THE DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTE.
DESCRIPTION OF TILE BUILDING.-The building really consists of seven, suitably connected,
and was erected at a cost of $625,000. It is built of brick, and is elaboratcly trimmed with lime
and sandstone. The roofing
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is of slate, the cornice of galvanized iron, and the balconies, pillar,, railing, and floor of iron. The
number of bricks required was 8,000.000; the roof cornice is 3,800 feet in length ; the gas-pipe
laid is two miles long the interior walls and ceilings have a surface of twelve acres, and the floors
a surface of four acres. The windows number 800. The front building, 270 feet in length, is
surmounted by seven towers, the central one being 115 feet high, the two at its side 105 feet, and
the four at the corners 97 feet. The center tower has been finished to the top, and, ascending y a
spiral staircase, visitors have a magnificent view of the city. This front building is divided by it
hall ten feet wide, running its entire length upon every story, each story above the basement being
l5 feet high. The use of this building is for offices, library, museum, hospitals, parlors, sewing
and store-rooms, and chambers occupied by the teachers, officers, and employes, and a part of
the pupils. Attached to the front building are three wings, running north, all invisible in the
picture. The central wing, 90 by 40 feet, is occupied by the kitchen and adjacent store-room;, the
dining-room, and a chapel 23 feet in height. The two exterior wings extend north 115 feet,
affording it hall the entire length, and adjacentrooms for baggage, clothing, washing, bathing, and
water-closets. Attached to these exterior wings. and extending at right angles to them, 110 feet
east and west, are two wings, 40 feet wide, called the boys and girls' wings. These are the parts of
the building visible at the sides of the picture. The first story is used as a play-room. The second
is the sitting or study-room, and is used out of school and work hours. The two upper stories tire
dormitories. The very tine opportunity for light and air is obvious to the eye. These side wings
return by corridors to the central wing, which continues by the bakery and store-rooms in the
basement, and by corridors in every story, to the school building in the rear. This building, 115
by 55 feet, is invisible in the cut. It is three stories high, ant contains twenty school. rooms. Still
further to the rear is it building 62 feet square, from the corner of which rises the ventilating
shaft, 115 feet high, and visible in the cut directly above the girls' wing. This building contains
the boilers, engines, and pumps, used for heating the main building. and for supplying every part
with water. This is taken from a flowing well, with a capacity of 150 barrels an hour. The second
story is occupied by the machinery and appliances of the laundry. At the extreme right of the
picture appears the barn of the premises. Between it and the boys' wing appears the east end of
the shop building, which is 130 by 35 feet. Its upper story is divided between the printing-office
and shoe-shop. The lower story, with the basement, is used y the State bindery. A weekly
journal—the "Mute's Chronicle"—is published in the printing-office, and in the bindery is done
all the book-binding required by the State.
The first successful effort to establish an institution in Ohio for the education of the deaf and
dumb was made at the legislative season of 1826-27. Through the influence of the Rev. Dr. Hoge
of this city, Governor Morrow, in his annual message, recommended the establishment of such
an institution. In the House of Representatives, the subject was referred to a select committee, to
whom an elaborate memorial, prepared by Dr. Hoge and signed by a large number of prominent
citizens, was
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presented. The result was the passage of an act incorporating the institution.
The first board of trustees under this act consisted of Rev. James Hoge and Judge Gustavus
Swan, of Franklin county; Thomas Ewing, of Fairfield; Rev. William Graham, of Ross; John H.
James, of Champaign; Rev. William Barton, of Pickaway; Thomas D. Webb, of Trumbull, and
Samuel Clark, of Clark county. The governor was ex-officio president of the board. Dr. Hoge
was chosen secretary, and filled the office till April, 1848, when he resigned, and was succeeded
by the Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock. Horatio N. Hubbell was selected for principal of' the institution,
who went to Hartford Asylum, in March, 1828, to become qualified for his new duties.
The school was opened October 16, 1829, in a small building, rented for the purpose, standing on
the corner of High and Broad streets. Only three pupils were present, and these from the
immediate vicinity. One of the three proved to be idiotic; another was a boy of weak intellect,
and not long afterward became hopelessly insane. Before the close of the term, the number of the
pupils increased to ten, and during the year to twenty-two. The number continued to steadily
increase, until there were as many applicants as could be accommodated.
In February, 1829, a tract of land, consisting of three out-lots, containing each three acres and
one-third of an acre, making a site of ten acres, and lying about half a mile east of the
State-house, was purchased for three hundred dollars. On this site the first building for the use of
the school was commenced in 1832, and was occupied at the opening of the fall term in 1834. It
was fifty by eighty feet, and three stories high. It was designed to provide school, lodging, dining,
and sitting-rooms, for sixty or eighty pupils. A wing was added in 1845-46 to the south end of
the original building.
Such was the increase of applicants that this provision became entirely inadequate, and in March,
1864, an act was passed for the erection of a new building, "to be of plain and substantial
construction, having special reference to adaptation and proper economy for the convenient and
suitable accommodation of three hundred and fifty pupils and necessary officers and
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servants." The governor was empowered to carry out the provisions of the act. With the advice of
the committee of the legislature on benevolent institutions, the governor adopted a ground plan
by J. M. Blackburn, who was appointed to execute it.
DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
The corner-stone of the present asylum for the deaf and dumb building was laid on Monday
afternoon, October 31, 1864. Among the numerous articles deposited in it were portraits of
President and Mrs. Lincoln, of Governor Brough, and of many of our prominent generals,
specimens of the currency of the United States, State documents, the emancipation proclamation,
periodicals and papers of the day, a list of the officers, teachers, and pupils of the asylum, etc.
The stone was placed in its proper position by the architect of the building, J. M. Blackburn.
Addresses were delivered by Governor Anderson and Mr. Weed, the superintendent of the
asylum, and a prayer was offered by Mr. Buffington, a deaf mute, in the sign language. Rev. E.
D, Morris closed the afternoon exercises by a benediction.
In the evening the exercises were resumed at the Second Presbyterian Church, where addresses
were made by Governor Anderson and C. N. Olds. Pupils from the institution for the blind sung
several hymns during the evening.
