Ohio History Journal


THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION

THE GENEALOGICAL SECTION

 

REPORTED BY HELEN S. FULLER

 

The joint session of the Columbus Genealogical Society and

the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society took place

at 7 P.M., April 1, in the auditorium of the Ohio State Museum.

Frank A. Livingston presided and John F. Carlisle presented a

paper on "William Holmes McGuffey, His History and

Genealogy," in which he pointed out McGuffey's position con-

cerning the selection of reading material adapted to the minds of

children. He then traced the ancestry of McGuffey and his life

activities and told the story of the McGuffey Readers and the basic

ideas upon which they were developed. He also told of the origin

of the McGuffey Societies. The second paper of the evening was

an informal one by Mrs. William S. Van Fossen who discussed

the subject: "Records as Related to Patriotic Hereditary Socie-

ties." She discussed the relation of data to membership in the

various patriotic societies, including the Daughters of American

Colonists, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the

Daughters of 1812. She pointed out the difficulties in establishing

a record of a lineage for the Daughters of 1812 because military

records for that period are so sketchy. Mrs. Van Fossen's paper

will be published in the Ohio Genealogical Quarterly sometime in

1942.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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