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The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio served through the years. Upstairs is the bridal bedroom suite of Judge President-Editor ................. WALTER J. SHERMAN Secretary-Treasurer ·······-···-WILLIAM H. BLACK Wolcott, a massive solid set that would drive antique hunters mad to view. 1st Vice-President ··· - ···-·--WALTER A. EVERSMAN Librarian ·····-· ·······-············-······-NEVIN o. WINTER Zd Vice-President ............. WILLIAM A. GOSLINE Assistant Librarian .............................. CARL Vrrz In the hallway over the winding stairs, designed carefully with steps just to 3d Vice-President ......... MRS. LOUIS A. MENNELL fit the foot of Judge Wolcott, hangs a colonial lamp, that in turn has burned lard oil and other antique fuels and now is illuminated by an electric bulb. Term expiring 1914- Term expiring 1915- Term expiring 1916- CHARLES H. SHIELDS NEVIN 0. WINTJ:R WJLLIAM F. BROER The old home, set among restful trees, once was circled by a black walnut TRUSTEES { THOMAS H. WALBRIDGE WILLIAM A. GOSLINE MRS. KENT HAMILTON WALTER A. EVERSMAN BLAKE-MORE GODWIN SILAS E. HURIN fence. Inside, walnut and valuable woods finish off doorways and cupboards. RICHARD D. LOGAN GEORGE D. WELLES MRS. LOUIS A. MENNELL The ancient home will be the scene of the funeral services at 3 p. m. fULIAN H. TYLER EDMUND T. COLLINS WALTER J. SHERMAN Friday. All day Wednesday scores of persons who admired Mrs. Hull stopped OFFICES at the home. It was the request of Mrs. Hull that the services be where she President-E<litor-JOS Produce Exchange Building was born and had lived. It has been requested that there be no flowers. Secretary-Treasurer-16th Flool'--Znd National Bank Building Besides Miss Hull, there is one relative. A nephew of Mrs. Hull, Albert W . Gilbert, lives at 16 O3 Freeman street, Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Hull was a BULLETIN No. 1-VOL. 7 JANUARY, 1935 member of the St. Paul's Episcopal church of Maumee and a member of the Relief corps of the G. A. R. -By Russell Bremer, Toledo Blade, July 19, 1934. A LANCE FOR THEODOSIA BURR Being a Defense of an American Gentlewoman Stages from Detroit to Ohio.-We understand that the contract for carry ing the mail from this city to Ohio has been taken by a Company in that State, who intend to establish a line of stages, to run twice a week between By Daniel J. Ryan this place and lower Sandusky (Fremont). We have no doubt that they will (An address delivered before the Historical succeed, should the Black Swamp road be completed in season-such enter Society of North western Ohio) prises deserve encouragement. - Detroit Gazette, January, 1826. NOTE-The same paper on February 7, 1826, published the following: The Historical Novel "Today for the first time, a good substantial covered stage leaves Detroit for How far from the actual path of past facts may an author travel in the Ohio with passengers who may proceed if they please to the Atlantic cities historical novel? Is he justified in falsifying them to the degree that historic by the same kind of conveyance. The fare is four cents a mile." characters who are pure are made to appear as vile and those who are noble as vicious? ' There is no mystery about the construction of the historical novel· the "Vanderbilt's Daugbter," an old Virginia ballad:- author simply weaves a mantle of romance about a framework of fact~. It Is read and enjoyed with an avidity common to all peoples, and the noblest Vanderbilt's daughter said befo' she died dey wuz two mo' roads dat ¥.ens of literature have given us such specimens as "The Three Musketeers," she wanted tuh ride, Ivanhoe," "Henry Esmond," "Quo Vadis" and "Ben Hur." But in all these When ev'ry body wonduh what roads dem could be, 'twaz de Eas' novels, as well as others by their authors, there is a due regard for historical Coloraydo an' de Santy Fee .... accuracy when events are taken as their bases. The contemporary atmos phere, the customs of the period, and the character of historic personages He look at de watah, an' de watah wuz low, are not reversed, neither do they contradict nor pervert history. Look at his watch, an' de watch wuz slow, Brande Matthews, in his essay on "The Historical Novel," has written Look at de fiuhman an' he shuk his head, rather loosely and without seeming responsibility on this subject. Among Said: "Jim, we mout mek it, but we'll bofe be dead." others things he says: "We might even suggest that the liking for historical fiction is now so keen that the public is not at all particular as to the veracity of the history out of which