PUBLIC OPENING.—The new building was occupied by the school September, 1868. The
formal opening of the new institution did not, however, take place till the evening of February
11, 1869. At an early hour, the chapel, where the addresses were to be delivered, was densely
crowded with guests. The pupils occupied the corridors adjacent. The various exercises were
interpreted to them by instructors conveniently stationed. Governor Hayes presided. The opening
prayer was made by Rev. F. Merrick. Rev. Collins Stone, the superintendent of the institution,
then delivered an elaborate address upon the "History and Methods of Mute Instruction." A brief
address on behalf of the board of trustees was made by Samuel Galloway. An exhibition in
pantomime was given, concluding with the Lord's Prayer. After the benediction by Rev. W. R.
Marshall, re-
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freshments were served in the dining-room below. The house was open and lighted throughout,
and was inspected generally by the guests.
SUPERINTENDENTS—The superintendents of the institution, from its orgin to the present
time, have been:
Horatio N. Hubbell, from 1827 to 1851 ; J. Addison, from 1851 till his death, August 7, 1852 ;
Collins Stone, from October, 1852, to 1863; George L. Wood, Jr., from 1863 to 1866. The
present superintendent, Gilbert O. Fay, was appointed in 1866.
DEPARTMENT OF TRADES.—This department is presided over by the following persons:
Parley B. Pratt, master of the shoe shop; Lewis L. Rice, supervisor of public printing; Mitchell C.
Lilley, master of book bindery, and Robert E. Stewart, master of the printing-office.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR 1872.—The trustees of the institution—Kent Jarvis, of
Stark county, and James S. Abbott and Henry F. Booth, of Franklin county—in their forty-sixth
annual report to the governor, express the opinion that a more liberal compensation should be
allowed the officers of the institution. The trustees' report is brief, and closes with a reference to
the loss of the board in the death of Samuel Galloway.
The superintendent, Gilbert O. Fay, says, in his last report to the trustees, under the head of
attendance, that one year ago there were present three hundred and thirty-eight pupils-two
hundred males and one hundred and thirty-eight females. There have since been received
fifty-nine pupils—thirty-one males and twenty-eight females—forty-nine of whom are new
pupils, making the whole number for the year three hundred and ninetyseven—two hundred and
thirty-one males and one hundred and sixty-six females. Graduation, removal, death, and other
causes have diminished this number fifty-nine, leaving now present three hundred and
thirty-eight pupils—one hundred and ninety-seven males and one hundred and forty-one females.
They are classified as follows: Scientific, twenty-nine; grammar, eighty-four; primary, two
hundred and twenty-five.
Hamilton county sends forty, Franklin sends fifteen, Cuyahoga sends fourteen, and Montgomery
sends eleven. No other county sends a greater number than nine.
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The whole number of pupils from the first has now reached one thousand three hundred and two.
Of these four hundred and thirty-seven cases were congenital, and forty-throe different causes are
assigned for the other cases, besides forty under the head of not reported," and ninety-six under
the head of "reported unknown." One hundred and thirty-three cases were produced by scarlet
fever.
A large majority of the cases that have been in the institution occurred before the afflicted
persons reached the age of ten years.
Pupils of the scientific department average about six years; in the grammar, about five years, and
in the primary, about three years. The whole course of study is intended to occupy about ten
years' time with mutes of ordinary capacity and application.
Under the head of admission, the superintendent says : "I have no doubt but that, on the whole,
the welfare of the mutes of the State would be promoted by removing all limits of age, and
allowing them to enter the institution as early as children are legally admissible to the public
schools, and also to remain as long as their progress and conduct shall warrant. Practically, the
permission to remain would make little or no difference, as mutes rarely care to remain for the
time already allowed by law. The removal of the limit could do no harm."
The cost of the institution to the State for the year has been:
For current expenses, including repairs .................. $56,216 49
For salaries ...................................................... 16,825 00
Total................................................................ $73,041 49
The actual cost per pupil was $216.09. This is $5.26 less per pupil than in the previous year. It
should also be considered, says the superintendent, that we have no garden or farm furnishing a
constant supply of produce.
Anticipating the same number of pupils the forthcoming year, the superintendent says the
amounts needed for the support of the institution will be
For current expenses ............................................... $56,000
For salaries ..........................................................17,600
Total............................................................ $73,600
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The present physician attending the institution is Dr. Samuel M. Smith; the steward, George W.
Wakefield.
ASYLUM FOR IDIOTIC AND IMBECILE YOUTH.
The legislature, April 17, 1857, passed an act to establish an asylum for the education of idiotic
and imbecile youth, and appointed Wm. Dennison, Jr., of Columbus ; Asher Cook, of Perrysburg,
and N. S. Townshend, of Avon, the first board of trustees. The trustees appointed Dr. R. J.
Patterson, superintendent of the institution, and leased a large house belonging to Mrs. Neville,
on Friend street, opposite the Blind Asylum, for five years. Sixteen pupils were received prior to
November 1, and applications made for more than could be accommodated.
Dr. Patterson resigned, as superintendent, November 1, 1860. At that date, he reported that the
building was crowded with inmates, thirty-five in number, and that during the year many
applicants had been excluded for want of room. The trustees, in February, 1860, appointed Dr. G.
A. Doren, superintendent, who has been continued in the office until the present time. In 1860,
the building was enlarged, and the number of pupils rose to fifty-four.
PURCHASE OF A SITE.—By the act of March 28, 1864, twenty-five thousand dollarswere
appropriated for the purchase of a site for the permanent location, and the erection of buildings
thereon. Under this act, the trustees purchased of the Franklin Bank of Columbus one hundred
acres of land at thirty-five dollars per acre. No other within reach of the city, adapted to the
purpose, was offered at less than five hundred dollars per acre. The trustees, in their report for
1864, thus describe the tract purchased :
"It is situated on the National Road, two miles west of Columbus. The site selected for the
building is :near the brink of the elevated plain, on the west side of the Scioto valley. The
situation is a beautiful one, overlooking and presenting a fine view of the city, while it is in plain
sight of the Capitol. A very fine maple grove runs around the entire front of the high ground, and
at the same time the principal part of the land is in the
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Scioto valley ; and is easily susceptible of the highest state of cultivation. The site for building,
being upon high ground, is easily drained."
THE BUILDING.—The trustees, in 1864, adopted a plan for a building, which, as a whole, was
intended to accommodate two hundred and fifty pupils, and, used to its utmost capacity, three
hundred. The work on the building was commenced the next year. Under successive
appropriations by the legislature, the work progressed, and in July, 1868, it was so far advanced
that it was occupied as an asylum. In November, the number of pupils was one hundred and five.
