Ohio History Journal
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LIFE MEMBERSHIPS To Donors of Rare Gifts In presenting life memberships to Mr. John H. James, of Urbana, Ohio, who was present, and to Mr. |
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Albert G. Giddings, of Ashtabula, Ohio, who was un- avoidably absent, Secretary Galbreath said: (555) |
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556 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications DEAR MR. JAMES: It is my very pleasant privilege, as Secretary, to present you this life membership in the Ohio State Archaeological and Histori- cal Society. For three generations in the James family rare histori- cal papers have been collected and treasured safely to this day. Ohio in the years to come will realize more fully than it does |
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today the eminent service that you have thus ren- dered. Through your kindly interest the original Journal of the Northwest Territory has been trans- ferred to the keeping of the Society. This rare original volume of finely preserved folio pages numbering a little more than 550, restores a por- tion of the record of the Territory from 1795 to 1803--a portion which has been lost a little more than one hundred years. The honor which the Society now confers upon you is but a slight return for this priceless gift. You still have in your possession manuscript dia- ries, journals, newspaper |
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files, and rare books that constitute one of the most unique col- lections of Ohioana in the State. I present this life membership to you in the hope that in the future a goodly portion of these treas- ures may also be transferred to the keeping of this Society. Personally I cannot thank you, my good friend, too sincerely for making the gift to me for this Society and thus crowning my labors for the most fruitful year of my entire service. |
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Life Membership 557 It is my privilege also to present for our Board of Trustees a life membership to Mr. Albert G. Giddings, a grandson of Joshua R. Giddings, famous anti-slavery advocate in the years preceding the War and for many years a representative in Con- gress and later in the diplomatic service as Consul of the United States to Montreal, Canada. To Professor Harlow Lindley I hand this life membership in recognition of the fact that it was largely through his influence that the Giddings collection comes to this Society and with the understanding that to him goes the honor of bestowing the life membership personally upon Mr. Giddings. |
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