330 Ohio Arch. and His. Society Publications.
"Wayne's Expedition against the
Indians." The awards were made to
Irma Shupe, Robert Cowden and Wilbur
Conover as first, second and
third respectively. The one by Miss
Shupe was published in the Dayton
Daily Journal of May 5th. It
is a most scholarly and comprehensive ac-
count of that dramatic, dashing campaign
by the intrepid Wayne. No
campaign in early American history is
more thrilling in its character, or
more potent in its results. It was
really the last campaign of the American
Revolution, occurring on Ohio soil, as
the first campaign, that of Dun-
more in 1774, also took place mainly on
Ohio soil. Miss Shupe's narra-
tive has the historic flavor. It could
have hardly been better told in the
same limitation of space. The standard
histories, especially those used in
our schools, are woefully deficient in
the proper recital or even recognition
of the events in the Northwest
preliminary to and cotemporaneous with
the American Revolution. The Daughters
and Sons of the American
Revolution in Ohio can engage in no
better work than the encouragement
of our children to study early Ohio
history.
HOMES OF OHIO GOVERNORS.
The Western Christian Advocate, published
in Cincinnati, in its num-
ber for April 1, last, has an extended
and carefully written article by Mrs.
Mary McArthur Tuttle on the "Homes
of Ohio's Early Governors." Of
the sad fated St. Clair, Mrs. Tuttle
says:
"It is a strange fact that a
log-cabin or house, if so it might be called,
away off in the Alleghany Mountains, 'on
the summit of Chestnut Ridge,'
should have been the final home from
which the gallant St. Clair, Ohio's
Territorial Governor, met his last
enemy, death. There he had gone to
live with a widowed daughter in 1802,
and there he spent the remainder
of his days. In 1813 the Legislature of
Pennsylvania granted him an an-
nuity of $400; but what was four hundred
dollars to his restless, de-
jected mind? Alas, that his claims were
recognized by Congress only a
short time before his death, which
occurred in 1818. A pension of $60
a month, and $2,000 to discharge his
claims, must have sounded like a
wild dream to his worn-out spirit. His
Scotch origin; his University ed-
ucation; his association with the
British Army, when with Wolfe at the
storming of Quebec and elsewhere he had
gained large experience; his
Revolutionary distinction at Trenton and
Princeton; his presidency of
the Continental Congress of 1785; and
his appointment by Congress, in
1787, to the governorship of the
Territory, naturally led Arthur St. Clair
to believe that no such destiny as
abject poverty and death in a lone cabin
in the Alleghanies, when at the age of
eighty-four, would await him. But
as early as 1802-3, he had been named
out in Ohio, 'an irascible old vet-
eran,' a Federalist, an aristocrat - a
man whom the plain people no
longer desired to have rule over
them."
Editorialana. 331
Mrs .Tuttle is a writer of great merit,
being a lady of unusual cul-
ture and scholarship. Her husband was
the late Prof. Herbert Tuttle, the
distinguished historical writer and
lecturer at Cornell University. With
her husband Mrs. Tuttle spent some years
abroad and became proficient
as a linguist and an artist. She not
only writes in a delightful manner,
but wields the artist's brush, both in
portraiture and landscape, with
equal talent and charm. That she is
deeply interested in Ohio history is
most natural, for she is the
granddaughter of Governor Allen Trimble
and the great-granddaughter of Captain
James Trimble who participated
in the battle of Point Pleasant (1774)
and was a captain in the Revolution-
ary War. Mrs. Tuttle is a resident of
Hillsboro, Ohio, which was the
home of her illustrious grandfather.
FARRAR'S GROUNDHOG SPEECH.
We have been asked for information
concerning Captain Farrar's
famous groundhog oration. In reply we
reprint the following from the
pen of a writer in Cambridge, Ohio, who
contributed the readable account
to a recent daily publication:
Each groundhog day, whether the sun
shines or not, brings back to
the citizens of Cambridge, Ohio the old
story of how "Groundhog" Farrar
got his nickname.
Captain William H. Farrar, at one time a
leading lawyer in Eastern
Ohio, banker, philanthropist and several
times Mayor of Cambridge, was
sent to the Legislature back in the
seventies by the Republicans of Guern-
sey County. He was expected to make his
mark as a law maker, as he
had ability and was an eloquent speaker.
The following incident, what-
ever else he said or did while a member
of the lower House, gave him
newspaper notoriety from one end of the
land to the other:
One of the biennial sessions of the
Buckeye Legislature, somewhere
around 1884-87, was noted for what it
did not do. There seemed to be no
leader of either party, and, in fact,
there seemed to be no laws needed,
few changes in the existing laws and the
members, both of the Senate
and House of Representatives, were equal
to the occasion and loafed most
of the time.
One day, while the members of the House
were sitting around wait-
ing for some one to 'do something' or
move the usual adjournment, Cap-
tain Farrar arose and said:
"Mr. Speaker, I have a resolution
which I wish to offer and I ask as
a personal favor from my colleagues that
I be allowed to make some re-
marks before submitting the
measure."
The voice from old Guernsey was like a
bolt from a clear sky.
Weeks had passed without a set speech on
any subject and the eager-
ness of the members to 'hear something'
and to finally get to vote on a
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