History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio, Part 77

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey
Number of Pages: 1060

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They were an inimitable trio. Concretely they were prismatic, resolving a ray of life's great duties into primordial elements even to the negation principles of light, with all the in- termingling rainbow tints. Abstractly they were less ostentatious and gaudy. It is true

the Local, Monitor and True Press were not the Tribune. Herald and Times, or the editors Greeley, Bennett and Raymond, but they were respectable in their spheres, and the city of Alliance was proud of them as editors and citizens. In the way of journalism, Alliance was the peer of any interior town in Ohio. These presses were the heralds of the city's future ; for them to languish was for the city to die at heart ; for merchants and manufact- urers to give orders for printing to traveling rats to advertise competing towns is filo-de-se it was suicide-it was a stone at the goose or geese that lay the golden eggs ; it might not have killed, but it wounded them. Mr. Lewis managed the Press for a few months, and then disposed of his office to W. F. Hart. Mr. Mossgrove assisted him as foreman and asso- ciate editor. The Monitor was started by J. W. Garrison and J. Hudson July 13, 1864. In October. 1866. Mr. Hudson sold his interest in the office to Mr. Garrison. This establish- ment in 1864, was a new and splendid outfit, with steam presses and all fitting adjuncts. Mr. Garrison sold the office to A. W. Taylor, and moved to Massillon where he inaugurated the Massillon Imurican. Mr. Taylor soon found a purchaser for the Monitor. in the person of W. K. Brown. While Mr. Garrison owned the Monitor office, he printed for one year the Christian Standard, a religious paper in the interest of the Christian Church, and edited by Rev. Isaac Errett. The Ledger, under the management of A. Il. Lewis, published for one year. the Family and School Instructor, a monthly of respectable size and appearance. projected by the Faculty and students of Mount Union College. Mr. Gillespie, of the Local. has published for one year the Literary Ad- rance, a monthly emanating from the same source. Mr. Patterson, the excellent fore- man of the Local otlice, and McKee's partner in the publication of that paper before Mr. Gillespie purchased his interest. ran for several years a job office in the building owned and occupied by J. Murray Webb. The Weaver Brothers also ran a job office in this city be- fore they purchased the Minerva Commercial. Mr Stewart McKee, who has been almost con stantly connected with the press of this city since 1854. in connection with his son-in law, now runs a tidy and excellent job office in llarrold's Block. This includes, so far as mem-

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ory now serves, the various printing and news- paper enterprises in this city.

The Democracy of Alliance and surrounding country purchased an office and reshipped it to this city to print a paper under the manage- ment of one Robinson, who formerly had some reputation as a writer, having been connected with the Cincinnati Enquirer. At one time. Mr. Robinson, though a virulent Democrat, patriotically held that the national debt created by the war, should be promptly paid, and that the most expeditious plan to liquidate the nation's liabilities, was the payment of an in- ternal revenue by an extravagant consumption of whisky. He largely and liberally practiced on his theory and his paper died Patterson & McKee purchased the office and issued the Local. After a time Joseph W. Gillespie pur- chased the Patterson interest in the office, con- tinuing the paper under the same name. Mr. Gillespie soon became the exclusive owner of the ofllce, but feeling that a Washington hand press and accompanying material, much of it quite old. could not be made to meet the necessities of the increasing patronage of an enterprising town fast merging into a city, sold the press and office, the history of which has been briefly traced since 1854, to Lacock & Co .. of Salineville, to which place it was shipped a few years baek, and where it is probably enter- ing on the vicissitudes of a twenty years' ex- perience, such as it passed in Ravenna and in Alliance. After S. G. McKee sok his interest in the Local to Gillespie he purchased a splen- did cylinder press and jobber, with correspond- ing and accompanying outfit. and issued a weekly called the Telegraph. The Telegraph apparently was well supported and entering a career of unusual prosperity, when one morn- ing the citizens of Alliance were astonished with the report that Gillespie of the Local had bought out the Telegraph. The latter paper supported the interests of the Democratie party, and the Locul was the organ of the Re- publican party. The purchase gave the Local every facility for successfully competing with the Monitor. There was more material than could be advantageously used obtained by the purchase of the Telegraph office, and Dr. Lewis bought a hand press and some of the material of Mr. Gillespie, and in the fall of 1872 started a paper. Since the above occurrences, other papers have been published in Alliance.

