
librarian, and Mr. Lawrence H. Bartlett, a graduate of
the School of
Journalism of Ohio State University, an honor student, joined
the staff, July 1,
1935. In August, 1935, the librarian and Mr. Bartlett
made a 2000 mile auto
trip, at their own expense, to inspect some of the
leading library
newspaper collections in the United States. Twelve libraries
were visited and many
worthwhile ideas for incorporation into our own
plans were obtained.
Beginning about the
first of March, a WPA project was undertaken
to collate the
volumes in the Newspaper Library. This is a job which
has been contemplated
for some time, but one which we were unable to do
without sufficient
help.
At the present time,
there are sixteen clerks on the project.
Their
average daily output is about
250 volumes. At that rate, we hope to
complete at least
16,000 volumes by the first of July when the project is
supposed to close.
That will leave approximately 20,000 volumes not col-
lated unless another
project is undertaken.
The purpose of the
collation is to find out exactly what we have in
the Library. Missing dates are tabulated, title histories
recorded, pub-
lication dates
listed, and changes in places of publication, changes in pub-
lishers, and
consolidations of two or more papers are noted. This work
calls for the
greatest amount of accuracy and efficiency.
Considering the
kind of help we have,
the results may not be correct in every case, but, as
a whole, the work is
being done very well.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
The benefits of the collation are
already being felt, in that we are
finding papers we never knew we had; we
are able to correct the present
records as to name changes, missing
dates, etc., and, most important of all,
we are able to tell exactly what we have
without consulting the papers
themselves. This saves much wear and
tear on the volumes, most of which
are made of wood pulp and are subject to
rapid deterioration.
The work that is being done now is the
foundation upon which we
hope to build an accurate check list of
the papers in the Library. That,
together with a chronological list of
the papers arranged alphabetically,
will afford us an accurate record which
will be invaluable not only to us
but to the public as well.
In the cataloguing department Mr.
Clarence L. Weaver has not only
made progress in cataloguing library
material consistent with correct
library technique, but he is also directing
the recataloguing and revising
of much of the work previously done.
Subject headings and adequate cross
references are being included in the
process. An inventory of all books
already catalogued is being made. Under Mr. Weaver's direction, an
adequate index to the set of thirty-nine
volumes of the Society's Publications
is being made and will be published. A
complete catalogue of all cuts used
in the various publications of the
Society has been completed this year.
While these problems are enough for one
person, yet Mr. Weaver
also serves as editorial assistant for
all our publications, handling the de-
tails of preparing copy for printers,
reading all proof, and other mechanical
details.
Because of reduced staff and decreased
appropriations, the work of
the Library would have been seriously
curtailed and disturbed if we had
not been able to secure assistance
through government relief projects. The
Library has had the advantage of three
of these during the year, the total
sum of which would aggregate over
$12,000.
While such a solution of our problem is
not ideal, yet for this assistance
we are duly thankful and I wish to
express a word of appreciation of the
serious attitude shown by most of these
FERA, WPA, and NYA workers.
I also wish to express a word of
appreciation for the loyal attitude
of all members of the Library staff and
the spirit in which they have served
the interests of the institution under
the existing conditions which have
affected all the libraries of the
country.
Respectfully submitted,
HARLOW LINDLEY, Secretary, Editor and
Librarian.
The report was approved and ordered
placed on file.
The report of the director followed:
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING APRIL 21, 1936.
The past year has been one of adjustment
to decreased appropriations.
In common with other state-supported
institutions, we have found it neces-
sary to cut the pattern of our
activities to fit the cloth. We have realized
that under existing conditions economy
and some degree of curtailment are
in order and we have been willing to
comply. Only in a few instances, to
be mentioned presently, has the decrease
in available funds entailed actual
hardship. A part of the director's duties has been to meet these condi-
tions and to effect the necessary
adjustments while maintaining the Society's
properties and its service to the public
with as little sacrifice as possible.
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The long period of uncertainty as
regards the budget--extending en-
tirely through the first year of the
biennium and even now not entirely
cleared up--has been most trying. During
this interim three or four
different budgets have been submitted in
an attempt to keep pace with
changing conditions in the State
Legislature. Nevertheless, constant at-
tention to the matter has, we feel,
brought the Society through the worst
financial crisis it ever has experienced
and, let us hope, the worst it ever may
be called upon to face.
The annual report of a museum director,
in its final analysis, is for the
most part a report of the activities of
the several departments under his
guidance. This being true, and mainly
with the idea of according recogni-
tion to the heads and personnel of such
departments, we shall proceed to
review hurriedly their accomplishments,
under somewhat adverse cir-
cumstances.
The Department of Archaeology has been
particularly handicapped in
that Dr. E. F. Greenman, its curator, resigned on July
first of last year, to
accept a position at the University of
Michigan. Partly with the idea of
conserving funds to avert further
decreases in staff salaries and partly to
gain more time for selecting a suitable
successor, the position has remained
vacant.
It will be filled by a competent archaeologist, Dr. Richard E.
Morgan, of Middletown, Ohio, a recent
graduate of the University of
Chicago, beginning May first. In the interim
the director has assumed the
duties of archaeologist, giving to the
task as much of his time as could be
salvaged from his regular duties. Since
no funds were available for
explorations, the department has devoted
its energies to much-needed "intra-
mural" activities. Among the more
important accomplishments has been
the classification and arrangement of
the Museum's vast quantities of
archaeological specimens into study
collections, available for students and
experts. To make this possible, Mr. J. S.
Waite, our efficient cabinet maker,
has transformed the storage bases of
display cases into orderly series of
cabinets fitted with drawers.
Incidentally, this is but one of Mr. Waite's
numerous activities during the year.
In his capacity as acting archaeologist,
the director conducted a de-
tailed study of the so-called Folsom
type of flint spearpoints in Ohio, based
upon the material in the Museum.
From this he prepared and read a
paper at the Anthropological Convention
at Northwestern University, April
10-11. An article on the same subject,
setting forth the results of the
study, will be published in an early
number of the Society's QUARTERLY.1
The usual acquisitions, mostly in the
form of gifts, have come to the
department.
The Department of History has made
satisfactory progress under the
able guidance of its curator, Dr. W. D.
Overman. During the year he
has arranged special exhibits of textiles,
glass and furniture; early Ohio
weaving; and Ohio Shaker material. He
attended the Mississippi Valley
Historical Association at Cincinnati and
read a paper before the American
Historical Association meeting at
Chattanooga, and has addressed numerous
local groups, in addition to several
radio broadcasts. As custodian of the
State archives he has supervised the
removal to the Society's Library of
upwards of eight tons of valuable
records dealing with the history of Ohio
canals and the National Road from the
Department of Public Works. These
have been cleaned, labeled and arranged
so that they are available for refer-
ence. By using student help supplied by
the NYA he has made considerable
progress in cataloguing the State
archives now in the keeping of the Society.
