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General J. Warren Keifer, recently appointed Trus-

tee of the Society and the only living Major General of

the Civil War, will favor the Society with some very

interesting and unrecorded history in an address at

this meeting.

A detailed program will be mailed to the members

of the Society.

 

THE HAYES CENTENARY

The tentative program for the Centenary celebration

of the birth of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), the

nineteenth President of the United States (1877-1881),

to be held October 4, 1922, has been about completed.

The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society,

under whose auspices the event will be celebrated, has

appointed the following Committee on Arrangements to

conduct the affair: Former Governor James E. Camp-

bell, President of the Society, Chairman; Colonel Ed-

ward Orton, Jr., Beman G. Dawes, F. W. Treadway,

Arthur C. Johnson, Dr. W. O. Thompson and Daniel

J. Ryan.  The ceremonies will take place at Spiegel

Grove, Fremont, Ohio upon which is the old Hayes

homestead and the Hayes Library and Museum, now the

property of the Society, through the generosity and

patriotism of Colonel Webb C. Hayes.

The city of Fremont has in contemplation cooperat-

ing arrangements for a combined military and historical

pageant parade, leaving old Fort Stephenson at 1 P. M.,

the military feature of which may consist possibly of

cavalry, infantry and artillery of Ohio National Guard,

composed of the units Troop A of Cleveland, the Toledo

Battery, and the provisional regiment of infantry, a

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duplication of the troops which attended the funeral

of President Hayes thirty years ago.  Troop A of

Cleveland was President Hayes's escort also from the

White House to the Capitol on the inauguration of

President Garfield, who rode with him in the Hayes

family presidential carriage, now in the Hayes Museum.

Troop A, after the parade back from the inauguration

of President Garfield, then escorted President Hayes

on his return to Ohio, and has since acted as escort at

the inauguration of the Ohio presidents Harrison,

McKinley and Taft, and has been in the funeral escorts

of the Ohio presidents Hayes, Garfield and McKinley,

and had been accepted as President-elect Harding's es-

cort prior to the elimination of the presidential parade

in the interests of public economy.

The Commander-in-Chief and the State Commander

of the G. A. R., in automobiles will head the procession,

followed by the Commander-in-Chief and State Com-

mander of the Spanish War Veterans and of the World

War Veterans.   On arriving at the recently erected

beautiful split boulder gateway in which the White

House gates are to be erected, and named in honor of

Major George Croghan, the defender of Fort Stephen-

son, in the War of 1812, at the northern entrance of the

old Sandusky-Scioto Trail, known later as the Harrison

Trail of the War of 1812, the Campfire Girls and other

juvenile organizations will head the procession and lead

them over the old Trail, under the General Sherman

Elm and the Grover Cleveland Hickory, and pass the

Presidential Oaks named in honor of McKinley, Gar-

field, Taft and Harding, past the burial plot on the

Knoll, and then down through the Harrison Gateway

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with its historic tablets of the Indian and French and

British expeditions which marched over this Trail prior

to the Revolutionary War and as far back as records

of the Indian show.

The Soldiers' Memorial Parkway of Sandusky

County, conceived by Colonel Hayes and tendered to

the County in a cablegram from France on the day fol-

lowing the signing of the armistice, was laid out in the

form of a cross through property presented by him to

the Society. This Parkway, constructed jointly by the

Society and the Commissioners of Sandusky County,

consists of a strip 100 feet wide in which two rows of

buckeye trees (the insignia of the 37th or Ohio Divi-

sion) have been planted.  To each tree is attached a

a memorial plate containing the name, organization,

and place and date of death of one of the 83 soldiers of

Sandusky County who gave his life in the World War

or the War with Spain.  The latter is in the form of

the transept of the cross, in the center of which is a

buckeye tree bearing the inscription of William McKin-

ley, President of the United States, who died of his

wounds September 14, 1901, while Commander-in-Chief

of the Army of the United States, which was then en-

gaged in suppressing the Boxer uprising in China.

The Campfire Girls will kneel and drape the memo-

rial trees when at the signal from the top of the Over-

seas Soldiers' Memorial Sunroom, erected by Colonel

Hayes, the military procession will enter the Parkway

after passing through the Harrison Gateway and march

past the oval containing the flower insignias of the Red

Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the

Jewish Welfare and the Salvation Army, and pass in

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review before President Harding and Cabinet, the Gov-

ernor of Ohio, Generals of the Army and Admirals of

the Navy, and turn sharply to the East over the McKin-

ley Memorial Parkway and enter Spiegel Grove through

the split boulder gateway recently erected in honor of

Grover Cleveland, a former President of the United

States, and William McKinley, Governor of Ohio, and

later President of the United States, who were mourners

at the funeral of their predecessor and personal friend,

Rutherford B. Hayes, and who made the long trip in

the dead of winter in January, 1893.

