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1894-1904.
Shelby.
D. N. Powell
1896-1900
Ottawa.
Wm. H. Begg
1900-1901
Columbus Grove.
THE INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND.
TOLEDO ENER. do.
T HE Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind was founded by act of the Legislature in 1837. It was the fourth in order of establishment in the United States. In 1839 the first building was occupied. This structure cost the state $34,409 and was designed to accommodate sixty pupils. The present house was accupied May 21, 1874. This building cost at first, exclusive of additions, $358,477.92 and was intended to accommodate three hundred pupils. Later additions have been made increasing its capacity. The first year in the history of the institution there were eleven pupils enrolled. Last year there were 339 in attendance. Since the establishment of the institution, 64 years ago, 2,058 pupils have been enrolled.
The cost of maintenance from the beginning to November 15, 1900, was $1,828,390.32. Probably $600,000 have been invested in permanent buildings and improvements, making a total expenditure of about $2,428,390.00 :-
The average cost to the state for each pupil has been about $1, 179.00.
This Institution is a School for the Education of the Blind, not an Asylum, and it has been the endeavor of the management of the Institu- tion to keep this object before the public and not allow the Institution to become an infirmary.
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THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
The Institution for the Education of the Blind.
PRESENT TRUSTEES.
Name.
Residence.
Charles Flumerfelt. H. P. Crouse.
Geo. W. Hayes, Secretary. Joseph Beichele. Alfred Robinson.
Old Fort, O. Toledo, O. Cincinnati, O. Canton, O. Ironton, O.
The chief officers of the Institution are: G. L. Smead, Superin- tendent ; R. W. Bell, Steward. 1 At present there are 24 teachers employed in the Institution; II in the Literary Department, 9 in Music, and 4 in the Industrial Department.
LIST OF TRUSTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS, 1837-1901.
Name.
Term of Service.
Residence.
James Hoge
1836-1851
N. H. Swayne.
1836-1845.
Wm. W. Awl.
1836-1840
John A. Bryan.
1840-1842
M. J. Guilbert.
1844-1847
Wm. Armstrong.
1846-1851
John W. Anderson
1846-1854
Columbus.
Samuel McClelland.
1856-1865
Joseph McElvain
1846-1849.
J. R. Scroggs
1846-1849
A. P. Stone
1849 -.
F. C. Kelton.
1850-1851
S. M. Smith
1850-
Richard Warner
1850-1851.
Thomas Sparrow
1852-1853
E. K. Chamberlain
1852-1855
Geo. E. Eeels.
1852-
E. C. Root.
1852-1853.
Henry Wilson.
1852-1855.
John Greenleaf.
1852-1855.
David Robb
1852-1855
Hiram B. Smith
1853-1855.
Thomas C. Mitchell.
1853-1855.
Preble County.
S. H. Webb.
1853-1854
Cuyahoga County. Columbiana County.
John McCook.
1854-1855.
Oliver H. Perry
1854-1855
Medina County. Franklin County. Hamilton County. Fairfield County. Ashtabula County. Franklin County. Franklin County. Union County. Meigs County.
Fairfield County.
709
THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
The Institution for the Education of the Blind.
LIST OF TRUSTEES AND SUPERINTENDENTS - Concluded.
+
Name.
Term of Service.
Residence.
1
R. R. Sloan
1856-1858
Knox County.
John Greiner
1856-1860
Franklin County.
Edward Jordan
1859-1861
Scioto County. .
F. C. Sessions.
1861-1873
Columbus.
Royal Taylor
1862-1864.
Cuyahoga County.
Stillman Witt.
1865-1870.
Cleveland.
Henry C. Noble.
1866-1877
Columbus.
Harmon Austin.
1878-1883.
Warren.
Jolın H. Rogers
1870-1873.
Springfield.
C. Blaser.
1878-1879
Waverly.
John G. Dunn.
1874-1877
London.
Thomas Bergin.
1874-1876.
Columbus.
