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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. ..
Akron.
Frank Cook, Secretary
Ohio Penitentiary.
OFFICERS.
Name.
Office.
Residence.
Wm. N. Darby
Warden ..
L. H. Wells.
Deputy Warden.
C. A. Long.
C. B. Shook.
Assistant Deputy Warden .. Clerk. Assistant Clerk.
M. . A. Karshner
C. E. Wilcox
Steward. .
W. W. Harris.
Storekeeper
Wells Teachnor J. M. Thomas. Byron Palmer
Physician
Assistant Physician (day) .. Assistant Physician (night)
Belmont County. Hardin County. Highland County. Pickaway County. Franklin County. Ross County. Ashtabula County. Scioto County. Marion County. Franklin County.
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OFFICERS-Concluded.
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Name.
Office.
Residence.
David J. Starr.
Chaplain.
Thomas M. Brannan.
Postmaster.
R. E. Jones Arthur Griner.
Supt. Piece Price.
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ROSTER OF WARDENS, 1834-1902.
Name.
Term of Service.
Nathaniel Medbury
1834-1838. 1838-1841.
W. B. Van Hook
Richard Stadden
1841-1843.
John Pattison
1843-1846.
Laurin Dewey
1846-1850. 1851.
Samuel Atkinson
D. W. Brown
1851-1852.
A. G. Dimmock
1852-1854.
Samuel Wilson
1854-1855.
J. B. Buttle
1855-1856.
John Ewing
1856-1858.
L. G. Van Styke
John A. Prentice
Nathaniel Merion
John A. Prentice
Charles C. Walcutt
Raymond Burr
G. S. Innis
John G. Grove
J. B. McWhorter
B. F. Dyer
Noah Thomas
Isaac Petrie
E. G. Coffin
B. F. Dyer
C. C. James
E. G. Coffin
Wm. N. Darby
*Edward A. Hershey
1903
*Incumbent.
1878-1879. 1879-1880. 1880-1884. 1884-1886. 1886-1890. 1890-1892.
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Mrs. Mattie C. Brown. . .
Assistant Matron
Stenographer.
Hamilton County. Union County. Lawrence County. Muskingum County. Franklin County. Noble County. Guernsey County. Ashland County. Preble County. Hocking County. Periy County. Greene County. Logan County. Jackson County. Licking County. Summit County. Coshocton County. Hamilton County. Lucas County. Meigs County.
M. E. Fornshell J. E. Davis
Supt, Bertillon.
Samuel Cain. George A. Wood.
Hospital Quartermaster
Captain Night Watch.
W. H. Chandler
O. B. Randall.
C. B. Slack.
H. B. Robinson
Captain Guard Room (day). Captain Guard Room (night Superintendent Schools ... Supt. Construction.
C. A. Marden
Supt. Gas and Elect. Light .. Matron
Mrs. E. M. Armstrong.
Miss Della McMaster. .
Clerk in Piece Price Office. Superintendent Subsistence. Supt. State Shop.
J. E. Robinson.
Harry S. Ogle.
W. F. Bryant.
J. W. Beaird.
Supt. Transfers and Halls .. Superintendent Yards. Superintendent Printing.
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1858-1860. 1860-1862. 1862-1864. 1864-1866.
1866-1869. 1869-1872. 1872-1875. 1875-1878.
THE OHIO REFORMATORY.
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 'occupancy until September 18, '96, when 150 prisoners were brought from Columbus.
The object of this 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 ad- mitted. There are three grades : first, second and third. When inmates are admitted 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 jus- tifies, 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 the state under the supervision of the institution for one year, when, if their conduct justifies, they are fully discharged, and restored to citizen- ship 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.
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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
1880
R. F. Crawford.
Richland County.
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
Jefferson County.
1900
H. L. Ferneding.
Montgomery County.
1901.
W. A. Korns.
1901.
W. S. Rogers
1901.
T. F. Dye.
1902.
G. W. C. Perry
1903.
H. L. Ferneding
1904.
H. B. Coates.
1904.
Orland H. Bare
Stark County. Brown County.
1904.
Judson Vincent
Knox County.
Delaware County. Franklin County. Clinton County.
Delaware County. Hamilton County. Richland County. Miami County. Franklin 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.
1899 1900.
H. H. McFadden
S. P. Wolcott.
Portage County.
