Book Description

These records consist of a single record book containing the minutes of meetings from January 22, 1918 to October 22, 1918, when the meetings were stopped due to the influenza outbreak. During the year the Post presented its cannon to the Mellon family for display at the Mellon house near Penn and Negley Avenues in East Liberty. A letter from Thomas Mellon thanking the members for the gift and his honorary membership is included (see pages 5, 33, 37 & 65 of the record book). The Post also approves for a letter of support for a bill to increase veteran's pensions to be sent to Senator Knox (page 29). Portions of the record book have been used as a scrapbook with numerous newspaper and magazine clippings with pictures have been pasted into the book. It also includes hand written transcripts of important Civil War era documents. Among these are a brief biography of Abraham Lincoln, his two inaugural addresses, a chronological record of the war and a biography of Col. Edward A. King, 68th Indiana Volunteers. Two photographs have been separated and are housed in a single file folder as MFQ# 2916. One image is of Post members Ross, Gill, Lynn, Burke, Dickison, McNair, Ryan, Evans & Brown visiting the children at the Lemington School on May 29, 1918. The second image is a post card of a group, possible Post members and their families, in sight seeing vehicle with the sign "Cliff House San Francisco, Cal."