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Associated with this patriotic ideal, is the conviction that leaders should be men of scholarship and sound character. The management has never faltered in that belief that a college faculty should be men of unquestionable character and highest ability. The college education shows itself in a patriotic citizenship, genuine manliness, sound scholar- ship and liberal culture. Under this ideal more than a thousand men
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have been graduated, and many times that number have pursued their courses in part.
Miami University is owned and operated by the State of Ohio, and in recent years favorable legislative action has given the institution more vigorous life than ever before. One of the new buildings is the gift of the late Senator Brice, and bears his name. Another bears the name of Hon. John W. Herron, of Cincinnati, whose long and able services to the University have only, been equaled by his generosity.
The chapel in the east wing of the main building has recently been enlarged and improved, and, in memory of Robert H. Bishop Jr., for many years Professor of Latin in the University, named "Bishop Chapel."
The library occupies a part of the second floor of the main building, and consists of some 20,000 volumes, among which many rare old editions may be found.
By the Seese Law, passed by the Legislature of Ohio in March, 1902, two State Normal Schools were established, one of these at Miami Uni- versity. The law provides for its maintenance by a special tax levy on the grand list of the taxable property of the State.
In September, 1902, the Normal School was opened, and a large number of students enrolled.
Provision is being made for the erection of a dormitory for the ac- commodation of the young women.
In June, 1902, the Rev. Guy Potter Benton was unanimously elected president, and inaugurated September, 1902.
The location is as healthful as can be found, and comprises fifty- seven acres of the most beautiful campus to be found in the west.
Miami has never been a large institution when measured by her numbers, nor has she ever aspired to be such, but she has been great when measured by her men.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Hon. John W .! Herron, LL. D.
President ·
Anna J. Bishop
Secretary
G. A. McSurely . Treasurer
Name.
Accessus.
Exitus.
Samuel F. Hunt, LL.D., Glendale
1872
1908*
Clark B. Montgomery, Cincinnati ..
1887
1908
James R. Patterson, Oxford .
1899
1908
David R. Silver, M.D., Sidney.
1899
1908
Rev. Daniel H. Evans, D.D., Youngstown.
1892
1908
Francis M. Coppock, Cincinnati
1899
1908
Alex. C. Sands, Jr., Cincinnati .
1890
1908
Gen. Henry C. Taylor, Columbus.
1899
1908
*Died January fourteen, nineteen hundred and seven.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES-Concluded.
Name.
Accessus.
Exitus.
Prof. George R. Eastman, Dayton.
1900
1908
James E. Morey, Hamilton.
1887·
1911
Nelson Sayler, Cincinnati.
1875
1911
Rev. David R. Moore, D.D., South Salem
1893
1911
John N. Van Deman, Dayton.
1893
1911
Rev. Richmond A. Montgomery, D.D., Xenia.
1906
1911
Walter L. Tobey, Hamilton. .
1895
1911
Rev. George H. Fullerton, D.D., Springfield
1900
1911
Lyle S. Evans, Chillicothe.
1902
1911
William F. Eltzroth, Lebanon.
1902
1911
Nelson W. Evans, Portsmouth.
1888
1914
John M. Withrow, M.D., Cincinnati.
1885
1914
Theophilus R. Kumler, Oxford.
1889
1914
Elam Fisher, Eaton .
1887
1914
Horace A. Irvin, Dayton.
1896
1914
William S. Giffen, Hamilton.
1898
1914
John W. Herron, LL.D., Cincinnati.
1860
1914
Oakley V. Parrish, Hamilton
1900
1914
Walter S. Thomas, Troy
1872
1914
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
T. R. Kumler
. Oxford
J. E. Morey
Hamilton
J. R. Patterson
. Oxford
W. L. Tobey
Hamilton
O. V. Parrish
Hamilton
EDUCATIONAL STAFF. (The University Senate.)
Guy Potter Benton, D.D., LL.D., President. Professor of History.
Andrew D. Hepburn, D.D., LL.D., Vice- President. : Liberal Arts, English, Literature.
H. C. Minnich, A. M., Dean Normal Col- lege
School Administration.
Elizabeth Hamilton, A. B ..
. Dean of Women and School Administration.
Edgar E. Brandon, Univ. D
Romanic Languages and Literatures.
Raymond M. Hughes, M. Sc.
Chemistry.
William A. Eckels, Ph. D .
Greek and Literature.
Stephen R. Williams, Ph. D.
Biology.
