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General J. Warren Keifer, recently
appointed Trus-
tee of the Society and the only living
Major General of
the Civil War, will favor the Society
with some very
interesting and unrecorded history in
an address at
this meeting.
A detailed program will be mailed to
the members
of the Society.
THE HAYES CENTENARY
The tentative program for the Centenary
celebration
of the birth of Rutherford B. Hayes
(1822-1893), the
nineteenth President of the United
States (1877-1881),
to be held October 4, 1922, has been
about completed.
The Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society,
under whose auspices the event will be
celebrated, has
appointed the following Committee on
Arrangements to
conduct the affair: Former Governor
James E. Camp-
bell, President of the Society,
Chairman; Colonel Ed-
ward Orton, Jr., Beman G. Dawes, F. W.
Treadway,
Arthur C. Johnson, Dr. W. O. Thompson
and Daniel
J. Ryan. The ceremonies will take place at Spiegel
Grove, Fremont, Ohio upon which is the
old Hayes
homestead and the Hayes Library and
Museum, now the
property of the Society, through the
generosity and
patriotism of Colonel Webb C. Hayes.
The city of Fremont has in
contemplation cooperat-
ing arrangements for a combined
military and historical
pageant parade, leaving old Fort
Stephenson at 1 P. M.,
the military feature of which may
consist possibly of
cavalry, infantry and artillery of Ohio
National Guard,
composed of the units Troop A of
Cleveland, the Toledo
Battery, and the provisional regiment
of infantry, a
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duplication of the troops which
attended the funeral
of President Hayes thirty years
ago. Troop A of
Cleveland was President Hayes's escort
also from the
White House to the Capitol on the
inauguration of
President Garfield, who rode with him
in the Hayes
family presidential carriage, now in
the Hayes Museum.
Troop A, after the parade back from the
inauguration
of President Garfield, then escorted
President Hayes
on his return to Ohio, and has since
acted as escort at
the inauguration of the Ohio presidents
Harrison,
McKinley and Taft, and has been in the
funeral escorts
of the Ohio presidents Hayes, Garfield
and McKinley,
and had been accepted as
President-elect Harding's es-
cort prior to the elimination of the
presidential parade
in the interests of public economy.
The Commander-in-Chief and the State
Commander
of the G. A. R., in automobiles will
head the procession,
followed by the Commander-in-Chief and
State Com-
mander of the Spanish War Veterans and
of the World
War Veterans. On arriving at the recently erected
beautiful split boulder gateway in
which the White
House gates are to be erected, and
named in honor of
Major George Croghan, the defender of
Fort Stephen-
son, in the War of 1812, at the
northern entrance of the
old Sandusky-Scioto Trail, known later
as the Harrison
Trail of the War of 1812, the Campfire
Girls and other
juvenile organizations will head the
procession and lead
them over the old Trail, under the General
Sherman
Elm and the Grover Cleveland Hickory,
and pass the
Presidential Oaks named in honor of
McKinley, Gar-
field, Taft and Harding, past the
burial plot on the
Knoll, and then down through the
Harrison Gateway
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with its historic tablets of the Indian
and French and
British expeditions which marched over
this Trail prior
to the Revolutionary War and as far
back as records
of the Indian show.
The Soldiers' Memorial Parkway of
Sandusky
County, conceived by Colonel Hayes and
tendered to
the County in a cablegram from France
on the day fol-
lowing the signing of the armistice,
was laid out in the
form of a cross through property
presented by him to
the Society. This Parkway, constructed
jointly by the
Society and the Commissioners of
Sandusky County,
consists of a strip 100 feet wide in
which two rows of
buckeye trees (the insignia of the 37th
or Ohio Divi-
sion) have been planted. To each tree is attached a
a memorial plate containing the name,
organization,
and place and date of death of one of
the 83 soldiers of
Sandusky County who gave his life in
the World War
or the War with Spain. The latter is in the form of
the transept of the cross, in the
center of which is a
buckeye tree bearing the inscription of
William McKin-
ley, President of the United States,
who died of his
wounds September 14, 1901, while
Commander-in-Chief
of the Army of the United States, which
was then en-
gaged in suppressing the Boxer uprising
in China.
The Campfire Girls will kneel and drape
the memo-
rial trees when at the signal from the
top of the Over-
seas Soldiers' Memorial Sunroom,
erected by Colonel
Hayes, the military procession will
enter the Parkway
after passing through the Harrison
Gateway and march
past the oval containing the flower
insignias of the Red
Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of
Columbus, the
Jewish Welfare and the Salvation Army, and
pass in
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review before President Harding and
Cabinet, the Gov-
ernor of Ohio, Generals of the Army and
Admirals of
the Navy, and turn sharply to the East
over the McKin-
ley Memorial Parkway and enter Spiegel
Grove through
the split boulder gateway recently
erected in honor of
Grover Cleveland, a former President of
the United
States, and William McKinley, Governor
of Ohio, and
later President of the United States,
who were mourners
at the funeral of their predecessor and
personal friend,
Rutherford B. Hayes, and who made the
long trip in
the dead of winter in January, 1893.