1 This article appears in the issue at
hand. See pages 240-256.--Editor's note.
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Dr. Overman has been signally honored by
being selected as super-
visor of a project, utilizing 300 WPA
workers, for a survey of State and
local historical materials in Ohio. This
undertaking, now well under way,
will serve as a guide to historical
materials in the State and will prepare
the way for better care and preservation
of Ohio's public archives. In addi-
tion, many valuable and hitherto unknown
historical documents will be
discovered. As if this were not enough,
Dr. Overman has been appointed
regional director of a National Survey
of Federal archives, which employs
eighty-four workers within the State
alone. These two projects, with
headquarters in the Museum, will add
immeasurably to the Society's prestige
as a focal point of historical interest
and as headquarters for authentic data
on Ohio history. A goodly number of
accessions to the department's dis-
plays have been made during the year,
several of which were of outstanding
interest and value.
The Department of Natural History, under
Edward S. Thomas, has
been exceptionally progressive during
the past twelve months. Outstanding
accomplishments, made possible by
student labor furnished by NYA and
by WPA projects, include the cataloguing
and cross-indexing of the Hine
insect library, one of the finest in the
country; the cataloguing and arrang-
ing of the amphibia, fish, reptile and
bird collections; and preparation of
additional loan collections for the use
of schools, to comprise insects, birds
and mammals of the State. Not only has
Mr. Thomas given freely of his
own time, and at his personal expense,
to the collecting of material for these
traveling school collections, but he has
been aided by a number of volunteer
assistants, to whom much credit is due.
During the present spring season, the
Museum, through Mr. Thomas,
has cooperated with the Columbus Audubon
Society in constructing and
erecting in the vicinity of Columbus 100
bluebird boxes, in an effort to
increase the numbers of these
interesting and valuable birds.
During the year Curator Thomas has given
sixteen lectures to various
organizations, eight radio addresses,
six "hikes" to organized groups; has
served as president of the Biology Club,
vice president of the Ohio Ento-
mologists, and as chairman of the
Committee on State Parks and Conserva-
tion of the Ohio Academy of
Science. Scientific papers were
presented
before the Ohio Academy of Science, the
Wheaton Club and the Ohio
Entomologists. A total of fifty-six valued accessions came to the de-
partment during the period, mostly
through gift.
The past twelve months have witnessed
unprecedented activity in
the thirty-nine State parks, or
preferably "State monuments," under the
custody of the Society. The development
of these properties has been
advanced as much as a decade over what
might have been realized through
normal procedure. The Federal Government has advanced tens of
thou-
sands of dollars for various projects
and the State of Ohio is reaping
values which will not be fully
appreciated for years to come.
Three Civilian Conservation Corps Camps
were in operation last
summer and until late fall. One of
these, at Newark, is still functioning
and at present there are fourteen WPA
projects under way. Before the
season closes quite a number of others
will have been inaugurated and
completed. More than thirty of the thirty-nine parks have benefited ma-
terially through Federal relief activities.
During the year the following sites have
been added to the list of
"State monuments": Buckeye
Furnace State Park, Hanby Memorial State
Monument, Tarlton Cross State Monument, and Zoar Village
State Monu-
ment.
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The Department of Parks has cooperated
with scores of groups and
individuals, in various parts of the
State, during the past year and the
prestige of the Society has been
enhanced materially. Various phases of
research and compilations have been
undertaken and commendable progress
has been made. This includes covered bridges, taverns, historic houses,
charcoal iron furnaces, archaeological
and historical sites, etc.
Curator Harry R. McPherson has been
indefatigable in his efforts to
administer the heavy burden imposed by
the custody of these properties,
as has his assistant, Mr. E. C.
Zepp. At the beginning of this report,
reference was made to certain severe
handicaps resulting from curtailed ap-
propriations. A specific instance is
failure to appropriate for park adminis-
tration, which includes Mr. Zepp's
salary and that of a stenographer. The
services of the latter have been
dispensed with, and it is only through the
generosity of the Society itself, from its
meager private funds, that Mr.
Zepp has been retained for some months
past. There is a slight possibility
that the pending deficiency
appropriation may aid in this direction; other-
wise, the position of assistant curator
of parks must be vacated, with
consequent detriment to park maintenance
and administration.
Mr. H. R. Goodwin, registrar, reports a
total of fifty-five contributions
to the Museum, exclusive of the Library
and the Department of Natural
History. Outstanding among these are: a large collection of heirlooms
of the family of the late General U. S.
Grant, contributed by Mrs. J. G.
Cramer, Easton, Pa.; two priceless old
Navajo blankets originally belonging
to Gen. Phil Sheridan, donated by Mr.
James Hamill, Columbus; a com-
plete outfit of tools used in the
blowing of glass by hand, now obsolete,
presented by Mr. Joseph Slight,
Columbus; an old sleigh of 100 years ago,
presented by Allan S. Rose and Mrs.
Alberta Rose Mahlie, Elyria, Ohio;
and china and glassware, bequest of the
late Della M. Porter, Columbus.
Mr. Goodwin, in addition to his routine
duties, has completed a classi-
fied card catalogue of material in the
Society's historical collections, to facili-
tate locating specimens both on display
and in storage.
The Maintenance Department, under
Superintendent Starling L.
Eaton, is deserving of special
commendation. Failure to secure appropria-
tions for repairs to the Museum and
Library building during the past several
years has resulted in alarming
deterioration. The director was able to
secure two successive WPA projects, as a
result of which the entire
building from roof to basement, has been
put in first class condition. The
total cost of these projects, material
and labor, amounts to $10,895, of
which only $536 was borne by the
Society, special concessions having been
made us because of the obvious need of
repairs and the equally obvious lack
of funds. Superintendent Eaton has had
entire charge of these projects, in
addition to his normally heavy duties,
and is deserving of unlimited credit
for his able procedure.
The Society is definitely indebted to
Dr. Carl Watson, as director of
WPA, for his unstinted cooperation in
this undertaking.
As indicative of the service being
rendered the public, there may be
mentioned a recent radio symposium over station WOSU,
entitled "The
Story of Ohio--1,000,000 Years B. C. to
1936 A. D.," in which the director,
secretary, Curators Thomas, Overman,
McPherson and our cooperative
trustee, Professor Wilber E. Stout participated; to the
special arrangement
with the Columbus Public Schools, under
the able guidance of Miss Olive
Clevenger, whereby more than 11,000
pupils visit the Museum yearly; and
to the Museum's Loan Collection Service
to the public schools throughout
the State, of which more than 300
traveling collections were requested and
used.
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The report was
approved and placed on file.