the fiction has been manufactured, since it ac He reverse de engine, th'ew de levuh back ce?ts the invented facts of the 'Chronicles of Zenda' quite as eagerly as it re Twenty seb'm jumbos jump'd d e track, He holluhd to de fiuhman, say: ceives the better-documented 'Memoirs of a Minister of France'." These sug "Jim, yuh better jump, 'cause two locomotives is about tuh bump." gestions-that the public is not particular as to the brand of history used in writing novels, and that it "accepts" the invented facts in the Zenda litera -Time, August 6, 1934. ture-are certainly the merest arbitrary statements without merit, and with out any foundation as a matter of fact. If this is true the reading public must be a body of ignoramuses to willingly accept literature as historical where Progress in Pbotostating Newspapers.-"A prominent feature of the there is not the evidence justifying such a conclusion. And certain it is that historical service of the State Historical Society of Missouri is the photo no reader with knowledge enough to read "The Prisoner of Zenda" ever sup stating of Missouri newspapers .... As a matter of economy and convenience posed he was reading an historical novel. The public does not "accept" such the photostatic reproduction is r educed to ll"x14" size, the volumes then imaginative fiction as based on truth, any more than it does the "Graustark" being bound in library buckram. The paper used has a linen base and will novels. This class' of novels is not historical in any sense, nor has ever the withstand many years of use . ... Thus the danger from total loss by fire reading public so accepted them. In their entire web and woof they are the or other cause is minimized. It is of benefit too to hav·e old newspaper files purest fiction, and no suggestion is made by their authors that they are any centrally located in one fireproof library such as that of this Society, where thing else. Their production and their reading, widespread as it is, in no they are at all times available for use by the public." way justifies Professor Matthews' statements. The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio ~a~ed it. She was familiar with the best in English literature, and was pro c ent in the works of the philosophic and economic writers of that day spired me with a respect for that of your sex, and with some regret, I con Accomplished in all the graces of music, drawing and dancing she 0had fess, that the ideas which you have often heard me express in favor of female become. the hostess, at fourteen, of Richmond Hill, which was the center of Intellectual powers are founded on what I have imagined, more than what I ~~e society of New York. In the open hospitality of the day it was visited by have seen, except in you. I have endeavored to trace the causes of this rare e great, both of the new world a nd the old. Jefferson, Madison and Hamil display of genius in women, and find them in the errors of education, of ton .were often its guests and Count Volney, Jerome B'onaparte Talleyrand prejudice, and of habit. I admit that men are equally, nay more, much more Loms Phillippe and the educated Mohawk Chief, Joseph Brandt, all shared to blame than women. Boys and girls are generally educated much in the its generous board. This was her intellectual status at eighteen when she same way until they are eight or nine years of age, and it is admitted that married Colon~l Joseph Alston, of South Carolina, in 1801. She was equlp- girls make at least equal progress with the boys; generally, indeed they ped for entry mto the aristocratic society of the South by her training at make better. Why, then, has· it never been thought worth the attempt to home. discover, by fair experiment, the particular age at which the male superiority We. can only get a full measure of the rearing and education given becomes so evident?" Theodosia Burr by recalling the position of the American woman at that time in the highest social scale. All the educational facilities of this country Aaron Burr Believed in Equal Advantages for Men and Women ~uring the eighteenth century a nd the early part of the nineteenth wer~ Burr believed in the advance education of women as well as in their or young men. It was an accepted idea that girls did not need no; were equality with men. In his mind there was no distinction between the sexes they deeme~ capable of being educated as boys were. On this ~ubject an In the right of knowledge and justice. He was more than a hundred years American historian has written: "In those days an educated woman was ahead of his time in this way of thinking, among the rarest of rarities.