Zanesville City (part 3 of 5)

May 17, 1905, the Home was dedicated and opened. Edgar W. Allen delivered the opening address, reciting some events in the life of the founder; a quartet composed of Mrs. Charles Geis, Mrs. Mary Gebest-Rietz, Clyde Reasoner and H. O. Stanton, sang the "Gallant Troubadour,' Rev. A. M. Courtnay, D. D., offered an invocation; Mrs. Rietz and Mr. Stanton sang a duet ; Rev. D. M. Ross spoke upon the Home, and at its conclusion Mrs. Geis sang "'Love's Echo;" Col. T. F. Spangler spoke of the financial career and condition of the Home, and announced the donation of $2,500.00 in six per cent. securities trom a friend whose identity was withheld by request. The property had been purchased at a cost of $25,000.00, and at dedication had an indebtedness of $3,000.00. The quartet rendered "Lo. it is I," the accompainments to all the musical numbers being furnished by Mrs. Graham Bailey, and the ceremonies were concluded by the benediction by Rev. D. M. Ross.

The present trustees are T. F. Spangler, J. J. Adams, W. R. Baker, W. M. Shinnick and George H. Stewart; and the board of women managers is Mesdames Edward Martin, W. E. Guthrie, W. D. Schultz, Otto A. Bauer, James W. Rusk, Edward A. Green and Anna M. Hill, M. D.

Societies, Dramatic, Art And Literary Items

MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES, COMPRISING ABOLITIONISM, TEMPERANCE, YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, MUSKINGUM COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY, MEDICAL SOCIETIES, HOMEOPATHIC SOCIETY, EIGHTH ~WARD= PARK "ASSOCIATION, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, KNIGHTS OF ST. GEORGE AND COLUMBUS, ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS AND YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE, BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS, SINGING SOCIETIES, DRAMATIC, ART AND LITERARY ITEMS.

Abolitionism

Zanesville was settled originally by Virginians, Marylanders and Pennsylvanians, and a_ few Protestant Irish; they were fond of sports, dancing and music and endeavored to obtain as much pleasure as possible out of life. Putnam was settled originally by Yankees, who were honest, shrewd, industrious and intelligent, who regarded life more seriously, were inclined to reflect upon the sober questions of the day, and discountennee anced what they regarded as the ungodly frivolities of the Zanesville inhabitants, who gave Putnam the sobriquet of "Saint's Rest," which it has ever retained, because of a certain degree of solemnity which cast a gloom over everything.

Zanesville had no objection to slavery and many of its people favored it although its existence was prohibited in the state; the people of Putnam had brought with them, from their New England homes, the Puritan opinions of the institution, and hated it with religious zeal; they despised the Zanesvilleans for their ignorance and disregard of ethics, and the latter reciprocated with a coarse ill will and intense contempt for what they classed as Puritanical cant and hypocrisy. To intensify the disagreement, fortune had smiled on Zanesville and it had outstripped its neighbor as a town, and its citizens were proud and elated over it and never permitted an opportunity to escape to remind their more thrifty but less successful neighbors of the fact.

Although their fortunes might not have prospered their opinions were not modified, and thev were not depressed by loss of prestige; and Monday evening, June 24, 1833, Levi Whipple, A. G. Allen, Thomas Gurney, M. B. Cushing and H. C. Howells met at the latter's residence, northeast corner of Woodlawn avenue and Van Buren street, to consider the expediency of forming an organization to promote the total abolition of slavery, and it was agreed that each one present should invite his friends to meet with them at Mr. Whipple's office on the following Saturday, at which time there were present Levi Whipple, chairman; A. G. Allen, secretary; John Goshen, Thomas Gurney, Horace Nye, H. C. Howells, M. B. Cushing, John Quigley, Charles Mathews and Wm. Joiner. A constitution was adopted, which was signed by all present except Goshen and Mathews, and the first public meeting was held July 4, 1833, in the Presbyterian church, in Zanesville, when the constitution was amended and the name of the society changed to the Muskingum County Emancipation Society to promote the Abolition of Slavery and of Oppressive Laws; although not endorsed very extensively in the city, 220 persons in the county had signed the constitution in a short time.

Commencing October 26, 1833, a monthly prayer meeting was held for the abolition of slavery, at first in the stone academy, and for many years in the Putnam Presbyterian church; a Bible class for colored adults was formed and later a Sunday school for colored children ; petitions to the Legislature and Congress were forwarded and the society was in active co-operation with similar organizations throughout the country.

Zanesville was not indifferent to these transactions, but regarded them as the futile efforts of "cranks," who were dealing with a subject about which they knew nothing, but were aroused to a feverish condition of excitement when the announcement was made that a state convention of Abolitionists was called to assemble, April 22, 1835, in the stone academy near the intersection of Moxahala avenue and Jefferson street. The coming event was the sole topic at tavern conferences, on the street and in the homes of Zanesville, and it was determined to prevent it. Preceding the convention Theodore D. Weld came by invitation to lecture and his meetings created such opposition and excitement, that April 11, 1835, a committee was appointed to wait on the prosecuting attorney about the disturbances at the meetings, and secure protection.

_ When the day arrived Zanesville was beyond control, and when it was known that the half dozen Abolitionists of Putnam were in actual conference with visitors of similar political persuasion, the slum of Zanesville, encouraged by more respectable and more guilty men, but lacking the courage to engage in actual violence, crossed the river, dispersed the meeting, defaced the building, insulted the ladies and spread terror throughout the village. Putnam was helpless; violence to private property was imminent, and the residences of Major Nye, A. A. Guthrie and H. C. Howells were threatened with incendiarism, and, for some time, were protected by neighbors. The Putnam residents were greatly aggrieved and an intensely bitter feeling grew out of the occurrence.

Time worked partial reconciliation but the slumbering opposition of Zanesville was fanned into a living flame of political hatred by the rumor that the state convention of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society was to assemble in the stone academy in May, 1839. Zanesville had condoned the first offence but would not permit such incendiary meetings ; inflammatory documents were issued, one especially was filled with the bitterest invectives, designed to excite the worst of human passions, and entitled the "Resurrection of Abolitionists in Putnam." Zanesville was aroused to madness on the day of the convention and the Zanesville rabble invaded Putnam during daylight, but no disturbance occurred until evening, when the barn of Adam France was fired, because he had stabled the horses of some of the delegates, and on the following night Mr. Whipple's barn was burned. Mr. Howells, an Englishman, engaged in tanning at Woodlawn avenue and Harrison street, and others, had made ethusiastic speeches before the convention, which the mob considered inflammatory, and the information was carried into the country, and hundreds of rural pro-slavery men came into Zanesville to reinforce the haters of the Abolitionists. An attack was made on the academy, the Putnam men resisted, routed the ruffians and captured their leader and some of the men. When this intelligence reached Zanesville the friends of the prisoners were hastily notified to rendezvous at the Third street bridge, to rescue their comrades ; in the meantime the citizens of Putnam, without regard to political affiliations, were determined to defend their town and place the prisoners in the Zanesville jail; the Zanesville mob, threatening to burn the town, was- met at the southern end of the bridge by Mr. Z. M. Chandler and an armed force, and a battle with stones, bludgeons and firearms ensued, in which one Zanesville man was severely wounded in the leg. Reinforcements came to both sides, and when the fight was hottest the Sheriff appeared with a posse, read the riot act and ordered the mob to disperse. During the conflict one prisoner escaped but the remainder were marched to jail by the Sheriff.

\When the Zanesville party made the first attack, a detachment had provided a bucket of tar and a sack of feathers to adorn Mr. Howells, but he escaped from the building and climbed a tree on the high ground near the Cooper Mill road, from which he watched the mob searching for him: when the rioters learned that their attack had-been repulsed and some of their party captured, they feared their ability to reach home by the bridge and swam the river.

When the Sheriff had locked up his prisoners, he anticipated a rescue as the city was in turmoil, and popular sentiment was running in that direction: the officers knew the danger and were hoping for the return of the Zanesville Guards, who had gone on an excursion to Dresden. Upon their return they were placed on duty at the court house, and late at night, when the crowd had dispersed, the military were released and a strong civil guard alone held the position. Public sentiment was so favorable to the prisoners that their punishment was nominal and did not "'fit the crime."

Putnam was not on the line of the Undereround Railway. and while the occasions were infrequent to assist a slave to freedom, the Putnam Abolitionists were never found lacking in any of the zeal in action which they so forcibly advocated in theory.

Tem Perance

The prevalence of the use of intoxicating liquors in the early part of the Nineteenth century is affirmed bv social and commercial records ; custom sanctioned their employment upon all social occasions and stores sold them as staple articles ; they were displayed openly upon the sideboard in nearly every home, and whiskey, brandy and wines were as essential to hospitality as solid food. Bitters were administered to the household, at fixed seasons of the year, and their use was regarded as positively necessary to the health of the family; the liquors were too cheap to adulterate and their quality was never impeached, and intoxication rarely extended to the condition of imbecility.

Notwithstanding popular sentiment found no fault with existing customs there were individuals who did, and November 15, 1830, a meeting was held in the Methodist meeting house, in Putnam, for the purpose of forming a temperance society ; Edwin Putnam was chosen chairman and W. H. Moore, secretary; Rev. James Culbertson opened the exercises with prayer and an address was delivered by A. A. Guthrie. A constitution was adopted and those signing it agreed "to perpetually abstain strictly from ardent spirits and wine, except as a medicine, or as a part of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; also, not to present it to visitors, customers or laborers, except as a medicine, not to be directly or indirectly concerned in the manufacture or sale of ardent spirits, except so far as he shall be convinced that they are intended for medical purposes or the arts." Ninety names were affixed to the constitution, and the officers chosen were: John Goshen, president ; Edwin Putnam, vice president; A. A. Guthrie, secretary; Samuel Chapman, treasurer , W. H. Moore, Horace Nye, Thomas Wilbur, Abraham Josselyn and Col. Wm. Hadley, directors. The society flourished and December 6, 1850, there were 813 signers to the constitution, and April 18, 1853, the society became part of the Temperance Alliance.

