Biennial Report Of The Trustees Of The Illinois State Historical Library

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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1910 Dear Sir - We have the honor to submit to you the biennial report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library for the period ending Sept. 30, 1910. During this period a complete change has taken place in the personnel of the board. The death of the Hon. George N. Black of Springfield which occurred in April, 1908, deprived the board of one of its most loyal and experienced members. Mr. Black was trustee of the library for eleven years, and during a large part of that time served as secretary of the board. This vacancy was filled in October, 1909, by the appointment of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt of Chicago. During the spring and summer of 1910, the resignations of President Edmund J. James and Dr. McKendree H. Chamberlin left vacancies which were filled by the appointment of Professor Evarts B. Greene of the University of Illinois and President Charles H. Rammelkamp of Illinois College, Jacksonville. As a result of these changes in personnel, the board has been reorganized as follows: Evarts B. Greene, President; Charles H. Rammelkamp, Vice-President; Otto L. Schmidt, Secretary. All the new members of the hoard have been for many years actively associated with the work of the State Historical Library or the State Historical Society. It is now twenty-one years since this board was organized and a brief survey of its history seems appropriate. The first organic act was that of May 25. 1889. establishing the Illinois State Historical Library. The preamble of this act reads as follows: Whereas. It Is important and desirable that all books, pamphlets, and other printed matter, manuscripts, monographs and other writings, illustrative and descriptive of the history of the State, be collected and preserved In some permanent form, before it is too late to rescue from oblivion the memory of its earlier history, and those who founded it. as well as those who have been connected with its rise and progress in later days. The first and second sections of the Act provided for the establishment of the "Illinois State Historical Library" with quarters in the State House. Section 3 provided for three trustees to he appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate and section i defined their functions, authorizing them to "make all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws not inconsistent with law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.