B. F. Martin.
1877-
Columbus.
W. R. Wing.
1878-1879
Newark.
Joseph Falkenbach
1878-1879
Columbus.
J. C. English.
1880-
Columbus.
S. D. Houpt.
1878-1883
Findlay.
James Poindexter
1880-1883
Columbus.
E. T. Drayton
1880-1887.
Ashland.
Samuel Thompson
1881-1883.
Columbus.
J. H. Hudson.
1885-1893
Sandusky.
D. L. Wadsworth.
1884-1889.
Wellington.
J. S. Atwood.
1884-1891.
Ripley. .
Edward Pagels
1885-1890.
Columbus.
H. C. Drinkle
1887-1892
Lancaster.
J. H. Hudson.
1884-1894
Sandusky.
J. R. Hankey.
1889-1904.
Bowling Green.
D. McAllister
1884-1895.
Columbus.
Charles Flumerfelt.
1898-1903.
Old Fort.
A. D. Marsh.
1890-1898
Celina.
H. P. Crouse.
1894-1904
Toledo.
Leroy C. Sedgewick.
1892-1897.
Martin's Ferry.
Joseph Biechle.
1892-1905
Canton.
George W. Hayes
1890-1901.
Cincinnati.
Charles Roose. .
1890-1898
Oak Harbor.
Alfred Robinson
1897-1902.
Ironton.
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THE INSTITUTION FOR DEAF MUTES.
T HE Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb is located at Columbus, Ohio. The first legislation for founding this Institution was had in 1827. In 1829 the school was opened in rented property on the corner of Broad and High streets with one pupil. In 1834 the first building on the present site was dedicated and the school transferred to it. From 1862 to 1867 the large and commo- dious building now occupied was erected and was intended to accom- modate three hundred and fifty deaf children, besides officers, teachers and employes. In 1898 and '99 the capacity was increased by the erec- tion of the school building, one of the finest in the world. The total amount of money expended for grounds and buildings is approximately $450,000. Three thousand and eighty-one deaf children have been pupils in this school. The attendance is something over five hundred and is increasing each year. Forty-one teachers are engaged and seventy of- ficers and employes. The annual appropriations for maintenance are approximately $100,000.
SUPERINTENDENTS.
Name.
Term of Service.
Horatio Nelson Hubbell
1827-1837.
Josiah Addison Cary
1851-1852.
Collins Stone
1852-1863.
George Ludington
Weed.
1863-1866.
Gilbert Otis Fay
1866 -- 1880.
Charles Strong Perry.
1880-1882.
Amasa Pratt
1883-1890.
James Wilson Knott.
1890-1892.
Stephen Russell Clark
1892-1894.
William Stuart Eagleson.
1894-1895.
John William Jones
1895, Incumbent.
LIST OF TRUSTEES.
Name.
Appointed.
Retired.
Residence.
Hon. Gustavus Swan
1827
1836
Columbus.
Rev. James Hoge.
1827
1836
Columbus.
Hon. Thomas Ewing
1827
1834
Lancaster.
Rev. William Graham
1827
1834
Chillicothe.
Rev. William Burton
1827.
1830.
Circleville.
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THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
The Institution for Deaf Mutes.
LIST OF TRUSTEES - Continued.
Name.
Appointed.
Retired.
Residence.
Hon. John H. James
1827
1830
Urbana.
Thomas D. Webb, Esq.
1827.
1836
Warren.
Hon. Samson Mason. ..
1827
1837
Springfield.
Nathaniel McLean, Esq.
1829
1836
Columbus.
Michael L. Sullivant, Esq.
1829
1830.
Franklinton.
Henry Brown, Esq.
1829
1836
Columbus.
Rev. William Preston
1830
1841
Columbus.
Dr. L. Goodale.
1830
1835
Columbus.
Dr. Samuel Parsons.
1830
1838
Columbus.
Col. William Doherty
1830
1832
Columbus.
R. W. McCoy, Esq.
1832
1849
Columbus.
