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In reviewing the history of the library we see a steady growth in all departments. Since the annual report of ten years ago the gain in books has been 4,638, pamphlets have increased about 16,000; large collections of important letters and manuscripts have been given to the Society as their most trustworthy custodian. Gifts to the cabinets embrace nine oil portraits, framed and unframed photographs and engravings of distinguished persons and historic places. These, and other gifts noted from time to time in the annual reports, show what substantial progress has been made.
It is gratifying to mark this advance in a single decade, in which more than half as many books were added as were gained in all the preceding fifty-four years of the Society's life, and when we remember that this increase comes largely from voluntary contributions it bears a favorable comparison with other societies sustained in the same way.
CATHARINE W. LORD,
Librarian.
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CONTRIBUTIONS.
SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS.
Vols. Pams.
Academy of History and Antiquities, Stockholm
45
American Congregational Association.
I
Boston, Directors of the Old South Work
2
Boston Record Commissioners.
2
2
Bostonian Society
I
Buffalo Historical Society
I
Bunker Hill Monument Association
I
Cincinnati-
Board of Elections
I
Board of Supervisors.
I
Chamber of Commerce.
I
Children's Home.
13
City of Cincinnati.
I
Medical College of Ohio
12
Museum Association
2
Public Library
2
University of Cincinnati.
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6
Young Men's Mercantile Library Association.
I
Connecticut Historical Society I
I
Cornell University.
7
Dayton Public Library
I
Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute
. I
Essex Institute
3
France, Sociétés Nationale des Antiquaires de.
2
Friend's Library Association
I
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
I
Illinois Society of Colonial Wars
I
Iowa State Historical Society
8
Kansas State Historical Society
2
Laval University
I
Lenox Library
IO
Louisiana Historical Society
I
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor,
7
8
Massachusetts Historical Society
I
Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution I
1
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Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio.
Vols, Pams.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, U. S .-
California
23
Iowa
Michigan
9
Minnesota.
10
New York
19
Wisconsin.
12
Milwaukee Public Library.
I
Minnesota State Historical Society
3
Missouri Botanical Garden
I.
National Divorce Reform League
3
Nebraska State Historical Society
I
Newberry Library.
New England Historic Genealogical Society
I
New London County Historical Society
I
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
I
Nova Scotian Institute of Science.
1
Oberlin College Library
32
Ohio-
Agricultural and Experiment Station
I
Department of Agriculture.
12
Diocese of Southern Onio.
I
Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
I
State of Ohio.
12 I
Oneida Historical Society.
3
Pennsylvania R. R. Co.
I
Portland (Oregon) Library Association.
I
Presbyterian Historical Society.
I
Rhode Island Historical Society
7
Royal Society of Canada.
I
Tennessee State Board of Health
12
Travelers' Insurance Co., Hartford.
12
Union College, Schenectady.
I
United States-
American Republics, Bureau of.
23
Civil Service Commission.
1
I
Coast and Geodetic Survey
4
Education, Bureau of.
2
4
Engineers, Chief of
7
Ethnology, Bureau of.
3
5
Fish Commission.
I
Geological Survey
4
5
Interior Department.
2
Labor, Commissioner of.
2
Rolls and Library, Bureau os
3
Smithsonian Institution
8
State Department.
16
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. 9
Vois. Paris.
Statistics, Isureau of
Treasury Department. 2
University of Pennsylvania.
I
University of Vermont ..
1
West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society
I
Western Reserve Historical Society
Wisconsin State Historical Society
I
Worcester Free Public Library
T
Wyoming Commemorative Association
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Yale University.
4
Yonkers Historical and Library Association
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INDIVIDUALS. ·
Ames, John G., Washington
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Appleton, Wm. S., Boston
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Bailey, J. O.
12
Balch, Edwin Swift, Philadelphia
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Burton, C. M., Detroit.
2
Cassat, M.
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Chatfield & Woods Co.
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Ellis, Frank R.
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Fitzgerald, W. T., Washington
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Green, Samuel A., Boston
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Green, Samuel S., Worcester
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Griffin, Henry A., Cleveland
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Hooper, Miss Caroline.
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Kemper, Miss Hattie.
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Kinne, C. Mason, San Francisco
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Kittredge, Miss Annie
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4
Layman, E. F.
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Lewis, Eugene I ..
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Lloyd, H. P.
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Locke, Joseph M.
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Lord, Miss C. A.
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Mclaughlin, Geo., Library of.