At this time the
chairman appointed the following Nominat-
ing Committee to make
nominations for three trustees to serve
for three years from
this date: A. C. Spetnagel, chairman, J. S.
Roof, and Dudley T.
Fisher, Sr.
The treasurer then
made his annual report which was ap-
proved, an abstract
of which was authorized to be published in
the Proceedings of
the Annual Meeting:
REPORT OF THE
TREASURER OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAE-
OLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER
31, 1935
Receipts:
Cash on hand, January
1, 1935 ......... $3,046.03
Society Cash
Receipts:
Memberships,
Annual....... $392.50
Sustaining ... 40.00
Junior ...... 1.00
Life ........ 125.00
Subscriptions
.............. 32.00
Special Subscription
for print-
ing Frontier
Ohio........ 700.00
Photographic
Work......... 2,026.07
Interest, Permanent
Fund ... 900.44
Fallen Timbers Fund 9.64
Sale of
Books.............. 507.23
Sale of
Bonds.............. 2,000.00
Premium on Bonds
Sold.... 339.38
Rent from the Golf
Course on
Octagon State
Park...... 750.00
Refund on Cash
Advances.. 870.37 8,693.63
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State Appropriation
H. B. No.
531 ....................$114,880.00
LESS unencumbered
balance
brought forward to
1936.. 12,025.67 102,854.33
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GRAND TOTAL RECEIPTS
...................
$114,593.99
Disbursements:
Museum and
Library.........$63,041.61
Big Bottom State
Park........ 457.30
Buffington Island
Memorial... 396.54
Campbell Memorial
.......... 81.01
Campus Martius State
Memorial
Museum ................... 2,898.83
Clark Memorial
............. 87.50
Custer Memorial State
Park.. 199.99
Fallen Timbers State
Park.... 2,488.86
Fort Amanda State
Park...... 590.76
Fort Ancient State
Park...... 4,086.82
Fort Hill State
Park......... 2,960.87
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Fort
Jefferson State Park.... 93.40
Fort Laurens
State Park...... 2,219.82
Fort Recovery
State Park.... 872.63
Fort St.
Clair State Park..... 3,993.26
Gnadenhutten
Memorial ....... 372.52
Grant
Memorial State Park... 1,699.69
Harrison
Memorial State Park 1,011.35
Inscription
Rock State Park.. 97.97
Logan Elm
State Park........ 883.40
Miamisburg
Mound State Park 1,968.23
Mound
Builders State Park... 3,195.08
Mound City
State Park....... 2,194.54
Renick
Monument ........... 45.48
Schoenbrunn
Memorial State
Park
...................... 4,274.53
Seip Mound
State Park....... 399.42
Serpent Mound
State Park.... 3,155.50
Hayes
Memorial ............. 5,446.51
Williamson
Mound State Park 91.30
Octagon Mound
State Park... 658.91 $109,963.63
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ADD Cash
advances refunded by the State
862.63
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GRAND TOTAL
DISBURSEMENTS ..........
$110,826.26
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BALANCE
DECEMBER 31, 1935
............... $3,767.73
To Prove:
Cash on Hand,
December 31, 1935;
Current
Fund ....................... $1,642.73
Current Fund
Investment ............. 2,000.00
Cash
Transferred to Permanent Fund.. 125.00
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TOTAL CASH ON
HAND .....................
$3,767.73
Respectfully
submitted,
OSCAR F.
MILLER, Treasurer.
For a more
complete and detailed report see Report of the
Auditor made
December 31, 1935, by Walter D. Wall, Certified
Public
Accountant.
MR. STOUT:
During the year the Society was very unfor-
tunate in
losing one of its trustees, Mr. Lowry F. Sater, a man
who for years
had been keenly interested in history and in the
work of the
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
It seems
fitting that a memorial resolution be read to the Society
at this time.
DR. LINDLEY:
The Board of Trustees appointed a commit-
tee at the
first opportunity after the death of Mr. Sater for the
purpose of
preparing a memorial resolution which was adopted
by the Board
and made a matter of record at a previous meeting,
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but it has been customary to present
these memorials at the time
of the Annual Meeting as well. This
committee, with Dr. George
W. Rightmire, as chairman, assisted by
Mr. Freeman T. Eagle-
son, prepared the following memorial:
IN MEMORIAM:
LOWRY FRANCIS SATER,
TRUSTEE OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Lowry Francis Sater was born on June 15,
1867, near what is now
New Baltimore, Butler County, Ohio. His
early years were those of the
normal boy on the farm and in the
country schools of Butler County; then
in the rather usual way of the self-made
man, he combined school teaching
with attendance at college, first at Marietta College
and later at Ohio State
University, from which latter he was
graduated in 1895, and two years later
received his law degree. Shortly thereafter, he became associated
with
the firm of his uncle, John E. Sater, in
the practice of the law in Columbus,
Ohio, and continued as a member of that
firm throughout his professional
life. He was the senior member at the
time of his death on August 18, 1935.
As his energetic life passes in review,
it is seen that the elements in
him were so variously mixed that the
product was a notable man
His buoyancy was contagious; his
generous han shake, his ringing
greeting admitted one to the inner
circle of friendship and inspired an instant
response of camaraderie and fellow
interests and enthusiasms. Vexations
or grievances which infest the material nature
faded at his touch and there
was spontaneous outlet of the spiritual
and sympathetic influences which
alone promote the good of which man is
capable. To meet and to be
buoyantly greeted by him was to
experience a release of those forces which
stimulate mental alertness and social
appreciation.
If one can be said to have an affection
for a subject of study, he may
be said to have had that feeling for
history. The biographical, the near
contemporary, the personal element in
moving events--these held him cap-
tive--these gave his mind expansive
holiday. His memory was stored with
the names of places where epoch-making
events had occurred, and he spoke
familiarly of the characters that had
dominated them. He possessed crea-
tive imagination so moving that these
places and characters assumed immi-
nent reality. He had all the sensibilities and conceptions required to give
to history a vibrant personality.
In foreign travel, the contemporaneous,
the current material and spiri-
tual conditions and institutions deeply
interested him, but he lost himself
completely in contemplating the
monuments, the tombs, the places significant
of the great events, the great
characters, which at a critical juncture domi-
nated conditions and gave to the stream
of history a new direction. This
"interest" capacity was
exercised in many places on the European continent,
to an absorbing degree in England, where
college study and mature reading
at once made the whole countryside
familiar ground.
But it was particularly in the United
States that his historic percep-
tions and reactions manifested their
maximum sensitiveness and potency.
The course of Colonial growth in New
England, in Virginia, the non-
English pioneering in Florida and
Louisiana; the slow development of
national consciousness; the masterly influence of a few
great characters in
creating these United
States--Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison,
Hamilton--the alignment of parties in the
governmental scene; the con-
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tinuity of certain principles which
undergird democracy and indicate it as
the ultimate in human
self-government--all these conceptions vibrated in him
as the string to the touch of the
master.
