DEDICATION
OF THE JAMES E. CAMPBELL ELM
On October
20, 1923, very interesting exercises were
held in the
State House Grounds at Columbus on the
occasion of
the dedication of the James E. Campbell
Elm, a
seedling from the famous Logan Elm in Picka-
way County
under which the speech or message of the
Indian
chief Logan was dictated and sent to Lord Dun-
more who
was holding a peace conference with the
Indians at
Camp Charlotte seven miles distant, Octo-
ber,
1774. These exercises were arranged by
Mr.
Frank
Tallmadge, Chairman of the Logan Elm Com-
mittee of
the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society.
Following is the interesting program, impres-
sively and
pleasingly rendered on schedule time:
PROGRAM
INVOCATION
......... ........................REV.
SIDNEY E. SWEET
FOREWORD
......... ...........................FRANK
TALLMADGE
Chairman,
Logan Elm Committee, of the Ohio State
Archaeological
and Historical Society, introducing the
CHAIRMAN OF
THE EXERCISES ............... C. B. GALBREATH
Secretary
and Librarian, Ohio State Archaeological
and
Historical Society
PLANTING
SONG .................................... TRINITY
CHOIR
LED BY
PROFESSOR KARL HOENIG
(Tune:
"America")
God save these
trees we plant, When they are
ripe to fall,
And to all
nature grant Neighbored
by trees as tall,
Sunshine and
rain. Shape them for good.
Let not
their branched fade, Shape
them to bench and stool,
Save them
from ax and spade, Shape
them to square and rule,
Save them
for joy and shade-- Shape
them for home and school,
Guarding the
plain. God bless the wood.
Lord of the
earth and seas,
Prosper our
planted trees,
Save with
Thy might.
Save us from
indolence,
Waste and improvidence,
And in Thy
excellence,
Lead us
aright.
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RECITATION,
"Trees" ...................... Poem by JOYCE KILMER
To be spoken by the
audience in concert
I think that I shall
never see A tree
that may in summer wear
A poem lovely as a
tree. A nest
of robins in her hair.
A tree whose hungry mouth is Upon whose bosom snow
has
prest lain;
Against the earth's
sweet flowing Who
intimately lives with rain.
breast. Poems
are made by fools like
A tree that looks at
God all day me,
And lifts her leafy arms to
pray. But only God can make a tree.
WHAT THE TREES TEACH
US
(Fourteen Rhymes for
Individual Recitations)
I am taught by the Oak
to be rugged and strong
In defense of the
right, in defiance of wrong.
I have learned from
the Maple, that beauty to win
The love of all
hearts, must have sweetness within
The Beech, with its
branches wide-spreading and low,
Awakes in my heart
hospitality's glow.
The Pine tells of
constancy. In its sweet voice,
It whispers of hope
till sad mortals rejoice.
The nut-bearing trees
teach that 'neath manners gruff
May be found as
"sweet kernels" as in their caskets rough.
The Birch, in its
wrappings of silvery gray,
Shows that beauty
needs not to make gorgeous display.
The Ash, having fibers
tenacious and strong,
Teaches me firm
resistance, to battle with wrong.
The Aspen tells me
with its quivering leaves,
To be gentle to every
sad creature that grieves.
The Elm teaches me to
be pliant yet true;
Though bowed by rude
winds, it still rises anew.
The Lombardy Poplars
point upward in praise,
My voice to kind
Heaven they teach me to raise.
I am taught
generosity, boundless and free,
By showers of fruit
from the dear Apple tree.
The Cherry tree
blushing with fruit crimson red,
Tells of God's free
abundance that all may be fed.
In the beautiful
Linden, so fair to the sight,
This truth I discern:
It is inwardly white.
The firm-rooted
Cedars, like sentries of old,
Show that virtues
deep-rooted may also be gold.
Vol. XXXIII--6. -- HELEN O. HOYT.
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DEDICATION OF THE
TREE
Chairman--What tree
does this seedling spring from?
Reply by
Audience--The Logan Elm.
Chairman--How old is
the Logan Elm?
Reply by Audience--It
is the oldest living thing in Ohio.
It has lived in four
centuries.
Chairman--In whose
honor is this little tree now planted
and dedicated?
Reply by
Audience--James E. Campbell.
PRESENTATION OF THE
TREE............ HON. HENRY J. BOOTH
On behalf of the
Logan Elm Committee to the State of Ohio
ACCEPTANCE
.............................GOVERNOR A. V. DONAHEY
TREE PLANTING SONG
.............................TRINITY CHOIR
To be joined by the
audience
(Tune:
"America")
1 Joy for the sturdy
trees, 3
Select the strong, the fair,
Fanned by each
fragrant breeze, Plant
them with earnest care,
Lovely they
stand! No toil is vain.
