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Finance Committee of the House. Extended hearings were accorded before each of these committees and the interest in considering every item of the budget submitted by the Society was very gratifying. The attitude of the chairmen was reflected in the entire membership of the committees.

Other evidences of a growing interest in local history are seen in the action of the General Assembly in providing for the marking and care of historic sites in the state. Appropriations

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made authorizing the Society to purchase the site of Old Fort St. Clair in Preble County with adjacent grounds to be used for park purposes; providing for the erection of a monument on the site of the Indian town of Piqua captured by General George Rogers Clark in 1780; for

GENERAL GEORGE FLORENCE

the purchase of the site of Schoenbrun, near New Philadelphia, the Moravian village in which were erected the first church and the first school house in the Ohio Country 150 years ago. An appropriation was also made for work preparatory to the appropriate marking of the battlefield of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794, in what is now Lucas County.

In the last twenty years other states carved out of the Northwest Territory have made commendable progress in the collection and housing of everything relating to their history. Ohio, as we have pointed out, has been a follower rather than a leader in this work. The interest now manifest is therefore distinctly encouraging. It comes at what may be considered a turning point in the history of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society. Failure to provide for the erection of the wing to its building would have been a serious blow. With the favorable work of the General Assembly, all too inadequately set forth here, the future of the Society is assured. It now enters upon a new era of opportunity.

In these felicitations it would be unpardonable not to recognize the valuable service of Colonel Edward Orton, Jr., trustee of the Society and chairman of the building committee. He was ably assisted in his efforts by General Chauncey B. Baker, a veteran of the War with Spain and the World War, and General Harold M. Bush, who also served in both these wars. These two gentlemen appeared before the Finance Committees of both houses of the General Assembly and made very effective pleas for an appropriation to complete the Memorial wing as did also General George Florence, a member of the Board of Trustees.

It is a pleasure to present to the readers of the QUARTERLY the names of the gentlemen of the Finance Committees of the Senate and the House through whom the Society has received the most satisfactory recogni. tion accorded for many years:

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SOCIETY

REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS

BY THE EDITOR

DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J. RYAN Early Friday morning, June 15, 1923, Daniel Joseph Ryan, Vice President of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, breathed his last. He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly. He passed without pain "from the repose of sleep to the repose of death." This announcement brings sadness to the members of the Society and a large circle of friends. A sketch of Mr. Ryan's life and work will appear in the next issue of the QUARTERLY.

SARAH ELIZABETH REYNOLDS

We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Reynolds, a life member of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society and Secretary of the Historical Society of Preble County. At the age of seventy-seven years she departed this life April 5, 1923. She was the daughter of John M. and Sarah (Truax) Daugherty of Butler County, Ohio. She was educated in the district schools of Dickson Township, Preble County, and married Roddie Reynolds November 26, 1866. He was Secretary to General Ben Le

Fevre, Congressman from the Eaton District. He also served in the United States Navy during the Civil War and is said to have been the youngest commander in Later he was chief of division in the 6th

that war.

Auditor's office, Washington, D. C., a position which he held at the time of his death in 1884. He and Mrs. Reynolds were the parents of three children, two of whom are still living, L. C. Reynolds, attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. Nellie Eastman, wife of Professor George R. Eastman of Dayton, Ohio.

Mrs. Reynolds was one of the widest and most favorably known women of Preble County. She was active in all public and patriotic movements and organizations. She was past president of the local Woman's Relief Corps; Past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star; Staff Member of Great Pocahontas of Ohio and First Pocahontas in Eaton; member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; delegate to the National D. A. R. Convention at Washington in 1914, and member of the Richard Arnold Chapter at Washington, one of the first in the United States. As chairman of the Ladies' National

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