ing. An election was held and the following persons were chosen to be officers of the society: President, Thomas Ewing; Vice-Presidents, Whitelaw Reid, Wager Swayne, Wm. L. Strong, Hugh J. Jewett, Algernon S. Sullivan; Secretary Homer Lee; Recording Secretary, Carson Lake; Treasurer, William Perry Fogg. A Governing Committee was also appointed, as follows: Henry L. Burnett, chairman; Calvin S. Brice, Andrew J. C. Foyé, A. D. Juilliard, George Follett, Stephen. B. Elkins, Jerome D. Gillett, C. W. Moulton, Joseph Pool.

The president and the five vice-presidents were appointed a committee to frame a constitution and code of by-laws for the government of the society.

Being without permanent quarters, the society accepted invitations from various hotels whose proprietors were Ohioans. The first regular monthly meeting was held on the 1st of February at the Windsor Hotel.

The committee appointed presented a draft of constitution and by-laws, which was unanimously adopted.

On the 26th of February a special meeting was held at the Gilsey House, when the subject of procuring club rooms was first acted upon. It was decided to lease the floor at 236 Fifth Avenue, which was promptly done. On the 8th of March, 1886, the second monthly meeting was held at the Grand Central Hotel, when a Committee on History and Art was appointed by the president, as follows: J. Q. Howard, Cyrus Butler, Wm. Henry Smith, C. H. Applegate, A. J. Rickoff, J. Q. A. Ward, J. H. Beard.

A Committee on Entertainment was also appointed, as follows: Thomas Ewing, W. C. Andrews, R. C. Kimball, Wm. L. Strong, Homer Lee, W. L. Brown, Bernard Peters, Carson Lake, Henry L. Burnett, C. W. Moulton.

At about this time a discussion took place as to the date upon which Ohio was admitted as a State into the Federal Union, with a view of celebrating the anniversary with a banquet. It was developed that there are no less than seven different dates given by historians for the auspicious event, as follows: April 28, 1802, April 30, 1802, June 30, 1802, November 29, 1802, February 19, 1803, March 1, 1803, and March 3, 1803.

The April meeting was held on the 6th day of that month at the Murray Hill Hotel. A satisfactory date as to Ohio's admission could not be determined upon. A banquet was voted, however, and May 7th was fixed upon as the date; not because that date had anything to do with Ohio's natal day, but as the most convenient one upon which Delmonico's banqueting hall could be secured.

There was inclement weather on the evening of the banquet, but out of the two hundred and twenty-two seats subscribed for, two hundred and twenty members and guests were seated. The banquet was attended by many eminent sons of Ohio from Washington and elsewhere. It was a gratifying success and a forerunner of further pleasant reunions. The banqueters lingered until a late hour. Few such enthusiastic gatherings have ever graced Delmonico's board.

The June and July meetings were devoted to routine business, and it was decided to omit the August meeting. At the June meeting, however, the first of a series of papers was read by Mr. J. Q. Howard, subject, "An Outline of Ohio History." At the September meeting Mr. J. Q. Mitchell favored the society in a like manner, the subject being "The Second Settlement of Marietta." At the October meeting Mr. James Beard delivered an extemporaneous address on Hiram Powers, the sculptor, replete with interesting reminiscences. At the November meeting Mr. Warren Higley read a paper on "The Second Settlement of Ohio at Cincinnati."

At the end of the first year of its existence the society had nearly three hundred members on its roll. The following extract from the second annual report of Secretary Lee gives some very interesting facts in regard to the members of the society and their occupation. It is a record of great interests under the control of Ohio men, and is a roll of honor to which the citizens of the State as well as the members of the society can point with laudable pride.

The membership of the society numbers 303, of whom 237 are active members and 66 non-resident members.

The above are made up as follows: Merchants, 113; physicians, 9; attorneysat-law, 24; railways, 9; insurance, 7; bankers, 29; real estate, 3; hotel proprietors, 6; press, 26; clergymen, 2; artists, 11; miscellaneous, 16, and public life, 15.

Among the latter is the Vice-President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Governor of Ohio and two ex-Governors, the Secretary of State and one ex-Secretary, several United States Senators and Members of Congress from Ohio and other States with which they have since become identified.

Four of our members are presidents of New York City National Banks. The Western Union Telegraph and the Metropolitan Telephone Companies are both managed and legally advised by other members of the society.

The New York Steam Heating Company and th Standard Gas Light Company, both of which occasionally take possession of our streets, are Ohio institutions. The new aqueduct is not only being engineered by Buckeyes, but is also financed largely by Ohio men.

