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Peck, Thomas Bellows, Walpole, N. H.
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DONORS TO THE CABINET.
Bruce, John C. Old Cincinnati paper money.
Collins, Mrs. Laura G., Maysville, Ky. Framed photograph of Fort Dearborn, from a painting by Dwight Benton. -
Eveleth, William H., Newark, N. J. Daguerreotype of Isaac Eveleth taken in Cincin- nati 1843, and Silhouettes of Isaac Eveleth and his wife.
Goepper, Edward. Framed photograph of "Grand Entre of the Industrial Commissions 1875," Cincinnati Exposition.
Kemper, Andrew C. Old spinning wheel brought to Cincinnati October 1791 by Mrs. Judith Kemper, wife of Rev. James Kemper.
Smith, Edwin F. Portfolio of photographs of old Cincinnati citizens.
Storer, Mrs. Bellamy. Portrait of Hon. Rufus King.
Thomas. John H., Oxford. Ohio. Cabinet size photographs of Rev. Thomas Thomas, 1777-1831, and Rev. Thomas Ebenezer Thomas, 1812-1875.
Wilby, Chas. B. Framed photograph of Judge John C. Wright.
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PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
This meeting is, I believe, approximately the second anniversary of the removal of our Society and its possessions from Garfield Place to our quarters in Van Wormer Hall.
During the past year practical solution has been made of most of the matters of detail necessary for the adjustment of the relations of the Historical Society to the University of Cincinnati with reference to the use of our present home. Those details have been satisfactorily arranged by a committee appointed at the last annual meeting, under general instructions received from your Society, and cover a number of subjects which it may be of interest to mention here.
First: The students of the University, who, as part of the general public, have, subject to the regulations of our Society, right of access to our library, have been permitted during the past year to take from the library such books as in the judgement of our librarian should be allowed to circulate. Under general instructions upon the subject of what books should and what books should not thus circulate, our libra- rian has permitted in this way a freer use of our library, which in its operation has resulted in no practical objection from the standpoint of our Society, and undoubtedly with benefit to the students and to us.
Second: The most used sets of periodicals have been shelved on the third floor of our stack, and our Society's books have generally been re- arranged and re-shelved, according to the system of arrangement used in the University library. There has no doubt been mutual advantage to both libraries and saving of time to the users of both libraries in this rearrangement. Of course, our books remain, as heretofore, entirely within the limits of our own stack room, and no books or collection of books have come within the scope of this change which are required to be kept together under the special terms of the gift by which our Society acquired them.
Third: A new card catologue is in process of making, according to the system published by the Congressional Library at Washington. This work began during the summer under a contract with the Univer- sity, at a price of two cents a card, and on an estimate that approxi- mately three cards would be required to properly catalogue one volume. It was expected that from seven hundred to fifteen hundred volumes would be catalogued each month. Your Society has provided itself with a cabinet to contain this card catalogue, of a capacity of fifty thou- sand cards. There have already been completed thirty-four hundred and twenty-six cards, covering 2152 volumes, and at a cost of $69.33.
Fourth: Advanced students in the history classes of the University have been allowed to use our reference room in their special work, pro- vided that any such use of it did not interfere with the meetings of our Society and its Board of Directors.
In my report a year ago I referred to the limitation upon the use- fulness of our library resulting from our financial inability to keep the library open but half the day. Although our income has been increased during the past year by the rental from our building in Garfield Place leased to Mr. M. M. Robertson, still, as will more fully appear from the
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Treasurer's report, we shall not be able to use out of our funds such amount as would provide for the services of a librarian in the afternoon aswell as in the morning, for the reason that there are certain obliga- tions, including a balance still due of the purchase price of our Garfield Place property, which must be first paid off. Therefore, in order to se- cure the convenience of having our library open in the afternoon, ar- rangement was made in January last, with the University, by which an assistant to Mrs. Lord, and subject to her and our control, was fur- nished by Mrs. Hodge. the librarian of the University, at a salary of $15 a month, payable by the University. This agreement for the em- ployment of this assistant to our librarian to accomplish the opening of our library in the afternoon is, by its terms, to continue until further order of the Executive Board of your Society. Since it went into oper- ation in January the library has been open both morning and after- noon. When the indebtedness of your Society above referred to shall have been paid, we shall then be able to meet, out of our funds, the ex- pense of a librarian who shall remain all day at our library, and then this temporary arrangement for permitting the University to pay the salary of our assistant librarian will be terminated.