The song birds o'er
them trill, Plant in a
fitter place,
They shade each
tinkling rill, Where,
like a lovely face,
They crown each
swelling hill, Let in
some sweeter grace,
Lowly or grand. Change may prove gain.
2 Plant them by
stream and way, 4 God
will His blessing send,
Plant where the
children play All
things on Him depend,
And toilers
rest; His loving care
In every verdant
vale, Clings
to each leaf and flower
On every sunny swale
-- Like ivy
to its tower.
Whether to grow or
fail, His
presence and His power
God knows best. Are everywhere.
-- S. F. SMITH.
BENEDICTION
In calling the
assemblage to order Mr. Frank Tall-
madge spoke as
follows:
There have been three
forces that have called us together
today in the
dedication of this little tree: our love of history,
our love of nature
and the love we bear for one man, the first
citizen of this
State. I bespeak your interest in the
program
and ask that all join
in the songs to the well known tune of
America.
Mr. E. F. Wood,
Treasurer of the Ohio State Archaeological
and Historical
Society, has kindly consented to act as Chairman
in the place of our
Secretary, Mr. C. B. Galbreath, who is
detained at home on
account of a severe cold.
After the
introductory and dedicatory exercises the
chairman introduced
Hon. Henry J. Booth, who in
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Elm 83
behalf of the Logan Elm Committee presented the
Campbell Logan Elm to the State in the
following ad-
dress:
Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: As I take it, the pri-
mary purpose of planting here today a
scion of the most cele-
brated of all historic trees west of the
Allegheny Mountains, to
bear the name of our most distinguished
citizen, is to establish a
precedent which will promote a more
active interest in the
public parks of the State, and more
especially to lead to the
restoration of this park to the
condition contemplated by those
who dedicated it to public use.
Let us hope that our exercises here
today will be considered
also as a protest against the neglect which
has resulted in starv-
ing to death nearly all of the trees of
larger growth which were
planted here nearly a hundred years ago.
Let us hope also that this occasion will
be accepted as a
meritorious appeal to our state
officials to commence at once the
work of reparation for the results of
past indifference and
neglect.
For many years this was a well shaded
lawn. It so re-
mained until after Governor Campbell
left the office in which
he served the public with such signal
ability. Of the many
majestic elms which then surrounded the
capital building but
few remained when Governor Donahey
succeeded to that high
office. Therefore we may absolve both of
them from responsi-
bility for the deplorable conditions
which now exist. One of
the causes directly contributing to the
death and removal of
nearly all of the larger trees which
were originally planted here
was their location too close to the
streets. Other preventable
causes constitute another story, which
cannot now be told for
lack of time.
Passing now from the consideration of
what has occurred
in the past, let me attempt to justify a
statement concerning the
condition of these grounds made a year
or two ago at a meeting
of the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society, but
now made for the first time in public,
by this quotation from
the Mormon Bible:
"Blessed is he that bloweth his own
horn, for whoso-
ever bloweth not his own horn, his horn
shall not be blown."
Therefore, I take the liberty of saying
to you now, as I said to
the members of that Society at that
time, the condition of
this park is a disgrace to the State of
Ohio. Nearly all of the
larger trees, the dead and the dying,
have been removed. Every-
where about us appear the vacant spaces
where once they stood.
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Others should be planted to supersede
them, but in locations
more wisely chosen. This should be considered not only a
public duty, but also a personal
pleasure. We commence that
work today.
In rapid succession we hope others will
be planted bearing
the names of other distinguished
citizens. They will doubtless
represent various suitable varieties,
including perhaps the elm,
the oak, the hickory, the buckeye, and
other varieties, both large
and small. And in order to develop and perpetuate their
growth, we must feed and water every
tree according to its needs.
For food and water are as vitally
necessary to the life and well-
being of every tree as they are to every
human being and to
every animal of the field and forest.
Nature takes care of her trees in their
natural habitat, but
when man deprives them of such
surroundings, he must supply
their food and drink. In the care of
state parks, that duty rests
directly upon the state.
To promulgate that idea, representatives
of The Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society
now tender to the state,
through Governor Donahey, a seedling of
the Logan Elm, a tree
which became historic one hundred and
forty-nine years ago,
and, with proper care, may yet add to
its present age another
hundred years.
As this little tree was selected and
brought here by Mr.
Frank Tallmadge, now and for many years
past chairman of
the Committee which is entrusted with
the care of the parent
tree, there can be no doubt as to the
lineage and identity of the
seedling. He knows the Logan Elm as well as he knows his
Catechism. It is as dear to him as the
apple of his eye.
In closing permit me to add that no
other name in Ohio,
so appropriate as his, could be selected
for a place on this tree
as that of James E. Campbell. We hope that the tree now
planted will serve its cherished purpose
during all the years
which may be allotted to it by a
beneficent Providence. The
man whose name it bears will be known
and honored as long as
American history is read -- time without
end.
