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To schools .
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89
177
252
251
146 310
140 409
131 468
437
526
To granges
2
92
46
95
100
80
71
78
129
110
To independent study clubs
7
128
90
179
224
153
181
160
168
126
To religious organizations. .
1
35
50
50
87
85
89
82
94
To libraries .
4
20
10
27
16
26
33
27
To men's clubs.
1
21
14
19
36
2
62
378
445
711
763
803 22,031
966 27,078 30,935
1,027 36,441
1,106
Total .. Number of volumes
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1,331
9.887
12,877
19,505
20,698
40,007
*Libraries issued within the year ending November 15, 1906, were sent to 796 communities.
NOTE-Detailed history of the State Library has been written by William T. Coggeshall, John C. Tuthill and C. B. Galbreath.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
The State Library will be open, except Sunday and holidays, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. During the months of July and August the library will close at 4 p. m. During sessions of the Legislature the library will be open, except Saturday, till 9 p. m.
All citizens of the State over twenty-one years of age will be per- mitted to draw books in accordance with the following rules:
All State officers elected by the people or appointed by the Governor may draw books by giving receipt.
Citizens who desire to draw books may do so on furnishing the Library Board a satisfactory guarantee or through the public library in their city.
No one shall keep from the library more than two volumes at one time, nor any volume more than two weeks without renewal.
One renewal will be allowed and the book may be kept for two weeks from the date of renewal.
No borrower shall keep a book more than three days after notice has been mailed to his address that it is wanted at the library or that the book is due.
Any book not returned after one week's notice may be sent for at the expense of the borrower.
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The Board of Library Commissioners.
Any book not returned after one month's notice may be considered lost, in which case the borrower shall pay its full value or the value of the set to which it belongs.
All expenses connected with the issue of the books or their return shall be paid by the borrower.
Any person failing to return a book within one week after notice has been mailed forfeits the privilege of the library until reinstated by the Board.
The Board will determine what books may not be taken from the library.
Traveling libraries, of from 25 to 40 volumes each, will be loaned for from three to five months. For particulars, address State Librarian, Columbus, Ohio.
LIST OF OHIO STATE LIBRARIANS FROM 1817 to 1902.
Name.
Term of Service
John L. Harper
1817-1818
John McElvain.
1818-1820
David S. Broderick
1820-1824
Zechariah Mills.
1824-1842
Thomas Kennedy
1842-1845
John Greiner.
1845-1851
Elijah Hayward
1851-1854
James W. Taylor
1854-1856
W. T. Coggeshall
1856-1862
S. G. Harbaugh
1862-1874
W. C. Hood ..
1874-1875
H. H. Robinson
1875-1877
R. M. Stimson
1877-1879
H. V. Kerr
1879-1881
Joseph H. Geiger
1881-1883
H. L. Conard
1883-1885
H. W. Pierson
1885-1886
F. B. Loomis
1886-1887
John M. Doane.
1887-1889
W. G. Sibley .
Dec. 1, 1889, to Feb. 20, 1890.
John C. Tuthill
1890-1892
Joseph P. Smith.
1892-1896
C. B. Galbreath
1896-
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The Board of Library Commissioners.
STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION FROM 1845 TO 1896.
Board.
Years.
Names.
First.
1845-1847
Second
1847-1849
Third
1849-1851
Fourth
1851 -- 1852
Fifth.
1852-1854
Sixth
1854-1856
Seventh
1856-1858
Eighth
1859
Salmon P. Chase, Addison P. Russell, William T. Coggeshall.
Ninth
1860
Tenth
1862
Eleventh
1863
Twelfth
1865
Thirteenth.
1866.
Fourteenth
1867
R. B. Hayes, John Russell, S. G. Harbaugh.
Fifteenth
1868.
Sixteenth.
1869-1871
Seventeenth
1872.
Eighteenth
1873
Nineteenth
1874.
Twentieth
1876.