You may be interested to know that in the fire last February which destroyed the Pike Building, in Fourth Street, including the store of The Robert Clarke Company, our Society lost property consisting of books printed and published for us by The Robert Clarke Company. Those books were 186 sets (2 volumes each) of Zeisberger's Diary, Mr. Bliss' translation, the sale price of which was $4, and 248 copies of May's Journal, which sold at $1.50 per volume. We fortunately carried $500 insurance on these volumes, with the Springfield (Mass.) Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Proof of loss was made under our policy, and on March 21, 1903, our claim was paid in full.
Soon after we received another unexpected addition to our resources, consisting of a gift of $300 turned over to the Society by Messrs. M. E. Ingalls and J. G. Schmidlapp, as a fund originally contributed by them and by the late Mr. Julius Dexter, for other purposes which had failed of carrying out.
This $300 and the $500 insurance money were, by action of the Board at its April meeting, set apart as a fund to be known as the "Julius Dexter Publication Fund".
Thereafter Mr. E. F. Bliss gave $50 .to this fund, making the total $850, which has been invested in Cincinnati Street Railway stock.
The Society has done a year of useful work and is in good condi- tion. It has received many accessions to its collections, as will appear by the Librarian's report.
Our corporate members, the public and those of us who attend the monthly meetings of the Society and its Board, are becoming accus- tomed to our changed location, which at first seemed to be inconven- iently remote; and I believe that the past two years have been the be- ginning of many years of increased usefulness and prosperity for the Historical Society.
December 7, 1903.
JOSEPH WILBY, Pres.
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TREASURER'S REPORT, For the Year Ended November 30, 1903.
Receipts.
Balance in Bank Dec. 1, 1902 $ 432 34
Dues. 800 00
Binding Fund.
22 50
Building Fund.
700 00
Life Membership Fund.
233 60
E. H. Appleton Fund.
172 18
Colonial Dames Fund.
11 24
M. R. King Fund
180 00
Dexter Publication Fund ..
850 00
Dexter Publication Fund Income.
17 30
Donation
05
Books sold
12 65
$3431 86
Expenditures.
Central Trust Co., call loan ..
$350 00
Interest on call loan
4 08
Books.
14 00
Stationery
29 00
Printing
54 70
Postage
8 01
Insurance.
18 00
Sundries
27 71
Janitor, heat, light, etc.
300 00
Librarian ..
500 00
Card Catalogue Cabinet ..
135 00
University of Cin'ti cataloguing.
57 55
Dexter Publication Fund
850 00
Appleton Fund.
241 91
King Fund ..
116 95
Colonial Dames Fund.
22 00
Binding Fund.
19 35
$2748 26
Balance in Bank Dec. 1, 1903 ...
$683 60
GENERAL FUND.
Receipts.
Dues, 1902
$ 30 00
Dues, 1903.
770 00
Donation.
05
Sale of books 12 65
Income Endowment Fund.
615 00
Income Life Membership Fund
233 60
$1661 30
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Expenditures.
Interest.
5 4 08
Books bought ..
14 00
Stationery
29 00
Printing
54 70
Postage.
8 01
Insurance on books
18 00
Sundries
27 71
Librarian.
500 00
Janitor, heat, light, etc.
300 00
Card Catalogue Cabinet
135 00
Cataloguing.
57 55
Balance to Building Fund.
513 25
$1661 30
ELIZABETH HAVEN APPLETON MEMORIAL FUND.
Income Account.
Receipts.
$ 301 86
C. H. & D. R. R. interest.
135 00
Street Railway dividends
36 58
Interest on balance principal.
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$474 04
Expenditures.
Bocks bought
$ 241 91
Balance income
232 13
$474 04
Investment Account.
1903, Dec. 1. $3000 C.H.& D. 472 per ct bonds, cost .. $ 2882 50 13 shares Cin'ti Street Ry. Stock. 677 50
Bal. prin. on deposit at 3 per cent. 27 03
$3587 03
1902, Dec. 1 £ The fund was.
$3587 03
COLONIAL DAMES FUND. Income Account.
Receipts.
1902, Deć. 1.
Balance.
$ 21 81
Street Railway dividends.
11 24
$33 05.
Expenditures.
1903, Dec. 1. Books bought.
22 00
Balance income ..
11 05
$33 05
Investment Account.
1903, Dec. 1. 4 shares Cin. St. Ry. stock, cost. $ 200 00
1902, Dec. 1. The fund was. 200 00
1902, Dec. 1. Balance.
