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The membership of the society numbers 303, of whom 237 are active members and 66 non-resident members.
The above are made up as follows: Merchants, 113; physicians, 9; attorneys- at-law, 24; railways, 9; insurance, 7; bankers, 29; real estate, 3; hotel proprie- tors, 6 ; press, 26; clergymen, 2; artists, 11; miscellaneous, 16, and public life, 15.
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Among the latter is the Vice-President of the United States, the Chief-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Governor of Ohio and two ex-Governors, the Secretary of State and one ex-Secretary, several United States Senators and Members of Congress from Ohio and other States with which they have since be- come identified.
Four of our members are presidents of New York City National Banks.
The Western Union Telegraph and the Metropolitan Telephone Companies are both managed and legally advised by other members of the society.
The New York Steam Heating Company and th Standard Gas Light Company, both of which occasionally take possession of our streets, are Ohio institutions.
The new aqueduct is not only being engineered by Buckeyes, but is also financed largely by Ohio men.
The Standard Oil Company, which has representatives in every town between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the Lakes and the Gulf, also came here from Ohio and is largely identified in our society.
The Windsor, Murray Hill, Grand Central and the Ashland are among the hostelries controlled by Buckeyes.
The Associated Press is managed by one of our members; the New York Tribune, the World, the News, the Daily Graphic and the Brooklyn Times are con- trolled by others.
The Erie, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, the Housatonic, Lake Erie and Western, New York and New England, Richmond Terminal, Memphis and Charleston and nine other railways are represented here by their directors and managers in this society.
The inventors of the two principal electric lighting systems of the United States, Edison and Brush, are Ohio men.
ROOMS OF THE SOCIETY, 236 FIFTH AVE., BETWEEN TWENTY-SEVENTH AND TWENTY-EIGHTH STS.
OFFICERS FOR 1888.
President-Thomas Ewing.
Vice-Presidents-Whitelaw Reid, George Hoadly, Wager Swayne, Charles W. Moulton, Algernon S. Sullivan.
Secretary-Homer Lee. Recording Secretary-William Ford Upson. Treasurer-William Perry Fogg.
Trustees-Henry L. Burnett, Andrew J. C. Foye, George Follett, Joseph Pool, John Dickson, W. H. Eckert, Chas. T. Wing, Henry K. Enos, L. C. Hopkins.
Governing Committee (the President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, Members ex-officio)-Henry L. Burnett, Andrew J. C. Foye, Geo. Follett, Joseph Pool, John Dickson, W. H. Eckert, Chas. T. Wing, Henry K. Enos, L. C. Hopkins.
LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS WITH THE FORMER HOME OF EACH IN OHIO TO JULY, 1888.
Abbey, Henry E., Akron. Andrews, W. C., Youngstown. Applegate, C. H., Highland Co.
Armstrong, Geo. E., Cleveland. Armstrong, P. B., Cincinnati. Ashley, James M., Toledo. At- kinson, W. H., Cleveland. Archbold, John D., Leesburg. Adams, Henry H., Cleveland.
Bartlett, Geo. S., Mt. Gilead. Beard, D. C., Painesville. Beard, Henry, Painesville. Beard, W. H., Painesville. Beasley, A. W., Ripley. Belt, Washington, St. Louisville. Bidwell, F.
H., Toledo. Boonet, J. N., Zanesville. Bostwick, J. A., Cleveland. Brainard, Frank, Salem.
Brainard, W. H., Salem.
Brewster, S. D., Madison. Brice, Calvin S., Lima.
Brown, Walston H.,
Cincinnati. Brown, W. L., Youngstown. Bruch, C. P., Canton. Brundrett, H. B., Cincinnati. Bryant, Stanley A., Mt. Vernon. Buckingham, G., McConnellsville. Burnett, Henry L., Cin- cinnati. Busbey, Hamilton, Clark Co. Butler, Cyrus, Norwalk. Butler, Richard, Norwalk.
