NOTES AND COMMENT

The Iowa Engineering Society held its eighteenth annual meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, January 10-11, 1906.

The twelfth annual meeting of the Iowa State Bar Association will be held in Des Moines, July 14-15, 1906.

The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association will be held at Cedar Rapids, June 11-13, 1906.

The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, published at Columbus, Ohio, begins the ninth volume with the January, 1906, issue.

The Scottish Nobility and Their Part in the National History, by Professor P. Hume Brown, is the title of a readable essay which appears in The Scottish Historical Review for January, 1906.

In the seventh biennial report of the Iowa Historical Department, Curator Charles Aldrich urges the importance of providing a hall of archives for the preservation of the State papers and documents.

It is proposed by the American Political Science Association to publish a quarterly journal or review of Political Science. Professor W. W. Willoughby, of Johns Hopkins University, will act as managing editor.

Municipal Problems in Mediaeval Switzerland, by John M. Vincent, is the title of an article in a recent issue of Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

Volumes III and IV of the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York have been recently distributed to libraries. These volumes are published by the State under the supervision of Hugh Hastings, the State Historian.

The Upper Des Moines Editorial Association of Iowa held its thirty-first semi-annual meeting at Iowa City, January 18 and 19,

1906. The officers for the ensuing year are: John F. Dalton, of Manson, President; J. W. Jarnigan, of Cedar Falls, Vice President; and L. M. Adams, of Humboldt, Secretary and Treasurer. The next meeting will be held at Cedar Falls.

The Iowa Association of Southern California held its seventh annual meeting at Los Angeles, California, February 22, 1906. An account of the meeting appears in The Register and Leader (Des Moines) of March 11, 1906.

The Public Papers of George Clinton, first Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804, volume VII, with imprint, 1904, was distributed in January, 1906. This series of historical documents is edited by the State Historian of New York and published by authority of the legislature.

The fortieth session of the Iowa State Horticultural Society was held in Des Moines, Iowa, December 12, 13, and 14, 1905. Joint sessions were held on December 12 with the Farmers Institute and with the Iowa Park and Forestry Association.

By the will of the late W. C. Putnam, the Davenport Academy of Sciences becomes the beneficiary of an estate valued approximately at six hundred thousand dollars. This gift makes the Davenport Academy (located at Davenport, Iowa) prospectively the most richly endowed institution of its kind in the world.

The Iowa Anthropological Association held its third annual meeting in the Hall of Physics, at Iowa City, on February 3, 1906. The papers and discussions related chiefly to the Meskwaki Indians. Sev. eral representatives of the tribe at Tama, Iowa, were present. The officers chosen for the ensuing year are: Benj. F. Shambaugh, President; J. H. Paarmann, Vice President; Duren J. H. Ward, Secretary; and Frederick E. Bolton, Treasurer.

The Third Annual Report of the Davenport Public Library, 1905, was issued in March, 1906. From the Report it will be found that the library has 19,731 volumes. During 1905 the accessions aggre

gated 6,664 volumes, 3,798 being from the Davenport Library Association and 807 from Griswold College. The library contains 4,173 public documents. The German collection comprises 841 volumes. During 1905, 1,169 volumes were rebound. The library has on deposit a file of 233 volumes of newspapers, the records of the history of Davenport since 1841.

The Stars and Stripes Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Burlington, Iowa, has recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the first unfurling of the flag on the present site of Burlington, Iowa, by Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike, by the erection of a bronze tablet twenty-one by fourteen inches, upon which appears the following inscription: "1805-1905. Commemorative of the first unfurling of the Stars and Stripes by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike (son of a Revolutionary hero), who landed here August 23, 1805."