The Standard Oil Company, which has representatives in every town between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the Lakes and the Gulf, also came here from Ohio and is largely identified in our society.

The Windsor, Murray Hill, Grand Central and the Ashland are among the hostelries controlled by Buckeyes.

The Associated Press is managed by one of our members; the New York Tribune, the World, the News, the Daily Graphic and the Brooklyn Times are controlled by others.

The Erie, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, the Housatonic, Lake Erie and Western, New York and New England, Richmond Terminal, Memphis and Charleston and nine other railways are represented here by their directors and managers in this society.

The inventors of the two principal electric lighting systems of the United States, Edison and Brush, are Ohio men.

ROOMS OF THE SOCIETY, 236 FIFTH AVE., BETWEEN TWENTY-SEVENTH AND TWENTY-EIGHTH STS. OFFICERS FOR 1888.

President-Thomas Ewing.

Vice-Presidents-Whitelaw Reid, George Hoadly, Wager Swayne, Charles W. Moulton, Algernon S.

Sullivan.

Secretary-Homer Lee.

Recording Secretary-William Ford Upson.
Treasurer-William Perry Fogg.

Trustees-Henry L. Burnett, Andrew J. C. Foyé, George Follett, Joseph Pool, John Dickson, W. H. Eckert, Chas. T. Wing, Henry K. Enos, L. C. Hopkins.

Governing Committee (the President, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, Members ex-officio)--Henry L. Burnett, Andrew J. C. Foyé, Geo. Follett, Joseph Pool, John Dickson, W. H. Eckert, Chas. T. Wing, Henry K. Enos, L. C. Hopkins.

LIST OF ACTIVE MEMBERS WITH THE FORMER HOME OF EACH IN OHIO TO

JULY, 1888.

At

Abbey, Henry E., Akron. Andrews, W. C., Youngstown. Applegate, C. H., Highland Co. Armstrong, Geo. E., Cleveland. Armstrong, P. B., Cincinnati. Ashley, James M., Toledo. kinson, W. H., Cleveland. Archbold, John D., Leesburg. Adams, Henry H., Cleveland. Bartlett, Geo. S., Mt. Gilead. Beard, D. C., Painesville. Beard, Henry, Painesville. Beard, W. H., Painesville. Beasley, A. W., Ripley. Belt, Washington, St. Louisville. Bidwell, F. H., Toledo. Bonnet, J. N., Zanesville. Bostwick, J. A., Cleveland. Brainard, Frank, Salem. Brainard, W. H., Salem. Brewster, S. D., Madison. Brice, Calvin S., Lima. Brown, Walston H., Cincinnati. Brown, W. L., Youngstown. Bruch, C. P., Canton. Brundrett, H. B., Cincinnati. Bryant, Stanley A., Mt. Vernon. Buckingham, G., McConnellsville. Burnett, Henry L., Cincinnati. Busbey, Hamilton, Clark Co. Butler, Cyrus, Norwalk. Butler, Richard, Norwalk. Buckingham, C. L., Berlin Heights. Bostwick, W. W., Cincinnati. Bosworth, T. B., Marietta. Bodman, E. C., Toledo. Baker, W. D., Cleveland. Bonnet, S. Frank F., Zanesville."

Clark, Heman, Portage Co.

Brock

Cor

way, H. H., Cleveland. Bosworth, F. H., Marietta. Bunnell, J. H., Massillon. Bliss, C. F., Wooster. Bruch, E. B., Canton. Baker, W. H., Cleveland. Chance, Mahlon, Fremont. Chandler, J. M., Mansfield. wine, R. M., Cincinnati. Corwine, Quinton, Cincinnati. Crall, L. H., Cincinnati. Critten, T. D., Piqua. Cox, S. S., Columbus. Caldwell, W. H., Cincinnati. Corwine, John, Cincinnati. Converse, J. Stedman, Urbana.

Dickson, John, Cincinnati. Donaldson, Andrew, Cincinnati. Doren, D., Wooster. Doyle, George, Steubenville. DeMilt, H. R., West Jefferson. Dunn, W. S., Fletcher. Doyle, Alexander, Steubenville. Dunham, S. T., Cleveland. Dorsey, Stephen W., Oberlin. Eckert, Thomas T., Wooster. Eckert, T. T., Jr., Wooster. Eckert, W. H., Wooster. ton, D. M., Mansfield. Elkins, Stephen B., Perry Co. Ellis, John W., Cincinnati. Enos, H. K., Millersburgh, Holmes Co. Este, W. M., Cincinnati. Ewing, Thomas, Lancaster. Essick, S. V., Alliance.