The Alliance Tri- County Review, edited and published by Capt. J. W. Gillespie, is one of the newsiest papers in Eastern Ohio, and has ob- tained considerable celebrity for its independ- ence of thought, its bold and fearless defense of its opinions, and its carefully edited local and news columns. It is Republican in polities, but evidently does not take kindly to the ex- treme hard-money doctrines of that party, and having opinions of its own on all the issues of the day, to which it gives fearless expression and a bold defense, it occasionally of neces- sity, ineurs the adverse criticisms of the more hide-bound leaders of the party with which it is identified ; and yet, on all the doctrines which properly and originally entered into the creed and confession of political faith of the Repub- lican party, as well as in spirit, the paper is "radical " and " stalwart." The history of the Review is one of success. In May, 1871, Capt. Gillespie bought a half-interest in the Alliance Loral, a small - patent outside " sheet, strug- gling for existence with a nominal subscription list of barely three hundred, and, in company with Capt. S. G. MeKce, undertook to conduct it as a neutral paper. This, of course, was un- satisfactory. A man with positive opinions and convictions, must necessarily chafe and fret un- der the restraints of nentral journalism, and in November of the same year. Capt. Gillespie bought out his partner, and, abandoning the "patent outside," changed its character to one of the most pronounced and wide-awake Repub- lican papers in the Seventeenth Congressional Distriet. From that day may be dated the present popularity of the paper, and its pub- lisher could not help but see, in a short time, that it had outgrown its name and had become something more than a mere "local " paper. Ile, therefore, dropped the name Local and sub- stituted the more pretentious and significant title of Rerier, changing its form, too, to a quarto and enlarging it. The next advance step was taken in 1876, when the Review was made a cash-in-advance paper, and immediately fol- lowing this and entirely contrary to the expee. tations of many of its friends, it obtained a cir- culation four times larger than any paper ever published in the town of Alliance. But another change seemed to be demanded, and in the same line, indieating growth and progress ; the Review rapidly extended its circulation in the adjoining counties till, on the 1st of January, 1881, its

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proprietor, as a fitting recognition of this gen- crous patronage, adopted its present title ; and now, as the Tri-County Review, its subscription is larger than ever before, and daily increasing. Aggressive, outspoken, saney and combative as the Review has always been, it. of course, has made some enemies, and in its treatment of these, it seemed never to be able to appreciate the nursery axiom of " a kiss for a blow." Tit- for-tat was rather its motto, and it seems to really enjoy a square stand-up fight, and is not likely to grow rusty in literary pugilism for want of practice, or sulk, or whine, or sniffle at the result of any of its set-tos.

One of the leading Republican newspapers of Stark County is the Alliance Standard. which was established Jannary 1. 1880, by John G. Garrison. At its inception. the Standard was a six-column folio, but under Mr. Gar- rison's careful editorial and practical mechanical management, it soon became an enterprising local journal, and an enlargement became neces- sary. It is now an eight-column folio. The Standard has steadily grown in favor and influ- ence until it has become one of the most widely read local newspapers ever published in Ali- ance. Its careful make-up, fine paper, good press work and neat typographical appearance, give it the reputation of being a handsome county paper. Much of the success of the Standard is due to the refined and elevating manner in which it has been conducted, as well as its fair and gentlemanly treatment of the people, wheth- er they were patrons of the paper or not, and its impartial, unselfish and journalistic manner of handling all questions. The office is one of the finest equipped of the kind in the county, and the only one in the city which combines all features of the printing business under one management. A new six-horse power engine, paper cutter and other conveniences have re- cently been added, making the job department most complete. Much of the work turned out by Garrison's Standard Steam Printing House has never been equaled in the city, and would favorably compare with that executed by first- class city offices.