The parade will be dismissed on
entering Spiegel
Grove, following which dedicatory
exercises of the
Croghan Gate, the Harrison Gate, the
McPherson Gate-
way, in memory of the soldiers in the
War with Mexico
and the War for the Union; and the
memorial gateway
in memory of the soldiers in the War
with Spain and
the World War, will be held; after
which President
Harding, Secretary of State Hughes and
the distin-
guished guests of the Society will be
escorted through
the Hayes Memorial into the new library
addition now
in process of erection by the Society,
through funds
given by Colonel Hayes, to the portico
on the south side
of the new building facing the residence
on its south.
The proposed engraved invitation to the
Centenary
ceremonies will contain a cut of the
north entrance of
the Hayes Memorial, and a large
photogravure of
Spiegel Grove showing the residence,
the Hayes Memo-
rial, the original old Sandusky-Scioto
Trail, through the
Grove, and is in the words following:
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The Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society
requests the pleasure of your presence
during the Centenary Celebration of the
birth of
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
19th President of the United States, 1877-1881,
at the dedication of
the Library Addition to the Hayes
Memorial,
the Memorial Gateway of Spiegel Grove
State Park,
and the Soldiers' Memorial Parkways of
Sandusky County,
on Wednesday afternoon, October 4th,
Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-two,
Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio.
Of course the celebration is a public
affair, but these
invitations will be sent to the
distinguished guests of
the Society in civil, military and
official life.
The meeting will be called to order by
the Hon.
James E. Campbell, President of the
Ohio State Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society.
Following will be the
program, subject to necessary
alterations:
Invocation - the Rev. Dr. William F.
Peirce, presi-
dent of Kenyon College, from which
Rutherford B.
Hayes was graduated in 1842.
Welcome by his Honor William H.
Schwartz, Mayor
of Fremont.
Address by Charles Richard Williams,
LL. D., of
Princeton, N. J., author of the Life,
and editor of the
Diary and Letters of Rutherford B.
Hayes.
Address by the Hon. Warren G. Harding,
President
of the United States.
Address by the Hon. Charles E. Hughes,
Secretary
of State of the United States.
Address by the Hon. Herbert C. Hoover,
Secretary
of Commerce of the United States.
Remarks by the Hon. Harry L. Davis,
Governor of
Ohio.
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Remarks by the Hon. Atlee Pomerene,
United States
Senator from Ohio.
Remarks by the Hon. Frank B. Willis,
United States
Senator from Ohio.
Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of
the Mili-
tary Order of the Loyal Legion.
Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of
the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of
the Spanish
War Veterans.
Remarks by the Commander-in-Chief of
the Ameri-
can Legion.
Remarks by Major General C. S.
Farnsworth, com-
manding the 37th (Buckeye) Division,
Expeditionary
Forces.
Remarks by Major General Edwin F.
Glenn, com-
manding the 83rd Division.
Remarks by Major General Charles T.
Menoher,
commanding the 42nd (Rainbow) Division.
Remarks by Admiral William S. Sims,
commanding
American Naval Forces in European
Waters.
Remarks by Major General John A.
LeJeune, a com-
mandant of the Marine Corps.
From the prospectus it is apparent that
the occasion
will be one of unusual importance. The
day, the loca-
tion, and the proceedings will especially
appeal to the
patriotism of Ohioans. Rutherford B. Hayes, after
the passion of years has subsided, is
growing in worth
to the American people. The great
accomplishments
of his administration, viz.: the
reconstruction of the
South, the establishment of a sound
currency and the
maintenance of the civil service system
have given him
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his proper place in history. It is
worthy and fitting that
this celebration should be held where
the mementoes of
his civil, military and presidential
life are assembled.
Add to this the fact that the Spiegel
Grove State Park
is in itself a historic monument to the
wonderful days
of the past. Under the sweeping and shadowing
branches of its gigantic hickories,
oaks, elms and maples
sped the bronzed messengers of Pontiac
carrying the
war wampum to the Southern Indian
tribes; over the
same trail marched General Harrison and
his army to
resist the British invader, and in a
later era gathered
the great Generals of the Union Army to
do honor to
its distinguished occupant. Here Sherman, Sheridan,
Rosecrans, Crook, Comly and Scammon
were visitors.
Here, too, at various times came
Presidents Garfield,
Cleveland, McKinley, Taft and Harding.
And finally it is proper to say that
after Rutherford
B. Hayes retired from the Presidency of
the United
States, he became the head of the Ohio
State Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society. He manifested great
interest in its work and gave to its
details all the atten-
tion required. He was himself a scholar
and historian,
a collector of books and manuscripts,
all of which are
preserved in the Museum. He was president of the
Society when he died.
A JOURNAL OF THE GREAT WAR
The library of the Society has received
a notable
gift in an autograph copy of A
Journal of the Great
War in two volumes by Brigadier General Charles G.
Dawes who entered the service as Major
in the Seven-
teenth Regiment of Engineers and was
afterward pro-