Dr. Robert Thompson
1833
1844
Columbus.
P. B. Wilcox, Esq
1833.
1840
Columbus.
Col. N. H. Swayne.
1836
1842
Columbus.
Asahel Chittenden, Esq
1836
1845
Columbus.
Col. P. H. Olmstead.
1836.
1839
Columbus.
William Miner, Esq.
183
1840
Columbus.
Jeremiah Warden, Esq.
1837
1840
Springfield.
John Peterson, Esq
1837.
1840
Columbus.
Bela Latham, Esq.
1838.
1846
Columbus.
G. W. Slocum, Esq.
1839.
1841
Columbus.
Thomas Kennedy, Esq
1840
1846
Columbus.
Elias Grave, Esq.
1840
1846
Columbus.
Col. John McElvain.
1840
1843
Columbus.
Col. Moses Jewett.
1840
1843.
Columbus.
Rev. H. L. Hitchcock
1841
1852
Columbus.
Rev. C. F. Schaeffer
1842.
1845
Columbus. Columbus.
Hon. J. R. Swan.
1843
1845
Columbus.
Hon. A. P. Stone
1843.
1846.
Columbus.
Rev. David Whitcomb.
1844.
1846.
Columbus.
Rev. A. F. Dobb.
1845
1847
Columbus.
Samuel McClelland, Esq.
1845
1846
Columbus.
George Cole, Esq.
1845
1846
Columbus.
Peter Hayden, Esq
1846
1846
Columbus.
S. D. Preston, Esq.
1846.
1852
Columbus.
Henry Wilson, Esq.
1852
1856
Columbus.
John Greenleaf, Esq
1852
1856
Columbus.
C. K. Cuckler, Esq.
1852.
1852
Athens.
Dr. George Eels
1852
1854
Lancaster.
Dr. E. K. Chamberlain.
1852.
1853
Cincinnati.
Richard Warner, Esq
1852
1854.
Sharon.
Ezekiel C. Root, Esq.
1852
1856.
Ashtabula.
Rufus E. Harte, Esq.
1852
1852
Marietta.
Hiram B. Smith, Esq
1853
1856
Pomeroy.
David Robb, Esq.
1853.
1856
Marysville.
Col. Samuel Medary
1842.
1845.
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THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
The Institution for Deaf Mutes.
LIST OF TRUSTEES - Concluded.
Name.
Appointed.
Retired.
Residence.
Thomas C. Mitchell, Esq.
1853
1856
John McCook, Esq.
1854
1856
New Westerville. Columbus.
Oliver H. Perry
1854.
1856
Fairfield.
Henry Miller, Esq.
1856
1858
Columbus.
Theodore Comstock, Esq.
1856.
1860
Columbus.
Judge W. W. Bierce.
1856.
1862.
Circleville.
Dr. James H. Coulter
1858
1866
Columbus.
C. W. Potwin, Esq.
1858.
1866.
Columbus.
C. P. L. Butler, Esq
1860.
1866.
Columbus.
Gen. Kent Jarvis
1862.
1874.
Stark County.
Hon. Samuel Galloway
1866.
1872.
Franklin County.
Henry F. Booth, Esq.
1866.
1876.
Franklin County.
James S. Abbott, Esq.
1872
1875.
Franklin County.
Hon. A. T. Walling
1874.
1877
.Pickaway County.
Philemon Hess.
1875.
1878.
Franklin County. Logan County. Stark County.
Gen. Samuel Thomas
1878
1880.
Franklin County.
John Cooke.
.1878
1880.
Belmont County.
E. L. Hinman.
1878
1880
Jacob Rohrheimer
1878
1880.
F. C. Sessions
1880
1883
Gen. W. S. Jones
1880
1885.
J. S. Savage.
1880
1883.
Clinton County.
Dr. C. M. Finch
1880
1883.
Scioto County.
Hon. A. H. Moss
1880
1883.
Erie County.
Hon. James Scott.
