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PRELIMINARY ANNUAL MEETING. On May 14, 1912, the following circular was issued to the members of the Society: "According to the provisions of the Constitution of the So- ciety, the Annual Meeting of the Society should be held not later than the last day of May. It is earnestly desired that the Annual Meeting this year be deferred until after the bids have been re- ceived and, if possible, the contracts made with the builders for the erection of the building for the Society at Columbus and the Hayes Memorial Building at Fremont. It is therefore proposed that a sufficient number of the members of the Society to consti- tute a quorum meet at the offices of The Ohio State Savings Association, 44 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, at 2:00 P. M., Saturday, May 25, 1912, at which time those present may technically comply with the requirements of the Annual Meeting and then adjourn further proceedings of the Annual Meeting until such later day as may be agreed upon. "This notice is sent you that you may be present at the meet- ing of May 25th, if you so desire, but a later notice will be sent you of the adjourned meeting, at which time the regular routine of the Annual Meeting will be carried out. "G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, E. 0. RANDALL, "President. Secretary."
In accordance with the foregoing announcement there met at the place designated, 44 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, at 2:00 P. M., May 25, 1912, the following members of the Society: G. F. Bareis, A. J. Baughman, T. B. Bowers, H. E. Buck, C. H. Gallup, J. W. Harper, W. C. Mills, E. O. Randall, D. J. Ryan, L. P. Schaus, John Siebert, H. A. Thompson and E. F. Wood. The number of members present was sufficient to constitute a legal quorum, the number of which is ten. Vice President Bareis presided at this preliminary meeting, in the absence of Dr. Wright. Secretary Ran- dall fully explained the reason for calling this preliminary meeting and stated that such business could be transacted as might be necessary, (328) |
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and that the meeting could then adjourn
to such time or in such way
that it could be reconvened for the
further business of the Annual
Meeting. After some discussion of this
matter, a resolution was offered
that when the present meeting concludes
such business as is necessary
for its present consideration and is
prepared to recess, that it recess to
a second session which is to be called
at such date and place as shall
be determined by the present President and
Secretary of the Society,
and that at the recessed session the
minutes and annual reports be read
and other regular business be transacted
as shall pertain to the Annual
Meeting. This resolution was unanimously
adopted.
After the presentation and consideration
of certain matters of gen-
eral nature to the Society, and proper
action thereon, the preliminary
session of the Annual Meeting was
adjourned at 3:00 o'clock, subject
to the second session as provided for
above.
BANQUET TO DR. VENABLE.
On the evening of Friday, April 26,
(1912) men of learning from
all parts of Ohio assembled in the
banquet hall of the Business Men's
Club, Cincinnati, to greet and do honor
to Dr. William Henry Venable,
the leading author and educator, born
and still resident in Ohio. The
occasion was the eve of the
seventy-sixth birthday of the distinguished
guest. The banquet was under the
auspices of the Ohio Valley His-
torical Society of which Dr. Venable has
been a member since its
organization some five years ago.
The affair was presided over by Harry
Brent Mackoy, who early
in the evening made an address
eulogizing the works of the guest of
honor. In his opening remarks he
referred to Dr. Venable as a maker
as well as a writer of history.
Dr. Venable in modest demeanor told how
appreciative he was of
their tribute and expressed his deepest
affections for his friends and
coworkers, who as well as he had so
greatly added to the happiness
and advancement of their state.
When he had finished his address the
guests arose and drank a
toast to him and wished that he might
live many years to enjoy the
fruition of his life's endeavor.
Mr. Mackoy then introduced Charles T.
Greve, who had charge
of the arrangement of the affair and who
was to act as toastmaster.
Mr. Greve made a touching address in
which he said that Dr. Venable
was one of the foremost Ohioans, and to
be a foremost Ohioan was
to be a foremost American.
The first speaker he called on was Dr.
Dabney, president of the
University of Cincinnati, who responded
to the call of the toastmaster,
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paying high tribute to the works of Dr.
Venable. He expressed his
pride in being a member of a community
in which the name of Venable
meant so much. Dr. Dabney told in what
high regard the name Ven-
able was held down in Virginia, where he
came from and where the
name was a synonym for greatness.
Toastmaster Greve read missives from men
of letters from all
parts of the United States, including a
glowing tribute to the honored
guest from James Whitcomb Riley.
Emilius O. Randall was the next speaker.
He came from Colum-
bus to attend the banquet and declared
that the life was richest that
had dealt most with literature. Like his
predecessors, he paid tribute
to the work of Dr. Venable as historian
and poet.
Several others made addresses. Among
them were Dr. Dyer,
superintendent of the public schools;
Archer B. Hulbert, a professor in
the college at Marietta; Dr. Charles
Frederic Goss, Frank P. Goodwin
and others. They all reminisced over
this man's life, telling those in-
cidents which had endeared him to them.
Dr. Venable is a native of Warren
county, 0., where he received
his education at the little red brick
school, later finishing his work in
the National Normal University. He
married Mary Ann Vater of
Indianapolis. He was for many years
proprietor of the Chickering
institute of Cincinnati. He enjoys the
distinction of having organized
the Society for Political Education. He
was the first president of the
Teachers' Society of Ohio. He lives in
Tusculum.
Among those present at the banquet were
the following:
Alfred H. Allen, Dr. Sam E. Allen, W.
Harvey Anderson, Harry
T. Atkins, Dr. S. C. Ayres, Albert
Bettinger, Dr. E. R. Booth, Dr.
M. B. Brady, Prof. J. E. Bradford, Miami
University; C. J Brooks,
Dr. J. D. Buck, P. J. Cadwalader, Dr. C.