Anna E. Logan, A. M.
. Training and School Methods.
Banks J. Wildman, A. M.
Latin and Literature.
*George W. Hoke, Ph. M.
Geography.
Edward C. Hayes, Ph. D.
Economics and Sociology.
Frederick W. Stone ..
Gymnasium and Physical Culture.
¡Samuel C. Parker, A. M.
Education.
Joseph A. Culler, Ph. D.
Physics.
Elmer E. Powell, Ph. D.
Philosophy.
Arthur G. Hall, Ph. D.
Mathematics.
¿Charles H. Handschin, Ph. D
German Language and Literature.
Warren Darst, A. M.
Acting Professor of Education.
Bruce Fink, Ph. D.
Botany and Bacteriology.
Fred. C. Whitcomb, A. M
Manual Arts and Manual Training.
Benj. M. Davis, Ph. D.
Natural History and Elementary Agricul- ture.
*Absent on leave at Oxford University.
¡Absent on leave at the Teachers' College of Columbia University.
¿Absent on leave during spring and summer term at the University of Berlin.
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EDUCATIONAL STAFF-Concluded.
Thomas L. Feeney, A. M.
Methods and Mathematics.
Alfred H. Upham, A. M.
Associate Professor of English.
Orlando B. Finch, A. M.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
Mrs. Francis G. Richards, A. M
Assistant Professor of English.
Fred L. Hadsell, A. M
Principal of Academy and Latin.
John E. Bradford, A. M.
Assistant Professor of History.
Shilo S. Myers, Mus. D.
Music.
Arthur L. Gates, A. B
Public Speaking and Dramatic Art.
Wm. H. Whitcomb, M. S.
Assistant Chemistry.
Wm. F. Luebke, A. B.
Assistant German.
Raymond V. Phelan, Ph. D
Assistant Economics.
Raymond H. Burke, A. M.
Geography and Nature Study.
Alice R. Robinson.
Art.
Mrs. Carrie P. Herndon, A. M.
History.
Omen K. Boring .
Romanic Languages. . .
Mrs. M. C. Angell .
Model Teacher.
Anna H. Ranson.
Kindergarten Method.
Anna Bier. .
Art.
Mary E. Weber
Method.
Sara Greer .
English and German.
Margarette Davis
Assistant in Music.
NON-RESIDENT LECTURERS, PEDAGOGY.
James L. Hughes, A. M.,
Homer B. Williams, A. M.,
Thomas A. Mott, A. M., John W. Carr, A. B., E. M. Van Cleve, A. B.,
Maude Summers,
O. J. Kern, A. B.,
Grace Greene.
John A. Schwan, A. M.,
ORGANIZATION.
EXECUTIVE.
Guy Potter Benton President of the University
E. Vernon Hill. . Secretary to the President
Anna Jerusha Bishop. Secretary of the Board of Trustees
Ralph R. Storey . Executive Clerk
May Morris. Private Secretary
(Offices, Rooms 103, 105 and 107 Main Building.) (Hours, 8 to 12 a. m., and 2 to 5 p. m.)
ADMINISTRATIVE.
Guy Potter Benton Chairman of the University Senate
Andrew Dousa Hepburn. Vice Chairman of the University Senate
Anna Elizabeth Logan. Secretary of the University Senate Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes. . Registrar of the University
Bert Surene Bartlow Field Secretary Julia Rogers Bishop. Assistant Registrar
William Jasper McSurely, D.D. Librarian
Ella Glenn McSurely .
Assistant Librarian
Hugh Miller Moore, M. D
Medical Director
Mrs. Cora Warren Tudor
Matron
Arthur Hawley Parmelee. . General Secretary Young Men's Christian Association
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL.
President, Guy Potter Benton, D.D., LL.D., Professor Edgar Ewing Brandon, Univ. D., Secretary.
Dean Andrew Dousa Hepburn, D.D., LL.D., Dean Harvey C. Minnich, A. M. Professor Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes, M. Sc.
Professor William Alexander Eckels, Ph.D.
THE WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY.
T HE Wilberforce University, located in Greene County, near Xenia, Ohio, cannot be considered one of the state educational institu-
tions, except that it has been receiving state assistance in es- tablishing and maintaining an industrial department since 1887. The University is for colored youth, and affords an opportunity for extending industrial training to colored youth, such as is not found in other in- stitutions in the State.
