OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND
EMPLOYEES
HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE
Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in
Millersport,
Fairfield County, Ohio, August 10,
1876. He was edu
cated in the public schools and
attended Denison Uni-
versity. At an early age he became
interested in archae-
ology and museums and soon began
gathering the litera-
ture relating to these.
In 1913, the opportunity came to him to
engage ac-
tively in a work which had for years
remained in the
realm of his fondest desires. He was
invited by Dr.
William C. Mills, the late Director of
the Society's
Museum, to come into that institution
as Assistant
Curator of Archaeology. In this
position he at once en-
gaged actively in mound explorations,
and through the
years following became practically and
thoroughly ac-
quainted with the prehistoric mounds
and earthworks of
the Ohio Valley. Under the direction of
Dr. Mills he
explored the Hopewell Group, the Seip
Group, and
others of less importance. His
publications include the
official reports of explorations, as
set forth in volume IV
(428)
Reviews, Notes and Comments 429 of the series, Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio; a volume entitled, The Indian in Ohio, and a number of contributions to magazines and the press. He is, at pres- ent, engaged in the preparation of a book on the Mound |
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HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Builders, which will later be issued by an eastern pub- lisher. Mr. Shetrone is a veteran of the War with Spain, in which he was affiliated with the Signal Corps Service. After the War, he remained three years in Cuba as man- |
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ager and superintendent of telegraph
for the Cuban gov-
ernment. He subsequently was engaged in
newspaper
work prior to his appointment as
Assistant Curator of
Archaeology.
Soon after Dr. William C. Mills was
elected Director
of the Society, which took place on
October 18, 1921,
Mr. Shetrone was made Curator of
Archaeology. On
February 24, 1928, he was elected by
the Board of
Trustees Director of the Museum of the
Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society.
The Society is fortunate in having a
man of Mr.
Shetrone's experience who is so
especially fitted to carry
on the work inaugurated by Dr. Mills.
HARLOW LINDLEY--LIBRARIAN AT SPIEGEL
GROVE
Harlow Lindley, recently elected
librarian of the
Hayes Memorial Library at Spiegel Grove
State Park,
Fremont, Ohio, was born in Sylvania,
Parke County,
Indiana, May 31, 1875. He was educated
in the public
schools, at Earlham College, Richmond,
Indiana, and
for brief periods in the University of
Wisconsin and
the University of Chicago.
He received the degree of A. M. from
Earlham Col-
lege, in 1899, and the degree of Litt.
D. from Hanover
College, Hanover, Indiana, in 1923.
From 1899 to the beginning of the
present year, he
was librarian at Earlham College and
Professor of His-
tory and Political Science in that
institution from 1905.
He was Director of the Department of
History and
Archives of the Indiana State Library
from 1907-1923;
Director of the Indiana Historical
Commission 1923-
1924. He is a member of the American
Historical As-
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HARLOW LINDLEY Soon after his election he moved with his family to Fremont, Ohio, and entered actively upon the duties of his new position. EMERSON F. GREENMAN Emerson F. Greenman was born at Owosso, Michi- gan, September 10, 1895. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native state and in the University of Michigan, from which he received his degree of Ph. D. |
432 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications in 1927. For some years past he has been engaged in anthropological and archaeological research work in Michigan. Recently he completed a catalogue of the Michigan Pioneer Museum at Lansing and was en- |
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EMERSON F. GREENMAN gaged in preparing for the transfer of the Michigan University Museum of Anthropology to its new build- ing in Ann Arbor. On February 24, 1928, he was chosen by the Board of Trustees to succeed Mr. Shet- rone as Curator of Archaeology. |
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DEATH OF SENATOR FRANK BARTLETTE WILLIS
On the evening of March 28, 1928, when
he was
about to deliver an address in his
campaign for the
nomination of President of the United
States, at a
home-coming celebration in his honor at
Gray Chapel,
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware,
Ohio, United
States Senator Frank B. Willis was
stricken and died
while 2,500 of his friends and
neighbors were waiting
to hear him.
Senator Willis was born in Delaware
County, Ohio,
December 28, 1871.