At various times an active campaign in the interest of temperance was conducted by the Sons of Temperance and Good Templars, of which no records remain, but the efforts of these societies were limited to persuasive methods and while they accomplished much in molding public sentiment and in reforming hard drinkers, more strenuous measures were demanded by the more radical temperance advocates.

The spasmodic crusade which swept over Ohio in 1874 was vigorously contested in Zanesville; a meeting of the friends of prohibition was held in the Second Street Church, March 3, 1874, with Mrs. Sarah Hazlett as president and Mrs. D. C. Smith as secretary; the meeting was very enthusiastic and largely attended and on the following day the Women's League was formed by electing Mrs. Hazlett president, the wives of the city clergy as vice presidents; Mrs. DirCesmith, Mrs. R. H. Buell and Mrs. S. S. Black as secretaries: an executive committee of nine members and an advisory committee of gentlemen were also selected. The pledge consisted of an agreement "to use judicious and lawful means to rid the city of the curse of the liquor traffic,' and in a short time eight hundred names were subscribed to the agreement. A petition was prepared for presentation to the city council asking the passage of as prohibitory a law as the constitution would permit, and 4,470 names were attached when it was presented. About a score of the most prominent ladies attended at the council chamber on the evening it was presented to council, and they were allowed ten minutes to express their desires; Mrs. L. G. Shrom addressed council in behalf of the league, and H. L. 'Korte, of the law firm of Korte and Archauer, attorneys for the Liquor Dealers' Association, presented a remonstrance and addressed council upon the injustice of the proposed law, and having exceeded his time Rev. W. P. Shrom was given opportunity to reply.

The entire membership of council was present and a motion to suspend the rules was carried by a vote of 17 to 1, and upon the adoption of the ordinance the roll was called and the vote, as enrolled, was:

Daniel Applegate, Henry Blandy, A. E. Cook, Fred. Dieterich, C. W. Fletcher, Wm. Foran, Samuel G. McBride, O. C. Farquhar, George W. Guthrie, P. Morgan, Robert Price, Benjamin Spangler and James L. Taylor, or thirteen ayes; and Michael McDonald, Frank Myers, H. Eugene Printz, Robert D. Schultz and E. B. Williams, or five nays; among those voting aye will be - served several names which were a surprise to public as the parties were not favorable to - question but lacked the courage of the minon y to express their opinions. There having ben thirteen for and five against the ordinance it was declared adopted, and upon this announcement Mrs. Hazlett arose and suggested the singing of the long meter doxology; Mrs. Rev. J. F. Ohl began and the audience arose and joined in the singing.

The influence of the movement extended to the medical society, which passed a resolution to not prescribe spirituous liquors except in cases of absolute necessity, and twelve of the thirteen druggists pledged themselves to not sell except as a medicine. Street meetings were held and saloons were picketed; persons about to enter were requested not to do so and many were deterred from entering by the knowledge that they were watched; antagonism was excited in some, and others, in terror, abandoned the business. April 7, 1874, a party of crusaders sang a hymn and offered a prayer on a sidewalk in front of a saloon in Tarrier street, and quite a crowd collected ; the proprietress was boisterous and threatening and next day filed an affidavit against one of the lady participants for obstructing "'said sidewalk or pavement, to hindrance, inconvenience and damage of affiant and the public, by stopping, standing, kneeling, singing, praying and collecting a crowd on said sidewalk or pavement and street." The accused was arrested and later discharged ; the liquor dealers requested the Mayor "to prohibit street demonstrations of any kind" which he declined doing on the ground that there was no law under which he could act. The Women's League meetings were maintained and interest seemed unabated, but after a six-months' trial the ordinance was repealed, some of the members of council having been persuaded to resume the former practices. Since this effort the temperance movement has been confined to efforts to secure local option, the last having been at an election in the new Third ward in 1904, which was defeated by a narrow majority.

The Independent Order Of Rechabites

"The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakin, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 'Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.' Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazin'%h, and his brethren, and all his sons and the w' . house of the Rechabites; and I brought tnein into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallul, the keeper of the door; and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites, pots full of wine, and cups and I said unto them, 'Drink ye wine.' But they said, 'We will drink no wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us saying, ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever; neither shall ye build house nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your days ye shall live in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers. Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine in all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; nor to build houses for us to dwell in, neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed ; but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab, our father, commanded us,' And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites: 'Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab, your father, and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded you, therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want a man to stand before Me forever.' "

The members of the order, therefore, are total abstainers, and their place of meeting is stvled a tent. The first tent in Ohio was instituted at Zanesville, August 15, 1877, and designated as

Excelsior Tent, No. 80, with the following officers: A. J. Wolfe, shepherd; D. B. Gary, past chief ruler; James Benjamin, chief ruler; Charles Arter, deputy ruler; I. B. Copeland, recording secretary; L. C. Webster, financial secretary ; Thomas Roach, treasurer; C. Wintermute, Levite ; G. W. Marshall, inside guardian; Benjamin Priest, outside guardian, with eleven additional members ; the tent disbanded in December, 1899.

Lily of the Valley Tent was organized September 29, 1888, with fifty-five charter members and the following officers: Mrs. B. Pritchard, shepherd; Mrs. Jennie Kelso, past chief ruler; Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, chief ruler; Miss Hattie Toll, deputy ruler; Miss Alice Lampton, recording secretary; Mrs. L. F. Quigley, financial secretary; Mrs. Hattie Parkison, treasurer; Mrs. Elmer Flowers, Levite; Mrs. Charles Taylor, inside guardian; Mrs. Ella Parkison, outside guardian; John L. Stockdale, George Vaughn and George Parkison, trustees; this tent is still working.

Banner Tent, No. 111, was organized August 9, 1879, with fifty charter members and the following officers: Louis Quigley, shepherd; We. Brown, past chief ruler; Lyman Flowers, chief ruler; John Miller, deputy ruler; W. J. Finley, recording secretary; J. W. Donaway, financial secretary: D. B. Gary. treasurer: Hugh Benjamin, Levite; Clark Wilbur, inside guardian ; G. W. Wilson, outside guardian; this tent is still working.

White Rose Tent was organized in August, 1896, and disbanded in 1899, and Willing Workers Juvenile Branch, organized with forty members is doing good work among the children. For a number of years the hall of the order has been in the third story of the building on southwest corner of Fifth street and Fountain alley.

Young Men'S Christian Association

A formal organization of this widespread association was made in Zanesville, November 11. 1867, when A. A. Guthrie was chosen president and was retained in the position until physical disability compelled him to retire. Pleasant rooms were secured in Main street over where Brendel's shoe store has been kept so many years, and for a long time the association flourished and was influential for good. It was active in Sundav-school work where sectarian authority had not been exercised, and extended its labors to sewing missions for girls. but interest ceased and the organization became dormant about 1880-1.

was leased and fitted up, and a frame gymnasium was built in the rear of the lot; after a few years the interest waned and about 1892 it was disbanded, and the gymnasium is now occupied by the Sunkel Plumbing Company as a work shop.

Medical Societies

was organized in September, 1828, with Gen. Isaac Van Horne, president; Rev. James Culbertson, recording secretary, and Levi Whipple, treasurer. In 1842 an executive committee was selected, the first members of which were Isaac Dillon, James Raguet, John Metcalf, Alexander Sullivan, Wm. Schultz, E. E. Fillmore and John Taylor, Jr. MEDICAL SOCIETIES.

The General Assembly passed an act January 28, 1817, to regulate the practice of physic and surgery and a board of censors was appointed for each of the medical districts created by the act: Muskingum county was in the Fourth district and Dr. John Hamm was president of the board whose first meeting was held at Zanesville, on the first Thursday in November, and the examination was begun of such persons as were to be permitted to practice medicine; among those first examined were Doctors Calvin Conant and Dudley W. Rhodes. This act seems to have been recognized as monopolistic in character and another was passed February 26, 1824, by which medical societies were recognized and May 25 the physicians of the Fifteenth medical district, composed of the counties of Muskingum, Morgan, Guernsey, Coshocton, Knox and Licking, assembled in the court house, at Zanesville, and organized a medical society with twenty-seven members, the officers being John Hamm, president ; John J. Brice, vice president ; Thomas Flanner, secretary, and Robert Mitchell, treasurer. This organization continued until

December 12, 1842, when fifteen physicians met at the Eagle Hotel, at Zanesville, and agreed to form the Muskingum County Medical Society, and at another meeting held at the same place, January 10, 1843, effected the organization by electing Robert Safford, president; John Walker, vice president; C. C. Hildreth, secretary; James Helmick, treasurer, and J. G. F. Holston, librarian; thirty-one members were at once secured and in 1874 it merged with the

Zanesville Academy of Medicine, an association which was formed about 1873; the date is undetermined except by the facts from contemporary sources that Dr. Hildreth was president in 1873 and that he was the first president; it is asserted that the organization was incorporated at the beginning but the first record found is that incorporation papers were issued January 20,

1878, with a capital of one hundred shares of $5.00 and every member: was required to hold one; it had authority to issue diplomas, and charge a fee of $25.00 therefor, and the certificate entitled the holder to practice medicine; a valuable library was collected and the meetings were held in the Atheneum building, in Fourth street; only one class was graduated, and professional jealousies wrought the disintegration of the body and its library was scattered among the members.

In 1883 it was succeeded by the Zanesville Medical Society and about the same time the Muskingum Valley District Medical Society was formed as a rival body, but neither flourished and both languished and died, and for some time there was no association of physicians. When time had softened the feelings which had caused the differences in the past, Drs. W. R. Hosick, Edward Cass, "H.* McCreary," ©." Mc" Norman; W.-D. Forsythe, A. E. Bell, J. G. F. Holston and J. F. Kennedy issued a call which was intended to reach every allopathic physician in the county, to meet at the Probate Court room, at Zanesville, September 8, 1892, to consider the subject of organizing a medical society; sixteen attended and formed the Muskingum County Medical Society with the following as the first officers: J. L. Geyer, Norwich, president; Z. C. McElroy, Zanesville, first vice president; J. S. Haldeman, Zanesville, second vice president; J. F. Kennedy, Zanesville, treasurer; J. M. Fassig, Zanesville, secretary, and the organization has been in prosperous condition and productive of much good among the associates.