Fové, Andrew J. C., Mt. Gilead.

Fleischmann, Max, Cincinnati.

Edger

Fogg, Wm. Perry, Cleveland.

Follett, Austin W., Granville.
French, Hamlin Q., Delaware.
Gillett, M. G., Upper Sandusky,
Upper Sandusky.

Follett, George, Johnstown. Foyé, Frank M., Mt. Gilead. Fackler, Geo. W. S., Cincinnati. Foote, Edward B., Euclid.

Gillett, Francis M., Upper Sandusky. Gillett, Jerome D., Gillett, Morillo H., Upper Sandusky. Glassford, Henry A., Cincinnati. Goddard, Calvin, Cleveland. Gorham, A. S., Cleveland. Granger, John T., Zanesville. Green, Albert W., North Bloomfield. Green, Edwin M., North Bloomfield. Grojean, J. H., Canton. Guiteau, John M., Marietta. Gard, Anson A., Tremont City. Gunnison, Austin, Cincinnati. Hain, Isaiah, Circleville. Hall, P. D., Akron. Hammond, D. S., Delaware. Harbaugh, David F., Cleveland. Harman, Geo. V., Canal Dover. Harman, Granville W., Canal Dover. Harman, John W., Canal Dover. Hawk, Wm. S., Canton. Heaton, Wm. W., Salem. Hewson, J. H., Cincinnati. Higley, Warren, Cincinnati. Hine, C. C., Massillon. Hoffer, Wm. M., Mansfield. Hopkins, L. C., Cincinnati. Howard, James Q., Columbus. Howlett, Giles N., Mansfield. Hoyt, Colgate, Cleveland. Handy, Parker, Cleveland. Halstead, Marshall, Cincinnati. Hoagland, C. N., Miami Co. Hoadly, George, Cincinnati. Hobbs, H. H., Cincinnati. way, J. F., Cleveland. Hibbard, George B., Ironton. Hazlett, Wm. Converse, Zanesville. Irvine, James, Toledo. Imgard, Julius, Wooster. Jennings, P. S., Cleveland. Jeffords, John E., Columbus. Jewett, Hugh J., Zanesville. JuilJacobs, A. L., Lima. Johnson, Edgar M., Cincinnati.' Johnston, J. W.,

liard, A. D., Bucyrus. Zanesville.

Kimball, R. C., Canton. King, Thomas S., New Philadelphia.
Co. Kingsbury, F. H., Columbus.
Lahm, Frank M., Mansfield.

Hollo

Knisely, Wm.. Tuscarawas

Lake, Carson, Akron. Lauer, E., Cincinnati. Leavitt, John
Loveland, F. C., Wellington. Linn, Fred. D., Mt.

B., Cincinnati. Lee, Homer, Mansfield.
Gilead. Le Fevre, Ben, Maplewood.

Mayo, Wallace, Akron. McCook, Anson G., Steubenville. McCracken, W. V., Bucyrus. McFall, Gaylord, Mansfield. McGill, Geo. W., Lancaster. Merser, Isaac P., Marlboro'. Miller, J. W., Springfield. Mitchell, John Q., Mt. Vernon. Monett, Henry, Columbus. Moore, Cary W., Zanesville. Moore, L. B., Mt. Gilead. Moss, J. O., Sandusky. Moulton, John Sherman, Cincinnati. Munson, Wm. S., Cincinnati. Morgan, Henry M., Mt. Vernon. Rollin M., Mt. Vernon. Milmine, George, Toledo. Morgan, David, Wilmington. Horace J., Norwalk. McNally, J. Flack, Springfield.

Chas. E., Toledo.

Moore, Robert, Cincinnati.

Nye, Theodore S., Marietta.

Peet, Wm. C., London, O.

Peters, Bernard, Marietta.

Morgan,

Morse,

Milmine,

Phillipp,

Newton, Ensign, Canfield. Oldham, J. L., Springfield. Palmer, Lowell M., Chester. M. B., Cincinnati. Peixotto, B. F., Cleveland. Pool, Harwood R., Elyria. Prentiss, F. J., Cleveland. Prentiss, F. C., Cleveland. Pritchard, Daniel, Cleveland. Packard, S. S., Cincinnati. Pease, Geo. L., Painesville. Peet, Chas. B., London, O. Peixotto, Geo. D. M., Cleveland. Pool, Joseph, Cleveland. Peixotto, M. P., Cleveland. Parker, S. Webber, Chagrin Falls.

