from the newspapers cotemporary with the events they narrate. They are to be looked for in historical addresses and sermons, such as were suggested by the Centennial of 1876, of which there are many hundreds, if not thousands, lying in drawers and closets awaiting the annual besom of house-cleaning, if not rescued and preserved by some such agency as ours. There may be many bushels of chaff; but through these are scattered many grains of golden wheat which the future historian will prize as fixing some date, or identifying some names, or explaining the connection of isolated facts.

The recent revival in our country of genealogical research and family histories is significant of the interest taken by our people in tracing the rivulets and streams which, coming down. from the mist-covered mountains, unite their hundreds of rills in the stream which flows at their feet and which flows on, uniting and commingling with other streams, toward the ocean of a common humanity which holds in its bosom every drop which has fallen in the ages past. We want that those who come after us, in our own line, shall be able to trace the converging streams of their descent to those whose fidelity to duty, to God and man, gave their tribute to the sum of religion, patriotism, good government and education and freedom, which is the heritage of Ohio, derived ultimately from Anglo-Saxon, Teuton, Huguenot -through England, old and new, Scotland, Ireland Holland and France.

We want to gather, collate and preserve these rills or even drops of history which may add to our knowledge of our own people, and show the future historian of Ohio why she has been so blessed of God with great and good men and women, and why she has so prospered in material wealth. "There were brave men before Agamemnon," but their memory has perished because they lacked a historian.

The speeches were fittingly closed by a soprano solo entitled "The old Buckeye State," rendered by Mrs. J. F. McNeil

LIFE MEMBERS.

SKETCHES OF LIFE MEMBERS.*

ANDERSON, JAMES HOUSE.- Born March 16, 1833, at Marion O. Som of Judge Thomas Jefferson Anderson and Nancy Dunlevy. Educated in public schools and the Marion Academy, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Graduated from law department of the Cincinnati College in 1854; immediately began practice. Elected Mayor of Marion in 1855, and later Prosecuting Attorney of the county. Married in 1856 to Princess A. Miller. Appointed, March, 1865, by President Lincoln, United States Consul at Hamburg. In 1878, appointed by Governor Bishop Trustee of Ohio State University. Member of Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain. Residence, Columbus, O.

ANDREWS, JOHN W.-Philanthropist and jurist. Law partner of Judge Joseph R. Swan. He was a member of the thirty-seventh Ohio. Legislature, and for many years President of the Ohio State Board of Charities. President of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Public Library from the date of its organization in 1872, until 1890. Established the Andrews Alcove in said library in memory of his deceased son, John W. Andrews, jr. Was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the Starling Medical College, the Trustees being selected in 1848, by Lynn Starling, founder of the institution. Died at Englewood, N. J., October 29, 1893.

ARNETT, BENJAMIN WILLIAM, D. D.— Born March 6, 1838, at Brownsville, Fayette county, Pa. He was licensed to preach March 30, 1865, by Rev. J. D. S. Hall, of the Baltimore Conference, and preached his first sermon April 9, 1865, at St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C. Was appointed to Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O., April 19, 1867; received certificate to teach school December 19, 1868, and until 1871 taught school part of the time in addition to his pastoral work. Was a member of the National Equal Rights League, Syracuse, N. Y., 1864, Frederick Douglass President; and also of the Equal Rights convention held at Cleveland, O. In 1863 he was appointed recruiting agent by George L. Stearns, Assistant Adjutant General United States Volunteers. In June, 1865, organized

*It was intended to publish sketches of all the life members in this volume. Only those are herewith printed that were received in time for publication.

Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, at Brownsville, Pa.; member Free and Accepted Masons. Elected to Ohio Legislature to represent Greene county in 1886-87; author of the bill abolishing the Black Laws" of the State, and one to provide for teaching of scientific temperance in the schools. For eight years he edited the Budget of the A. M. E. Church. He is now Presiding Bishop of the States of South Carolina and Florida of the A. M. E. Church; President of Board of Trustees of Allen University, Columbia, S. C., and of the Divinity High School, Jacksonville, Fla.; Vice President Board of Trustees and Executive Board of Wilberforce University; Trustee of Ohio Normal Industrial School, Wilberforce, O. Trustee of Ohio Archæological and Historical Society.

