The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-14
AmERICA,s HISTORY.

The Growing Taste for Genealogy-Ameri-
cans Taking Decided Interest In Their
Country's Historic Past-Interesting Evil
dences of This Fact.
The rapidly growing and active Inter
est of Americans in the history of the
United States is every day more and
more apparent. On this subject the fol-
lowing from the New York Telegram
has special local as well as general in
terest:
AMERICA ACQUIRING A HISTORY.
There are not wanting cheering signs
that the people of the United States are
acquiring a history and are conscious
of, and therefore worthy of, that fact
Since this people passed the century
mark in their national existence re-
spectacle number of other anniversaries,
some of them of peculiar dignity and in
terest have been celebrated. Every
one of these, from the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary OF the colonization
of Guilford Conn.,, by forty planters
from the yeomanry of England and its
large following crop of similar New
England obseryances, to the late worlds
fair Columbian exposition, every ONE
of these occasions has contributed its
part to the growth in the popular reali-
cation that this country is really begin
ming to have past.
There are varied manifestations Of
this national consciousness. A some
what general and quite admissible, and,
in fact, very useful, manifestation in the
growing taste for genealogy, as evidenc-
ed by the rage for the conversion of the
old-time family tree into what is now
called the family book. Guilford, the
town above instanced, had, until half a
dozen years ago, its genealogist in the
person of DIR. Alvan Talcott, a notable
scholar as well as physician, who had
devoted the leisure of an extraordinari-
ly prolonged country practice to the Gre
alton of a remarkable manuscript gen
ealogical volume, containing the core
lated records of every descendant Of the
towns forty original settlers up to the
date Of DR.. Talcott's death in 1889,
Singularly enough, the sentiment OF
pride in history and ancestry had up to
that time so little developed in Gull
ford that that community would not ac-
cept and publish the preferred free gift
of DR. Talcott's life work and, there
fore, it was bequeathed to Yale college.
Among the number of other amateur
genealogical students of hardly less
longevity and enthusiasm and accuracy
than DR.. Taleott, Brooklyn has one, still
surviving, in the person of Mr.. James
I. Benedict.
Yet another and still more useful out
come of what might be called this grow
ing historical sense Is its materializa-
ton into magazine literature. Withia
couple of years the Evening Telegram
has already performed the pleasant Of
fee of welcoming the advent of two his
torieal magazines and it now welcomes
the third The earlier ones were the
American Monthly, issued in Washing
ton, D. c., from No 1416 F street, West,
of which Miss Mary M. Barclay is the
business head; and the American His
torical Register, published at No. 12l
South Sixth street. Philadelphia, whose
editor-in-chief is Charles II. Browning
of the American Historical association.
1t was natural. under these circum-
stances, that New York city could not
long remain without a corresponding
historical publication of its own. III
comes as Vol. ], No |, and the August
number, of the Colonial Magazine, pub
lished at No. 2O6 Fifth avenue. Its edi-
tor is f. e. Bosworth, with whom are
associated Raymond Newton Hyde and
James Clarence Hyde. 1t is exeellentlY
gotten up, carefully and sensibly edited
and muniticently illustrated. Among
its several admirable features are con.
tribution by Ex-Governor John Lee Car
roll president General Society Sons OF
the Revolution, on Echoes of Colonia
Days and Memories of Our Revolution;
one on Women as Factors in Patriotic
| Movements by Mrs. Edward Paule
Steers, president Of Daughters Of tbs
Revolution; and one upon washington
and the Union" by Bishop futile, pres
ident of the Missouri Sons Of the Revo
! luton.
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