E. Caldwell, Ralph Caldwell,
Dr. Otis L. Cameron, Lawrence C. Carr,
Dr. Arch. I. Carson, S. F.
Carey, Davis W. Clark, A. J. Conroy, O.
T. Corson, Columbus, O.;
Rev. M. Crosley, Brooksville, Ind.; Dr.
Chas. W. Dabney, Charles J.
Davis, Judge David Davis, Walter A.
DeCamp, Dr. J. E. Douglas, Dr.
F. B. Dyer, Edward S. Ebbert, Challen B.
Ellis, Richard P. Ernst, M.
J. Flannery, Hamilton, O.; F. L.
Flinchbaugh, Wm. Lytle Foster, John
Gates, Frank P. Goodwin, Judge F. H.
Gorman, T. W. Gosling, Dr.
Charles F. Goss, Charles T. Greve, Dr.
E. E. Harcourt, A. S. Henshaw,
Alexander Hill, N. D. C. Hodges, Dr. C.
R. Holmes, Lewis C. Hopkins,
Jerome B. Howard, W. T. Howe, Prof.
Archer B. Hulbert, Marietta
college, Davis L. James, Simeon H.
Johnson, Dr. Otto Juettner, John
S. Kidd, Leopold Kleybolte, Dr. Albert
A. Kumler, John Ledyard Lin-
coln, Harry M. Levy, John Uri Lloyd, S.
T. Logan, E. D. Lyon, E. F.
Macke, Harry B. Mackoy, W. H. Mackoy,
John H. Miller, Prof. P. V.
N. Myers, Rabbi David Philipson, John J.
Piatt, North Bend; E. O.
Randall, Columbus, O.; C. D. Robertson,
Caspar H. Rowe, Daniel J.
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Ryan, Columbus, O.; C. E. Schenk, J. R.
Schindel, Murray Seasongood,
Frank H. Schaffer, D. H. T. Smith, Rufus
B. Smith, Dr. R. W. Stewart,
Thomas T. Swift, G. S. Sykes, Rev. Geo.
A. Thayer, Bryant Venable,
Emerson Venable, R. O. Venable, Dr.
Chas. E. Walton, J. W. Worth-
ington, F. B. Wiborg, J. O. White,
Charles B. Wilby, Joseph Wilby,
John F. Winslow, Isidor Wise, Paul
Wisenall, E. J. Wohlgemuth,
Everett I. Yowell.
MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT.
Judge M. D. Follett, one of the
organizers of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society, a
life member and beginning
in 1895 for some ten years a trustee,
died at his home in Marietta,
Ohio, August 22, 1911.
Concerning his distinguished life we
quote from a memorial pub-
lished by the Washington County Bar
Association of which for many
years he was a most eminent member.
Martin Dewey Follett was born in
Enosburg, Franklin county,
Vermont, October 8, 1826, the son of
Captain John Fassett Follett and
grandson of Martin Dewey Follett. Many
members of his family had
risen to prominence in colonial and
revolutionary times. In 1836 his
father, with his wife and nine children,
came west and settled on a
farm in Licking county, Ohio, where the
subject of our sketch grew
to manhood. Having taught school for
several years, he entered Mari-
etta college and graduated, with highest
honors, in the class of 1853-
having completed the required course in
two years. He received the
degree of Bachelor of Arts; and three
years later was further honored
by having conferred upon him the degree
of Master of Arts. After
being graduated he taught for one year
in the high school at Newark,
Ohio, and for two years in the academy
and public schools at Marietta,
Ohio, and in 1856 was elected
superintendent of the local schools, which
he served two years.
In 1856 he married Miss Harriet L.
Shipman, of Marietta, Ohio,
to whom were born four children, all of
whom are deceased except
Mr. Alfred Dewey Follett, a member of
this bar. Judge Follett was
married a second time in 1875 to Miss
Abbie M. Bailey, of Lowell,
Mass., to whom was born one son, Edward
B. Follett, a judge of the
court of common pleas of this district.
Judge Follett was admitted to the bar in
1858, at the time of
his death being the oldest member of the
bar association, in point of
service; Mr. R. M. Stimson having been
admitted in 1849, but never
practiced; and R. K. Shaw, who was
admitted in 1855 in New York,
but came to Marietta in 1860. At the
October election in 1883, Judge
Follett was elected to the Supreme Court
of Ohio and served there from
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Hist. Society Publications.
December 8, 1883, until February 9,
1888. While a member of the
Supreme Court he established a
reputation for industry and judicial
ability which was recognized by the
profession throughout the state.
His opinions are found in volumes 42, 43
and 44, Ohio State Reports.
He was associated upon the bench with
such men as George W. Mc-
Ilvane, Selwyn N. Owen, John W. Okey and
Franklin J. Dickman,
and at the end of his term with present
Chief Justice William T. Spear,
who began his career upon the Supreme
bench in 1885.
Politically, Judge Follett was a sincere
and loyal member of the
Democratic party; in 1864 he served his
party as delegate in the national
convention which nominated Gen. George
B. McClellan for the presi-
dency; twice, in 1866 and 1868, he was
the party nominee for congress-
man from this district. He took much interest in matters of local
government and exerted wide influence
upon its affairs.
He was distinctively a humanitarian.
Since 1879, when Governor
Bishop sent him as a delegate from Ohio
to the National Conference
of Charities at Chicago, and Governor
Foster the following year to
Cleveland, he had devoted much time and
study toward the improve-
ment of conditions for the criminal and
insane. As a member of the
board of state charities, he has been
largely instrumental in bringing
the penal, reformatory and charitable
institutions of Ohio to the high
standard of present attainment. The new hospital
to be erected at
Lima for the care of the criminal insane
can be directly traced to the
influence which Judge Follett has
wielded for many years upon the
state's policy of caring for its
unfortunate. Surely, in this respect he
has aided in establishing the Kingdom
through this modern expression
of the brotherhood of man.