In the unavoidable absence of Governor
A. V.
Donahey from the city, his Secretary,
Mr. J. A. Meck-
stroth, accepted for the State the James
E. Campbell
Elm in the following appreciative and
appropriate ad-
dress:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen: I wish Governor
Donahey might be here today. Had he not
been called to Wash-
ington I am sure he would be present.
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Elm 85
This is the kind of ceremony the
Governor would enjoy.
He is a lover of the pioneer and Indian
history of Ohio. He
can find more arrow-heads and other
Indian relics on an acre
of soil than any man I've ever known. I
have heard the Gov-
ernor talk about the Logan Elm. He visits the tree at every
opportunity. He is a lover of trees in general. I have heard
him say trees are like people. Every tree in a forest can be
likened to some person of your
acquaintance, he says. Trees
range from seedlings to maturity, from
youth to old age. You
can pick out the individual trees that
had the best opportunity
in life -- those that had health, food,
water and proper ventila-
tion and those that were not so
fortunate. You find trees whose
broken limbs signify they met with an
accident. And so on in-
definitely -- just as in the human race.
I am sure we all have a high
appreciation for the good
work of Mr. Tallmadge, who has made the
Logan Elm his
hobby. If you haven't seen this tree in
recent years you should
go and see how Mr. Tallmadge is feeding
it and how it has
developed and improved. If Mr. Tallmadge were to live as
long as the Logan Elm will yet live,
under the kind of care he
is giving it, he will live another
century and maybe two. After
the recent death of the Washington Elm,
the Logan Elm now
is probably the most famous tree in the
country.
I need not express the admiration we all
have for grand
old Governor Campbell, in whose honor a
seedling of the
Logan Elm is planted here today. And so, for the reasons I
have given, I know the Governor would
have liked to be here
to accept for the State this seedling of
the oldest tree in Ohio
in honor of the oldest living former
Governor of the State.
And I also know if the Governor were
here he would propose
that next year the Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society
plant another seedling in the State
House yard in honor of the
Logan Elm's guardian angel, Mr.
Tallmadge.
And now, not being an orator like Mr.
Booth, who made the
presentation speech, or even like old
Chief Logan, I don't know
what else to say except that it is a
great pleasure for me to
accept this little tree in behalf of the
State. I hope it may
live and grow big and sturdy and thereby
perpetuate the tradi-
tions of its parent and the memory of
Governor Campbell. I
hope other seedlings of the same tree
may be planted. The
time will come when the Logan Elm,
Governor Campbell, Mr.
Tallmadge and all of us will be dead and
gone, but through such
thoughtful functions as this today the
traditions of our pioneer
history and the memory of distinguished
citizens may be carried
to future citizens of Ohio by future
generations of the Logan
Elm.
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Governor Campbell, the recipient of the
special
honor of this occasion, was present and
in a very happy
address expressed his appreciation in
this living testi-
monial of the regard in which he is
held. With the
singing of the "tree planting
song" by the Trinity Choir
and benediction the delightful and
impressive program
of the afternoon was concluded.
PETER NAVARRE DAY.
On Saturday afternoon, October 6, 1923,
Peter Na-
varre Day was appropriately celebrated
in Toledo by
the dedication of the Peter Navarre
Memorial in St.
Mary's Cemetery under the auspices of
the United
States Daughters of 1812. Following is
the program
of the exercises:
Music
...............................................Fred Lower's Band
Singing........................................."Star
Spangled Banner"
Led by Mrs. Nelson A. Galbraith
Custodian of the Flag
Invocation .............................Rev. Patrick O'Brien
Address
...............................Hon. Mayor Bernard F. Brough
Master of Ceremonies
Presentation of Cemetery Plot to the
Peter Navarre Chapter, N. S.
U. S. Daughters of 1812 ......By the
Rev. Francis Hiermann, S. J.
Pastor of St. Mary's Church
Acceptance by the
Regent..........................Mrs. Kent Hamilton
Music
................... .......... .............. Lower's Band
Unveiling of Memorial.......By the
Chapter and Hon. Regents for Life
Mrs. Helen Wolcott Dimick, State
President
Mrs. George B. Orwig, Hon. Organizing
Regent
Led by the Chaplain and Ex-Regent, Mrs.
Robert C. Bowlus
Assisted by Girl Scouts
Address -- "Peter
Navarre".........................Hon. George Sheets
Singing ...................... "America"
Led by Mrs. Nelson A. Galbraith
Peter Navarre was born in Detroit in
1785. He
died in East Toledo, March 20, 1874, in
his eighty-ninth
year. He rendered distinguished services
in the War
of 1812, acting as a scout for General
William Henry
Harrison.
At the dedication of the Memorial our
Society was
represented by Mr. W. J. Sherman of
Toledo.