BEQUEST.—The trustees, in their report for 1869, state that by the will of Charles Chapman, of
Avon, Lorain county, who made the State his residuary legatee, the institution had received the
sum of four thousand dollars, which would ultimately be increased to five thousand.
THE PUPILS.—On the 15th of November, 1872, there were in the institution 288 pupils. During
the year then closed, 81 had been admitted; 6 had died, and 18 had been discharged. Of these, 12
were discharged improved, and 6 were discharged on account of chronic disease. A number of
the pupils having no homes to go to, were retained at the institution, taking the place of paid
labor.
The trustees of the institution are Dr. N. S. Townshend, J. A. Lutz, and Peter Hitchcock.
Matron—Harriet F. Purple.
THE STATE ARSENAL.—Previous to the erection of the present arsenal building, the State
'rented rooms for the deposit of the public arms. Acts looking to the establishment of a state
arsenal were passed by the legislature, April 18, 1857, and March 24, 1859. By the act of March
17, 1860, the governor was authorized to sell the lots on the old penitentiary grounds, remaining
unsold, reserving three contiguous lots for a site for the state arsenal, and apply six thousand
dollars of the proceeds additional to the proceeds of previous sales of lots and of the sales of old
arms, to the "prosecution of the state arsenal "—the building not to cost over fourteen thousand
dollars. The building was erected in 1860, and an appropriation of $2500 was
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made in 1863, for grading, fencing. and improving the arsenal and lot.
The arsenal is built of brick and stands on Friend street, near the canal. With its towers and
turrets, it wears the look of a castle of the olden time. It is one hundred feet in length by sixty in
width. with a lofty octagonal tower at each corner. It has a basement of eighty by sixty feet. and
eight feet high also, a gun-room sixty feet square on the main floor, with the armorer's room and
office, each twenty feet square. These rooms are sixteen feet high. The second story is one
hundred by sixty feet, and twenty feet high without a column, and is appropriated to the
arrangement of small arms. The third or attic story is also spacious. There are winding stairs in
the towers, giving access to each floor. These towers are supplied with numerous windows and
loop-holes, commanding all approaches to the building.
UNITED STATES ARSENAL.
On the 27th of April, 1862, a joint resolution was adopted by the Ohio legislature, instructing our
senators and requesting our representatives in Congress to use all honorable efforts to procure the
location of the contemplated national armory at some suitable place in the State of Ohio.
A memorial, signed by W. B. Hubbard, Samuel Galloway, John S. Hall, Wm. G. Deshler,
Walstein Failing, and Peter Ambos, a committee on behalf of the citizens, and by A. B. Buttles,
Horace Wilson, and Luther Donaldson, a committee on behalf of the city council, was sent to
Congress in 1862, setting forth the advantages of Columbus as a place for the establishment and
construction of a national armory and arsenal.
The legislature, March 21, 1863, passed an act ceding to the United States jurisdiction of the
lands that had been, or might be, purchased in the county of Franklin for a national arsenal. The
preamble to this act recited that the United States had appropriated money for the establishment
of a national arsenal at Columbus for the deposit and repair of arms and other munitions of war.
Previous to the passage of the act of cession, the site for the
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proposed arsenal bad been selected by General Buckingham in the northeast part of the city as
now extended, on the tract then known in common parlance as '' Neil's Woods." On the 17th of
February,1863, General Buckingham bought from Robert E. Neil seventy-seven acres and
three-fourths of an acre of this tract, lying in nearly a square form, for the sum of $112,377. The
buildings were located September 3, 1863, and their construction commenced in October
following, under the superintendency of Captain T. C. Bradford. J. O. Sawyer, the first architect,
was succeeded by N. B. Kelley. The main building and the magazine being completed in August,
1865, the reception of military stores from eastern arsenals was commenced. The other buildings
were finished soon afterward. All the buildings are of brick, and are grouped in the form of a
square, with the office in the center, and the main building on the south and in front of it. The
following is a brief description of these buildings:
Main building: Three stories high, 180 by 60 feet, with a tower, 34 feet square, five stories high.
This building is used for the storage of arms and accoutrements, the tower containing the
stairway and the hoisting apparatus.
Artillery store-house: Two stories high, 201 by 51 feet; used for storing artillery carriages and
harness.
Central office: One story high, 46 ½ by 22 feet.
Barracks: Two stories high, 73 ½ , by 32 feet.
Guard-house: One story high, 25 1/4 by 22 1/3 feet.
Magazine: One story high, 50j by 331 feet.
Officers' quarters No. 1: Two stories high, 73 ½ by 40 feet ; used for the residence of the
commanding officer.
Officers' quarters No. 2: Two stories high, 65 ½ by 48½ feet.
Stable: Two stories high, 63 by 46 1/3 feet. To this building is attached a wagon-shed, 65 by 30
feet.
Workshop: Two stories high, 82 by 30 2/3 feet, used for repairing and cleaning arms, and also for
the storage of the fire-engine.
The foundations and the superstructures of all these buildings are substantial, and the more
important of them present an im-
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posing appearance. They are situated on elevated ground, and have a commanding view of the
city and surrounding country. The grounds are handsomely laid out in walks and drives, and are
interspersed with forest trees and shrubbery. Several acres are allotted to pasturage and
gardening. The arsenal and its surroundings form one of the many attractions of the capital city of
Ohio.
The value of the arsenal grounds and buildings, on the 30th of June, 1872, was estimated at
$442,422.
The several commandants at the arsenal since its commencement have been :
J. W. Todd, captain of ordnance, who took command September 3, 1863, and was relieved on the
3d of December ensuing by George B. Wright, colonel and military store-keeper, who resigned
February 10, 1864, and was succeeded by T. C. Bradford, captain of ordnance; relieved July 13,
1869, by Theodore Edson, major of ordnance; relieved July 30, 1869, by E. Penrose Jones,
captain and ordnance store-keeper. The present commandant, John McNutt, major of ordnance,
relieved Captain Jones, November 19, 1869, the latter being continued as ordnance store keeper.
The chief clerk at the arsenal is Elliott Jones; the assistant clerk, William Allen; the foreman,
Jolin H. Wilson, and the sergeant is James McGrath.
UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE.
The Columbus post-office was established in 1813, the next year after the town was first laid off.
It was made a distributing office in 1838. The following is a list of the successive postmasters:
Matthew Matthews, from 1813-14; Joel Buttles, 1814-29; Bela Latham,"1829-41 ; John G.
Miller, 1841-45; Jacob Medary, 1845-47; Samuel Medary, 1847-49; Aaron F. Perry, 1849-53;
Thomas Sparrow, 1853-57; Thomas Miller, 1857-58; Samuel Medary, 1858, nine months;
Thomas Miller, 1858-60; John Dawson, 1860, one month; Joseph Dowdall, 1860, eight months;
John Graham, 1861-65; Julius J. Wood, 1865-70; James M. Comly, 1870.
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THE FIRST PENITENTIARY.
The penitentiary system was introduced into Ohio in 1815. Before that time, certain crimes
afterward punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, were punished by whipping. For
instance, an act for the punishment of larceny, provided that the offender upon conviction should
be whipped not exceeding thirty-nine stripes on the naked back, and that on a second conviction
for the like offense, he should be whipped not exceeding fifty stripes at the discretion of the
court.
The first Ohio statute for the punishment of larceny by imprisonment in the penitentiary was
passed January 27, 1815, and took effect on the first day of the following August. It provided that
the offender, upon a conviction of the larceny of the value of ten dollars and upward, should be
imprisoned in the penitentiary at hard labor not more than seven years nor less than one year. In
1821, the law was so modified as to require a larceny of fifty dollars in value to constitute a
penitentiary offense. In 1835, the amount of the larceny was reduced to thirty-five dollars, at
which figure it has since remained.
The first penitentiary in Ohio was built in 1813, in the southwest corner of the town of
Columbus, on the ten-acre lot selected for the purpose, and conveyed to the State by the original
proprietors of the town for the erection of a penitentiary and its dependencies. The building was
erected under the superintendence of William Ludlow, the state director of public buildings. It
was built of brick and fronted on Scioto street. It was sixty feet in length by thirty in width, and
three stories high, including the basement, half of which was below the surface of the ground.
The basement was divided into a cellar, kitchen, and dining-room for the prisoners. It could be
entered only from the interior of the yard. The second, or next story above the basement, was the
keeper's residence, and was entered by high steps from the street. The third or upper story was
divided into thirteen cells—four dark and nine light ones—for prisoners. The sole entrance to
this upper story was also from the interior of the yard.
The prison-yard was about one hundred feet square, including
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the site of the building. It was inclosed by a stone wall from fifteen to eighteen feet high.
Such was the Ohio penitentiary, as it existed from 1815 to 1818. At the latter date, a new
penitentiary; as it was then called, was erected, and the yard enlarged to about four hundred feet
east and west, and about one hundred and sixty feet north and south, including the space covered
by the buildings. The yard was extended to the foot of the hill near the canal. It was graded so as
to make three levels or terraces, each gradually descending to the west. Two perpendicular stone
walls were built across the yard to the height of the level or terrace above. These cross walls were
about twelve feet high, and had large -steps for ascent and descent. The outer walls, inclosing the
yard, were twenty feet high and three feet thick, with a heavy plank-floor on the top and a
hand-railing on the inner edge. On the top of the wall there were steps or stairs leading from the
first or upper level to the second and third. The upper level or terrace was about equal in size to
the other two, extending about two hundred feet east and west; the middle one, eighty feet, and
the third, one hundred and twenty. The workshops were generally arranged along the south side
of the upper yard. The cooper and blacksmith shops were in the middle yard. There were no
shops in the lowest terrace.
The new prison building was built of brick, one hundred and fifty feet long and thirty-four wide.
It was two stories high, with the east gable-end to the street, and formed a connected line with the
old building. The dining-room and kitchen were on the lower floor, and two adjoining rooms on
the second floor for a hospital. Above ground there were fifty-four cells or lodging-rooms, and
below ground five dark and solitary cells, accessible only through a trap-door in the hall.
The cells in the first or old building were taken out, and the structure remodeled into a residence
for the keeper. This change was made under the superintendence of Judge Jarvis Pike, acting by
direction of the state officers—Ralph Osborn, auditor; Hiram M. Curry, treasurer, and Jeremiah
McLene, secretary of state.
It was in 1815 that the first penitentiary building was com-
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pleted. The first act for the government of the penitentiary and the confinement of convicts
therein took effect in August of that year, having been passed the preceding January. Under this
act the legislature on joint ballot chose five inspectors, whose duty it was to appoint a keeper or
warden, and prescribe rules for the government of the prison. The inspectors appointed James
Kooken, keeper, who entered upon his office on the first day of August, 1815, and appointed
Colonel Griffith Thomas, clerk.
An act passed in January, 1819, created the office of state agent, and provided for the election of
both keeper and agent for three years by the legislature. Pursuant to this law, Kooken was
re-elected keeper, and Thomas agent. The keeper's duties remained the same as before, except the
requirement that he should pass all manufactured articles to the agent, who was required to keep
them in a store-house contiguous to the prison, make sales, collect outstanding debts, and pay
over all his cash receipts to the state treasurer.
During the administration of Kooken, especially in the early part of it, there were but few
convicts in the prison, and of course few guards were needed. Besides, the keeper was
kindhearted and lenient, when leniency could be shown without a breach of official duty. There
being at times but little work for the prisoners, they were allowed to amuse themselves in various
ways. One was to play ball against the west end of the north wing of the building. They had a dog
in the yard so trained that when the ball fell over the wall, he would go to the main door of the
front building, summon the guard, pass out, get the ball, and return it to the prisoners.
The office of state agent was abolished in February, 1822, and the legislature elected Barzillai
Wright keeper, in place of Kooken. Wright died in the summer of 1823, and Governor Morrow
appointed Nathaniel McLean to fill the vacancy. Me-Lean was continued in office by the
legislature until the spring of 1830, when be was succeeded by Byram Leonard, of Knot county.
Leonard was succeeded, in the spring of 1832, by W. W. Gault, of Newark, who continued in
office until the convicts were removed to the present penitentiary, in the fall of 1834.
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The successive clerks, after the office of agent was abolished, in 1822, and until the removal,
were Cyrus Pay, Henry Matthews, George Whitmore, W. T. Martin, Nelson Talmage, Timothy
Griffith, and Uriah Lathrop.