The following brief history of this institution is a matter of historical value :
On September 28, 1853, the Cincinnati Conference of the M. E. Church selected a committee which recommended "the establishment of a literary institution of high order for the education of colored people gen- erally ;" and in May, 1856, "Tawawa Springs," a beautiful summer resort in Greene County, Ohio, was purchased, and Wilberforce University was organized. By concurrent action, the M. E. and A. M. E. Conferences of Ohio entered into co-operation for the success of the University. It was incorporated August 30, 1856, and a board of twenty-four trustees selected, including Governor Salmon P. Chase, President R. S. Rust, Ash- land Keith, of the colored Baptist denomination, and D. A. Payne ; and the broad principle adopted that there shall never be any distinction among the trustees, faculty or students, on account of race, color or creed.
The University began its work in October, 1856, under Rev. M. P. Gaddis, as principal. He was succeeded by Professor James K. Parker, and he by Dr. Richard S. Rust, the first president. During the first epoch, which terminated with the Civil War, the number of students, largely the children of Southern planters, varied from seventy to one hundred. Commendable progress was made in literary culture. The war closed the school, and the M. E. Church withdrew from the field.
On March 10, 1863, D. A. Payne purchased the property for $10,000, and associated with himself James A. Shorter and Professor John G. Mitchell, in the reorganizing of the University. It is the oldest college for negroes in this country. Congress in 1870 appropriated $25,000; Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase bequeathed. $10,000; the Charles Avery estate added $10,000, and the American Unitarian Association gave for lectures $6,000 to the University.
On March 19, 1887, the Legislature of the State of Ohio came to our aid, helping us in establishing a Normal and Industrial Department, and is appropriating now $17,000 per annum to the University. On Janu- ary 9, 1894, President Cleveland detailed Lieutenant John H. Alexander,
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a West Point graduate, to organize and instruct the Military Department of Wilberforce University, and the United States government is still main- taining this department. At the breaking out of the Spanish-American war, Wilberforce furnished some of the best negro soldiers that went to the front, a number of whom are fighting for the flag in the Philippines today.
The University has received from all sources since organization $513,202.80. Six thousand and six negro youths have attended the Uni- versity, most of them coming from the South. Two hundred and sixty- six have graduated from our literary courses, and are now preaching and teaching in the South, striving to help solve the race question. Two hundred and ten have graduated from the Industrial Department, and are now engaged in the useful trades. It is the pride of the University that it has always been the aim and object to contribute her full share to the intellectual, moral, physical, and industrial uplift of the negro, and thereby assist in removing the standing menace to our American institu- tions-the race problem.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Name.
Residence.
W. A. Galloway.
Chase Stewart
A. J. De Hart.
Cincinnati.
E. C. Berry
Athens.
B. F. Lee.
Wilberforce.
Chas. Bundy
Cleveland. Xenia.
J. H. Jones.
Wilberforce.
FACULTY.
Name.
Office.
Residence.
J. P. Shorter.
Superintendent
S. C. B. Scarborough
Principal
Wilberforce, Ohio. Wilberforce, Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio.
R. C. Bundy.
Instructor.
Chas. Smith
Instructor ..
Paris, Ill.
W. B. Bush
Instructor.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
G. T. Simpson
Instructor ..
Zanesville, Ohio.
C. H. Johnson
Instructor.
Van Wert, Ohio.
Julia Gee ..
Instructor.
Wilberforce, Ohio.
W. P. Welch.
Instructor.
W. Hunnicutt
Instructor.
Frankfort, Ky. Zanesville, Ohio. Paris, Ill.
W. Marshall.
Instructor.
L. M. Welch
Instructor.
Zanesville, Ohio.
T. C. Davis.
Instructor.
Chillicothe, Ohio.
Minnie Battles.
Instructor.
M. E. Carter.
Matron .
Wilberforce, Ohio. Zanesville, Ohio.
C. L. Maxwell.
Xenia. Springfield.
LIMA STATE HOSPITAL, LIMA, OHIO.
T HOSE in charge of the insane hospitals of Ohio have long recognized the necessity for the building of an asylum for insane criminals, and those with dangerous and homicidal tendencies. To provide for this necessity, the Legislature, during Governor Myron T. Herrick's term of office, authorized the appointment of a commission to investigate a proper site for such an asylum, and to procure options, if the committee deemed best, upon real estate for that purpose.
This committee consisted of the Honorable W. B. Ritchie, of Lima, Ohio; Honorable C. J. Manix, of Cleveland, Ohio; Honorable A. H. Judy, of Greenville, Ohio; Doctor A. B. Smith, of Wellington, Ohio; and Honorable E. LeFever, of Marietta, Ohio.