Buckingham, C. L., Berlin Heights. Bostwick, W. W., Cincinnati. Bosworth, T. B., Marietta. Bodman, E. C., Toledo. Baker, W. D., Cleveland. Bonnet, S. Frank F., Zanesville. Brock- way, H. H., Cleveland. Bosworth, F. H., Marietta. Wooster. Bruch, E. B., Canton. Baker, W. H., Cleveland. Bunnell, J. H., Massillon. Bliss, C. F., Chance, Mahlon, Fremont. Chandler, J. M., Mansfield. Clark, Heman, Portage Co. Cor- wine, R. M., Cincinnati. Corwine, Quinton, Cincinnati. Crall, L. H., Cincinnati. Critten, T. D., Piqua. Cox, S. S., Columbus. Caldwell, W. H., Cincinnati. Corwine, John, Cincinnati. Converse, J. Stedman, Urbana.
Dickson, John, Cincinnati. Donaldson, Andrew, Cincinnati. Doren, D., Wooster. Doyle, George, Steubenville. DeMilt, H. R., West Jefferson. Dunn, W. S., Fletcher. Doyle, Alexan- der, Steubenville. Dunham, S. T., Cleveland. Dorsey, Stephen W., Oberlin.
Eckert, Thomas T., Wooster. Eckert, T. T., Jr., Wooster. Eckert, W. H., Wooster. Edger- ton, D. M., Mansfield. Elkins, Stephen B., Perry Co. Ellis, John W., Cincinnati. Enos, H. K., Millersburgh, Holmes Co. Este, W. M., Cincinnati. Ewing, Thomas, Lancaster. Essick, S. V., Alliance.
Fové, Andrew J. C., Mt. Gilead. Fleischmano, Max, Cincinnati. Fogg, Wm. Perry, Cleveland.
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Follett, Austin W., Granville. Follett, George, Johnstown.
Foye, Frank M., Mt. Gilead.
French, Hamlin Q., Delaware. Fackler, Gen. W. S., Cincinnati. Foote, Edward B., Euclid.
Gillett, M. G., Upper Sandusky. Gillett, Francis M., Upper Sandusky. Gillett, Jerome D.,
Upper Sandusky. Gillett, Morillo H., Upper Sandusky. Glassford, Henry A., Cincinnati.
Goddard, Calvin, Cleveland. Gorham, A. S., Cleveland. Granger, John T., Zanesville. Green,
Albert W., North Bloomfield. Green, Edwin M., North Bloomfield. Grojean, J. H., Canton.
Gard, Anson A., Tremont City. Gunnison, Austin, Cincinnati.
Guitean, John M., Marietta. Hain, Isaiah, Circleville. Hall, P. D., Akron. Hammond, D. S., Delaware. Harbaugh,
David F., Cleveland. Harman, Geo. V., Canal Dover.
Harman, Granville W., Canal Dover.
Harman, John W., Canal Dover. Hawk, Wm. S., Cauton. Heaton, Wm. W., Salem. Hewson,
J. H., Cincinnati. Higley, Warren, Cincinnati. Hine, C. C., Massillon. Hoffer, Wm. M., Mans-
field. Hopkins, L. C., Cincinnati. Howard, James Q., Columbus. Howlett, Giles N., Mans- field. Hoyt, Colgate, Cleveland. Handy, Parker, Cleveland. Halstead, Marshall, Cincinnati.
Hoagland, C. N., Miami Co. - Hoadly, George, Cincinnati. Hobbs, H. H., Cincinnati. Hollo- way, J. F., Cleveland. Hibbard, George B., Ironton. Hazlett, Wm. Converse, Zanesville.
Irvine, James, Toledo. Imgard, Julius, Wooster.
Jennings, P. S., Cleveland. Jeffords, John E., Columbus. Jewett, Hugh J., Zanesville. Jnil-
liard, A. D., Bucyrns. Jacobs, A. L., Lima. Johnson, Edgar M., Cincinnati. Johnston, J. W.,
Zanesville.