The Homeopathic Medical Society Of Southeastern Ohio

was organized in July, 1898, by D. H. Crawford, O. B. Crumbaker, S. F. Edgar, Martha A. McBride and W. G. McGee, when officers were chosen as follows: S. F. Edgar, president ; W. G. McGee, vice president; Martha A. Mc- Bridé, secretary; D, H. "Crawtord "treasurer. Territorial limits have not been defined and no members have been received west of Columbus. The active movers in the organization were Drs. McBride and McGee, and at first monthly meetings were held but as the membership increased and became dispersed the assemblies were made semi-annual, and papers are presented and a pleasant social feature given to the occasion. The present officers are: John B. McBride, Zanesville, president; C. L. Ireland, Columbus, vice president; Harry E. Hunt, Newark, secretary; S. F. Edgar, Zanesville, treasurer.

In 1836 John-and Isaac Dillon and others organized an agricultural society. in the county and held an exhibit in the court house; the fairs were held in subsequent years, and when the General Assembly passed the act February 28, 1846, "for the encouragement of agriculture," and recognized the utility of such organizations, the Muskingum County Agricultural Society was born January 21, 1848. The first officers were: Cornelius Springer, president; George W. Gibbons, vice president; James L. Cox, treasurer; Uriah Park, secretary. The first formal exhibit was made in the old market house, Zanesville, in the fall of 1848, and soon after about twenty acres of ground were purchased in Springfield township, along what is now Luck avenue, but which proved too limited for the purpose; this tract was sold and the present commodious grounds purchased, along the Cooper Mill road; during the Civil war the fairs were suspended and the grounds were used as a military camp, and named in honor of Gen. Chas. B. Goddard.

The Muskingum County Horticultural Society was organized January 15, 1869, with Wm. Imlay, president ; S. Jacobs Moore, vice president ; Wm. J. Townsend, secretary; W. A. Graham, treasurer, and twenty other members.

Pioneer And Historical Society

A meeting of elderly citizens of the county was held at the court house, May 21, 1866, to form a historical society, to be composed of elderly citizens only, no person to be eligible to membership unless fifty years of age. Thomas Mc- Lees was made president; B. F. Swingle, vice president, and Wm. Gray, secretary. The organization was maintained more as a social affair than for the collection of historical data, until the formation of the pioneer society into which it drifted.

August 30, 1867, the Old Settlers Association was organized at the Odd Fellows Hall, and September 13th a constitution was adopted, and John Peters was elected president and L. H. Dugan, secretary, but its records cease with those of November 16.

March 4, 1890, Charles C. Goddard, H. D. Munson, Sr., Henry Taylor, H. S. Nye, M. D., B. F. Leslie, Frank Richards and Addison Palmer were incorporators of the Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum County, and the first board of trustees were: C. C. Goddard, Rev. Frank Richards, H. S. Nye, M. D.. Addison Palmer, Henry Taylor, B. F. Leslie, H. D. Mun- son, Sr., Edward Cass, M. D., Thomas McLees; the officers were: H. D. Munson,. president; Edward Cass, vice president; Wm. Gray, recording secretary; Mrs. F. C. Dietz, assistant recording secretary; Addison Palmer, corresponding secretary; Rev. Jefferson Chambers, treasurer ; R. J. J. Harkins, curator. The organization occupies rooms in the Memorial Building and is collecting records and relics of the county and preserving what will be of inestimable value to the historians of the future. THE EIGHTH WARD PARK ASSOCIATION.

McIntire Terrace was platted by George N. Eaton and the dominating idea of the design was a suburb of homes with commodious grounds; the interior streets were irregular in direction and alleys were unknown, and lots so formed that subdivision would prove inconvenient and undesirable. This intention was readilv accepted by the pioneer lot purchasers, but later owners have made subdivisions, and the original plan has been destroyed. With the construction of the bridge at the foot of Fifth street intercourse with the Terrace was made easy and it was rapidly 1mproved by beautiful homes, and_ the owners sought to make then attractive with trees, shrubbery and flowers; hogs, cows and horses roamed the streets at will and the rich lawns were a strong temptation to the four-footed marauders, who, in a few minutes, destroyed the labor and patience of years; fences did not protect as an open gate admitted the animals and the city officials cultivated the votes of the owners by refusing to restrain them from injuring their more aesthetic neighbors.

Continued losses induced the issuance of an invitation, through the Courier, to all citizens of the Eighth ward and \lcIntire Terrace to assemble on the lawn of Mr. David Lee, July 23, 1882, "to consider the expediency of taking concerted action respecting the improvement of Mc- Intire Park and securing relief from the ravages of stock running at large." The attendance was gratifying and the meeting was called to order by Mr. Lee, who stated its purpose, when Thomas Griffith was chosen chairman and J. Hope Sutor acted as secretary. Much interest was manifested, the attendants spoke freely about their wrongs and it was resolved to form The Eighth Ward Park Association, with nine directors to conduct its business and Thomas Griffith, George D. Gibbons, Joseph T. Gorsuch, J. Hope Sutor, David Lee, William T. Maher, William Dunn, Parker N. Young and Edmund J. Brush were elected. A week later rules were adopted and committees appointed on finance, streets and sidewalks, membership, parks and public grounds, drainage and sewerage, destructive insects and the diseases of trees and shrubbery, and law and legislation; and the directors organized by electing Mr. Griffith president, Mr. Lee vice president, Mr. Sutor secretary and Mr. Brush treasurer. An address upon the objects of the association was printed and distributed throughout the ward, in which: it was stated that the association desired to secure "all the comforts possible and make life in Zanesville pleasant - by gathering around our homes, in our public streets and in our parks all the beauties that nature has so generously provided in innumerable varieties of form and eolor. - It will be necessary, in order to accomplish anything in this direction to compel a few persons to respect their neighbors' rights and property. The money, time and careful nursing expended on trees and shrubbery make them valuable property to the owner, and no person should be permitted to injure or destroy them."

The movement met a hearty co-operation in the other residence wards and the Seventh Ward Park and Lawn Association was incorporated August 26th, and the Putnam Park Association was incorporated November 29th, the organizations having been previously formed, and the incorporation was made for the same reasons that prompted the Eighth Ward Association to secure the right to sue.

McIntire Park was enclosed by a fence, was neglected and parties were accustomed to turn cattle in during the night to graze and drive them out in the early morning; the association endeavored to have this stopped but pettifogging city officials obstructed the design to enforce existing laws; inquiry into the appropriations and disbursements on park account disclosed that the money had been misappropriated, and the faithless official was published, restitution was made but the council was so implicated in such practices that the investigation was made a "whitewash:" and to enable the association to prosecute offenders it was incorporated July 31, 1882. In November a man was employed to arrest cattle and drive them to the citv lot, where the officers of the city turned them loose when the association's officer had disappeared. and by every method in their power the officers thwarted the organization in its work.

A joint committee, composed of C. C. Goddard. L. E. Dodd, W. T. Maher. J. J. Thomas and Woop: Vash of the Richth>@. SL. Vandenbark, G. D. Munson and J. A. Knight, of the Seventh, and M. M. Granger, J. C. Gillespie and E. ie Koethen, of the Putnam associations, was formed for co-operative purposes, and a joint meeting of all persons interested in the work of the organizations was called at the court house in May, 1883. and invitations extended to J. Hope Sutor, of the Eighth: Homer White, of the Seventh, and O. C. Farquhar, of the Ninth, to make addresses.

138 PAST AND Finally, Lieutenant Wm. Linton, whose fidelity as an officer was unquestioned, was employed to execute the law, but he was unable to cope with the entire city administration, and secure an observance of official oaths by recreant incumbents, and August 16, 1883, the last meeting of the association was held. The members did not cease their efforts to carry out the purposes of the organization and among the successes which attended their persistence were: regulation of the height to which shade trees should be trimmed; suppression of stock running at large; the removal of fences around public and _ private grounds; the reduction of the width of sidewalks and the cultivation of grass between the walk and the curb; the appointment of park policemen, etc. The members of the association which influenced so much legislation, who were so vigorously denounced by the small fry politicians, each of whom the members have seen politically buried, were: was organized as a national body at Washington, D. C., October 11, 1890, and during the summer of 1893 Mrs. Edmund C. Brush called a few women of Zanesville together at her home to discuss the feasibility of forming a chapter of the society; in October Muskingum Chapter was formed with Mrs. Fanny Russell Brush, regent; Mrs. Mary H. Granger, vice regent; Mrs. Margaret M. Fulton, historian; Miss Alice Searle, registrar; Mrs. Mary Cox Spangler, treasurer; Mrs. Jessie M. Lilienthal, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Brown Stanbery, Mrs. Mary Munson Moore, Miss Julia Munson, Mrs, Ella Brown Abbot, Mrs. Cornelia V. H. Black and Mrs. Minerva Nye Nash.

Mrs. Brush served as regent for the first six years, and Mrs. M. M. Granger was state regent for two vears; the chapter has contributed to the Francis Scott Key memorial: the Martha Washington monument; Continental Hall: Manila library, and during the Spanish-American war sent hospital supplies, magazines, papersyy ete., to the soldiers. The public schools of the city have been furnished copies of the Declaration of

Independence, and a tree has been planted on the court house esplanade. During 1902 an entertainment was given at Memorial Hall for the benefit of the Helen Purcell Home, at which the chapter presented "Early Zanesville in Picture and Story," in a series of historical tableaux, illustrative of pioneer life and founded on established facts. In addition to the original twelve members thirty-six ladies have been affiliated since the formation of the chapter.

