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mysterious Mound Builder was at all events a good liver. The weather

proved delightful, and the State officials, as well as trustees, pronounced

themselves as highly pleased first with the fact that the State had secured

the property, and second that it was being so admirably protected under

the custodianship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.

 

 

 

 

HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE MEMORIAL.

On Tuesday, June 28, 1904, at Columbus, Ohio, a most delightful and

appropriate program of ceremonies was carried out by the Columbus

Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution commemorative

of the peace conference between President Harrison and the famous

Wyandot Indian chief, Tarhe, at Franklinton, on the west side of the

Scioto, opposite Columbus. This peace conference was held June 21,

1813. The exercises of the celebration were held in the open air near the

historic spot where the conference took place. Temporary seats were

provided for the auditors in the little park which ornaments that part of

the city, the speakers occupying an elevated platform over which was

spread a canopy. The audience, it goes without saying, was a sym-

pathetic one, being composed mainly of the Daughters of the American

Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, and members of the Ohio

State Archaeological and Historical Society, to whom the committee in

charge had courteously extended invitations. The Columbus Rifles Band

furnished fitting music. Invocation was pronounced by the Reverend

Washington Gladden. An immense granite boulder made an imposing

monument, upon which was attached a beautiful bronze tablet stating the

event which it commemorated. A most admirable and appropriate ad-

dress presenting the peace memorial to the City was made by Mrs. Edward

Orton, Jr., Regent of the Columbus Chapter, Daughters of the American

Revolution, and to whose energetic and persistent efforts was mainly due

the idea and its fulfillment of the erection of this tablet. The act of unveil-

ing was most unique and interesting, as the immense stars and stripes

which served as the veil were drawn aside by Masters Milton Wilcox and

Allen G. Thurman. The address of acceptance on behalf of the City

was made by Hon. Robert H. Jeffrey, Mayor of Columbus, who spoke

briefly but eloquently of the inspiration of honored ancestry. The chief

address of the occasion was made by General Benjamin R. Cowen, life

member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, who spoke

at some length, in his usually graceful and scholarly manner, dwelling

upon the historic conflict between the white and red races for supremacy,

the past achievements, present conditions and future prospects of the

white race. It was an occasion much enjoyed by those who were so fortu-

nate as to be prsent, and greatly to the credit of the Daughters of the

Revolution, who find in such occasions fitting opportunity to express

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their enthusiasm in and loyalty to the order to which they belong. We

do not give the proceedings in full as they will be published in book

form by the Columbus Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.

 

 

 

 

 

HARWOOD R. POOL.

Mr. Harwood R. Pool, a life member of the Ohio State Archaeo-

logical and Historical Society, died in New York, December 30, 1903.

He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Pool, and was born in

Elyria, Ohio, October 22, 1860. He went to New York in 1868, attended

private school and later fitted for college at Hopkins Institute, New

Haven, Connecticut. In 1877 he entered the Ohio State University, and

was graduated therefrom on June 22, 1881, with the degree of Ph. B.

While in college he took lead in important measures affecting college

life, and was one of the organizers of the Greek letter society, Phi

Gamma Delta. He was one of the organizers and first president of the

Alcyone Literary Society. He was also one of the establishers and first

editors of the college paper, "The Lantern." He was a splendid student,

a fine athlete, and, through his frank and winning manner, not only

one of the leaders in all college affairs, but a most popular man with

all classes of students. Immediately upon his graduation from O. S. U.,

he attended the Columbia Law School, from which he received his

diploma on June 13, 1883, as Bachelor of Laws "cum laude," and was

admitted to practice by the Supreme Court in 1883. He took a most active

interest in the progress and welfare of his Alma Mater, O. S. U., and

was honored by receiving office from   the Alumni Association. He

also became prominent as an alumnus of the Law School at Columbia

University. He was elected a member of the Loyal Legion, New York

Commandery, of the second class, April 4, 1888. This latter order, at

a stated meeting of the commandery held at Delmonico's, made fitting

recognition of the decease of their honored member, the formal reso-

lution being presented by Brevet Brigadier General Anson G. McCook.

The death of Harwood Pool in the prime of his activity was not only

a sad blow to his innumerable friends and associates but a decided loss

to the community and profession of which he was so conspicuous and

valuable a member. Mr. Pool, from the beginning of his membership in

the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, took deep interest

in its welfare; his removal to New York and residence in that metropolis

seemed in no way to lessen his love for his native state and interest in

the progress of the society which promotes the history of the Buckeye

Commonwealth.

Vol. XIII- 36.

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