History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume II, Part 84

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196

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had been an assistant to Professor McFarland, was appointed Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. At the beginning of the autumn term in 1885, a department of veterinary science was opened under Professor H. J. Detmers, of the Industrial University at Champaign, Illinois. In 1886, Ernest A. Eggers, of Michigan Uni- versity, was appointed instructor in German. Miss Alice K. Williams was retained as instructor in French. During the year 1886, the University farm, under the management of Professor Weber, became a source of revenue for the first time; its net profits were $1,542.17.

At the close of the University year, in 1887, Professor George C. Comstock retired from the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy, and was succeeded by Pro- fessor R. D. Bohanan, a graduate of the University of Virginia. On July 1, same year, Lieutenant A. P. Blocksom, whose term of service as military instructor bad expired, was succeeded by Lieutenant Charles E. Kilbourne, of the Third United States Artillery. Alfred H. Welsh was made Associate Pro- fessor of the English Language and Literature. An act of Congress known as the Hatch Bill, passed in 1887, provided for an annual appropriation of $15,000 to each State, to be used in agricultural experiments and investigations. As orig- inally drawn this act was intended to supplement the land grant for agricultural colleges, but as finally passed it provided that in any State containing an agricul- tural experiment station separate from the land grant college, the legislature might place the fund partly or wholly under control of the agricultural experi- ment station. It was so disposed of in Ohio by resolution of the General Assem- bly.

At the close of the University year in 1888 Professor Albert H. Tuttle retired from the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy to accept that of biology in the University of Virginia. D S. Kellicott, of the State normal school at Buffalo, New York, was appointed his successor. In February, 1888, the Board of Trus- tees, on motion of ex-President Hayes, adopted a declaration that " a thoroughly equipped department of manual training, for both young women and young men, should be added to the existing educational features of the university as soon as practicable." An appropriation by the General Assembly for the establishment of such a department was requested. Exhibits illustrative of the different depart- ments of instruction in the University were made at the centennial expositions at Cincinnati and Columbus. The latter drew a silver medal.

In 1889 the University suffered a much-deplored loss by the untimely death of Professor Alfred H. Welsh, Associate Professor of the English Language and Literature. Although yet young, Professor Welsh liad attained a wide reputation as a writer of literary textbooks. James Chalmers, who had been connected with the corps of instructors in the Eureka College, was chosen as his successor in the associate professorship. John W. Queen was appointed acting professor of His- tory and Political Science pending the temporary absence of Professor George W. Knight. B. L. Bowen occupied the chair of French Language and Literature pending the temporary absence of Miss Williams. Lieutenant Alexander Ogle, Seventeenth United States Infantry, was assigned to the University as military instructor vice Lieutenant Kilbourne, whose term had expired.

On the morning of February 12, 1889, the chemical laboratory building and its contents were destroyed by fire. An appropriation of $5,000 for temporary equipment and continuance of the departments using the laboratory was made by the General Assembly, which also appropriated $40,000 for the construction and equipment of a new building, contracts for the erection of which were awarded during the ensuing month of July. The new edifice was planned to accommodate the departments of general and agricultural chemistry, mining, metallurgy and pharmacy. An additional appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made for the erection of a building for use in special instruction in electrical engineering. Dur-

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ing the year 1890 the laboratory building was completed, equipped and occupied, and a building for the veterinary department was erected.

On August 30, 1890, Congress passed an act of great financial importance to the Ohio State University and to all similar institutions. By that measure the sum of $15,000 per annum, increased annually by an additional thousand for ten years, and after that period the sum of $20,000 per annum, was appropriated from the proceeds of public land sales, to be paid to each State and Territory for the sup- port of "instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science with special reference to their application in the industries of life." This act, meant to supplement the original endowment of agricultural and mechanical colleges, was accepted by the General Assembly of Ohio on March 4, 1891. As in the case of the original endowment, an effort was made to divide the fund, but it was unsuc- cessful this time as before, and the entire appropriation apportioned to Ohio went to the support of the Ohio State University. This congressional benefaction was worthily seconded by an act of the General Assembly passed March 20, 1891, pro- viding for a levy of onetwentieth of a mill on the grand duplicate of the State, to be known as the " Ohio State University fund." The passage of this act was largely due to its cordial recommendation and support by Governor James E. Campbell, and to the active interest taken in it by Hon. N. R. Hysell, Speaker of the House of Representatives. The levy under this law is intended to supersede, so far as it goes, the necessity for annual appropriations for the support of the institution.

