Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 24

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898

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At various times an active campaign in the interest of temperance was conducted by the Sons of Temperance and Good Templars, of which no records remain, but the efforts of these societies were limited to persuasive methods and while they accomplished much in molding public sentiment and in reforming hard drinkers, more strenuous measures were demanded by the more radical temperance advocates.

The spasmodic crusade which swept over Ohio in 1874 was vigorously contested in Zanesville ; a meeting of the friends of prohibition was held in the Second Street Church, March 3. 1874. with Mrs. Sarah Hazlett as president and Mrs. D. C. Smith as secretary ; the meeting was very enthusiastic and largely attended and on the fol- lowing day the Women's League was formed by electing Mrs. Hazlett president, the wives of the city clergy as vice presidents : Mrs. D. C. Smith, Mrs. R. H. Buell and Mrs. S. S. Black as secre- taries : an executive committee of nine members and an advisory committee of gentlemen were also selected. The pledge consisted of an agreement "to use judicious and lawful means to rid the city of the curse of the liquor traffic," and in a short time eight hundred names were subscribed to the agreement. A petition was prepared for presentation to the city council asking the passage

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of as prohibitory a law as the constitution would permit, and 4,470 names were attached when it was presented. About a score of the most promi- nent ladies attended at the council chamber on the evening it was presented to council, and they were allowed ten minutes to express their desires ; Mrs. L. G. Shrom addressed council in behalf of the league, and H. L. Korte, of the law firm of Korte and Archauer, attorneys for the Liquor Dealers' Association, presented a remonstrance and addressed council upon the injustice of the proposed law, and having exceeded his time Rev. W. P. Shrom was given opportunity to reply.

The entire membership of council was present and a motion to suspend the rules was carried by a vote of 17 to I, and upon the adoption of the ordinance the roll was called and the vote, as en- rolled, was :

Daniel Applegate, Henry Blandy, A. E. Cook, Fred. Dieterich, C. W. Fletcher, Wm. Foran, Samuel G. McBride, O. C. Farquhar, George W. Guthrie, P. Morgan, Robert Price, Benjamin Spangler and James L. Taylor, or thirteen ayes; and Michael McDonald, Frank Myers, H. Eugene Printz, Robert D. Schultz and E. B. Williams, or five nays; among those voting aye will be ob- served several names which were a surprise to the public as the parties were not favorable to the question but lacked the courage of the minority to express their opinions. There having been thirteen for and five against the ordinance it was declared adopted, and upon this announcement. Mrs. Hazlett arose and suggested the singing of the long meter doxology; Mrs. Rev. J. F. Ohl began and the audience arose and joined in the singing.

The influence of the movement extended to the medical society, which passed a resolution to not prescribe spirituous liquors except in cases of absolute necessity, and twelve of the thirteen druggists pledged themselves to not sell except as a medicine. Street meetings were held and saloons were picketed; persons about to enter were requested not to do so and many were de- terred from entering by the knowledge that they were watched ; antagonism was excited in some, and others, in terror, abandoned the business. April 7, 1874, a party of crusaders sang a hymn and offered a prayer on a sidewalk in front of a saloon in Tarrier street, and quite a crowd col- lected ; the proprietress was boisterous and threat- ening and next day filed an affidavit against one of the lady participants for obstructing "said side- walk or pavement, to hindrance, inconvenience and damage of affiant and the public, by stopping, standing, kneeling, singing, praying and collect- ing a crowd on said sidewalk or pavement and street." The accused was arrested and later dis- charged ; the liquor dealers requested the Mayor "to prohibit street demonstrations of any kind"

which he declined doing on the ground that there was no law under which he could act. The Women's League meetings were maintained and interest seemed unabated, but after a six-months' trial the ordinance was repealed, some of the members of council having been persuaded to resume the former practices. Since this effort the temperance movement has been confined to efforts to secure local option, the last having been at an election in the new Third ward in 1904, which was defeated by a narrow majority.

THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES

is founded on extracts from Jer. xxv :

"The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakin, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 'Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the cham- bers, and give them wine to drink.' Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Haba- ziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites; and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the cham- ber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallul, the keeper of the door; and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, pots full of wine, and cups and I said unto them, 'Drink ye wine.' But they said, 'We will drink no wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us say- ing, ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever ; neither shall ye build house nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any ; but all your days ye shall live in tents ; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine in all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed ; but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab, our father, commanded us.' And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites : 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath com- manded you, therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before Me forever.' "

The members of the order, therefore, are total abstainers, and their place of meeting is styled a tent. The first tent in Ohio was instituted at Zanesville, August 15, 1877, and designated as

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Excelsior Tent, No. 80, with the following of- ficers : A. J. Wolfe, shepherd; D. B. Gary, past chief ruler ; James Benjamin, chief ruler ; Charles Arter, deputy ruler; I. B. Copeland, recording secretary; L. C. Webster, financial secretary ; Thomas Roach, treasurer ; C. Wintermute, Levite ; G. W. Marshall, inside guardian; Benjamin Priest, outside guardian, with eleven additional members ; the tent disbanded in December, 1899.

Peerless Tent was organized in February, 1887, and disbanded in July, 1898.

Lily of the Valley Tent was organized Sep- tember 29, 1888, with fifty-five charter members and the following officers: Mrs. B. Pritchard, shepherd; Mrs. Jennie Kelso, past chief ruler ; Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, chief ruler; Miss Hattie Toll, deputy ruler ; Miss Alice Lampton, record- ing secretary ; Mrs. L. F. Quigley, financial secre- tary; Mrs. Hattie Parkison, treasurer; Mrs. Elmer Flowers, Levite; Mrs. Charles Taylor, in- side guardian; Mrs. Ella Parkison, outside guardian ; John L. Stockdale, George Vaughn and George Parkison, trustees ; this tent is still work- ing.

Banner Tent, No. III, was organized August 9, 1879, with fifty charter members and the fol- lowing officers : Louis Quigley, shepherd ; W. P. Brown, past chief ruler; Lyman Flowers, chief ruler ; John Miller, deputy ruler; W. J. Finley, recording secretary ; J. W. Donaway, financial secretary ; D. B. Gary, treasurer; Hugh Ben- jamin, Levite; Clark Wilbur, inside guardian ; G. W. Wilson, outside guardian ; this tent is still working.

White Rose Tent was organized in August, 1896, and disbanded in 1899, and Willing Work- ers Juvenile Branch, organized with forty mem- bers is doing good work among the children. For a number of years the hall of the order has been in the third story of the building on southwest corner of Fifth street and Fountain alley.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

A formal organization of this widespread as- sociation was made in Zanesville. November II, 1867, when A. A. Guthrie was chosen president and was retained in the position until physical disability compelled him to retire. Pleasant rooms were secured in Main street over where Brendel's shoc store has been kept so many years, and for a long time the association flourished and was influential for good. It was active in Sun- day-school work where sectarian authority had not been exercised, and extended its labors to sewing missions for girls. but interest ceased and the organization became dormant about 1880-1.

In the late 'eighties the association was re- vived and the Hurd residence, in Fifth street, immediately north of the Monumental Building.

was leased and fitted up, and a frame gymnasium was built in the rear of the lot; after a few years the interest waned and about 1892 it was dis- banded, and the gymnasium is now occupied by the Sunkel Plumbing Company as a work shop.

THE MUSKINGUM COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY

was organized in September, 1828, with Gen. Isaac Van Horne, president ; Rev. James Culbert- son, recording secretary, and Levi Whipple, treasurer. In 1842 an executive committee was selected, the first members of which were Isaac Dillon, James Raguet, John Metcalf, Alexander Sullivan, Wm. Schultz, E. E. Fillmore and John Taylor, Jr.

MEDICAL SOCIETIES.

The General Assembly passed an act January 28, 1817, to regulate the practice of physic and surgery and a board of censors was appointed for each of the medical districts created by the act ; Muskingum county was in the Fourth dis- trict and Dr. John Hamm was president of the board whose first meeting was held at Zanesville, on the first Thursday in November, and the ex- amination was begun of such persons as were to be permitted to practice medicine ; among those first examined were Doctors Calvin Conant and Dudley W. Rhodes. This act seems to have been recognized as monopolistic in character and an- other was passed February 26, 1824, by which medical societies were recognized and May 25 the physicians of the Fifteenth medical district. composed of the counties of Muskingum, Mor- gan, Guernsey, Coshocton, Knox and Licking. assembled in the court house, at Zanesville, and organized a medical society with twenty-seven men bers, the officers being John Hamm, presi- dent ; John J. Brice, vice president ; Thomas Flan- ner, secretary, and Robert Mitchell, treasurer. This organization continued until

