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FAMILIAR FACES OF OHIO
A SOUVENIR COLLECTION OF
PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES
OF WELL-KNOWN MEN OF THE BUCKEYE STATE
: : : : : COMPILED BY : : : : : C. S. VAN TASSEL, PUBLISHER, BOWLING GREEN, OHIO. 18 -14
Hadley & Hadley, Printers and Binders, Toledo, Ohio.
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OHIO.
O STATE in the Union, not excepting any of the original thirteen, has played a more conspicuous part in history and progress than Ohio. Great in soldiers, great in statesmen, great in thought and education, and great in all of the nat- ural resources, it is indeed the pivotal point of the mighty empire which has grown up on the Western Hemisphere, almost within the present century.
THE MEN OF OHIO
Are and have been the product of a generous soil, and are descended from a line of ancestors as proud as any that grace the herald roll of the days of medieval chivalry.
Settled, as it was, immediately after the close of the revolutionary period by the men who braved the storms and dangers of eight years of war and carnage for the establishment of human liberty, and embracing, as they did, the highest types of the Aryan race, Saxon, Dane, Gaul, Pict, Scot, Celt, Teuton, Huguenot and Cavalier, Puritan, Quaker, Roundhead, Calvinist, Covenanter, Lutheran and Catholic ; pledged and blended as brothers in the fiery ordeal which they had shared in common, it was but natural that when they intermarried and commingled in the wilderness of the Northwest, to found a new empire and build a new state, that great men and great achievements should follow.
What a splendid roll of great names make up the list of Ohio's soldiers, patriots and statesmen, whose, deeds have already passed into history.
Three men, William H. Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield, went from the quiet walks of its citizenship into the Presidential office, and two others, born on Ohio soil, Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison, came to the same high office from the sister States of Illinois and Indiana. Benjamin F. Wade was acting Vice-President.
In the Cabinets, Ohio has shown conspicuously. In the Treasury Department were Thomas Ewing, Thomas Corwin, Salmon P. Chase, John Sherman and Charles Foster. In the war department, Edwin M. Stanton, Wm. T. Sherman, ad interim, and Alphonso Taft. In the Interior Department, Thomas Ewing, Jacob D. Cox and Columbus Delano. In the Post-Office Department, Return J. Meigs, Jr., John McLean and Wm. Dennison, Jr. In the Attorney General's Department, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry Stanberry, Alphonso Taft and Judson Harmon. Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase and Morrison R. Waite. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, John McLean, Noah H. Swayne and Stanley Matthews. Presidents of the Senate, Benjamin F. Wade and Allen G. Thurman. Speakers of the National House of Representatives, Milton Sayler and J. Warren Keifer.
To these great names might be added hundreds of distinguished sons of Ohio, whose public services enrich the pages of her almost matchless history.
Elsewhere in these pages are given the portraits of more than 200 of Ohio's living sons, dis- tinguished in all the varied walks of life, distinguished in statesmanship, in manufactures, in profes- sional life, in literature and learning and in patriotic devotion of a government " Of the People, by the People and for the People ;" fitting successors of the great men who have gone before to their reward.
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THE CAPITOL.
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OHIO IN WAR.
The three greatest captains of the Civil War and the century, Ulysses S. Grant, Wm. T. Sher- man and Philip Sheridan, were born in Ohio and adjoining counties. Her corps, division and brigade commanders form almost a full battallion, and their deeds of valor shine on almost every page of the history of the sixth decade of the century.
During the Indian Wars and the War of 1812, Ohio furnished 20,000 men of all arms with equipments and provisions. In the Mexican War of 1846-1848, she furnished four regiments and a company, 5,536 effectives, and tendered as many more that were not called into active service. In the Civil War, 1861-1865, she sent to the field 231 regiments of infantry, cavalry and artillery, 26 independ- ent batteries, and five independent companies of cavalry, 340,000 effectives of all arms of the service. Of these 6,536 were killed in battle, 4,674 died of wounds in hospitals, and 13,354 from disease con- tracted in the service, the death being 84 out of each 1,000 enlisted men.
OHIO IN PEACE.
In 1800 the population of Ohio was 45,365. In 1895 it is conservatively estimated at 4,200,000. In 1800 the total assessed valuation of all the property in the State was $2,827,851. In 1895, a fair valuation would place it at $2,500,000,000.
