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Independence, and a tree has been planted on the court house esplanade. During 1902 an enter- tainment was given at Memorial Hall for the benefit of the Helen Purcell Home, at which the chapter presented "Early Zanesville in Picture and Story," in a series of historical tableaux, illustrative of pioneer life and founded on es- tablished facts. In addition to the original twelve members thirty-six ladies have been affiliated since the formation of the chapter.
Elizabeth Zane chapter was organized of juniors but did not prove a vigorous body and was disbanded.
KNIGHTS OF ST. GEORGE.
Commandery No. 77 was organized in the base- ment of St. Nicholas church, June 20, 1887, with twenty-four men, and the following officers : Mat. Faller, captain; Fred. Gressel, first lieutenant ; Oscar Geodler, second lieutenant; Ed. Kellar, orderly sergeant; Charles Steil, quartermaster ; Joseph Bauer, color bearer. The commandery is affiliated with the Knights of St. John Union, which embraces commanderies throughout the United States and Canada, and maintains an in- surance feature.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
Zanesville Council. No. 505, was instituted in Choral and Gold halls, Opera block. April 22, 1900, by T. B. Monahan. with the following of- ficers : H. T. Sutton, M. D., grand knight : W. T. Morton, deputy grand knight ; C. W. McDonald, financial secretary : P. V. Mulvey, recording sec- retary; Thomas H. Fogarty, treasurer; J. F. Brown, lecturer; T. J. McDermott, advocate ; Rev. J. B. Schmitt, chaplain ; P. A. Carr, inner guard ; A. J. Haughran, outer guard ; E. C. Logs- den, M. D., physician ; James Farahav, L. H. Dennis, F. E. Hemmer, Theodore Dosch and W. McDonald, trustees. Meetings are held at 2 p. m. on the second Sunday, and at 7:30 p. m. on the fourth Thursday, in each month.
ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS.
Division No. 1, was organized August 26, 1876, with the following officers: P. T. Kelley, county delegate and treasurer ; Michael Havden, president ; Terrence Farmer, vice president ; Tames T. Bradley, financial secretary ; Michael Liston, recording secretary.
YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE.
Montgomery Council. No. 226, was organized in the basement of St. Thomas church, April 30, 1894, with one hundred and two charter members, the following being the first officers : James Mc-
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Carty, president ; A. J. McNalty, first vice presi- dent; E. F. McGovern, second vice president ; P. D. McCann, treasurer ; Wm. Riley, recording secretary ; Charles W. McShane, financial secre- tary ; James Farahay, corresponding secretary ; Patrick Mulvey and Patrick Carr, sentinels.
The first rooms were in the Stone property, No. 41 North Sixth street, in June, 1894, and were removed to the Shinnick block in January, 1895; to the First National Bank building in February, 1897 ; to the Sharpe hall, in Fifth street, in September, 1898, and to the second story, in the old Masonic building, in September, 1902, where the meetings are now held.
BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS.
The first musician of the settlement was Mess Johnson, John McIntire's colored servant, and the second, Thomas Dowden; these two, for nearly two decades, furnished the music for all public purposes. Perry Wells came in 1820 and is reputed to have known "where the sweetest melodies slept."
The first band was a string and reed organiza- tion, about 1820, with Charles Hill, leader, Wm. Lattimore, Robert Hazlett and James V. Cushing, violin ; Wm. Hadley, violoncello; John Lattimore, clarionet ; David Spangler, bassoon ; Isaac Spang- ler, triangle, Benjamin Reed, drum.
In 1829 the Zanesville Harmonic Band was . T. F. Spangler and S. C. Abbott, tenor ; John H. formed and maintained an existence until 1835; its members were, James Hough, leader; A. C. Ross, clarionet ; John Parker, flute; D. T. Cul- bertson, piccolo; Henry W. Kent, bugle; Hamil- ton Hough, violin; James Fortune, drum.
The Mechanics' Band was organized in 1836 and disbanded ten years later ; its members were : Thomas Launder, leader, C. Purcell, Monroe Ayers, Bush Eggerman, J. B. H. Bratshaw, John Alter, Daniel Hatton, John Printz. Jesse Fox, Cass Alter, Alva Rivers, Daniel Baldwin, L. Page, Jackson Printz and Fred. Drone. Its services were gratuitous and it received com- pensation once only, at the commencement exer- cises at the Muskingum College, New Concord, in 1841.