1883.
1888.
Warren County.
Samuel Thompson, Esq
1883
1885
Franklin County.
Jonathan S. Hare.
1883
1886.
Wyandot County.
J. Cherryholmes
1883.
1892
Holmes County.
Dr. Nelson Obetz
1885
1886.
Franklin County.
Gen. R. R. Dawes.
1886
1890
Washington County.
Fred. W. Herbst.
1886
1890
Franklin County.
Gen. I. M. Kirby
1889
1893
Wyandot County.
Dr. J. A. Sterrett
1888
1893
Miami County.
T. P. Evans
1890
1895
Montgomery County.
Samuel A. Kinnear
1890
1894.
Franklin County.
J. S. Hare.
1890
1892.
George Hamilton
1892
W. A. Gibson.
1892.
R. B. Heller
1893.
Judge Geo. P. Tyler
1895.
Brown County.
Robt. P. Kennedy
1895
Wm. L. McElroy
1897
Logan County. Knox County.
Samuel Taylor.
1877.
1878.
L. L. Lamborn
1878.
1880.
Franklin County. Cuyahoga County. Franklin County. Pike County.
Wyandot County. Columbiana County. Wyandot County. Henry County.
INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED YOUTH.
T HIS Institution was established by law April 17, 1857. The pre- liminary work was commenced in 1840 by Dr. N. S, Townshend, while pursuing his medical studies in Paris, became interested in the labors of Seguin, Itard and others in behalf of the class. In 1853 Dr. Townshend, then a member of the Ohio Senate, so interested Gov- ernor Medill in the results of his observations and studies abroad, that he devoted a portion of his message to the General Assembly to the sub- ect. That part of the message relating to the subject was referred to a select committee, of which Dr. Townshend was chairman. The com- mittee made a report, detailing what had been done for this class. A bill was then introduced for the establishment of an Institution, but did not pass. At the session of 1857, Hon. Herrman Canfield introduced in the Senate a bill to establish an Asylum for Idiots, which passed both Houses and became a law April 17, 1857. Governor Chase appointed William Dennison, Norton S. Townshend and Asher Cook, Trustees. Upon organization of the Board, Mr. Dennison was made chairman ; Dr. Townshend, secretary, and Dr. R. J. Patterson, superintendent. The Board rented the buildings on East Main street, now occupied as the "Home for the Friendless." The Institution was opened with nine pupils. The number was increased to fifteen at the date of the first report. The rented premises were occupied until 1868, the number of pupils averaging, after the first two years, between forty and fifty. The office of assistant superintendent was created in 1859, and Dr. G. A. Doren was appointed to that position. In 1860, the superintendent, Dr. Patterson, resigned, and Dr. Doren was elected superintendent by the Board of Trustees, and has continued in that position since, now forty- one years.
After closely observing the operations of the Institution and their results, the Legislature, in 1864, provided for the permanent establish- ment of the Institution, authorizing buildings upon a suitable site for the accommodation of two hundred pupils. This provision was made during the strenuous days of the Civil War, and was a strong endorse- ment of the value of the Institution, as well as a valued acknowledgment of the performance of duty under the trying conditions of the War. The new buildings were occupied in August, 1868, the number of inmates soon reaching three hundred. The practical value of the Institution being demonstrated, additions were made, from year to year, until the 18th of November, 1881, when over six hundred children were accom- modated, and when the main buildings were destroyed by fire ; happily. without loss of life, or even injury, to any of the inmates, officers or
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Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth.