In giving an estimate of the services of
Judge Follett, we may
lay emphasis upon the fact that he was a
true friend of education.
Himself educated, wisely informed, a
teacher, he saw the importance
all along the line of lifting education
above the bread and butter stand-
ard. He served on the board of trustees
of Marietta college for many
years; and upon the local board of
education; he was a charter member
of, and until his death a faithful
attendant upon, the Marietta Reading
Club. Likewise, he conceived the law as
a profession rather than a
business, and never lost interest in the
meetings of the Ohio State
Bar Association and in the American Bar
Association, of which he
was a member and to which, upon
important committees, he rendered
valuable services.
As a man, Judge Follett possessed an
interesting and strong per-
sonality; as a citizen, he was ever
willing to assume his full share of
the burden of public service; as a
lawyer, he was successful, always
faithful to his client, and honorable;
and as a Christian, a faithful at-
tendant upon the services of the First
Congregational Church and in
his daily life loyal to his religious
convictions.
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ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND.
The Faculty of the Ohio State
University, as a mark of respect,
and wishing to preserve in some
permanent form a simple record of the
life of its late member and associate,
Robert White McFarland, who
died at his home, Oxford, Ohio, October
23, 1910, prepared the follow-
ing memorial:
Professor McFarland was born in
Champaign county, Ohio, June
16, 1825, and was a descendant of Simon
Kenton. He graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University in 1847, and
for four years thereafter taught
in schools and academies. Mathematics
was his favorite study, but he
also excelled in languages and he not
only taught Latin and Greek,
but in his young manhood, prepared and
published text books in these
languages.
In all his later years as teacher he was
interested in pure mathe-
matics, astronomy and civil engineering.
From 1851 to 1856 he taught
in Madison College at Antrim, Ohio. He
was then elected to the chair
of mathematics in Miami University at
Oxford, which he held until the
University was closed in 1873. Just at
that time the State University,
then called the "Ohio Agricultural
and Mechanical College," was estab-
lished, Professor McFarland was called
to the chair of mathematics
and engineering, and remained there
continuously until 1885, returning
to Miami University as its president
when it was reopened in that year.
Three years later he retired from
educational work, and there-
after devoted his time to engineering.
While at the State University
he held, from 1881 to 1885, the position
of engineer inspector of rail-
roads under the late Commissioner of
Railroads, Hylas Sabine, exam-
ining bridges and other structures as to
their safety.
When the Civil War broke out he
organized a company among
the students of Miami University, of
which he became the captain, this
company was attached to the Eighty-sixth
O. V. I., in which regiment
he rose to the rank of lieutenant
colonel. It was because of this military
service and experience that he was made
the first instructor in military
science and tactics in the State
University.
Professor McFarland was a born teacher,
and had an unwearying
love for the work of instruction.
Trained in the military habit, his
plans of work were clear and detailed,
his decisions quick and firm,
his manner and speech gentle but
authoritative.
As a teacher he was respected and
revered by all students who
were there to do good work. He had an
unusual faculty of making the
subject he was teaching interesting, and
that necessary quality in a good
teacher-the ability to get and hold the
attention of his students.
In his work he insisted on brevity and
accuracy, and many a stu-
dent has demonstrated a proposition by a
long method and train of
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reasoning, in his class room, only to be
shown at the close how he
could have reached the same result by a
much shorter process.
Professor McFarland was a man of royal
parts. An enthusiast
by nature, he had the wisdom of a man of
affairs. His genial temper,
his promptness in action, together with
a certain dignity of manner,
and a genuine manliness of character,
won the respect and esteem of
all who knew him.
As an associate, his cordial sympathy
and unfailing courtesy were
always evident. Although impelled by
definite convictions he was broad
minded and tolerant. He believed that
"above all sects is truth" and
"above all nations is
humanity."
In all the relations of life he moved
upon a high plane, and not
only experienced but exemplified the
better qualities of our nature.
Of him it may well be said that his life
is a record of generous deeds
and useful service. Signed,
WILLIAM RANE LAZENBY,
JOSIAH R. SMITH,
Committee.
Professor McFarland was one of the
earliest life members of the
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society and took an ever
increasing interest and active part in
its work and growth. His life
reached back into personal touch with
many who were associated with
the events of pioneer Ohio history. No
one of his cotemporaries was
so versed in the Indian lore of the
state, and there appeared in the
pages of the Society's publications many
most valuable articles con-
cerning the first settlers of the state
and its historic incidents con-
nected therewith. He possessed a
marvelous and accurate memory and
especially delighted in reviewing the
historical productions of others
and in correcting their errors and in
putting on record data that other-
wise would have been lost to the present
and future generations. Pro-
fessor McFarland was widely read in
general literature, a writer with
a scholastic style and the author of
many productions of a permanent
nature. When a young man he published an
annotated edition of the
six books of Virgil. As a student of
astronomy he took high rank and
computed the perihelion and eccentricity
of the earth's orbit for a
period of 4,520,000.
EDWIN
McMASTERS STANTON.
Joseph B. Doyle of Steubenville, Ohio,
is the author of a volume of
some four hundred pages of the Life and
Work of that distinguished son
of Ohio, Edwin M. Stanton, whose fame
will continue side by side with
that of the martyr President Abraham
Lincoln, whose secretary of war
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and right arm, the iron-willed Stanton
was. Extensive and almost ex-
haustive biographies of Stanton have
already appeared, such as those by
H. C. Gorham and Frank A. Flower,
respectively. This latest brief biography
of Stanton, as Mr. Doyle states, was
"prepared in connection with the
dedication of the first statue to his
memory." Edwin M. Stanton was
born in Steubenville, December 19, 1814,
was United States Attorney
General, 1860-1861; Secretary of War,
1862-1868; Justice of United
States Supreme Court, 1869; died in
Washington, D. C., December 24,
1869, only a month after his appointment
by President Grant to the
supreme court and before he was
permitted to take his seat in that great-
est of tribunals.