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Morehead, Mrs. H. B.
3
Neave, A. C.
6
Nicholson, Geo. B.
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Norton, E. L.
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Norton, Thos. H.
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Parvin, T. S., Cedar Rapids.
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Peck, George G., Philadelphia.
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Pendleton, Miss Mary L., Washington
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Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
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Plimpton, Mis: C. A
Read, Robert L. 34
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Searight, J. A., Uniontown, Pa.
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See, James W., Hamilton, O.
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Smith, R. B ..
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Strong, Sidney.
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Thayer, Geo. A.
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Tooker, Wm. Wallace, Sag Harbor, N. Y.
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Walker, Miss Annie.
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Walker, Jos. B., Concord, N. H
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Wilby, Chas. B.
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MEMBERS.
Anderson, Davis C.
25
Anderson, E. L ..
8
Anderson, Mrs. Louise N.
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Anderson, Larz
2
Appleton, Miss Sarah II.
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Bliss, Eugene F
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Bowler, R. B.
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Chatfield, A. H.
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Chatfield, Mrs. A. II.
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Clarke, Robert.
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Dexter, Julius
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Force, M. I.
348 635
Gano, John A.
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Goshorn, A. T.
75
Greve, Mrs. T. L. A.
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Hunt, Samuel F
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Jones, Frank J.
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Lord, Mrs. C. W
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Miller, Griffin T.
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Neave, Miss J. C.
2
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Stevenson, B. F
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Storer, Bellamy
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Taft, Charles P.
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Taylor, W. W
3
Warder, R. H.
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Wilson, E. P.
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Woods, John S.
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MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS.
Armstrong, Miss. Cincinnati newspaper, 1823.
Bellows, W. H. Signal flag used at the battle of Perryville, Ky.
Carson, A. J. Old manuscript papers.
Dean, Peter. Fuze of a shell from battlefield, Pittsburg Landing.
Dexter, Julius, Framed picture of Chillicothe, 1796-1893.
Force, M. F. i cil portrait, 154 Indian photographs, 48 Cincinnati Flood pho- tographs, 1883-4, 26 Cincinnati Riot photographs, 1884.
Herold, M. 2 charts of penmanship.
Hill, Alex. 2 letters.
Kemper, Miss H. Griddle used in Cincinnati, 1800. 2 engraved portraits.
Lancaster Intelligencer. Centennial papers.
Lewis, Eugene L. Cuff worn at the funeral of Washington. 3 pictures. Lowrie, H. W. Confederate relics.
Nettelton, Mrs. Harper's Weekly, 1895.
Shillito, Stewart. Money order from Salisbury Prison, 1862.
Short, Chas. W. Certificate of White Water Canal stock, 1843.
Stewart, Mrs. Hugh. Torrence family chart (framed).
Storer, Bellamy. 216 U. S. postage stamps.
Taft, Charles P. Five-dollar bank note.
Venable, W. H. 4 manuscripts.
Walker, Miss Annie. 9 photographs.
Wood, Miss C. M. Antique lamp. Cameo pin, with head of Washington. Memorial medal to J. F. B. Wood, Archbishop, Philadelphia. Centennial buildings, Philadelphia, 1876, carved in wood.
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 2, 1895.
GENERAL FUND.
Receipts.
1894, Dec. 3.
Balance $
64 17
Dues of 1895
950 00
Dues of 1896.
10 00
Sales by the Robert Clarke Company
9 00
Street R. R. Co. dividends.
8 76
Street R. R. Co. Scrip sold.
102 03
Street R. R. Co. Stock sold to B. F.
550. 00
Street R. R. Co. Stock sold to I. M. F.
100 00
Street R. R. Co. Stock sold to E. H. A. F.
100 00
Income from Endowment Fund.
615 00
Income from Life Membership Fund
191 25
Call Loans
1050 00
3750 21
Expenditures.
Water
33 63
Street Assessment.
23 46
Librarian
510 00
Assistant to Librarian
85 00
Janitor
260 00
Cleaning
26 09
Gas.
10 50
Postage and Expressage
10 77
Fuel.
8 95
Printing
50 00
Books.
21 00
Stationery
9 40
Repairs.
41 60
Survey of Lot.
15 00
Transfer to Building Fund.
796 66
Street R. R. Co. Stock, 14 shares bought.
702 49
Street R. R. Co. Scrip bought.