Knights Of St. George

Commandery No. 77 was organized in the basement of St. Nicholas church, June 20, 1887, with twenty-four men, and the following officers: Mat. Faller, captain; Fred. Gressel, first lieutenant ; Oscar Geodler, second lieutenant; Ed. Kellar, orderly sergeant; Charles Steil, quartermaster ; Joseph Bauer, color bearer. The commandery is affiliated with the Knights of St. John Union, which embraces commanderies throughout the United States and Canada, and maintains an insurance feature.

Knights Of Columbus Ancient Order Of Hiberntans

Division No. 1, was organized August 26, 1876, with the following officers: P. T. Kelley, county delegate and treasurer; Michael Havden, president; Terrence Farmer, vice president; lames T. Bradley, financial secretary: Michael Liston, recording secretary.

Young Men'S Institute

Montgomery Council. No. 226, was organized in the basement of St. Thomas church, April 30, 1894, with one hundred and two charter members, the following being the first officers : James Me-

Carty, president; A. J. McNalty, first vice president; E. F. McGovern, second vice president ; P. D. McCann, treasurer; Wm. Riley, recording secretary; Charles W. McShane, financial secretary; James Farahay, corresponding secretary ; Patrick Mulvey and Patrick Carr, sentinels.

The first rooms were in the Stone property, No. 41 North Sixth street, in June, 1894, and were removed to the Shinnick block in January, 1895; to the First National Bank building in February, 1897; to the Sharpe hall, in Fifth street, in September, 1898, and to the second story, in the old Masonic building, in September, 1902, where the meetings are now held.

Bands And Orchestras

The first musician of the settlement was Mess Johnson, John MclIntire's colored servant, and the second, Thomas Dowden; these two, for nearly two decades, furnished the music for all public purposes. Perry Wells came in 1820 and is reputed to have known "where the sweetest melodies slept."

The first band was a string and reed organization, about 1820, with Charles Hill, leader, Wm. Lattimore, Robert Hazlett and James V. Cushing, violin; Wm. Hadley, violoncello; John Lattimore, clarionet ; David Spangler, bassoon; Isaac Spangler, triangle, Benjamin Reed, drum.

In 1829 the Zanesville Harmonic Band was formed and maintained an existence until 1835; its members were, James Hough, leader; A. C. Ross, clarionet; John Parker, flute; D. J. Culbertson, piccolo; Henry W. Kent, bugle; Hamilton Hough, violin; James Fortune, drum.

The Mechanics' Band was organized in 1836 and disbanded ten years later; its members were: Thomas Launder, leader, C. Purcell, Monroe Ayers, Bush Eggerman, J. B. H. Bratshaw, John Alter, Daniel Hatton, John Printz, Jesse Fox, Cass Alter, Alva Rivers, Daniel Baldwin, L. Page, Jackson Printz and Fred. Drone. Its services were gratuitous and it received compensation once only, at the commencement exercises at the Muskingum College, New Concord, in 1841.

Atwood's Band was the first brass band and was organized in Zanesville in 1847, with A. D. Atwood. leader, David Hahn, John Bauer, Casper Bauer, Philip Kassell, Charles Roper, Thomas Launder, David Kahn, Timothy Webb, Emerson Howe and Charles Dulty. As Atwood traveled with a circus during the summer the organization was disbanded and in 1855 the band reorganized as Bauer's Band, and is today led by the veteran, John Bauer, who has been a member nearly sixty years; the charm of the musical technique of this matured band is not surpassed, except in volume, by more pretentious organizations.

Heck's Band, organized in the fall of 1856, with ten members, and Heck's orchestra, of 1875, with seventeen members, were accomplished but short lived bodies. Numerous other bands had brief careers and no records are left of their existence.

About 1871 the Muskingum Cornet Band was organized by some of the most prominent young men of the period, and now among the city's active business men. They were given the sobriquet of "Buttermilks," because of an incident which occurred at a Knights Templar picnic, at New Lexington, which the band attended in a professional capacity. The day was extremely sultry and a thirsty knight found a quantity of fresh, cold buttermilk at a spring house, and purchased the supply. The band was summoned to the refreshment and a rival band twitted them on their abstinence and declared that horns could not be filled on buttermilk, but they were, and on other occasions the "Buttermilks" filled their instruments without even this thin beverage. The members of the band, as appears from a photograph and the recollections of members, are given for the period of its existence, some of the original members having dropped out: W. gle Wilmot and Louis Heck, leaders: Charles E. Munson and George Convers, E flat cornet; A. Frank Munson, Edward B. Haver, Edward Roper and Hazlett Convers, B flat cornet; Albert W. Hack, J..K. Arnold.and J. A. Hunter. alto; T. F. Spangler and S. C. Abbott, tenor; John Ae Drake, L. R. Ray and C. E. Kahler, baritone; G. A. Allen and Sam. H. John, tuba; W. A. Scott and Marion Snoots, snare drum; Edward P. Waters and Frank Rvan, cymbals; Joseph W. Garside, bass drum. The last public appearance of the band was in the parade in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence, July 4, 1876.

The Seventh Regiment Band has had a varied experience and passed through several reorganizations, and like many other social associations its records have not been preserved and the changes did not make sufficient impression to enable the participants to fix dates after the lapse of a few years. It originated about 1887 as the Sons of Veterans' Band, with Wm. Huff as leader and teacher, and the former hose house at the corner of Main and Ninth streets was the place of assembly; later the name was changed to the Excelsior Band and again to the Zanesville City Band; when R. B. Tomlinson became leader the name was changed to Tomlinson's Military Band and later it was mustered into the Ohio National Guard as the First Regiment Light Artillery Band. As only a battalion of the regiment was mustered into the federal service during the Spanish-American war the regimental officers, hospital corps and band were not called into service and as the regiment was mustered out of the National Guard service upon the conclusion of the war, the band resumed its former name of Tomlinson's Military Band. Upon the organization of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, it became the. regimental band under the leadership of A. J. Senhauser.

Singing Societies

The Concordia, a German society, was formed in 1854 and flourished several years; the Mannerchoir began its existence in 1859 and was broken up by the Civil war; the Frohsinn was organized in 1865 but some essential voices were lacking and it suspended after two years to be reorganized in 1878 and to dissolve later. The Harmonie was formed in November, 1872, from members of former societies and disbanded in December, 1874. During the winter of 1879-80 the Mannerchoir was reorganized but was unable to maintain itself; December 5, 1879, the German Singing Society was formed, but business and social engagements prevented its permanency.

The Choral Association was organized January I, 1879, with nearly two hundred members, but as the average attendance was one hundred it could not assemble at dwellings and the expenses of a suitable hall and scores for so many vocalists were heavier than could be borne and the association suspended. The Mendelssohn Glee Club, a male quartette, succeeded it composed of J. D. Luse, leader and first tenor; Hiram Waller, second tenor; J. J. Ingalls, first bass. and James Cox, second bass, all of whom had been members of the Choral Association; the last three named are deceased and the first left the city many years ago.

The "Arions" were a notable organization in their time of activity, and produced a number of operas in a manner that rivaled the efforts of professionals. The Bohemian Girl, Pinafore, Patience, Chimes of Normandy, and similar conceptions were in their reportoire, and although a number of the members are living in the city very little information respecting the organization can be obtained; the activity of the club was during the 'nineties.

The Zanesville Fortnightly Musical Club is not a vocal but an instrumental organization and was formed in the fall of 1895 by Miss Helen Maginnis, who became the first president; the membership was limited to thirty and confined to young women; meetings were private during afternoons and were devoted to the study of various composers and schools of music; occasional public concerts, or recitals, were given and the club was instrumental in bringing good music to Zanesville. After eight years the constitution was entirely remodeled, membership was made unlimited, men were admitted, meetings were held during evenings and in a hall. At the close of its ninth year the club is prosperous and progressive and the present officers are: Miss Katherine S. Stanbery, president; Mrs. Charles Culver, vice president; Mr. Florien' Frazier, secretary and treasurer; Mr. Willis A. Bailey, chairman of the musical committee.

Fine Arts

The artists of Zanesville are not unknown to fame; among the first limners of the city was Thomas Cole, the painter of the "Course of Empire" and "The Voyage of Life," of whom William Cullen Bryant said, in his funeral oration, "had a fixed reputation and was numbered among the men of whom our country has reason to be proud." He was here in the early "twenties" and his portraits of old residents are in many homes in the city.

J. P. Barton painted his first picture in 1842 and devoted his talents to oil. His 'Yosemite Valley," and his replica of Murillo's ""Assumption of the Blessed Virgin," have established his fame. "Jack" Howland's vigorous brush has portrayed the grandeur of the Rocky Mountain region so faithfully that one can near the awful stillness of the scene; and Charles Craig's ""Custer's Last Charge" and 'The Chariot Race," require no encomium. Howard Chandler Christie is a Muskingum county boy whose talents were unappreciated when a few years ago he was sketching around Duncan's Falls instead of attending to his teacher's instructions, but now his fame is national and approaching world-wide.

In water colors, crayon, placque and pottery decoration the list is so extensive names are omitted because of the inability to enumerate all who are worthy of mention. The art pottery works have developed professional work but the most notable creations are in the amateur line.

Among the societies which have existed for the cultivation of art none was more popular in its day than the Murdock Club, an amateur dramatic club which flourished during the 'seventies and gave recitals to honorary members in Black's Music Hall, at least monthly ; there were perhaps thirty active members and several hundred honorary members, the latter paying a fixed annual sum towards expenses for which the former gave a monthly drama or comedy.

Muskingum county has sent many of her voung people to other fields of usefulness, and for no other reason than that their talents were unappreciated at home; the home soil is productive of talent but incapable of developing it to maturity. This was true with respect to Virna Wood, who was born at Wilmington, Ohio, and came to Zanesville while quite young; she attended the public schools and graduated from the high school at the age of sixteen; as a pupil she was a writer and in 1882 moved, with her father's family, to Sacramento, California, where she continued her studies and became an accomplished writer and speaker of Greek, French, German and Spanish, as she was in Latin. From her California home she issued Jason Hildreth's Identity, a story descriptive of Zanesville scenes and persons, which attested the deep impression they had made upon her and the affection she had for the old town which had been indifferent to her ability; the Amason, a lyrical drama, was another production which was favorably received by the critics.

