Identifier: annalsofiowa04howe (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Publisher: (Des Moines, etc., Iowa State Historical Dept., Division of Historical Museum and Archives, etc.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ated as aids to education, and it marks an epoch ofour local history when the State supplements the general educational ad-vantages of our State University and colleges and schools with the founda-tion of a historical museum freely accessible to all its people. We mayconfidently hope that citizens of the State will actively co-operate in itsdevelopment here, as elsewhere in the Union, by liberal contributions toits enlargement. The Historical Department, for which the State is providing a home,will be an important auxiliary in the development of the higher educationof our future citizens. Older and more populous States have establishedthe precedents for it. Our united republic has also given in its historicmuseum at Washington a brilliant example of its popular advantages.Throngs of citizens from all parts of our country wander through its gal-leries with wonder and delight and improvement. Vast additional collec-tions await another building for their exhibition. It is acknowledged to
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HON. JOHN A. KASSON, LL. D. Representative in the General Assembly, 1868-73; Representative in Congress, 1863-67,1873-77 and 1881-84; U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryto Austro-Hungary, 1879-81; Envoy Extraordinary and MinisterPlenipotentiary to Germany, 1884-85, etc., etc. I IOWA HISTORICAL BUILDING. 91 be one of the best methods for the diffusion of knowledge among men.This was the avowed purpose of John Smithson in his donation to theUnited States upon which the Smithsonian Institution was founded. Thegovernment, being finally awakened to its importance, contributed to itsdevelopment, and is now committed to its maintenance and wider exten-sion. From the surplus of its collections it also contributes to the growthof similar enterprises in the states where the authorities show a lively in-terest in the encouragement of like institutions. It is a center of scientificinterest and of men of science, who there pursue their studies in the lightof nature and of histor

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