100 00
Call Loans paid
1000 00
Sundries
5 62
1895, Dec. 2.
Balance
38 06
3750 21
1894, Dec. 3. The General Fund had cash balance $64.17, held four shares of Street R. R. Co. stock, and owed Call Loans, $450. To-day the General Fund has cash balance $38.06, holds three shares Street R. R. Co. Stock, and owes Call Loans, $500, showing a net loss of $126. 11 for the year as compared with the situa- tion December 3, 1894.
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ENDOWMENT FUND.
Receipts.
1895. Building Fund, Interest on $9,300. $ 465 00 Building Fund, Interest on $3,000 150 00 615 00
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Expenditures.
1895. Income paid to General Fund 615 00 615 00
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1895, Dec. 2. The fund consists of
Loan to Building Fund, five per cent ... 9300 00 Loan to Building Fund, five per cent ... 3000 00 12300 00
1894, Dec. 3, The Fund was. 12300 00
LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND.
Receipts.
1894, Dec. 3. Balance $ 14 95
1895, Jan. 17. Miss J. C. Neave
100 00
Street R. R. Co., dividends. 171 25
Ludlow bonds, interest ..
20 00
306 20
Expenditures.
1895, Jan. 17. Street R. R. Co. stock, 2 shares bought ...
100 00
Income paid to General Fund 191 25
1895, Dec. 2. Balance cash to invest. 14 95
306 20
1895, Dec. 2. The Fund consists of
Ludlow bonds, five per cent, cost. 400 00
69 shares Street R. R. Co. stock, cost .. 3617 50
Uninvested cash. 14 95 4032 45
1894, Dec. 3. The Fund was 3932 45
Gain
100 00
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BUILDING FUND.
Receipts.
1894, Dec. 3. Balance $ 43 15
Annual Subscriptions 105 00
Anonymously . 414 88
9 Shares Street R. R. Co. stock sold. 502 87
Street R. R. Co. dividends.
25 OI
Transfer from General Fund.
796 66
1887 57
Expenditures.
II shares Street R. R. Co. stock, cost. 550 00
IS95, Oct. 2. Part of C. C. Barney loan paid.
500 00
Interest on C. C. Barney loan . 206 67
Interest on $9, 300 Endowment Loan
465 00
Interest on $3,000 Endowment Loan .. 150 00
1895, Dec. 2.
Balance cash to invest.
15 90
1387 57
1895, Dec. 2.
The Fund consists of'
Building, New No. 107 W. 8th St., cost .. 30000 00
9 Shares Street R. R. stock, cost. 465 00
Uninvested cash
15 90
30430 90
The debts against are
Loan from C. C. Barney, five per cent .... 3900 00
Loan from Endowment Fund, five per cent. 9300 00
3000 00
16200 00
IS95, Dec. 2. Net.
14280 90
1894, Dec. 3. The Fund was
13708 15
Gain
572 75
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ELIZABETH HAVEN APPLETON FUND.
Receipts. .
1894, Dec. 3. Balance, principal $ 27 03
Balance, income 55 84
C. H. & D. R. R. Co. interest. 135 00
Street R. R. Co. dividends. 31 23
1895, Jan. 20. Miss Sarah H. Appleton 1.00 00
349 10
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Expenditures.
1895, Jan. 21. 2 shares Street R. R. stock bought 100 00
Books bought. 114 25
1895, Dec. 2. Balance cash income. 107 82
Balance cash principal. 27 03
349 10
1.895, Dec. 2. The Fund consists of
$3000 C. II. & D. R. R. 472 per ct. bonds, cost 2SS2 50
13 shares Street R. R. Co. stock, cost. 677 50
Uninvested cash 27 03
3587 03
1894, Dec. 3. The Fund was
3457 03
Gain
100 00
The gains of the Building Fund were $ 572 75
The gains of the Elizabeth Haven Appleton Fund. . . 100 00
The gains of the Life Membership Fund. 100 00
Total gains 772 75
Deducting loss in General Fund.
126 II
Leaves $ 646 64
as the net gain of the Society in financial strength during the year.
JULIUS DEXTER,
Treasurer.
CINCINNATI, DEC. 2, 1895.
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CORPORATE MEMBERS.