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MARGARET RIVES KING FUND. Income Account. Receipts.
1902, Dec. 1. Balance. S 215 80
C. H. & D. R. R. Co. interest 180 00
$395 80
Expenditures.
Books bought .. $ 3 40
Bookplate, printing, etc 56 00
Binding books. 57 55
1903, Dec. 1. Balance income. 278 85
$395 80
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Investment Account.
1903, Dec. 1. $4000 C.H.&D. 432 perct bonds, cost ..
$4512 50
1902, Dec. 1. The fund was. $4512 50
JULIUS DEXTER PUBLICATION FUND.
Income Account.
Receipts.
Street Railway dividend $ 17 26
Interest on balance principal 04
1903, Dec. 1. Balance. $ 17 30
Principal Account.
Receipts.
1903, Mar. 21. Insurance on books lost in R. Clarke
Co. fire. $ 500 00
Apr. 3. Donation: M. E. Ingalls and J. G.
Schmidiapp, co-trustees with Julius Dexter. 300 00
Apr. 9. Donation: E. F. Bliss.
50 00
$850 00
Expenditures.
1903, Apr. 21. 12 shares Cin'ti St. Ry. stock. $ 834 00
Balance on deposit at 3 per cent. 16 00
$850 00
BINDING FUND.
Receipts.
1902, Dec. 1. Balance. .
106 45
Donations.
22 50
$128 95
Expenditures.
Books bound
$ 19 35
1903, Dec. 1. Balance income.
109 60
$128 95
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LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND. Income Account. Receipts. Street Railway dividends. 5 233 42 "Interest on balance principal. 18 $233 60
1903
Expenditures.
Transfer to General Fund .. $ 233 60
$233 60
Investment Account.
1903, Dec. 1. 83 shares Cin. St. Ry. stock, cost. $ 4425 75 1
Bal. prin. on deposit at 3 per cent. 8 00 $4433 75
1902, Dec. 1. The fund was. $4433 75
ENDOWMENT FUND. Income Account.
Receipts.
1903. From Bldg. Fund, interest on $9300 ... $ 465 00
From Bldg. Fund, interest on $3000 ... 160 00
$615 00
Expenditures.
1903. Income transferred to Gen'l Fund ..... $ 615 00 $615 00
Principal Account.
1903, Dec. 1. Loans to Bldg. Fund at 5 per cent ..... $12300 00
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Income Account. Expenditures.
1902, Dec. 1. Deficit from year 1902. $ 963 58 Loan from Principal Acct. repaid. ... 600 00 Interest paid Endowment Fund .. 615 00 $2178 58
Receipts.
M. M. Robertson, ins. premium .. $ 100 00 M. M. Robertson, 9 mos. rent to Oct. 1 on property 107 W. 8tl: Street. 600 00 Transferred from General Fund. 513 25 $1213 25
Deficit for 1903. $ 965 33
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Principal Account.
1902, Nov. 10. Received from M. M. Robertson on
acct. for property 107 W. 8th St ... $ 1000 00 Balance due under terms of lease .... 29000 00
30000 00
Deduct loans from Endowment Fund .. 12300 00
Balance due Building Fund. 17700 00
Deduct deficit for 1903 965 33
Net balance in Fund. $16734 67
BALANCE SHEET.
Appleton Fund, principal.
$3587 03
Appleton Fund, income unexpended.
232 13
Colonial Dames Fund, principal. 200 00
Colonial Dames Fund, income unexpended
11 05
Dexter Publication Fund, principal.
850 00
Dexter Publication Fund, income unexpended ..
17 30
King Fund, principal.
4512 50
King Fund, income unexpended.
278 85
Life Membership Fund, principal.
4433 75
Binding Fund, balance unexpended.
109 60
Endowment Fund, principal.
12300 00
Building Fund, net balance
16734 67
Cash in Bank
$ 683 60
Investment.
13583 28
Lease 107 W. 8th Street, balance due.
29000 00
$43266 88
$43266 88
CHARLES J. LIVINGOOD, Treasurer.
CINCINNATI, DECEMBER 7, 1903.
We hereby certify that we have made a thorough examination of the books and accounts of The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and find the above statement to be a true and correct condition of the same as of date of December 1, 1903. We have also examined all of the securities in possession of the Treasurer and found them to be in proper order. The examination covers the years 1902 and 1903.
THE AMERICAN AUDIT CO. (Of Cincinnati, Ohio.)
(SEAL)
By C. H. WENTZEL, Vice-President.
