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OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
DOCUMENTARY DATA
BY BERTHA E. JOSEPHSON
Among comments evoked by the April-June
issue was a sug-
gestion that researchers might like to
learn more about the private
papers of Ohio governors in possession
of this department. The
official or public executive
correspondence from 1803 to 1928 and
from 1941-1944 are under custody here as
State Archives. For
the period from 1803-1878 there is an
unpublished calendar to
the official correspondence.
Researchers, however, are not always
aware that, in addition to the public
letters, there a number of
collections of a private nature which
supplement and in some cases
are, perhaps, of greater historic
importance than the official docu-
ments.
An examination of the manuscript vaults
reveals the existence
of the following collections. Governors starred are those for
which we have sizable or extensive
collections. Information from
individuals or institutions who have
collections of letters or other
personal papers of Ohio
governors--especially the ones for which
there are but scattered items will be
welcomed.
*Arthur St. Clair, Governor of Northwest
Territory, 1788-1802.
Charles W. Byrd, Acting Governor of
Territory, 1802-1803.
Edward Tiffin, first Governor of Ohio,
1803-1807.
Thomas Kirker, Acting Governor,
1807-1808.
Samuel Huntington, 1810-1812.
Return Jonathan Meigs, 1810-1814.
Othniel Looker, Acting Governor, March-December,
1814.
*Thomas Worthington, 1814-1818.
Ethan Allen, 1812-1822.
*Allen Trimble, Acting Governor,
January-December, 1822, and Gov-
ernor by election, 1826-1830.
*Jeremiah Morrow, 1822-1826.
*Duncan McArthur, 1830-1832.
Robert Lucas, 1832-1836
*Joseph Vance, 1836-1838.
Wilson Shannon, 1838-1840, 1842-1844.
Thomas Corwin, 1840-1842.
Thomas W. Bartley, Acting Governor,
April-December, 1844.
Mordecai Bartley, 1844-1846.
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William Bebb, 1846-1849.
Seabury Ford, 1849-1850.
Reuben Wood, 1850-1853.
William Medill, Acting Governor,
1853-54, and Governor by election,
1854-1856.
*Salmon P. Chase, 1856-1860.
William Dennison, Jr., 1860-1862.
David Tod, 1862-1864.
John Brough, 1864-1865.
Charles Anderson, Acting Governor,
August, 1865 to January, 1866.
Jacob D. Cox, 1868-1870.
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1868-1872 and
1876-1877.
Edward F. Noyes, 1872-1874.
William Allen, 1874-1876.
Thomas L. Young, Acting Governor, March,
1877-January, 1878.
Richard M. Bishop, 1878-1880.
Charles Foster, 1880-1884.
George Hoadly, 1884-1886.
*Joseph B. Foraker, 1886-1890 (A large
collection of Mrs. Foraker's
scrapbooks, etc.)
James E. Campbell, 1890-1892.
William McKinley, 1892-1896.
Asa S. Bushnell, 1896-1900.
George K. Nash, 1900-1904.
Myron T. Herrick, 1904-1906.
John M. Pattison, 1906 (January to
June).
Andrew L. Harris, Acting Governor,
1906-1909.
Judson Harmon, 1909-1913.
James M. Cox, 1913-1915, 1917-1919.
Frank B. Willis, 1915-1917.
Harry L. Davis, 1921-1923.
A. Vic Donahey, 1923-1929.
Martin L. Davey, 1935-1939.
*John W. Bricker, 1939-1945.
For the Cooper, White and Davey
administrations there are
no official papers here and for the
Cooper and White administra-
tions there are also no personal papers
in this department. With
the exception of certain biographical
articles in periodicals, gene-
alogies and county histories, there seem
to be no published
biographies for the following former
governors of Ohio:
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Charles W. Byrd* Edward
F. Noyes
Thomas Kirker Thomas
L. Young*
Samuel Huntington Charles
Foster
Return J. Meigs James
E. Campbell
Othniel Looker* George
Hoadly
Ethan Allen Brown Asa
S. Bushnell
Jeremiah Morrow George
S. Nash8
Joseph Vance John
M. Pattison
Thomas Bartley Andrew
L. Harris8
William Bebb* Judson
Harmon
Seabury Ford* James
M. Cox**
Reuben Wood* Frank
B. Willis
William Medill* Harry
L. Davis**
William Dennison A.
Vic Donahey**
David Tod Myers
Y. Cooper**
John Brough George
White**
Charles Anderson Martin
L. Davey**
* Not included in the
Dictionary of American Biography.
** Still living.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Territorial
Papers of the United States. Compiled
and edited
by Clarence E. Carter.
Vol. XII, The Territory of Michigan,
1829-1837, continued. (Washington, United States Govern-
ment Printing Office,
1945. viii
+ 1378pp.
This continuation of
the territorial papers for Michigan re-
lates to the period
from 1829-37 and in the prefatory note the
editor explains that
while the volumes on Michigan were being
prepared some of the
documentary sources were not only moved
from their original
depositories to the National Archives but in
their new location
many of them were reclassified. Some of the
records were moved to
the Library of Congress and only the
Post Office files
remained in that department.
The volume is prepared
with its usual care and is in very
readable type, a
tribute to the editor whose trials and tribulations
one can better
appreciate after hearing a recital of these at the
last meeting of the
Society of American Archivists and the Ameri-
can Association for
State and Local History. B. E.
J.