Reid, Whitelaw, Cincinnati. Rickoff, A. J., Cleveland. Ricksecker, Theodore, Canal Dover. Rodarmor, John F., Ironton. Rogers, Wm. A., Springfield.

Sadler, J. F., Lucas Co. Safford, W. M., Cleveland. Schooley, John C., Cincinnati. Schwan, Louis M., Cleveland. Scott, Geo., Canton. Shillito, Wallace, Cincinnati. Shoppell, R. W., Columbus. Shotwell, Theodore, Cincinnati. Smith, John A., Carey. Smith, Wm. Henry, Cincinnati. Southard, Milton I., Zanesville. Sprague, Chas., Wooster. Stout, John W., Wooster. Strong, W. L., Mansfield. Struble, I. J., Chesterville. Swayne, Wager, Columbus. Spooner, Chas. W., Cincinnati. Smith, Richard, Jr., Cincinnati. Sisson, H. H., Marietta. Sterling, Theodore W., Cleveland. Stebbins, W. R., Monroeville. Shayne, C. C., Cincinnati. Short, John C., Clarksville. Shunk, Albert, Mansfield. Sterling, Willis B., Cleveland. mus P., Youngstown. Smith, Wm. Sooy, Athens. Simpson, C. S., Cincinnati. Terrell, H. L., Cleveland. Thomas, Samuel, Columbus. Thomson, F. A., Cincinnati. Chas. H. Cleveland. Tidball, W. L., Mansfield. W., Cincinnati. Tuttle, Franklin, Portage Co. Rush, Salem.

Schaffer, Onesi

Vaillant, Geo. H., Cleveland.
Waggoner, Ralph H., Toledo.

Vance, Wilson, Findlay.

Van Brimmer, Joshua, Delaware.

Upson, Wm. Ford, Akron.

Ward, J. Q. A., Urbana. Whitehead, John, Worthington. Wing, Frank E., Gambier. Wright, M. B., Cincinnati. Work, Frank, Columbus."

Wright, H.

LIST OF NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS TO JULY, 1888, WITH THE ADDRESS OF EACH.

Arms, C. D., Youngstown, O. Anderson, W. P., Cincinnati, O.
Alms, William, 54 Worth street, N. Y.

Allison, Wm. B., U. S. Senate.
Alger, Russell A., Detroit, Mich.
Barber, A. L., Washington, D. C.
town, O. Beardslee, John B., 328
Card, Henry P., Cleveland, O.
Conger, A. L., Akron, O. Corning, Warren H., Cleveland, O.
Dale, T. D., Marietta, O.

Bonnell, H. O., Youngstown, O. Bonnell, W. S., Youngs-
Broadway, N. Y. Byrne, John, Mills Building, N. Y.
Cooper, John S., Chicago. Cooper, Wm. C., Mt. Vernon, O.

Dawes, E. C., Cincinnati, O. Dayton, L. M., Cincinnati.
son, Thomas, Philadelphia, Pa. Drake, F. B., Toledo, O.
Eaton, John, Marietta, O.

Donald

Foster, Charles, Fostoria, O. Fordyce, S. W., St.

Griffith, G. F., Dayton, O. Goodrich, B. F., Akron, O.
Hibben, J. H., 335 Broadway, N. Y.

Hale, Harvey W., 326 Broadway, N. Y.

Hayes, R. B., Fremont, O.

Hinkle, A. H., Cincinnati, O.

Jewett, W. K., Bridgeport, Conn. Jones, J. P., U. S. Senate.
Kohler, J. A., Akron, O. Kimball, W. C., 35 Warren street, N. Y.
Long, J. A., Akron, O. Loud, Enos B., Paris, France.

Lynch, Wm. A., Cleveland, O.

McFadden, F. T., Cincinnati, O. Matthews, Stanley, Washington, D. C. McBride, John H.,

Cleveland, O.

Means, Wm., Cincinnati, O. McGettigan, John E., Indianapolis, Ind.
Morrison, Walter, Columbus, O. McGillin, E. M., Cleveland, O.

A. H., Cincinnati, O.

G. L., Toledo, O.

Neil, John G., Detroit, Mich.

Post, Chas. A., Cleveland, O.

Payne, Henry B., U. S. Senate.

Mattox,

Marble,

Plumb, P. B., U. S. Senate.