employes. So anxious were parents and guardians that their children and wards should not lose any of the benefits of the Institution, that only one hundred of the inmates could be sent to their homes, the balance: being crowded into the buildings that escaped destruction. The opera- tions of the Institution were conducted, during the three years of rebuild -. ing, at great disadvantage, from want of room and facilities for the proper care and training of the inmates. This was relieved by the occu- pation of the new buildings in 1884. In this case, fireproof buildings. were constructed on the site of those destroyed by fire, and fireproof outside stairways provided for all buildings that escaped destruction. Other buildings have been added since 1884, until the number accom- modated in 1900 was 1100, when, the Legislature, recognizing the duty of providing against the increase of this unfortunate class, by placing them under such restrictions as will prevent them multiplying their kind, provided for a permanent home, where the use of such industrial power as they possess may be exercised in their own support. Authority was given to purchase a farm, not to exceed 1500 nor less than 1000 acres in extent, where they are to be kept through life, thus lessening the increase: from that source. About 1200 acres have been secured, where the males of this class will be provided with a home and such employment as will come within the range of their capacities. The employments will be mainly such as furnished b ythe farm, gardening, stock-raising and hor- ticultural pursuits. The females are to be provided for at the home Institution, where they can be better protected, as well as usefully employed in domestic occupations. Buildings are now being constructed to accommodate about four hundred of each sex of the Custodial Class. and, when completed, will restore the old department to its original pur -- pose and duties-" to furnish special means of improvement to that por- tion of our youth who are so deficient in mind, or have such marked peculiarities and eccentricities of intellect as to deprive them of the benefits of other educational institutions and ordinary methods of instruction."
PRESENT OFFICERS.
Name.
Year Term Commenced.
Title.
G. A. Doren, M. D
1860
Superintendent.
George Evans.
1884.
Financial Officer.
Mrs. N. L. Doren
1860
Superintendent of Schools.
Miss H. F. Purple
1858
Matron.
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THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth.
PAST OFFICERS.
Name.
Year Term Commenced.
Title.
R. Patterson, M. D.
W. L. Hughes.
1857 1881
Superintendent. Financial Officer.
TRUSTEES.
Name.
Year Appointed.
County.
William Dennison, Jr.
1857.
Asher Cook.
1857
Franklin. Wood.
Norton S. Townshend.
1857.
Lorain.
William Dennison, Jr
1858.
Franklin.
Herman Canfield.
1858.
Medina.
Asher Cook.
1859
Wood.
William E. Ide.
1859
Franklin.
N. S. Townshend.
1860.
Lorain.
H. Canfield.
1861
Medina.
Jno. A. Lutz
1861.
Pickaway.
Peter Hitchcock.
1862.
Geauga.
N. S. Townshend
1863.
Lorain.
Jno. A. Lutz.
1864.
Pickaway.
Peter Hitchcock.
1865
Geauga.
N. S. Townshend
1866.
Lorain.
Jno. A. Lutz.
1867.
Pickaway ..
Peter Hitchcock.
1868
Geauga.
N. S. Townshend
1869
Lorain.
Jno. A. Lutz.
1870.
Pickaway ..
Peter Hitchcock.
1871
Geauga. Franklin.
Jno. A. Lutz.
1873
Pickaway ..
John A. Shank.
1874.
Hamilton.
N. S. Townshend
1875
Franklin.
Jno. A. Lutz.
1876
Pickaway.
Peter Hitchcock
1877
Geauga.
John A. Shank.
1878
Hamilton.
J. K. Rukenbrod.
1878
Columbiana ..
J. Miles Montgomery.
1878.
Franklin.
John A. Shank.
1879.
Hamilton.
J. K. Rukenbrod.
1880.
Columbiana ..
J. M. Holmes
1880.
Harrison.
John A. Shank.
1880
Hamilton ..
George W. Monypeny
1880
Franklin ..
Aaron Wilcox
1880
Lake.
N. S. Townshend.
1872
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THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
Institution for Feeble-Minded Youth.
TRUSTEES - Concluded.
Name.
Year Appointed.
County.
J. K. Rukenbrod
1881
Columbiana. Geauga.
B. B. Woodbury
1881
J. M. Holmes.
1882.
Harrison.
M. A. Daugherty
1882.
Franklin.
Silas A. Conrad.
1883.
Stark.
Ross J. Alexander
1884.
Belmont.
A. McGregor
1884.
Stark.