On his office walls hung portraits and
documents which gave him peren-
nial reminder of our national beginnings
and the developmental direction
and expansion of the national scene. A
land warrant--to most a dry legal
document--signed by Jefferson, President,
and Madison, secretary of state,
presented to him--not a land title--but
the Father of the Declaration of
Independence and the Democratic party,
in the one--and the Father of the
Constitution in the other. Our whole
national growth with its motivating
and regulating influences flashed before
him, and before another could
finish puzzling out some of the terms
and the chirography, his active imagi-
nation had carried him through the great
periods commencing in 1775 and
extending into the confusion of our own
day.
Various contemporaries in whom there was
courage and an honest
fundamental ruggedness of character were
warmly acknowledged as benefi-
cent and potent influences. He greatly admired these
characteristics of
Grover Cleveland; he enjoyed an intimate
and sympathetic acquaintance
with James E. Campbell and was led into a beautifully
ordered and exhila-
rating study of his character and
career. His friendship for William
Oxley Thompson was warm and of mutual
appreciation. Almost a half
century of association with William H.
Scott brought a progressively
deepening reverence for that beacon
personality. His later experiences
with Dr. Scott were of frequent comment
in conversation with friends.
His happiest moments seemed those in
which he could dwell upon the
characteristics of some men he knew
quite intimately who deserved and
received from their fellows the front
rank as men of large human apprecia-
tion and striking social and civic
accomplishment.
His love of country and great interest
in the biography of its leading
citizens marked his intellectual
pursuits. Second nature with him was his
enthusiastic knowledge of the essential
contributions to American life and
political welfare of the "Founding
Fathers," of Jackson, the central figure
of the Democratic revival, and of
Lincoln, the preserver.
Public affairs on the
international--even the national--scale can fur-
nish a consuming interest, but yet it
may exhaust itself objectively and in
Utopian fashion. The panorama is vast
enough to absorb the student in
intellectual or worshipful contemplation
with little or no active participation.
The moving elements seem remote-the
citizen is prone to "wishful think-
ing." But in municipal or community
affairs one is in the middle of the
scene; the happenings affect his daily
business, his personal relations, his
center of life. One cannot be objective about community
welfare and
simultaneously register as a good citizen.
He is an active participant
somewhere in the local social and civic
scene or he accepts society's benefits
without compensating return. Mr. Sater
understood this, and he also had
the innate urge to share in the
community life--its burdens, its hazards, its
joys
He never held public office, but he had a high estimate of the
essential qualities for such service and
insisted upon rugged honesty and
rigid integrity in a public
servant. The educational agencies, the
civic
forum, the institutions for aesthetic
and cultural preservation and promotion,
the centers of liberal religious
influence, the general community welfare--
all these were to him on the daily
program of the good citizen, an integral
part of the democratic way of life. Such requirements as are here con-
noted he met in an exceptional way.
If he may be said to have had a
predominating interest, it was the
Ohio State University. Himself a
graduate, he married Katharine Eliza-
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beth Morhart, also a graduate,
outstanding among the women students of
her time, just as he was in the forefront of most of
the worthwhile student
activities of his day. He carried
through life a remarkable devotion to its
welfare and growth, and a high
conception of the proper public service and
social contribution which an institution
of higher learning on a public
foundation must unfailingly nourish. To
him it was the acme of idealistic
democracy. He mingled intimately with
its faculty, was a guiding spirit
in its alumni organization, and was an
intimate counselor and friend of
three of its presidents. One of the last acts of his life was a
series of
conferences on the public understanding
and support of the institution which
was never absent from, his affectionate
consideration.
The legal profession naturally attracted
him and gave ample oppor-
tunity for his large native endowment
and unresting energy. He realized
that, as a profession, the law has
always offered opportunities to those
gifted with talent and industry; that as
a field of study it touches human
interests universally and presents a
liberal education to its devotees; and
that, as an arena of practice, it opens
to the lawyer the office conference with
clients and lawyers where personal
interests are emphatically advanced, are
meticulously weighed and measured by
legal principles and enactments
and psychological concepts. He believed that the understanding and the
integrity of the lawyer are distinctly
on trial in such conferences, and
that supreme candor must mark the
relations with clients, and that intel-
ligent, alert and courteous
self-reliance should feature the dealings among
lawyers. He conceived that the court room requires sound knowledge of
the relevant law, and gives place for
convincing reason, persuasive oratory,
the sharp thrust of wit or sarcasm, and
the mental vigilance which con-
stantly gives reliable definition to the issue. He was
admirably equipped
to fill the difficult role of the modern
lawyer. He regarded the possibilities
of the profession of law as almost
infinite--demanding rigorous training,
character, patience, human sympathy, the
capacity for righteous indignation,
and an unswerving moral sense.
Among lawyers he was trusted and
honored; his delightful personality,
ready wit, thorough preparation in facts
and law, and his unfailing courtesy
deserved and held the respect of the
courts.
He welcomed membership on the Board of
Trustees of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society; its purposes, its program, and
its expected accomplishments in the
social, civic and intellectual life of
the commonwealth held for him a fervent
appeal. The people of one
generation must be translated to future
generations that orderly develop-
ment and sympathetic understanding of
the body politic may feature the life
of the state and render its progress
integral and continuous. The Society
with its widely distributed membership,
its discriminatingly collected museum
exhibits, its wealth of newspaper files,
books and correspondence, its studies
and publications, is a vital element in
the social and civic advancement of
the people, and as a great agency for
the more complete understanding and
sensitive appreciation of the related
past, it called forth his lively enthusiasm.
In this office he could become a
builder, a constructive citizen, contributing
to the public welfare by maintaining the
wholeness of the web of human
experience, generated by the unbroken
flow of events in the waning stream
of yesterday, the bracing and buoyant
current of today, and the full tide of
tomorrow.
The Society here records its high esteem
for Lowry Francis Sater, the
lawyer, the trustee, the citizen, the
man.
Presented by the Committee,
FREEMAN T. EAGLESON,
January 21st, 1936. GEORGE W. RIGHTMIRE.
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MR. STOUT: To honor Mr. Sater I think it
would be very
fitting that these resolutions become a
part of the Minutes of our
Society. Will someone make a motion to that effect?
A motion was made by Mr. Spetnagel and
seconded by Mr.
Roof that these resolutions be made a
part of the Minutes of the
Society. The motion was unanimously
carried.
Mr. Spetnagel, chairman of the
Nominating Committee, then
made the following report: "Speaking
for your Nominating
Committee, I wish to propose for
trustees for the ensuing term of
three years the following names: Dr.