Twenty-first
1877
Twenty-second
1878 .
Twenty-third
1880
Twenty-fourth
1882.
Twenty-fifth
1883.
Twenty-sixth
1884.
Twenty-seventh
1885.
Twenty-eighth
1886.
Geo. Hoadley, J. S. Robinson, H. W. Pierson. J. B. Foraker, J. S. Robinson, F. B. Loomis.
Twenty-ninth
1887. .
Thirtieth
1888-1889
Thirty-first
1890-1892
Thirty-second
1892-1894
Thirty-third
1894-1896
William McKinley, Jr., Samuel M. Taylor, Joseph P. Smith
LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS UNDER GARFIELD ACT OF 1896.
1896-1897-Charles A. Reynolds, President; Rutherford B. Hayes, J. F. McGrew. 1898 -J. F. McGrew, President; O. E. Niles, Chas. A. Reynolds. 1899-1901-J. F. McGrew, President; O. E. Niles, Chas. Orr.
1902 -J. F. McGrew, President; Chas. Orr, John McSweeney.
1904 -J. F. McGrew, President; Chas. Orr, John McSweeney.
1906 -J. F. McGrew, President; Chas. Orr; John McSweeney.
Mordecai Bartley, Samuel Galloway, John Greiner William Webb, Samuel Galloway, John Greiner Seabury Ford, Samuel Galloway, John Greiner. Reuben Wood, Henry W. King, Elijah Hayward. Reuben Wood, William Trevitt, Elijah Hayward. Wm. Medill, William Trevitt, James W. Taylor. Salmon P. Chase, James H. Baker, William T. Coggeshall.
Wm. Dennison, A. P. Russell, W. T. Coggeshall. David Tod, W. S. Kennon, S. G. Harbaugh.
David Tod, W. W. Armstrong, S. G. Harbaugh. Chas. Anderson, Wm. H. Smith, S. G. Harbaugh. J. D. Cox, W. H. Smith, S. G. Harbaugh.
R. B. Hayes, Isaac R. Sherwood, S. G. Harbaugh. R. B. Hayes, Isaac R. Sherwood, S. G. Harbaugh. Edward F. Noyes, Isaac R. Sherwood, S. G. Harbaugh.
Edward F. Noyes, A. T. Wikoff, S. G. Harbaugh. William Allen, A. T. Wikoff, W. C. Hood.
R. B. Hayes, Wm. Bell, Jr., H. H. Robinson. Thos. L. Young, Milton Barnes, R. M. Stimson. R. M. Bishop, Milton Barnes, R. M. Stimson. Charles Foster, Milton Barnes, H. V. Kerr. Charles Foster, Chas. Townsend, J. H. Geiger. Charles Foster, J. W. Newman, H. L. Conard. Geo. Hoadley, J. W. Newman, H. L. Conard.
J. B. Foraker, J. S. Robinson, John M. Doane. J. B. Foraker, Daniel J. Ryan, John M. Doane. Jas. E. Campbell, Daniel J. Ryan, John C. Tuthill. William McKinley, Jr., C. L. Poorman, Joseph P. Smith.
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The Board of Library Commissioners.
J OHN FRANKLIN McGREW was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 3, 1854. He
moved to Springfield in February, 1856. He graduated from Witten- berg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1873; was admitted to the barn in 1877, and has been in practice since that time, with the exception of two years, dur- ing which time he was manager of the Republic Printing Company, of Spring- field, publishers of The Republic. He was elected to the Sixty-ninth General Assembly in 1889 as a Republican and was re-elected to the Seventieth General Assembly. He was appointed Library Commissioner by Governor Bushnell
April 22, 1896, for the term of four years and was reappointed by Governor Nash, in April, 1900, for the full term of six years.
Mr. McGrew has taken a very active interest in everything pertaining to the State Library and for a number of years has been President of the Board of Commissioners.
