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long I shall honor his grave with a
better tombstone and write
an inscription upon it that will inform
the passerby who occupies
that lonely spot.
Give my respects to old Uncle Dan
Allman; tell him I should
be glad to hear from him. Accept of
these lines and remember a
Son, a Brother and his little family.
Goodbye Mother and Friends,
WILLIAM WARNER,
SARAH WARNER,
*ALICE WARNER (the babe).
PROSPECTIVE ENDOWMENT OF THE HAYES
HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN THE SPIEGEL
GROVE STATE PARK
EXCERPT FROM TRUST AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into
this 14th day of
April, 1925, by and between MARY MILLER
HAYES, of
Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, Party of
the First Part, and THE
UNION TRUST COMPANY of Cleveland, Ohio,
Party of
the Second Part
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, Rutherford B. Hayes, after the
termination of
his administration as President of the
United States, spent the
last twelve years of his life in active
association with many
charitable and philanthropic agencies of a military,
historical and
educational nature throughout the United
States and particularly
in association with such agencies and
interests in his native state
of Ohio, and especially with Ohio State
University at Columbus,
Western Reserve University at Cleveland,
Ohio Wesleyan Uni-
versity at Delaware, and his alma mater,
Kenyon College at
Gambier, and with the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical
Society at Columbus, the Western Reserve
Historical Society at
Cleveland, The Firelands Pioneer and
Historical Society of Nor-
walk and the Maumee Valley Historical
Society of Toledo, serv-
ing as president or member of the Board
of Trustees of these
Ohio institutions, to commemorate which
facts it is deemed ap-
propriate to bring about the
organization of a historical society
to be known as the Hayes Historical
Society in Spiegel Grove,
Fremont, Ohio; and
WHEREAS, a tentative plan for the
organization of the
* Now Mrs Geo. W. Hunt of 1028 59th St.
Oakland, Calif.
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Hayes Historical Society has been
suggested, such society to be
composed of a Board of twenty-four Trustees, consisting
of
twelve Ex-Officio Trustees, nine of whom are successors
in po-
sitions formerly held by Rutherford B.
Hayes as Governor of
the State of Ohio or as the president or a member of
the board of
trustees of the Ohio educational institutions or of
Ohio histori-
cal societies, with which he had been affiliated during
the latter
years of his life, and an Honorary Trustee and five
Incorporat-
ing Trustees for life, whose successors
shall be elected by the
Trustees of the Hayes Historical
Society, and six Elective Trus-
tees to be elected annually at the
meeting of the Trustees of the
Hayes Historical Society in the Spiegel
Grove State Park, Fre-
mont, Ohio, on October fourth as
follows:
HONORARY TRUSTEE
Dr. Charles Richard Williams of
Princeton, New Jersey,
author of the "Life" and
editor of the "Diary and Letters" of
Rutherford B. Hayes.
FIVE INCORPORATING TRUSTEES FOR LIFE
The Reverend Dr. William Oxley Thompson,
President, Co-
lumbus, Ohio.
The Honorable Myron T. Herrick, American
Ambassador to
France, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Honorable Theodore E. Burton, Member
of Congress,
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Honorable Newton D. Baker, late
Secretary of War dur-
ing the World War, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Honorable John H. Clarke, late
Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, Youngstown,
Ohio.
The incorporating Trustees for Life,
under the Chairman-
ship of President W. O. Thompson, shall
prepare Articles of
Incorporation and a Constitution and
By-Laws for the Hayes
Historical Society and shall also report
fully on the Library
Policy, in the acquisition of books and
papers by purchase or
gift, to be pursued by the Hayes
Historical Society.
TWELVE EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES
The President of the Ohio State
University at Columbus,
Ohio.
The President of the Western Reserve
University at Cleve-
land, Ohio (Dr. R. E. Vinson).
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The President of the Ohio Wesleyan
University at Delaware,
Ohio (Dr. J. W. Hoffman).
The President of Kenyon College at
Gambier, Ohio (Dr.
W. F. Peirce).
The President of the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical
Society at Columbus, Ohio (A. C.
Johnson).
