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who with two sons now grown to manhood, Philip C. and Wm. J., sur-

vive the decease of husband and father. His demise was universally and

sincerely mourned by his fellow-citizens for he had done much for the

commercial and intellectual advancement of Chillicothe, Ohio's honored

first capital.

His funeral was attended by all classes of citizens and he was

buried on Friday morning, June 22, in the beautiful little cemetery upon

the hill where lie the remains of so many of Ohio's historic characters.

Vice President George F. Bareis and Trustees James H. Anderson,

D. J. Ryan, W. C. Mills and E. O. Randall represented the Society and

were present to participate in the last sad rites accorded to one who

had done much to promote the progress of the Ohio State Archaeological

and Historical Society.

 

 

 

DOINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

On Saturday, June 30, 1906, the Executive Committee of the Society

met at the office of the Treasurer, Outlook Building. There were present

Messrs. Bareis, King, Martzolff, Mills, Prince, Randall, Ryan and Wood.

The usual routine business was transacted, the most important of which

was that concerning the exhibit which the Society will arrange to make

at the Jamestown Exposition, to be held at Jamestown, Virginia, in the

summer of 1907. Negotiations have been in progress between the Execu-

tive Committee of the Society and the Ohio Jamestown Exposition Com-

mission, consisting of Mr. C. Clive Handy, Wauseon; Mr. Ernest Root,

Medina; Mr. John P. Given, Circleville; Mr. B. W. Campbell, Cincin-

nati, and Prof. Geo. W. Knight, Columbus, acting secretary. The com-

mission, after due consideration, formally offered from the fund at is

disposal the amount of $2,500 to the Society to defray the expenses of

the latter in making an exhibit of Ohio archeology and history. This

proposition was formally accepted at this meeting of the Executive Com-

mittee and a standing committee for the Ohio Society on the James-

town Exposition was selected as hereafter named.

Formal recognition was taken at this meeting of the sudden death

of Trustee William H. Hunter, who died at his home at Chillicothe,

June 19. An extended notice of Mr. Hunter and his services to the

Society are to be found elsewhere in this Quarterly. The Executive

Committee, being the controlling power of the Society in the interim,

in behalf of the Trustees proceeded to the election of a trustee to serve

in the vacancy above noted until the next annual meeting of the Society,

according to the provisions of the constitution. There was chosen to

fill the vacancy in the trusteeship Hon. James H. Beal, a resident of

Scio, Harrison County. Mr. Beal will bring to the trusteeship not

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Editorialana.                      387   only an enthusiastic interest but valuable service. He was born at New Philadelphia, Ohio, September 23, 1861, and received his early educa-

tion in the public schools of that town. He is an excellent example of Buckeye boys who have "worked their passage" through education and man- hood to success. While at school he labored during the vacations upon the farm and in the coal mines. He served as drug clerk for some five years in stores at Uhrichsville and Akron. He graduated at Scio College with the degree of Ph. B., and then for some two years attended the University of Michigan. His inclination was towards the field of science but circumstances led him to take up the study of law, and he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated with the de- gree of L. L. B. in 1886, but he never engaged in

the active practice of law for he could not abandon his first love, science, and he began his life vocation in that department. He organ- ized the Scio College of Pharmacy and has been its dean since 1889. He acted as President of Scio College from 1902 to 1904. He became professor of Applied Pharmacy of the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy in 1890, which position he now holds. In 1889 he received the degree of Sc. D. for post-graduate work in Mt. Union College and later was given the honorary degree of Ph. G. from the Ohio Medical Univer- sity and Pharm. G. from the Western University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Beal represents that rare type of man that combines intellectuality and scholarship with peculiar adaptitude for the practical affairs of life. His efforts have not been confined to his mental attainments. He is engaged in manufacturing, banking and other lines of industrial and commercial activities. He was called by his constituents to represent his district in the General Assembly of 1892 and 1893, and there made himself prominent as the author of the Beal Local Option Law, the salient features of which have attracted wide notice and have been copied in other states. His legal knowledge and scholarly acquisitions, coupled with experience in public speaking, made him a prominent and forceful man in the assembly of which he was a member. Moreover, his frank manner and unquestioned integrity won the confidence of all his collegues without regard to party. Mr. Beal's acquirements in the study of pharmacy were recognized by the Ohio Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation, which in 1891 chose him for its president, he having been for some years one of the most active and conspicuous members of the organization, having previously held respectively the offices of second and first vice-president. He is a member of the board of trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention, a trustee of the Pittsburg

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388        Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.   College of Pharmacy and a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Professor Beal is a clear and forceful writer and the author of many monographs on the scientific subjects to which he has given atten- tion and which productions have appeared in leading scientific publica- tions of the country. He has published notes which have become text authorities on Equation Writing in Chemical Arithmetic; Pharmaceutical Interrogations and Interrogations in Dental Metallurgy. For many years Mr. Beal has been a Life Member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, rendering thereto much valuable service while a member of the legislature and takes especial interest in the project of securing a building for the proper housing of the Society. He has ever maintained that the Society deserves generous support at the hands of the state, regarding the work of the Society as not only important because it is collecting and preserving material, archaeologic and historic, which would otherwise be irretrievably lost, but further recognizing that the Society by its publications awakens among the people of Ohio, and the young especially, a proper apprecia- tion of the rich prehistoric and pioneer past of the Buckeye State. As Mr. Hunter was also a member of the Executive Committee, it became necessary to select some one as his successor. Colonel John W. Harper, of the Board of Trustees and formerly a member of the Executive Committee, was chosen to fill the position. At the annual meeting of the Society, held June 9, past, as duly recorded in the proceedings of that meeting elsewhere in this Quarterly, the Rev. Isaac F. King was elected a Trustee and at the subsequent meeting of the Trustees he was chosen a member of the Executive Com- mittee. Rev. Isaac Fenton King was born in Muskingum County, May 8, 1834, the son of James J. and Marian L. King. The history of his early

