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L. H. Wells, the Deputy Warden, is very familiar with prison affairs, having been Assistant Deputy Warden under the Coffin Administration. Mr. Wells was an officer in the Union Army in the Civil War, and after- wards discharged efficiently the duties of Assistant United States Marshal in the Northern District of Ohio, and of Sheriff of Hardin County, O.
The Assistant Deputy Warden, Carey A. Long, comes from Highland County, where he was formerly a school teacher, and later Deputy Sheriff, and Court Bailiff. He is accredited as having been active as a member of the Republican Committee of Highland County.
Mr. C. B. Shook, chief clerk of the penitentiary, was the Assistant of his predecessor, and is thoroughly familiar with the duties of his office. He was formerly a teacher, and takes a personal interest in public, as well aš prison affairs.
Rev. David Judson Starr, D. D., the Chaplain of the prison, is a native of Ohio, and for many years has been Presiding Elder and pastor of churches in Cincinnati. He has had considerable experience in religious work among all classes of people, having been at one time City Missionary in Cincinnati.
Mr. C. F. Wilcox, the Steward, is a man of experience in mercantile affairs, in which he has acquired abilities for the duties of his office.
Doctor Wells Teachnor, M. D., is the chief physician of the prison, with Doctor John M. Thomas, M. D., and Doctor Byron Palmer, M. D., as his assistants.
Mr. T. M. Brannon, Post-Master of the prison mails, was appointed from Union County, where he had rendered valuable services as County Commissioner, and is a man of public affairs. Mr. Brannon was mainly instrumental in establishing a Children's Home in Union County.
M. E. Fornshell, Superintendent of printing, was appointed from Camden, Preble County, where he was formerly editor of a local paper.
Mr. John Davis, Superintendent of Bertillon Department, is one of the skilled men in his profession. He has in his keeping the measurements, photographs, and historical accounts of those who have been inmates of the penitentiary.
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Mr. James E. Robinson, Superintendent of Subsistence, was appointed to his office after the death of Mr. McAvoy, in June, 1902. Mr. Robinson is a native of Ohio, and was formerly Sheriff of Union County.
Mr. Harry S. Ogle, Superintendent of the State-Shop, has been iden- tified with the administration of the prison for a number of years, in several capacities. He is familiar with the duties of his present position.
Prof. C. B. Slack, Superintendent of the Prison Night-School, is from Licking County, where he held several positions in his profession as a school teacher.
Other officers of the prison appear in the following table:
ROSTER OF OFFICERS, 1902. BOARD OF MANAGERS.
"Name.
Residence.
McEldin Dun, President
Coleman Gillilan
Harry S. Griffith
Arthur J. Sheppard
Aaron Wagoner
Frank Cook, Secretary
Portsmouth. Bellefontaine. Mt. Gilead. Zanesville. Akron.
Ohio Penitentiary.
OFFICERS.
Name.
Office.
Residence.
Wm. N. Darby
Warden
Belmont County. Hardin County.
L. H. Wells
Deputy Warden
C. A. Long
Assistant Deputy Warden
Highland County. Pickaway County.
C. B. Shook
Clerk
M. A. Karshner
Assistant Clerk
C. E. Wilcox
Steward
W: W. Harris
Storekeeper
Wells Teachnor
Physician
J. M. Thomas
Assistant Physician (day) Ass't Physician (night) ... Chaplain
David J. Starr
Thomas M. Brannan
Postmaster
R. E. Jones Arthur Griner
Supt. Piece Price
J. E. Robinson
Harry S. Ogle
W. F. Bryant J. W. Beaird
Clerk in Piece Price Office Superintendent Subsistence Supt. State Shop Supt. Transfers and Halls Superintendent Yards
Franklin County. Ross County. Ashtabula County. Scioto County.
Bryon Palmer
Marion County. Franklin County. Hamilton County. Union County. Lawrence County.
Muskingum County. Franklin County. Noble County.
Guernsey County. Ashland County.
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OFFICERS --- Concluded.
Name.
Office.
Residence.
M. E. Fornshell
Superintendent Printing ..
Preble County. Hocking County.
Samuel Cain
George A. Wood
Captain Night Watch
Perry County. Greene County. Logan County.
W. H. Chandler
O. B. Randall
C. B. Slack
Captain Guard Room (day) Capt. Guard Room (night) Superintendent Schools Supt. Construction
Jackson County. Licking County. Summit County.
H. B. Robinson
C. A. Marden
Mrs. E. M. Armstrong
Mrs. Mattie C. Brown
Assistant Matron
Miss Della McMaster
Stenographer
Coshocton County. Hamilton County. Lucas County. Meigs County.