It was in dramatic composition, however, that she excelled and made her reputation. Horatius, a heroic drama, in five acts, was written for Frederic Warde, and produced by him in September, 1901; when the intelligence of its successful presentation and popular approval reached Sacramento the various art, musical and literary societies of the city united in a reception to the authoress, in the state capitol, which had been tastefully and elaborately decorated for the occasion. Her next production was Lord Strathmore, a melodrama, ~zhich was produced by one of Mr. Warde's company, in the title role during the season of 1902-3, and she was employed in the completion of Charles 1X, for the season of 1903-4, when pneumonia ender her career, March 7, 1903.

The Frederick Warde Company was playing Horatius at Sacramento during the last week in February, 1903, and one night, after the performance the entire company assembled at her home to honor the genius that had produced so successful a play; she contracted a cold which developed into the disease that ended her life one week later, at which time the company was playing at San Francisco, and as a tribute of their esteem a benefit performance for her parents was given which netted $700.00.

Arcanum, Ancient Order Of United Work

FRATERNITIES, COMPRISING SECRET SOCIETIES, FREEMASONRY, ODD FELLOWSHIP, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN, DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS, KNIGHTS OF THE MACCABEES, UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS, PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, UNION VETERAN LEGION, NAVAL ASSOCIATION, WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS, SONS OF VETERANS, BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, MUNIFICENT ORDER OF CAMELS, ROYAL ARCANUM, ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORK-

Freemasons, Sundry Societies

MEN, KNIGHTS OF HONOR, FRATERNAL MYSTIC CIRCLE, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, ANCIENT UNITED ORDER OF DRUIDS, MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA, PATHFINDERS, FRATERNAL CENSOR, GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, COLORED FREEMASONS, SUNDRY SOCIETIES.

Secret Societies

A prominent position-must be assigned the -socalled secret societies among the direct influences affecting the moral and temporal welfare of a community, and the fact is indisputable that the best types of citizenship are found where such organizations are most cultivated. The church appeals solely to the spiritual nature and hedges and limits its capabilities with so much theory and dogma, and demands so much self-denial and restraint of natural inclinations that many men decline to enact a role whose requrements their personal sentiments do not endorse. Banks and building companies attract and assist the industrious and thrifty in enlarging their operations, but their influence in behalf of the public weal is exerted only upon those who are themselves exemplars of sobriety and good citizenship.

Secret societies inculcate morality, industry, fidelitv and patriotism; demand from their members no more than can reasonably be performed ; promise and provide material pleasures and rewards during the continuance of health and prosperity, and when sickness and misfortune overtake a member do not desert him nor permit him to suffer for friendly counsel and assistance : they require that members shall be honorable and respectable, not noted for the performance of good deeds, but for their abstinence from evil ones; that they shall observe, as nearly as possible the Golden Rule, and that questions of politics and religion shall be determined by the conscience of each individual. That such organizations are popular is evinced by the large number which exist, and few of the men who join them limit their affiliations to one society. They are active in social, benevolent and protective work and deserve more than mere "honorable mention" for their achievements in the ereat battle of human life. The range of their operations is extensive, the Shrine and Elks being types of the social class; the Freemasons of the charitable, the Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias of the benevolent, and the RoyalArcanum, and Modern Woodmen of America of the protective.

Free Masonry

Lewis Cass met May 25, 1805, and "after becoming known to each other as Master Masons, in the manner prescribed by the rules of the craft, entered into conversation respecting the practicability and propriety of procuring a charter, authorizing them to hold a lodge in this place; and in order to determine the question appointed Brother Smyth, Brother Cass and Brother Raynolds a committee for the purpose of preparing such resolution relative to the object of the meeting, as to them should seem expedient, and to report to this meeting on Saturday next." The committee was active and June 1, the obect was reported '"'attainable,' and the committee was continued to prepare and forward the petition to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and solicit the endorsement of Washington Lodge, of Philadelphia. The petition was signed by William Raynolds, William Smyth, Daniel Convers, Levi Whipple, Abel Lewis, Lewis Cass, I. Van Horne, Seth Fuller, Master Masons, and Noyce Stone, fellow craft, and June 4 the officers were selected t. be named in the charter: Lewis Cass, worshipful master; William Smyth, senior warden; Seth Fuller, junior warden; Isaac Van Horne, treasurer; William Raynolds, secretary.

No time was lost in forwarding the paper, as the Grand Lodge acted upon it and granted the prayer, June 24, but as the charter fee had not been sent ,the papers were withheld and it was not untily May 28, 1806, that the essential payments were made, and as a safe and certain conveyance was secured, and then Captain James Taylor, a non-Mason, brought the long-lookedfor papers. The magnitude of the undertaking will be comprehended when it is considered that the settlement contained about 25 cabins and 150 inhabitants, and that there were not to exceed 300 inhabitants in the entire county; there was no place sufficiently secure for meetings unless guarded exteriorly; every member was _ practically penniless, and those coming to the settlement were in like condition and were seeking it in the hope of bettering themselves; it was the first organization of any character in the settlement, and the Lodge of Amity, No. 5, represents the first effort for social, moral and religious culture.

The authority to constitute the lodge was addressed to Gen. Van Horne, who was the only Past Master in the settlement, but the dispensation was limited to one year and did not reach him until after it had expired; he assumed to act, however, and reported the facts to the Grand Lodge under date of September 23, 1806, and October 20 the Grand Lodge sanctioned his action. There is no official record of the date upon which the constitution was effected, but from private letters it is learned that the ceremony was set for Tuesday, September 49,

1806, the lodge possesses a book of constitutions inscribed as presented by Lewis Cass, September 7, Sunday, and the first lodge record is dated September 26, at which time it was in working order with by-laws, etc. The ceremony of institution was performed in the new twostory, frame hotel building, owned by Gen. Van Horn and occupied by Benoni Peirce, at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, so long the site of a hotel, and of the famous Zane House. The lodge was registered as No. 105, on the Pennsylvania register, but when it participated in the formation of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, its seniority of charter placed it fifth in the Ohio register, and the original seal, furnished by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, served for the Ohio lodge by removing the figures "10" from the die. An Ohio charter was issued and dated January 15, 1812, and the original appears to have been returned to Philadelphia.

The early meetings alternated between Zanesville and Putnam, wherever convenient and suitable accommodations could be obtained; private residences, hotels and the court house were used until 1817, when the last meeting was held in Putnam, and the lodge settled permanently in the Senate chamber until December 18, 1821, when it moved into the first Masonic hall; no meetings were held outside it until 1881, when the building was remodeled, and during that summer one meeting was held in the Odd Fellows' hall, in Putnam.

The approaching completion of the first Masonic hall caused a meeting to be held in the Senate chamber, December 6, 1821, to take action towards organizing a chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which was attended by Daniel Convers, Calvin Conant, Levi Whipple, Joshua Downer, Horace Nye, Dudley W. Rhodes, and Charles Hill. A committee was appointed to secure signers to an application to the Grand Chapter, and officers were chosen as follows: Calvin Conant, most excellent high priest ; Daniel Convers, most excellent king; Joshua Downer, most excellent scribe ; Horace Nye, captain of the host; Dudley W. Rhodes, principal sojourner; Charles Hill, royal arch captain; S. S. Miles, Francis Fowler, and Levi Whipple, masters of the veils. December 13, 1821, the Grand Chapter approved the application, and February 1, 1822, Zanesville Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9, was opened in Masonic hall; a full charter was granted January 15, 1823, and May 5, 1822, the constitution was performed in ample form. The anti-Masonic crusade seriously affected the chapter and it remained closed from September 5, 1831, until July 8, 1837, when it was revived through the efforts of Dudley W. Rhodes, Daniel Applegate, Nimrod Barr, David Reed, David Maginnis, William Twaddle, John Anthony, and James Caldwell.

The second lodge in the city and county and the third Masonic body in the city was Lafayette Lodge, No. 79, for which a dispensation was issued May 16, 1825, and the lodge met for the first time in the Masonic hall, May 25, with the following officers: George Jarhes, worshipful master; Calvin Conant, senior warden; William Blocksom, junior warden; L. L. Hamline, senior deacon ; Isaac Van Horne, treasurer; H. Safford, secretary, and a regular charter was issued January 10, 1826. This lodge did not occupy the Masonic hall, but assembled in the Senate chamber, or at Market and Fifth streets, until 1837, when it held communications for a year in the Masonic hall; in 1838 it moved to Main street and Court alley, and 1847 to Main and Fifth streets, where rooms were used jointly with the Knights Templars.

February 22, 1844, a dispensation was issued to Daniel Applegate, George L. Shinnick, John T. Arthur, Charles W. Spaulding, I. Bartol, and George James, to form Zanesville Council of Royal and Select Masters, and when the body was opened Adam Peters, Nimrod Barr, and H. MM. Miller were present in addition to the petitioners, John Barney, grand lecturer, representing the grand puissant. The date of the erection is not recorded, but the evidence points to the last week in February; the officers were: Daniel Applegate, thrice illustrious master; George L. Shinnick, deputy illustrious master ; John T. Arthur, principal conductor of the work ; Charles W. Spaulding, captain of the guard. October 26, 1844, a charter was issued, but no number was assigned, and October 24, 1845, it Wase-tevistered as Nou 13, 'but later a. cof: rection of the register was made and _ the number 12 was permanently assigned. The organization of this body was accomplished in the Masonic hall, and until the completion of the second Masonic hall the bodies meeting in the Market street building were the Lodge of Amity, the Chapter and the Council.