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CORPORATE MEMBERS.
Alms, William H.
Anderson, Davis C.
Anderson, Mrs. William P.
Ault, L. A.
Baker, Mrs. Charles W.
Baker, Miss Phoebe S.
Balke, Rudolph F.
Battelle, John G.
Miller, Griffin T.
Caldwell, Charles E.
Carew, Joseph T.
Murphy, Mrs. John A.
Cist, Charles M.
Parkinson, George Bowen.
Compton, William C.
Conner, Phineas S.
Cowen, Benjamin R.
Procter William Cooper.
Procter, Mrs. William Cooper.
Dandridge, Miss Mary E.
Davis, Mrs. Nathaniel Henchman. Emery, Mrs. Thomas J.
Eckstein, Frederick.
Felter, Harvey Wickes.
Freiberg, Maurice J.
Foley, B. W.
Stettinius, John L.
Foster, Miss Anna H.
Foster, Mrs. Joseph C.
Forchheimer, Mrs. Frederick. Gano, Mrs. John A.
Goepper, Edward.
Greve, Charles Theodore.
Greve, Mrs. T. L. A.
Wallingford, Mrs. Buckner.
Warder, Reuben H.
Whitcomb, Merrick.
Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard.
Hollister, Howard C.
Wiborg, Mrs. Frank B.
Holmes, D. H. J.
Wilby, Charles B.
Holmes, John R.
Howe, Mrs. Andrew J.
Ingalls, Melville E.
Wilson, Mrs. Obed J.
James, Davis L.
Kittredge, Edmund W.
Laws, Miss Annie. Leaman, Mrs. Robert F.
Levy, Harry M.
Livingood, Charles J.
Longworth, Mrs. Nicholas.
Lord, Mrs. Catharine W.
Ludlow, William S.
McDonald, Alexander. Mackoy, William H.
Mitchell, Walter J.
Peters, Henry C. Pendleton, Elliot H.
Ransohoff, Joseph.
Reed, C. A. L.
Schmidlapp, J. G.
Shillito, Stewart.
Stephenson, Nathaniel W.
Storer, Bellamy.
Strobridge, Nelson W.
Sykes, Gerrit S. Taft, Charles P. Taylor, William W.
Voorheis, Albert B.
Henderson, Edwin. Hicks, Mrs. Augusta T.
Wiborg, Frank B.
Wilby, Joseph. Wilson, Obed J.
Winslow, Howard. Winslow, John F.
Worthington, Edward.
Worthington, William.
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LIFE MEMBERS.
Wulsin, Lucien.
Anderson, Mrs. Louise N.
Bliss, Eugene F.
Jones, Mrs. Frank J.
Chatfield Albert H.
Neave, Miss Alice.
Chatfield, Mrs. Albert H.
Neave, Miss Jane Caldwell.
Davis, Nathaniel Henchman.
Procter, Harley T.
Davis, William Henry.
Storer, Mrs. Bellamy.
Fleischmann, Julius.
Thomson, Peter G.
Fletcher, Miss Clara B.
Gest, Erasmus.
Walker, Mrs. Paul Francis.
Woods, Harry F.
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Adams, Charles Francis.
Duro, Cesario F.
Foulke, William Dudley.
Galbreath, C. B.
Green, Samuel A.
Hayes, E. G.
Heath, William McK.
Hoyt, Albert H.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold.
Tyson, Philip T.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Durrett, Reuben T. . Venable, William H.
Two Corporate Members have died during the past year.
Seely, William Wallace. Warder, Miss Anna A.
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Vail, Henry H.
Gibson, Mrs. William.
Hurd, E. O.
Jones, Frank J.
ANNUAL REPORT
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For the Year Ending December 5, 1904.
CINCINNATI THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1904
OFFICERS FOR 1904-1905.
JOSEPH WILBY, PRESIDENT.
FRANK J. JONES, VICE-PRESIDENT.
HOWARD C. HOLLISTER, VICE-PRESIDENT.
CHARLES T. GREVE, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
GERRIT S. SYKES, RECORDING SECRETARY.
ALBERT H. CHATFIELD, TREASURER. MRS. CATHARINE W. LORD, LIBRARIAN.
NATHANIEL HENCHMAN DAVIS, /
MRS. THEODORE L. A. GREVE,
DAVIS L. JAMES, MERRICK WHITCOMB, JOHN FLACK WINSLOW,
CURATORS.