A movement toward the erection of a
fitting monument, at his
birthplace, was inaugurated in
Steubenville at the Jefferson County Cen-
tennial Anniversary, August 25, 1897.
This laudable purpose met its
accomplishment on September 7, 1911,
when after three days' preliminary
exercises the ceremony of the unveiling
of the statue was completed.
The statue is a massive bronze figure of
the great war secretary, stand-
ing upon a granite pedestal. The
sculptor is another distinguished son
of Ohio, Mr. Alexander Doyle of
Steubenville, creative artist of many
famous statues, among them that of
Margaret Haughry, New Orleans,
the first statue to a woman erected in
this country.
Mr. Joseph B. Doyle was eminently
qualified by residence, mental
attainments and sympathetic tendencies
to write the life and work of his
fellow-townsman, and admirably has he
performed his task, herculean
and exacting though it may have been.
The author's scholarly knowledge
of American history, his discriminating
judgment of men, enabled him
to produce the environment and
"stage settings" for the life and action
of his hero, with unusual vividness and
interest. It is a most readable
book and one enjoyable both by the elder
generation, whose members look
back upon the scenes of a great epoch,
and by the youth of our state
and country, who can know the immortal
figures of the Civil War period,
as they only knew the figures of ancient
days, that is through the pages
of history.
Stanton came from Quaker stock and
William Dean Howells, who
was for a time his boyhood schoolmate,
says he was "delicate physically,
grave and studious, with a religious
disposition." His father died in
1827, leaving the boy, then just
entering his teens, to not only make his
own way in the wide world, but aid his
widowed mother, whose only
inheritance was four small children and
few worldly goods. How bravely
the boy Edwin made the fight of life for
himself under the untoward
auspices, Mr. Doyle entertainingly
relates. By dint of sacrifice and hard
work, Edwin entered Kenyon College and
worked his way for two years,
when the necessities of his mother and
her three younger children, de-
manded the aid of the college boy. His
initiation into politics was in
the Adams-Jackson presidential contest
(1824-5). Stanton "went over
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to Jackson," and until he took his seat in Lincoln's cabinet was
"con-
spicuous as an uncompromising
Democrat." It was a strange political
affiliation for Stanton's ancestry,
temperament and training were "abo-
litionistic." The formative period
of Stanton's political proclivities is
examined with interesting detail by the
author, and his second chapter,
entitled: "Professional
Career," presents an excellent summary of the
history of political strife in the
north, leading up to the pre-war years.
Then come "Secession Clouds"
and the "Beginning of the Conflict," and
the position of Stanton, the lawyer,
therein. Of Stanton's first meeting
with Lincoln, at Cincinnati, in the
famous McCormick patent case, Mr.
Doyle says:
"We have referred to this case as
the first meeting of Stanton
and Lincoln. When the attorneys came
together at the Burnett
House in Cincinnati for consultation
Stanton was not favorably im-
pressed with the long, lanky, not to
say, uncouth attorney from Illi-
nois, and did not hesitate to make his
contempt apparent, and dur-
ing the progress of the case, in court
and out, he appeared to be
highly appreciative of Mr. Lincoln's
blue cotton umbrella, and his
illfitting garments. He curtly ruled him
out from arguing the case,
but, as we have said, this did not
prevent Mr. Lincoln from remain-
ing and listening to the suit, after
which he gave Stanton his full
meed of praise. But shortly before the
final submission of the case,
Mr. Lincoln called at the room of their
associated counsel, one of
whom is authority for this additional
history not hitherto published,
and said to him: 'You must have noticed
that Mr. Stanton is
determined that I shall not make an
argument in this case. I think
I should have the courage to insist upon
doing so if I were satisfied
that the interests of our clients
required it. I think, however, that
they do not for the reason that I have
here reduced to writing the
substance of all that I would say, and
possibly, it is better said here.'
"This gentleman read the argument
and concluded that it was
the most masterful review and
condensation of the whole case that
was possible, and passed it up to the
court with the other papers.
He says, that according to his
recollection of the paper it contained
the bone and sinews of the opinion of
the court delivered in this
case. In March, 1861, this same
gentleman was in Washington City
on professional business and was
stopping at Willard's Hotel. When
Mr. Lincoln came there to be inaugurated
he hesitated about calling
on him lest it might bring back
unpleasant recollections of the Cin-
cinnati episode. He had about concluded
not to call, when he re-
ceived a note from Mr. Lincoln, who had
in some way learned that
he was at the hotel, inviting him to his
room. When he arrived
there he had a conversation with Mr.
Lincoln, who addressed him
substantially as follows: 'I am about to
do that for which I seem
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to owe an explanation to all the people
of the United States. I can
make it to no one but you. Mr. Stanton,
as you know; has been
serving conspicuously in the cabinet of
Mr. Buchanan, faithful
among the faithless. There is a common
appreciation of his ability
and fidelity, and a common expectation
that I will take him into
my cabinet, but you know that I could
not possibly, consistently
with my selfrespect, pursue that course
in view of his personal treat-
ment of me at Cincinnati.' About a year
later this same attorney
met Mr. Lincoln in Washington, when the
latter said to him: 'I
am about to do an act for which I owe no
explanation to any man,
woman or child in the United States
except you. You know the
War Department has demonstrated the
great necessity for a Secre-
tary of Mr. Stanton's great ability, and
I have made up my mind
to sit down on all my pride, it may be a
portion of my selfrespect,
and appoint him to the place.'"