November 27, 1848, John L. Vattier, grand master of Templars in Ohio, issued a dispensation to John T. Arthur, Thomas Bell, Amos Bartholomew, Robert H. Cotton, Gilbert D. Palmer, Israel Hoge, Thomas Launder, Josephus Laken, and Thomas F. Nevitt, to open an encampment of Knights Templars in Zanesville to be known as Cyprus, and named Thomas Bell, grand commander; John T. Arthur, gereralissimo; Gilbert D. Palmer, captain general, and Amos Bartholomew, prelate. January 3, 1849, M. Z. Kreider, past grand master, opened an encampment in Lafayette lodge room, southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, and November 9, 1849, a charter was issued as No. 10; in

The ruptures in Masonic harmony which attended the Cerneau-Northern Jurisdiction Scottish rite controversy caused the suspension of the charter of Cyprus Commandery, August 20, 1887, on which date Lafayette Lytle, right eminent grand commander, issued a special order arresting the charter, directing that all books and records be surrendered to the eminent grand recorder, and that all meetings be suspended until the revocation of the order. The demand was refused by the local officers and September 12 the right eminent grand commander came in person and renewed the demand and was again refused; October 11-12, the grand commandery being in session revoked the charter, and November 14 a formal appeal from the action of the grand commandery to the grand encainpment was made; no relief was accorded as the grand encampment held that the grand commandery had jurisdiction.

November 5, 1890, Cyrene Commandery, No. 10, was erected in place of the former Cyprus, by W. B. Alelish, right eminent grand commander, and S. S. Williams, deputy grand commander, with the following officers: James C. Gillespie, eminent commander; Herman F. Achauer, generalissimo; Albert B. Worstall, captain general, and a membership composed of former members of Cyprus Commandery.

For half a century the Masonic bodies of Zanesville had no permanent home; the Lodge of Amity was organized in Benoni Peirce's tavern, but the Putnam members wished the inconveniences of crossing the river divided, and when Burnham's tavern was completed the meetings alternated between the towns; when Burnham moved to the northwest corner of Main and Fourth streets the feetings were held there, and later and for some time at the Widow Peirce's home, in Fifth street, between South street and Locust alley, and from there the lodge moved to the Senate chamber, where it remained until the first Masonic hall was erected.

The three-story brick building, in Market street, immediately west of the former Masonic hall, was erected as an academy, and August 15, 1820, Daniel Convers and John Dillon, on behalf of the Zanesville Academy, and John Butler, David Spangler and John Lattimore, on behalf of the Lodge of Amity, agreed that if the lodge would pay one-third of the expense of erecting the building and construct stairways from the second to the third floor at its own expense, it should have the exclusive privilege to occupy the third floor without rent, the academy to have the right to buy the lodge's interest upon payment of the amount expended upon the building, after one year's notice. December 18, 1821, the lodge met in the new hall, and when the Chapter and Council were organized they were permanent occupants.

When Lafayette Lodge was organized it met in the Senate chamber, and when the new brick was built at southeast corner of Market and Fifth streets, met in the garret, where it remained until the spring of 1837, when it moved to the Amity room, and after one yéar moved to the third story of a building on the north side of Main street, between Fifth street and Court alley, where it remained until 1847, when the rooms in the third story of the building, still standing at southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, were fitted up, and when the commandery was formed it occupied the rooms with Lafayette Lodge until the erection of the hall at Market and Fourth streets.

In 1854 the question of more commodious and suitable rooms for Masonic uses were agitated and proposals to place a third story on projected structures, or to occupy existing ones, were considered and rejected, and the sentiment crystalized into a proposition to erect a building at the northwest corner of Market and Fourth streets, and May 6, 1857, William Galigher, C. W. Potwin, Mark Loudan, Thomas Bell, John C. Hazlett, and William Schultz associated themselves as "The Masonic Hall Association," with a capital of $25,000.00, and filed their certificate next day with the Secretary of State. The association organized at the hall at Main and Fifth streets, and work had progressed so far that the corner-stone was laid July 4, 1857, on which day a special communication of the Grand Lodge was convened in Odd Fellows' lodge room: the Master Masons assembled in the concert room of the Odd Tellows' hall; the Royal Arch Masons, at the Amity lodge room, and the Knights at the Lafayette room. At 1:30 p. m. a parade was formed in Main street and moved west to Third. to South, Fifth, Market, Sixth, South, Seventh, Market, and Fourth, where an arch of evergreens and flowers had been erected: after the ceremonies the procession re-formed and proceeded by way of Market, Third, and Main streets, to the Odd Fellows' hall and was dismissed.

The new hall was occupied in April, 1858, and in March the Lodge of Amity sold its interest in the old hall to the city; June 24, 1868, the hall was dedicated, and the day celebrated with a procession, and an oration and festivities at Gant's grove. During the summer of 1881 the third floor was remodelled and a fourth floor introduced in the west end by utilizing the space between the trusses of the root, but the inprove-

The lack of exterior dignity and of interior dimensions and conveniences had, for several years, beén apparent to the Masons of Zanesville, as' characterizing the old temple; it had been discussed at business and social assemblies and finally a meeting was held February 109, 1900, which was largely attended, and the universal sentiment was that a new building was a necessity. Three properties on the east side of Fourth street, north of Fountain alley, were optioned and purchased, and July 12 incorporators were selected for a new temple company. April 9, 1901, the company organized with the following officers and directors: J. B. Hunter, president ; O. F. McKinney, vice president; W. H. Goodlive, secretary and treasurer; U. H. 3rown, George W. McCormick, W. B. Cosgrave, J. K. Geddes, H. F. Achauer, J. K. Smith, O. N. Townsend, John Hartmeyer, and March 25, 1902, the contract was awarded to R. J. Evans and Company at their proposition of $114,433.00, to be completed March 1, 1903.

The corner-stone was laid June 24, 1902, in the presence of an immense assembly of Masons and non-Masons; the parade which preceded the ceremony was one of the most extensive civic displays ever witnessed in the city, and in it were five Masons who had been in the procession held on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of the old temple.

The completed building was dedicated June 24, 1903; the day was made a gala occasion, and a large procession of resident and visiting Masons was had. The basement and six floors of the structure are built in the most substantial and finished in the most modern manner: the basement and first three floors are fitted for office and other business purposes; the front of the fourth and fifth floors are also devoted to offices, and the sixth to a ball room; the rear of the three upper floors is occupied by the Masonic bodies of the Masonic club.

The dedicatory week was marked by a Guild fair in the new temple, which proved a wondrous attraction, and which was opened by a night street parade, in which the Odd Fellows, Elks, Knights of Pythias, and Modern Woodmen of America joined the Masons, Templars and Shriners in making a success.

On the European continent, especially in France, the rite of adoption is largely practiced, but in America, Masonic associations have been confined to men; in 1855, Rob Morris introduced a series of degrees, known collectively as the "Teastern Star," but until recent years their dissemination in Ohio has been discouraged and almost prohibited. July 24, 1895, a meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Meyer, in Linden avenue, to form a chapter, and J. H. Snoots, of Roseville, was commissioned deputy grand patron to institute Zanesville Chapter, No. 52, which was done August 15, 1895, with the assistance of the members of Martha Washington Chapter, at Roseville, the ceremonies being conducted in the old temple. October 10, 1895, a full charter was granted, on which forty-three names appear, and the first officers were: Mrs. Lizzie Vogel, worthy mdtron; A. E. Allman, worthy patron; Mrs. Nancy Bolin, associate matron; Mrs. Elizabeth Hess, secretary; J. C. Gillespie, treasurer; Mrs. Eura Curtis, conductress; Mrs. Mary Meyer, associate conductress ; Mrs. Anna E. Bainter, Adah; Miss Alice Gillespie, Ruth; Mrs. Agnes Norman, Esther; Mrs. Mary Van Valkenburgh, Martha; Mrs. Jennie Lewis, Electa; Mrs. Hattie A. Allman, warder; C. H. Sebaugh, chaplain; Mrs. Lizzie Spencer,

Odd Fellowship

May 11, 1844, by Mark P. Taylor, past grand master, of Cincinnati, and Past Grands John P. Blain and Justin Harrison, of Columbus. The charter members were:

Lambert Thomas, Jonathan R. Johnson, Jacob Little, Jeremiah Zeigler, J. Warren Clayton, and William IL. Langton; and the first officers were: Jonathan R. Johnson, N. G.; Jacob Little, V. G.; Lambert Thomas, secretary, and John R. Worman, treasurer.

Moxhala Lodge, No. 144, was instituted February 21, 1850, by William C. Earl, grand master, and the past grands of Muskingum lodge, the charter members being :

Bigelow, Silvers Porter, William Leckey, Thomas Durban and C. T. Fracker. The first officers were: A. W. Perley, N. G.; Silvers Porter, V..G.:: E.. W. Cox secretary; Gemmill

Pataskala Encampment, No. 8, was instituted by Patriarch Albert G. Day, grand senior warden of Ohio, March 31, 1845, with the following charter members aad officers :

Elias Pike, C. P.; John Burns, H. P.; Silvers Porer, SasW sol. Re Johnson. J: W.: Wee de Fracker, if: scribe; Robert Howard, treasurer ; Lambert Thomas, guardian, and on the night of institution George B. Reeve, A. C. Ross, Edward Davis, John Metcalf, and Moses Keys were initiated.

The three bodies were organized and held their meetings in the Blocksom building, still standing at the northwest corner of Main street and Sewer alley, and April 9, 1850, James Darlinton was appointed a committee by Muskingum lodge to confer with Moxahala lodge respecting the expediency of purchasing a site and erecting an

The proposition was favorably considered and February 22, 1851, incorporators were chosen, who applied to the General Assembly, and in the same month the Odd Fellows' Hall Association was incorporated by act of the legislature. The lots at the southwest corner of Main street and Potter's, or Diamond alley, were purchased at a cost of $4,000, and upon it the substantial, threestory, brick building, now occupied by the fraternity, was erected at a cost of $24,000.00, and while the exterior is not so ornamental as later structures, its imposing solidity attests its attractiveness for the period of its construction and with its handicap of fifty vears will probably survive as long as later erections.

