Notes and Queries
The fourteenth annual Duquesne
University History Forum will be held
on October 27, 28, and 29, 1980, at the
William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Well established as one of
the major professional meetings of
its type, having sessions in all fields
of history, the Forum is the largest an-
nually held meeting in the northeastern
United States. Those interested in
submitting proposals for papers and/or
complete sessions, or who desire to
serve as a moderator or commentator
should contact Professor Steven Bela
Vardy, Director, History Forum,
Department of History, Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The
special theme for the 1980 meeting
will be "Islam and the relationship
between Islamic and Christian civiliza-
tions."
The National Association of
Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies (NAIES) is
publishing two volumes of Working Papers
from the Anti-Slavery Society
For The Protection of Human Rights,
based in London, England. The
Human Rights Development Working
Papers deal with the origins, causes
and remedies to human rights problems.
Some of the Working Papers are
final reports of research projects:
others are preliminary discussion
documents on interim reports on work in
progress. Both volumes, Making
and Breaking Human Rights: The UN's
Specialised Agencies and Im-
plementation Of The International Covenant On Economic,
Social and
Cultural Rights and Human Rights and the Basic Needs Strategy for
Development, are authored by Philip Alston and may be ordered by
contacting Dr. George E. Carter, NAIES,
University of Wisconsin-
LaCrosse, LaCrosse, WI 54601.
The Genealogy Committee of the Clinton
County Historical Society has
published a new book, Cemetery
Records of Clinton County, Ohio,
1798-1978. This book has 400 pages with records from 87
cemeteries, more
than 32,000 entries, a surname index,
map, pictures and historical articles
about Clinton County. Family history
pages are also included in the
volume. Published by the Curless
Printing Company of Blanchester, Ohio,
further information concerning Cemetery
Records ... may be obtained by
writing to the Genealogy Committee,
Clinton County Historical Society,
149 E. Locus Street, P.O. Box 529,
Wilmington, OH 45177.
A history of the sandstone grindstone
industry in southeastern Ohio and
West Virginia has recently been
published by W.B. Bond. This area, the
Amherst-Berea area and one county in
Michigan, produced better than 90
percent of the grindstones quarried in
the U.S. Grindstone Country has 40
pages of photographs, 120 pages of text
and 14 maps. Histories of a dozen
firms are interspersed with chapters of
reminiscences of some of the quar-
rymen. The quarrying and finishing
processes for the stones are described
and illustrated in detail. Copies are
available, $7.50 postpaid, from W.B.
Bond, 101 Hillside Way, Marietta, OH
45750.
346 OHIO HISTORY
A special reprinting of two late
19th-century Pennsylvania genealogical
reference works is being planned by
Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical
Services, P.O. Box 253, Laughlintown, PA
15655. The two rare county
biographical histories, scheduled for
release this spring, provide detailed
biographical information on early
settlers and prominent and represen-
tative citizens who lived from the early
1800s until the turn-of-the-century,
along with information on their
ancestors. The first book, Biographical and
Portrait Encyclopedia of Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, was
originally compiled with assistance from
Samuel T. Wiley and published in
1890 by John M. Gresham & Company.
The 850 page work has a new index
and contains 800 biographical sketches,
40 illustrations, and a short history
of the county and each of its townships.
Also being reprinted is the
Biographical and Portrait Encyclopedia of Cambria
County, Pennsylvania,
which was also compiled under the
direction of Samuel T. Wiley and
originally printed in 1896 by Union
Publishing Company. It contains 500
biographical sketches, 23 illustrations,
and a listing of the 2,200 victims of
the 1889 Johnstown Flood. The book is
500 pages in length and also con-
tains a new index. Proceeds from these
publications will be used to finance
the reprinting of other important
historical and/or biographical works,
which will be of use to
Pennsylvania-oriented researchers. Brochures giving
complete details, prices, and a list of
the major surnames appearing in each
book will be available shortly. A copy
of the brochure will be mailed to in-
terested parties who include a large
self-addressed stamped envelope with
their request.
Genealogists tracing their Pennsylvania
roots will be pleased to learn
that the 1980 edition (gold cover) of
"The Pennsylvania Line," a research
guide to books on Pennsylvania
geneaology and local history, is now
available from Southwest Pennsylvania
Genealogical Services, P.O. Box
253, Laughlintown, PA 15655. The
publication, which contains over 650
titles, lists numerous county and town
histories will indexes and abstracts,
census indexes; and many other books of
interest to genealogists and
historians. The 1980 edition of this
valuable research aid will be mailed to
interested researchers who include $1 to
help defray costs of postage and
handling.