Kimball, R. C., Canton. King, Thomas S., New Philadelphia. Knisely, Wm .. Tuscarawas
Co. Kingsbury, F. H., Columbus.
Lahm, Frank M., Mansfield. Lake, Carson, Akron. Lauer, E., Cincinnati. Leavitt, John
B., Cincinnati. Lee, Homer, Mansfield. Loveland, F. C., Wellington. Linn, Fred. D., Mt. Gilead. Le Fevre, Ben, Maplewood.
Mayo, Wallace, Akron. McCook, Anson G., Steubenville. MeCracken, W. V., Bucyrus.
MeFall, Gaylord, Mansfield. MeGill, Gen. W., Lancaster. Merser, Isaac P., Marlboro'. Mil-
ler, J. W., Springfield. Mitchell, John Q., Mt. Vernon. Monett, Henry, Columbus. Moore,
Cary W., Zanesville. Moore, L. B., Mt. Gilead. Mass, J. O., Sandusky. Monlton, John Sher-
man, Cincinnati. Munson, Wm. S., Cincinnati. Morgan, Henry M., Mt. Vernon. Morgan, Rollin M., Mt. Vernon. Milmine, George, Toledo. Morgan, David, Wilmington. Morse,
Horace J., Norwalk. McNally, J. Flack, Springfield. Moore, Robert, Cincinnati. Milmine, Chas. E., Toledo.
Newton, Ensign, Canfield. Nye, Theodore S., Marietta.
Oldham, J. L., Springfield.
Palmer, Lowell M., Chester. Peet, Wm. C., London, O. Peters, Bernard, Marietta. Phillipp,
M. B., Cincinnati. Peixotto, B. F., Cleveland. Pool, Harwood R., Elyria. Prentiss, F. J.,
Cleveland. Prentiss, F. C., Cleveland. Pritchard, Daniel, Cleveland. Packard, S. S., Cincin-
nati. Pease, Geo. L., Painesville. Peet, Chas. B., London, O. Peixotto, Geo. D. M., Cleveland.
Pool, Joseph, Cleveland. Peixotto, M. P., Cleveland. Parker, S. Webber, Chagrin Falls.
Reid, Whitelaw, Cincinnati. Rickoff, A. J., Cleveland. Ricksecker, Theodore, Canal Dover. Rodarmor, John F., Ironton. Rogers, Wm. A., Springfield.
Sadler, J. F., Lucas Co. Safford, W. M., Cleveland. Schooley, John C., Cincinnati. Schwan,
Louis M., Cleveland. Scott, Geo., Canton. Shillito, Wallace, Cincinnati. Shoppell, R. W., Columbus. Shotwell, Theodore, Cincinnati. Smith, John A., Carey. Smith, Wm. Henry, Cin-
cinnati. Southard, Milton 1., Zanesville. Sprague, Chas., Wooster. Stont, John W., Wooster. Spooner,
Strong, W. L., Mansfield. Struble, I. J., Chesterviile. Swayne, Wager, Columbus.
Chas. W., Cincinnati. Smith, Richard, Jr., Cincinnati. Sisson, H. H., Marietta. Sterling,
Theodore W., Cleveland. Stebbins, W. R., Monroeville. Shayne, C. C., Cincinnati. C., Clarksville. Shunk, Albert, Mansfield. Short, John Sterling, Willis B., Cleveland. Schaffer, Onesi- mus P., Youngstown. Smith, Wm. Sooy, Athens.
Simpson, C. S., Cincinnati.
Terrell, H. L., Cleveland. Thomas, Samuel, Columbus. Thomson, F. A., Cincinnati. Thyng,
Chas. H., Cleveland. Tidball, W. L., Mansfield. Tnnison, Joseph S., Cincinnati. Taft, Henry W., Cincinnati. Tuttle, Franklin, Portage Co. Tangeman, Geo. P., Hamilton. Taggart, W. Rush, Salem.
Upson, Win. Ford, Akron.
