104 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM
A large and appreciative audience
assembled in
Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree
which gives it
its name to celebrate Ohio History Day
on October 7,
1923.
The local papers gave generous space to this
notable event. The Union Herald prefaces
an extended
account as follows:
The celebration of History day at Logan
Elm Park Sun-
day was attended by from 1500 to 1800
people from all over
central Ohio, and the great success of
the meeting must have
been most gratifying to Mrs. Howard
Jones who conceived the
splendid idea of getting together once a
year on this historic
spot to study the remarkable history of
our wonderful state.
The contemplation of the remarkable
success of the first
celebration must be doubly gratifying to
Mrs. Jones for the
reason that succeeding gatherings at the
park will naturally
grow larger year by year, as time goes
on. The permanency of
History day in the annals of Ohio is
assured now and future
gatherings will witness the assembling
of great crowds, not only
from central Ohio, but from the
furthermost corners of the
state.
Sunday's meeting was an inspiration to
all who were so
fortunate as to be present and the story
of the first History day
will be told and retold until its annual
celebration will be hailed
with joy and thanksgiving.
The day was ideal, the sun shone kindly
down on the people,
and nature, dressed in her best, never
gave forth a prettier pic-
ture. There was just enough tang in the
air to give zest to the
celebration and visitors from Columbus,
Canal Winchester,
Lancaster, Chillicothe, Washington C.
H., and nearby towns
felt richly repaid for their effort in
making the trip to Logan
Elm.
A very pleasing program was rendered
with Attorney Bar-
ton Walters presiding who in introducing each of the
speakers
gave some interesting bits of history.
The Democrat and Watchman was
equally felicitous
in the introductory paragraphs of its
account:
"Ohio History Day" at the
famous Logan Elm on last
Sunday, October 7, was enjoyable and
profitable from every
point of view.
Reviews, Notes and Comments 105
The day was typically autumnal. The sun
shone brightly
and in the bracing air there was just a
hint and tang of the
coming winter days. The branches of the
old elm, clothed in
the verdure worn for centuries, swayed in the breeze
and wel-
comed to its grateful shade, a
representative posterity, many
harvest moons removed from Dunmore
treaties and Chief Logan
laments.
The people came from all sections of
central Ohio, unmis-
takably impressed with the aim and
object of the occasion. It
was the largest audience ever yet
assembled at Logan Elm Park.
Attorney Barton Walters of Circleville
presided, and in a very
appropriate manner prefaced the splendid program of the
after-
noon. He then introduced Honorable John
F. Carlisle of Co-
lumbus, who spoke briefly but fittingly
concerning Ohio His-
tory Day, not forgetting to remind the
audience that this-to-be
annual event, had its conception in the
mind of Mrs. Dr.
Howard Jones of Park Place, Circleville;
and who, because of
several months of illness, was not
privileged, as it would have
been her pleasure, to take part in the exercises of the
occasion.
Mr. Carlisle closed his interesting
remarks with the reading of
lesson from one of the McGuffey Readers on "The North
American Indian."
Mrs. Herbert Backus, Vice Regent of the
Daughters of the
American Revolution, told, in a very
interesting manner how
her organization was taking steps to
memorialize important
events of the Revolution.
Mr. C. B. Galbreath, Secretary of the
Society, was
present and made a brief address
devoted to prominent
points in the Dunmore War and Logan's
famous mes-
sage to the peace conference with the
Indians at Camp
Charlotte, seven miles distant from the
Logan Elm.
He stated that the central virtue of
this message,
usually spoken of as Logan's speech,
was its arraign-
ment of ingratitude. He then read some
verses of his
own on the Logan Elm. These were
prominently pub-
lished in the local papers and in the
November issue of
the Ohio Educational Monthly. For generous notices
grateful acknowledgment is here
recorded.