Notes and Queries
The Ohio Historical Society is
reprinting Scoouwa: James Smith's Indian
Captivity Narrative ($5.95), the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799
journal
and the first annotated reprint in
seventy years. The journal Smith kept is an
important document reflecting
Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth
century as well as struggles between
colonists and representatives of the king.
William M. Darlington's annotations from
the 1870 edition are included with
additional explanations by John
Barsotti. The Society has published an Ohio
County Records Manual ($5.00) to help county officials establish and main-
tain effective county records programs.
Compiled by the Archives-Manuscript
Division, this loose-leaf guide will be
updated by the Society as retention
laws change. A Guide to the Microfilm
Edition of Temperance and Prohibi-
tion Papers ($8.00) has also just been published. This 379-page
research
guide is a joint microfilm publication
of the Ohio Historical Society, Michigan
Historical Collections, and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and
describes the holdings of these
institutions. It was sponsored by the National
Historical Publications and Records
Commission.
The complete Ohio American Revolution
Bicentennial Conference Series
is now available. Included in this
slipcased set are: Ohio in the American Rev-
olution, edited by Thomas Smith; The Historic Indian in Ohio,
edited by
Randall L. Buchman; Blacks in Ohio
History, edited by Rubin F. Weston;
Women in Ohio History, edited by Marta Whitlock; Toward an Urban Ohio,
edited by John Wunder; and Ohio in
Century Three, edited by Ralph L. Pear-
son. The set costs $11.50. Copies of the
above publications may be ordered
through the Sales Department, Ohio
Historical Society, I-71 and 17th Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio 43211.
Among recent manuscript accessions at
Ohio archival institutions are the
following: Kent State University
Archives and American History Research
Center have received the Youngstown
AFL-CIO Council records, 1957-1974;
Trumbull County Federation of Labor
records, 1938-1960; Silk Family Papers,
1867-1964; Marvin Kent Papers,
1864-1903; Spelman-Hinds Family Papers,
1831-1964; Cowles Family Papers, 1790-1975;
Giles Hooker Cowles Papers,
1773-1834; Fuller Family Papers,
1841-1946; Betsy Mix Cowles Papers, 1832-
1950; Youngstown League of Women Voters
records, 1937-1974; Warren Ur-
ban League records, 1947-1975; and from
the Ethnic Heritage Collection,
Vladas Lisaukas Papers, 1954-1956;
Andrew Rolik Papers, 1922-1976; Jack
Stukas Papers, 1941-1973; Albinas
Treciokas Papers, 1940s-1950s; and Juozas
Petrusevicius Papers, 1921-1939.
The University of Akron American History
Research Center has acquired
the Municipal Court of Akron records,
1862-1935 (640 volumes); Better Busi-
ness Bureau of Akron records, 1926-1976
(37 cubic feet); Stark County Clerk
of Courts records, 1926-1927 (2 cubic
feet); Stark County Marlboro Township
records, 1846-1972 (5 microfilm reels);
and Summit County Probate Court
marriage records, 1840-1865 (5 volumes).
The Cincinnati Historical Society has
recently acquired the Southwestern
Ohio Lung Association records, 1910-1974
(15 linear feet); Air Pollution Con-
trol League scrapbooks, 1959-1972 (2
linear feet); Hamilton County Probate
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Court indexes, 1791-1953 (6 linear
feet); Little Miami Railroad Co. records,
1830-1890 (1 linear foot); Children's
International Summer Villages, Inc., rec-
ords, 1951-1975 (6 linear feet);
Cincinnati Fire Department records, 1840-1960
(50 linear feet); John B. Hollister Papers, 1920-1977
(401 feet); and the Civil
Defense Collection, 1941-1944 (10 linear
feet). The Clark County Historical
Society has received the files for the
Clark County Probate Court, 1818-1919.
Recent promotions, appointments,
retirements and leaves within the profes-
sional community of Ohio historians
include the following: at Hiram College
Richard Dressner was promoted to
Director of the Weekend College; Michael
Starr and Daniel Lesnick were appointed
assistant professors; Daniel Orwa
was appointed Instructor; Roland Layton
was appointed Chairman of the
History Department; Kimon Giocarinis was
given a year's leave of absence to
serve as Director of Studies,
College-Year-in-Athens (Greece); and Wilson
Hoffman was given a year's sabbatical
for research. At The College of Wooster,
Susanne Roberts has resigned; Henry J.
Copeland has been elected Presi-
dent of the College; and Daniel F.
Calhoun is on leave in Britain.