WILLIAM J. HADDOCK

William J. Haddock was born February 28, 1832, at Toome Bridge, near Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland. He emigrated in 1849 to Pennsylvania, and resided in Philadelphia from January, 1850, until the Spring of 1856. Emigrating westward, Mr. Haddock came to Chicago for a brief visit. From Chicago he went by way of Davenport to Iowa City, where he arrived April 10, 1856. Going to Linn County, he first secured employment as a farm hand; and later he taught school. During the year 1858-59 he entered the Normal Department of The State University of Iowa and graduated with the class of 1861. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar, having previously served an apprenticeship in a law office. He was appointed Secretary of The State University of Iowa, June 28, 1864, which position he held until September, 1902. In the practice of law he entered into partnership with Hon. Rush Clark, February 8, 1867, which partnership continued until the death of Mr. Clark, April 28, 1879. On September 23, 1872, he was appointed Judge of the eighth judicial district of Iowa for an unexpired term. In 1863-64 he was Superintendent of the schools of Johnson County. He was

also a member of the commission appointed to investigate the Pawnee Indian agency frauds. After 1902 Mr. Haddock retired. Death came February 28, 1906. An appreciative life sketch by John Springer may be found in The Iowa Alumnus for March, 1906.

T. J. F.

DAVID BREMNER HENDERSON

David B. Henderson was born at Old Deer, Scotland, March 14, 1840. In 1846 he emigrated with his parents to Illinois; and three years later he came to Iowa. Until twenty-one years of age Mr. Henderson resided on a farm, receiving his education in the rural schools and at the Upper Iowa University. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Twelfth Iowa Infantry, and was soon elected and commissioned as First Lieutenant. On February 16, 1863, having been severely wounded at Corinth, he was discharged. In the following May he was appointed Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment of the third district of Iowa, which position he relinquished in June, 1864, to reënter the service as Colonel of the Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry. In this position he remained until the close of the war. Returning to Dubuque, he studied law with

the firm of Bissel & Shiras and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1865. In November, 1865, he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the third district of Iowa and served until June, 1869, when he resigned to become a member of the law firm of Shiras, Van Duzee & Henderson. He served nearly two years as Assistant United States District Attorney for the northern division of the district of Iowa, resigning in 1871. In 1882 Mr. Henderson was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Fortyeighth Congress. For the nine succeeding Congresses he was reelected, serving as Speaker of the House in the Fifty-sixth and Fiftyseventh Congresses, 1899-1903. In Congress Mr. Henderson was personally popular within and without his party. He was frequently a member of important committees, and was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. His work in Congress related largely to the policy of protection, the currency, agricultural interests, and the care of the

veterans of the Civil war. Reëntering the practice of law at Dubuque he had vast interests consigned to his care.

His death occurred on February 25, 1906, as a result of paresis, from which he suffered during the nine preceding months.

The funeral ceremonies took place at Dubuque on March 1, the oration being given by the Hon. George D. Perkins, of Sioux City, Iowa. T. J. F.

CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES IN IOWA FOR 1905 The Iowa Census of Manufactures, 1905, has appeared as Bulletin Number 32 of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Labor. It shows that the total capital invested during the period, 1900-1905, increased $25,760,095 or 30.1 per cent, the increase being greater in the smaller cities of the State. The value of the products increased $27,701,448 or 20.8 per cent. This increase has been chiefly in cities of 8,000 population or over, the increase in the smaller cities being but 9.9 per cent. The average number of wage earners increased 5,061 or 11.4 per cent; while the total wages increased $4,976,400 or 27.6 per cent. The per cent of increase of wage earners among women was greater than among men, being 27.7 per cent. There was a decrease of 39.6 per cent in the number of children employed. This decrease in child labor is perhaps due in part to the recent agitation for child labor legislation.

Grouping the industries by value of products, slaughtering and meat-packing ranks first, the value of products for 1905 being $30,074,070 or 18.7 per cent of the total for all industries. Cheese, butter, and condensed milk ranks second; flour and grist mill products third; printing and publishing (which had been sixth in 1900) fourth; and lumber and timber products (which ranked fourth in 1900) ranks eighth in 1905. There is a very marked tendency toward concentration in the cheese and butter industry, the number of establishments having decreased 27.8 per cent while the value of the products remains practically the same.

There has been a very marked increase (73.2 per cent) in the value of products from the pearl button industry.