Atwood's Band was the first brass band and was organized in Zanesville in 1847, with A. D. Atwood, leader, David Hahn, John Bauer, Casper Bauer, Philip Kassell, Charles Roper, Thomas Launder, David Kahn, Timothy Webb, Emerson Howe and Charles Dulty. As Atwood traveled with a circus during the summer the organiza- tion was disbanded and in 1855 the band re- organized as Bauer's Band, and is today led by the veteran, John Bauer, who has been a member nearly sixty years; the charm of the musical technique of this matured band is not surpassed. except in volume, by more pretentious organiza- tions.
Heck's Band, organized in the fall of 1856, with ten members, and Heck's orchestra, of 1875, with seventeen members, were accomplished but short lived bodies. Numerous other bands had brief careers and no records are left of their existence.
About 1871 the Muskingum Cornet Band was organized by some of the most prominent young men of the period, and now among the city's active business men. They were given the sobri- quet of "Buttermilks," because of an incident which occurred at a Knights Templar picnic, at New Lexington, which the band attended in a professional capacity. The day was extremely sultry and a thirsty knight found a quantity of fresh, cold buttermilk at a spring house, and pur- chased the supply. The band was summoned to the refreshment and a rival band twitted them on their abstinence and declared that horns could not be filled on buttermilk, but they were, and on other occasions the "Buttermilks" filled their in- struments without even this thin beverage. The members of the band, as appears from a photo- graph and the recollections of members, are given for the period of its existence, some of the original members having dropped out: W. H. Wilmot and Louis Heck, leaders; Charles E. Munson and George Convers, E flat cornet; A. Frank Munson, Edward B. Haver, Edward Roper and Hazlett Convers, B flat cornet ; Albert W. Hack, J. K. Arnold and J. A. Hunter. alto; Drake, L. R. Rav and C. E. Kahler, baritone ; G. A. Allen and Sam. H. John, tuba ; W. A. Scott and Marion Snoots, snare drum; Edward P. Waters and Frank Rvan, cymbals; Joseph W. Garside, bass drum. The last public appearance of the band was in the parade in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American in- dependence, July 4, 1876.
The Seventh Regiment Band has had a varied experience and passed through several reorgani- zations, and like many other social associations its records have not been preserved and the changes did not make sufficient impression to enable the participants to fix dates after the lapse of a few years. It originated about 1887 as the Sons of Veterans' Band, with Wm. Huff as leader and teacher, and the former hose house at the corner of Main and Ninth streets was the place of assembly ; later the name was changed to the Excelsior Band and again to the Zanes- ville City Band ; when R. B. Tomlinson became leader the name was changed to Tomlinson's Military Band and later it was mustered into the Ohio National Guard as the First Regiment Light Artillery Band. As only a battalion of the regi- ment was mustered into the federal service dur- ing the Spanish-American war the regimental officers, hospital corps and band were not called into service and as the regiment was mustered out of the National Guard service upon the conclusion
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of the war, the band resumed its former name of Tomlinson's Military Band. Upon the organiza- tion of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, it became the regimental band under the leadership of A. J. Senhauser.
SINGING SOCIETIES.
The Concordia, a German society, was formed in 1854 and flourished several years; the Man- nerchoir began its existence in 1859 and was broken up by the Civil war; the Frohsinn was organized in 1865 but some essential voices were lacking and it suspended after two years to be reorganized in 1878 and to dissolve later. The Harmonie was formed in November, 1872, from members of former societies and disbanded in December, 1874. During the winter of 1879-80 the Mannerchoir was reorganized but was unable to maintain itself; December 5, 1879, the Ger- man Singing Society was formed, but business and social engagements prevented its per- manency.
The Choral Association was organized Janu- ary 1, 1879, with nearly two hundred members, but as the average attendance was one hundred it could not assemble at dwellings and the ex- penses of a suitable hall and scores for so many vocalists were heavier than could be borne and the association suspended. The Mendelssohn
J. P. Barton painted his first picture in 1842 and devoted his talents to oil. His "Yosemite Valley," and his replica of Murillo's "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin," have established his fame. "Jack" Howland's vigorous brush has portrayed the grandeur of the Rocky Mountain region so faithfully that one can hear the awful stillness of the scene; and Charles Craig's "Custer's Last Charge" and "The Chariot Race," require no en- Glee Club, a male quartette, succeeded it com- . comium. Howard Chandler Christie is a Mus- posed of J. D. Luse, leader and first tenor ; Hiram Waller, second tenor; J. J. Ingalls, first bass, and James Cox, second bass, all of whom had been members of the Choral Association ; the last three named are deceased and the first left the city many years ago.