We cannot follow the pages of Mr. Doyle
in close review as they
deserve. From the entrance of Stanton
into Lincoln's cabinet, his career
is inseparably entwined with that of the
great martyr president. It is
well known history, but Mr. Doyle's
contribution thereto is worthy of
perusal, and no more faithful account is
known to us. The analysis of
Stanton's character and portrayal of his
characteristics, and the contrasts
of the latter with those of Lincoln form
fascinating reading. Nowhere
in American history is there the equal
of the relations of these two in-
tellectual giants, their differences and
diplomatic handling of each other;
the iron and merciless firmness of the
one and gentle, peace-seeking ten-
derness of the other in constant foil;
they complemented one another,
each was necessary to the other, and
their association at the head of the
government in the time of its greatest
crisis was providential. Stanton
who had been at the outset a severe
critic of the president, gradually
learned to appreciate his great
qualities of mind and heart, and the last
scene in which they both took part was
that at the death-bed of the im-
mortal Lincoln; says Mr. Doyle:
"At 7:22 on the morning of the 15th
the spirit of the martyred
President took its flight, and Stanton
as he drew the blinds uttered
these memorable words: 'He now belongs
to the ages.' Col. A. F.
Rockwell, one of the spectators of the
closing scene, says:
'During the twenty minutes preceding the
death of the Pres-
ident, Mr. Stanton stood quite
motionless, leaning his chin upon his
left hand, his right hand holding his
hat and supporting his left
elbow, the tears falling
continually."
Mr. Doyle's work is published under the
auspices of The Stanton
Monument Association, and printed by The
Herald Printing Company,
Steubenville, Ohio.
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Hist. Society Publications.
DANIEL DRAKE AND HIS FOLLOWERS.
Dr. Otto Juettner, a physician of high
standing, author of "Modern
Physio-therapy" and editor of
"Songs of the University of Cincinnati,"
has put forth a pretentious volume on
'Daniel Drake and His Followers."
It is a valuable contribution to the
bibliographical and historical literature
of Ohio. The author in his Foreword
announces: "This book contains
the story of some of the great architects
of yesterday, who laid the
foundation of and helped to build the
stately edifice of Western med-
icine. A few years ago I picked up
Mansfield's 'Memoirs of Daniel
Drake,' and was completely fascinated by
the character and the life of
Drake. Posterity has done nothing for
this great man. He seems to be
entirely forgotten. To hold up the
mirror of the past to the present gen-
eration was the motive which primarily
suggested the writing of this
book."
And right well has the author held up
the mirror.
Daniel Drake was an eminent physician, a
prolific writer and ver-
satile genius. Daniel Drake was born in
New Jersey, October 20, 1785.
Some two and a half years later, the
parents with the boy, moved to the
new settlement of Mayslick, Kentucky,
and here "it was that Daniel grew
up in the bosom of nature, the child of
simple and pure-minded country
folk." The boyhood life of Daniel
in the western wild is the oft-told
story of privation, struggle with nature
and the aboriginal inhabitants, a
story always tinged with tragedy,
romance and adventure. It was a life
of hard labor, clearing the forest and
coaxing a meagre livelihood from
the soil. Daniel had the intellectual
propensity, which could not be stifled,
and he picked up such slight
"larnin'" as his environment afforded: "His
Alma Mater was the forest, his teacher
nature, his classmates birds,
squirrels and wild flowers." At the
age of thirteen the boy "made up his
mind" to become a doctor. On
December 16, 1800, accompanied by his
father he slowly rode horseback to
Cincinnati, where he was placed in the
home of Dr. William Goforth, who was to
be his preceptor. Dr. Goforth
was then a leading physician of the
infant city -having 750 inhabitants
-and one of the distinguished pioneers of
his day, the first physician in
the West to practice vaccination; he
received cow-pock from England
in 1800, the year of Daniel's arrival as
a student, and Daniel was the first
one in Cincinnati who submitted to
vaccination. Drake served his four
years' apprenticeship under Dr. Goforth
who in the summer of 1805 pre-
sented his successful pupil with a
"diploma," the "first issued west of the
Alleghenies on any student of
medicine." After a few months' attend-
ance upon lectures in Philadelphia, the young
doctor began his practice
in Cincinnati and "soon acquired
the patronage of the best families in the
town," becoming, says Dr. Juettner,
"the most liberal of all her benefac-
tors, the most brilliant of her gifted
sons, the one really great man she
has produced." In 1810 Daniel Drake
appeared as an author, publishing
a booklet setting forth his observations
under the title of "Notices of
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Cincinnati, its Topography, Climate and
Diseases." This was followed
five years later by that little volume
so rare and so prized by the book
collectors, the "Natural and
Statistical View or Picture of Cincinnati and
the Miami Country, illustrated by maps,
with an appendix containing
observations on the late earthquakes,
the Aurora Borealis and southwest
wind." It was the first book
written by a Cincinnatian. This book "ex-
cited a great deal of interest in the
East and even on the Continent of
Europe, where parts of it were
translated for the benefit of people who
contemplated emigrating to
America."
In 1817 Drake became a medical teacher
in the Transylvania Uni-
versity at Lexington, Ky., a town then
known as the "Athens of the
West."
In 1818 Dr. Drake was the protagonist of
a plan to establish the
Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati.
It was duly inaugurated and Dr.
Drake was made president of the Faculty.