On October 14, 1891, contracts were awarded for the erection of a building for the manual training school and one for the geological museum, Lieutenant Eugene Wilson, First United States Artillery, was, in the same year, assigned to the institution as military instructor vice Lieutenant Ogle, whom failing health obliged to retire. Thomas F. Hunt, of Pennsylvania, was elected Professor of Agriculture in lieu of Professor Norton S. Townshend who, on account of his age, had requested to be relieved, but was retained as Professor Emeritus in the chair which he had so long and so creditably filled. The department of horticulture and botany was divided between two new chairs, to one of which, that of horticul- ture and forestry, Professor W. R. Lazenby was assigned, and to the other, botany and forestry, Professor W. A. Kellerman, of Kansas, was elected. In lieu of the department of zoology and comparative anatomy, was created the chair of zoology and entomology, to which Professor D. S. Kellicott was assigned, and the chair of anatomy and physiology, to which Doctor A. M. Bleile, M D., of Columbus, was elected. In the department of English Literaure the work was divided between Associate Professor James Chalmers and Joseph V. Denny, called from the Michi- gan University. The faculty was in various minor respects still further changed and added to in the course of the year 1890.

In June of that year the trustees adopted a resolution establishing a law department in connection with the University, and appropriating for its support the fees to be received from its students. President W. H. Scott and Messrs. H. L. Wilgus and Paul Jones, of the Alumni Association, were appointed to make an investigation and report as to the details and management of such a department. This committee reported on July 21, 1891, presenting a general plan of instruc- tion, and recommending that tuition fees be charged, and a faculty chosen from the Ohio bar. Hon. Marshall Williams, Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, was chosen dean, and a faculty, consisting mostly of members of the Columbus bar, was appointed. The use of rooms in the Courthouse for lectures and recitations was granted by the County Commissioners, and on October 1, 1891, the school was opened with a public address by Hon. R. A. Harrison. The number of stu- dents in attendance in 1891 was fifty.

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The collection of birds which was made by the late Doctor J. M. Wheaton, M. D., and which contained about one thousand specimens, mostly taken in Ohio, was purchased of Mrs. Wheaton in February, 1891, for $1,000. In August, same year, a collection of shells numbering about fifteen thousand specimens was pur- chased of its owner and collector, Mr. Henry Moores, of Columbus, for 8700.

The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station took up its abiding place with the University at the time of its organization in 1882, and conducted its experiments and investigations in company with similar ones conducted by the University, until December 7, 1887, when an arrangement was made by which the station was given full privileges on the University farm and full control of all the experiments, with the understanding that the University professors might still use the grounds for original investigation, and also that the students should be employed in the labor of the station when practicable. In 1891 the station, under authority of the General Assembly, accepted an offer of money and lands made by citizens of Wayne Connty whither it has now been removed.9

The collegiate department of the University now (in 1892) comprises courses of instruction in agriculture, agricultural chemistry, astronomy, botany, civil engi- neering, drawing, electrical engineering, English and rhetoric, French, general chemistry, geology, German, Greek, history, horticulture, Italian, Latin, mathe- matics, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mine engineering, military science and tactics, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, physiology, political science, Spanish, veterinary medicine and zoology and entomology.