Vaillant, Geo. H., Cleveland. Vance, Wilson, Findlay. Van Brimmer, Joshua, Delaware.
Waggoner, Ralph H., Toledo. Ward, J. Q. A., Urbana. Whitehead, John, Worthington.
Wing, Frank E., Gambier. Wright, M. B., Cincinnati. Work, Frank, Columbus. Wright, H. A., Cleveland. Wheeler, F. H., Cleveland.
Zachos, J. C., Cincinnati. Zinn, Chas. H., Sidney.
LIST OF NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS TO JULY, 1888, WITH THE ADDRESS OF EACH.
Allison, Wm. B., U. S. Senate. Arms, C. D., Youngstown, O. Anderson, W. P., Cincinnati, O. Alger, Russell A., Detroit, Mich. Alms, William, 54 Worth street, N. Y.
Barber, A. L., Washington, D. C. Bonnell, H. O., Youngstown, O. Bonnell, W. S., Youngs- town, O. Beardslee, John B., 328 Broadway, N. Y. Byrne, John, Mills Building, N. Y.
Card, Henry P., Cleveland, O. Cooper, John S., Chicago. Cooper, Wm. C., Mt. Vernon, O. Conger, A. L., Akron, O. Corning, Warren H., Cleveland, O.
Dale, T. D., Marietta, O. Dawes, E. C., Cincinnati, O. Dayton, L. M., Cincinnati. Donald-
son, Thomas, Philadelphia, Pa. Eaton, John, Marietta, O.
Drake, F. B., Toledo, O.
Fairbanks, Chas. W., Indianapolis, Ind. £ Foster, Charles, Fostoria, O. 9 Fordyce, S. W., St. Louis, Mo. Griffith, G. F., Dayton, O. Goodrich, B. F., Akran, O. Hibben, J. H., 335 Broadway, N. Y. Hayes, R. B., Fremont, O. Hinkle, A. H., Cincinnati, O. Hale, Harvey W., 326 Broadway, N. Y.
Jewett, W. K., Bridgeport, Conn. Jones, J. P., U. S. Senate.
Kohler, J. A., Akron, O. Kimball, W. C., 35 Warren street, N. Y. Long, J. A., Akron, O. Loud, Enos B., Paris, France. Lynch, Wm. A., Cleveland, O.
McFadden, F. T., Cincinnati, O. Matthews, Stanley, Washington, D. C. McBride, John H.,
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Cleveland, O. Means, Wm., Cincinnati, O. McGettigan, John E., Indianapolis, Ind.
Mattox,
A. H., Cincinnati, O. Morrison, Walter, Columbus, O. McGillin, E. M., Cleveland, O. Marble,
G. L., Toledo, O.
Neil, John G., Detroit, Mich. Post, Chas. A., Cleveland, O. Payne, IIenry B., U. S. Senate. Plumb, P. B., U. S. Senate. Perdue, E. H., Cleveland, O. Parsons, S. H., Ashtabula, O. Powell, J. H., 657 Broadway, N. Y. Reinmund, H. J., Lancaster, O. Robison, David, Jr., Toledo, O.
Shotwell, Wm. W., Minneapolis, Minn.
Sherman, John, U. S. Senate.
Smith, Orland, Cincin-
nati, O. Scott, Frank J., Toledo, O. Stettinius, John L., Cincinnati. Shayne, John T., Chicago, Il1.
Townsend, Amos, Cleveland, O. Tod, George, Youngstown, O. Tod, John, Cleveland, O. Upson, Wm. H., Akron, O.
Wick, Caleb B., Youngstown, O. Wick, Henry K., Youngstown, O. Wolf, Simon, Washing- ton, D. C. Woodward, J. H., San Francisco, Cal.
IN MEMORIAM.
Died in 1886 .- Mr. William Hunter, Mr. J. Monroe Brown.
Died in 1887 .- General W. B. Hazen, Mr. Henry De Buss, Mr. George Emerson, Mr. J. M. Edwards, Hon. Algernon S. Sullivan, Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith.
