532 Ohio Arch. and
His. Society Publications.
Ulysses S. Grant, born April 27, 1822,
at Point Pleasant. (Clermont
Co.). Nominated from Illinois at
Chicago, May 20, 1868. Inaugurated
March 4, 1869. Renominated,
Philadelphia, June 5, 1872. Inauguarted
March 4, 1873. Died at Mount Gregor, N.
Y., July 23, 1885. Buried
Riverside Park, New York, August 8,
1885.
Rutherford B. Hayes, born October 4,
1822, Delaware, (Delaware
Co.)
Nominated at Cincinnati June 14, 1876. Inaugurated March 5,
1877. Died Fremont, Ohio, January 17,
1893. Buried Fremont.
James A. Garfield, born November 19,
1831, at Orange, (Cuyahoga
Co.). Nominated Chicago, June 8, 1880.
Inaugurated March 4, 1881.
Died September 19, 1881, at Elberon, N.
J. Buried Cleveland, Ohio.
Benjamin Harrison born August 20, 1833,
North Bend, (Hamilton
Co.) Nominated from Indiana, at Chicago,
June 26, 1888. Inaugurated
March 3, 1889. Renominated Minneapolis,
June 10, 1892. Defeated.
Died Indianapolis, Indiana, March 14,
1901. Buried at Indianapolis.
William McKinley, born January 29, 1843,
Niles, (Trumbull Co.).
Nominated St. Louis, June 18, 1896.
Inaugurated March 4, 1897. Re-
nominated Philadelphia, June 19, 1900.
Inaugurated March 4, 1901.
COLONEL CHARLES PARROTT.
Colonel Charles Parrott, one of the
original members and a life
member of the Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical Society, and for
many years one of its active trustees,
died at his home, Columbus, Ohio,
January 22, 1901. Colonel Parrott was
born in Dayton, Ohio, September
2, 1834. A brief sketch of his life will
be found in Vol. IV, page 470,
of the Society's publications. The last
few years of his life were devoted
to the work incidental to his membership
in the Ohio State Board of
Charities, to which position he was at
first appointed by Governor For-
aker in 1889. He was an earnest student
in the subject of public char-
ities, and had become by both study and
experience, one of the best
authorities in matters of the conduct of
eleemosynary institutions. Col-
onel Parrott was a graduate of the Ohio
Wesleyan University and the
Cincinnati Law School, and was a
gentleman of much learning and
culture.
BY authority of the Ohio 74th General
Assembly (1900-1), Elliot
Howard Gilkey, Assistant Clerk of the
Senate, has prepared and pub-
lished the Ohio Manual of Legislative
Practice. The contents are divided
into five subjects. 1. Constitution of
the State of Ohio, with annotations
by E. O. Randall, Reporter of the
Supreme Court. 2. Legislative Sec-
tions of the Revised Statutes. 3. Rules
of Legislative Practice. 4 and
5. Official Directory of the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
74th General Assembly. The work
comprises some 540 pages, and the
biographical sketches of members of the
Legislature are accompanied
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by half page portraits. Mr. Gilkey has
edited his part of the work in an
accurate and admirable manner. The
manual is a most valuable book,
not only to members of the Legislature
but to members of the legal pro-
fession in general.
A LITTLE pamphlet entitled "Tract No. 90 in Volume 4,"
has just been
issued by the Western Reserve Historical
Society. It is prepared by J.
P. McLean, Ph. D., Secretary of the
Society. It is devoted to the archae-
ological collections of the society,
giving at some length lists and desscrip-
tions of the archaeological relics
collected and now exhibited by
that society. It is profusely illustrated and valuable to the archae-
eologicalist, and particularly the
collector. It is something more than a
catalogue, for it not only fully
describes the relics in the possession of this
society, but it tells where they were
found, and so far as possible the
mode of their manufacture and their use
in the domestic life of the In-
dians and the Mound Builders. The
Western Reserve Historical Society
is very rich in its collections of this
character.
THERE has recently been published a most
attractive volume of stories,
legends, historical sketches, poetic and
prose selections, concerning the
Ohio Valley. The work is entitled
"The Hesperian Tree" -edited by one
of the most distinguished Ohio
literateurs, John James Piatt. The aim of
the editor has been, as he says in his
preface, to offer to the public a
magazine of literature miscellanies in
prose and verse, the contributors
to which are native to, or identified
with the Ohio valley. The literary
articles are accompanied in many cases
by beautiful illustrations by artists
also "native and to the manner
born." The volume is a gem in typo-
graphical and publisher's art. Each
article is by some well known or
eminent writer, and the table of
contents presents a literary feast, calcu-
lated to furnish great pleasure and
profit to the patron or lover of what
might be called Ohio literature. The
contributions were prepared ex-
clusively for this publication, and do
not appear elsewhere. Among the
writers are such names as William Dean
Howells, James Whitcomb Riley,
Kate Brownlee Sherwood, Henry Watterson,
William Henry Venable,
Maurice Thompson, Murat Halstead, John
Hay, the Piatts and a score
of others almost equally well known.
This volume will be a welcome
guest to the libraries of choice
literature.