OHIO
Archaeological and Historical
PUBLICATIONS.
THE SHANDON CENTENNIAL.
ALBERT SHAW, NEW YORK.
[On August 26 and 27, 1903, there was
held at Shandon, Butler
County, Ohio, a centennial celebration
of the Congregational Church and
community of that place. The order of
exercises embraced addresses
by the Reverend M. P. Jones, Pastor of
the Church, Mrs. M. P. Jones,
Mr. Stephen R. Williams, Mr. Minter C.
Morris, Mr. Stanley M. Roland,
Mr. Michael Jones, Miss Edna Manuel, Dr.
W. O. Thompson, Mr. Murat
Halstead and Dr. Albert Shaw. The
proceedings of that centennial have
not been published and it is through the
courtesy of Mr. Albert Shaw,
the editor of the Review of Reviews,
that we are herewith permitted to
put in public print for the first time
his admirable address delivered upon
that occasion. Dr. Albert Shaw was born
in Shandon, Butler County,
Ohio, July 23, 1857.-EDITOR.]
As this centennial occasion has from
time to time been in
my thoughts, I have found one idea
presenting itself in a more
fixed and definite way than any other.
That idea is the sense of
gratitude and pride we ought to feel in
being the sons and daugh-
ters of a race of sterling pioneers. It
is a great thing to found
a nation or a state or a worthy
community. In all history we can
discover the records of no better or
braver people than the men
and women who subdued the American
wilderness; prepared it
to be the home of millions of people
speaking the same language
and possessing the same kind of
civilization, and left to us the
heritage of their hope, their courage
and their faith.
Our ancestors in England or Wales, or
Scotland or Ireland,
or Germany - or whatever other ancient
land - may have been
very humble, or they may have been of
educated or even of aris-
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