The principal building, and the one first erected, is the University Hall, now containing the President's office and various museums, laboratories and society and recitation rooms. The Mechanical Building, erected in 1878. and since much enlarged, contains rooms, materials and machinery for mechanical instruction. The Botanical Building, provided for by an appropriation made in 1853, contains a lecture room, laboratory and other conveniences for instruction in botany and horticulture. A botanical conservatory is connected with it. The Electrical Laboratory, a twostory brick building, was erected in 1889. It is well equipped with apparatus. The Chemical Building, completed in 1890, is two stories in height, and cost, with its equipments, about 862,000. It is now occupied by the departments of chemistry, mining, metallurgy and pharmacy. Orton Hall, now in course of construction, is intended for the reception of the large geological col- lection of the University, and for work and instruction in the department of geology. It will also be the repository of the University Library. It will be two stories in height, and fireproof. Hayes Hall, a large building also in course of construction, will be devoted to instruction and work in manual training. Its central portion will be three stories in height, its wings two stories. The Vet- erinary Hospital contains a veterinary museum and library, a dispensary, an operating hall, and laboratories in bacteriology and microscopy. Of two dormi- tories, distinguished as North and South, both on Neil Avenue, the first accommo- dates sixtyfour and the last twenty students. The Experiment Station occupies several buildings. Of six dwelling houses on the University campus, one is occupied by the President, and three others are the homes of professors. The Law School is still conducted at the Franklin County Courthouse. The Library contains about 12,000 volumes. A considerable portion of the technical library of William S. Sullivant was presented to the institution by himself and his family. It is known as the Sullivant Collection. The Deshler Collection comprises a con- siderable number of rare and valuable works on entomology collected by Tudor Fay and presented to the Library in 1873 by the late John G. Deshler. A German library, mostly presented by Germanborn citizens of Columbus, contains about four hundred volumes. The catalogue of the Geological Museum, in which species, not specimens, are generally enumerated, contains more than eight thou-

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sand entries. The Zoological Museum contains the Wheaton collection of birds and some thousands of other specimens. The Botanical Museum is extensive and interesting.

The Faculty at present comprises the following corps of instructors : Rev. William H. Scott, M. A., LL. D., President and Professor of Philosophy ; Edward Orton, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Geology ; Sidney A. Norton, Ph. D., LL. D, Professor of General and Applied Chemistry ; Norton S. Townshend, M. D., Professor Emeritus of Agriculture ; Stillman W. Robinson, C. E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering ; Nathaniel W. Lord, E. M., Professor of Mining and Metallurgy ; Samuel C. Derby, M. A., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and Librarian ; William R. Lazenby, M. Agr., Professor of Horticul- ture, and Superintendent of Grounds ; Josiah R. Smith, M. A., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature; Henry A. Weber, Ph. D., Professor of Agricul- tural Chemistry ; Benjamin F. Thomas, Ph. D., Professor of Physies; George W. Knight, Ph. D., Professor of History and Political Science, and Secretary of the University Faculty ; Henry J. Detmers, M. V. D., Professor of Veterinary Sur- gery ; R. Daniel Bohannan, B. Sc., C. E., E. M., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy ; David S. Kellicott, Ph. D., Professor of Zoology and Entomology ; C. Newton Brown, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering; Ernst A. Eggers, Pro- .fessor of the German Language and Literature ; Albert M. Bleile, M. D., Profes- sor of Anatomy and Physiology ; Eugene T. Wilson, Second Lieutenant First Artillery, U. S. A., Professor of Military Science and Tactics; William A. Kellerman, Ph. D., Professor of Botany and Forestry ; Thomas F. Hunt, B. Sc., Professor of Agriculture ; George B. Kauffman, B. Sc., Associate Professor of Pharmacy ; Rev. James Chalmers, Ph. D., Associate Professor of English Litera- ture ; Benjamin L. Bowen, Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures; Joseph V. Denney, B. A., Associate Professor of Rhetorie ; Marshall J. Williams, Dean of the Law School, and Lecturer on Pleading and Practice ; George K. Nash, B. A., Lecturer on Torts ; David F. Pugh, Lecturer on Equity Jurisprudence ; I N. Abernethy, Lecturer on Mortgages and Liens ; David K. Watson, B. A., LL. B., Lecturer on Contracts; James H. Collins, Lecturer on Appellate and Federal Practice and Private Corporations ; Orlando W. Aldrich, LL. L., D. C. L., Lecturer on Real Property ; E. L. DeWitt, B. A., Lecturer on Bills and Notes and Commercial Law ; J. Paul Jones, B. A., Lecturer on Muni- cipal Corporations and Wills and Administration; Thomas J. Keating, B. A., Lecturer on Evidence ; Emmett Tompkins, Lecturer on Agency, Partnership, and Medical Jurisprudence ; Cyrus Huling, B. A., Lecturer on Criminal Law ; Rutherford H. Platt, B. A., LL. B., Lecturer on Pleading and Practice ; Jacob A. McEwen, LL. B., Lecturer on Insurance Law ; Benjamin Woodbury, B. A., Lec- turer on Elementary Law ; W. F. Hunter, Lecturer on Sales and Bailments ; Iforace L. Wilgus, M. Sc., Instructor in Elementary Law, and Secretary of the Faculty of the Law School; Florizel Smith, B. A., Judge of Moot Courts; George W. McCoard, M. A., Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Frederick W. Sperr, E. M , Assistant Professor of Mining Engineering; Joseph N. Bradford, M. E., · Assistant Professor of Drawing; Joseph T. Whitney, Assistant Professor of Physics; Rev. George P. Coler, B. A., Assistant Professor of Philosophy ; Frederick Keffer, E. M., Assistant in Chemistry ; Olive B. Jones, Assistant Libra- rian ; Charles W. Mesloh, B. A., Assistant in German ; Joseph R. Taylor, B. A., Assistant in Drawing ; William F. Lavery, D. V. M , Assistant in Veterinary Medi- cine ; Alvin D. Haines, Assistant in Mechanical Laboratory ; Charles L. Arnold, B. Sc., Assistant in Mathematics; Charles B. Morrey, B A., Assistant in Latin and Physiology ; Clair A. Dye, G. Ph., Assistant in General Chemistry ; Lloyd M. Bloomfield, B. Agr., Assistant in Agricultural Chemistry ; William C. Werner, Assistant in Botany; Frank J. Combs, Assistant in Mechanical Laboratory ;