The "Arions" were a notable organization in their time of activity, and produced a number of operas in a manner that rivaled the efforts of professionals. The Bohemian Girl, Pinafore, Patience, Chimes of Normandy, and similar con- ceptions were in their reportoire, and although a number of the members are living in the city very little information respecting the organization can be obtained ; the activity of the club was during the 'nineties.
The Zanesville Fortnightly Musical Club is not a vocal but an instrumental organization and was formed in the fall of 1895 by Miss Helen Maginnis, who became the first president; the membership was limited to thirty and confined to young women ; meetings were private during afternoons and were devoted to the study of various composers and schools of music; occa- sional public concerts, or recitals, were given and the club was instrumental in bringing good music to Zanesville. After eight years the constitution was entirely remodeled, membership was made
unlimited, men were admitted, meetings were held during evenings and in a hall. At the close of its ninth year the club is prosperous and progressive and the present officers are: Miss Katherine S. Stanbery, president; Mrs. Charles Culver, vice president ; Mr. Florien Frazier, secretary and treasurer ; Mr. Willis A. Bailey, chairman of the musical committee.
FINE ARTS.
The artists of Zanesville are not unknown to fame; among the first limners of the city was Thomas Cole, the painter of the "Course of Em- pire" and "The Voyage of Life," of whom Wil- liam Cullen Bryant said, in his funeral oration, "had a fixed reputation and was numbered among the men of whom our country has reason to be proud." He was here in the early "twenties" and his portraits of old residents are in many homes in the city.
kingum county boy whose talents were unappre- ciated when a few years ago he was sketching around Duncan's Falls instead of attending to his teacher's instructions, but now his fame is national and approaching world-wide.
In water colors, crayon, placque and pottery decoration the list is so extensive names are omitted because of the inability to enumerate all who are worthy of mention. The art pottery works have developed professional work but the most notable creations are in the amateur line.
Among the societies which have existed for the cultivation of art none was more popular in its day than the Murdock Club, an amateur dramatic club which flourished during the 'seventies and gave recitals to honorary members in Black's Music Hall, at least monthly ; there were perhaps thirty active members and several hundred honor- ary members, the latter paying a fixed annual sum towards expenses for which the former gave a monthly drama or comedy.
Muskingum county has sent many of her young people to other fields of usefulness, and for no other reason than that their talents were unappreciated at home ; the home soil is product- ive of talent but incapable of developing it to maturity. This was true with respect to Virna Wood, who was born at Wilmington, Ohio, and
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came to Zanesville while quite young; she at- tended the public schools and graduated from the high school at the age of sixteen; as a pupil she was a writer and in 1882 moved, with her father's family, to Sacramento, California, where she continued her studies and became an ac- complished writer and speaker of Greek, French, German and Spanish, as she was in Latin. From her California home she issued Jason Hildreth's Identity, a story descriptive of Zanesville scenes and persons, which attested the deep impression they had made upon her and the affection she had for the old town which had been indifferent to her ability; the Amason, a lyrical drama, was another production which was favorably received by the critics.
It was in dramatic composition, however, that she excelled and made her reputation. Horatius, a heroic drama, in five acts, was written for Frederic Warde, and produced by him in Sep- tember, 1901 ; when the intelligence of its suc- cessful presentation and popular approval reached Sacramento the various art, musical and literary societies of the city united in a reception to the authoress, in the state capitol, which had been tastefully and elaborately decorated for the oc- casion. Her next production was Lord Strath- more, a melodrama, which was produced by one of Mr. Warde's company, in the title role during the season of 1902-3, and she was employed in the completion of Charles IX, for the season of 1903-4, when pneumonia ender her career, March 7, 1903.
The Frederick Warde Company was playing Horatius at Sacramento during the last week in February, 1903, and one night, after the perform- ance the entire company assembled at her home to honor the genius that had produced so success- ful a play ; she contracted a cold which developed into the disease that ended her life one week later, at which time the company was playing at San Francisco, and as a tribute of their esteem a benefit performance for her parents was given which netted $700.00.
CHAPTER XV.
