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HONORABLE JAMES W. GOOD
Honorable James W. Good, Secretary of
War in the
cabinet of President Hoover, was the
most distinguished
official who attended the unveiling of
the monument in
honor of General Anthony Wayne and he
delivered the
principal address at the banquet in the
evening in the
Commodore Perry Hotel. No one who heard
him would
have predicted that this would be the
last distinguished
service of this character he would
perform for the Chief
Executive of the Nation and the
thousands who were so
fortunate as to hear him. But such it
was, and long will
an element of pathos attach to the
patriotic words that
fell from his lips on this occasion.
Secretary Good died
in Washington, D. C., at 8:30 p. m.
November 18, only
a little more than two months after he
delivered this
address.
James W. Good was born at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa,
September 24, 1866. He was graduated
from Coe Col-
lege, Iowa, in 1892, and from the Law
School of the
University of Michigan in 1893. He was
City Attorney
of Cedar Rapids in 1906-1908; Member of
Congress
from the Iowa Sixth District 1909-1923;
resigned from
Congress and entered upon the practice
of law in Chi-
cago. He was an active supporter of Herbert
Hoover
for President at the primary and in the
election in 1928.
He was appointed Secretary of War, a
position that he
held at the time of his death.
The guests at the dedication and
banquet who saw
and heard the address by Secretary of
War Good were
reminded that Toledo and Ohio have a
representative in
Ohio's Monument to General Anthony
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the cabinet of President Hoover in
Honorable Walter
F. Brown, Postmaster-General. Had he
been present
he would have been accorded a most
generous welcome.
Naturally unusual interest centered in
the distin-
guished guest, William Wayne of Paoli,
Pennsylvania.
He is a lineal descendant of General
Anthony Wayne,
a successful business man and a former
member of the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Asked
if he had
held any other government position, he
smilingly replied
"No, this is my only
offense." He left a most favorable
impression and his presentations at the
dedication and
the banquet were heartily cheered.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Historical Society of Northwestern
Ohio with
commendable enterprise had a complete
stenographic
report made of all the exercises
incident to the unveil-
ing and dedication of the monument to
General Anthony
Wayne on September 14, 1929. This
report was
promptly published and the editor of
the QUARTERLY is
under great obligations for the
privilege of using this
report in the preparation of copy for
the QUARTERLY.
HISTORICAL DISPLAY IN LASALLE &
KOCH'S WIN-
DOWS, TOLEDO, OHIO
ARRANGED BY NEVIN O. WINTERS
(Courtesy of Alfred Koch)
WINDOW I
Books --
1. Butterfield, C. W. -- History of the Girtys.
2. Jackson,
---- History of the Indian Wars.
3. "The Report of General Wayne on
the Battle of Faller.
Timbers." In Slocum, C. E. ---
History of the Mau-
mee River Basin, pp. 207-211.