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dresses followed by Hon. Geo. E. Pomeroy
of Toledo, Past
Governor of Society Colonial Wars; Prof.
G. F. Frederick
Wright, Hon. James M. Richardson of
Cleveland, President
General Sons of the American Revolution
and Colonel Webb C.
Hayes. To all who attended the exerices
were of great interest
and made the day memorable while the
hospitality of Port Clin-
ton's patriotic people to all the
visiting delegates will long be
gratefully remembered. Prof. Wright in
his afternoon address
called attention to an interesting fact.
He said that both monu-
ments were of boulders which had come
from what was originally
British soil, carried down by ice floes
probably about ten thou-
sand years ago from upper Lake Huron and
Lake Superior
regions and deposited on Ohio's soil.
MRS. KITE'S ADDRESS.
It is a well known saying that
"Nations are ungrateful.".
Even Washington Irving said, "The
idol of today pushes the
hero of yesterday out of our
recollections, and will in turn be
supplanted by his successor of
tomorrow."
While all this may have been true in the
past, it is hardly
justified now.
The changed condition is largely due to
the tremendous in-
fluence of patriotic societies, so ably
represented here today, an
influence which is rapidly increasing
year by year, and is being
recognized as a power in state and
national legislation.
The marking of historic sites, locating
important trails, dis-
covering Revolutionary graves has been
no easy task.
The success attending such efforts is
wonderful, and reflects
great credit upon the local and state
committees having such
matters in charge.
It has been up-hill work because of the
general utilitarian
and too practical spirit of many
Americans, who are prone to
place land values upon a financial,
rather than a patriotic or sen-
timental basis; but perseverance and
fidelity to a set purpose,
have conquered in many instances over
commercialism, and thus
we have our monuments and many old
buildings restored and
saved.
Bacon has said, "Industrious
persons, by an exact and
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scrupulous diligence and observation,
out of monuments, names,
words, proverbs, traditions, private
records and evidences, frag-
ments of stories, passages of books that
concern not story, and
the like, do save and recover somewhat
from the deluge of time."
In all such work none have been more
enthusiastic and
untiring in their efforts than the
Daughters of the American
Revolution.
It needed but the suggestion of Col.
Hayes, backed by his
wonderful enthusiasm and zeal, to start
the "Ohio Daughters"
on their work of helping to locate the
most historic trail in the
state, running from Port Clinton to
Columbus, now known as
the "Harrison Trail."
My illustrious precedessor, Mrs. Clayton
R. Truesdall then
state regent, received the suggestion
with her usual clear headed,
farsighted grasp of the situation, and
enthusiastically presented
the subject to the Daughters of the
American Revolution at their
next state conferences held in Athens.
With Mrs. Truesdall "to think is to
act," and in her usual
convincing manner made the members of
our society see the
matter from her view point; and the
tablet to mark the end of
the Harrison Trail was assured, also
much necessary work
from the Historic Sites committee, of
which Mrs. John T.
Mack of Sandusky is the most efficient
chairman.
All over Ohio the Daughters of the
American Revolution
are doing splendid work along the same
lines.
In this connection, the largest
undertaking in which we are
concerned is the "Ocean to Ocean
Highway," to be formed by
successive old roads and trails.
It seems tremendous in its scope and
expense, but if com-
pleted will be the proudest achievement
of modern times.
The work is well started in Ohio, and
will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
Much has been accomplished by our
society in this work in
Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and other
western states, and with
our rapidly increasing membership formed
of the best and truest
women in the land, success must of
necessity crown any effort
of ours.
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The short inscription of this tablet we
are honoring today,
gives concisely historic facts which all
may read.
It does not need a very vivid
imagination to see and feel
all the labor, sacrifice, bloodshed,
aching hearts and desolate
homes which are summed up in these
facts.
We exult over the victories achieved,
and thrill with horror
over the martyrdom of Col. Crawford.
His name is on the bead-roll of fame,
and we all unite to
honor his memory, (and here it gives me
pleasure to state that
our newest chapter, in Bucyrus, is named
"Hannah Crawford,"
in memory of the brave wife of the
martyr.)
Could he speak we might hear him say:
"I have executed a
monument more lasting than brass, and
more sublime than the
regal elevation of pyramids which
neither the wasting shower,
the unavailing north wind, or an
innumerable succession of years
and the flight of seasons shall be able
to demolish."-(Smart's
Horace.)
In the name of the Ohio Daughters of the
American Revo-
lution, I present this tablet to mark
the northern terminal of the
old Indian water way and land trail,
later known as the
"Harrison Trail."
ADDRESS OF MRS. JOHN T. MACK.
The Daughters of the War of 1812 esteem it a great honor
to have erected this, their first tablet
in the State of Ohio on so
historic a spot, and especially so,
because it commemorates so
much history in the war period this
organization stands for.
We have gathered here today to
commemorate scenes in the
making of our nation which transpired
almost one hundred
years ago. Here the red man came from
the northland on his
way to the beautiful Ohio country.
Again, we read of the trap-
per and a little later, of the history
of old Fort Sandoski, and
of the terrible scenes enacted there at
the time of Pontiac's con-
spiracy. During the war of 1812,
Commodore Perry and Gen-
eral William Henry Harrison met in
council not far from this
place. Commodore Perry requested Gen.
Harrison to give him
troops to help man his ships. Thirty-six
men responded, and 45