Blacksmithing, wagon-making, coopering, shoemaking, gunsmithing, cabinet-making, tailoring,
and weaving were the principal trades carried on in the old penitentiary. The manufactured
articles were sold or exchanged for provisions or raw materials. The clerk had charge of the store
and books.
There were about every year more or less escapes from the old prison, though but one daring
outbreak is recorded. It was in the year 1830 that about a dozen prisoners secreted themselves in
a vacant cell near the outer door of the prison. When the turnkey, Arthur O'Harra, came to unlock
the door, a bold fellow, Smith Maythe, who headed the gang, springing suddenly forward, caught
O'Harra round the body and held him in his grip while the other conspirators rushed out. Loosing
O'Harra, Maythe bounded forward and placed himself at the head of the escaping convicts. They
passed by the mound and fled to the woods in a southeast direction. They were finally all taken
up and returned to the prison. Maythe, after his release from the penitentiary, for robbery and
attempted murder in Kentucky, was hung by a mob without judge or jury,
The year succeeding the removal of the prisoners to the new penitentiary, the walls of the old
prison-yard were sold by the state officers and torn down. The main prison building, erected in
1818, remained two or three years longer. Then it was also removed, leaving the original
building, erected in 1813, and the brick store-house, built by Wright in 1823, still standing. They
were used by the quartermaster-general—one as a place for the deposit of the public arms, and
the other as a workshop for the cleaning and repair of the same. Thus the two buildings were
turned into a kind of state armory or arsenal. Such they remained until 1855, when both buildings
were taken down and the materials sold or used about the new State-house.
During the existence of the old prison, it was customary to take the convicts out to work in
different parts of the town, sometimes with, but often without a guard. While Mr. Gault
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was keeper, a convict named Scott (a printer) was allowed to seek employmcnt at his trade
outside the prison, and retain a portion of his earnings for his own use. One Sunday, pretending
that he was wanted at the printing-office, he obtained permission for himself and another prisoner
to go there. But instead of going to the printing-office, Scott and his friend " waited," as they
termed it, '1 on the groceries, and had a glorious spree." As the truants did not come back in due
time, a guard was sent after them. They were found, using persistent endeavors to reach the
prison, but so drunk that their progress was snail-like.
At one time, Scott worked in the Hemisphere printing-office, located in the upper part of the
building afterward occupied by the Clinton Bank. Meeting Governor Lucas on the street, Scott,
having imbibed a bountiful supply of whisky, insisted with rather too much pertinacity upon a
pardon from the governor. The latter complained to the keeper, Mr. Gault, and Scott's pedestrian
exercises were afterward circumscribed by the walls of the prison.
It may be here mentioned that when work was begun upon the new or present penitentiary, such
convicts whose time was not likely to expire before the building was finished, were promised a
pardon in case they were taken out to labor upon the new structure, and were faithful, and made
no attempt to escape. Those who made that promise were employed accordingly, and in no
instance was there a violation of the condition.
THE OLD PENITENTIARY LOT.—After the removal of the prisoners from the old
penitentiary, in 1834, a question arose as to the ownership of the ten-acre lot set apart for its
location. On the one hand, it was said that the lot reverted to the original proprietors of the town
or their heirs; and on the other, it was contended that the title to the ten acres still remained in the
State by virtue of the original grant. The legislature twice referred the question to committees
composed of members of the, legal profession. A majority of each committee reported in favor of
the State's title, An act was passed March 17, 1838, authorizing the governor to cause the tract to
be laid off in city
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lots, which were to be appraised and sold. It was laid off accordingly, but no sales were made.
In March, 1847, Elijah Backus, an attorney of Columbus, brought suit, in the name of Gustavus
Swan and M. J. Gilbert, against R. N. Slocum, quartermaster-general, occupying the buildings,
for the recovery of the old penitentiary tract. It seems that the plaintiffs' claim was founded upon
a quitclaim obtained some years before from the heirs of Kerr, McLaughlin, and Johnston. The
case was continued from time to time, until June, 1851, when judgment was rendered against the
defendant by default. This was, in effect, a judgment against the State. The plaintiffs were put in
possession by the sheriff in September following. Mr. Backus then, as the attorney or agent of the
plaintiffs, or on his own behalf, as was said, rented to the State the buildings it had supposed to
be its own. Besides, the hill included within the area of the tract being composed of sand and
gravel, which commanded a ready sale, ;fir. Backus realized a thousand dollars or more from that
source.
In the meantime, there were men watching these operations who were determined that an attempt
should be made to regain for the State what had been lost by default or neglect. Accordingly, in
March, 1852, George E. Pugh, attorney-general, brought suit for the recovery of the land, in the
name of the State, against S. W. Andrews, quartermaster-general, in pessession under a lease
from Backus or his clients. In November, the same year, the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin
county rendered judgment in the case against the State. An appeal was taken to the District Court
by George W. McCook, attorney-general, and on the 21st of September, 1854, the State obtained
a judgment, and on the 19th of January following, the secretary of state, as the representative of
Ohio, was, by Thomas Miller, sheriff of Franklin county, formally put in possession of the
disputed territory. The legislature, in March, 1856, vacated the plat of the ground made under the
act of March 17, 1838, except as to Mound street, and directed thc governor to cause the land to
be again laid off into lots, and to be appraised and sold. At the next session, an appropriation of
one thousand
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dollars was made, out of the proceeds from the sale of these lots, on her petition, to the widow of
Alexander McLaughlin, one of the original proprietors of Columbus.
CHOLERA IN THE PENITENTIARY.—Soon after the breaking out of the cholera in Columbus
in the summer of 1833, it made its appearance in the Ohio penitentiary, then located on the old
penitentiary lot. It invaded the prison in the form of a fatal epidemic on the 17th of July. The
number of convicts incarcerated at that time was three hundred and three, and few escaped an
attack of illness more or less severe. Business of every kind was almost wholly suspended. About
one hundred were confined to the hospital ; forty cases were pronounced genuine cholera, and
eleven prisoners died of that disease.
At no period since its organization, in 1815, has the Ohio penitentiary been so scourged by an
epidemic as by the cholera in 1849. Notwithstanding every precaution, more than one-fourth of
the inmates became its victims. At the time it entered the prison as an angel of death, it was
spreading its desolating wing over the city of Columbus and several small communities within a
radius of ten or twelve miles from the city.