The Monitor was established in 1861. by Ind- son & Garrison. In 1865. Hudson sold his in- torest to his partner, J. W. Garrison (father of the editor of the Standard. of Alliance), who conducted the paper until he established the Massillon American in 1869, when he sold the

Monitor to A. W. Taylor, who, a year later, dis- posed of it to Rev. W. K. Brown and wife. They ran it until 1877, when it suspended. In 1869, the Monitor had a circulation of about 1,200 copies. The Christian Standard, with a circulation of 18,000, was published by Mr. Garrison from the Monitor office, at this time. The latter paper is now published in Cincinnati.

Among the industries that have appeared in Alliance is the large bagging factory now in operation. It was erected in 1870 at a cost of $32,000. Its annual capacity is 450,000 yards of bagging, which is used in covering cotton so that the latter can be readily transported to market. The material used in the manufacture is flax, tow and jute butts. The first two are obtained in this country and Canada, and the latter is imported from the West Indies. Dur- ing the year there are consumed 600 tons of nearly equal quantities of flax and jute. The number of hands employed is from forty five to fifty, and the average wages per day is 65 cents.

After 1824. and up to the time the Union school system was adopted in Alliance, there was a small brick schoolhouse, 18x24. located in the immediate vicinity of the Disciple Church, which house was of sufficient capacity to meet all the educational wants of this locality. School was held in this small structure three months every year. Since the establishment of the present school system, the township has been divided into ten separate school districts, and each district has a neat and commodious schoolhouse, with ample accommodations for the children of the district. In most of these districts a winter and summer school is taught. The I'nion School of Alliance was orgamzed under the act of February 21, 1849, in the month of February, 1857 Mr. J. K. Pickett was elected the first Superintendent, in March, 1858, and continued to act in that capacity until January, 1860. George D. Hester was elected in August, 1860, and continued until June, 1861. J. K. Pickett was re-elected .April, 1861, and continued until March, 1865. Jesse Markham was elected in March, 1865, and con- tinned until April. 1865. D. M. Miller was elected in April, 1865, and continued until June. 1866. E. N. Johnson. Jr., was elected July, 1866. and continued until June, 1867. W. H. Dressler was elected August, 1867. The single building now known as the C'entral School was all

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the school room afforded, or needed, as late Is 1857. In that year there were but 300 children in the Union School District. The first Superin- tendent had four assistants. One of the finest edifices to be found within the scope of a hun- dred miles is the Alliance College, a magnifi- cent brick, erected on the hill site of our city, within five minutes walk of the railroad depot. It is just cause of pride in our citizens, being an ornament to the place, and those who con- ceived the design and carried ont the execution can well be proud of their conception and labors. It owes its paternity to Prof. A. B. Way, and was built under the patronage of the Christian Church. It cost $50,000. Prof. Way was continued as Financial Agent, and to his herculean efforts we are indebted for the completion of the College.

Mount Union College was founded for a pur- pose, with a definite plan. Its humble origin, dating from its provisional organization, Octo- ¡ cal, archeological. industrial. paleontologieal ber 20, 1846, has ever since continuously out- lined its progressive character ; while its exist- ing membership, appointments, provisions. in- structed students, permanent improvements and 5. To make the college a free, patriotic, Christian and aggressive institution ; to hold and use its property perpetually, in trust, for the benefit of its students : to bring a thorough. results of its plan, would be misunderstood. liberal, Christian education in easy reach of all, regular workings under its charter. show its at- tained growth and usefulness. The true history of the College, showing the facts, growth and without constantly keeping in mind not only the results of its providential facts, but also as its progressive or final end, the following pro- posed or fundamental objects :

1. To found a progressive institution for truthfully developing right character. culture and knowledge, and for making a thorough. liberal, Christian education accessible to all.

2. Besides ancient classical, to provide fresh courses and departments fundamentally essen- tial for educating symmetrically all the facul- ties, for promoting character above culture, and culture above knowledge, and for earnestly uniting the utilitarian, disciplinary and æs- thetic; and thus practically and truthfully making not only laborers and scholars, but citizens and the highest grade of men and wo- men.

