OFFICERS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAY 1909 TO MAY 1910. Honorary Vice Presidents, The Presidents of Local Historical Societies. ANFORD LIBRARY THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MAY 5 AND 6, 1910 MEMBERS AND FRIENDS URGED TO ATTEND The attention of the members of the Illinois State Historical Society is called to the approaching meeting of the Society to be held in the State Capitol Building at Springfield on Thursday and Friday, the 5th and 6th of May. Members who expect to attend will do well to secure hotel accommodations in advance. Many private houses are glad to provide sleeping accommodations and the Secretary of the Society will have a list of such houses and will be glad to reserve accommodations for members if requested to do so. The program committee as usual presents an excellent program and begs that the members will encourage the committee, and the officers of the Society, and show to the gentlemen who have given so much time and labor to the preparation of these addresses, their appreciation of their interest in, and labor for the Society. The officers and the members present were mortified at the last annual meeting at the small numbers who were present to listen to the most interesting and instructive addresses. This year the annual address will be given by Prof. F. L. Paxson, of the University of Michigan, and it will be an addition to the list of addresses with which the Society has been favored each year since its organization. Those persons who had the pleasure of hearing the addresses of Dr. E. J. James, Mr. Horace White, Gen. A. E. Stevenson, Dr. B. F. Shambaugh, Dr. F. J. Turner, Dr. R. G. Thwaites, Governor C. P. Johnson and others who have in the years past given the Society its annual addresses will not willingly miss hearing Professor Paxson. The full program is given below. There may be some changes in the arrangement, but it is substantially complete. You are not only urged to attend the meeting, but to make an effort to induce others to do so. It is one of the chief duties of the members of the Illinois State Historical Society to call the attention of the people of the State to the work of the Society and to spread and increase interest in it. ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO BE HELD IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING AT SPRINGFIELD, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MAY 5TH AND 6TH, 1910. PROGRAM OF EXERCISES. THURSDAY MORNING, 9:00 O'CLOCK. Meeting of the Board of Directors in the office of the Secretary of the Society. 10:00 o'clock-Business meeting of the Society. Reports of officers. Reports of committees. Reports of delegates from local Historical Societies. Miscellaneous business. Election of officers. Unfinished business. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:30 O'CLOCK. Address. Some Illinois Editors I Have Known. Gen. Smith D. Atkins, Freeport, Ill. Address. Negro Slavery in Illinois. Hon. John P. Hand, Cambridge, Ill. Address. The English Settlements in Edwards County, Ill. Hon. H. J. Strawn, Albion, Ill. THURSDAY EVENING, 8:00 O'CLOCK. Address. The Life and Services of Alfred Orendorff, late President of the Illinois State Historical Society. Hon. James A. Creighton, Springfield, Ill. Lecture with Stereopticon Views. The Archaeology of the Mississippi Valley. Dr. Warren K. Moorhead, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. |