This Commission, much to its credit, took very great care and made a complete investigation of the different available places for such an institution. They finally took options on about one hunderd and twenty (120) acres of land immediately north of the prosperous city of Lima, Ohio.
The Commission reported the results of their work to the last session of the Legislature, and the Legislature approved the work of the Commission by appropriating sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($62,500.00), to purchase the lands upon which the Commission had taken its option. These lands constitute an ideal site for such an asylum, and the Committee was wise in its selection of the city of Lima as the location for such an institution. Owing to its excellent railroad facilities, no better place could have been found.
By an act passed on the 2d day of April, A. D. 1906, the Legislature provided definitely that the institution be known as "The Lima State Hospital." Section two (2) of the Act provides the class of insane who shall be confined in this hospital, and reads as follows :
SECTION 2. Class of inmates to be admitted. The Lima State Hos- pital shall be used for the custody, care and special treatment of insane persons of the following classes :
I. Persons who become insane while in the penitentiary and state reformatory.
2. Dangerous insane persons now in other state hospitals.
3. Persons accused of crime, but not indicted because of insanity.
4. Persons indicted, but found to be insane.
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5. Persons acquitted because of insanity.
6. Persons adjudged to be insane who were previously convicted of crime.
7. Such other insanse persons as may be directed by law.
Shortly after the passage of this act by the Legislature, Governor Pattison named the commission to have charge of the building of the asylum, naming the following persons :
Doctor J. E. Russell, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Doctor M. F. Hussey, Sidney, Ohio; Judge Martin J. Burke, Marion, Ohio; Frank W. Pur- mort, Van Wert, Ohio; George E. Whitney, Marysville, Ohio; and S. A. Hoskins, of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
This Commission has been organized by the selection of S. A. Hoskins, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, as Chairman, and Frank W. Purmort, of Van Wert, as Secretary and Treasurer.
The Commission is authorized to visit and inspect such institutions as it may deem best, to employ architects to prepare plans and speci- fications, and estimates of cost for an institution to accommodate not less than six hundred (600) patients.
The Commission is now engaged in this work of inspection, prepara- tion of plans and specifications, and will report, as required by law, to the next session of the Legislature to be held in 1908.
OHIO CODIFYING COMMISSION.
B Y the act of April 2, 1906, the General Assembly authorized the governor to appoint three commissioners to revise and con- solidate the general statute laws of the state.
On December II, 1906, Governor Harris appointed Lewis C. Laylin, Hiram L. Sibley and James E. Campbell as such commissioners, and on January I, 1907, the commission entered upon the discharge of its duties. The law provides that :
"The commission shall bring together all the statutes and parts of statutes relating to the same matter, omitting redundant and obsolete enactments, and such as have no influence on existing rights or remedies, making altera- tions to harmonize the statutes with the constitution as construed by the courts, reconcile contradictions, supply omissions, and amend imperfections in the original acts, so as to reduce the general statutes into as concise and comprehensive a form as is consistent with clear expression of the will of the General Assembly, rejecting all equivocal and ambiguous words, and cir- cuitous, and tautological phraseology; and shall arrange such statutes under suitable titles, divisions, sub-divisions, chapters and sections, with head notes, briefly expressive of the matter contained therein, with marginal notes of the contents of each section, with reference to the original act from which it is compiled; and shall provide by an index for an easy reference to every por- tion of its report."
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LEWIS CASS LAYLIN.
L EWIS CASS LAYLIN was born in Norwalk, Huron County. His father, John Laylin, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under Colonel Lewis Cass. He was graduated from the Norwalk High School, and was elected superintendent of the public schools of Bellevue, and re-elected for five consecutive years. He was admitted to the bar, elected prosecuting at- torney, and held that office seven years.
He was elected Representative to the Sixty-eighth General Assembly, was re-elected and received the unanimous support of the Republican minority for the Speakership of the House of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly. He was again re-elected to the Legislature and was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Seventieth General Assembly.
At the Republican state convention of 1900, he was nominated by ac- clamation as candidate for Secretary of State, and was elected to that office by a plurality of 69,311. He was renominated for a second term, and re- elected by a plurality of 90,465. In 1904 he was renominated by acclamation for a third term, and his plurality at that election in November was 230,389, being the highest plurality ever given in Ohio for the head of the state ticket.