But we cannot follow in
detail the forceful and fruitful career
of this accomplished man, who
became so conspicuous as a physician and
an author. After a most event-
ful and interesting career, Dr. Daniel
Drake died, at Cincinnati, Decem-
ber 16, 1852. His life and
its-achievements are worthily related in the de-
lightful pages of Dr. Juettner's book,
which also contains the biographical
sketches of many of the leading Ohio
physicians.
The work, which will be especially valuable
and interesting to mem-
bers of the medical profession, is amply
illustrated. It is from the press
of the Harvey Publishing Company,
Cincinnati.
A NEW LIFE OF TECUMSEH.
Benjamin Drake, brother of Daniel Drake,
whose biography by Dr.
Juettner is noticed in the preceding
pages of this Quarterly, was the
first one to make an extensive study of
the life of Tecumseh, the
greatest member of the Shawnee tribe and
perhaps, all things con-
sidered, the greatest of his race.
Benjamin Drake, a resident of Cin-
cinnati for many years, previous to 1830
began gathering material rela-
tive to the life of Tecumseh. Drake
visited the scenes of Tecumseh's
activities and conversed with many whose
lives at that time reached
back into the days of the great chief.
Drake's life is therefore not
only the earliest but the standard
authority in this subject. The hun-
dreds of letters and documents collected
by Drake, concerning the Indian
chief, are now carefully preserved and
easily accessible to students,
in the Draper Manuscripts of the
Wisconsin Historical Society Library,
at Madison, Wis., where they were
examined by the editor of this
Quarterly while preparing his monograph
on Tecumseh, published in
Volume XV of the Society Annuals.
Benjamin Drake's Tecumseh was
first issued from the press in 1841, in
Cincinnati, and is a book eagerly
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sought by collectors of Ohioana. The
only other pretentious writing
on this theme is the very exhaustive
essay on "Tecumseh" in the
volume entitled "Heroes of
Defeat," by Colonel William J. Armstrong,
published some seven years past. Mr. Armstrong is known as the
"artist historian" and his
Tecumseh essay is a brilliant and scenic account
of the incomparable chief.
We are now favored with a new
publication on this historic sub-
ject by Norman S. Gurd of Sarnia,
Canada. This volume of some two
hundred pages, from the press of William
Briggs, Toronto, is entitled
the "Story of Tecumseh," and
is one of a number of similar works in
the "Canadian Heroes Series."
Mr. Gurd, a barrister and solicitor at
law, has entered upon his task with
evident enthusiasm and at the same
time with a thorough appreciation of the
difficulties in obtaining the
definite data required for a strictly
accurate accomplishment of his
purpose. Mr. Gurd has devoted some three
years of labor upon this
volume and the result is a justification
of his efforts. Besides the ma-
terial easily obtained, as mentioned
above, Mr. Gurd had the use of
some original data, particularly in the
official Canadian archives. The
book is written for popular reading
rather than for critical scholars,
indeed it is primarily prepared for the
younger reader and the author
is happy in his style and treatment of
material for that class of patrons.
This production has an interest
peculiarly its own as the author con-
templates his subject from the British
point of view. Mr. Gurd enter-
tainingly follows the early childhood
and youth of Tecumseh, dwelling
upon his forest education for the duties
of peace and the exigencies
of war. His descriptions of the customs
and life of the Indian are
especially explicit and picturesque.
Tecumseh was early initiated into
the bloody scenes, on the Scioto and
Miamis, that characterized the
racial war for the possession of the
Ohio country. The Shawnee ap-
pears, as the aid of Little Turtle, in
the Indian resistance to the expe-
ditions of Harmar, St. Clair and Wayne.
At the battle of Fallen Tim-
bers the Shawnee led his tribal
contingent, some 350 strong, and was
one of the last to yield the field. He
would not acquiesce in the Treaty
of Greenville, which he ever after hated
and denounced. During the
period between the Greenville Treaty,
marking the close of the Ohio
war, and the preliminary events of the
War of 1812, Tecumseh wandered
far amid the forest tribes, visiting the
wigwam centers, from the banks
of the Missouri to the Everglades of
Florida. Everywhere he was
greeted with audiences of the braves who
were stirred by his oratory
in which he denounced the encroachments
of the whites and urged uni-
versal and simultaneous warfare upon the
white settlements. Mr. Gurd
graphically portrays "The Council
at Old Vincennes," when, in 1810,
General Harrison, then Governor of the
Indiana Territory, gave audience
to Tecumseh and his accompanying braves,
that they might explain.
the menacing gatherings at the
headquarters of the Prophet at Green-
ville, the scene of the famous
treaty. It was on this occasion that
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the pleadings of Tecumseh for the rights
of his people, and the bold
denunciations of wrong inflicted by the
whites, reached the highest
altitude of aboriginal sentiment and
rhetoric. This speech ranks with
the finest efforts of Red Jacket. Then
came the battle of Tippecanoe
and the disgraceful defeat of the
Prophet in the absence of the warrior
Tecumseh. The omens of the War of 1812
gave Tecumseh fresh hope
that the Americans might yet be driven
from the Ohio country. While
he was doubtful of the outcome there was
no alternative but to ally
himself with the Great Father across the
seas. Again he went forth
to the tribes north, west and south and
pleaded for a final concerted
action against the Long Knives-the
enemies of the Great Father.
There are few pages, if any, more
romantic in history, than the events
of the War of 1812 in the northwest
section of Ohio, on or adjacent
to the Detroit river. In June, (1812),
Tecumseh offered his services,
at Amherstburg, to the British
authorities. They were accepted and
thereafter to the final scene, October
5, 1813, at Thamesville, Tecum-
seh's activities are inseparably
connected with the land events of that
war. Bravely and with a desperate
intensity and loyalty the chief
battled for the cause for which he had
enlisted.