B. B. Woodbury
1885.
Geauga.
Edward Squire.
1886.
Defiance.
J. N. Williams.
1887.
Huron.
Ross J. Alexander.
1887.
Belmont.
Robert Mehaffey
1887
Allen.
Silas A. Conrad
1888.
Stark.
George H. Ford.
1888.
Geauga.
Robert Mehaffey
1889
Allen.
William Reed.
1890
Ross.
J. B. Worley.
1890
Highland.
Edward Squire
1891
Defiance.
Jno. E. Bruce.
1891
Hamilton.
Jno. A. Williamson
1892.
Huron.
Silas A. Conrad
1893
Stark. Allen.
Edward Squire.
1895.
Defiance.
William E. Haynes
1895
Sandusky.
J. Park Alexander.
1896
Summit.
Jno. A. Williamson
1897.
Huron.
Silas A. Conrad
1897.
Stark.
A. P. Baldwin.
1898.
Summit.
Charles P. Griffin.
1898.
Lucas. Allen.
Robert Mehaffey
1899
William E. Haynes
1900
Sandusky.
James J. Hooker
1899
Hamilton.
Boyd Vincent.
1900.
Hamilton.
Robert Mehaffey
1894.
THE HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS.
T HE Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis is the pioneer of its. kind in the United States.
The problem of providing proper accommodations for epilep- tics, especially for those with unsound or defective minds, has engrossed the attention of persons interested in nervous and mental diseases for- many years. In Ohio, as far back as 1879, a bill for the establishment. of a separate institution for their accommodation and treatment almost. became a law, passing one branch of the legislature. Not, however, until. 1890 was a law enacted providing for the establishment of a hospital for- epileptics and epileptic insane. All epileptics resident in Ohio are eligible for admission to this institution, up to the measure of its capacity, each county being entitled to a number proportionate to its population. No discrimination is made on account of mental condition, age or sex.
The buildings, as originally planned, consisted of stone cottages. having a capacity of fifty beds each, located symmetrically about a group. of executive buildings and connected by tunnels with a central power- house, which was to furnish heat and light for all, and a central kitchen and bakery, flanked by two congregate dining-rooms, one for each sex. The whole group, with estimated accommodations for one thousand patients, was planned so compactly as to cover scarcely more than twenty- five acres, leaving the balance of one hundred acres of the original tract for ornamentation and gardens. The wisdom of this plan was seriously questioned, and subsequent experience and events have led to an entire: modification of it, so far as practicable. Of the original thirty-six build- ings, only thirteen have been built as designed. The location and design of six others, now nearly completed, have been materially changed. One: hundred and twenty-five additional acres of land have been purchased,. and a cottage for the insane constructed at a distance of one-half mile: from the original group. Other buildings, projected for the future, are- to be much farther away, their precise location depending upon the possi- bilities in the selection and purchase of land, which may or may not: adjoin the tract now owned by the state.
A board of construction was appointed in 1890, which consisted of James E. Neal, of Hamilton; John E. Vance, of Gallipolis; George. H. Bunnell, of Sidney; Lewis Slusser, of Canton.
The hospital was opened for the reception of patients, November 30, 1893. Six more cottages have since been erected, and when the buildings now in course of construction are completed, which will be during the present year (1901), accommodations will have been made for 1,060 patients. The buildings will then consist of thirteen residence cottages,.
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The Hospital for Epileptics.
with from fifty to seventy-six beds each; one laundry cottage for seventy- five patients; one cottage for the insane, with a capacity of 200; one schoolhouse; two industrial buildings, each containing eight large, well- lighted and well-ventilated rooms, accommodating twenty-five patients each-in any of the manual industries commonly followed; one kitchen and bakery building; one ice machine and cold storage building, with a capacity of eighteen tons daily ; two large congregate dining-rooms ; one boiler, power, and electric light building; one waterworks building; one hospital building, accommodating sixty, and one administration build- ing. The cost of the buildings, up to the time when those under way shall have been completed, will be $565,000.