3 Rightly to enable any students to choose and master a thorough general course, as the ancient and modern classical, philosophical, scientific, or literary ; or take electives or a post graduate course, or a special or technical course, as preparatory, business, mining, engi-

neering, normal. musical. fine arts; or such studies in any course or department, and for such time as students desire and need for har- monionsly educating the head. hand and heart, and for giving them true personal ability, avail- ability and reliability.

4. To secure a moral. healthy and enter- prising location, improved and ample grounds and buildings : a voluntary and effective asso- ciation of competent and reliable patrons, trust- ees, faculty and students. with wise manage- ment ; logical systems of thorough, illustrative instruction, with moral. social, æsthetic and physical culture and self-government ; also, pro- gressively to secure improved libraries, and an abundance of superior. scientific and artistic apparatus, implements, cabinets, museum, pict- ure galleries, observatory, gymnasiums, botan- ical and zoblogical gardens, aquaria, parks. models, relies and charts, with natural, classi- and æsthetic specimens, as cosmic endowments, with which truthfully to illustrate and apply all studies.

enabling enterprising students of either sex. however humble or self-dependent, to complete a general or elective course, and support them- selves ; to adapt the terms, curricula and man- agement to the actual needs of the people, and to our country's public school system ; to regu- late the price of student's rooms and board. (their chief expense), and keep their expenses of living within certain low rates, by erecting buildings and providing good rooms and ample boarding facilities.

6. To promote the union of earnest and generous patrons, trustees, professors and stu- dents, and thus to perpetuate the plan and growing membership and usefulness of the in- stitution, with God's continued favor, by largely keeping the College, internally, self-supporting, and externally, through permanent improve- ments as representative free-will offerings, and by progressively adapting the college to the actual needs of our American masses.

The main reason for chartering the institu- tion as a college, was the better to carry out the foregoing fundamental objects, the time be-

MOUNT UNION COLLEGE.

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ing arranged to suit the large attendance of students, who had in this institution been pur- suing a full college course, and who desired to graduate and obtain the degrees legally and honorably from the institution where they had received their chief instruction.

In addition to the foregoing objects, the charter provides that the property of the college shall be held perpetually in trust, by a board of trustees, for the educational benefit of students. It is also provided that the trustees and faculty shall carry out progress- ively the foregoing fundamental objects of the institution ; that they shall acquire and supply the means of a thorough, liberal. Christian education. equally to persons of both sexes, irrespective of their religious or political opin- ions ; that the faculty shall possess and exert the requisite authority to establish and admin- ister all necessary and proper regulations for the instruction and internal management of the college as related to students, and for any general, elective, special and practical courses of study ; that the institution shall be conducted in harmony with the principles of Christiamty ; that any department or school that may be estab- lished. or any literary society or other organ- ization composed of students, shall be under the supervision of the college authorities ; that all moneys and property of the college shall be faithfully and safely appropriated by the trust- ees to the purposes for which they were respect- ively donated ; that the trustees hold their office chiefly during three years, about one- third of the number being elected each year : that in electing the trustees, any candid per- son. religious denomination or philanthropic association, aceredited or donating to the college money or property, shall be respectively en- titled to one vote for a trustee, for every $25 donated to the college; that the institution shall be patriotic and Christian, but not see- tarian or partisan, and shall be generously conducted on the voluntary philanthropie prin- eiple of doing the greatest educational good to the greatest practicable number of worthy, self- dependent students.

Thus, through trustees whom they elect as their representatives, the college is equitably and generously controlled or governed by the people who, with a united interest and just representation for the impartial and equal good of all, voluntarily bear the responsibility of lady."

contributing the means for sustaining the college in its benevolent mission.

The degrees or other honors that may be conferred, are similar to those that may be granted by colleges or universities of this or other countries. The charter has undergone no modifications ; contains no limitations or reservations as a condition in grants or other- wise, or as to any scholarships or requirements as to instruction in particular studies, and pro- vides for any changes necessary to adapt the college to the needs of the people.