ROSTER OF WARDENS, 1834-1902.
Name.
Term of Service.
Nathaniel Medbury
1834-1838.
W. B. Van Hook
1838-1841.
Richard Stadden
1841-1843.
John Pattison
1843-1846.
Laurin Dewey
1846-1850. 1851.
D. W. Brown
1851-1852.
A. G. Dimmock
1852-1854.
Samuel Wilson
1854-1855.
J. B. Buttle
1855-1856.
John Ewing
1856-1858. 1858-1860.
John A. Prentice
Nathaniel Merion
1860-1862. 1862-1864. 1864-1866.
John A. Prentice
Charles C. Walcutt
1866-1869.
Raymond Burr
1869-1872.
G. S. Innis
1872-1875. 1875-1878. 1878-1879.
B. F. Dyer
Noah Thomas
Isaac Petrie
E. G. Coffin
B. F. Dyer
C. C. James
E. G. Coffin
Wm. N. Darby
1886-1890. 1890-1892. 1892-1896. 1896-1900. 1900-1903. Incumbent.
John G. Grove
J. B. McWhorter
1879-1880. 1880-1884. 1884-1886.
L. G. Van Styke
Samuel Atkinson
Supt. Gas and Elect. Light Matron
J. E. Davis
Supt. Bertillon Hospital Quartermaster
THE OHIO REFORMATORY (MANSFIELD).
T HE law creating this institution was enacted April 12, 1884; corner- stone was laid in '86, Hon. J. B. Foraker, Governor. The west wing and administration departments were not completed for occu- pancy until September 18, '96, when 150 prisoners were brought from Columbus.
The object of the institution is reformatory. Inmates are supposed to be first offenders, are admitted for all crimes except murder in the first degree, between the ages of 16 and 30. Male persons only are admitted. There are three grades: first, second and third. When inmates are ad- mitted they are placed in the second grade; if their conduct justifies at the expiration of six months, they are promoted to the first grade, in which they remain for a second six months, when, if their conduct justifies, they are recommended to the Board of Managers for parole. With the consent of the Board of Managers they go out and remain the wards of state under the supervision of the institution for one year, when, if their conduct justi- fies, they are fully discharged, and restored to citizenship by the Governor. Inmates are reduced to the third grade from either the first or second for punishment for certain misdemeanors.
They receive an indeterminate sentence from the court and the length of time they remain here is governed largely by their conduct, and is ex- clusively in the hands of the Superintendent and the Board of Managers. They can be released at the expiration of the minimum time prescribed by law for the crime committed, or can be retained until the maximum time has expired.
They are required to attend school and learn such trades as it is ·possible to teach them under the limited conditions now existing. It is expected, however, within the next few years shops will be erected and trades taught to these boys, so that when they go out, they will be able to make an honest living.
Following is a list of the members of the Board of Managers since the institution began :
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BOARD OF MANAGERS, 1884-1900.
Year.
Name.
Residence.
1884.
F. M. Marriott
1884.
Jno. M. Pugh
1884.
Jno. Q. Smith
1885
F. M. Marriott
1886.
W. R. Phipps
1886.
B. F. Crawford.
1887.
Wm. Monaghan
1888.
Wm. J. Elliott
1889
B. F. Crawford
1889.
C. L. Poorman
1890.
F. M. Marriott
1890.
Wm. B. Burnett
1890.
L. F. Limbert
1890.
E. H. Keiser
1890.
Geo. C. Washburn
1890.
F. M. Marriott
1890
B. F. Crawford
1891.
L. F. Limbert
· 1891.
Edgar G. Pocock
1892.
Lee S. Lake
1893.
F. M. Marriott
1894.
S. P. Wolcott
1894.
J. D. Beaird
1896.
R. W. C. Gregg
1897.
H. Apthorp
1898.
R. W. C. Gregg
1898.
F. F. Thomas
1899
R. W. C. Gregg
1899.
H. H. McFadden
1900.
S. P. Wolcott
1900
H. L. Ferneding
1901.
W. A. Korns
1901.
W. S. Rogers
1901.
T. F. Dye
1902.
G. W. C. Perry
Delaware County. Franklin County. Clinton County. Delaware County. Hamilton County. Richland County. Miami County. Franklin County. Richland County. Belmont County. Delaware County. Clark County. Darke County. Richland County. Lorain County. Delaware County. Richland County. Darke County. Franklin County. Licking County. Delaware County. Portage County.
Ashland County. Clermont County. Ashtabula County.
Clermont County. Lorain County. Clermont County. Jefferson County. Portage County. Montgomery County. Tuscarawas County. Auglaize County. Meigs County. Ross County.