The State is divided into 88 counties ; the counties into townships, the number depending upon the area of the county, and the townships are sub-divided into school and road districts. Municipal corporations are separated from the foregoing civil divisions, with an independent local government, some cities being co-extensive with the township or townships, in which they are situated, but no city in the State is co-extensive with the limits of the county.
POLITICAL MACHINERY.
The following offices constitute the political machinery for the government of the State and its various subdivisions:
State officers chosen by the people : Governor, term two years; Lieutenant-Governor, term two years ; Secretary of State, term two years ; Auditor of State, term four years ; Treasurer of State, term two years ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, term three years ; Commissioner of Common Schools, term three years ; Dairy and Food Commissioner, term two years; three members of the Board of Public Works, one chosen each year, term three years; a General Assembly, chosen biennially, and a Judiciary, consisting of six Supreme Judges, one chosen each year, for the term of six years ; twenty-four Circuit Judges, term six years, and Common Pleas Judges for the several judicial districts and subdi- visions, for a term of five years.
State officers appointed by the Governor: Adjutant General, no fixed term ; State Librarian, term two years ; Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs, term two years ; Supervisor of Public Printing, term two years ; Superintendent of Insurance, term two years; Mine Inspector, term four years ; Commissioner of Labor Statistics, term two years ; Inspector of Workshops and Factories, term four years ; State Geologist, no fixed term ; Fish and Game Warden, term two years; two Inspectors of Oil, term two years ; United States Land Claim Agent, term two years, and Ohio War Claim Agent, no fixed term. In addition, the Governor appoints the managers and trustees of the various penal, reform- atory and benevolent institutions. university trustees, and members of the State boards of health, pharmacy, live stock and charities, the boards usually numbering five, and although appointed for a
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fixed term of five years, are generally changed with a change of Governors. A Supreme Court Reporter and Law Librarian are appointed by the Supreme Court.
County officers elected by the people : Probate Judge, term three years ; County Clerk (Clerk of the Court), term three years ; Sheriff, term two years ; Auditor, term three years ; Treasurer, term two years ; Recorder, term three years ; Surveyor, term three years ; Prosecuting Attorney, term three years ; Coroner, term two years ; three Commissioners, one elected each year, term three years ; three Infirmary Directors, one elected each year, term three years. Superintendents of county infirmaries and county orphans' homes are appointive officers.
Notaries public in the various counties are appointed and commissioned by the Governor for a term of five years.
Township officers elected by the people: Justice of the peace, term three years ; three Trustees, one elected each year, term three years ; Clerk, term two years ; Constable, term two years ; Assessor, term one year. Boards of Education, School Directors and Road Supervisors are elected by smaller subdivisions, or appointed by the Board of Township Trustees.
Municipal officers : The number and title of municipal officers are not uniform. All municipali- ties, however, have a Mayor, Treasurer and Council, which are elective, the County Treasurer in some being Municipal Treasurer ex-officio. A Clerk may be elective or appointive. A Police Judge, when one is chosen, is elective ; auditors and comptrollers are usually appointive ; marshals of the smaller municipalities are elective. Heads of the police, and police officers, as well as the heads of other departments in the larger ones, are appointive. All of the larger cities have systems of government peculiar to themselves, while modeled on a general plan.
State executive : The Governors of the State have been: Edward Tiffin, 1803-1807; Thomas Kirker, 1807-1808 ; Samuel Huntington, 1808-1810; Return Jonathan Meigs, 1810-1814; Othneil Looker. 1814 ; Thomas Worthington, 1814-1818 ; Ethan Allen Brown, 1818-1822; Allen Trimble, 1822 ; Jeremiah Morrow, 1822-1826 ; Allen Trimble, 1826-30; Duncan McArthur, 1830-32 ; Robert Lucas, 1832-1836 ; Joseph Vance, 1836-1838 ; Wilson Shannon, 1838-1840; Thomas Corwin, 1840-1842 ; Wilson Shannon, 1842-1844 ; Thomas W. Bartley, 1844 ; Mordecai Bartley, 1844-1846 ; William Bebb, 1846-1848; Seabury Ford, 1848-1850 ; Reuben Wood, 1850-1853 ; William Medill, 1853-1856 ; Salmon P. Chase, 1856-1860 ; William Dennison, Jr., 1860-1862; David Tod, 1862-1864 ; John Brough, 1864- 1865 ; Charles Anderson, 1865-1866 ; Jacob D. Cox, 1866-1868 ; Rutherford B. Hayes, 1868-1872 ; Edward F. Noyes, 1872-1874 ; William Allen, 1874-1876 ; Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876-1877 ; Thomas L. Young, 1877-1878 ; Richard M. Bishop, 1878-1880; Charles Foster, 1880-1884 ; George Hoadly, 1884-1886 ; Joseph B. Foraker, 1886-1890; James E. Campbell, 1890-1892 ; William Mckinley, 1892-1896 ; Asa S. Bushnell, 1896-1898.
