PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

OHIO STATE

TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

FROM ITS FORMATION IN 1847:

WITH A LIST OF ITS

OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.

AS IS THE TEACHER, 80 IS THE SCHOOL.

COLUMBUS:

PRINTED BY SCOTT & BASCOM.

1851.

HARVIND COLLECTIONARY

GIFT OF THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

BISEXTUSTITUIE COLLECTION
WARVARD UNIVERSITY

NOY, 7, 1923
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

OFFICERS FOR 1848.
MONROEG GUTMAN LIBRARY

SAMUEL GALLOWAY, President.
P. DAWLEY, 1st V. President. T. W. HARVEY, Rec. Secretary.
M. D. LEGGETT, Cor. Secretary. WM. BOWEN, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

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M. F. COWDERY, Chairman.
LORIN ANDREWS,

JOSIAH HURTY,
M. D. LEGGETT,

F. W. TAPPAN,
JOHN NICHOLS,

H. K. SMITH.

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OFFICERS FOR 1849.

SAMUEL GALLOWAY, President.
P. DAWLEY, 1st V. President. S. S. RICKLEY, Rec. Secretary.
W. P. KERR, Cor. Secretary. L. G. PARKER, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

A. D. LORD, Chairman.
M. G. WILLIAMS,

I, W. ANDREWS,
RUFUS HUBBARD,

A. W. DENNIS,
H. H. BARNEY,

J. S. WHITWELL.

OFFICERS FOR 18 50.

SAMUEL GALLOWAY, President.
P. DAWLEY, 1st V. President, E. D. KINGSLEY, Rec. Sccretary,
I. W. ANDREWS, Cor. Secretary, JOHN OGDEN, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

A. D. LORD, Chairman.
M. D. LEGGETT,

G. R. HAND,
H. H. BARNEY,

E, E. BARNE
T. W.

S. S. RICKLEY,

OFFICERS FOR 1851.

ISAAC SAMS, of Hillsboro', President.
JOSEPH RAY, of Cincinnati, 1st V. Pres't. JOHN LYNCH, of Ashland, Rec. Sec'y.
P. DAWLEY, of Massillon, Cor. Sec'y.

JOHN OGDEN, of Columbus, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

LORIN ANDREWS, of Massillon, Chairman.
R. D. HUMISTON, of Cleveland, D. LYMAN, of Butler Co.,
D. F. DE WOLF, of Norwalk, I. W. ANDREWS, of Marietta.
JAMES CAMPBELL, of Dayton, C. S. ROYCE, of Plymouth,

HISTORY AND PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

OHIO STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

THE desirableness of forming a STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, had for several years been a theme of deliberation

among

the active friends of Education in the State, but no decided action on the subject was taken till the Fall of 1847, when, at Teachers' Institutes held in several different counties, M. F. Cowdery, Lorin Andrews, A. D. Lord, Wm. Bowen, Josiah Hurty, and M. D. Leggett, were appointed a committee to take into consideration the propriety of forming such an Association, and to fix upon the time and place of meeting for that purpose : the notice of the contemplated convention was in due time published.

FORMATION OF THE ASSOCIATION.

In accordance with the above named notice, delegates representing eleven counties assembled at Akron on the 30th of December, 1847, to organize a State Teachers' Association, and adopted the following Constitution :

PREAMBLE.

As a means of elevating the profession of Teaching, and of promoting the interests of schools in Ohio, we whose names are affixed associate ourselves together under the following