WESTERN


                          FREEDMEN'S AID COMMISSION,

                              CINCINNATI, OHIO.

                         [ORGANIZED JANUARY, 1863.]


                                   OFFICERS. 
   President ..........REV. ADAM POE, D.D., AGENT METHODIST BOOK CONCERN.
                       REV. R. H. POLLOCK, COR. SEC. REF. BOOK AND TRACT SOCIETY.
                       REV. M. L. P. THOMPSON, D.D., SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
   Vice-Presidents.    HON. BELLAMY STORER, JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT.
                       REV. D. H. ALLEN, D. D., PRES'T LANE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
                       REV. C. B. BOYNTON, D. D., VINE-ST. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
   Treasurer ..........J. F. LARKIN, FIRM OF LARKIN, FOX & CO., BANKERS.
        Corresponding Secretary .......................REV. JOHN M. WALDEN.
        Recording Secretary ...........................JAMES B. LUPTON.
        General Agent  ................................LEVI COFFIN.
                                       WM. P. NIXON,
        Auditors ..................................... DR. J. TAFT.

                               BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
        WILLIAM PENN NIXON ..............................................CHAIRMAN.
        THOMAS KENNEDY ..................................................SECRETARY.
LEVI COFFIN,.            REV. G. M. MAXWELL,    EDWARD HARWOOD,
REV. ADAM POE, D. D.,    DR. J. P. WALKER;      REV. D. H. ALLEN, D. D.,
J. F. LARKIN,            REV. H. M. STORRS,     REV. C. KINGSLEY, D. D.,
REV. R. H. POLLOCK,      REV. J. M. WALDEN,     REV. C. B. BOYNTON, D. D.
              M. SAWYER,               RICHARD B. PULLAN.



            TO OUR PATRONS AND THE PUBLIC.
   THE subjoined Report was made by the Corresponding Secretary of the
Western Freedmen's Aid Commission to a delegated Convention held in
Indianapolis, Indiana, July 19 and 20, 1864, at which the following So-
cieties of the West laboring in behalf of the National Freedmen were
represented, namely: Western Sanitary Commission, St. Louis; Western
Freedmen's Aid Commission, Cincinnati; Contraband Relief Commission,
Cincinnati; Cleveland Freedmen's Aid Commission, Cleveland; Indiana
Freedmen's Aid Commission, Indianapolis; Friends' Aid Committee, Rich-
mond, Indiana; North-Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, Chicago. It
was first published by order of the Convention with the minutes and




			

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Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, Cincinnati, Ohio, Report