Carl Wittke, head of the
Department of History in Ohio State
University, Chief Justice
Carl V. Weygandt, and, lastly, the
reelection of our very efficient
treasurer, Mr. Oscar F. Miller."
By motion the secretary was instructed
to cast a unanimous
ballot of the Society approving the
report of the committee,
which was done.
Before adjournment, announcements
concerning the after-
noon program were made and the attention
of those present was
called to the loan exhibit now on
display in the Museum building
which was made by WPA to illustrate the
value of farm and
market roads; also to the original desk
of Benjamin Hanby upon
which he wrote a number of his poems.
This is of especial in-
terest just now since the Society has,
during the year, acquired
the Hanby home in Westerville as a State
historical monument.
The meeting then adjourned to reconvene
at two o'clock.
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELD APRIL 21,
1936.
The regular annual meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society convened in the Trustees' Room
of the Ohio State Museum at one P. M.,
Tuesday, April 21, 1936.
In the absence of the president and
first vice-president of the Board,
Mr. Wilber Stout, second vice-president,
called the meeting to order.
Members present were: Messrs. Stout,
Miller, Rightmire, Spetnagel,
Wolfe and Florence. Governor Davey was
officially represented by Con-
servation Commissioner Larry Wooddell.
Director Shetrone and Secre-
tary Lindley were also present.
The Minutes of the adjourned meeting of
April 9, 1936, were read
and approved.
The committee appointed to consider the
possibility of ways and means
for securing the Bimeler property at
Zoar for a State historical monument
and museum reported that they had
continued their investigations and, after
having advised with the attorney
general, approved of a plan providing for
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the creation of a Zoar Foundation,
consisting of nine members, representing
the interests of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society, the
Zoar Historical Society and the
Tuscarawas County Historical Society,
which would be incorporated as a
non-profit-making corporation, with
power to proceed in securing the
property under consideration for permanent
preservation, and to make final
disposition of the property after it was
secured and paid for, in such a way as
to guarantee its preservation as a
permanent historical memorial.
By motion this report was approved, and
the way cleared for such a
foundation to be organized.
The members then proceeded to the
election of officers for the ensuing
year, as follows:
President, Arthur C. Johnson, Sr.
First Vice-President, Freeman T.
Eagleson
Second Vice-President, Wilber Stout
Secretary, Harlow Lindley
Treasurer, Oscar F. Miller.
By motion of Mr. Miller, seconded by Dr.
Rightmire, all members of
the present staff of the Society were
reelected.
Upon the suggestion of Director
Shetrone, it was moved and carried
that plans be made for a special call
meeting of the Board to be held early
in the summer, at one of our State
parks, preferably at the Hayes Memo-
rial, Fremont, to discuss a policy for
the development of our historical
monuments.
The meeting then adjourned.
HARLOW LINDLEY, Secretary.
Afternoon Session--2 P. M.
The afternoon session convened at 2 P.
M. The first feature
of the program was the presentation of a
series of sound movies
which had been prepared by the
Educational Department of the
Standard Oil Company of Ohio. The first
of these, entitled
"Historical Ohio," crowded
into one reel, in chronological se-
quence, some of the major events of
historical importance in the
State. Beginning with the pre-historic
remains of the Mound
Builders the picture follows through the
time of the Indians, the
early period of settlement, the War of
1812, and later events.
This reel was followed by one, entitled
"The Sohio Sketch Book,"
dealing with matters of interest in the
State. The third reel,
entitled "Beautiful Ohio,"
started with a view of the State Capitol
Building in Columbus, and presented in
succession, scenes from
Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Nelson
Ledges, the beauties of
Hocking County, the Ohio Caverns, views
of interest in Cincin-
nati and Cleveland, the Blue Hole at
Castalia, and, finally, sunset
on the Ohio River.
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The guest speaker of the day was Mr.
Wilbur D. Peat,
director of the John Herron Art
Institute, of Indianapolis, who
spoke on the subject, "The Museum
and Library in Modern Edu-
cation," parts of which follow:
The place that the museums and public
libraries occupy in contempo-
rary life is so well known to curators
and librarians that any further
comment is unnecessary, and instead of
reviewing their achievements for
you here I would prefer to point out
certain dangers that might result
from uniting their functions under one
roof or from correlating their activ-
ities where the benefits are not mutual.
Museums and public libraries hold their
important place in modern
education by virtue of possessing the
most effective seeds of education--
books and objects--and by virtue of
their approach to the public. Their
appeal is universal and they offer a
kind of service that cannot be obtained
elsewhere. They believe in education,
yet they do not maintain regular
class rooms, teaching staffs nor lesson
plans, as do our schools and col-
leges. They delight in disseminating
information, yet they see the necessity
of supplying certain forms of
entertainment. And they constantly feel the
urge of devising new schemes for
reaching a larger and wider audience.
In these respects they are mutual and
except for the character of their
collections their problems are similar
enough, in this light, to make some
people wonder if the two institutions
would not do more effective work
if their resources were pooled. This
feeling is strengthened by the fact
that the workers in one field show a
strong desire to assist those in the
other, as seen in the many instances
where public libraries have served as
foster parents to small museums and
where museums have generously lent
their collections and staff members to
the public libraries. But would the
union of administrative and functional
activities produce a more effective
educational institution? The answer, I believe, lies in an analysis
of the
basic function of the two.
In their philosophy toward their
material, the curator and librarian
are so opposed that it is reasonable to
assume that a combination of their
functions would not be successful. A
successful librarian must have abso-
lute faith in books. He must believe
that books are the ultimate, unques-
tionable sources of knowledge and the
greatest factors in acquiring informa-
tion or enjoyment. If he is a good
librarian he must never question the
power of the printed page in leading
humanity to boundless worldly goods
and aesthetic pleasures. He must agree
with Andrew Carnegie, that libraries
"reach the aspiring and open to
those the chief treasures of the world."
The museum worker, on the other hand,
has an instinctive doubt in the
printed page. His natural tendency is to
question the written account of
an event and to return to the source
material--the objects themselves. The
history of mankind, for him, is in
things, not in books, and the "chief treas-
ures of the world" are the objects
that have been brought into the museums
for preservation and study. This difference in the structure of the two
minds will always keep the museum and library apart,
particularly if they
desire to be effective educational
agencies, and it is reasonable to assume
that no single person can combine two
opposite mental states such as these,
unless he is a very rare individual.
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It is obvious, of course, that both the
curator and librarian see the
value of the other person's
material. Museums are constantly
increasing
their own libraries--devoted, for the most part, to the
subjects in which
they specialize--and many libraries form collections of objects, ranging
from old paintings to specimens of
minerals; but they do not use the
material in the same way.