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Edward A. Kemmler, C. E., Assistant in Civil Engineering; Wilber H. Siebert, M. A., Assistant in History and Political Seienee; Henry C. Lord, B. Sc., Assistant in Mathematics and Astronomy; James E. Boyd, B. Sc., Assistant in Physies; Harvey A. Surface, B. Sc., Assistant in Geology ; Joseph C. MacAuliffe, M. D., Assistant in French ; Martha M. Young, Assistant in French.

R. C. Anderson, the original secretary of the Board of Trustees, was suc- ceeded by Joseph Sullivant, who served until 1878, in which year the board elected as its secretary Mr. Albert Allen, who served until November 15, 1883, when he was succeeded by the present secretary, Captain Alexis Cope.

NOTES.

1. Associated with Doctor Townshend in the establishment and management of this school were President James H. Fairchild, Professor James Dascomb and John S. Newberry .. The school was first opened in 1854 at Oberlin, where it remained two years. After that period it was removed to and continued at Cleveland for the space of another year.

2. The management of the sales was vested in the Auditor, Treasurer and Secretary of State. 3. The members of the board appointed by Governor Hayes pursuant to this act, named in the numerical order of their congressional districts, were Aaron F. Perry, Joseph F. Wright, Richard C. Anderson, William B. McClung, William Sawyer, James M. Trimble, Joseph Sullivant, Thomas C. Jones, Warren P. Noble, James W. Ross. Ralph Leete, Daniel Keller, Marvin M. Munson, Norton S. Townshend, Valentine V. Horton, Jolin C. Jamison, Cornelius Aultman, John R. Buchtel, and Henry B. Perkins.

4 These were lectures on agriculture for the general public and were delivered during the winter term, by far, the greater part of them by Professor Townshend, by whom they were arranged. The first course was delivered early in the year 1879. These lectures were maintained for six successive years. They were the precursors of the farmers' institutes, to which they led and by which they were replaced.

5. President Orton's resignation was accepted June 21, 1881

6. The location and management of the station were vested in a board of five mem- bers comprising the Governor, three members appointed by him. and a director to be chosen by the board for the general management of the experiments and investigations.

7. The act declared that there should be established at the State University at Column- bus "a central office for meteorological observation, with the Professor of Physics of said University, the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and a third person to be appointed by the Governor as a board of directors," all to be commissioned by the Governor. The act continued :

" The professor of physics of said university is hereby appointed president of the board, and by and with the advice of the directors shall establish, if practicable, one volunteer weatherstation in each congressional district, and supervise the same ; be shall receive reports therefrom, and reduce the same to tabular form, and report the same monthly to the state printer for publication as the Ohio weather report, and shall annually make a report to the Governor which shall contain a detailed statement of all expenditures made during the year, and a summary of the observations made at the various stations."