Mr. Gurd, at times, allows his British
sympathies to color his
opinions, though the truth of his
statements are usually well founded;
he alludes to Duncan McArthur as a
"freebooter who penetrated as far
east as Moraviantown, robbing the
settlers of provisions, blankets and
cattle" and scores the Ohio colonel
for confiscating a "flock of fine sheep
which the Earl of Selkirk had imported
from the Old Country." It is
not unusual for contending armies to confiscate the property
of the
enemy.
In the early events of the conflict,
Tecumseh and his tribal fol-
lowers were most conspicuous, especially
in the incidents along the
river Raisin. It was Tecumseh and his
command that ambuscaded
Major Van Horne and a party of two
hundred who were hastening to
the rescue of Captain Brush on his way
with supplies for the relief
of Hull at Detroit.
Tecumseh was witness to the disgraceful
surrender of Hull, when
2,500 American soldiers became prisoners
of war. Tecumseh had been
for some time previous the close
companion and adviser of General
Brock and together the two entered the
surrendered fort. Brock, turn-
ing to Tecumseh, asked him to protect
the Americans from the Indians.
"We Indians," said Tecumseh,
"despise the Long Knives too much to
touch them." Mr. Gurd gives due
credit to Tecumseh by saying: "there
can be little question that Brock would
have been unsuccessful in his
bold attempt on Detroit had it not been
for the presence and active
co-operation of Tecumseh and his
braves." Rapidly succeeding events
more and more gave Tecumseh prominence
and honor in the war.
Brock in August was shifted to the
events in the east on the Niagara
frontier. General Procter succeeded to
the British command on the
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Society Publications.
Detroit. This latter officer was
cowardly in character and incompetent
in fitness. The scenes are transferred
to the Maumee. Harrison builds
Fort Meigs and the two sieges follow, in
both of which Tecumseh and
Procter are the leading commanders. The
siege of Fort Stephenson,
August 1, was the highwater mark of
Tecumseh's daring and general-
ship. No incident in American history
surpasses it for thrilling action
and surprising results. George Croghan, the boy with 160 Kentucky
backwoodsmen, repulses Procter and his
army of trained troops and
Tecumseh with 1,000 braves. Gurd does
not due full justice to this
event, so honorable to American arms and
bravery.
From now on the story is one of British
failure. Procter begins
his retreat across the Detroit and up
the Thames. Tecumseh has lost
his faith in the ability and even honor
of Procter and foresees the
triumph of the Long Knives, but refuses
to retreat further and com-
pels Procter to take a stand "where
McGregor's creek empties into the
Thames." But on a pretext, Procter
continued his retreat, followed by
Tecumseh. Harrison and the Americans finally overtook the allies
at the Indian village of Moraviantown,
on the banks of the Thames.
Here the curtain fell on the dramatic
life of Tecumseh, who at this
time was a brigadier in the British
army. Followed by some of the
lesser chiefs, at the head of a thousand
braves, the Shawnee dressed
in his usual costume of deer skin,
passed down the lines to note the
disposition of the troops. "Round
his head was wound a white silk
handkerchief, from which floated a white
ostrich plume." He fell early
in the encounter. Mr. Gurd does not enter
into the controversy as to
who killed Tecumseh. "His mighty
war cry resounded high above the
noise of battle. Suddenly he was seen to
stagger and fall. Swiftly
the words, 'Tecumseh is dead,' passed
down the line. Overwhelmed
by this crowning calamity, the Indians
turned and fled. The faithful
body guard of the great chief carried
the body of their dead leader
deep into the recesses of the
enshrouding woods. Down the dim forest
aislesthey bore him and so he passes
from the scene."
Mr. Gurd has produced a faithful
portrait of the great chieftain
and pays splendid and worthy tribute to
the nobility of his nature and
to his patriotic service in behalf of
his race.
COLONEL ORLANDO J. HODGE.
Colonel Orlando J. Hodge, one of the prominent
figures in Ohio
history during the present generation,
passed away at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the evening of April 16, 1912. On the
evening of the day in ques-
tion he had been invited to address the
members of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce, who on that evening
held their annual meet-
ing. He delivered a very interesting and
impressive speech, at the
close of which he said: "When you
men of the Cleveland Chamber
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of Commerce answer to the last call and
come before Saint Peter, if
you will tell him that you are members
of the Chamber of Commerce
of Cleveland, I am sure that he will
call upon his best angels to sing
their sweetest songs for you." The
applause which greeted the venerable
speaker's remarks, as he sat down, was
long and loud. President-Elect
Charles E. Adams complimented the
speaker and expressed the hope
that Colonel Hodge might live to attend
many more annual meetings
of the Chamber. A recess of fifteen
minutes was taken by the assembly
previous to continuing the program,
during which intermission Colonel
Hodge was suddenly stricken with fatal
illness, borne to an adjoining
room, where he lapsed into unconsciousness
and died in a few moments.
We reproduce the following sketch of
Colonel Hodge, from The
Cleveland Plain Dealer of April 17
(1912);
A soldier of the Mexican war, first
clerk of the Cleveland police
court, president of the Connecticut
senate, president of the Cleveland
city council, speaker of the Ohio house
of representatives, editor and
newspaper owner for a decade, president
of the Early Settlers' associa-
tion, president of the New England
society, president of the Sons of
the American Revolution, vice president
of the Western Reserve Histori-
cal society, a qualified member of the
bar, a large owner and dealer
in real estate and president of various
business corporations-these are
milestones in the varied and useful
career of Orlando J. Hodge of
Cleveland who died yesterday in his
eighty-fourth year.
He was one of the few men living who had
been an active Re-
publican from the founding of the party,
and who had voted for Lincoln
and every Republican candidate since.
