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families, through his mother being
connected with Roger Williams and
related to the Reverend John Robinson,
pastor and founder in 1606 of
the Pilgrim Church at Leyden, Holland.
Mr. Bates is a graduate of the
University of Michigan, and is a
practicing attorney in the city of his
birth, Detroit, and wields a potent
influence in social, Masonic, educational,
and scientific circles of that
beautiful, enterprising city. Mr. Bates is
an orator of unusual force and eloquence
and is always listened to with
great pleasure and interest, especially
by audiences of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
The Ohio State Bar Association held its
25th annual meeting at
Hotel Victory, Put-in-Bay, July 6-7-8,
1904. It was unusually well
attended, there being some four hundred
lawyers of the State present
at the various sessions. Addresses were
delivered by the Hon. Henry
J. Booth, annual address of the
President; Judge William Z. Davis, of
the Ohio Supreme Court on "The
Trial Judge"; Hon. S. S. Wheeler on
"State Taxation of Real and
Personal Property"; Hon. Lebbeus R.
Wilfley, Attorney-General for the
Philippine Islands, on "The New
Philippine Judiciary"; Mr. Emilius
O. Randall, Reporter of the Ohio
Supreme Court, on "Legal Reporting
and Indexing." Hon. Joseph Wilby
and Hon. David F. Pugh discussed the
subject of "Municipal Ownership."
LETTERS BY GOVERNOR TIFFIN.
Through the courtesy of Hon. Robert W. Manly,
the Society has re-
ceived as donations for permanent
possession, from Mr. Charles G.
Comegys, Cincinnati, and Edward T. Cook,
Chillicothe, both grand-
sons of Edward Tiffin, Ohio's first
governor, an autograph commission
by Governor Tiffin issued the 10th day
of December, 1806, and appoint-
ing one Mathew Nimmo, Esq., an agent to
enforce certain laws enacted
for the peace to the commonwealth, etc.
Also autograph letters from the
Governor to Mathew Nimmo concerning the
performance of the duties
of his office, and an autograph letter
of Secretary H. Dearborn of the
War Department to Governor Tiffin. These
documents will be securely
placed in the archives of the Society as
valuable historical acquisitions to
the Society's library.
COMMERCIAL VS. SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING.
In the January number of the Society's
Quarterly there appeared
an article from the distinguished
archaeologist, Warren K. Moorehead,
on the subject of commercial and
scientific collecting; "a plea for art
for art's sake." The author
vigorously deprecated the vandal system