Imposing dedicatory ceremonies were observed September 9, 1852; the parade of three hundred and fifty resident and visiting brethren, with the local, Dresden, and Wheeling bands, in escort of the officiating officials, being especially notable. Hon. L. P. Marsh was orator, and after the formal rites a ball and supper were provided for the wives and daughters of the three linked brotherhood.

Rivalry arose between Muskingum and Moxahala lodges for the distinction of holding the first meeting in the new hall; Moxahala met Monday, and Muskingum, Tuesdav; as the hall was completed, the members of the former lodge moved secretly at night, and August 2, 1852, assembled in the new hall, but a Muskingum member had "got next" and shut off the gas, and Moxahala 'obtained the coveted privilege by purchasing candles.

Pataskala Encampment grew healthily, and T. L. Fracker, C. C. Russell, Joseph Crosby, Edward W. Cox, George W. Graham, J. A. Buckmaster, W. R. Hazlett, S. G. McBride, Thomas Durban, and A. W. Perley applied for a charter for a new encampment, which was granted, and June 9, 1853, Walhonding Encampment, No. 55. was instituted by Thomas J. \IcLain, grand patriarch, and installed the following officers:

At the Grand Lodge session, held at Circleville, in February, 1854, a charter was granted to M. Keyes, Lewis Slyder, Jacob Lyda, William H. Christ. Thomas Griffith, William H. Shaffer, R. S. Fairchild, John Kuhn, A. J. Hahn, William L. Langton, and Frederick Howell, and March 24, 1854, Alexander Glenn, grand secretary, assisted by District Deputy Henry Granger and other visiting brethren, instituted 'Mechanics Lodge, No. 230, and installed the following officers : yacop Lyda, N. G.; Lewis Siyder, V. Howell, secretary ; William H. urer, and by special dispensation, John Drumm, James P. Kimberly, and Henry Koenig were initiated on the night of institution.

The two encampments did not experience the prosperity that was anticipated and the members were convinced that strength would be found in union, and decided to surrender their charters and ask the grand encampment to issue a charter for a new organization. The request was complied with and July 2, 1858, Howard

Fred. Geiger, A. Schaum, A. Duvee, C. Sunkle, Henry Koenig, PH Ata Henry Roekel, Fred. Kappes, Adam Young, E. Dresher, William Derringer, J. Baum, William Bick, and Henry Knoedler applied for a charter for a lodge to work in the German tongue, and the request having been granted, June 25, 1869, Special Deputy Grand Master Henry Lindenburg, of

The interest which the wives and daughters of Odd Fellows, at other points, manifested in the work of the organization persuaded the Zanesville members to "enlist their services locally and January 12, 1870, James Turner, grand master, of Dayton, assisted by Past Grands William L. Langton, Harvey Hubbell, Thomas Sloan and C. Fracker, instituted Elizabeth Lodge, No. 26, D. of R., so named in compliment to Elizabeth Howard, consort of Robert Howard, whose memory is perpetuated in the title of the encampment. The charter members were:

Charles and Isabella Neimeyer, Isaac Piersol, E. \. Piersol, Lewis and Sidney Brenholts, John and Elizabeth Bowman, E. L. and Nancy Grigsby, John and Maria Greiner, Wolf and va Dryfus, T. L. Fracker, J. H. Coke, George W. and Hattie Griffee, Isaac and Sarah Hillier, Ferdinand and Theresa Hess, A. and Elizabeth Schaum, William L. and Isabella Langton, and Elizabeth Howard.

Canton Nova, No. 5, Patriarchs \Militant, was instituted about 1884-5 : this uniform branch of the order in Zanesville is in a prosperous condition and the inability to details respecting the ae is due to the loss of the records during

Knights Of Pythtas

The order was introduced into \luskingum county by J. Hope Suitor, supreme representative of West Virginia, and Morris Springer, a Knight, from Indianapolis, who secured the applicants for the charter and assisted in the institution of \[cIntire Lodge, No. 38, on Thanksgiving Dav, November 30, 1871. The services were conducted by Edward T. Haines, grand chancellor, of Cincinnati; Joseph Dowdall, grand keeper of records and seal, and Henry Lindenburg, supreme representative of Ohio, both of Columbus, and a number of past chancellors and knights from Newark and Columbus. The first officers were: Edmund P. Moorehead, venerable patriarch; Alfred Ball, M. D., worthy chancellor; Henrv C.° Lillibridge, vice chancellor: Charles E. Randall, recording scribe; Basil D. Brown, financial scribe; Henry Bimple, banker ; Morris Springer, guide; William H. Wilmot, inner guard; Robert §. Willey, outer guard, and Robert J. Brown, A. J. Farnum, Chapline Moore-

Past And- Present Of Muskingum County

The institution was held in the Druids' hall in Main street, east of Seventh, and permanent rooms were secured in the third and fourth floors of the First National Bank building, where elaborate furnishings were supplied; after a few years, more commodious rooms were fitted up in the Star block, at Third and Main streets, and were occupied for several vears. ri ie modations were then obtained in Choral hall, the Opera block, and upon the erection of ie Shinnick block the castle hall was moved there and has since remained.

For a number of vears McIntire was the sole representative of Pythianism in the county, King David Lodge, No. 155, being the first addition, the institution being conducted in Gold hall, y James Fairchild, April 18, 1883, when the following officers were installed: Sol. Levi, past chancellor; A. Hertsberg, chancellor commander; Sol. Frank, vice chancellor; J. Wolner, prelate: S. Goldberger, keeper of records and seals: S. Stern, master of finance; J. Englander, master of exchequer; J. Goldeberger, master at arms; L. Allas, inner guard; no outer guard was named: MM. Freilich, A. Goldstein, and B. Ritman, trustees.

Zanesville Lodge, No. 172, was instituted in Star block, October 26, 1883, with the following first officers: Charles Goertner, P. C.: Emil Geiger. C. C.: Fred Laudenbacher, V. C.; Ferdinand Zuland, prelate; William NKlinge. K. of Riese SoA dolph Kreuter, Me of TA Simon Hilpolsteiner, MI. E.: Philip Hoffman, M. at FAS Simon Linser, e-ce George Somers, O. Cc August Miller, Charles Volland and Fred Cordes, trustees.

Vesta Lodge, No. 458, was instituted by Charles Fulkerson, December 17, 1890, with ninety-four charter members, and the following first officers: John Meyer, P. C.; Milo E. Dunn,

Silver Cross Division, No. 45, Uniform Rank, was formed about 1886-7, but discontinued and was resuscitated about 1890 as Crescent Division, with the original number, and a charter membership of about eighty. Vesta Division was organized early in 1891, but after the Spanish-American war the name was changed to Merritt Company, No. 116, in honor of General Merritt. Originally the organizations were called "Divisions," but were later designated as "Companies."

Beulah Temple, No. 33, Rathbone Sisters, was organized in the Shinnick block, March 15, 1802, by Emma Bell, grand chief, of Columbus, with forty- two charter members, and the following first officers: Mary Meyer, M. E. chief; Martha Stewart, M. E. senior; Fannie Hillier, M. E. junior; Marv Webster, M. of me Ella Roeshaar, S.M. of R. & G= Kate Moody, S. M. F.; Mame VWiiler Ge cOr "TTS Elizabeth Arar Gee ie Annie Young, P. C. Eight ladies and eleven knights were added at the succeeding meeting.

The order has been quartered for a number of years in the Shinnick block, at northwest corner of Main street and Cypress allev, where the entire third floor is comfortably fitted for Pythian uses, with two large lodge rooms, anterooms, etc.

Improved Order Of Red Men

A tribe of the Improved Order of Red Alen, known as Pocahontas, was organized August 2. 1870, by Great Sachem G. B. Means, of Steubenville. and was chartered in May, 1871; the first officers were W. R. Hazlett. sachem: Alexander Platt, senior sagamore; G. W. Hazlett, junior sagamore; Samuel Howard, jr., chief of . records: A. P. Stultz, keeper of wampum. Difficulties were experienced in securing suitable rooms in which to assemble, and meetings were irregularly held, interest ceased, and when rooms were finally obtained in the Star block, Zanesville, the enthusiasm could not be re-kindled and the tribe was disbanded. A renaissance was effected, after a generation and

Waubeck Tribe, No. 143

WAUBECK TRIBE, NO. 143, was instituted March 29, 1892, in the Shinnick block, Main street and Cypress alley, by the great sachem, great chief of records, and other creat chiefs of Ohio, the adoptive ceremonies being conducted by Minnewa Tribe, of Newark. The first officers were: H. H. Huffman, prophet ; I. N. Groomes, sachem; George Miller, senior sagamore; George S. Brush, junior saga- was instituted in Memorial hall, October 12, 1904, by the great prophet, great sachem, and great chief of records, with Waubeck Tribe in charge of the ceremonies of adoption; large numbers of chiefs and warriors were present from surrounding counties, and the occasion was one of much enjoyment to visitors and visited. The first officers were: C. A. Barton, prophet; C. W. Highfield, sachem; William Bowers, senior sagamore; Benjamin Grigsby, junior sagamore; Frederick Wallworth, chief of records; J. Reichart, keeper of wampum.

Washetella Council, No. 19, Degree of Pocahontas, was instituted December 14, 1892, by Enos Pierson, great sachem, the ceremonies being conducted by Newark Council. The first officers were: Mrs. Mary Stewart, Pocahontas; Miss Augusta Kronz, Wenonah; Mrs. Annie Getter, prophetess; Cornelius Stewart, Powhatan; Mrs. Mattie Allen, K. of R.; Mrs. Eliza Fleminsves, of W.5 ba Di Abellyarst scout: Mrs, Hattie Barker, second scout; Mrs. Fannie Madden, guard of wigwam; Harry Fleming, guard of forest; Mrs. Kate Abell, first runner; Miss Flora Wallace, second runner; Miss Viola Hostler, first warrior; Miss Mary Wilson, second warrior; Mrs. Cinnie Craig, third warrior; Miss Gertrude Malott, fourth warrior; Harry Fleming, first councillor; John Harlan, second councillor.