CHARLES ORR was born at Cedarville, Ohio, January 8, 1858. His parents, John and Henrietta Orr, later moved to Xenia, where he attended the city schools and graduated from the High School in 1875. Later he en- gaged in the book and stationery business, in connection with which he oper- ated a book bindery and built up an extensive trade. From Xenia he went to New York City, where he was for a time employed in the famous Brentano book store. He then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which city he was soon called to the Case Library, of Cleveland, Ohio, of which he has had charge for the past twelve years. In the spring of 1899 he was appointed on the Board of Library Commissioners to succeed Captain Charles A. Reynolds, who resigned to assume command of his company in the Philippines.
Mr. Orr has spent the greater part of his life in contact with books. He has been active in the Ohio Library Association, which he has served as Secretary and President.
J OHN McSWEENEY was born in Wooster, Ohio, August 1, 1854. He is the son of the late John McSweeney, the eloquent advocate, whose fame ex- tended beyond the borders of Ohio. He was graduated from the Wooster High School. and at the age of twenty-two from the University of Wooster. Later he studied law in the Boston Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. Soon afterward he was elected City Solicitor of Wooster and served in this position from 1879 to 1883. In the latter year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, a position which he held until 1889. Since then he has applied himself to the practice of law and has built up a large prac- tice. He was appointed by Governor Mckinley a trustee of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, served through the two terms of Governor Bushnell's admin- istration and was reappointed by Governor Nash. He was appointed Library Commissioner by Governor Nash in April, 1902, for the full term of six years.
Mr. McSweeney has been, not only a hard student, but an ardent lover of literature. He is an excellent judge of books and finds his new position very congenial to his tastes.
CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH was born in Fairfield township, Colum- biana County, February 15, 1858. His early life was spent on the farm. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school. In June of 1879 he com- pleted a course in the Lisbon High School, and in September of the same year entered Mount Union College, from which he was graduated in 1883. One year later this institution conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He was su- perintendent of the Wilmot, Stark County, schools from 1883 to 1885, when he resigned to accept the superintendency of the East Palestine, Ohio, schools, where he remained eight years. Although unanimously re-elected for two years
more, he resigned to accept a position in Mt. Hope College. While in East Palestine he was for two years editor of The Reveille, now The Reveille-Echo. He was school examiner of Columbiana County from 1885 to 1893. In 1896 he was elected State Librarian by the Library Commission created by the Seventy-second General Assembly. He is a member of the Ohio Library As- sociation, the American Library Association and the National Association of State Librarians. Of the last named organization he was President in 1900.
THE STATE BOARD OF PARDONS.
T T HE Ohio State Board of Pardons was created by an act of the General Assembly of Ohio, April 11, 1888. The act provided the Governor should nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint four suitable persons having the quali- fications of electors, two of whom should be appointed from each of the two leading political parties. Two of the members thereof, appointed from the same political party, should serve for one and three years re- spectively, and two members thereof, appointed from the other political party, should serve for two and four years, respectively; and that there- after the Governor in like manner should appoint a member of said board, of like qualifications and from the same political party as the member whom he succeeds, who shall serve for four years ..
The act further provided that the Board should organize by electing one of their number president, and it was made the duty of the executive clerk of the Governor to act as Secretary.
The Board meets regularly on the first Thursday after the second Monday in January, and on the same day every third month thereafter, and at such other times as they may deem necessary.
The Board has formulated rules for the guidance of the applicants, which, together with other blanks, can be secured from the Secretary, at the Governor's office.
All cases presented to the Board are heard by the entire Board, and the cases separately referred to some member of the Board for investiga- tion, who makes a written report to the entire Board' at its next meeting, when the report is adopted or rejected, and together with all other papers is transmitted to the Governor. for his consideration.
The Board makes an annual written report to the Governor on the first Monday in December of each year, of its actions during the last preceding year, its officers and members, and the names thereof, with a recommendation for such legislation as they think proper in order to carry out more fully the object and purpose of its creation.