This is clearly seen in the case of the
library. With a few excep-
tions, the library collects and borrows
material for the purpose of illus-
trating certain books or of increasing the public's
interest in reading along
certain lines. The science that underlies collecting in a certain field,
including history, research and preservation, is either
unknown to the
librarian or is too involved for his
limited time. In other words, the most
effective material for him is the material that has
already been collected,
classified and catalogued.
It has already been pointed out that the
process of turning from
passive guardians of old books and
specimens to aggressive promoters of
educational material the museums and
libraries have adopted new tactics
and new methods. The scope of their
collections and the quality of scholar-
ship has not changed as much as the
manner of presenting this material
to the public. Display, information, and
publicity--common to both--have
undergone revolutionary changes and now
offer fields for mutual assist-
ance. The library has realized, for some
time, the value of objects for
increasing the interest in certain
books. These, combined with posters,
pictures, stuffed birds and foreign curios
serve as graphic illustrations
and tend to increase the public's desire
to follow up certain subjects. Mu-
seums and private collectors have been
generous in their loans, but it
should be pointed out that there is
danger in increasing this service. The
effectiveness of museum material
decreases in proportion to the extent of
its distribution outside of the
galleries. This point deserves more am-
plification than can be given to it
here. However this matter of display
can be worked out in such a way as will
benefit both: by the careful
planning in advance of the scope of the
collection, its function in the
library, its importance to the museum,
and with as much emphasis on the
quality of the objects themselves as
upon the books dealing with the
subject. By introducing its wares to the
public, through the libraries, the
museums can reach a wider audience than
they now possess, but they must
be certain that their wares will bring
people to the museum to see more
complete and more important displays in
their proper setting. The museum
and library can do much more together in
arousing interest in more whole-
some subjects, and in helping people to actually look
at things--an art that
is almost entirely lost in the twentieth
century--to observe objects and
deduct certain facts from them without
having to refer to books first.
For their part the museums can devise
effective plans for calling
their visitors' attention to the books
in the public library dealing with the
subject under consideration. Labels,
amplified to include certain references
and book titles, or additional gallery
standards, showing book-jackets and
giving bibliographies, can be very
effective. Such a plan as this would
increase the effectiveness of each building and make
the public realize that
a very definite correlation exists
between them.
In many more ways the public libraries
and museums could be mu-
tually beneficial, and by holding
frequent conferences the curator and
librarian could devise many schemes for
making their material more at-
tractive to the community. Up to this
time the popularity of the former
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has eclipsed the latter but with the
growing belief in the value of visual
material in education, it is reasonable
to assume that more and more
demands will be made on the museums, and
the libraries will resort to
their sister institution for more help
if they want to vitalize their position
in the community. For this reason both
must fully understand their basic
similarities and natural differences--and act
accordingly.
These brief remarks have been designed
to point out the similarities
in the approach of the two institutions
toward the public, their mutual
desire to help one another, their belief
in the usefulness of the other's
material and the underlying differences
in their ideals. It is natural that
in an age of efficiency attempts will be
made to form unions, even of
library and museum workers. But it is
reasonable to assume that more
effective work will not be achieved by
merely adding museum galleries to
already existing libraries and by
extending museum buildings to include
public libraries. Their common meeting
ground is not in the domain of
institutional activities, but in the
field of indirect popular education.
The final feature of the day's program
was the singing, by
the entire audience, of "Ohio, the
Beautiful."
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(IN PRINT) OF THE OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
REVISED MAY 1,
1936
By HARLOW
LINDLEY
*Adams, Jacob,
Private in Company F, 21st O. V. V. I., Diary. Intro-
duction by H.
M. Povenmire. 1929. 99p .....................$0.25
Anderson, James
H., Colonel William Crawford, 34p..............
.25
Anderson, James
H., Life and Letters of Judge T. J. Anderson and
Wife.
535p.................................................... 1.50
Written and
compiled during the Civil War. Contains much valuable
source material
on local Ohio history.
*Backus, Emma
S., Cornelius Sedam and His Friends in Washing-
ton's Time;
with Washington's Interest in the Ohio Country, by
C. B. Galbreath ...............................................
50
*Bartlett, Ruhl
Jacob, The Struggle for Statehood in Ohio. 1923. 36p.. .20
Bonnecamp,
Father, Journal, see Galbreath, C. B.
*Bossing,
Nelson L., The History of Educational Legislation in Ohio
from 1851 to
1925. 1930. 324p. Paper ........................... .75
Cloth
........................................................ 1.25
Bromley, S. W.,
Robber Flies of Ohio, see Science Bulletins.
Butterfield,
Consul Wilshire, George Rogers Clark's Conquest of the
Illinois and
the Wabash Towns, 1778 and 1779. 815p............. 1.50
*Cady, John F.,
Western Opinion and the War of 1812. 1924. 49p.... .25
*Campbell,
James E., Elm, Dedication. 1924. 9p ..................... .10
Celoron,
Journal, see Galbreath, C. B.
Certain Mounds
and Village Sites in Ohio. Vol. 1, by William C.
Mills
............................ .
........................... 0.p.
Vol. 2, by William C. Mills
.................................... 3.00
Vol. 3, by William C.
Mills ................................... 4.00
Vol. 4, by H. C. Shetrone......................................
3.00
Cole, W. H.,
Map and Guide to the Great Serpent Mound. 24p...... .25
*Coleman,
Christopher B., Rediscovering the Old Northwest. 1930. 22p. .10
*Cresap
Society, Meeting at Cumberland, Maryland, June 24, 1917;
Exercises
Attending Unveiling of the Memorial at Riverside
Park. 31p
.................................................... .10
*Cresap
Society, Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet at Logan Elm Park,
October 21,
1916. 1917. 23p .......................... .10
*Donovan, S.
K., John Brown at Harper's Ferry and Charlestown.
Introductory
Note, by C. B. Galbreath. 1921. 46p ................ .25
Downes, R. C.,
Frontier Ohio, see Ohio Historical Collections.
*Dunn, W. Ross,
Education in Territorial Ohio. 1926. 60p............ .20
*Fowke, Gerard,
Americans before Columbus. 1930. 25p............ .25
Fowke, Gerard,
Archaeological History of Ohio. 748p............... 2.00
*Fowke, Gerard,
Geology as a Factor in Human Life and Character.
1931. 36p
................................................... .25
*Starred items
are reprints from Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society Quarterly.
(292)
PUBLICATIONS 293
*Fowke, Gerard, Sketch of Life and
Works. 1929. 22p............... .25
*Galbreath, C. B., Bicentennial
Celebration of the Birth of George
Washington. 1933. 77p
......................................... .25
*Galbreath, C. B., Daniel Joseph
Ryan--In Memoriam. 1923. 22p ..... .10
Galbreath, C. B. (ed.), Expedition of
Celoron to the Ohio Country
in 1749, including Journals of Celoron
and Father Bonnecamps.
140p.