The State is represented in Congress by two Senators and twenty-one Representatives. For the purpose of chosing State Senators, the State is divided into thirty-three Senatorial Districts, and the ratio for a Senator is determined by dividing the whole population of the State by thirty-five. Each county is entitled to a representative in the General Assembly, unless its population falls below one-half a ratio, which ratio is determined by dividing the whole population of the State by one hundred.
The deficient counties are attached to the county adjoining having the smallest population. If a Senatorial District falls below two-thirds of a ratio, it is attached to the smallest adjoining district. The Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor of State make the apportionment after each Federal census, and determine the number of Senators and Representatives for the districts and counties for the ensuing ten years, taking into account the fractions over full ratios, and apportioning the extra Senators and Representatives to which they may be entitled.
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EDUCATIONAL.
Ohio was among the first States to adopt the common school system, and from the beginning it has proven a marvelous success. There are (1895) 2,185 school districts in the State, with 12,263 sub- divisions. There are 12,819 schoolhouses and 19,534 teachers-10,841 men and 8,693 women. The branches taught are inclusive from orthographiy to trigonometry. The total number of pupils enrolled is 549,269 ; total annual receipts from all sources, including balances, $15,824,017; total expenditures, $11,407,499 ; balance, $4,486,518 ; total value of school houses and grounds, $32,631,549.
There are 2,171 high-school districts, with 34,470 pupils enrolled, in which all branches from geometry to political economy are taught. English, German, algebra and physical geography are taught, both in the lower and the high schools. The colleges in the State number thirty-four, with 343 teachers and 4,478 pupils. In the preparatory departments of these colleges are 172 teachers and 3,010 pupils. Of academies and preparatory schools, there are twelve with forty-eight teachers and 1,154 pupils. Business colleges, six, with twenty-one teachers and 1,738 pupils. Normal schools, ten, with 138, teachers and 6,497 pupils. Art schools, nineteen, with 214 teachers and 2,250 pupils. Schools exclusively for girls, eleven, with 170 teachers and 1,234 pupils.
The principal colleges and universities in the State are the Ohio University, Athens ; the Miami University, Oxford ; the Ohio State University, Columbus ; Kenyon College, Gambier; Western Reserve University (Adelbert College), Hudson and Cleveland ; Dennison University, Granville ; Oberlin College, Oberlin ; Marietta College, Marietta ; Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware : Wittenberg College, Spring- field ; McMicken University, Cincinnati ; Otterbin University, Westerville ; Buchtel College, Akron ; Ash- land College, Ashland ; Baldwin University, Berea ; German Wallace College, Berea; St. Joseph's College, Cincinnati ; St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati ; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati ; St. Joseph's College, Somerset ; Belmont College, College Hill ; Capital University, Columbus; Findlay College, Findlay; Hiram College, Hiram ; Mount Union College, Mount Union ; Franklin College, New Athens; Muskingum College, New Concord ; Rio Grande College, Rio Grande ; Scio College, Scio ; Heidelberg College, Tiffin ; Urbana University, Urbana ; Wilbeforce University, Wilberforce ; University. of Wooster, Wooster, Antioch College, Antioch.
MANUFACTURES AND NATURAL RESOURCES.
Almost all kinds of manufactures are carried on in the State, the principal points of manufacture being Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Springfield, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, Findlay, Fostoria, Tiffin, Akron, Canton, Massillon, Youngstown, Niles, Steubenville, Brilliant, Mingo, Bridgeport, Ironton, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Bellaire, Martin's Ferry, Piqua, Troy, Sidney, Bowling Green, North Baltimore and Defiance.
The total average amount of capital invested in manufacturing plants during the current decade is $200,000,000. Total product, $325,000,000. Total wages, $195,000,000.
