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long I shall honor his grave with a better tombstone and write

an inscription upon it that will inform the passerby who occupies

that lonely spot.

Give my respects to old Uncle Dan Allman; tell him I should

be glad to hear from him. Accept of these lines and remember a

Son, a Brother and his little family.

Goodbye Mother and Friends,

WILLIAM WARNER,

SARAH WARNER,

*ALICE WARNER (the babe).

 

 

PROSPECTIVE ENDOWMENT OF THE HAYES

HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN THE SPIEGEL

GROVE STATE PARK

EXCERPT FROM TRUST AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 14th day of

April, 1925, by and between MARY MILLER HAYES, of

Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, Party of the First Part, and THE

UNION TRUST COMPANY of Cleveland, Ohio, Party of

the Second Part

WITNESSETH

WHEREAS, Rutherford B. Hayes, after the termination of

his administration as President of the United States, spent the

last twelve years of his life in active association with many

charitable and philanthropic agencies of a military, historical and

educational nature throughout the United States and particularly

in association with such agencies and interests in his native state

of Ohio, and especially with Ohio State University at Columbus,

Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio Wesleyan Uni-

versity at Delaware, and his alma mater, Kenyon College at

Gambier, and with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

Society at Columbus, the Western Reserve Historical Society at

Cleveland, The Firelands Pioneer and Historical Society of Nor-

walk and the Maumee Valley Historical Society of Toledo, serv-

ing as president or member of the Board of Trustees of these

Ohio institutions, to commemorate which facts it is deemed ap-

propriate to bring about the organization of a historical society

to be known as the Hayes Historical Society in Spiegel Grove,

Fremont, Ohio; and

WHEREAS, a tentative plan for the organization of the

 

* Now Mrs Geo. W. Hunt of 1028 59th St. Oakland, Calif.

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Hayes Historical Society has been suggested, such society to be

composed of a Board of twenty-four Trustees, consisting of

twelve Ex-Officio Trustees, nine of whom are successors in po-

sitions formerly held by Rutherford B. Hayes as Governor of

the State of Ohio or as the president or a member of the board of

trustees of the Ohio educational institutions or of Ohio histori-

cal societies, with which he had been affiliated during the latter

years of his life, and an Honorary Trustee and five Incorporat-

ing Trustees for life, whose successors shall be elected by the

Trustees of the Hayes Historical Society, and six Elective Trus-

tees to be elected annually at the meeting of the Trustees of the

Hayes Historical Society in the Spiegel Grove State Park, Fre-

mont, Ohio, on October fourth as follows:

 

 

HONORARY TRUSTEE

Dr. Charles Richard Williams of Princeton, New Jersey,

author of the "Life" and editor of the "Diary and Letters" of

Rutherford B. Hayes.

 

 

FIVE INCORPORATING TRUSTEES FOR LIFE

The Reverend Dr. William Oxley Thompson, President, Co-

lumbus, Ohio.

The Honorable Myron T. Herrick, American Ambassador to

France, Cleveland, Ohio.

The Honorable Theodore E. Burton, Member of Congress,

Cleveland, Ohio.

The Honorable Newton D. Baker, late Secretary of War dur-

ing the World War, Cleveland, Ohio.

The Honorable John H. Clarke, late Associate Justice of the

United States Supreme Court, Youngstown, Ohio.

The incorporating Trustees for Life, under the Chairman-

ship of President W. O. Thompson, shall prepare Articles of

Incorporation and a Constitution and By-Laws for the Hayes

Historical Society and shall also report fully on the Library

Policy, in the acquisition of books and papers by purchase or

gift, to be pursued by the Hayes Historical Society.

 

 

TWELVE EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES

The President of the Ohio State University at Columbus,

Ohio.

The President of the Western Reserve University at Cleve-

land, Ohio (Dr. R. E. Vinson).

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The President of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware,

Ohio (Dr. J. W. Hoffman).

The President of Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio (Dr.