youth is much the same as that of every boy born and raised upon an Ohio farm. His elementary education was that which the neighboring district school could supply, supplemented by future study in the Zanesville Public Schools. He was bent upon the best education to be obtained and finally gradu- ated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858, which alma mater gave him the degree of A. M. in 1861; Miami University conferred upon him in 1891 the honorary degree of D. D. Mr. King chose the ministry as his life profession and entered there- upon in 1858 in the Ohio Conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. He served on circuits for seven years and in church stations for seventeen

years and was then promoted to presiding eldership, in which he served for fourteen years. For the past ten years he has been the endow-

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Editorialana.                      389   ment agent for the Ohio Wesleyan University having also been a trus- tee of that institution for the past fifteen years. Mr. King has been an extensive traveler. Some fifteen years ago he made a prolonged journey through the principal countries of Europe and also Egypt. Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Greece. These rare opportunities of travel offered Mr. King rich material for his pen and enabled him to write very extensively for the press. Only a few months ago he returned from another extended journey in which he practically encircled the globe. visiting New Zealand, Australia, Philippine Islands, Cuba, Ceylon, India, and Egypt, Mr. King has been a devoted scholar not only in the theology and history of his own church in which he is an authority but also in general literature. He has contributed much to the publication of his denomination, not only of a polemic nature but descriptive of the countries which he has visited, their peoples, religions, etc. His denomination has honored him by electing him delegate to its law making conference and he has been the recipient of many other honors from his church in which he has taken so active a part throughout his life. For many years he has been a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, has been active in its proceedings and has contributed valuable historical material for its publication. In previous pages of this volume notice was duly made of the death of Mr. S. S. Rickly, former Treasurer and Trustee of the Society.

At a meeting of the Executive Committee, held on November 24, 1905, following the demise of Mr. Rickly, Mr. Edwin Forest Wood was selected as Trustee to fill the vacancy; made a member of the Executive Committee and also elected as Treasurer, he having been Assistant Treasurer under Mr. Rickly for the past several years. At the Annual Meeting of the Society (June 9, 1906), Mr. Wood was elected Trustee to serve until the Annual Meet- ing of 1909. He was also elected by the Society Treasurer for the following year.  This was a proper recognition of the long and excellent ser- vices rendered by Mr. Wood both as a member and as an officer of the Society. He became identi-

fied with the Society in 1890 and served as Assistant Treasurer, really per- forming the duties of Treasurer, and having practically charge of the funds and financial affairs of the Society, for the past thirteen years. Mr. Wood was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1863, and when but two years of age moved with his parents, Earl P. and Maritta J. Wood, to the little village of Jersey, Licking County, Ohio. Mr. Wood as a boy attended the district school and later the Presbyterian Academy at Central College, Franklin County. He took up his residence in Columbus in 1879 and in 1884 entered the Capital City Bank, of which

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Mr. Rickly was President. He served that institution, thoroughly

acquainting himself with the banking business until November 4, 1905,

having been Assistant cashier for many years past. On October 21,

1905, he was elected Secretary of the Ohio State Savings and Loan

Association, of which institution he had been a Director some ten or

twelve years previous, assuming the duties of his new position November

14, 1905. On January 1, 1906, Mr. Wood was elected by the members

of the Columbus Board of Education a member of that body from the

Twelfth Ward, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the former

member from that ward. From his boyhood Mr. Wood has been an

enthusiastic and untiring worker in his church (Congregational) and

Sunday-school. Besides being one of the most efficient officers in man-

aging the financial affairs of the Society, Mr. Wood has ever taken

deepest interest in the work and progress of the Society.

In accordance with the action of the Executive Committee, the fol-

lowing Standing Committees were appointed for the ensuing year:

Big Bottom Park - Messrs. Martzolff, Prince and Bareis.

Finance--Messrs. Wood, Ryan and Bareis.

Fort Ancient--Messrs. Prince, Harper and Martzolff.

Jamestown Exposition - Messrs. Mills, Wright and Prince.

Museum and Library--Messrs. King, Wright and Mills.

Publications- Messrs. Ryan, Randall and Wood.

Serpent Mound-Messrs. Wright, Brinkerhoff and Randall.

 

 

 

 

 

THE COLLECTING OF HISTORICAL MATERIAL.

Mr. A. J. Baughman (Mansfield), Life Member of the Ohio State

Archaeological and Historical Society and Secretary of the Richmond

County Historical Society, has given much attention to the methods of

collection of historical material. What he has to say upon this subject

we deem worthy of publication here:

The collection of material for historical purposes covering what in

Ohio is called the pioneer period has been a difficult task. That was

not an age of literature, but of work - of clearing the forest and of

building homes. The pioneers made history, but they had no time to

write it. A few of the first settlers may have kept chronicles and

annals, but after the country was somewhat improved, the same impulse

that brought them to Ohio, impelled some of them to again take their

places in the line of the march of civilization to the still farther West,

and while enroute their records were lost. And when the historian

came to write of the early settlements of the country, the information

obtained was largely of the traditional kind, and it has been difficult

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