OHIO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME (SANDUSKY).
T O provide for the establishment of this institution the General As- sembly passed the following act April 30, 1886:
. "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there shall be established in this state an institution under thename of 'The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home,' which institution shall be a home for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines."
"All honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, who have served the United States government in any of its wars, and who are citizens of Ohio one year preceding the date of making the application for admission to the Home, and are not able to support themselves, and are not entitled to admission to the National Military Homes, or cannot gain admission thereto, may be admitted to the Home first aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the Board of Trustees hereinafter provided for; provided that preference shall be given to persons who served in Ohio military organizations."
House bill No. 125, passed February 19, 1892, provides :
SEC. 2. That no insane or imbecile person shall be admitted to the Home. * * * If any insane or imbecile person, through misrepre- sentation as to his condition, shall be sent to said Home, he shall be re- turned to the county whence he came, and the expense of such return be borne by the county whence he came.
To carry out the provision of the act, Governor Foraker, in April, 1886, appointed as trustees Hon. Isaac F. Mack, R. B. Brown, Thos. F. Dill, Wm. P. Orr and Thos. B. Paxton. The board organized on June 3, and elected I. F. Mack president, and R. B. Brown secretary. During the summer a number of places were visited and carefully looked over. A site three miles from Sandusky was finally selected as the best place to locate the Home. H. C. Lindsey, of Zanesville, was chosen architect, and he at once prepared plans for the buildings. Herman Haerline, of Cincinnati, was employed as landscape gardener, and the work of im- provement of grounds and construction of buildings was at once com- menced.
On July 11, 1888, the corner-stone of the administration building was laid by Judge O'Neill, Commander of the Department of Ohio Grand Army of the Republic, in the presence of Governor Foraker and a large assemblage of Ohio citizens. In the fall of 1888, the trustees appointed the following officers: General M. F. Force, of Cincinnati, Commandant; Capt. A. M. Anderson, Delaware, O., Adjutant; Col. E. J. Blount, Cin- cinnati, O., Quartermaster; Dr. S. C. Rannells, Vinton county, Surgeon;
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Mrs. Sarah J. Price, Mansfield, O., Matron, who entered upon the dis- charge of their duties in October, and the Home was opened on November 19, with seventeen members. The annual report for the year ending No- vember 15, 1889, shows that 716 men had been admitted during the first year. -
In June, 1890, Trustee Thos. T. Dill was appointed Assistant Adju- tant General and resigned as trustee, being succeeded by J. F. Charles- worth, of Belmont county, and during the summer of 1890, Peter Brady, of Sandusky county, was appointed trustee vice I. F. Mack, resigned.
In December, 1890, a change was made in the official family of the Home by the appointment of Maj. D. T. Cockerill, of Brown county, as Adjutant; Capt. Daniel Dugan, Zanesville, Quartermaster, and Dr. J. N. Mowry, Mansfield, Surgeon, who was succeeded in September fol- lowing by Dr. John T. Haynes.
During the year of 1892, Capt. J. L. Cameron, of Marysville, suc- ceeded Peter Brady, and J. J. Sullivan, of Cleveland, succeeded J. F. Charlesworth as Trustee. Capt. A. M. Anderson was reappointed. as Adjutant, and Dr. E. N. Heard, of Cincinnati, was appointed Assistant Surgeon. Average number present during 1892 was 762. During the summer of 1893, Rev. Thomas J. Sheppard was appointed Chaplain of the home at a salary of $1,000, and remained until September, 1897, when he was succeeded by Rev. W. M. Haines, of Union county, and Judge H. D. Peck succeeded Thomas B. Paxton as trustee. Average number present during 1893, was 819.
In 1894, Mrs. Sarah J. Price resigned her office as matron and Mrs. Mary Lee Fuller, of Sandusky, was appointed to the vacancy.
In 1896, General Thomas T. Dill was appointed trustee vice Judge H. D. Peck, resigned, and R. D. Burnham succeeded E. N. Heard as Assistant Surgeon.
In March, 1898, Col. R. B. Brown, after twelve years' continuous service as a member of the Board of Trustees, resigned the office, and Col. J. W. R. Cline, of Springfield, was appointed to fill the vacancy.
On May 8, 1899, the state and the Home sustained a great loss in the death of Gen. M. F. Force, the Commandant. The Board of Trustees ordered spread upon the minutes the following testimonial on his death :
This Board will leave to others the task of writing suitable obituary for the distinguished dead, but we desire to preserve on our own records some testimonial of our appreciation of the eminent services rendered by Gen. Force for this institu- tion. He was indeed the father of the Home.
