Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 274
chieve a public service greater thanthis, or which will be more felt by posterity in that which willforever make its dearest part, its moral and intellectual being.* Speaking on this subject, Mr. Robert C. Winthropf says ofMr. Vinton: It was to him that Ohio owed the passage of a *For the debate on… … Samuel Finley Vinton. 241 law authorizing and empowering her lyegislature to sell theschool lands which had been granted her by Congress in 1803,and which covered a full thirty-sixth part of her whole terri-tory, and to invest the proceeds in a permanent fund, of whichthe income should be forever…
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