AVERY, ELROY MCKENDREE, Ph. D., LL. D.-Elder son of Caspar Hugh and Dorothy (Putnam) Avery; born at Erie, Monroe county, Mich., July 14, 1844. He enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war and was finally mustered out, at the end of the unpleasantness, as sergeantmajor of his regiment, the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry. In 1870, he married Miss Catharine Hitchcock Tilden, the elder daughter of the Hon. Junius Tilden. In 1871, he was graduated from the University of Michigan and became superintendent of the schools of what soon became the “East End" of Cleveland, O. For the prior eight years he had been correspondent or editorial writer for the Detroit Tribune; for the following eight years he was engaged in school work. In 1878, Sheldon & Company, of New York, published his "Elements of Natural Philosophy," following it with a complete physical science series; in 1895, they issued his latest work, "School Physics." For several years he was engaged in organizing electric lighting companies. For the last eight years he has been actively engaged in historical authorship. He is a life member of this Society, of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and of the American Economic Association; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Historical Association, and many similar societies. He is now (1895) a member of the Ohio State Senate.

BAREIS, GEORGE F.- Eldest son of George and Ernstena (Finkbiner) Bareis, born July 23, 1852, near Bremen, Fairfield county, O. Father, miller by trade, was native of Wittenberg, Germany, as were also grandparents on maternal side. In 1854, removed with his parents to Empire Mills, one mile west of Canal Winchester, O. Educated in district school and public schools of Rock Mill, Fairfield county, Amanda and Logan, O. In fall of 1868 removed to Canal Winchester, and a few years later his parents moved to Kansas. In spring of 1871, began an apprenticeship in carpenter and joiner trade, also studying architecture. For a number of years em

ployed in planing mill of Mr. John Helpman, at whose death he purchased: the lumber yard and mill, where he has since engaged in business. Married, March 17, 1875, to Amanda J. Schoch. In politics is a liberal Democrat. Member of Board of Education, Canal Winchester, for ten years; President of Board for seven years. Member of Board of Regents of Heidelberg University. Superintendent of Reformed Sunday School for fifteen years, and active in village affairs. Enthusiastic student of history and archæology, having collection of some seven thousand specimens of stone implements, and library of about one thousand volumes, many of them rare. Trustee of Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society..

BARTHOLOMEW, GEORGE K., A. M., Ph. D.- Son of Noah and Mary Freeman Bartholomew, was born at Hartford, Windsor County, Vt., July 4, 1835. Both his grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War, notably in the battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. William Bartholomew, the earliest ancestor of the family in New England, came from London to Boston September 18, 1634, and settled in Ipswich. His son, Lieutenant William, settled in Branford, Conn. From him Noah of the sixth generation was born September 20, 1800, died March 19, 1871. Mary, his wife, survives (July 4, 1895), at the age of 93. George prepared for college at Newberry Seminary, Vt., and was graduated from Dartmouth with distinction in 1858. Entering immediately upon his chosen profession, he came to Chickering Institute, Cincinnati, in 1860, as head Latin and Greek teacher, which position he held fifteen years. In the meantime he wrote a Latin Grammar, “Graded Lessons in Latin" and edited Cæsar's Gallic War. In 1875 with Mrs. Bartholomew (nee Helen J., daughter of Rev. B. R. Hoyt, N. H.), he established the English and Classical School for Girls, Cincinnati. He joined the Cincinnati Literary Club in 1868, is a member of the American Philosophical Society, Junior Warden of St. Paul's P. E. Church and Trustee of the Associated Charities of Cincinnati.

BRICE, CALVIN STEWART.- Born September 17, 1845, at Denmark, Ashtabula County, Ohio. At thirteen years of age (1858) while relying upon his own exertions for support, became a member of the Freshman class of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in a company of students, organized for garrison duty in the State, and served therein at Camp Jackson, Columbus. In 1861 he served. three months with a second company of students in West Virginia. He returned to Oxford where he remained until 1863, when he graduated, and went to his home at Lima, Ohio. Here he taught in the public schools, but subsequently raised a company in Allen County, and as captain led it to Columbus where it joined the 180th regiment of Ohio infantry, and