The complete correspondence files of
Dayton's first four city managers,
1914-1936, are available on 80 rolls of
microfilm from the Ohio Historical
Society. Dayton was the first large U.S.
city to adopt the manager-
commission form of government and it
served as a model for other cities in
the United States and foreign countries.
The microfilm edition, Dayton,
Ohio: Pioneer in City Management, is part of a microfilm publications pro-
ject funded by the National Historical
Publications and Records Commis-
sion, and represents a cooperative
effort of the Ohio Historical Society and
Wright State University. Besides the
office files of Henry Waite
(1914-1918), James Barlow (1918-1920),
William Barber (1920), and Fred
Eichelberger (1921-1936), the
collections also contains files from city
departments such as law, engineering,
welfare, safety, and finance. These
files provide information on flood
control, public utilities, mass transporta-
tion, welfare and charity agencies,
hospitals, and police and fire services.
Notes and Queries 347
Events of national significance
reflected in the files include World War I,
early NAACP activities, Prohibition,
labor movements, early aviation, and
the Depression.
The Correspondence of the Ohio Board of
Canal Commissioners,
1820-1842, and the letterbooks of the
Canal Fund Commissioner, 1825-1845
are also newly available on microfilm
from the Ohio Historical Society. The
seven-member Canal Commission was
created by the state legislature in
1825 to oversee the construction of the
Ohio Canal from Portsmouth to
Cleveland, and the Miami Canal from
Cincinnati to Dayton. The three
Canal Fund Commissioners were
responsible for receiving and disbursing
all funds related to construction and
maintenance of the canals. The cor-
respondence of the Canal Commissioners
reveals the frustrations of
building the canals, including the
rivalries between cities that wanted to be
on the canal routes, objections to the
taxes imposed, floods, and cholera
epidemics. Ethan A. Brown, Alfred Kelly,
Jeremiah Morrow, Allen Trim-
ble, and Thomas Worthington are among
those represented in the cor-
respondence. The three letterbooks of
the Canal Fund Commissioners con-
tain copies of letters writtten by Ethan
A. Brown, Ebenezer Buckingham,
Samuel F. Maccracken, and others. The
letters document the financial tran-
sactions of the commission, and include
letters to John Jacob Astor,
DeWitt Clinton, and the Baring Brothers
in London. Also included are the
resignations of Samuel Maccraken and
Daniel Kilgore after the General
Assembly charged the commission with
"want of integrity in the perfor-
mance of their official duties" in
1840. The Ohio Board of Canal Commis-
sioners Correspondence consists of seven
rolls of microfilm, and the Ohio
Board of Canal Fund Commissioners, one
roll.
Orders for these new microfilm editions-Dayton,
Ohio: Pioneer in City
Management; Correspondence
of the Ohio Board of Canal Commissioners,
1820-1842; and letterbooks of the Canal
Fund Commissioner,
1825-1845-may be placed ($12 per roll
for kalvar film, $15 per roll for silver
film) through the Microfilm Department,
Ohio Historical Society, 1-71 and
17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211. The
film is also available through in-
terlibrary loan, and a typescript guide
to the collection is available for use
at the Ohio Historical Center.
As part of the Ohio Labor History
Project, the Western Reserve
Historical Society has recently received
several labor collections document-
ing the role of organized labor in
Cleveland as early as 1883. The collections
represent a wide range of occupations
and many significant events in labor
history. Records of the Cleveland
Federation of Musicians and the National
Letter Carriers Union are among the
oldest collections. Other materials
saved through the Project include tape
recordings of speeches and files of
cooperative movements which originated
in the labor movement. Perhaps
the single most important discovery was
a run of the Cleveland Union
Leader, published by the Cleveland Industrial Union Council,
the only
original copies of the newspaper now
available for research in Ohio. These
records were located by the combined
efforts of the Western Reserve
Historical Society and the Ohio
Historical Society under the Project, which
seeks to find and preserve records kept
by labor organizations in Ohio.
Rio Grande College regretfully announces
that Dr. David K. McCarrell,
Professor Emeritus of History, died
February 3, 1980.