Died in 1888 .- Col. Charles W. Moulton, Chief-Justice Morrison R. Waite, Col. Chas. T. Wing.
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A GLANCE AT OHIO HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEN.
BY JAMES Q. HOWARD.
JAMES QUAY HOWARD is a native of Newark, Licking county, Ohio. His mother was the daughter of Judge Quigley, of Pennsylvania. His father, Deacon George W. Howard, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and his grandfather an officer in the war of the Revolution. James Q. Howard was fitted for college at Granville and was graduated at Marietta College with honors. In 1859 he delivered the Mas- ter's Oration and received the second degree. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, having studied law with Hon. Samuel Galloway.
In 1860, at the request of Follett, Foster & Co., the publishers of the "Lincoln and Donglas Debates," he wrote a brief " Life of Abraham Lincoln," which was translated into German. On September 6, 1861, he was appointed by Mr. Lincoln United States Consul at St. John, New Brunswick. The Chesapeake piracy case, the Calais bank raid, bringing about the cap- ture of blockade runners and enforcing Stanton'a passport orders, conspired to render the duties of con- sul at this great shipbuilding port on the Bay of Fundy as responsible as those of any like officer in the service. The authorities at Calais, Maine, gave Consul Howard credit for having saved the town from destruction by fire. A dozen blockade-rnuners JAMES Q. HOWARD. were captured through information which he fur- nished. He received the frequent thanks of Secretary Seward for "zeal and activity " and his com- - mendation for "fidelity and ability."
On returning home in 1867 Mr. Howard purchased an interest in the Ohio State Journal, and, while an editorial writer on that paper, his articles on finance were commended widely and copied by the New York press. While writing for the reviews and magazines, his address before the Alumni of Marietta College, in 1871, was characterized by Charles Sumner as " admirable, practical, useful."
In 1876 he was selected by the immediate friends of Governor Hayes to write the anthorized life of the Republican candidate for the Presidency, published by Robert Clark & Co., of Cincinnati. He was soon after placed on the editorial force of the New York Times, where he wrote all the articles on the important subject of counting the electoral vote.
In 1877 he was appointed to a position in the New York Custom House, and in the following year was nominated and confirmed as an assistant appraiser of merchandise. In 1880 he was deemed most worthy of promotion to the responsible office of Chief Appraiser, oue of the two national offices of largest discretionary power, outside of the Cabinet. It is through the work of the appraiser's depart- ment at New York that the government is supplied with the bulk of its revenne. Mr. Howard has held important office under five presidents of the United States, and passed the United States Senate three times by a unanimous vote. His present home is on the border of Central Park, New York city. The paper which follows was originally delivered before the Ohio Society of New York.
I PURPOSE to present the briefest possible outline of that Ohio field of biogra- phy and history which it would be both pleasant and profitable, for all Ohioans especially, to explore. That Territorial and State history relates to historical events and historical men. Some of these far-reaching events worthiest of our particular study are: the first permanent settlement . [arietta in the spring of 1788; the second settlement at Columbia near the si. of Cincinnati, in the autumn of the same year; the establishment of a Territorial government with Gen. Arthur St. Clair as the first and only duly commissioned Territorial Gov- ernor; the formation of the first four counties in the Territory, with the noble Revolutionary names of Washington, Hamilton, Wayne and Adams; the disas- trous defeat of Gen. Harmar by the Indians, in June, 1790; the more disastrous defeat of Gov. St. Clair, November 4, 1791, in that western Ohio county since appropriately called Darke; the inspiring victory of Gen. Anthony Wayne, in August, 1794; the enactment and enforcement of much-needed laws by the Gov- ernor and Territorial Judges; the assembling of the first Territorial Legislature
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on September 24, 1799; the ceding by Connecticut of her claims to that territory called the Western Reserve of Connecticut, on May 30, 1801; the formation of the first State Constitution at Chillicothe, in November, 1802; the first general election under that constitution, in January, 1803; the transition from a Terri- torial to a State government, in February and March, 1803; the Burr conspiracy, with the State's vigorous action in suppressing it; in 1806; the gallant defence of Fort Stephenson and Perry's splendid victory on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; the establishment of the permanent seat of government at Columbus, in 1816; the beginning of the construction of the great canals of the State, at New- ark, in the fitting presence of Governors Jeremiah Morrow, DeWitt Clinton and Hon. Thomas Ewing, July 4, 1825; the building of the first and the other great lines of that network of railroads which has done more than any single agency to advance the material interests of the State; the creation of those noble insti- tutions of charity, benevolence and learning and of that system of public schools which have so honored the State in all succeeding years; Ohio's preparation for and part in the War for the Union ; her action with respect to the latest and best amendments to the national Constitution ; her courageous course in the prolonged contests for a sound currency with coin resumption, and her firm maintenance, untarnished, of the State's and the nation's credit and faith.