Davis C. Anderson, ,
Edward L. Anderson,
Joseph L. Anderson,
Larz Anderson,
William P. Anderson,
Mrs. John W. Bailey,
Miss Phoebe Baker,
R. D. Barney,
S. P. Bishop,
R. B. Bowler,
A. E. Burkhardt,
R. W. Burnet,
Joseph T. Carew,
Robert W. Carroll,
Mrs. A. H. Chatfield,
Robert Clarke,
W. C. Compton,
P. S. Conner,
B. S. Cunningham,
Mrs. Mary T. W. Curwen,
Charles P. Davis,
Mrs. Charles T. Dickson,
Mrs. T. J. Emery,
William McAlpin.
Alexander McDonald, .
Mrs. O. A. Mclaughlin,
George Mathews,
Charles Fleischmann,
Griffin T. Miller,
B. W. Foley,
Mrs. Fredk. Forchheimer,
John A. Gano,
Edward Goepper,
Herman Goepper,
WV. Augustus Goodman,
A. T. Goshorn,
Mrs. T. L. A. Greve,
W. S. Groesbeck.
J. V. Guthrie,
Miss Augusta L. Harbeson,
Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle,
T. M. Hinkle,
Howard C. Hollister, D. H. J. Holmes, Mrs. A. J. Howe,
Mrs .. C. L. Howe,
Mrs. C. M. Hulbert,
Samuel F. Hunt,
Mrs. F. G. Huntington,
M. E. Ingalls,
Mrs. Rufus King,
E. W. Kittredge,
Miss Annie Laws,
. Mrs. F. H. Lawson. Mrs. R. F. Leaman. Mrs. James LeBoutillier,
J. L. Lincoln,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
Mrs. Catharine W. Lord,
Albert G. Erckenbrecher,
Mrs. E. H. Ernst,
S. M. Fechheimer,
Robert Mitchell,
C. C. Murdock,
John A. Murphy,
P. V. N. Myers,
Miss Alice Neave,
Nettelton Neff,
Peter Rudolph Neff,
Richard Neff,
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Mrs. N. G. Nettelton, John M. Newton, Mrs. Thomas Phillips, H. A. Rattermann.
T. A. Reamy, F. G. Roelker, W. W. Scarborough. J. G. Schmidlapp,
W. W. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Seely, Stewart Shillito. H. A. Smith,
John L. Stettinius, Bellamy Storer,
Charles P. Taft, William W. Taylor, Albert B. Voorheis. Reuben H. Warder,
I. C. Weir, E. P. Wilson, O. J. Wilson, Mrs. O. J. Wilson,
, John S. Woods, Edward Worthington, William Worthington, Mrs. D. Thew. Wright, Drausin Wulsin, Lucien Wulsin.
LIFE MEMBERS.
Mrs. Louise N. Anderson, Miss Sarah H. Appleton,
Eugene F. Bliss. Albert H. Chatfield,
Natl. Henchman Davis.
William Henry Davis,
Miss Alice Dexter,
Julius Dexter, Miss Clara B. Fletcher, M. F. Force,
Mrs. M. F. Force, Erasmus Gest, Mrs. William Gibson,
L. B. Harrison, E. O. Hurd, Frank J. Jones, Mrs. Frank J. Jones,
H. B. Morehead, Miss J. C. Neave,
Mrs. Lydia A. Potter, Harley T. Procter, Mrs. Bellamy Storer, Peter G. Thomson,
Henry H. Vail, H. F. Woods, William Woods.
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CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Cesario F. Duro;
Samuel A. Green,
William McK. Heath,
A. H. Hoyt, E. G. Hayes,
J. A. McAllister, J. Thomas Scharf, Benjamin F. Stevenson,
Philip T. Tyson, Horatio Wood.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
John D. Caldwell,
Reuben T. Durrett,
Benjamin Harrison, W. HI. Venable.
Three members died during the year, Ephraim C. Dawes and Thomas Sherlock, corporate members, and S. Dana Horton, a cor- responding member.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio
FOR 1896
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CINCINNATI THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY 1896
OFFICERS FOR 1896-7.
EUGENE F. BLISS, PRESIDENT.
FRANK J. JONES, VICE-PRESIDENT. NATL. HENCHMAN DAVIS. VICE-PRESIDENT.
ROBERT CLARKE, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. JULIUS DEXTER, TREASURER AND RECORDING SECRETARY.
MRS. CATHARINE W. LORD, LIBRARIAN.
MRS. LOUISE N. ANDERSON,
ALBERT H. CHATFIELD.
JOHN A. GANO,
CURATORS.
MRS. T. L. A. GREVE, JOHN M. NEWTON.