Under the constitution and laws, the Governor cannot pass upon or grant a pardon until after the case has been submitted to the Board of Pardons, and passed upon by that body, except in cases specifically men- tioned in the statutes.
The Board was created for the purpose of relieving the Governor of the task of examining manifold papers and documents, which con- sumed a large part of his time, to the detriment of other important public business.
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The State Board of Pardons.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF PARDONS, 1888-1907. CHARLES C. LEMERT, Secretary.
Names.
Years.
Counties.
Chas. N. Vallandigham.
1888.
Franklin.
A. V. Rice . . .
1888
Putnam.
Thos. T. Thompson
1888.
Cuyahoga.
Nathan Drucker.
1888
Hamilton
Theo. E. Cunningham
1888.
Allen.
L. D. Hagerty
1888
Franklin.
Henry Kahlo
1888
Lucas.
Nathan Drucker.
1889.
Hamilton.
E. J. Kennedy
1889
Cuyahoga.
Cassily C. Cook.
1890
Hamilton.
L. W. Baughman
1890
Wayne.
John R. Malloy
1890.
Franklin.
L. A. Koons
1891.
Athens.
J. W. Baughman
1891
Wayne.
E. J. Kennedy
1891.
Cuyahoga.
Harry Miner
1892
Franklin .
James P. McNally
1894.
Mahoning.
M. M. Rose .
1895.
Washington.
George Ewing
1895-99.
Fairfield.
J. E. Braden.
1896
Darke.
S. F. Hanselman
1897
Portage
John A. Wilkins
1897.
Fulton.
S. J. Hatfield
1897.
Shelby.
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P. H. Bruck
1905.
Franklin.
S. S. Deaton
1905
Champaign.
George Ewing
1907
Fairfield.
S. J. Hatfield
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Shelby.
Samuel D. Dodge.
1909
Cuyahoga.
Paul B. Worthington
1909
Belmont.
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
T HE Ohio State Board of Health was established by an act of Legislature, passed April 14, 1886. Hon. J. B. Foraker, then Governor of Ohio, appointed the following persons as
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
Name.
Residence.
Term of Service.
*W. H. Cretcher, M. D.
Bellefontaine
1886-1889
T. Clarke Miller
Massillon
1886-1887
+John D. Jones, M. D
Cincinnati
1886-1889
Simon P. Wise, M. D
Millersburg
1886-1896
D. H. Beckwith, M. D
Cleveland
1886-1890
Thos. C. Hoover, M. D.
Columbus
1886-1897
H. J. Sharp, M. D.
London
1886-1892
*Deceased.
+Resigned.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE.
Name.
Residence.
Term of Service.
.
ยท Edward T. Nelson, A. M., M. D
Delaware.
1887-1897
Jos. T. Anderson, M. D
Cincinnati
1889-1891
S. A. Conklin, M. D.
Canton.
1889-1893
Wm. T. Miller, M. D.
Cleveland
1890-1907
A. J. Scott, M. D.
Loudonville
1891-1892
Byron Stanton, M. D.
Cincinnati
1892-1907
R. D. Kahle, M. D.
Lima
1892-1899
Josiah Hartzell, Ph. D.
Canton.
1893-1907
J. C. Crossland, M. D.
Zanesville
1896-1907
Darwin G. Palmer, M. D.
Geneva
1901-1907
Frank Warner, M. D.
Columbus
1898-1907
W. C. Chapman, M. D
Toledo
1899-1907
The Board held its first meeting in Columbus on April 30, 1886, and organized by electing Dr. W. H. Cretcher President, and appointing Dr. G. C. Ashmun, the health officer of Cleveland, as Secretary.
Dr. Ashmun resigned this position in June, 1886, and Dr. Guy Case, of Cleveland, was appointed as his successor. Dr. Case tendered his
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resignation July 27, 1886, and Dr. C. O. Probst, of Columbus, was ap- pointed Secretary on the same date. Dr. Probst has continuously filled the position since that time, and is the present Secretary.