The newspapers of the day following
paid tribute
to his character and worth. We quote
here only a few
lines from an editorial in the Detroit Free
Press:
The death of Senator Frank B. Willis has
robbed Ohio of
a citizen of outstanding ability who
served his state with dis-
tinction and with devotion, and who made
his mark far beyond
the border of his native commonwealth;
it has deprived the Upper
House of Congress of a member the body
could ill afford to lose in
these days of its diminishing prestige,
when men of genuine sen-
atorial size -- and Mr. Willis
unquestionably was such a man --
are becoming fewer and fewer within the
precincts of the
chamber.
This testimonial from a paper and a
state that were
not supporting Senator Willis for the
presidency con-
veys an intimation of the great loss
that Ohio and the
nation have sustained in his death. He
was the friend
of every worthy enterprise and
institution in the state
which he served with such distinguished
ability. He was
much interested in the Ohio State
Archaeological and
Historical Society and seemed always
alert to aid in its
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upbuilding. To his sympathetic action
was due the
prompt transfer to this Museum of the
silver service and
bell of the Battleship Ohio, when
that vessel was
scrapped in accordance with the
Washington Confer-
ence agreement for the limitation of
naval armaments.
It was at a suggestion from his office
that Dr. J. Morton
Howell, the first Minister from the
United States to
Egypt, gave to the Museum the Egyptian
mummy which
attracts many visitors. From his office
also came bound
volumes of the Congressional Record covering
the entire
period of the World War and numerous
other valuable
documents.
Ohio officials, generally, have been
good friends to
the Society. None has been a better
friend than Senator
Frank B. Willis.
More may be said of him in these
columns later.
Less should not be said of him now.
JUST JUDGMENTS
There was a time when American history
and biog-
raphy written by American authors was a
continued
paean of praise. In the opinion of
disinterested judges
recent tendencies have been toward the
opposite ex-
treme. Our modern writers are devoting
much time to
the delinquencies of the so-called
great. They are look-
ing for the spots on the sun. They are
examining news-
papers and manuscript records with the
evident purpose
of showing weakness in the character of
the public men
of the past. So far as this tendency of
the moderns is a
reminder that the wise and good and
great were not
always so, that they had alloys of
human foibles and
Reviews, Notes and Comments 435
frailties, that they had much in common
with men whom
we have all known in public life, --
the modern tendency
may be defended. It has its
limitations, however.
It will be unfortunate indeed if the
rising generation
concludes from the portrayal that some
modern writers
are placing before us, that the men who
have attained
eminence in the public service have
been masquerading
in an attractive veneer to conceal
their hypocrisy and
rascality. The worth of a public servant
is determined
by his achievement. His character is
revealed in the
sum total of his life and activities.
It is not fair to judge
a public servant by the mean things
that are said of him
in the heat of a public campaign by his
partisan oppon-
ents; or by his factional opponents in
contests within his
party. If these were taken as a
standard of judgment
our statesmen of the past and present
would present a
very sordid and sorry picture in the
history of our state
and nation.
In this connection the Editor wishes to
make a few
observations on the principal
contribution to this issue of
the QUARTERLY. Dr. Moore devotes much
space to the
activities of prominent Ohioans in
political conventions
and campaigns. He has industriously and
faithfully
reported critical opinions of leaders
prominent in the
history of our state. Many whose
opinions he has quoted
were not themselves prominent and some
belonged to the
class that might properly be
denominated "obscure."
This of itself does not necessarily
detract from their
testimony. It must be remembered,
however, as we have
observed in a few notes on this
contribution, that many
of these opinions were pronounced under
circumstances
that were not favorable to just
judgments. It would be
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a serious mistake to reach conclusions
in regard to the
men thus criticised on the basis of
their partisan or fac-
tional detractors -- as unjust as to
pass an opinion on
the fulsome laudation of their
supporters.
After the criticisms of John Sherman
that were
aimed at him almost continuously
through his notable
and at times stormy career, the student
and impartial
reader will not forget his early
espousal of the cause of
the liberation of the slave; his loyal
and effective support
of the Union through the Civil War; and
his great serv-
ice in the United States Senate and the
cabinet of Presi-
dent Hayes that was so potent in
bringing about a
resumption of specie payments and the
establishment
of our monetary system upon a more
substantial basis.