December 12, 1842, when fifteen physicians met at the Eagle Hotel, at Zanesville, and agreed to form the Muskingum County Medical Society. and at another meeting held at the same place, January 10, 1843, effected the organization by electing Robert Safford, president ; John Walker. vice president ; C. C. Hildreth, secretary; James Helmick, treasurer, and J. G. F. Holston, librarian ; thirty-one members were at once se- cured and in 1874 it merged with the

Zanesville Academy of Medicine, an association which was formed about 1873: the date is un- determined except by the facts from contempor- ary sources that Dr. Hildreth was president in 1873 and that he was the first president: it is asserted that the organization was incorporated at the beginning but the first record found is that incorporation papers were issued January 20,

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1878, with a capital of one hundred shares of $5.00 each, and every member was required to hold one; it had authority to issue diplomas, and charge a fee of $25.00 therefor, and the cer- tificate entitled the holder to practice medicine ; a valuable library was collected and the meetings were held in the Atheneum building, in Fourth street ; only one class was graduated, and pro- fessional jealousies wrought the disintegration of the body and its library was scattered among the members.

In 1883 it was succeeded by the Zanesville Medical Society and about the same time the Muskingum Valley District Medical Society was formed as a rival body, but neither flourished and both languished and died, and for some time there was no association of physicians. When time had softened the feelings which had caused the dif- ferences in the past, Drs. W. R. Hosick, Edward Cass, H. McCreary, O. M. Norman, W. D. Forsythe, A. E. Bell, J. G. F. Holston and J. F. Kennedy issued a call which was intended to reach every allopathic physician in the county, to meet at the Probate Court room, at Zanesville, Septem- ber 8, 1892, to consider the subject of organizing a medical society ; sixteen attended and formed the Muskingum County Medical Society with the following as the first officers : J. L. Geyer, Nor- wich, president; Z. C. McElroy, Zanesville, first vice president ; J. S. Haldeman, Zanesville, sec- ond vice president; J. F. Kennedy, Zanesville, treasurer : J. M. Fassig, Zanesville, secretary, and the organization has been in prosperous condition and productive of much good among the as- sociates.

THE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH- EASTERN OIIIO

was organized in July, 1898, by D. H. Craw- ford, O. B. Crumbaker, S. F. Edgar, Martha A. McBride and W. G. McGee, when officers were chosen as follows: S. F. Edgar, president ; W. G. McGee, vice president ; Martha A. Mc- Bride, secretary ; D. H. Crawford, treasurer. Territorial limits have not been defined and no members have been received west of Columbus. The active movers in the organization were Drs. McBride and McGee, and at first monthly meet- ings were held but as the membership increased and became dispersed the assemblies were made semi-annual, and papers are presented and a pleasant social feature given to the occasion. The present officers are : John B. McBride, Zanesville, president ; C. L. Ireland, Columbus, vice presi- dent ; Harry E. Hunt, Newark, secretary ; S. F. Edgar, Zanesville, treasurer.

MUSKINGUM COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

In 1836 John and Isaac Dillon and others or- ganized an agricultural society in the county and held an exhibit in the court house; the fairs were held in subsequent years, and when the General Assembly passed the act February 28, 1846, "for the encouragement of agriculture," and recog- nized the utility of such organizations, the Mus- kingum County Agricultural Society was born January 21, 1848. The first officers were: Cor- nelius Springer, president : George W. Gibbons, vice president ; James L. Cox, treasurer ; Uriah Park, secretary. The first formal exhibit was made in the old market house, Zanesville, in the fall of 1848, and soon after about twenty acres of ground were purchased in Springfield township, along what is now Luck avenue, but which proved too limited for the purpose; this tract was sold and the present commodious grounds purchased, along the Cooper Mill road ; during the Civil war the fairs were suspended and the grounds were used as a military camp, and named in honor of Gen. Chas. B. Goddard.

The Muskingum County Horticultural Society was organized January 15, 1869, with Wm. Imlay, president ; S. Jacobs Moore, vice president ; Wm. J. Townsend, secretary ; W. A. Graham, treasurer, and twenty other members.

PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

A meeting of elderly citizens of the county was held at the court house, May 21, 1866, to form a historical society, to be composed of elderly citizens only, no person to be eligible to mem- bership unless fifty years of age. Thomas Mc- Lees was made president; B. F. Swingle, vice president, and Wm. Gray, secretary. The or- ganization was maintained more as a social affair than for the collection of historical data, until the formation of the pioneer society into which it drifted.

August 30, 1867, the Old Settlers Association was organized at the Odd Fellows Hall, and Sep- tember 13th a constitution was adopted, and John Peters was elected president and L. H. Dugan, secretary, but its records cease with those of November 16.

March 4, 1890, Charles C. Goddard, H. D. Munson, Sr., Henry Taylor, H. S. Nye, M. D., B. F. Leslie, Frank Richards and Addison Pal- mer were incorporators of the Pioneer and His- torical Society of Muskingum County, and the first board of trustees were: C. C. Goddard, Rev. Frank Richards, H. S. Nve, M. D., Addison Palmer, Henry Taylor, B. F. Leslie, H. D. Mun-

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son, Sr., Edward Cass, M. D., Thomas McLees; the officers were: H. D. Munson, president ; Edward Cass, vice president ; Wm. Gray, record- ing secretary ; Mrs. F. C. Dietz, assistant record- ing secretary; Addison Palmer, corresponding secretary ; Rev. Jefferson Chambers, treasurer ; R. J. J. Harkins, curator. The organization oc- cupies rooms in the Memorial Building and is collecting records and relics of the county and preserving what will be of inestimable value to the historians of the future.

THE EIGHTH . WARD PARK ASSOCIATION.

McIntire Terrace was platted by George N. Eaton and the dominating idea of the design was a suburb of homes with commodious grounds ; the interior streets were irregular in direction and alleys were unknown, and lots so formed that subdivision would prove inconvenient and un- desirable. This intention was readily accepted by the pioneer lot purchasers, but later owners have made subdivisions, and the original plan has been destroyed. With the construction of the bridge at the foot of Fifth street intercourse with the Terrace was made easy and it was rapidly im- proved by beautiful homes, and the owners sought to make then attractive with trees, shrub- bery and flowers ; hogs, cows and horses roamed the streets at will and the rich lawns were a strong temptation to the four-footed marauders, who, in a few minutes, destroyed the labor and patience of years; fences did not protect as an open gate admitted the animals and the city officials culti- vated the votes of the owners by refusing to re- strain them from injuring their more aesthetic neighbors.

Continued losses induced the issuance of an invitation, through the Courier, to all citizens of the Eighth ward and McIntire Terrace to as- semble on the lawn of Mr. David Lee, July 23, 1882, "to consider the expediency of taking con- certed action respecting the improvement of Mc- Intire Park and securing relief from the ravages of stock running at large." The attendance was gratifying and the meeting was called to order by Mr. Lee, who stated its purpose, when Thomas Griffith was chosen chairman and J. Hope Sutor acted as secretary. Much interest was mani- fested, the attendants spoke freely about their wrongs and it was resolved to form The Eighth Ward Park Association, with nine directors to conduct its business and Thomas Griffith, George D. Gibbons, Joseph T. Gorsuch, J. Hope Sutor, David Lee, William T. Maher, William Dunn, Parker N. Young and Edmund J. Brush were elected. A week later rules were adopted and committees appointed on finance, streets and side- walks, membership, parks and public grounds, drainage and sewerage, destructive insects and

the diseases of trees and shrubbery, and law and legislation ; and the directors organized by elect- ing Mr. Griffith president, Mr. Lee vice president, Mr. Sutor secretary and Mr. Brush treasurer. An address upon the objects of the association was printed and distributed throughout the ward, in which it was stated that the association desired to secure "all the comforts possible and make life in Zanesville pleasant-by gathering around our homes, in our public streets and in our parks all the beauties that nature has so generously provided in innumerable varieties of form and color .- It will be necessary, in order to accom- plish anything in this direction to compel a few persons to respect their neighbors' rights and property. The money, time and careful nursing expended on trees and shrubbery make them valuable property to the owner, and no person should be permitted to injure or destroy them."