The predominant economic geological phenomena are : Coal, iron, ore, glass, sandstone and limestone ; fire, potter's, pipe and brick clays ; salt, oil and gas. All of these are widely, and some of them generally, distributed throughout the State.
The coal, iron, fire and potter's clay lie proximate, or not widely dissociated, within the same general field or basin at varying horizons. One or more, or all of them, are to be found in the following counties, beginning in the northeast: Trumbull, Portage, Mahoning, Stark, Columbiana, Carroll, Tusca- rawas, Jefferson, Harrison, Coshocton, Licking, Muskingum, Guernsey, Monroe, Noble, Morgan, Perry, Washington, Athens, Hocking, Vinton, Meigs, Gallia, Lawrence, Jackson and Scioto. Light deposits are
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found in other counties. This group of counties skirts the Ohio to the mouth of the Scioto, and runs back into the interior two or three tiers of counties.
The coal field of Ohio, which is a prolongation of the great Appalachian bituminous field, contains 10,000 square miles. It lies in seven well-defined seams, and is mined at 14 horizons both by shafting and drifting.
Iron ore is found throughout the coal field and once was a leading industry. Recent discoveries of greater deposits in the South and the Northwest have relegated it to a secondary place.
Sandstone, suitable for building purposes, covers more than half of the State, while a superior grade of limestone is equally as widely distributed.
The clays of the State arc utilized for all kinds of pottery, brick, drain and roofing tiles, encaustic tiles, terra cotta, etc. The average value of the coal product during the current decade is $10,500,000 ; of sandstone, $3,100,000; of limestone, $1,500,000 ; glass, $2,800,000 ; clays, pottery, etc., $2,800,000.
The great gas and oil field embraces Lucas, Fulton, Wood, Henry, Mercer, Hancock, Seneca, Wyandot, Auglaize and Allen counties. They are both found along the whole Eastern border of the State, as far south as Meigs county, and extend up the Hocking Valley and its tributaries in Athens, Hocking, Fairfield, Perry and into Licking.
The agricultural resources of the State are also on a grand scale. All the cereals are suited to the soil and climate. Wheat, corn, rye, barley and fruits of all kinds, potatoes, flax, tobacco and table vegetables are readily produced in paying quantities.
The area of land under cultivation is nearly 10,000,000 acres, with 6,000,000 acres of pasture, and 4,000,000 acres of forest.
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL.
Transportation facilities are ample, and competiton gives reasonable rates, both local and through. Lake Erie and the Ohio river furnish water transportation along three sides of the State, connected by two canal lines north and south. The Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio systems have each two lines, running nearly east and west through the State, with lateral and leased lines connecting north and south with the lake and river ; the Big Four system divides the State from southwest to north- east, from Cincinnati to Cleveland, with laterals southeast and northwest. The Columbus & Hocking Valley, Toledo & Ohio Central, and the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Valley systems divide the State from northwest to southeast, the first and last running parallel from Toledo to the Ohio at Galliopolis and Point Pleasant, opposite the mouth of the Great Kanawha, the second terminating on the lake at Sandusky. Sixteen roads radiate from Columbus to all points, and the Nickel Plate and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern sytems furnish a third great through traffic line to the east and north, and the west, northwest and southwest. The Baltimore & Ohio, Hocking Valley & Toledo, the Toledo & Ohio Central, and the Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Valley, with the lines running south- east from Cleveland, connect the entire coal field with lake transportation.
All this is now being revolutionized by the electric railway system, which will soon spread its network everywhere throughout the State.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The State House at Columbus, stands in the center of a square park, containing ten acres, bounded on the north by Broad street, on the east by Third, on the south by State, and on the west by High. It is a massive structure, built entirely of dressed limestone, quarried from Sullivan's Hill,
CITY PARK, COLUMBUS -- VIEW OF SCHILLER MONUMENT.
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near the city. It is three stories in height above the basement, with a central dome, and is surrounded on all sides by wide stone terraces, to which access is had on the four fronts by wide flights of stone steps.
In width it is 184 feet, and in length 304 feet. All the fronts are similar, and are ornamented with collonnades of native limestone. In the center of the building is a vast rotunda, flanked by four interior open courts, and lighted by the dome, four wide transepts leading to it from the four entrances, while broad granite stairways lead to the upper stories. The first story is occupied by the offices of the Governor and State officers ; the second, by the two chambers of the General Assembly, the Supreme Court, the State Library and Law Library, legislative offices and committee rooms, while the third is divided into department offices.