Turning from events, some of which can be treated in essays, others only in volumes, to the meritorious men identified with Ohio's history-men whom we all ought to know more about, much more than the libraries can teach us-we cannot omit from the briefest historical list, General Rufus Putnam and Dr. Manasseh Cutler, so worthy to be enrolled among the founders of States; Gen. Arthur St. Clair, who passed from the Presidency of the American Congress to the Governorship of the Northwest Territory, remaining our Territory's executive chief, through alternate successes and defeats, for fourteen years ; Gen. Samuel H. Parsons, Gen. James M. Varnum and John Cleves Symmes, the able and emi- nent Territorial Judges; Dr. Edward Tiffin, president of the convention which framed the first constitution of the State, and first governor of Ohio under that constitution ; Return Jonathan Meigs, the first cabinet officer that Ohio furnished the republic, whose grave is one of the objects of historic interest in old Marietta ; Judge Jacob Burnet, the Western Lycurgus, who helped to give our confused mass of laws consistency and adaptation ; honest old Jeremiah Morrow, the last and best of the governors of the pioneer race; faithful Peter Hitchcock, for twenty years in the Legislature and in Congress, and for twenty-five Chief-Justice of the State; William Henry Harrison, the pure patriot of higliest virtue, whose political triumph of 1840 was not greater than his earlier triumphs over our Indian foes; Justice John McLean, who combined the manners and graces of the old school of jurists with the learning of the new; Samuel F. Vinton, the able and dignified Whig leader, who preferred his dignity to his existence in office; Charles Hammond, among the strongest of the members of the American bar; the brilliant and eloquent Thomas L. Hamer, who sent Grant to West Point ; Judge Bellamy Storer, alike popular on the bench and on the stump; Hocking Hunter, every inch and in every fibre a lawyer, and Henry Stanbery, that perfect type of courtly gentleman.
Especially should we of this generation learn more about the two most dis- tinctively representative historical men of Ohio, Thomas Ewing and Thomas Corwin, the one the embodiment of all the robust strength, physical and mental, of the great Northwest, declared to be at the period of his death the ablest law- yer in the United States; the other, in the concurrent judgment of all who have felt the spell of his matchless eloquence, the greatest natural orator and most marvelous wit, mimic and master of the passions of men that the continent has yet known.
Passing from these two extraordinary men, who taught the great men of the later period how to become great, but not forgetting, in passing, the high-minded and massive-minded Chase, the slavery-hating Joshua R. Giddings, bluff Ben Wade, burly, brainy John Brough, and the strong but gentle David Tod, we reach that race of native historic men whose lives touch ours, we might almost say whose lives preserved ours: Grant, the peer of Marlborough, Von Moltke, Wellington and Napoleon, the modern world's first soldiers; Stanton, the creator
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of armies and mighty forger of the Thunderbolts of war; Sheridan, who turned retreats and defeats into advances and victories, and rode with the swiftness of the wind to fame; Sherman, the only soldier or statesman in our history who refused the honor of the Presidency when it was thrice within his reach ; Hayes, who called around him as able a cabinet as the nation has had and whose admin- istration of the government was so acceptable to the people that they voted for another politically like it; Garfield, the most learned and scholarly president, not excepting John Quincy Adams, who has filled the executive chair, the pathos of whose death touched all hearts in all lands; and the tenderly-loved McPher- son, whose untimely death alone cut him off from equality with the greatest.