He was appointed a member of the Ohio Codifying Commission by Gov- ernor Harris, and at its organization in January, 1907, he was chosen chair- man of the commission.
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HIRAM LUTHER SIBLEY.
TTIRAM LUTHER SIBLEY was born on a farm in Trumbull County, Ohio, of New England parentage. His father was a Methodist minister, whose ancestry is traceable to John Sibley, of England, who in 1629 came over in the "Fleet," and setteld at Salem, Massachusetts. He became a select- man of that town, and member of the General Court at Boston.
Hiram learned the trade of shoemaker, at which he worked from his fourteenth into his twenty-fouth year. His educational training was in the common, with two six-months periods of special schools, and by private study. In 1878 Marietta College gave him the honorary degree of M. A. While work- ing at his trade, he began the study of law, mornings and evenings. In the fall of 1860 he was elected clerk of courts for Meigs County, entering upon his duties as such in February, 1861. August 12, 1862, he entered the Union ser- vice as Lieutenant in Co. B, 116th O. V. I., resigning his office, and serving two years and six months. He was admitted to the bar in 1865; began prac- tice at Marietta, Ohio, in 1866; was elected Common Pleas Judge of the Seventh District in 1882, and re-elected in 1887 and 1892, being each time nominated by acclamation. In 1896 he was elected Circuit Judge, resigning from the Common Pleas after near fourteen years' service, to begin his duties as such, and serving one term. He is the author of a small volume on the Organic Law of the M. E. Church; of a work on the Right to and Cause for Action; and revised, edited and annotated the fifth edition of Nash's Pleading and Practice, in two large volumes. Just before this last work was completed, Governor Harris appointed him a member of the commission to revise and consolidate the statute laws of Ohio.
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JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL.
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AMES EDWIN CAMPBELL was born at Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, July 7, 1843. His father, Andrew Campbell, was a physician of prom- inence, and his uncle,, Lewis D. Campbell, a statesman of note. One of his maternal ancestors took part in the battle of Lexington, and one of his paternal ancestors was with Montgomery at the assualt, on Quebec. Both of his grandfathers were soldiers in the war of 1812.
During the Civil war he served in the navy upon the Mississippi and tributary rivers; was discharged for serious disability, but recovered, studied law, and began practicing at Hamilton in 1867.
He was prosecuting attorney of Butler County from 1876 to 1880; was elected to Congress in 1882 as a Democrat in a strongly Republican district, was re-elected in 1884, and again in 1886, gaining the last victory by the meagre plurality of two votes in a total of more than thirty-two thousand.
In 1889 he was elected Governor over J. B. Foraker, now United States Senator; in 1891 was defeated for governor by William Mckinley, and in 1895 was again defeated by Asa S. Bushnell.
In 1906 he was defeated for Congress, and soon after the election was appointed by Governor Harris a member of the Commission to Revise and Consolidate the General Statute Laws of the State of Ohio.
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OHIO TAX COMMISSION.
I N response to the well known and growing sentiment in favor of a revision of the Ohio tax system, Governor Harris, in September, 1906, appointed the Tax Commission of Ohio. His letter tendering the appointment fully explained the objects of the Commission. The Governor wrote: "I have determined to appoint an honorary com- mission of five well known citizens, to examine the taxation laws of Ohio, and recommend to me for transmission to the next session of the General Assembly such changes or amendments in the organic or statute law of the state as will adjust any inequalities that may exist in the burdens of taxation and evolve a system in line with the best public policy and with the most advanced thought upon the subject."
The Comntission consists of: Hon. Wade H. Ellis, Attorney Gen- eral of the State of Ohio, Hon. Geo. E. Martin, attorney, Lancaster, and Hon. Alfred C. Cassatt, attorney, Cincinnati, the Republican mem- bers; and Atlee Pomerene, attorney, Canton, and Thomas H. Hogsett, attorney, Cleveland, the Democratic members. Mr. Ellis was chosen chairman, and Mr. Pomerene secretary of the commission. O. K. Shimansky, newspaperman, was selected to act as assistant secretary.
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GEORGE E. MARTIN ATTORNEY LANCASTER
ATLEE POMERENE ATTORNEY,
CANTON. SECRETARY.
HON. WADE H. ELLIS ATTORNEY GENERAL CHAIRMAN
THOMAS H. HOGSETT ATTORNEY CLEVELAND.
ALFRED C. CASSETT ATTORNEY CINCINNATI.
OHIO TAX COMMISSION.
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