Its erection began in 1838, and it was not finally completed until 1861, owing to repeated inter- ruptions of work from 1839 to 1848. The actual length of time of its construction was fifteen years. The labor of the penitentiary convicts was utilized, at a nominal cost, in the quarrying of the stone and constructing and finishing the building. Although not wholly completed, the State House was occupied many years previously by various departments of the State government. The total cost of the structure was $1,644,677.
The first State House was of brick, and was located at the southwest corner of the present grounds. Other brick buildings along High street furnished accommodations for the State officers and courts. The old building completely burned out early on Sunday morning, February 1st, 1852, evidently the work of an incendiary. It had become an eyesore, was delaying the completion of the new edifice, and no inquiry was made to fix the identity of the incendiary. The question of greatly enlarging or entirely rebuilding the present State House is mooted.
State Institutions at Columbus: The Columbus Asylum for the Insane lies two miles west of the State House, and is surrounded by three hundred acres of ground. The Institution for the Education for the Deaf and Dumb is at the corner of Town Street and Washington Avenue. The Institution for the Education of the Blind is at the corner of Main and Parsons Avenue. The Institution for the Education of Fceble-Minded Youth is located on a large tract of land one mile and a half west of the State House. The Ohio Penitentiary, with a capacity of two thousand or more prisoners, is located in the city, on the east bank of the Scioto. All capital sentences in the State are executed at the peni- tentiary. The Ohio State University, a distinctively State institution, is located in the northwestern portion of the city, with several hundred acres of farm lands surrounding it. The cost of construction of these buildings is placed at $6,500,000.
Other State Institutions: The Industrial School for Boys is located four miles southwest of Lancaster. The Industrial School for Girls is located near Delaware. The Northern Insane Asylum, at Cleveland. The Athens Asylum for the Insane, at Athens. The Ohio University, at Athens. The Dayton Asylum for the Insane, at Dayton. The Toledo Asylum for the Insane, at Toledo. Longview Asylum for the Insane, at Cincinnati. The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Xenia. The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, at Sandusky. Working Home for the Blind, at Iberia. The State Reformatory, at Mansfield, the Asylum for Epileptics, at Gallipolis, and the State Hospital, at Massillon, in process of construction. All these buildings are modern, and complete in all their appliances and accessories.
OHIO CITIES.
The chief city is Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, with a population of approximately 315,000. Next in importance and population is Cleveland with 290,000; third Columbus, 120,000; fourth Toledo, 120,000 ; fifth Dayton, 80,000.
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Five cities had, according to the last Federal census, a population in excess of 20,000-Youngs- town, 33,220; Springfield, 31,895 ; Akron, 27,601; Canton, 26,189 ; Zanesville, 21,000. Thirteen cities had in 1890 a population in excess of 10,000-Findlay, 18,553; Sandusky, 18,471 ; Hamilton, 17,565; Lima, 15,987; Newark, 14,270; Mansfield, 13,473; Steubenville, 13,394; Portsmouth, 12,394 ; Chilli- cothe, 11,288 ; East Liverpool, 10,956 ; Tiffin, 10,801; Massillon, 10,092.
HISTORICAL.
The aboriginal tribes inhabiting the State three centuries ago were : The Eries, who occupied the south shores of Lake Erie ; the Delawares, who inhabited the valleys of the Muskingum and its upper tributaries ; the Shawnees in the valley of the Scioto, and the Ottawas, Miamis, Illinois and Wyandots (or Hurons), who were spread over the northwestern part of the State and into the valleys of the two Miamis. Other incursive and fragmentary tribes occupied portions of the territory from time to time. In 1650 the Iroquois pushed westward, and, after exterminating the Eries, took possession of their country, to eventually meet a similar fate at the hands of the white man.
Prior to 1750 a few French and English trading posts were established within the boundaries of the State. The first settlement was made at Marietta in 1788, by Manassah Cutler and his associates. In 1784 Virginia ceded the whole of the northwestern territory so far as her claims went to the United States and it was organized under the ordinance of 1787.
The Western Reserve was settled in 1798 by emigrants from Connecticut. By the year 1800, permanent settlements had been established in all parts of the State by emigrants from the eastern and southeastern States. Indian wars were almost incessant until the treaty of Greenville in 1795.
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