The cholera had prevailed in the city eight or ten days when it broke out in the prison. The first
cases occurred on the 30th of June. In the morning of that day there were two cases, both of
which proved fatal. Dr. H. Lathrop, the regular prison physician, being absent that morning, Dr.
William Trevitt was called in. The latter continued to assist Dr. Lathrop, who returned in the
afternoon of the 30th, until the death of Dr. L., when Dr. Trevitt was appointed to succeed him as
prison physician. Dr. Lathrop was attacked July 3, when the number of new cases occurring daily
was from fifty to sixty. Having partially recovered, he returned to his post on the 6th of July,
contrary to the advice, and even remonstrance, of his friends.
On that day there were three deaths; five on the 7th, and eight on the day following. The disease
had now prevailed nine days, and out of four hundred and thirteen prisoners three hundred and
ninety-six had been prescribed for by the physicians for cholera in some of its stages. Twenty-one
had died.
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On the 9th of July twelve more deaths. The prospect now became frightful in the extreme. The
directors sought additional medical skill. They called to the aid of Drs. Lathrop and Trevitt other
eminent medical practitioners in the city, as Dr. B. F. Gard, Robert Thompson, J. B. Thompson,
J. Morrison, and Norman Gay. Several medical students and citizens were also engaged as
attendants and nurses.
At this crisis the panic among the prisoners was distressing. Labor was entirely suspended in the
workshops and on the State-house. The hospital was crowded to overflowing with the sick, the
dying, and the ghastly corpses of the recent dead. The abandoned workshops were at once turned
into hospitals, divided into wards, and physicians and nurses assigned to each. Many of the
guards, panic-stricken, fled when their assistance was most needed, and their places had to be
filled, difficult as it was.
From the necessity of the case, the strict discipline of the prison was relaxed. The prisoners were
allowed almost unrestrained intercourse. Some exhibited manly heroism or stoical indifference,
while others displayed the most timid, nervous, and striking agitation. The impulse to flee was
checked by frowning prison walls, while sore distress and death reigned on every hand. To pass
through the prison-yard at this time was a severe trial of heart and nerve. It was impossible,
without emotions deep and painful, to meet the eager throng that crowded about one at every
step, and hear the exclamations: " In the name of God, sir, can not we have our pardons ! " “Will
not the governor come and have mercy on us?" "Must we be kept here to die?" "For the love of
Jesus, speak to the governor in our behalf!" "I plead for my liberty, for my life!"
Many of the prisoners entreated earnestly, importunately, not to be locked up in their cells,
promising the best behavior in return for such indulgence. The warden persuaded that a
relaxation of discipline would be beneficial, determined to try the experiment of leaving the
prisoners out of their cells. Many feared that unpleasant consequences would result from this
course, and predicted insubordination, mutiny, and revolt. But these fears were not realized. The
prisoners seemed to be deeply
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grateful for the forbearance shown them, and the interest taken in their welfare. They rendered
very efficient aid when help was so much needed, and, in many cases, were bold and unflinching
in administering to the relief of the sick.
For sixteen days and nights, no key was turned upon a prisoner. Yet during au l that time, perfect
order and due subordination prevailed. These sixteen clays and nights marked out in the prison a
"reign of terror " in reality.
Many of the convicts were pardoned by the governor. But it was soon found that the prisoners
were safer within than outside the walls. Their presence created a panic, and people shunned a
pardoned convict as a walking pestilence. if attacked by cholera, he was almost sure to perish for
want of care.
It was on the 10th of July that the cholera reached its culminating point in the prison. The
mortality was greater than on any other day. The number of deaths was twenty-two. On that day,
too, after exhausting professional service, Drs_ Lathrop and Gard returned to their homes, and
were never more seen at the penitentiary. Both were attacked by the fell disease, against whose
ravages they had fought long arid well. Neither of them left his room afterward. Dr. Lathrop's
was the second attack, and lie died the next day, the 11th. Dr. Gard died on the following
Monday, the 15th. These two brave men fell, universally lamented, martyrs to their professional
zeal and large-hearted humanity.
On the 11th, Dr. G. W. Marls took the place of Dr. Gard at the prison. From the 10th of July,
there was a gradual subsidence of the mortality in the prison. On the 11th, the deaths were
sixteen, on the next day twelve, on the 13th seven, and six on each of the two following days.
After that the deaths were never more than three on any one day, and generally but one, until July
30, when the last death from cholera occurred. This last victim expired just one month after the
first two were attacked,
At the breaking out of the pestilence in the penitentiary, the prisoners numbered four hundred and
thirteen. One hundred and sixteen died from cholera, and five from other diseases. By
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deaths and pardons, the number of prisoners was reduced to two hundred and seventy-three.
When, upon the subsidence of the sickness, the usual prison discipline was resumed, the
prisoners returned in good order to their cells, and to their ordinary course of life in the prison,
without resistance or complaint.
It is a remarkable fact that not a death occurred in the penitentiary from the 8th of August, 1849,
until the 30th of June, 1850—an exemption from mortality not known in the prison since the
removal to the new penitentiary in 1834.
While the cholera prevailed in Columbus, in 1850, there was sickness in the penitentiary, but no
deaths until June 30, Between August 30 and November 29, twenty-two deaths occurred from an
aggravated form of dysentery and other diseases, but none of them were by the regular physician
attributed to cholera.
THE STATE QUARRY.—By an act of the legislature passed March 12, 1845, it was made the
duty of the directors and warden of the penitentiary to procure by purchase, or otherwise, a
limestone-quarry for obtaining, in an economical manner, suitable stone for the public buildings
and other public works of the State, and to construct a railroad from the penitentiary to such
quarry. On the 11th of April ensuing, the directors and warden closed a contract accordingly, and
received from William S. Sullivant a deed conveying to the State in fee simple fifty acres of land,
two and one-half miles west of the penitentiary, including two stone-quarries and the land
between them; also, his interest in a large island opposite the penitentiary, and the right of way
through any part of his land to the quarry or quarries, for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
payable one-half in one year and the other half in two years, with interest from January 1, 1846.
This stone-quarry tract is situated on the right bank of the Scioto river. When purchased by the
State, it was covered with a fine grove of timber. The Columbus and Xenia railroad passed over
its southern portion, and a county road leading to the city crossed it near the river.