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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio
FOR 1896.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
CINCINNATI, December 7, 1896.
The Librarian respectfully submits the following report for the year ending with this date. The accessions to the Library have been :
Bound volumes 331
Pamphlets ..
3,430
Bound volumes of newspapers . 96
Bound volumes of manuscripts 2
Atlases
2
Maps
6
Manuscripts. 9
The Library now contains 14,083 bound volumes and 57,390 pamphlets. Of the books added 428 were gifts, and 91 volumes and 2 pamphlets were purchased from the income of the Elizabeth Haven Appleton Fund. Contributions have been received from 180 different sources. The societies and institutions contributing were 87 in num- ber ; individuals 92, of whom 37 were members.
The work of the Library throughout the year has gone on in its usual quiet way: By the above statistical statement of additions, the appended list of donors and the special mention of some of the im- portant gifts and purchases, an idea may be gained of what has been accomplished since our last annual report.
We see an appreciable increase in the volumes acquired from the income of the Appleton Fund. In the general histories of the United States are the works of Schouler, Rhoades, and Shaler ; among the biographies are : Personal Memoirs of Grant, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, Life and Speeches of Thomas Corwin, the lives of Elias Boudinot, Commodore Perry and Samuel J. Tilden; there are Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, edited by Ford, Expedition of Zebulon Pike, Winsor's Mississippi Basin, Conquest of the North-west, by W.
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H. English, Roosevelt's Winning of the West, and the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania. The collection of Ohio county histories has been increased by eight volumes; four volumes have been added to American Ancestry, published by Munsell. Cullum's Biographical Register of Officers and Graduates of West Point is another valuable work received; two volumes of an old Cincinnati newspaper, The Saturday Chronicle, 1826-29, were procured from the same fund.
Many of the contributions this year have been important. Mrs. Alphonso Taft bore the Society in mind in the distribution of Judge Taft's Library. Her gift included : Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, a work much needed in this Library, and one from its value not likely to reach us otherwise than from a generous giver. There were a num- ber of volumes of the New England Register and Essex Institute His- torical Collections, several Massachusetts local histories, Worcester County, Milford, Sutton, Baintree Town Records, Dedham Records, and the genealogies of the Keys, Pratt and Field families. This col- lection of books has been greatly appreciated and their usefulness proved by the frequent calls made for some of them. Mrs. Taft also presented an excellent large photograph of Judge Taft.
Carey's General Atlas of the World, 1814, comes from Mr. Wil- liam Stanley Hatch. It is in fine condition and contains separate maps of the various states of the Union existing at that date.
John Clark Ridpath's History of the Great Races of Mankind, was presented by George Mathews, Esq. This elegant gift is the édition de luxe, in eight volumes, profusely illustrated. Two volumes of local Ohio history were donated by the Sisters of Brown County Convent, The Golden Jubilee (of their convent), an event celebrated in May, 1895, and Fifty Years in Brown County Convent ; the Library received these books through the influence of Mrs. D. Thew Wright.
Hon. Bellamy Storer has given the Society his usual contribution of books, pamphlets and manuscripts ; the latter are chiefly lectures by his father, Judge Storer. Of the books the Census Reports, 1890, and the Records of the Navies in the War of the Rebellion Series come direct from the Government as issued. Mrs. Storer has added to the family history department, The Cabells and Their Kin; a history of the Old National Road was given by James Searight; from John M. Newton we received the Life and Journals of Manasseh Cutler ; Mr. A. D. Weld French presented the County Records in England of the surnames of Francus, etc., 1100-1350; Mr. Dexter gave Withers' Chronicles of Border Warfare, and the last publication of the Filson Club; Edwin Swift Balch, Esq., gave The French in America, 1777-
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S3, by Thomas Balch. The receiving recently from our President of twenty-one bound volumes of the Century and North American Re- view suggests a line of work for the Library that might be followed more generally by other members of the Society. For many years he and the Secretary have had bound periodically certain leading magazines and papers, which had been carefully preserved in file for the Society's ultimate use. The satisfaction of seeing on our shelves complete sets of uniformly bound serials should make the advantage apparent to any one of systematically reserving some desirable maga- zine or paper which may in time find its way to the Society's rooms in a complete form, either bound or unbound. Several other mem- bers have adopted this course. Mrs. Nettelton has been giving Harper's Weekly for some time, Miss Neave, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Greve and the Librarian give of their periodicals in a systematic way, and in some instances we receive direct from the publishers. As this is a library of reference, current numbers are not essential to our use, with the exception, perhaps, of the genealogical publications subscribed for by the Society ; it will therefore be seen that not the time but the method of giving is asked of the members.