......................................................... .50
*Galbreath, C. B., James Edwin
Campbell--In Memoriam, 1925. 103p.
Buckram ..................................................... .50
Galbreath, C. B., Logan Elm and the
Dunmore War. 7p............. .10
Reprinted from Ohio Educational
Monthly. Contains also verses by the
author, read on Ohio History Day, 1923, at the Logan
Elm.
*Galbreath, C. B., Mill Creek Park and
the Source of Mill Creek.
1934.
74p ..................................................... .50
*Galbreath, C. B., (ed.), Ohio's
Monument to General Anthony Wayne
Unveiled; and Wayne's Strategic Advance
from Fort Greenville,
O. W. Priddy. 1930. 102p
...............................
.25
*Galbreath, C. B., (ed.), Presentation
of McGuffey Readers and Ex-
ercises Incident Thereto. 1927. 26p
............................. .10
*Galbreath, C. B. (ed.), Railroad
Discussion Not Forbidden by Lan-
caster School Board; compiled from
materials furnished by Judge
Van
A. Snider. 1928.
1lp ...................................... .10
Galbreath, C. B., Samuel Lewis, Ohio's
Militarist Educator and Re-
former. 1904. 30p
.............................................. .10
*Galbreath, C. B., "The Spirit of
76." 1930. 12p ..................... .10
*Galbreath, C. B., Washington's Interest
in the Ohio Country, see
Backus, Emma S., and Smith, Guy-Harold.
*Galbreath, C. B., William Corless Mills--In Memoriam, 1860-1928.
1928.
15p...................................................... .15
Glines, W. M., Johnny Appleseed, by One
Who Knew Him. 12p.... .20
*Green, James A., The Map of Hamilton
County, Ohio. 1926. 33p.... .15
*Green, James A., A Visit in 1929 to the
Sites, in Western Ohio, of
Forts Built by Generals Arthur St.
Clair, Anthony Wayne and
William Henry Harrison. 1929. 28p
............................. .15
*Green, James A. (ed.), Journal of
Ensign William Schillinger. 33p.. .25
Greenman, Emerson F., Guide to Fort
Ancient. 20p ................. .25
Greenman, Emerson F., Guide to Serpent
Mound. 23p .............. .25
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, An Index and
List of the Letters and
Papers of Rutherford Birchard Hayes. 42p
.................... gratis
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, An Index and
List of the Pamphlets
and Periodicals Collected by Rutherford
Birchard Hayes. 1935.
45p. ...................................................gratis
Apply directly to Hayes Memorial
Library, Fremont, Ohio, for the two
Items listed immediately above.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, see also Williams,
Charles Richard.
Herman, John, Commencement of the Ohio
Canal at the Licking
Summit, July 4, 1825. 48p ..................................... .15
Originally published at Lancaster, Ohio,
in 1825. Contains a speech by
Senator Thomas Ewing, an address of
Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York,
and supplemental press notices.
*Hicks, Clara Belle, The History of
Penal Institutions in Ohio. 1925.
67p.
............................................................. .25
*Holmes, William Henry, Artist, Geologist, Archaeologist and
Art
Gallery
Director. 1927. 37p .................................... .25
A sketch of his life and
works.
294 OHIO
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
*Holt,
E. A., Party Politics in Ohio, see Ohio Historical Collections.
*Hulbert,
Archer Butler, The Provincial Basis of Patriotism. 1927.
12p.
........................................
......... .10
Huntington,
C. C., A History of Banking and Currency in Ohio be-
fore the Civil War. 312p....................................... 1.00
Johnny
Appleseed, see Glines, W. M.
*Jordan,
Philip D., Philip Bevan--Minor Poet of Ohio. 1931. 18p..... .15
*Keeler,
Lucy E., The Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Ruther-
ford
Birchard Hayes at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, October
4, 1922.
1923. 115p
.............................................
.75
*Keeler,
Lucy E. (ed.), Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Library
and
Museum at Spiegel Grove State Park, Fremont, Ohio, May
30, 1916.
1916. 85p
.............................................
.40
Knight,
George W., Asa Smith Bushnell, Governor of Ohio. 13p.... .25
Reprinted
from the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, 1904.
*Lindley,
Harlow, John Lewis Roth. 1935. 9p ........................ .10
*Lindley,
Harlow (ed.), The Michigan-Indiana-Ohio
Museums Asso-
ciation. 1935. 18p.............................................. .10
*Lindley,
Harlow, Publications (In Print) of the Ohio State Arch-
aeological
and Historical Society, see Ohio State Archaeological
and
Historical Society.
Lindley,
Harlow, The Story of Ohio as Told by a Museum Exhibit.
1932. 44p
...................................................... .10
*McAlpine,
William, The Origin of Public Education in Ohio. 1929.
41p.
........................................................... .25
McGrane,
Reginald Charles, William Allen: A Study in Western
Democracy. 279p............................................... 2.00
Contains
bibliography and index.
MacNeilan,
Debora M., An Interpretation of the Life and Poetry of
Coates Kinney.
88p. Paper
..................................... .50
Cloth ........................................
................ 1.00
Martzolff,
C. L., Poems on Ohio. 1911. 221p...................... 1.00
*Meeker,
Claude--In Memoriam. 1931. 30p.......................... .10
*Mendenhall,
T. C., The Town of Tallmadge--The Bacons and Shake-
speares.
1923. 25p............................................. .10
*Mills,
Helen, County Historical Material, see Weaver, C. L.
Mills,
William C., Archaeological Atlas of Ohio. 187p.............. 3.00
Contains
maps of each county, showing prehistoric remains; also maps
of
the State, showing Indian trails.
Text and illustrations accompany.
Mills,
William C., Certain Mounds and Village Sites, see Certain
Mounds
and Village Sites.
Mills,
William C., Map and Guide to Fort Ancient. 28p............. .25
Mills,
William C., Ohio Archaeological Exhibits at the Jamestown
Exposition.
49p ................................................ .25
Museum
Echoes, monthly news bulletin ........................ gratis
Northwest
Territory during the Revolution. Illustrated Map in
Colors.
33x42in................................................. 1.00
Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Publications. Vols. 1-39. Cloth.
Per
vol........................................... 2.00
The Publications
are the bound volumes of the Quarterly, to and in-
cluding 1930.
PUBLICATIONS 295
Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Quarterly. Single numbers .......75
Current issues by subscription, per year
........................ 2.50
Current issues with membership in the
Society, per year.......... 2.00
Ohio Canal, see Herman, John.
Ohio Historical Collections:
*Vol. 1: Holt, Edgar Allan, Party
Politics in Ohio, 1840-1850.
1929.
449p
................................................. 2.50
*Vol. 2: Smith, Donnal V., Chase and
Civil War Politics. 1930.
181p.