FRATERNITIES, COMPRISING SECRET SOCIETIES, FREEMASONRY, ODD FELLOWSHIP, KNIGHTS OF PYTHILAS, IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS, KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES, UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS, PATRIOTIC OR- DER SONS OF AMERICA, GRAND ARMY OF THE RE- PUBLIC, UNION VETERAN LEGION, NAVAL ASSO- CIATION, WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS, SONS OF VET- ERANS, BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, MUNIFICENT ORDER OF CAMELS, ROYAL ARCANUM, ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORK-
MEN, KNIGHTS OF HONOR, FRATERNAL MYSTIC CIRCLE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, ANCIENT UNITED ORDER OF DRUIDS, MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA, PATHFINDERS, FRATERNAL CENSOR, GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, COLORED FREEMASONS, SUNDRY SOCIETIES.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
A prominent position must be assigned the so- called secret societies among the direct influences affecting the moral and temporal welfare of a community, and the fact is indisputable that the best types of citizenship are found where such organizations are most cultivated. The church appeals solely to the spiritual nature and hedges and limits its capabilities with so much theory and dogma, and demands so much self-denial and restraint of natural inclinations that many men decline to enact a role whose requrements their personal sentiments do not endorse. Banks and building companies attract and assist the industrious and thrifty in enlarging their opera- tions, but their influence in behalf of the public weal is exerted only upon those who are them- selves exemplars of sobriety and good citizen- ship.
Secret societies inculcate morality, industry, fidelity and patriotism ; demand from their mem- bers no more than can reasonably be performed : promise and provide material pleasures and re- wards during the continuance of health and prosperity, and when sickness and misfortune overtake a member do not desert him nor per- mit him to suffer for friendly counsel and as- sistance : they require that members shall be hon- orable and respectable, not noted for the per- formance of good deeds, but for their abstinence from evil ones ; that they shall observe, as nearly as possible the Golden Rule, and that questions of politics and religion shall be determined by the conscience of each individual. That such organizations are popular is evinced by the large number which exist, and few of the men who join them limit their affiliations to one society. They are active in social, benevolent and pro- tective work and deserve more than mere "hon- orable mention" for their achievements in the great battle of human life. The range of their operations is extensive, the Shrine and Elks being types of the social class; the Freemasons of the charitable, the Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias of the benevolent, and the Royal\r- cantin, and Modern Woodmen of America of the protective.
FREE MASONRY.
Muskingum county was little more than a year old when William Raynolds, William Smyth, Levi Whipple. Daniely Convers, Abel Lewis, and
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Lewis Cass met May 25. 1805, and "after becom- ing known to each other as Master Masons, in the manner prescribed by the rules of the craft, entered into conversation respecting the prac- ticability and propriety of procuring a charter, authorizing them to hold a lodge in this place ; and in order to determine the question appointed Brother Smyth, Brother Cass and Brother Ray- nolds a committee for the purpose of preparing such resolution relative to the object of the meet- ing, as to them should seem expedient, and to report to this meeting on Saturday next." The committee was active and June 1, the obect was reported "attainable," and the committee was continued to prepare and forward the petition to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and solicit the endorsement of Washington Lodge, of Phil- adelphia. The petition was signed by William Raynolds, William Smyth, Daniel Convers, Levi Whipple, Abel Lewis, Lewis Cass, I. Van Horne, Seth Fuller, Master Masons, and Noyce Stone, fellow craft, and June 4 the officers were selected t. be named in the charter : Lewis Cass, worship- ful master ; William Smyth, senior warden ; Seth Fuller, junior warden ; Isaac Van Horne, treas- urer : William Raynolds, secretary.
No time was lost in forwarding the paper, as the Grand Lodge acted upon it and granted the prayer. June 24, but as the charter fee had not been sent .the papers were withheld and it was not untily May 28, 1806, that the essential pay- ments were made, and as a safe and certain con- veyance was secured, and then Captain James Taylor, a non-Mason, brought the long-looked- for papers. The magnitude of the undertaking will be comprehended when it is considered that the settlement contained about 25 cabins and 150 inhabitants, and that there were not to exceed 300 inhabitants in the entire county ; there was no place sufficiently secure for meetings unless guarded exteriorly ; every member was prac- tically penniless, and those coming to the settle- ment were in like condition and were seeking it in the hope of bettering themselves; it was the first organization of any character in the set- tlement, and the Lodge of Amity, No. 5. rep- resents the first effort for social, moral and re- ligious culture.