Soon after the purchase, the directors and warden contracted with the Columbus and Xenia
Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Scioto river of sufficient width to admit of
two
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railroad tracks, one of which should belong to the State, and the other to the company, each party
paying one-half the expense.
The state quarry, in a special report of the directors of the penitentiary, dated January 14, 1847, is
stated to contain fifty-five acres of continuous limestone rock, lying in strata from five inches to
five feet thick, possessing considerable variety and affording the finest building-stone in the
western country. The rock is described as "of secondary formation, composed almost entirely of
marine productions, of different forms and colors, giving to the polished block an appearance
like clouded marble."
The railroad from the penitentiary to the quarry, including turn-outs, was reported as completed
September 1, 1847. It was three miles in length, and cost $19,451.84.
THE PRESENT PENITENTIARY.
An act for the erection of a new penitentiary was passed by the legislature February 8, 1832. It
provided for the election or appointment by the general assembly of three directors, at a salary of
one hundred dollars each per year, to select and purchase a site; to control the erection of the
buildings, and appoint a superintendent at a salary not exceeding a thousand dollars a year, to
plan and superintend the work of building. Directly on the passage of this act, the legislature
appointed as directors under it Joseph Olds, of Circleville; Samuel McCracken, of Lancaster, and
Charles Anthony, of' Springfield.
FIRST REPORT.—On the 7th of December, 1832, the speaker of the Senate laid before that
body the first report of the directors of the new penitentiary.
The directors say in this report that, after having spent much time in the critical examination of
the several sites proposed, and having carefully considered their several advantages, in
connection with the very liberal donations offered, they had unanimously come, to the conclusion
that the permanent interest of the State required the selection of the site on the east bank of the
Scioto river and north of Columbus. There was, it appears, some difficulty about obtaining a title
to the site selected; but the directors, during the preceding stunner, had made an
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agreement with five public-spirited citizens of Columbus—Joseph Ridgway, Joseph Ridgway,
Jr., Otis Crosby, Samuel Crosby, and D. W. Deshler—who undertook, in consideration of $750
cash, and a transfer to them of the subscriptions for procuring a site, amounting to $1,170, to
procure and guarantee to the State a perfect title. They afterward succeeded in obtaining, for
about $2,000, a conveyance to them from all the proprietors of' the land, being fifteen acres, and
on the 17th of October, 1832, executed to the State a warranty deed for the same. The directors,
also, for the purpose of securing a good landing on the bank of the river, purchased a small strip
adjoining of John Brickell for fifty dollars. The whole site, therefore, cost the State eight hundred
dollars.
The directors, in May, 1832, appointed Nathaniel Medberry, of Columbus, superintendent of the,
new penitentiary, at a salary of one thousand dollars a year. Contracts were forthwith made for
stone and brick for the building. The contract price for the stone and lime, the stone to be
measured in the wall was $1.48 per perch. The contract price for the brick was $2.40 per
thousand, the contractors having the labor of such a number of convicts as they might choose to
employ, not exceeding thirty-six, to be guarded at their expense. Considerable progress had been
made in preparing the brick and stone.
The directors submitted the plan of the new prison projected by the superintendent. The front
building was to be four hundred feet long, and to contain, when completed, seven hundred cells,
with the keeper's dwelling and the guard-room in the center. The walls of the prison would also
be four hundred feet long and twenty-four feet high. The estimate of the cost of the whole, for
seven hundred convicts, including their labor, was $78,428.51, and excluding their labor,
$58,744.61.
THE NEW PRISON.—The work on the new building was commenced in earnest in March,
1833. In the early part of the season there were employed upon it from fifty to eighty convicts.
The work was suspended in the summer of 1833, on account of the prevalence of the cholera
among the prisoners. It was, however, resumed in the latter part of the season, when about one
hundred convicts were kept at work.
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The building was so for completed that the directors, on the 27th of October, 1834, appointed
Nathaniel Medberry the first warden of the new pcnitentiary. On the two succeeding days, the
convicts were removed from the old to the new prison. The directors, on the 5th of March, 1835,
appointed Isaac Cool, deputy warden; H. Z. Mills, clerk ; Rev. Russell Bigelew, chaplain, and M.
B. Wright, physician.
The new prison was now in full operation under a new law, new officers, new rules, and
regulations. The old system of barter was abandoned, and, instead of the manufacture of articles
for sale by the State, the convicts were hired by the day to contractors or large manufacturers,
who worked them in prison-shops, as at present. At first, rules of great severity were adopted and
rigidly enforced in the government of the prison. But these of late years have given way to more
humane and kind treatment. The odious "lock-step " was first abandoned, then the " shower-bath"
and the use of the " cat" were laid aside, and solitary confinement substituted. The convicts are
afferded regular religious, moral, and literary instruction, and continued good conduct shortens
the term of imprisonment.
During the year 1837, there was constructed within the prison-grounds, at the cast end of the
main building, a separate apartment for female convicts, containing eleven cells, with capacity
for twice that number.
At the date of the directors' annual report, December 12, 1837, when the work upon the new
penitentiary building was quite completed, it had cost 693,370, and there had been expended
upon it, besides, 1,113,462 days of convict labor. With the prison walls, the new penitentiary
formed a hollow square, containing about six acres of ground.
ADDITIONAL GROUND.—By joint resolution, adopted May 16, 1868, the legislature
authorized the directors of the penitentiary to purchase ten acres of land lying immediately north
of, and adjoining the grounds then occupied by that institution. Accordingly, on the 1st of
October following, the directors completed a contract with the representatives of Dr. Lincoln
Goodale, for the ten acres, for the sum of $20,000, payable in one year from the 4th of July,
1868.
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The directors, in their annual report for 1871, state that the wall around this additional ground
was completed, including the coping and guardhouses. That which had been built, being on three
sides only, is one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three feet in length, and from the bottom
of the foundation, twenty-four feet high.
WARDENS.—The following are the names of the wardens of the present penitentiary, with the
year of appointment, from its organization in 1835 to the present time
N. Medberry, 1.835 ; W. B. Van Hook, 1839; Richard Stadden, 1842; John Patterson, 1843;
Laurin Dewey, 1846; D. W. Brown, 1851 ; A. G. Dimmock, 1852; Samuel Wilson, 1854; J. B.