Tuscarawas County. Auglaize County. Meigs County. Ross County. Montgomery County.
OHIO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME.
T O provide for the establishment of this institution the General As- sembly passed an act April 30, 1886.
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 care- fully looked over. A site three miles from Sandusky was finally selector 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 improvement of grounds and construction of buildings was at once commenced.
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, Com- mandant; Capt. A. M. Anderson, Delaware, O., Adjutant; Col. E. J. Blount, Cincinnati, O., Quartermaster ; Dr. S. C. Rannells, Vinton county, Surgeon ; Mrs. Sarah J. Price, Mansfield, O., Matron, who entered upon the discharge of their duties in October, and the Home was opened on November 19, with seventeen members. The annual report for the year ending November 15, 1889, shows that 716 men had been admitted dur- ing the first year.
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 testi- monial of our appreciation of the eminent services rendered by Gen. Force for this institution. He was indeed the father of the Home.
"General Force had achieved renown as a soldier and jurist before being called upon 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 Com- mandant before the Home was opened. He accepted the responsibility and came with his devoted wife to prepare for the reception of those who should
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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 discipline. 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 spot- less 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 institution 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 wel- fare 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 medical attention to these old soldiers. Since the Home was opened in November, 1888, forty-eight hundred and eighty-five (4,885) men have been admitted and cared for. The Home is largely indebted to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Relief Corps for generous dona- tions of books, magazines and papers for the library, and hospital sup- plies of jellies, fruits, cushions and other articles.
The entire cost of building and permanent improvements, amounts 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 officer. He had the love and respect of the members of the Home.
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 prac-
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ticing law in Cincinnati. When Sumter was fired on he enlisted as a private in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Having been transferred to the regular establishment he was made a Major-General in the Span- ish-American War, and commanded a division of the Eighth Army Corps in the Philippine 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, 1903, was 1,258. The greatest number present, 1,436, was in January, 1904.
The officers and Board of Trustees are tabulated below :
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Name.
Residence.
Capt. J. L. Cameron. Gen. W. P. Orr, President. Gen. Thos. T. Dill, Secretary Col. J. J. Sullivan Col. F.G. Cross
Marysville. Piqua. Mansfield. Cleveland. Cincinnati.
OFFICERS OF THE HOME.
Name.
Office.
Gen. T. M. Anderson Capt. Wheeler Capt. Daniel Dugan. Major J. T. Haynes. Rev. W. M. Haines. Mrs. Mary L. Fuller.
Commandant. Adjutant. Quartermaster. Surgeon. Chaplain. Matron.
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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. .
The President of the Board is Col. J. L. Cameron, Corporal Com- pany "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 Gen- eral of the state. He is a leading citizen of Mansfeld, Ohio,
The average age of the members is 68 years. Among the inmates are eight Mexican War veterans and 18 Spanish-American War soldiers.
The per capita cost of maintenance for the year was $158.08. The expenditure was $203,905.43. Approximately two-thirds of this was from the general government.
General T. M. Anderson resigned as Commandant May 31st, 1904, and was succeeded by Col. J. W. R. Cline, of Springfield, Ohio, June Ist, 1904.
HOME OF THE OHIO SOLDIERS, SAILORS, MARINES, THEIR WIVES, MOTHERS AND WIDOWS AND ARMY NURSES.
TRUSTEES.
Name and Address.
Appointed.
Term Expires.
S. A. Wildman, Norwalk, Huron County J. Coby Winans, Troy, Miami County. A. J. Pearson, Woodsfield, Monroe Co .. A. C. Yengling, Salem, Columbiana County G. F. Robinson, Wash. C. H., Fayette Co
May 27, 1904
May 26, 1905.
May 27, 1904.
May 26, 1906.
May 27, 1904.
May 26, 1907.
May 27, 1904.
May 26, 1908.
May 27, 1904
May 26, 1909.
THE OHIO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ORPHANS' HOME.