The annual spring meeting of the Ohio
Academy of History will be held
April 28-29, 1978, at the Fawcett Center
for Tomorrow on The Ohio State
University campus. Proposals for papers
and panels should be sent to Profes-
sor Phillip N. Bebb, Department of
History, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
45701. The fifth annual California State
College History Forum will be held
on May 1, 1978. Those interested in
participating should write to Thomas H.
Coode, Department of History, California
State College, California, Pennsyl-
vania 15419.
A call for papers is requested for the
Tenth Annual Dakota History Con-
ference to be held at Madison, South
Dakota, on the campus of Dakota State
College on April 7 and 8, 1978. The Karl
Mundt Educational and Historical
Foundation has announced the following
prizes for the best papers presented:
first prize $250, second prize $150,
third prize $100. Papers should relate to
some aspect of South Dakota, Dakota
Territory or the frontier history of the
Upper Great Plains areas. Each paper
submitted for competition must be
read by the author. Please contact H. W.
Blakely, Dakota State College,
Madison, South Dakota 57042.
The Indiana Historical Society is
offering two $2,000 graduate fellowships
for the 1978-1979 academic year to
doctoral candidates whose dissertations
are in the fields of Indiana history or
of Indiana and the regions of which
she is traditionally a part, the Old
Northwest and Midwest. To be eligible
students must have completed all
requirements for the doctoral degree ex-
cept the research and writing. Completed
applications must reach the office
of the Indiana Historical Society by
March 15, 1978. For further information
and application forms, contact Gayle
Thornbrough, Executive Secretary, In-
diana Historical Society, 315 West Ohio
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.
The Curators of the University of
Missouri and the Department of History,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, will
sponsor a conference on "The First
and Second Reconstructions: The
Historical Setting and Contemporary Black-
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White Relations, 1860-1978." The
conference will be held in the J. C. Penney
Center for Continuing Education on the
UMSL campus February 15, 16, and
17, 1978. The conference is designed to
provide a forum for the discussion
of Reconstruction and to meet the needs
of individuals concerned with con-
temporary public policy issues. The
University of Missouri-St. Louis will bring
together twenty-four historians of the
Reconstruction Era to explore the his-
torical setting for contemporary race
relations. This project is supported by a
grant from the Missouri Committee for
the Humanities, Inc., the state-based
arm of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Some recent bibliographies of interest
to Ohio History readers include the
following: Hyrum L. Andrus and Richard
E. Bennett, comps. and eds., A
Guide to the Holdings of the Harold
B. Lee Library (Harold B. Lee Library,
1977); Martha L. Simonetti, comp., Descriptive
List of the Map Collection in
the Pennsylvania State Archives and Harry E. Whipkey, comp., Guide to the
Manuscript Groups in the Pennsylvania
State Archives (Pennsylvania His-
torical and Museum Commission, 1976);
and Francis Paul Prucha, A Biblio-
graphical Guide to the History of
Indian- White Relations in the United States
(University of Chicago Press, 1977).
Several local histories have recently
been published. They include the fol-
lowing: Sesquicentennial Historical
Committee, Walnut Creek: Sesquicenten-
nial History of New Carlisle and
Walnut Creek Township (Gordon
Printing,
Strasburg, 1977); David A. Simmons, The
Forts of Anthony Wayne and
Willa G. Cramton, Women Beyond the
Frontier: A Distaff View of Life at
Fort Wayne (Historic Fort Wayne, Inc., 1977); John Drury, Old
Illinois Houses
and Historic Midwest Houses (University
of Chicago Press, 1977 reprinted);
Village of Gates Mills, A Pictorial
History of Gates Mills 1826-1976 (Gates
Mills Historical Society, 1976); and
John C. Milnick, The Green Cathedral:
History of Mill Creek Park,
Youngstown, Ohio (Youngstown
Lithographing,
1976).
Of general interest to our readers may
be some of the following: Foster A.
Lane, Log Book: A Personal Flying
History (Prop Press Associates, Colum-
bus, 1977); Willa K. Baum, Transcribing
and Editing Oral History (American
Association for State and Local History,
1977); Paul O'Neil, The Old West:
The Frontiersmen (Time-Life Books, 1977); Charles Howell and Allan
Keller,
The Mill at Philipsburg Manor: Upper
Mills and a Brief History of Milling
(Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1977); Jane
E. Sikes, The Furniture Makers of
Cincinnati-1790 to 1849 (Jane E. Sikes, 1976); Robert I. Vexler, comp. and
ed., Cleveland: A Chronological &
Documentary History 1760-1976 (Oceana
Publications, 1977); and Donald B. Dodd
and Wynelle S. Dodd, Historical
Statistics of the United States,
1790-1970: Volume II-The Midwest (Univer-
sity of Alabama Press, 1976).