Bottles, 1855; John Ewing, 1856; L. G. Van Slyke, 1858; John A. Prentice, 1860, Nathaniel
Marion, 1862; John A. Prentice, 1865 ; Charles C. Walcott, 1806 ; Raymond Burr, 1869. Colonel
Burr still holds the position of warden.
PRESENT OFFICERS.—The present officers of the penitentiary are as follows :
Directors—Judge James L. Bates, of Columbus, president; George Harsh, of Massillon ; Stanley
Matthews, of Cincinnati. Raymond Burr, warden ; James A. Dean, deputy warden ; O. H.
Newton, chaplain; C. V. Hanger, clerk; J. W. Gillies, assistant clerk ; R. A. McIntire, steward;
Norman Gay, physician ; Geo. Cunningham, captain of the night watch; and H. A. Clark,
William Arnold, S. S. Desellem, and C. A. Barker, superintendents, respectively, of the hospital,
kitchen, state-sheps, and yard. Besides these, there are sixty guards employed.
RECEIPTS.—The gross receipts of the penitentiary for the year 1872 were $182,897.60, and the
total amount of expenses, $153,872.01, leaving a balance in the treasury of $29,005.59.
NUMBER of PRISONERS.—The highest number confined in the prison during 1871 was 1,041,
on the 14th of April; the lowest, 955, on the 31st of October. The average number for the year
was 1,014 3-5.
The number remaining in the prison, October 31, 1871, was
From State courts, males ............................................ 905
" " " female. ........... ...........................2
From United States courts, males ... ............................. 16
“ ” “ military courts, males ....................... 7
Total.................................................................. 955
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THE PRISON LIBRARY.—The number of volumes in the prison library amounted, at the close
of 1871, to two thousand, besides a large number of monthly magazines; taken for the benefit of
the prisoners. These, with the books, were very generally appreciated, and there was an
increasing demand for books of history, of travel, and of a religious character.
RELIGION IN THE PRISON.—The religious exercises in the prison on Sunday consist of a
service in the female department, one in the dining-room, one in the hospital, the Sunday-school,
preaching in the chapel, and prayer and conference meetings, which were, at the close of last
year, attended by nearly four hundred prisoners. The Sunday-school, at that time, consisted also
of nearly four hundred members. The chaplain says, in his report for 1871
“At the close of the previous year, sixty-seven had made a public profession of their faith in
Christ, and united with the Young Men's Christian Association, or " Prison Church ;" that
number has now increased to two hundred and sixty, besides thirty-one candidates who have
passed examination and stand propounded for membership."
CHAPTER XV.
MUTUAL AID SOCIETIES.
THE MASONS.
GRAND LODGE.—The first meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ohio was held in this city
December 14, A. D. 1818, and subsequent meetings were held here annually to the year 1828
again in 1831 to 1836, and in 1845 to 1847, and from 1861 to 1865. The meeting of the Grand
Lodge for 1872 was held at the new City Hall, in this city, October 15th. It is composed of 450
lodges, each one of which is entitled to three representatives in the Grand Lodge, making a total
membership of 1,350. Judge William B. Thrall and Thomas Sparrow, deceased, of this city, have
acted as Grand Masters of this lodge. Wm. B. Hubbard, deceased, of this city, had taken the 33d
degree and was Grand Master of the Knight Templars of the United States of America. He was
the only citizen of Ohio that ever held the
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office. Mr. Hubbard was also Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, the highest order of
Masonry in the world.
COLUMBUS LODGE, No. 30.—Originally instituted on the 11th of June, 1815, at Franklinton
(now within the corporate limits of this city), under the name of Ohio Lodge, No. 30. Abner
Lord, W. M. ; John Kerr, S. W. ; Alexander Morrison, J. W.; Lincoln Goodale, treasurer, and
Joel Battles, secretary, were the first officers of the lodge.
Judge Gustavus Swan was made first Master of the lodge October 19, 1815.
The lodge has a membership at present numbering eighty. Its regular meetings are held the
second and fourth Tuesdays in each month.
Officers for 1873: C. H. Parsons, W. M.; B. F. Rees, S. W. Zelotes Wood, J. W.; L. C. Bailey,
treasurer; P. W. Corzelius, secretary ; John D. Archer, S. D. ; H. F. Strauss, J. D., and Joseph M.
Stuart, tyler.
MAGNOLIA LODGE, No. 20. F. A. M.—A dispensation was granted by Grand Master William
B. Thrall, June 10, 1847, and an organization was effected a few days after, and a charter was
granted by the Grand Lodge, October 20, 1847. The founders of this lodge were : Bela Latham,
B. F. Martin, Henry A. Field, John W. Milligan, D. T. Woodbury, James T. Donahoo, Nathaniel
Marion, Harvey Fletcher, Harvey Bancroft, and William Harrison, who elected Bela Latham, W.
M.; B. F. Martin, S. W., and Henry A. Field, J. W., their first officers.
This lodge has a membership numbering 180. Its meetings are held every first and third Tuesday
in each month.
Officers for 1873: Charles S. Glenn, W. M.; Silas H. Fowler, S. W. ; Julius H. Graves, J. W.;
Samuel E. Kile, treasurer; John F. Lincoln, secretary; F. B. Ihrig, S. D.; H. 1T. P. Dole, J. D., and
J. H. Cushing, tyler.
GOODALE LODGE, No. 372. —The dispensation was granted by Thomas Sparrow, M. W. G.
M., July 20, 1866 (being his forty-eighth birthday), to James Williams, Dolphin G. Smith,
William S. Phares, Ashley B. Robinson, William A. Hershiser, John B. Romans, Edwin C.
Beach, Charles A. Wiggins, Charles C. Walcutt, Albert G. Byers, Samuel Thompson, William
Ewing, Otis B. Perkins, Isaac C. Ashton, William B. Thrall, Moses P. Smith, Martin P. Ford,
Harry Tarbill, Jacob B. Beauman, William McDonald, Denman R. Kinsell, Stephen V. R.
Carpenter, and Jacob H. McColm, Free and Accepted Master Masons ; and organized Monday,
July 23, 1866, by him, assisted by P. G. M. William B. Thrall; Past Masters B. F. Martin, J. M.
Stuart, S. Spencer, D. G. Smith ; Worshipful Masters L. C. Bailey, of
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