Immediately after perfecting the charter, Jannary 10, 1858, this institution, whose dis- tinctive features had been nominally developing since its provisional organization in 1846, was now regularly and efficiently organized as a college. A suitable board of trustees was elected. with an effective executive committee, also a competent faculty of experienced pro- lessors. Rev. O. N. Wartshorn, LL. D., was elected President of the Trustees and Faculty ; Ira O. Chapman, A. M., was elected Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, and Secretary of the Faculty : G. W. Clark, A. M., was elected Professor of the Latin and Greek languages, and Treasurer of the Trustees, and E. N Hartshorn, A. M., was elected Professor of Natural Science, and Auditor of the Trustees The first class was regularly graduated in the summer of 1858, and, ever since, classes have duly graduated each year in the several author- ized degrees.

The attendance and needs of students so in- creased, as to make it necessary to enlarge the college grounds and erect a new and capacious main building, which was in 1864 completed, the dedicatory address being delivered by llon. S. P. Chase, who was one of the trustees. Among other things, Chief Justice Chase pub- licly said : " Mount Union College, as to both means and usefulness, is among the foremost in our country ; it certainly is greatly needed ; has a superior system of instruction, govern- ment, support, membership, and of equal and equitable patron relations ; is nationally and wisely located and conducted : its simple and impartial. vet complete and distinctive, plan, merits the generous and united patronage of all American people, for it generously makes a thorough, integral. Christian education easily obtainable to every enterprising young man or

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In February. 1865. Bishop M. Simpson. D. D .. L.L. D., delivered in the large hall of this new building. to an intelligent audience of 2,500 persons, his address on the "Future of our Country," and at the close of which he publicly stated that - Mount Union College. manifestly a gift of Providence, is an eminently needed. live and progressive institution, where excellent government, high intellectual and moral culture, cheapness and thoroughness, with a sound plan wisely adapted to the enlarging wants of the American people, are happily combined."

Bishop E. Thomson, D. D., LL. D., another trustee of this college, spent a week attending the annual examinations of the classes and other commencement exercises. in the summer of 1865, and, upon delivering, on commence- ment day, the annual address, he publicly stated that " Mount Union is an established collegiate center, eligibly and beautifully situated, ad- mirably managed, possesses highly valuable apparatus and specimens, with extensive col- legiate facilities ; its mission is philanthropie, equitable and providential, its objects impartial, practicable and widely demanded. This col lege has a superior and distinctive plan. em- bracing wise government, economy. right pat- ronizing relations, thoroughness. elective courses of study, integral illustrative teaching, and adapted to develop sterling character, personal liberty and culture, and to meet the progress- ive wants of society, recognizing efficiently. besides the mathematics, literature and ancient languages, the growing importance of the natural sciences and modern classics."

At their annual meeting of the board, in 1865, on motion of Lewis Miller, the trustees resolved to erect an additional commodious boarding hall, to accommodate a large number of stu- dents. and thus to enable the college to keep the price of students' rooms and boarding at the lowest practicable rates. A Building Com- mittee of Trustees was elected, consisting of Hon. Lewis Miller, of Akron, Col. E. Ball, of Canton, J. B. Milner, of Alliance, O. N. Harts- horn and William Autram, of Mount Union. In 1866, this committee erected an excellent four-story brick building. 132 feet long by 16 feet wide, on an addition of ten acres of college grounds.

At a special meeting of the trustees, held July 6. 1867. in the office of (. Aultman & Co .. Canton, Ohio. " Dr. O. N. Hartshorn was au-

thorized to visit Europe in the interest of the college, especially by investigating educational improvements, courses of study. the importance and methods of procuring apparatus and speci- mens, for fully illustrating and applying the various branches of study:" and subsequently. after reporting to the trustees. " the results of his investigations in Europe, respecting appar- atus, specimens, courses of study. methods of teaching and other educational improvements, " Dr. Hartshorn was instructed to fit up rooms and cases, and to purchase proper specimens and apparatus for fully illustrating and apply- ing the courses of studies."

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History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio, Part 77

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey Number of Pages: 1060

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Baskin & Battey
Number of Pages: 1060