The President of the Western Reserve
Historical Society at
Cleveland, Ohio (Dr. W. P. Palmer).
The President of the Firelands Pioneer
and Historical So-
ciety at Norwalk, Ohio (Hon. H. L.
Peake).
The President of the Maumee Valley
Historical Society at
Toledo, Ohio.
The Occupant of the Hayes Homestead in
Spiegel Grove,
Fremont, Ohio (Colonel Webb C. Hayes).
The Governor of the State of Ohio (Hon.
A. V. Donahey).
The Speaker of the Ohio House of
Representatives (Hon.
V. M. Riegel).
SIX ELECTIVE TRUSTEES
H. D. Messick of Cleveland, A. S. Root
of Oberlin, C. C.
Kohl of Bowling Green, A. E. Culbert and
Lucy E. Keeler of
Fremont and B. A. Hayes of Toledo and
WHEREAS, the Honorable James E.
Campbell, President
of The Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society said, in
his address delivered in Spiegel Grove,
October 4, 1920:
I consider this a suitable opportunity
to state formally the develop-
ment and consummation of the project
born in the mind of Colonel Webb
C. Hayes (during his father's
presidency), of making Spiegel Grove one
of the most important monuments to
history and patriotism in the State
of Ohio. I am within a conservative
estimate when I state that Colonel
Hayes has disposed of, for the benefit
of posterity, in the form of the
beautiful and attractive property which
you see before you, at least
$500,000.00, $250,000.00 cash and
securities for endowment funds and
$250,000.00 in real estate and personal
property including the Library
of Americana and Collections.
WHEREAS, the Party of the First Part,
Mary Miller Hayes,
wife of Colonel Webb C. Hayes, in honor
of her husband and in
loving memory of his parents, Rutherford
B. Hayes and Lucy
Webb Hayes, desires to make an
equivalent contribution in prop-
erty of the estimated value as of April
1, 1925, of $500,000.00
under certain conditions, for the
purpose of furthering the found-
ing of the Hayes Historical Society in
Spiegel Grove and enabling
such society, when founded, to
accomplish the purpose for which
it is organized:
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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
premises, it
is mutually understood and agreed as follows:
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Second: If, within the said period of
five years, the Hayes
Historical Society of Spiegel Grove
shall have been organized,
with a Board of Trustees composed
substantially as hereinbefore
recited, any variation or departure
therefrom to be with the ap-
proval of Webb C. Hayes and Mary Miller
Hayes, and. if the
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society shall have given
any necessary consent on its part, and
the State of Ohio, by any
requisite executive and legislative
action, shall have given its con-
sent to the taking over of the Spiegel
Grove estate heretofore
deeded to the State of Ohio for the use
of the said Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
and for other historical
and monumental purposes, so that the
title to the said Spiegel
Grove estates remains in the State of
Ohio. By the terms of the
deeds and trust agreements whereby said
Spiegel Grove property
was conveyed to the State of Ohio, and
if at such time legisla-
tion shall have been passed providing
that the net proceeds from
the sale of the property held by the
Union Trust Company as
Trustee hereunder shall be placed in the
irreducible trust funds
of the State of Ohio for the benefit of
the purposes of the Hayes
Historical Society as custodian of the
Spiegel Grove estates and
museums, and for the other purposes of
such society, then the
Trustee hereunder shall convert the
property of the trust hereby
created into money and pay the same over
to the State of Ohio,
to be placed to the credit of the
irreducible trust funds of the state,
and the net income therefrom shall
thereafter be paid by the state
to the Party of the First Part
hereunder, Mary Miller Hayes, so
long as she shall live, unless, in her
option and from time to time,
she directs that a portion of her income
shall be paid to the
Trustees of the Hayes Historical
Society, and upon the death of
the said Mary Miller Hayes the entire
net income shall be paid
by the State of Ohio in perpetuity to
the Trustees of the Hayes
Historical Society for the purchase of
historical books and for
the other purposes for which the said
society is organized. * * *
(Signed) MARY MILLER HAYES
AND
THE UNION TRUST COMPANY
H. D. Messick, Vice-president.