"General Force had achieved renown as a soldier and jurist before being called apon to assume the great responsibility of organizing this Home and placing it as we all desired, first among the soldiers' homes of this nation.
"By unanimous voice of the Board he was tendered the position of Commandant before the Home was opened. He accepted the responsibility and came with his
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devoted wife to prepare for the reception of those who should seek the support and protection of the institution, and as he often expressed it, not to make a military camp, but a home for his unfortunate comrades. His high character and intelligent zeal insured success from the first.
"With him charity and kindness went hand in hand with judgment and discip- line. He was ever ready to hear the most humble petition, and while keeping up a high moral standard for the Home he loved and encouraged the weak and unfortunate.
"His resourceful mind gave to the Home steady improvement and his spotless life protected it from scandal. His zeal and devotion were unbounded, and it was a merciful Providence that permitted him to live to see the full fruition of his hopes, and to be comforted by the assurance of the national inspector that the Home of which he was Commandant had found first place among the homes of the land.
"We shall miss him at our Board meetings, and wait in vain for him in our councils, but we shall cherish his memory with love and gratitude.
"To Mrs. Force and her son we extend our profound sympathy and assure them that wherever they may go they will bear with them the best wishes of every member of this Board."
At the meeting of the Board on May 17, Capt. A. M. Anderson was appointed Commandant, and C. A. Reeser, of Springfield, was appointed Adjutant.
The first of January, 1899, found the new hospital completed, which gives the home the most complete structure of its kind of any institu- tion in the country. Seven trained lady nurses were employed to look after and care for the sick and suffering old men. Two years' experience has shown that these ladies have added wonderfully to the comfort and welfare of the sick.
The Home started in on the new century with an overcrowded house. Number present, January 15, 1,391; on the rolls, 1,621; average number present for the year ending November 15, 1900, 1,216; cost per capita for current expense, clothing, officers' salaries and trustees' expenses, $151.15 ; of which the general government pays $100.00, leaving a cost to the state of only $51.15 per annum to comfortably house, clothe, feed and give medi- cal attention to these old soldiers. Since the Home was opened in Novem- ber, 1888, forty-eight hundred and eighty-five (4,885) men have been ad- mitted and cared for. The Home is largely indebted to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Relief Corps for generous donations of books, magazines and papers for the library, and hospital supplies of jellies, fruits, cushions and other articles.
The entire cost of building and permanent improvements, amount to $657,863.72.
On April 18, 1901, Gen. A. M. Anderson died of heart failure. He died the death of one beloved by the Gods, for it was instantaneous. He was an honest and honorable man, and a conscientious and efficient offi- cer. He had the love and respect of the members of the Home.
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The Board of Trustees selected in his place Thomas M. Anderson, a retired general officer of the army, and a Major-General of Volunteers. He is a native of Ohio, and before the War of the Rebellion was practicing law in Cincinnati. When Sumter was fired on he enlisted as a private in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Having been transferred to the regu- lar establishment he was made a Major-Generalin the Spanish-American War, and commanded a division of the Eighth Army Corps in the Philip- pine campaigns. He is a Grand Army of the Republic man, a Companion of the Loyal Legion, and has attained the thirty-third degree in the A. & A. S. Rite.
He assumed the duties of Commandant on May 6, 1901. Under his administration a number of improvements have been made by reason of liberal appropriations of the General Assembly. A sewage disposal plant has been constructed on the most approved scientific principles. More methodical methods have been introduced in the management of the Home and it is now pronounced by the government inspectors to be the best institution of its kind in the country.
The average membership last year, 1901, was 1,258. The greatest number present, 1,409, was in January, 1902.
The officers and Board of Trustees are tabulated below :
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Name.
Residence.
Gen. W. P. Orr, President
Piqua. Mansfield.
Gen. Thos. T. Dill, Secretary
Col. J. J. Sullivan
Cleveland.
Col. F. G. Cross
Cincinnati.
Col. J. L. Cameron
Marysville.
OFFICERS OF THE HOME.
Name.
Office.
Gen. T. M. Anderson
Capt. Chas. A. Reeser
Capt. Daniel Dugan Major J. T. Haynes
Commandant. Adjutant. Quartermaster. Surgeon.
Capt. W. E. Rantz
Capt. I. E. Hunter
Rev. W. M. Haines
Mrs. Mary L. Fuller
Ass't Surgeon. Ass't Surgeon. Chaplain. Matron.
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The President of the Board of Trustees as at present organized is Gen. Wm. P. Orr, a prominent financier and capitalist of Piqua, O. He was Captain of Company "C," 152d Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion, and at one time a Quartermaster-General of the state. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, as are all the other mem- bers of the Board.