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 quota 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 agitation 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, McMillen, Lester Arnold, Capt. McDowell, and others of the city of Xenia, being prominently identified with the early days of the Home. In September, 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 children. 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 admitted as fast a' accommodations for them could be provided. The citizens of Xenia and of Greene county were genuinely interested in the movement, 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 pro- viding 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 presented the Home with 100 acres of ground, afterwards increased to about 300 acres by purchase of the State of Ohio, on which the present institution was afterward located by the state, and the county commissioners of Greene county, during that winter, voted six thousand dollars toward the current ex- penses of the Home to prevent the children from feeling the reduced con- dition to which the treasury of the Grand Army had been depleted by the expense of opening and operating an institution of such a character. The loyalty and public spirit of the men and women of Greene county
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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 appeal 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 pres- ent time, there has never been an hour when there were not more ap- plicants 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 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 children of ex-soldiers, whose parents being alive were not able to care for them; to the children and orphans residing in Ohio of such soldiers and sailors who have died or may hereafter die by reason of wounds received or disease contracted while serving in the military or naval forces of the United States.
In 1870 the instruction consisted of the usual school course with some outdoor labor; in 1875 industrial pursuits were added to the school course, and to the number of industries then inaugurated there have been constant additions, aggregating twenty-three, as the science of manual training has grown more familiar to the educator. In the Home was thus established far in advance of similar public institutions, a Manual Training School, supported by public funds for public uses. The Home is the largest institution of its kind in the world, and has a long history of active educational work. Graduates from its schools are filling honor- able positions in the civil, political, financial, military, and naval depart-
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inents of American life. It has been frequently said that in all America it would be hard to find a spot more hallowed to the memory of American Soldiery, more filled with the stirring influences of patriotic devotion to country and to the country's flag; more typical of the peace and honor which follow from the defense of Rights and Liberty, than among the scenes and experiences which surround the home and school life of the 900 pupils of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia.
From an old photograph, made in 1872, the illustration was taken which heads this article, and, on the back of this old photograph is given the names of the men who were appointed by the Governor of Ohio to take over the Home from the Grand Army in April, 1870, and mould it into a state institution. They are:
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1870-1874.
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Residence.
Gen. R. P. Buckland.
Gen. James Barnett.
Gen. J. Warren Keifer.
Fremont. Cleveland. Springfield.
Barnabas Burns ..
Mansfield.
Gen. Manning F. Force
Gen. John S. Jones.
A. Trader.
Cincinnati. Delaware. Xenia.
SUPERINTENDENT 1870-1874. . .
Dr. L. D. Griswold, Medical Dept. U. S. V. Elyria.
The annual report for 1902 gives the following official roster :
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Dr. H. C. Houston, President Urbana
Col. D. Q. Morrow, Secretary
Hillsboro
Capt. P. H. Dowling Toledo
Gen. J. W. Keifer Springfield J. C. Roland. . Cleveland Gen. Charles L. Young. Superintendent
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OFFICERS.
Name.
Offices.
Gen. Charles L. Young. Thomas J. Collins. . Mrs. Cora Day Young. . Warren C. Hewitt, M. D. Thomas A. Edwards.
Superintendent. Financial Officer. Physician. Supt. of Schools. Matron.
The Home employes thirty-six cottage matrons, thirty-two teachers in the regular course, fourteen foremen of industrial branches and trades and gives a home and instruction to about 950 children in average attend- ance.
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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.
1 N 1878 the legislature passed "An act to reorganize and change the name of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and to re- peal certain acts therein mentioned." The act provided that the in- stitution should be thereafter designated as "The Ohio State Univers- ity." Up to this time but one appropriation had been made by the State for the support of the institution. With the reorganization came the larger and broader view of the State's relation to public education, and since that time the Ohio State University has shared with other public · educational institutions a more generous support by the State.
The governing body of the institution is a Board of Trustees, ap- pointed by the Governor of the State and confirmed by the Senate, for terms of seven years as provided in the law organizing the University. The original endowment has been supplemented, and the objects of the University promoted, by a permanent annual grant from the United States, under an act of 1890, by special appropriations of the General Assembly ; and in 1891, by a permanent annual grant from the State, which grant was doubled by the legislature of 1896. In accordance with the spirit of law under which it is organized, the University aims to furnish ample facilities for education in the liberal and industrial arts, the sciences and the languages, and for thorough technical and profession- al study of agriculture, engineering in its various departments, veterin- ary medicine, pharmacy and law. Through the aid which has been re- ceived from the United States and from the State, it is enabled to offer its privileges, with a slight charge for incidental expenses, to all persons of either sex who are qualified for admission.
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