For many years he had also
been a leader both in humane activities
and legislation. The big Humane
society of Cleveland he founded nearly
forty years ago, and up to 1910
was its president. He had done much in
the making of history himself
and was widely known in the literary
field, both as an investigator and
a contributor.
Mr. Hodge came of pioneer Connecticut
stock, the reputed founder
of the family in America being John
Hodge, who was born March 4,
1643, or 1644, and who was married Aug.
12, 1666, to Susanna Denslow,
born Sept. 3, 1646. Alfred, the father
of Orlando J., was born March
9, 1795.
Alfred Hodge married Miss Sophia
English, daughter of Abel and
Anna (Caulkins) English and one of her
grandfathers in the fourth
generation back was Josua Dewey, Admiral
Dewey's grandfather in the
sixth generation. The father, Alfred
Hodge, who was a farmer, served
in the war of 1812, and died July 11,
1832. His wife was born in Leb-
anon, Ct., April 12, 1795, and died Jan.
13, 1846 in Cleveland.
Orlando J. Hodge is a native of Hamburg,
a town adjoining
Buffalo, N. Y., and was born in a log
house Nov. 25, 1828. Orlando
became a permanent resident of Cleveland
in 1842. He was first em-
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Hist. Society Publications.
ployed in a printing office at $1 a week
and his board, his chief duty
being to keep the forms properly inked
with a big hand roller while
the presswork was in progress. In 1847 he was a volunteer in the
Mexican war. On the way to the scene of operations by way of
New York, the Atlantic and the gulf, the
vessel in which he sailed
was wrecked and lost, but he was rescued
by a passing ship, taken to
Cuba and then to Mexico.
For sixteen months the youth carried an
old flint musket and then
returned to Cleveland with a good
record. As the forcible reminder
of the Mexican war and a complete bar to
further military duty on
his part, he carried until his death two
wounds in his leg. His next
serious business was completing his
education, for which purpose he
attended the Geauga, O., seminary in
1849 to 1851, during a portion of
this period having as classmates James
A. Garfield and the latter's future
wife, Miss Lucretia Rudolph. Two years
afterwards he was elected
first clerk of the Cleveland police
court by the largest vote for any
candidate for any office cast at that
election.
In 1860, Col. Hodge went to Litchfield
county, Connecticut, on busi-
ness regarding the settlement of an
estate and what he planned as a
temporary stay was lengthened into a
residence of seven years, crowded
with important events. In 1862 he was
elected to the lower house of the
Connecticut legislature and to the
senate in 1864 and 1865, serving as
president of the upper house in the
latter years, although he was the
youngest member of the body. And the
significance of the selection
was doubly emphasized by the unanimous
vote that placed him in the
chair.
In 1867, Col. Hodge returned to
Cleveland, and a few years later
was again called to serve the public.
Three times he was elected to the
city council (1871 to 1877), being made
president in 1876, and a fourth
term in 1885 and 1886, being again
honored with the presidency. His
career as a state legislator in Ohio
began in 1873 with his election to
the Ohio house of representatives. There
he served four terms, being
speaker pro tem. in 1875 and 1876 and
speaker in 1882 and 1883.
Col. Hodge's journalistic career
extended from 1878 to 1889, dur-
ing which period he was editor and chief
owner of the Sun and Voice.
In 1890 he published the Hodge
genealogy, and in 1892 "Reminiscenses."
He had been identified with the Chamber
of Commerce from its be-
ginning, being one of the members of the
board of trade organized
July 7, 1848.
On Oct. 15, 1855, Col. Hodge married
Miss Lydia R. Doan, who
died Sept. 13, 1879, and their only child,
Clark R. Hodge, was born
July 16, 1857, died Nov. 29, 1880. He
wedded his second wife, Vir-
ginia Shedd Clark, on April 25, 1882.
Mrs. Hodge was a daughter
of Edmond Earl and Aurelia Edna
(Thompson) Shedd, her father be-
ing the oldest and leading wholesale
grocer of Columbus.
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PRELIMINARY ANNUAL MEETING. On May 14, 1912, the following circular was issued to the members of the Society: "According to the provisions of the Constitution of the So- ciety, the Annual Meeting of the Society should be held not later than the last day of May. It is earnestly desired that the Annual Meeting this year be deferred until after the bids have been re- ceived and, if possible, the contracts made with the builders for the erection of the building for the Society at Columbus and the Hayes Memorial Building at Fremont. It is therefore proposed that a sufficient number of the members of the Society to consti- tute a quorum meet at the offices of The Ohio State Savings Association, 44 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, at 2:00 P. M., Saturday, May 25, 1912, at which time those present may technically comply with the requirements of the Annual Meeting and then adjourn further proceedings of the Annual Meeting until such later day as may be agreed upon. "This notice is sent you that you may be present at the meet- ing of May 25th, if you so desire, but a later notice will be sent you of the adjourned meeting, at which time the regular routine of the Annual Meeting will be carried out. "G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, E. 0. RANDALL, "President. Secretary."
In accordance with the foregoing announcement there met at the place designated, 44 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, at 2:00 P. M., May 25, 1912, the following members of the Society: G. F. Bareis, A. J. Baughman, T. B. Bowers, H. E. Buck, C. H. Gallup, J. W. Harper, W. C. Mills, E. O. Randall, D. J. Ryan, L. P. Schaus, John Siebert, H. A. Thompson and E. F. Wood. The number of members present was sufficient to constitute a legal quorum, the number of which is ten. Vice President Bareis presided at this preliminary meeting, in the absence of Dr. Wright. Secretary Ran- dall fully explained the reason for calling this preliminary meeting and stated that such business could be transacted as might be necessary, (328) |