8. Professor W. H. Scott was first chosen President pro tempore, but was soon afterwards advanced to the full presidency. Owing to "representations" made " by prominent citizens and through the public press," the Board of Trustees was requested by Governor Foster to make a full statement of its reasons for declining to reëlect Professor Walter Q. Scott to the presidency, but replied that it would be difficult to place before the Governor " all the causes which resulted in such action." The board, however, significantly stated as one of its objections to Professor Scott " that in public lectures at the University and elsewhere he promulgated unsound and dangerous doctrines of political economy."

9. The new station comprises a farm of 450 acres, lying about one mile south of Wooster. It has been equipped with appropriate buildings, paid for from a fund amounting to $85,000 donated for the purpose by Wayne County,

Church History. PART II.

John Allitterson Bishof of Columbus

CHAPTER XLII.

CATHOLIC.

BY REV. DENNIS A. CLARKE, A. M.

Early Missions .- The very earliest records of the Catholic Church in Central Ohio are found incorporated in the history of French Missionary Fathers of the Society of Jesus, familiarly known as " Jesuits." In pursuit of their sacred call- ing they penetrated the thick forests of this State and adjoining territory, and amid untold dangers, in great sufferings and with many privations, converted tribes of Indians to the Christian faith.

Under the fostering care of the French Government these zealous missionaries erected stations and gathered about them the children of a savage life, teaching them the arts of peace under the benign influence of the religion of Christ. We have no records, however, identifying the location of Columbus as a particular sta- tion of these early Missionary Fathers, but we do know that they labored in vari- ous portions of the State, their zeal carrying them beyond the paths of explorers and the courses of streams navigable by the canoe. The "black gown "- the Indian appellation of the Catholic priest - was very generally known and received with great respect, and Ohio's dusky aboriginals have left evidences that the mis- sionary's labors among them were not in vain. The languages of the different tribes and the names of localities attest the fact that the French Jesuits had influenced their manners and customs and effected a deep and lasting impression. With the advent of British explorers, however, the Catholie Missionaries from Franee were compelled to relinquish their established stations, and Chief's in the interest of the English government exerted an influence that could not be over- come by the weaker power. This circumstance did not, in the least, diminish the zeal of the Jesuit missionaries, or lessen their labors of love in the cause of saving sonls, for they followed their subjects to further western points, continuing among them those ministrations that had already borne such great fruit. But the work begun where the Jesuits first planted the Cross must be continued, and hence we find other missionaries soon following the paths of the earlier explorers. This time, however, they do not belong to any of the religious orders of the church, for they are " seculars," no less zealous than their saintly and learned predecessors. Among them were many apostolic men whose memories are still held in benedic-

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tion hy the descendants of early Catholic immigrants who sought homes and for- tunes within the present boundaries of our State.

The missions, or stations, in Ohio and adjacent territory came under the juris- diction of Archbishop Carroll, the first bishop in the United States, who as a Jesuit, enthused his priests with the spirit that animated all the earlier mission- aries. At stated periods of long intervals these stations were visited by the priest, whose presence was ever a source of great joy to the few scattered Catholic fami- lies, who were eager for the ministrations of their religion and the consolations they afforded. With the increase of immigration the Catholic Church grew rap- idly in all the territory west of the Alleghanies as far as the Mississippi River, and the need of more missionaries and more direct episcopal jurisdiction became very pressing. Bishop Carroll had long recognized the necessity for a bishop in this vast region, and accordingly recommended the appointment of Rev. B. J. Flaget to the see of Bardstown, Kentucky, then newly erected by Rome. Bishop Flaget was consecrated in 1810, but did not make his visit to the missions of Ohio until 1812, having entered the State for the first time on the seventh of October of that year, in company with Rev. Stephen T. Badin, who was the first priest ordained in the United States. During this first journey through Ohio the good Bishop and his companion cheered the hearts of a number of Catholics whom they found in central and eastern portions of the State. Near Somerset, Perry County, con- taining settlers from Pennsylvania and other eastern States, they discovered a spot that Providence had evidently destined as the center of active missionary labors in Ohio. The Catholic settlers of that region, strong in the faith and zealous in its practice, as far as their forlorn condition would admit, made a deep impres- sion on the Bishop and he promised them regular attendance of a priest as soon as he could arrange for one.

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History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, Volume II, Part 84

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co Publication date: 1892 Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1196

Author: Lee, Alfred Emory, 1838-; W. W. Munsell & Co
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: New York and Chicago : Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1196