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Dr. Mendenhall was educated in the
public schools,
was one of the members of the first
faculty of the Ohio
State University, was called to the
Imperial University
of Japan where he occupied the chair of
physics from
1878-1881; returned to Ohio State
University where he
taught three years, after which he was
successively pro-
fessor of the U. S. Signal Corps,
President of Rose
Polytechnic Institute, Superintendent
of the U. S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey and President of
Worcester Poly-
technic Institute. From 1901-1912 he
was in Europe.
Degress have been conferred upon him by
a number of
colleges and universities in America
and he has been
decorated with the Order of the Sacred
Treasure of
Japan and honored with a gold medal
from the National
Educational Society of Japan. He is at
present a trustee
of the Ohio State University, where he
celebrated his
eightieth birthday this month. He is author of a
Century of Electricity. His home is in Ravenna, Ohio.
BARCLAY COPPOC AND THE JACKSON COUNTY,
MISSOURI, TRAGEDY
Rev. John J. Lutz, a native of Wayne
County, Ohio
and later a citizen of Kansas, wrote
for the Kansas
Historical Society an article on
"Quantrill and the
Morgan Walker Tragedy" (Kansas
Historical Collec-
tions, Vol. 8, pages 324-331) in which
he says that
Richard J. Hinton is in error in regard
to the participa-
tion of Barclay Coppoc in this affair.
The three young
men who were killed through the perfidy
of Quantrill
were Charles Ball, Chalkley T. Lipsey
and Edwin S.
Morrison. Charles Ball was born in
Salem, Ohio, in
the year 1837. He was first cousin of
Edwin and Bar-
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clay Coppoc. His relationship to the
Coppocs may have
led Hinton into an error which has been
repeated by
many subsequent writers. Barclay
Coppoc, however,
was in Kansas about this time and was
closely asso-
ciated with those who were aiding
negroes to escape
from Missouri. Whether he actually had
any part in
this particular raid is a question.
Chaulkley T. Lipsey was born at Mount
Pleasant,
Ohio, in 1838. Ball came from
Springdale, Iowa, to
Kansas. All three of the young men who
lost their lives
were Quakers.
LEVI COPPOC AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE
It has frequently been reported in the
public press
that Edwin Coppoc, who was with John
Brown at
Harper's Ferry, was at one time a
student at Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. A letter
recently ad-
dressed to the librarian of the
college, Emily Turner,
brought the following reply:
"We do not find in any of our
catalogs the name of Edwin
Coppoc. The name of Levi Coppoc appears
as a student in
1853-1854. Springdale, Iowa, was given as his address. James
Coppock, of West Milton, Ohio, was a
student in 1855-1856."
Levi Coppoc was an elder brother of
Edwin Coppoc,
as already stated on another page of this
issue of the
QUARTERLY. As West Milton, now Milton, was set-
tled by Quakers, it is probable that
James Coppock was
also related to Edwin.
THE BRYAN-HAYES CORRESPONDENCE
The October number of the Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly contains the first installment of the cor-