Col. J. J. Sullivan is a leading financier of Cleveland, and President of a number of banks in Northern Ohio. He was Sergeant of the Third Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery.
Dr. F. G. Cross, President of the Bankers' Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati. He was a Lieutenant in Company "K," 85th Indiana Vol- unteer Infantry. He is now a member of the Cincinnati School Board.
THOMAS M. ANDERSON.
Col. J. L. Cameron, Corporal Company "C," 12th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, now a leading attorney of Union county.
The Secretary of the Board is Gen. Thos. T. Dill, Sergeant-Major of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was at one time Adjutant Gener- al of the state. He is a leading citizen of Mansfield, Ohio.
The average age of the members is 65 years. Among the inmates are eight Mexican War veterans and twenty-five Spanish-American War soldiers.
The per capita cost of maintenance for the year was $162.09. The expenditure was $203,905.43. Approximately two-thirds of this was from the general government.
THE OHIO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ORPHANS' HOME. XENIA, OHIO.
I N the summer of 1869 the attention of the survivors of the civil war was called to the large number of fatherless children in Ohio, who were made so by the enormous gift of Ohio men to the Union Army. Every hamlet and township possessed its quote of soldiers' orphans, while in the larger cities the number of children rendered fatherless by the war was so great as to be particularly noticeable to the public spirited men and women who, having served in or in behalf of the Union Army when in the field, found themselves unwilling to rest from their labors until every possible step had been taken to heal the wounds of that notable conflict. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic in Ohio took up the matter of providing a home for these orphans, those ex-soldiers who were already prominent in the affairs of the state, taking the lead in the agita- tion of the subject which followed ; Chaplain G. W. Collier, Gen. J. Warren Keifer, Gen. Wm. H. Gibson, Hon. Lewis B. Gunckel, Lieut .- Gov. John C. Lee, Hon. John Sherman, Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes; Messrs. Millen, Mc- Millen, Lester Arnold, Capt. McDowell, and others of the city of Xenia, being prominently identified with the early days of the Home. In Septem- ber, 1869, a two-story building in the city of Xenia was rented by the Grand Army officials, and converted by temporary wooden partitions, stairways and halls, into crowded accommodations for possibly fifty chil- dren. Funds were raised from public and private sources, principally by Chaplain Collier, who canvassed the state and addressed churches, Sunday schools, Grand Army meetings and private individuals, and children were
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admitted as fast as accommodations for them could be provided. The citi- zens of Xenia and of Greene county were genuinely interested in the move- ment, and spared no pains to make it a success. A room in the High School Building, of Xenia, was set apart for the children of the Home by the board of education, thus providing immediate school privileges, and the Court House Park was voted to their use by the city and county officers, thus providing a convenient and well-kept playground. The citizens pre- sented the Home with 100 acres of ground, afterwards increased to about 300 acres by purchase of the State of Ohio, on which the present institu- tion was afterward located by the state, and the county commissioners of Greene county, during that winter, voted six thousand dollars toward the current expenses of the Home to prevent the children from feeling the re- duced condition to which the treasury of the Grand Army had been deplet- ed by the expense of opening and operating an institution of such a char- acter. Theloyalty and public spiritof the men and women of Greene coun- ty during the war was repeated in their efforts in behalf of the orphans of the war. In the winter of 1870, with about 75 children in the Home, an ap- peal was made to the General Assembly to adopt the children as wards of the state, and to take over the property of the Home and make it a state institution. A committee from the General Assembly visited the children, who were assembled in the City Hall in Xenia, inspected the temporary quarters in town, and the property belonging to the Home just outside the city limits to the southeast, and returned to Columbus in favor of the proposition. The committee was addressed on behalf of the children by a Master Gilkey, who was then a boy twelve years old, having been admitted to the Home from Trumbull county in January of that year.
In April of 1870 the Home passed under the control of the state, and its removal from Xenia to its present location on the old Pelham farm, was accomplished in September, the work of construction having been pushed sufficiently to accommodate the children then in attendance. The doors were thrown open to new pupils, and as soon as the transfer from the city to the farm was effected, and from September, 1870, to the present time, there has never been an hour when there were not more applicants for admission than could possibly be received.
It is a matter of course that the requirements for admission should be changed with changing conditions. In 1870 no children were entitled to admission but those whose fathers were killed in action, or had since died from the wounds or the disabilities of war. The lapse of time soon rendered this class of children ineligible from age-limit, and the doors were then opened successively to those whose fathers being ex-soldiers had died from any cause; to those whose mothers had died, the father being an ex-soldier, and unable to properly care for his children; to the
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