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historic building, but no one has come
forward with
the money to purchase and preserve it.
It is likely to
share the fate of the house in Niles in
which William
McKinley was born.
JUDSON HARMON
Judson Harmon, jurist, attorney general
in the cabi-
net of President Cleveland and twice
elected governor
of Ohio, died in Cincinnati, February
22, 1927. He
was a graduate of Denison University, a
lawyer of emi-
nent ability and a life member of the
Ohio State Arch-
aeological and Historical Society.
During his admin-
istration as governor of the State,
provision was made
for the front wing of the present
Museum and Library
Building on the University Grounds and
for the Hayes
Memorial Building, at Fremont, Ohio.
His law part-
ner, Hugh L. Nichols, former Chief
Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio, will write a
sketch of Governor
Harmon for the QUARTERLY.
HENRY FORD AND THE McGUFFEY READERS
The interest of Henry Ford, the Detroit
automobile
manufacturer, in the McGuffey Readers
and the Mc-
Guffey Society is worthy of note in
this issue. Evidence
of his interest in the Readers has been
manifest in his
effort to acquire a complete set of
them, and in articles
that have appeared at different times
in the Dearborn
Independent.
He has had reprinted at considerable
expense the
First, Second, Third and Fourth
Readers, editions 1866-
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1885. A copy of each of these, with his
autograph, he
presented to the McGuffey Society of
Columbus, Ohio.
They are in the list of books presented
to the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society.
Just as we go to press, Henry Ford has
contributed
Reprints of the Fifth and Sixth
Readers, Copyright of
1866. These complete his series of
reprints.
ROBERT FREDERICK WOLFE
The capital city of Ohio was shocked on
January 13,
1927, to learn of the tragic death of
Robert Frederick
Wolfe, publisher of the Ohio State
Journal and the
Columbus Evening Dispatch. At
11:35 A. M. of that
date he fell from a casement window on
the fifth floor
of the Dispatch Building and was
instantly killed.
The announcement of his sudden death
brought a
shadow of gloom over the city with the
realization that
Columbus had lost her most prominent
citizen.
Robert Frederick Wolfe was born in
Cumberland,
Guernsey County, Ohio, November 7,
1860. He was the
son of Andrew Jackson Wolfe and Nancy
Jane Barton
Wolfe. His early boyhood days were
spent in his native
village. At the age of eleven years he
was working in
a glass factory in Zanesville, Ohio. At
the age of four-
teen years he was driving a canal boat
between Cumber-
land, Maryland, and Georgetown,
District of Columbia.
Later he became a seaman on a steam
coasting vessel.
Next he went to New York City where he
sold
the New York Sun, then published
by Charles A. Dana.
Returning to the sea, he sailed to Cuba
and thence to
Louisiana. In the cypress swamps of
that state he