The Board first directed its efforts to building up a complete health organization for the entire State. In 1886 the larger cities and a very few villages were the only municipalities that had availed themselves of the provisions of an act permitting them to establish a local board of health.
The Board at once took up the work of increasing the number and improving the efficiency of local boards of health. Within a few years it secured a board of health in all cities and villages.
In 1893 the townships, which up to that time had had practically no protection in health matters, were required to establish boards of health, so that provision is now made for a board of health or health officer in every city, village and township.
Sanitary legislation has been secured from time to time enlarging the powers and increasing the duties of both the State and local boards of health.
In furtherance of its work the Board began, in 1897, a systematic examination of the streams in Ohio. Each main stream, with its tribu- taries, has been carefully examined from source to outlet with a view to determining the source and character of its pollution. Monthly chemical and bacteriological examinations of the waters of these streams, taken at various places on each stream, have been made, and careful gaugings and measurements to determine their rates of flow at different seasons of the year. This work is completed for the main drainage system of the State. Five special reports of much value have been published upon this sub- ject.
An act of 1898 authorized the Board to establish a Laboratory "for the examination of public water supplies, the diagnosis of diphtheria, typhoid fever, hydrophobia, glanders, etc., and for the examination of food suspected to be the cause of disease."
The Laboratory has been placed at the disposal of all local boards of health, and examinations are made free for any physician for the diagnosis of various communicable diseases.
The Board is frequently called upon to examine the sanitary condi- tion of public institutions and school buildings, to investigate the causes of outbreaks of epidemic diseases, and to assist the local authorities in the abatement of nuisances injurious to health.
Beginning with a Secretary, the working force of the Board has been gradually increased until it now embraces a chief clerk, two as- sistant clerks, three stenographers, five engineers, a chemist and bac- teriologist and three assistant chemists.
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The immense growth of public sentiment in the last ten years in favor of improved sanitary conditions and more stringent measures for the prevention of disease has been due in no small part to the progressive character of the work of the State Board of Health; and we may con- fidently hope that this enlightened sentiment will gradually lead to a more generous support of health measures, whereby the sum of human happiness and average duration of life may be materially increased.
The State Board has kept in close touch with the local boards and is constantly helping them by aid and advice.
In 1888 a monthly journal was established as a medium of frequent communication between the State and local boards of health. A sum- mary of the weekly reports of contagious diseases, made to the State Board, by the local boards, is published therein, with other original and reprinted matter of interest or suitable for the guidance or instruction of health officers and members of boards of health.
In 1891 a call was issued for a meeting of the State Board of Health and representatives of local boards of health. About forty delegates were present at this meeting. Annual meetings have been held regularly since; the attendance at the late meetings has been nearly or quite four hundred. By an act of April 2, 1906, each city, village and township board of health is required to send a delegate to annual conferences called by the State Board of Health.
The State Board of Health has endeavored to disseminate among the people plain instructions for the prevention of the dangerous contagious diseases. Suitable pamphlets were prepared, and hundreds of thousands of copies have been distributed. Ail local boards of health have been supplied with copies of these, and when a contagious disease appears in any community they are urged 'to distribute the appropriate circular to families having the disease, and to their neighbors.
In 1893 an act was passed providing that plans for all proposed water works or sewerage systems or for changes or extensions thereof should be submitted to and approved by the State Board of Health. The Board has examined and passed upon nearly six hundred such plans. It has been able in this way to protect many communities against the introduction of an impure water supply, and to prevent what in some instances would have been dangerous pollution of sources of existing public water supplies. To this end it has encouraged the introduction of sewage purification plants, of which there are now thirty-seven in the State, and at the present time is especially endeavoring to secure the filtration of public water suppplies where pollution is known to exist. A recent study has been made of all water and sewage purification plants in the State, which will be the subject of a special report.