Perdue, E. H., Cleveland, O. Parsons, S. H., Ashtabula, O. Powell, J. H., 657 Broadway, N. Y.
Reinmund, H. J., Lancaster, O. Robison, David, Jr., Toledo, O.
Shotwell, Wm. W., Minneapolis, Minn. Sherman, John, U. S. Senate. Smith, Orland, Cincin
nati, O. Scott, Frank J., Toledo, O. Stettinius, John L., Cincinnati.
Chicago, Ill.

Townsend, Amos, Cleveland, O.
Upson, Wm. H., Akron, O.

Wick, Caleb B., Youngstown, O. ton, D. C. Woodward, J. H., San

Shayne, John T.,

Tod, George, Youngstown, O. Tod, John, Cleveland, O.

Wick, Henry K., Youngstown, O. Wolf, Simon, WashingFrancisco, Cal.

IN MEMORIAM.

Died in 1886.-Mr. William Hunter, Mr. J. Monroe Brown.

Died in 1887.-General W. B. Hazen, Mr. Henry De Buss, Mr. George Emerson, Mr. J. M. Edwards, Hon. Algernon S. Sullivan, Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith.

Died in 1888.-Col. Charles W. Moulton, Chief-Justice Morrison R. Waite, Col. Chas. T. Wing.

A GLANCE AT OHIO HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEN.

BY JAMES Q. HOWARD.

JAMES QUAY HOWARD is a native of Newark, Licking county, Ohio. His mother was the daughter of Judge Quigley, of Pennsylvania. His father, Deacon George W. Howard, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and his grandfather an officer in the war of the Revolution. James Q. Howard was fitted for college at Granville and was graduated at Marietta College with honors. In 1859 he delivered the Master's Oration and received the second degree. He was admitted to the bar at Columbus, having studied law with Hon. Samuel Galloway.

In 1860, at the request of Follett, Foster & Co., the publishers of the "Lincoln and Douglas Debates," he wrote a brief "Life of Abraham Lincoln," which was translated into German. On September 6, 1861, he was appointed by Mr. Lincoln United States Consul at St. John, New Brunswick. The Chesapeake piracy case, the Calais bank raid, bringing about the capture of blockade-runners and enforcing Stanton's passport orders, conspired to render the duties of consul at this great shipbuilding port on the Bay of Fundy as responsible as those of any like officer in the service. The authorities at Calais, Maine, gave Consul Howard credit for having saved the town from destruction by fire. A dozen blockade-runners were captured through information which he furnished. He received the frequent thanks of Secretary Seward for "zeal and activity" and his commendation for "fidelity and ability."

JAMES Q. HOWARD.

On returning home in 1867 Mr. Howard purchased an interest in the Ohio State Journal, and, while an editorial writer on that paper, his articles on finance were commended widely and copied by the New York press. While writing for the reviews and magazines, his address before the Alumni of Marietta College, in 1871, was characterized by Charles Sumner as "admirable, practical, useful." In 1876 he was selected by the immediate friends of Governor Hayes to write the authorized life of the Republican candidate for the Presidency, published by Robert Clark & Co., of Cincinnati. He was soon after placed on the editorial force of the New York Times, where he wrote all the articles on the important subject of counting the electoral vote.

In 1877 he was appointed to a position in the New York Custom House, and in the following year was nominated and confirmed as an assistant appraiser of merchandise. In 1880 he was deemed most worthy of promotion to the responsible office of Chief Appraiser, one of the two national offices of largest discretionary power, outside of the Cabinet. It is through the work of the appraiser's department at New York that the government is supplied with the bulk of its revenue. Mr. Howard has held important office under five presidents of the United States, and passed the United States Senate three times by a unanimous vote. His present home is on the border of Central Park, New York city. The paper which follows was originally delivered before the Ohio Society of New York.

I PURPOSE to present the briefest possible outline of that Ohio field of biography and history which it would be both pleasant and profitable, for all Ohioans especially, to explore. That Territorial and State history relates to historical events and historical men. Some of these far-reaching events worthiest of our particular study are: the first permanent settlement at Marietta in the spring of 1788; the second settlement at Columbia near the site of Cincinnati, in the autumn of the same year; the establishment of a Territorial government with Gen. Arthur St. Clair as the first and only duly commissioned Territorial Governor; the formation of the first four counties in the Territory, with the noble Revolutionary names of Washington, Hamilton, Wayne and Adams; the disastrous defeat of Gen. Harmar by the Indians, in June, 1790; the more disastrous defeat of Gov. St. Clair, November 4, 1791, in that western Ohio county since appropriately called Darke; the inspiring victory of Gen. Anthony Wayne, in August, 1794; the enactment and enforcement of much-needed laws by the Governor and Territorial Judges; the assembling of the first Territorial Legislature