Nor will they forget the service of
James A. Garfield
in the Civil War; his courageous
advocacy of a sound
and stable currency in the Congress of
the United
States; and his effort, as President,
to give the people a
wise and just administration, a service
in which he died
with the words, "Strangulatus
pro Republica" on his
lips -- "Tortured for the
Republic."
They will not forget the services of
Joseph Benson
Foraker in the office of Governor and
the United States
Senate where his service in behalf of
the liberation of
Cuba entitles him to enduring fame.
When the Cuban
cause was in the balance in the upper
branch of the
American Congress, when the position of
the adminis-
tration itself was in doubt in regard
to certain features
of the Cuban question, the voice of
Foraker rang out dis-
tinctly without equivocation or
compromise in favor of
the independence of Cuba. The attitude
of the United
States government with reference to
Cuba is remem-
Reviews, Notes and Comments 437
bered by the people of that Island with
gratitude, and
with respect by the civilized world. No
man had more to
do with the altruistic settlement of
the War with Spain,
so far as Cuba is concerned, than had
Senator Foraker.
Nor will they forget William McKinley,
who in the
United States Congress labored long for
the upbuilding
of the industrial interests of the
country; who adminis-
tered with increasing popularity the office
of Governor;
and whose services in the Presidency of
the United
States brought a re-election by
overwhelming major-
ities to that high office. Like
Garfield, he, too, gave his
life to the service of his country.
Nor will the people forget Foster and Thurman
and
other leaders in both political parties
who served their
state and their country eminently and
faithfully in the
period following the Civil War -- a
period which, what-
ever the personal defects or
delinquencies of those in
eminent authority may have been, has
been character-
ized by a progress unrivalled, we might
say without ex-
aggeration, in the history of the
world.
To get a correct estimate of the men
who have served
in state and nation we must have the
opinion of those
who were their faithful followers, as
well as of those
who were their detractors. Fortunately,
the materials
are at hand from which historians of
judicial tempera-
ment may arrive at just conclusions.
OHIO, SCENIC AND HISTORIC
There is a growing interest in places
of local scenic
beauty and historic association.
"See Ohio First," is
now an effective appeal. It has finally
caught the atten-
tion of the public. The automobile has
brought all parts
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of the state within reach of a rapidly
increasing number
of its citizens and tourists from other
states. The de-
mand for information on points of local
attractiveness,
of course, keeps pace with the growing
interest.
The issue of five thousand copies of Scenic
and His-
toric Ohio, originally compiled by P. H. Elwood, former
Professor of Landscape Architecture in
Ohio State Uni-
versity, and published by the Ohio
State Archaeological
and Historical Society in 1924, was
promptly exhausted.
A second edition of twenty-five
thousand copies, pub-
lished in the following year, is now
almost all distrib-
uted. Provision will probably be made
for its re-issue
with corrections and additions.
The Ohio Department of Education is
preparing a
publication which will be illustrated
by over three hun-
dred cuts of interesting objects and
sites in Ohio and
accompanied by descriptive sketches. It
will be avail-
able to the public. This will
materially assist those
wishing to select points to be visited.
OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND
EMPLOYEES
HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE
Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in
Millersport,
Fairfield County, Ohio, August 10,
1876. He was edu
cated in the public schools and
attended Denison Uni-
versity. At an early age he became
interested in archae-
ology and museums and soon began
gathering the litera-
ture relating to these.
In 1913, the opportunity came to him to
engage ac-
tively in a work which had for years
remained in the
realm of his fondest desires. He was
invited by Dr.
William C. Mills, the late Director of
the Society's
Museum, to come into that institution
as Assistant
Curator of Archaeology. In this
position he at once en-
gaged actively in mound explorations,
and through the
years following became practically and
thoroughly ac-
quainted with the prehistoric mounds
and earthworks of
the Ohio Valley. Under the direction of
Dr. Mills he
explored the Hopewell Group, the Seip
Group, and
others of less importance. His
publications include the
official reports of explorations, as
set forth in volume IV
(428)