W. F. Peirce).

The President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical

Society at Columbus, Ohio (A. C. Johnson).

The President of the Western Reserve Historical Society at

Cleveland, Ohio (Dr. W. P. Palmer).

The President of the Firelands Pioneer and Historical So-

ciety at Norwalk, Ohio (Hon. H. L. Peake).

The President of the Maumee Valley Historical Society at

Toledo, Ohio.

The Occupant of the Hayes Homestead in Spiegel Grove,

Fremont, Ohio (Colonel Webb C. Hayes).

The Governor of the State of Ohio (Hon. A. V. Donahey).

The Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives (Hon.

V. M. Riegel).

SIX ELECTIVE TRUSTEES

H. D. Messick of Cleveland, A. S. Root of Oberlin, C. C.

Kohl of Bowling Green, A. E. Culbert and Lucy E. Keeler of

Fremont and B. A. Hayes of Toledo and

WHEREAS, the Honorable James E. Campbell, President

of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society said, in

his address delivered in Spiegel Grove, October 4, 1920:

I consider this a suitable opportunity to state formally the develop-

ment and consummation of the project born in the mind of Colonel Webb

C. Hayes (during his father's presidency), of making Spiegel Grove one

of the most important monuments to history and patriotism in the State

of Ohio. I am within a conservative estimate when I state that Colonel

Hayes has disposed of, for the benefit of posterity, in the form of the

beautiful and attractive property which you see before you, at least

$500,000.00, $250,000.00 cash and securities for endowment funds and

$250,000.00 in real estate and personal property including the Library

of Americana and Collections.

 

WHEREAS, the Party of the First Part, Mary Miller Hayes,

wife of Colonel Webb C. Hayes, in honor of her husband and in

loving memory of his parents, Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy

Webb Hayes, desires to make an equivalent contribution in prop-

erty of the estimated value as of April 1, 1925, of $500,000.00

under certain conditions, for the purpose of furthering the found-

ing of the Hayes Historical Society in Spiegel Grove and enabling

such society, when founded, to accomplish the purpose for which

it is organized:

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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, it

is mutually understood and agreed as follows:

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Second: If, within the said period of five years, the Hayes

Historical Society of Spiegel Grove shall have been organized,

with a Board of Trustees composed substantially as hereinbefore

recited, any variation or departure therefrom to be with the ap-

proval of Webb C. Hayes and Mary Miller Hayes, and. if the

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society shall have given

any necessary consent on its part, and the State of Ohio, by any

requisite executive and legislative action, shall have given its con-

sent to the taking over of the Spiegel Grove estate heretofore

deeded to the State of Ohio for the use of the said Ohio State

Archaeological and Historical Society and for other historical

and monumental purposes, so that the title to the said Spiegel

Grove estates remains in the State of Ohio. By the terms of the

deeds and trust agreements whereby said Spiegel Grove property

was conveyed to the State of Ohio, and if at such time legisla-

tion shall have been passed providing that the net proceeds from

the sale of the property held by the Union Trust Company as

Trustee hereunder shall be placed in the irreducible trust funds

of the State of Ohio for the benefit of the purposes of the Hayes

Historical Society as custodian of the Spiegel Grove estates and

museums, and for the other purposes of such society, then the

Trustee hereunder shall convert the property of the trust hereby

created into money and pay the same over to the State of Ohio,

to be placed to the credit of the irreducible trust funds of the state,

and the net income therefrom shall thereafter be paid by the state

to the Party of the First Part hereunder, Mary Miller Hayes, so

long as she shall live, unless, in her option and from time to time,

she directs that a portion of her income shall be paid to the

Trustees of the Hayes Historical Society, and upon the death of

the said Mary Miller Hayes the entire net income shall be paid

by the State of Ohio in perpetuity to the Trustees of the Hayes

Historical Society for the purchase of historical books and for

the other purposes for which the said society is organized. * * *

(Signed) MARY MILLER HAYES

AND

THE UNION TRUST COMPANY

H. D. Messick, Vice-president.

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