Within the past two years there have been published in many ' cities and towns throughout the country, newspapers edited exclusively by women, a single edition being issued, generally for some public charity ; through the efforts of a few ladies we now have in the Library a goodly collection of these papers. Mr. John B. Peaslee purchased at auction for the Society, the second issue from the press of the woman's edition of the Tribune, published in our own city.
Early in the current year Robert W. Burnet, Esq., a member of our Society gave to the Library several documents selected from the papers of his father, the Hon. Jacob Burnet, President of the Historical Society of Ohio in 1838. Among them is a land warrant on parch- ment granted to John Watts, assignee of Ferdinand Oneal for 992 acres of land " situate between the Little Miami and Sciota Rivers," signed by Thomas Jefferson, President, and James Madison, Secretary of State. A draft of May 2, 1812, in favor of Jacob Burnet, upon the Secretary of War for $800 " on account of the pay and cloathing of the Ohio Troops," signed by R. J. Meigs, Governor of Ohio. Various bills, notes and legal documents, all dated early in the century. Most curious among these, perhaps, are agreements for digging a well, 1804, and for the building of a Mansion House for Jacob Burnet, 1803, and for conducting the legal business of Abijah Hunt. Four receipts from the Indian Department at Detroit, for goods delivered to Indians,
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signed by their marks or totems; schedule of the whole number of persons in the Territory of the United States, north-west of the Ohio ; a map of Ohio in 1820, on which the territory in dispute between Ohio and Michigan is assigned to the latter. The original subscription list to the Columbia Turnpike Company, 1815, headed by William Lyde, to which are appended the autographs of most of the prominent Cin- cinnatians of the time, Whetstone, Piatt, Torrence, Spencer, Bay- miller, Ruffin, Broadwell, Longworth, Kilgour, Hunt, Long, Evans, Burnet, Harrison, Pugh, Anderson, and many others.
There are letters from William Henry Harrison, Arthur St. Clair, Jesse Hunt, James Morrison, John McLean, Jonathan Dayton. Among the five letters of the last named is one exceedingly interesting, written from Washington, 1807, in which Mr. Dayton denies with much heat any complicity in the plans of Blennerhasset.
Mr. Robert Clarke has given to the Society the manuscript papers of the McBride Pioneer Biography, a work published in 1869 by Robert Clarke & Company, and forming part of the Ohio Valley Historical Series ; these papers come to us in two handsomely bound volumes.
Mention was made in the last annual report of a portrait of Mica- jah T. Williams, given to the Society by his daughter, Mrs. Terrell Thomas, of Baraboo, Wisconsin. Her sister, Mrs. Aaron F. Perry, of this city, had prepared for her family a memoir of Mr. Williams, a copy of which she allowed to be made for our Library.
Miss Hattie Kemper has given various old letters and papers of early dates, letters by James Kemper to his son, Edward Y. Kemper, a commission appointing the latter surgeon's-mate in Colonel Findlay's regiment in the war of 1812, signed by Return Jonathan Meigs, and a weekly report of the sick in the regiment, August 1, 1812. Two commissions were given by Mr. Chas. R. Fosdick, appointing his father, Sylvester L. Fosdick, first, as captain in the Ohio state militia, signed by Ethan Allen Brown, 1820, the second appointing him adju- tant, 1825, and bearing the signature of Governor Jeremiah Morrow.
The donations to the Cabinets have been principally photographs and other pictures, among them a framed group of photographic views taken of the Portrait Exhibition held in Music Hall last spring, pre- sented by Mr. Alex. McDonald. A few household relics have been received, all of which are credited in the list of contributions.
The last gift to be mentioned is one of money from Miss J. C. Neave, for binding some of the valuable books presented by Judge Force last year. The Librarian can not refrain from expressing gratifi-
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cation at this timely gift. No greater need is felt in the Library than a fund for binding, and the hope is strong that the time is not far distant when some liberal-minded citizen will provide the way for putting our constantly accumulating accessions in better shape for use. It is satis- factory to note the increase from year to year in the number of in- dividual givers; acknowledgment is extended to thein for their gifts and to the many societies and institutions which have contributed their annual reports and publications. Many reports of home institu- tions are needed to make our collection complete.
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