Ohio History Journal

250        Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.   1878; chairman of its trustees since 1878; and also its treasurer since 1901; a life member of the Firelands Historical Society since 1876; a member of its board of trustees, librarian and editor of its publications since 1888; member of the National Geographical Society; member of Huron County Children's Home Association; member of its board of trustees since 1889, and its treasurer since 1902; member of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room Association of Norwalk (free public library); member of its board of trustees and chairman of its execu- tive committee since 1903. He is a member of the Norwalk Board of Commerce, and prominent in the business interests of the city. In 1888 he with other friends, founded' the financially successful Home Savings & Loan Company of Norwalk, became one of its directors and its presi- dent, which offices he has continuously held to the present. Mr. Gallup has always been an enthusiastic student of Ohio and Western history. He has written much that is interesting and accurate concerning the early settlement of the Buckeye State. He has for many years taken a great interest in the work of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he became a life member at its last annual meeting.   WALTER CHARLES METZ. Walter Charles Metz is the son of Charles C. Metz and Christa Abbie Metz of Newark, Ohio. On his father's side, he is of an old

German family, which immigrated to this country in the early part of the last century, and which finally wended its way to Newark, Ohio, coming from Cleveland by way of the once beautiful Ohio Canal. On his mother's side he lost nothing, for her family is of that good old revolutionary stock of New England, that made the thirteen original colonies "free and independent states." He was born in Newark, Ohio, February 1st, 1879, and received his early education in the public schools of that place. In 1897 he went to Boise, Idaho, where he joined a Surveying Corps and spent the summer in the mountains of Northern Idaho, doing Government work in the timber re- gions. The following winter he spent in Cali-

fornia and the Western States--returning home in the spring. The next two years of his life were spent in New Hampshire, preparatory to entering the Ohio State University, from which institution he graduated with the class of 1905, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While a student in the University he was taken into the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was also made a life member of the Archaeological and Historical Society of Ohio.

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Immediately upon leaving College, he entered the employ of the

Newark Trust Company. After filling the various clerical positions in

the bank, his earnest work won for him the election of Assistant Sec-

retary and Treasurer. In the fall of 1907 he was elected to the chief

office, which position he now holds. On the 17th day of September,

1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Helen Mariette Weiant of

Newark.

It was when but yet a youngster, that the peculiar shaped mounds

and odd flint pieces appealed to him as being very curious. Curiosity,

turned loose in Licking County, the unrivaled field of prehistoric mounds

and stone pieces, developed into scientific research. At the early age

of ten years, Mr. Metz started a collection of stone implements, but

soon this did not satisfy him and much of his time was spent in opening

burial mounds, that he might learn more of the habits of this pre-

historic race. As a result of his untiring energy, over thirty-five hun-

dred relics of the Mound Builders' Age have been brought together-

the showing being the representative one of that locality.

The work of Mr. Metz has consisted not only in search for articles

left by this ancient people, but also in the investigation of the nature

and purpose of the various mounds and their relation to one another.

That Mr. Metz has made great progress into the hidden lore of this

long departed race, is evidenced by the small booklet, which he wrote

and published. It is entitled "Prehistoric Remains of Licking County,

Ohio," and gives, in a concise way, a description of what has been found

and now is to be seen in Licking County. The little brochure is illus-

trated with diagrams and photographs made by the author. The book

is worthy of much consideration and evidences the interest of the author

in his subject and the extensive knowledge he has acquired concerning

the Mound Builders and their works in that section of the State.

Mr. Metz is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church and

is eligible to the Sons of the American Revolution, his mother being a

member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

 

 

AVERY'S UNITED STATES.

The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, Ohio, have issued, from

their press, the fifth volume of the "History of the United States and

its People" from the earliest records to the present time by Elroy

McKendree Avery. We have been a careful reader of this work begin-

ning with its first volume, and have briefly commented upon the previous

four volumes in the editorial columns of this Quarterly. The Fifth

Volume, now at hand, takes up the sequence of events at the close of the

French and Indian War. The first chapter entitled "For the Building

of a Nation" gives an admirable and interesting statement of the con-

dition of the people at that time, the various racial immigrations, the

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