The movement met a hearty co-operation in the other residence wards and the Seventh Ward Park and Lawn Association was incorporated August 26th, and the Putnam Park Association was incorporated November 29th. the organiza- tions having been previously formed. and the in- corporation was made for the same reasons that prompted the Eighth Ward Association to secure the right to sue.

McIntire Park was enclosed by a fence, was neglected and parties were accustomed to turn cattle in during the night to graze and drive them out in the early morning; the association en- deavored to have this stopped but pettifogging city officials obstructed the design to enforce ex- isting laws ; inquiry into the appropriations and disbursements on park account disclosed that the money had been misappropriated, and the faith- less official was published, restitution was made but the council was so implicated in such prac- tices that the investigation was made a "white- wash :" and to enable the association to prosecute offenders it was incorporated July 31. 1882. In November a man was employed to arrest cattle and drive them to the city lot. where the officers of the city turned them loose when the associa- tion's officer had disappeared, and by every method in their power the officers thwarted the organization in its work.

A joint committee, composed of C. C. Goddard. L. E. Dodd. W. T. Maher. T. I. Thomas and WV. D. Lash. of the Eighth ; C. M. Vandenbark. G. D. Munson and J. A. Knight. of the Seventh. and M. M. Granger, J. C. Gillespie and E. L. Koethen, of the Putnam associations, was formed for co-operative purposes, and a joint meeting of all persons interested in the work of the organiza- tions was called at the court house in May. 1883. and invitations extended to J. Hope Sutor, of the Eighth; Homer White, of the Seventh, and O. C. Farquhar, of the Ninth, to make addresses.

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Finally, Lieutenant Wm. Linton, whose fidelity as an officer was unquestioned, was employed to execute the law, but he was unable to cope with the entire city administration, and secure an ob- servance of official oaths by recreant incumbents, and August 16, 1883. the last meeting of the association was held. The members did not cease their efforts to carry out the purposes of the organization and among the successes which at- tended their persistence were: regulation of the height to which shade trees should be trimmed ; suppression of stock running at large; the re- moval of fences around public and private grounds ; the reduction of the width of sidewalks and the cultivation of grass between the walk and the curb ; the appointment of park policemen, etc. The members of the association which influenced so much legislation, who were so vigorously de- nounced by the small fry politicians, each of whom the members have seen politically buried, were :

G. G. Akerly, Willis Bailey, J. W. Bradshaw, Edmund J. Brush, John H. Dodd, L. E. Dodd, Wm. Dunn, I. N. England, J. G. England, Charles Gibbons, G. D. Gibbons, C. C. Goddard, J. T. Gorsuch, Charles Grant, L. M. Gray, Thomas Griffith, Charles H. Jones, W. D. Lash, David Lee, Thomas Lindsay, C. R. Long, John A. Magee, W. T. Maher, Alexander McConnell, Frank Mitchell, N. H. Moore, S. R. Moore, G. D. Munson, T. J. Newman, O. B. Perkins, J. D. Porter, John S. Price, Wm. Price, Wm. Snell, George H. Stewart, J. Hope Sutor, Enos F. Taylor, John J. Thomas and Parker N. Young.

THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

was organized as a national body at Washington, D. C., October 11, 1890, and during the summer of 1893 Mrs. Edmund C. Brush called a few women of Zanesville together at her home to discuss the feasibility of forming a chapter of the society ; in October Muskingum Chapter was formed with Mrs. Fanny Russell Brush, regent ; Mrs. Mary H. Granger, vice regent ; Mrs. Mar- garet M. Fulton, historian; Miss Alice Searle, registrar ; Mrs. Mary Cox Spangler, treasurer ; Mrs. Jessie M. Lilienthal, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Brown Stanbery, Mrs. Mary Munson Moore, Miss Julia Munson, Mrs. Ella Brown Abbot, Mrs. Cornelia V. H. Black and Mrs. Minerva Nye Nash.

Mrs. Brush served as regent for the first six years, and Mrs. M. M. Granger was state regent for two years ; the chapter has contributed to the Francis Scott Key memorial ; the Martha Wash- ington monument ; Continental Hall; Manila library, and during the Spanish-American war sent hospital supplies, magazines, papers, etc., to the soldiers. The public schools of the city have been furnished copies of the Declaration of

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Past and present of the city of Zanesville and Muskingham County, Ohio, Part 24

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846- Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 898

Author: Sutor, J. Hope, 1846-
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 898