The authority to constitute the lodge was ad- dressed to Gen. Van Horne, who was the only Past Master in the settlement, but the dispensa- tion was limited to one year and did not reach him until after it had expired; he assumed to act, however, and reported the facts to the Grand Lodge under date of September 23, 1806, and October 20 the Grand Lodge sanctioned his ac- tion. There is no official record of the date upon which the constitution was effected, but from private letters it is learned that the cere- mony was set for Tuesday, September 9
1806, the lodge possesses a book of con- stitutions inscribed as presented by Lewis Cass, September 7, Sunday, and the first lodge record is dated September 26, at which time it was in working order with by-laws, etc. The ceremony of institution was performed in the new two- story, frame hotel building, owned by Gen. Van Horn and occupied by Benoni Peirce, at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, so long the site of a hotel, and of the famous Zane House. The lodge was registered as No. 105, on the Pennsylvania register, but when it par- ticipated in the formation of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, its seniority of charter placed it fifth in the Ohio register, and the original seal, furnished by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, served for the Ohio lodge by removing the figures "10" from the die. An Ohio charter was issued and dated January 15, 1812, and the original appears to have been returned to Philadelphia.
The early meetings alternated between Zanes- ville and Putnam, wherever convenient and suit- able accommodations could be obtained ; private residences, hotels and the court house were used until 1817, when the last meeting was held in Putnam, and the lodge settled permanently in the Senate chamber until December 18, 1821, when it moved into the first Masonic hall ; no meet- ings were held outside it until 1881, when the building was remodeled, and during that sum- mer one meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' hall, in Putnam.
The approaching completion of the first Ma- sonic hall caused a meeting to be held in the Senate chamber, December 6, 1821, to take action towards organizing a chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which was attended by Daniel Convers, Calvin Conant, Levi Whipple, Joshua Downer, Horace Nye, Dudley W. Rhodes, and Charles Hill. A committee was appointed to secure sign- ers to an application to the Grand Chapter, and officers were chosen as follows: Calvin Conant, most excellent high priest ; Daniel Convers, most excellent king : Joshua Downer, most excellent scribe ; Horace Nye, captain of the host ; Dudley W. Rhodes, principal sojourner ; Charles Hill, royal arch captain ; S. S. Miles, Francis Fowler, and Levi Whipple, masters of the veils. Decem- ber 13, 1821, the Grand Chapter approved the application, and February 1, 1822, Zanesville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9, was opened in Ma- sonic hall ; a full charter was granted January 15. 1823, and May 5, 1823, the constitution was performed in ample form. * The anti-Masonic crusade seriously affected the chapter and it re- mained closed from September 5, 1831, until July 8, 1837, when it was revived through the efforts of Dudley W. Rhodes, Daniel Applegate, Nim- rod Barr, David Reed, David Maginnis, William Twaddle, John Anthony, and James Caldwell.
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The second lodge in the city and county and the third Masonic body in the city was Lafayette Lodge, No. 79, for which a dispensation was issued May 16, 1825, and the lodge met for the first time in the Masonic hall, May 25, with the following officers : George James, worshipful master ; Calvin Conant, senior warden ; William Blocksom, junior warden ; L. L. Hamline, senior deacon ; Isaac Van Horne, treasurer ; H. Safford, secretary, and a regular charter was issued Janu- ary 10, 1826. This lodge did not occupy the Masonic hall, but assembled in the Senate cham- ber, or at Market and Fifth streets, until 1837, when it held communications for a year in the Masonic hall; in 1838 it moved to Main street and Court alley, and 1847 to Main and Fifth streets, where rooms were used jointly with the Knights Templars.
February 22, 1844, a dispensation was issued to Daniel Applegate, George L. Shinnick. John T. Arthur, Charles W. Spaulding. I. Bartol, and George James, to form Zanesville Council of Royal and Select Masters, and when the body was opened Adam Peters, Nimrod Barr, and H. M. Miller were present in addition to the peti- tioners, John Barney, grand lecturer, represent- ing the grand puissant. The date of the erec- tion is not recorded, but the evidence points to the last week in February ; the officers were : Daniel Applegate, thrice illustrious master ; George L. Shinnick, deputy illustrious master ; John T. Arthur, principal conductor of the work ; Charles W. Spaulding, captain of the guard. October 26, 1844, a charter was issued, but no number was assigned, and October 24. 1845, it was registered as No. 13, but later a cor- rection of the register was made and the number 12 was permanently assigned. The or- ganization of this body was accomplished in the Masonic hall, and until the completion of the second Masonic hall the bodies meeting in the Market street building were the Lodge of Amity, the Chapter and the Council.
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