Sketch of the life of Edwin B. Stillman, in the Jefferson FreeLance, November 20, 1913. Jerome Cabana, Aged Fur Trader Living at Sioux City, in the Sioux City Tribune, November 22, 1913. Pioneer Days in Plymouth County, in the Akron Register-Tribune, November 27, December 11, 18, 25, 1913. The Mormon Exodus of 1846, in the Burlington Gazette, November 28, 1913. James Harlan: The Biography of a Great Iowan, in the Sioux City Journal, November 30, 1913. Kretzinger, the School Teacher, in the Keokuk Gate City, November 30, 1913. The Grasshopper Scourge - An Incident of Early Iowa Days, in the Fort Dodge Messenger, December 1, 1913. Sketch of the life of Ira C. Walker, in the Winterset Madisonian, December 3, 1913. Buffalo Hunts Along Western Iowa, in the Hampton Chronicle, December 4, 1913. Notes of the Olden Times, in the Wyoming Journal, December 4, 1913. Early Days in Story County, in the Ames Tribune, December 4, 1913. Fremont County Before the Red Men Were Gone, in the Sidney Herald, December 5, 1913. Pioneer Life in Sioux County, in the Alton Democrat, December 6, 1913. Only Living Person Who Sang With Jenny Lind Now a Resident of Indian Graves at Montrose, in the Montrose Journal, December 18, 1913. Sketch of the life of Thomas R. Rankin, in the Burlington Gazette, December 18, 1913. First School in Calhoun County, in the Carroll Times, December 18, Early Days in Iowa, in the Stockport News, December 19, 1913. Sketch of the life of Col. Charles A. Clark, in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 22, 1913. Sketch of the life of Alvah Gillett, in the Hampton Chronicle, December 25, 1913. Events in the History of the Town of Irwin, in the Harlan Republican, December 25, 1913. Christmas in Iowa Long Ago, in the Marcus News, December 25, 1913. Sketch of the life of Elihu Ives, in the Marion Register, December 26, 1913. Steamboat Race of Early Days, in the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, December 28, 1913. Fifty-two Years in Iowa, by Mrs. D. W. King, in the Sioux City Journal, December 28, 1913. Sketch of the life of Col. George W. Crosley, in the Webster City Freeman-Tribune, December 29, 1913. Sketch of the life of Mrs. Maria Purdy Peck, in the Davenport Democrat, January 2, 1914. VOL. XII-10 HISTORICAL SOCIETIES PUBLICATIONS Louis Pelzer's paper on the Economic Factors in the Acquisition of Louisiana has been reprinted from the Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Among the contents of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register for October are: a biography of Aaron Sargent, by Frank Mortimer Hawes; and some Barbadian Notes, by G. Andrews Moriarty. The combined July and October numbers of the Virginia State Library Bulletin are devoted to An Author and Subject Index to the Southern Historical Society Papers, compiled by Mrs. Kate Pleasants Minor. Bulletin No. 1, issued by the Michigan Historical Commission, contains an article on The Michigan Historical Commission: Its Inception, Organization, Administration and Aims, prepared by George Newman Fuller. The Commission was created by an act of the legislature in 1913. In the October number of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, under the heading of Virginia in 1677, may be found some papers relating to the proceedings of the commissioners sent from England to put down Bacon's Rebellion, and to their quarrels with Governor Berkeley and the General Assembly. An address on the Civil War in Missouri, by George S. Grover; the Report of the Committee on Old Landmarks, by John L. Thomas; the fourth installment of Sketches of Livingston County, by L. T. Collier; and some Schuyler Letters from the collection of Duane Mowry are contributions in the October number of the Missouri Historical Review. Bulletin No. 1, issued by the Department of Archaeology of the Missouri Historical Society (St. Louis) is entitled Prehistoric Objects Classified and Described. The writer is Gerard Fowke. While there are some excellent illustrations and while the contents are praiseworthy, it is to be regretted that the pamphlet is not printed more attractively. The March, 1913, number of The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society opens with a reprint of the Report of Lieutenant Neil M. Howison on Oregon, 1846. In addition to this report, which occupies the greater part of the magazine, there are two short articles: Oregon in 1863, by Thomas W. Prosch; and An Indian Agent's Experience in the War of 1886, by Henry C. Coe. The Constitution of the State of Washington is the central theme of the three articles in the October number of The Washington Historical Quarterly. Lebbeus J. Knapp discusses the Origin of the Constitution of the State of Washington; John R. Kinnear contributes some Notes on the Constitutional Convention; and Theodore L. Stiles writes on The Constitution of the State and its Effects Upon Public Interests. Volume twelve, number one of The James Sprunt Historical Publications, published under the direction of the North Carolina Historical Society, contains two papers: The Governor, Council, and Assembly in Royal North Carolina, by Charles S. Cooke; and Land Tenure in Proprietary North Carolina. Number two of this same volume is devoted to a study of The Indians of North Carolina and their Relations with the Settlers. The October number of the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute contains, among other things, continuations of Benjamin F. Browne's Youthful Recollections of Salem; and of A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the Year 1863, by Alfred Poore. There is also a list of Seamen from Salem and Vicinity Impressed by British War Vessels, 1800-1813, and the fourth installment of Sidney Perley's article on Northfields, Salem, in 1700. The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1911-1912 is a volume of nearly three hundred pages. Among the contents are: an address on The Undoing of Burgoyne, by Isaac Jennings; a brief account of The Bennington Declaration for Freedom; an Index to the Vermonter, volumes one to seventeen, compiled by E. Lee Whitney; and an index to Zadock Thompson's History of Vermont, compiled by William Arba Ellis. The Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society, covering the two-year period ending June 30, 1912, has appeared. The report includes the proceedings of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh annual meetings of the Society, the report of the committee appointed to prepare a correct map of the Santa Fé trail across Kansas, and a list of Kansas newspapers down to October 1, 1913. There is also an account of the laying of the corner stone of the new Memorial and Historical Building of the Society at Topeka. The Movement for State Division in California, 1849-1860, by William Henry Ellison, is the opening contribution in the October number of The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. In a third installment of his monograph on The Louisiana-Texas Frontier, Isaac Joslin Cox continues his discussion of the American occupation of the much disputed frontier. The installment of Correspondence from the British Archives Concerning Texas, 1837-1846, edited by Ephraim Douglass Adams, consists chiefly of letters from William Kennedy to Lord Aberdeen. In a paper on Indiana History and its Celebration, which appears in the September number of The Indiana Magazine of History, James Albert Woodburn makes a plea for a fitting commemoration in 1916 of the centennial of Indiana's admission into the Union. A study of The Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in Indiana is presented by William Christian Gerichs. In a third installment of her Sketches of Early Indiana Senators Nina Kathleen Reid tells of the career of William Hendricks. Two other contributions are: The Indians on the Mississinewa, by Sarah Jane Line; and Some Suggestions for Teaching Civil Government, by Logan Esarey. |