The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-17
BRONZE TABLET
FOR AMI B. YOUNG
The Architect of the State
House, Is Suggested
by the Society

the 1OloWmg officers were electeu 1C
the year ensuing: President, w. "
Stickney of Ludlow; vice presidents, Ere
A. Rowland OF Montpelier, Hon. Fran
plumley of Mortified, Charles p. Smit
of Burlington; recording secretary, PHI
secretaries, Dorman B. L. Kent of Mont
pelier and Walter I'll. Crockett of Bur
lington; librarian, Dorman b. 4. Kent
No change was made in the list of cura
tors but the auditor of accounts, being
member of the list, Benjamin Gates au
Dramatically succeeds Horace s. Graham
A committee was appointed to reques
tina legislature to appropriate sum t.
be used to purchase a bronze tablet o
Ami B. Young, the architect who de
signed the State House building.
Report of Librarian.
The report of the librarian is as fol
lows:
To the Hon. William w. Stickney,
President of the Vermont His
torical Society.
Sir:
I have the honor as librarian to sub
nit to You as president my report of the
work done in the library of the Vermont
Historical society, and with it, advise
You of our accessions in both the library
and the museum for the year terminal.
ing on this date, Jan. l6, 1917.
We have had for our disposal during
the year ending Feb. | next, our usual
appropriation of $500 from the state for
the purchase Of books and for binding
OF this sum, $499.s0 has been expended
and the balance of 20 cents will be turned
back to the Vermont state treasurer
sometime this month.
OF the appropriation, $457,So was used
for the purchase of books and $42 for
binding.
As understand the law, sum not to
exceed 800 OF the sum allowed us may
be annually expended for binding books
and pamphlets. Many of the very best
and most valuable of the older genealo-
gies and town histories are bound in pa
per only and this year | have had bound
in cloth some several of such works that
have accumulated.
] have long known too that the society
has meyer possessed in compact form a
complete collection of our own proceed
ings. Such collection has been gathered
and it is now bound in 10 volumes of
uniform size and appearance.
During the past year / have bought
but q genealogies for the society, at an
average cost of 1904.
Some years ago, such works averaged
in the aggregate about SIS each, but like
all other things one has to have, gem
ealogies too have commenced to soar in
price. The reason more genealogies have
not been purchased is not that / have
not found many for sale which we do
not own but rather, that this year it
seemed TO me we ought to set aside a
substantial sum from our annual appro-
priation in order that we, the Historical
Society of Vermont, might secure for our
shelves many books relating to our com
that we did not already pos
sess.
Accordingly in June last, | went to
Rutland and selected from the stock of
the futile company some " volumes
properly belonging in any collection of
Vermont books.
have also picked up from time to
time at private sale some few other Yer
mont books and these together with
about 10 miscellaneous volumes brings
our total accession by purchases during
the year of about 125 volumes of gen.
town histories and books of |
value to Vermonters at an average cost |
Of 1896 each
In connection with the above it may |
be stated that we now own some 430 |
the state 2I2 and the Yer
mont Society of Colonial Danes has de- |
posted with us ~, making about ia /
books on family history, an increase of
nearly 500 volumes in five years.
We have in addition over 300 New Eng
and town histories and these together
With those owned by the state makes a
sum total of nearly l.500 volumes of ire
nendous value to students of history.
The Colonial Danes have again added to
heir collection of books, under the SUI
,ervision of Mrs. Wallace G. Andrews of
his city, and your librarian. These
,ooks are loaned, permanently ! believe,
o our society and the coming year their
appropriation for such work has been in
reased to 5000. | am certain the thanks
# all the members of this society are
ue and given to these women for their
,indness and interest in assisting us to
ather under one roof as complete a col
ection of family and town histories as I
an be found north of Boston in New
highland. 4,
In May last. an artist from New York !
anne TO the capitol to clean and revar- {
ish the portraits of the governors. Ar |
angements with this man and the state :
uditor were made whereby our own {
aintings, some 20 in all, were cleaned 4
7ithout expense to the society. Is
We have been given this year by the &
amily an excellent oil painting OF the :
,ev. Aaron Leland. This man, as YOU
now, was a Baptist minister Of parts
nd ability. who was lieutenant governor
+ Vermont from 1922 to 1877. Judging
rom the expression OF his face in the :
ieture we own he certainly must have
zen a terror to eyil-d0ers.
Last March / received from Frank H.
oster, trustee of the Burrows estate Of
Iadison, Wis, a large oil painting OF
'aniel ?. Thompson, the historian. This
keness shows him smooth faced, man
{ about IS and it, existence was hither-
, unknown, not alone TO us Of the 80
ETY. but 20 his relatives here in the East
! well. And curiously enough We have
isoovere6 another unknown likeness OF