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Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society
Publications.
TRIBUTE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
BY MRS. EDGAR M. HATTON, REGENT.
At the service held at the Chittenden
Hotel, Sunday, Feb-
ruary 1, in memory of the late Mr.
Emilius Oviatt Randall, the
only floral tribute was a simple but
beautiful cyclamen, white,
with a touch of purple, the symbol of
royalty, and I was re-
minded of the first wild ones I gathered
on the site of the
Emperor Hadrian's villa at Trivoli,
Italy, springing so simply
from the soil whereon once had stood a
palace. In Monte Carlo
they are cultivated to a wonderful
beauty and in great profusion
and, as my uncle and I once stood there
in admiration of them,
he said: "They are
aristocrats." As aristocrats they have al-
ways appealed to me since; consequently
their presence at the
Randall memorial had a peculiar
significance to me, for Mr.
Randall was an aristocrat in the highest
sense of the word, not
as being descended from kings and
queens-though he may
have been-but as possessing true
nobility of character and
royalty of mind and heart.
On that memorial day beautiful tributes
of love and admira-
tion were laid upon the altar of
remembrance by representatives
of the Kit-Kat Club, the Ohio Supreme
Court, the Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society,
the City Library and the
Sons of the American Revolution, with
all of which he had been
so intimately and honorably connected
through long years of
faithful service. Then there was the
tribute to him as a man,
given by his friend and collaborator,
Hon. Daniel J. Ryan.
I felt then and I feel now that Columbus
Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, would
be untrue to its sense
of obligation and appreciation if it,
too, did not lay an immortelle
at his flag-enfolded portrait. Mr.
Randall was a warm friend
of Columbus Chapter; we have this
assurance in his last days,
which we did not need, for his
ever-ready response to any de-
mand we might make upon his time,
strength and intellect was
sufficient guarantee of his regard. In looking through our
programs of the last 20 years, I find contribution after contribu-