OHIO FISH AND GAME COMMISSION.
T HE Ohio Fish and Game Commission was created in 1886, and is composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, who serve for five years each without compensation, except their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The law defines the duties of the Commissioners as follows: "To examine the various rivers, lakes, ponds and streams in the State, or bordering thereon, and to ascertain whether they can be rendered more productive of fish and game, and what measures are required to effect this object, either in restoring the production of fish and game in and about them, or in protecting and propagating the fish which at present frequent and abound in them, or otherwise; and the Commissioners shall carry into effect all measures in this behalf, that they deem necessary, so far as means are placed at their disposal for these purposes; and they shall also inquire into the matter of artificial propagation of fish in the waters of the State, and adopt such plans to test the efficiency of this mode of increasing the quality of edible fish as they think best."
To carry into effect the laws providing for the protection and pres- ervation of birds, fish and game the Commission appoints a force of wardens, deputy state wardens and special wardens, and by these a large number of arrests and convictions are made each year. Special wardens are appointed for some of the public lakes and' reservoirs of the State, and there are also special wardens for Lake Erie.
In the matter of propagating fish the Commission maintains a fine hatchery near London, Ohio, where black bass, marble cat, and crappies are raised and at the proper time are distributed to the public streams and lakes throughout the State. A new hatchery for the artificial prop- agation of fish for Lake Erie is maintained at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. The lake fishing interests being of great magnitude and importance, the work of the Commission in respect to propagating these fish is one of . vital necessity. The Commission has accomplished great good in its various endeavors, and there is every reason to believe that the future will be even more productive of satisfactory results.
The present personnel of the Commission is as follows : Paul North, president, Cleveland; D. W. Greene, Dayton; Thomas B. Paxton, Cin- cinnati ; George W. McCooke, Steubenville, and J. F. Rankin, 'South Charleston. The secretary of the Commission is George C. Blanker, of Columbus. The active work of the Commission is under the charge of General John C. Speaks, of Columbus.
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THE BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES.
T HE Ohio Board of State Charities is composed of six members appointed by the Governor. The law requires that the member- ship shall be equally divided between the two leading political parties, and fixes the term of office at three years. The members re- ceive no compensation for their services, but their actual expenses in- curred in the discharge of their duties are paid by the State. The Board appoints its own secretary, who is not a member of the Board. It is required to hold quarterly meetings, but special meetings may be held at any time.
It was first established by an act of the legislature passed in 1867, Massachusetts being the only state to precede Ohio in the enactment of such a law. Its organization at that time was due to the efforts of a member of the House of Representatives from Cuyahoga County, Hon- orable D. A. Dangler, who had the support of the then Governor, Jacob D. Cox. The motive that actuated Mr. Dangler in the introduction of his measure is defined by him as follows: "I availed myself of the op- portunity, as a member of the Ohio. Legislature, of visiting the State : institutions for the purpose of familiarizing myself, as far as possible, with their arrangement. It was after such a visit that I became im- pressed that the citizens of the great State of Ohio should have a more perfect knowledge of the management of these institutions than was gained by the annual visits of their representatives in the Legislature." In a speech advocating the passage of the bill introduced by him, Mr. Dangler said :
"My objects are, by the agency of a common center and common head, to crystallize those various suggestions tending towards reforma- tion and economy in the present system of management and extend their application to all alike by the same agency; to extract from the systems in use in the European states and countries, such ideas as may be appli- cable to our peculiar wants and requirements; through the introduction of statistics and analytical records, to assist in the diminution of crime, suffering and sickness, by pointing out the causes, occasion and the source ; by the adoption of similiar rules and regulations for institutions of a like character, to render their management uniform, harmonious and effective, and by a common standard of qualification for the various offices, prevent the appointment of any but those fully qualified to dis- charge the various duties with honesty and efficiency."
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