130 OHIO
HISTORY
WASHINGTON GLADDEN
1. The title of this article was
suggested by the title of an article by P. C. Macfar-
lane, "First Citizen of
Columbus," which appeared in Colliers, June 29, 1912.
2. Personal interview with Mrs. William
A. Starin, July 27, 1961.
3. William Warren Sweet, The Story of
Religion in America (New York, 1950), 356.
4. Alma Jagsch, "Washington
Gladden, a Prophet of Social Justice" (unpublished
M.A. thesis, Ohio State University,
1935).
5. Washington Gladden, Recollections (Boston,
1909), 302.
6. John L. Shover, "Washington
Gladden and the Labor Question," Ohio Historical
Quarterly, LXVIII (1959), 335-352.
7. Gladden, Recollections, 395-397.
The story of the complicated negotiations is told
in Robert H. Wiebe, "The Anthracite
Strike of 1902: A Record of Confusion," Missis-
sippi Valley Historical Review, XLVIII (1961), 229-252.
8. George Perry Morris, "A Preacher
and Patriot," Century Magazine, LXXI (1906),
815.
9. Washington Gladden, The
Interpreter (Boston, 1918), vii.
10. Roswell Smith to Gladden, January 9,
1885. Washington Gladden Papers, Ohio
Historical Society. All Gladden
manuscripts referred to are in this collection.
11. "Washington Gladden," Outlook,
LXXXII (January 27, 1906), 155.
12. Lewis A. Rhoades, "A Venerable
American Preacher," The Dial, XLVIII (1910),
46.
13. Morris, "Preacher and
Patriot," 816.
14. Ibid.
15. Francis P. Weisenburger, Ordeal
of Faith: The Crisis of Church-Going America,
1865-1900 (New York, 1959), 86-89.
16. Present Day Theology (Columbus,
1913); Applied Christianity (Boston, 1887);
Calendar Verses (Columbus, 1918). One of his most noted efforts in
children's fiction
was Santa Claus on a Lark and Other
Christmas Stories (New York, 1890).
17. Washington Gladden, ed. and comp., Parish
Problems: Hints and Helps for the
People of the Churches (New York, 1887).
18. Two of these utopian novels were The
Christian League of Connecticut (New
York, 1883) and The Cosmopolis City
Club (New York, 1893). See below for further
comment.
19. John W. Buckham, Progressive
Religious Thought in America (Boston, 1919),
218.
20. Macfarlane, "First Citizen of
Columbus," 20.
21. Gladden, Recollections, 411.
22. A contemporary wrote: "Dr.
Gladden's lifelong boast was that he was nothing
but a preacher." "Yet
Speaketh," The Independent, XCVIII (1919), 227.
23. Gladden, Recollections, 283.
24. Personal interview with Mrs. William
A. Starin, July 27, 1961.
25. Gladden, Recollections, 284-286.
26. Roswell Smith to Gladden, January 9,
1885.
27. "What Will Become of
Columbus?" March 15, 1885.
28. See Francis C. Sessions, History
of First Congregational Church (Columbus,
1900) and the annual Directory of the
First Congregational Church between the years
1895 and 1918, passim.
29. The Golden Jubilee of the First
Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio (Co-
lumbus, 1902), 101.
30. Directory of the First
Congregational Church, 1895-1918, passim.
31. Personal interview with Mrs. William
A. Starin, July 27, 1961.
32. Sessions, First Congregational
Church, 22-24.
33. Ibid., 3.
34. Golden Jubilee of the First
Congregational Church, 27.
35. Buckham, Progressive Religious
Thought, 230.
36. Gladden, Parish Problems, 333.
37. These sermons are all in the Gladden
Papers.
38. Personal interview with Mrs. William
A. Starin, July 27, 1961.
39. "Yet Speaketh," 237.
40. Personal interview with Tod Lum,
August 4, 1961.
41. Glenn Atkins, "Washington
Gladden--and After," Religion in Life (Fall 1936),
599. Reprint in Washington Gladden
Collection, First Congregational Church, Columbus.
42. Washington Gladden, Samuel
Galloway (Columbus, 1895), 16.
43. Gladden, The Interpreter, 261.
44. Personal interviews with the
following persons: Mrs. R. D. Bohannon, August
25, 1961; Mrs. F. C. Caldwell, September 5, 1961; Mrs.
William L. Evans, August 28,
1961; Mrs. Alpheus Smith, August 25,
1961; William E. Henderson, August 25, 1961;