The meetings of the Society are held in its room in the Van Wormer Library Building, Burnet Woods, at two-thirty in the afternoon of the first Saturday of each month from October to May.
The library is a free public library, open to visitors daily, except Sunday; from nine A. M. to five P. M.
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LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
CINCINNATI, December 4, 1904.
The librarian respectfully submits this, her nineteenth annual report. The accessions to the library for the year have been as follows:
Bound volumes.
690
Pamphlets,
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796
Volumes of manuscripts,
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Manuscripts,
8 . Maps,
51
The library now contains 18,045 bound volumes and 66,000 pamph- lets. The increase has come from 120 sources: the books purchased were 65 from the Appleton Fund, 4 from the Colonial Damies Fund, 1 from the King Fund and 1 from the General Fund. the other acquisi- tions were by gift, 67 coming from societies and institutions, and 53 from individuals of whom 21 were members. The recataloguing of the bound books in the library conforming to modern methods, reported last year as begun by the University library cataloguers continues, and is making satisfactory progress.
In the King Library 75 of the unbound volumes or books in need of repair have been placed this year on the shelves in new bindings. Also through the liberal donation received last year it has been made possible to give a like attention to other books in the library. Sixty- eight magazines have been bound, including all the unbound numbers on our subscription list and the most important historical magazines sent to us from other societies. Fifty-two other books were bound and 36 repaired ; these include many valuable unbound historical publica- tions, and the rebinding or repairing of such other works that from their bad condition could no longer with safety be used. There is still much more of this work that should be done, and from the new Binding Fund it can gradually be accomplished.
The most important addition to the library of books and maps has been a gift from his family of the military collection of General Henry
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Martyn Cist, consisting of 456 volumes and 51 maps; all are works on the Civil War. As is usual in large donations there are many dupli- cates; to offset this there are not only a considerable number of desirable books not previously in the library, but several of our imperfect, tinbound sets, such as the Roll of Honor, List of Pensioners and the Army Register are here in substantial bindings. The maps are in par- ticularly good form for use, being cut, mounted on cloth and folded in a convenient size. A suitable book plate accompanies this valuable gift.
The story of our city's early days has often been told, but with new lights on the past and the progress of the present, Mr. Charles T. Grove, one of our associates, has now written the most comprehensive, delight- ful history of Cincinnati that has yet been published. The work is in two folio volumes, the first presents the development of the city from its beginning to the present day, the second volume is devoted" to biography. There are numerous illustrations, from the reproductions of earliest views and portraits to the pictures of our latest modern buildings. A copy of this new history has been presented to the library by the author.
The Society is fortunate in the manuscripts received this year, as the material in the several collections relates almost entirely to Cincin- nati and Ohio history.
Mrs. Kate Campbell Minor, of Hamilton, O., has given into the keeping of this Society a valuable collection of Ohio State documents that came into the possession of her family through her grandfather, John Reily, who was clerk of the House of Representatives of the Territorial Legislature. There is but one printed book among them, the Journal of the Convention of the Northwest Territory held in Chillicothe, November 1, 1802. Of the manuscripts there are the three first volumes of the original journals of the House of Representatives, dating from September 16, 1799, to January 22, 1802. Another book is an old business journal of John Riely's, who was then the school teacher in Columbia, the first settlement in what is now Cincinnati. The entries run from January 7, 1792, to August 5, 1794, and are full of entertaining bits of information about the dealings of the early settlers.
There are various acts and bills of the Territorial Legislature ; six- teen or more messages and communications from Governor St. Clair on such subjects as reserved lands, laying off of new counties, on a seal for the legislative acts, etc. There are the bills to regulate town meet- ings, to regulate marriages, to describe the bounds and establish a new county out of the County of Hamilton.
Another bill is to establish the town of Athens, December 18, 1799, and the bill establishing an university in the town of Athens. In this act of the Territorial Legislature, which was framed by Manasseh Cutler, the aspiring title is "The American University," but a subse- quent act of the General Assembly of Ohio establishes it by the name of "The Ohio University." We have also the acts to incorporate the towns of Marietta, Cincinnati and Chillicothe, all dated in 1801.
Numerous and important as these journals, acts and messages may
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appear, one item in the clerk's expense account gives us an insight into the modest requirements for office furniture in that day as compared with this, it reads : "To one Trunk for holding the books and papers of the House of Representatives, $4.00."
In this collection of State documents there is perhaps but little that has not been printed in the Territorial or State publications, but these original journals, messages, drafts of bills have a peculiar interest all their own.
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