..................................................... 2.50
Vol. 3: Downes, Randolph Chandler,
Frontier Ohio. 1935. 280p.. 2.50
Vol. 4: Rodabaugh, James H., Robert
Hamilton Bishop. 1935.
216p.
.............................................. ....... 2.50
Vol. 5: Wittke, Carl, German-Americans
and the World War,
with Special Emphasis on Ohio's
German-language Press (In
press)
........................................ 2.50
Ohio History Conference, Proceedings:
First
Conference. 1930. 60p................................... .10
Second Conference. 1931.
37p.................................. .10
*Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society,
Publications (In
Print), Revised May 1, 1936, by Harlow
Lindley. 1936. 8p .....gratis
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society--Its Museum and
Library, the Parks in Its Custody. 32p
......................... .10
*Overman, William D., Index to Materials
for the Study of Ohio
History. 1934. 21p .......................................
...... 25
*Plumb, Charles S., Felix Renick,
Pioneer. 1924. 67p .................. 25
*Plumb, Charles S., Seth Adams--A
Pioneer Shepherd. 1934. 36p.... .25
Post Cards, see Souvenir Photo
Post Cards.
*Povenmire, H. M., see Adams,
Jacob.
Randall, E. O. (ed.), The Centennial
Celebration, Held under the
Auspices of the Society at Chillicothe,
May 20 and 21, 1903, of
the Admission of Ohio into the Union,
March 1, 1803. 730p...... 1.00
*Randall, E. O., The Dunmore War. 1902.
33p ..................... .10
Randall, E. O. (ed.), The Masterpieces
of the Ohio Mound Builders.
126p. Paper ...................................................50
Randall, E. O., 'Ohio in the American
Revolution. 1903. 26p........ .10
Randall, E. O. (ed.), The Serpent Mound,
Adams County, Ohio.
125p. Paper
....................................................50
Cloth
......................................................... .75
*Randall, E. O., Washington's Ohio
Lands. 1910. 16p .................20
Rodabaugh, James H., Robert Hamilton
Bishop, see Ohio Historical
Collections.
Science Bulletins:
Vol. 1, No. 1: Short Papers on Ohio
Birds, by the Wheaton Club.
79p. ......................................................
o. p.
Vol 1, No. 2: A Preliminary Annotated
List of the Robber Flies
of Ohio, by Stanley W. Bromley; ed.
under the supervision
of the Natural History Department. 19p.................... 50
*Sherman, Walter J., Fort Industry, an
Historical Mystery. 1929. 31p.. .20
Shetrone, H. C., Certain Mounds and
Village Sites in Ohio, see Cer-
tain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio.
Shetrone, H. C., The Mound-Builders. 29p
........................ .15
Reprinted from Natural History.
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HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
Shetrone, H. C., Primer of Ohio
Archaeology: The Mound-Builders
and
the Indians. 42p
..........................................
.10
*Siebert, Wilbur H., A Quaker Section of
the Underground Railroad
in Northern Ohio. 1930. 26p
................................... .25
*Smith, Donnal V., Chase and Civil War
Politics, see Ohio Historical
Collections.
Smith, Guy-Harold, George Washington at
the Great Bend of the
Ohio
River. 13p
............................................... .10
Smith, Guy-Harold, Washington's Camp
Sites on the Ohio River and
Map; with Washington's Interest in the
Ohio Country, by C. B.
Galbreath. 27p ................................................ .25
*Snider, Van A. (comp.), Railroad
Discussion Not Forbidden by Lan-
caster School) Board, see Galbreath,
C. B.
Souvenir Photo Post Cards. Each
................................. .05
Subjects are varied.
Spiegel Grove State Park, the Hayes
Memorial Library and Museum,
and the Hayes Homestead, Fremont, Ohio.
Illustrated Catalogue.
1926.
104p ..................................
................... .50
Thomas, Edward S., Insect Friends and
Foes. 1932. 65p............. .10
Trimble, Allen, Governor of Ohio,
Autobiography and Correspondence,
with Genealogy of the Family. 1909.
240p........................ 1.50
Reprinted from the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly.
Van Cleef, Eugene, The Finns in Ohio.
1934. 8p ................10
*Watts, Ralph M.. History of the
Underground Railroad in Mechan-
icsburg. 1934. 48p
..................................... .........25
*Weaver, Clarence L., and Mills, Helen,
County Historical Material
in the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society Library.
1936. 58p ......................................................
.25
*Weisenberger, Francis Phelps, Life of
Charles Hammond--The First
Great Journalist of the Old Northwest.
1934. 91p................ .50
Williams, Charles Richard (ed.), Diary
and Letters of Rutherford
Birchard Hayes. 5v. with Index. Per
vol........................ 2.50
Williams, Charles Richard (ed.), Life of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes.
2v.
Per
vol.................................................... 2.50
*Wilson, Charles Ray, The Negro in Early
Ohio. 1930. 54p.......... .20
Wittke, Carl, German-Americans and the
World War, see Ohio His-
torical Collections.
*Wittke, Carl, The Ninth Ohio
Volunteers: A Page from the Civil
War Record of the German Turners of Ohio.
1926. 18p.......... .10
*Zimmerman, Carrie B., Ohio, the Gateway
of the West. 1931. 47p.... .25
REPORT OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Forenoon Session--10 A. M.
In the absence of the president and
first vice-president, the
Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society was called to order
by its second vice-president,
Wilber Stout, on April 21, 1936, in the
auditorium of the Museum.
The attendance at this session was
smaller than usual, but was
quite representative.
The presiding officer called for the
report of the secretary
which follows:
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
APRIL 23, 1935--APRIL 21, 1936
To the trustees and members of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society:
The secretary makes the following report
for the year ending April
20, 1936.
Secretarial Duties.
Since the last Annual Meeting of the
Society, the Board of Trustees
have held three regular meetings, one
call meeting and one adjourned
meeting.
The July meeting was devoted largely to
a consideration of the
Society's budget for 1935 and 1936.
Due to the fact that a quorum was not
available for the regular
October meeting, one was called for
November. Upon the recommendation
of the secretary, a definite policy for
the distribution of the publications
of the Society was adopted as follows:
1. That a copy of each quarterly and
monthly periodical be given to
each life and annual member of the
Society.
2. That a copy of each of these
publications be sent to each officially
recognized public library in the State,
and to each approved college and
university library in the State.
3. That a copy of each publication be
furnished some approved in-
stitution in each county where there is no
public or college or university
library, provided such an approved
institution is available.
4. That provision be made for exchange
with similar historical or-
ganizations in other states.
5. That a limited distribution be made
for reviews and publicity
purposes.
6. That copies of Museum Echoes be
available to the public, upon
request, in so far as such copies are
available.
7. That the Collection series,
published at State expense, be distrib-
uted on basis of Recommendations 2-5
above.
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