The parade will be dismissed on entering Spiegel

Grove, following which dedicatory exercises of the

Croghan Gate, the Harrison Gate, the McPherson Gate-

way, in memory of the soldiers in the War with Mexico

and the War for the Union; and the memorial gateway

in memory of the soldiers in the War with Spain and

the World War, will be held; after which President

Harding, Secretary of State Hughes and the distin-

guished guests of the Society will be escorted through

the Hayes Memorial into the new library addition now

in process of erection by the Society, through funds

given by Colonel Hayes, to the portico on the south side

of the new building facing the residence on its south.

The proposed engraved invitation to the Centenary

ceremonies will contain a cut of the north entrance of

the Hayes Memorial, and a large photogravure of

Spiegel Grove showing the residence, the Hayes Memo-

rial, the original old Sandusky-Scioto Trail, through the

Grove, and is in the words following:

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The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society

requests the pleasure of your presence

during the Centenary Celebration of the birth of

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

₁₉th President of the United States, 1877-1881,

at the dedication of

the Library Addition to the Hayes Memorial,

the Memorial Gateway of Spiegel Grove State Park,

and the Soldiers' Memorial Parkways of Sandusky County,

on Wednesday afternoon, October 4th,

Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two,

Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio.

Of course the celebration is a public affair, but these

invitations will be sent to the distinguished guests of

the Society in civil, military and official life.

The meeting will be called to order by the Hon.

James E. Campbell, President of the Ohio State Archaeo-

logical and Historical Society. Following will be the

program, subject to necessary alterations:

Invocation - the Rev. Dr. William F. Peirce, presi-

dent of Kenyon College, from which Rutherford B.

Hayes was graduated in 1842.

Welcome by his Honor William H. Schwartz, Mayor

of Fremont.

Address by Charles Richard Williams, LL. D., of

Princeton, N. J., author of the Life, and editor of the

Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Address by the Hon. Warren G. Harding, President

of the United States.

Address by the Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Secretary

of State of the United States.

Address by the Hon. Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary

of Commerce of the United States.

Remarks by the Hon. Harry L. Davis, Governor of

Ohio.

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Remarks by the Hon. Atlee Pomerene, United States

Senator from Ohio.

Remarks by the Hon. Frank B. Willis, United States

Senator from Ohio.

Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of the Mili-

tary Order of the Loyal Legion.

Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand

Army of the Republic.

Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish

War Veterans.

Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ameri-

can Legion.

Remarks by Major General C. S. Farnsworth, com-

manding the 37th (Buckeye) Division, Expeditionary

Forces.

Remarks by Major General Edwin F. Glenn, com-

manding the 83rd Division.

Remarks by Major General Charles T. Menoher,

commanding the 42nd (Rainbow) Division.

Remarks by Admiral William S. Sims, commanding

American Naval Forces in European Waters.

Remarks by Major General John A. LeJeune, a com-

mandant of the Marine Corps.

From the prospectus it is apparent that the occasion

will be one of unusual importance. The day, the loca-

tion, and the proceedings will especially appeal to the

patriotism of Ohioans.  Rutherford B. Hayes, after

the passion of years has subsided, is growing in worth

to the American people. The great accomplishments

of his administration, viz.: the reconstruction of the

South, the establishment of a sound currency and the

maintenance of the civil service system have given him

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his proper place in history. It is worthy and fitting that

this celebration should be held where the mementoes of

his civil, military and presidential life are assembled.

Add to this the fact that the Spiegel Grove State Park

is in itself a historic monument to the wonderful days

of the past.  Under the sweeping and shadowing

branches of its gigantic hickories, oaks, elms and maples

sped the bronzed messengers of Pontiac carrying the

war wampum to the Southern Indian tribes; over the

same trail marched General Harrison and his army to

resist the British invader, and in a later era gathered

the great Generals of the Union Army to do honor to

its distinguished occupant.  Here Sherman, Sheridan,

Rosecrans, Crook, Comly and Scammon were visitors.

Here, too, at various times came Presidents Garfield,

Cleveland, McKinley, Taft and Harding.

And finally it is proper to say that after Rutherford

B. Hayes retired from the Presidency of the United

States, he became the head of the Ohio State Archaeo-

logical and Historical Society.  He manifested great

interest in its work and gave to its details all the atten-

tion required. He was himself a scholar and historian,

a collector of books and manuscripts, all of which are

preserved in the Museum.  He was president of the

Society when he died.

 

A JOURNAL OF THE GREAT WAR

The library of the Society has received a notable

gift in an autograph copy of A Journal of the Great

War in two volumes by Brigadier General Charles G.

Dawes who entered the service as Major in the Seven-

teenth Regiment of Engineers and was afterward pro-

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