Many of the patients came from almhouses, many from the lower walks of life, and were uncouth in their manners and dress, filthy in their habits, and rude in their conversation. The improvement most noticed by visitors has been the wonderful change in their deportment.
LIST OF TRUSTEES, 1891-1902.
Name.
Term of service.
Residence.
Edward S. Wilson.
1892-1903
Ironton.
*T. M. Gaumer
1891 --
Urbana.
S. W. Durflinger
1891-1896
London.
John McSweeney
1892-1900.
Wooster.
C. C. Waite.
1892-1896
Columbus.
James D. Brown.
1892-1897.
Athens.
.J. H. Wolford
1892-1896
Cedarville.
I. N. Walker
1892-1897
Lebanon.
Peter Murphy
1893-1898.
Hamilton.
Oscar Sheppard
1894-1899
West Alexandria.
Thomas A. Burns.
1895-1900.
Versailles.
F. H. Southard
1892-1897
Zanesville.
A. B. Robinson
1893-1898
Marysville.
H. H. Greer.
1894 -- 1899
Mt. Vernon.
·C. D. Martin.
1895-1900
Lancaster.
.John G. Roberts
1896-1901
Gomer.
Geo. W. McCook.
1894-1904.
Steubenville.
I. F. Mack.
1898-1901.
Sandusky.
James D. Brown.
1897-1902
Athens.
C. H. Smith
1896-1901
Cincinnati.
Samuel Hunt
1897-1902
Cincinnati.
John Zumstein
1898-1903
Cincinnati.
E. T. Sprague.
1899-1904.
Cincinnati.
W. I. Coppack.
1900-1905.
Cincinnati.
* Deceased.
THE BOYS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
T HE Boys' Industrial School is Ohio's reformatory for juvenile male offenders. It is six miles south of Lancaster, Fairfield county on the Hocking Hills. The state owns 1,210 acres of land in this picturesque region, and the boys are taught agriculture and horticulture to the extent of producing all the vegetables and fruit that the institution consumes. The institution is organized on the cottage or segregate system, is not surrounded by walls and is entirely free from bolts, bars or other suggestions of restraint. It was the first penal in- stitution in America to make the "open system" experiment, and so suc- cessfully was it operated that twenty-eight states have used the Lan- caster school as a model. There are now 840 boys confined in the
C. D. HILLES, Superintendent. .
school for offenses against the statutes. These boys range in age from 8 to 18 years and are serving indeterminate sentences. When received at the School they are charged with demerits corresponding in number to the nature of the crime. These demerits must be cancelled by exemplary deportment in school and shop, before release. When released, a boy is on parole and can be returned for misconduct at any time before he reaches his majority.
The boys are required to attend school one-half of each day, and are in shop or on the farm the other half. There are many trades schools where the boys are taught useful mechanical knowledge and at the same time contribute to the comfort and support of their fellows. Chief among these trades are blacksmithing, floriculture, tailoring, baking, print- ing, carpentering, telegraphy, stenography, brickmaking, shoe-making,
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720
THE OHIO HUNDRED YEAR BOOK.
The Boys' Industrial School.
dairying, cooking, etc. They also operate the steam, cold storage and electric plants, the barn, laundry and poultry plant. A boy band of forty- two pieces is maintained and the school is organized into a regiment of three batallions, under instructions of a competent military man. Music and physical culture are also features of the training.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Name.
Term of Service.
Residence.
Charles Remelin.
1856-1859
Hamilton.
J. A. Foote.
1854-1874.
Cuyahoga.
J. D. Ladd.
1856-1866
Jefferson.
Geo. E. Howe
1859-1879
Lake.
B. W. Chidlaw.
1866-1880
Hamilton.
John M. Pugh.
1875-1880
Franklin.
H. J. Reinmund
1878-1884.
Fairfield.
Jacob Cherryholmcs.
1878-1880
Holmes.
Charles Maines
1878-1880.
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