And in what more fitting connection can we refer to those two peerless living Ohio statesmen, similar in name and fame, Sherman and Thurman, the one greatest as a financier, the other as a lawyer, both of highest distinction in the making and in the administration of law, and each gratefully honored for his noble public services by the discriminating, everywhere ?
Conspicuous for their eminent abilities as are Rufus P. Ranney, William S. Groesbeck, Samuel Shellabarger, John A. Bingham, George H. Pendleton, Thomas Ewing, H. J. Jewett, Aaron F. Perry, Jacob D. Cox, Joseph B. Foraker, Wm. Mc- Kinley, Chief-Justice Waite and Associate Justices Woods and Matthews, among Ohioans, we must not forget in our biographical studies other useful or brilliant men still living or who have passed away, leaving honored names worthy of long remembrance within and beyond the limits of their own State. It will not, I trust, seem invidious to call to mind Elisha Whittlesey, Joseph R. Swan, Alfred Kelly, George E. Pugh, William Allen, James G. Birney, Samuel Lewis, William Dennison, Samuel Galloway, R. P. Spaulding, Valentine B. Horton, Doctors Delamater, Kirtland and Mussey and General J. H. Devereux, or such public- spirited benefactors as Dr. Daniel Drake, William Woodward, Reuben Springer, Leonard Case, Lyne Starling, John Mills, Douglas Putnam, Jay Cooke, Nicholas Longworth, J. R. Buchtel, David Sinton and William Probasco.
Such born jurists and gentlemen as Justice Noah H Swayne and Judges Leavitt, Nash and Gholson are everywhere held in honor, as will also long be re- vered the names of those eminent scholars and divines, Dr. Lyman Beecher, Bishop Philander Chase, Bishops McIlvaine, Simpson, Ames, Bishop Edward Thomson, Dr. Henry Smith and Presidents Finney of Oberlin and Andrews of Marietta.
There are other Ohio names that are too prominently connected with the his- tory of the nation to be overlooked, among which are those of Generals McClel- lan, Rosecrans, McDowell, Buell, Custer, Crook, Hazen, Quincy A. Gillmore, Schenck, Steadman, Swayne, Walcutt and the McCooks; the great inventor, Edi- son ; the Arctic explorer, Dr. Hall; the Siberian traveller, George Kennan; the astronomer, Prof. O. M. Mitchell; the geologists, Newberry, Orton and Wright, and the Director-General of our National Centennial Exhibition, Sir A. T. Goshorn.
What are Ohio's most honored names in literature, intelligent readers of course know all about; and while her sons may have accomplished less, perhaps, in that field than in war, politics or art, one can safely say that Artemus Ward and Petroleum V. Nasby compare favorably with the first humorists of the nation ; William D. Howells and Albion W. Tourgee with the foremost novelists of their day, while Charles Hammond, Samuel Medary, E. D. Mansfield, Washington McLean, Henry Read, Fred Hassaurek, Joseph Medill, Richard Smith, Murat Halstead, Donn Piatt, Samuel Read, Edwin Cowles, J. A. MacGahan, William Henry Smith and the present editors of the New York Tribune, the New York World and the Cincinnati Enquirer have yielded or are now yielding as large a measure of influence as has fallen to the lot of any American journalists. Buchanan Read, Francis W. Gage, William D. Gallagher, Alice and Phoebe Cary, William H. Lytle, John James Piatt, Manning F. Force, Henry Howe, S. P. Hildreth and John Hay have done nobly all that they have attempted to do at all, and John James, and Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, Edith Thomas and Mrs. Kate Sherwood are making poetry and fame just as fast as the muses will permit.
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