Zanesville Tent, No. 237, Knights of the Maccabees, was instituted March 11, 1895, with the following officers: N. H. Garner, past commander; Martin W. Miller, commander; John Crooks, lieutenant commander; Fred Biszants, record keeper; Peter Ungemach, finance keeper ; Frank Lemon, chaplain; D. P. Mercer, sergeant ; A. L. Jackson, M. D., physician.

Zanesville Council, No. 20, United Commercial Travelers of North America, was instituted April 18, 1891, and has a membership of over three hundred, being one of the most prosperous councils of the fraternity; handsome club rooms are maintained at southwest corner of Main and Sixth streets, and are open to the resident and visiting "knights of the grip" at all hours.

Patriotic Order Sons Of America

The principles of this order that members must be natives or born under the jurisdiction of the United States, and that free public schools shall be maintained, and that there shall be no union of church and state, have given the impression that its objects are political; that such is foreign to its character is expressed in the constitution of the order, which directs that the use of the name for political or partisan purposes, by a camp, will forfeit the charter. All camps are named Washington, and their individuality is determined by number; the first to be established at Zanesville was No. 43, which was instituted June 6, 1879, by E. S. Layman, of Cincinnati, state secretary, with the following charter» members: Krank Harris, A. Petit, P.M: Willey, C.. A. »Barton, Ed. .Parshall, George Moore, John Millis, Charles Ford, Wash. Sockman, W. R. Hazlett, M. D. Frazier, Webb Mc- Cann, John Bailey, Charles Huff, Jud. Alvis, Jack. Wiswell, Hosea Haines, Albert George. The first officers were: W.R. Hazlett, past president; -Frank,./Harris; president; Fs. \WVilles, vice president; Webb McCann, master of forms and ceremonies; C. A. Barton, recording secretary; Charles Huff, financial secretary; Albert Petit, treasurer; Charles Ford, conductor; George Moore, inner guard; Ed. Parshall, outer guard; Rev. H. A. Delano, chaplain.

Camp No. 47 was instituted February g, 1881, with fifty-six charter members, and the following as first officers: George Brown, president; George Murdoch, vice president; H. L. Mec- Carty, recording secretary; James Drake, assistant secretary; G. H. Grubb, financial secretary; David Mercer, master of forms and ceremonies; Smith Winchell, inner guard; A. B. Chilcote, outer guard.

Two other camps were later formed, one of which was at Putnam, but they have consolidated into Camp No. 47, which at present is the only one in the county.

Hazlett Post, No. 81

was so named in honor of Captain John C. Hazlett, of 2d O. V. I., and his cousin, Harry Hazlett, of the 5th U.S. Artillery, both of whom were killed during the Civil war; the post was organized June 1, 1881, with the following officers: C. C. Goddard, post commander; M. V. B. Kennedy, senior vice commander; Wilson C. Moore, junior vice commander; Howard Aston, adjutant; Charles L. Moore, quartermaster; Rev. Theodore Crowl, chaplain; A. Ball, M. D., surgeon; Charles Grant, officer of the day; Frank J. Van Horne, officer of the guard; G. S. Warner, sergeant major; Fred. Geiger, assistant inspector ; H. C. Lillibridge, aide-de-camp, and the following roll of members :

The post is now permanently quartered in a large, pleasant room in the Memorial building, and possesses a valuable and interesting collection of relics, colors and paintings.

Encampment No. 118, Union Veteran Legion, was organized October 7, 1892, with the following first officers: H. C. Roush, colonel; Nat) \funson, lieutenant colonel; W. S. Avers, major; A. H. Watts, chaplain; J. A. Smith, surgeon ; John W. Goshen, officer of the day; Joseph Brelsford, officer of the guard; Joseph Fix, quartermaster; F. J. Van Horne, adjutant ; Charles Claspell, sergeant major: H. Iwerker, quartermaster sergeant; 3. Willis, guard; James Sears, color sergeant.

Herrick Blue Naval Association was formed June 16, 1892, with the following officers: S. 5. Russell, captain; William Larzalere, lieutenant commander: R. J. Brown, paymaster; George \WV. Shaw, secretary ; Andrew Josselyn, chaplain.

Hazlett Corps. Women's Relief Corps, NOx IL; and Muskingum Camp, No. 69, Sons of Veterans, have organizations, but the details respecting origin has not been obtained.

Benevolent And Protective Order Of Elks

In January, 1889, a meeting was held in the counting room of Shinnick & Sullivan, northwest corner of Main street and Cyprus alley, at which Frank A. Durban, John C. Sullivan, Julius Frank, loses Frank, Oscar Geis, and perhaps two or three others were present; C. C. Harrison, a member of an Elk's lodge at Columbus, explained the principles and practices of the organization and a lengthy discussion ensued upon the expediency of forming a lodge of the B. P.O: EF at Zanesville. Subsequent meetings were held at the same place, in' the law office of Train and Durban, and when more room was required, in the rooms of the Board of Trade, in the Monumental building. Having decided to secure a lodge a choice of officers was made before any of the men had been initiated, and at this meeting, February 8, 1889, at the Board of Trade room, a general committee on arrangements was named consisting of W. S. Bell, Thomas Scott, C. D. Wedge, Fuller Van Voorhis, C. A. Blake, Charles Geis, R. H. Hazlett, J. A. Morrow, J. J. Thomas and F. A. Durban.

February 27, 1889, Zanesville Lodge, No. 114, with forty-five members, was formally organized in the concert room in Odd Fellows' hall, by George A. Clugston, district deputy grand exalted ruler, of Mansfield, assisted by the members of that lodge in that city, and the following officers were installed: W. S. Bell, exalted ruler; John A. Morrow, exalted leading knight; F. A. Durban, exalted lecturing knight ; Edward W. Reich, secretary; C. D. Wedge, treasurer; Alfred W. Reich, tyler; John Fitzpatrick, Leopold Dryfus, and W. Cliff Conrade, trustees; Thomas Scott, Esq., Frank M. Haas, inner guard; C. U. Shryock, chaplain.

April 28 the committee on hall reported in favor of the rooms on the second floor of the \asonic temple, at Fourth and Market streets, and they were occupied April 25, 1889. On January 17, 1894, a lease was ordered executed for the rooms formerly known as Black's AIusic hall. in Main street, adjoining the Odd Fellows' hall on the west, which were fitted up in the most elaborate manner and occupied in June. Upon the first floor are reception, reading, writing, pool, billiard, and card rooms, a ladies' parlor and cloak room kitchen, china. closet, and safe for the silverware. On the third floor, or second of the suite, are a commodious lodge room, team room, and closets, and a large dancing room.

Two events, of which the members retain the most gratifying recollections, are the burgoo feast. on the Bolin farm, and the trip to Cleveland, by special train, to attend Grand Lodge: the engine was in charge of a member of the lodge and the trip was phenomenal for its short time.

The club rules were unique when framed, but have been so extensively copied that their originality might be lost were not this record made. Betting of every character, gambling, and all treating are positively prohibited: no buffet is maintained, but a member mav have his own refreshments kept in the club ice box, and his own cigars in a locker, but he must not share anything with another club member. The theory of the club is that treating is the cause of the drinking habit and that personal inclination would not prompt men to excess, hence the prohibition of inviting another to partake.

Munificent Order Of Camels

The order has its origin in the Eastern states, and a revision or reorganization was made at Cincinnati, April 15, 1903, at which time a supreme lodge was formed, of which A. A. George was elected supreme eminent ruler and D. H. Crawford, M. D., supreme secretary, both of whom were residents of Zanesville, Alpha Lodge, No. 45, was the first lodge chartered after the reorganization and the first to be formed in Ohio, and was instituted at Zanesville, December 3, 1903, with 150 charter members, the supreme eminent ruler and supreme secretary officiating. The first officers were:

Royal Arcanum

Hope Council, No. 82, Royal Arcanum, was instituted in the lodge room, on the third floor of the Star block, northeast corner of Main and Third street, April 16, 1878, by Deputy Supreme Regent Teeples, and the following charter members:

Nineteen of the applicants were present at the inauguration when the following officers were chosen: Regent, R. S. Mershon; Vice Regent, Charles H. Jones; Past Regent, Frank J.

April 19, eight signers of the charter were initiated, and April 25 the last two were admitted to the royal secret. Eight of the twentynine charter members have died, and eleven are still in affiliation ; the remaining ten have trans-

Zane Lodge, No. 30, Ancient Order of United Workmen, was chartered September 4, 1874, the first officers being Fred. Geiger, past master workmen; D. B. Gary, master workman; Edward T. 'Hanmer, general foreman; John Mc- Caslin, overseer; en Irvine, recorder ; Jstit Ross, financier; A. P. Stults, receiver; M. CG. Mitchell, guide; Lewis Moore, inside warden; James Van Winkle, outside warden. The original place of meeting was in the Star block, and meetings are now held in the Sharpe building, in Fifth street, between Market street and Fountain alley.

John H. Best, Gilbert Snyder, Harry S. aes Robert E. Kirkpatrick, J. B. Larzalere, Ted Arnold, W. A. McLaughlin, Henry Roekel, Edward P. Church, H. E. Printz;.F 1K. Jackson; Frank C, Kerr, Smith L. Brown, Washington M. Adams, Wallace Burton, Benjamin C. Davis, Edmund C. Brush, M. D., John S. Derwachter, J. Lincoln Smith, H. B. Mechling. The original records have been lost and the names of the first officers cannot be ascertained.

Concordia Grove, No. 13, United Ancient Order wy Druids, was chartered and instituted May 3, 1859, by William Stoll, noble grand arch, and G. a Rheinberger, vice grand arch, of Cincinnati. The first officers were: Henry White, noble arch; Gottleib Glaesser, vice arch; Edward Vogel, secretary; Daniel Fehrends, treasurer, and the following additional charter members: Jacob Hartmaier, George T. Biehler, Heinrich Koche, Peter Shreck, Conrad Fischer,

The proceedings were conducted in German, and in March, 1893, Zane Grove, with forty charter members, was instituted to work in English; the elder Grove had not prospered by reason of the disinclination of men to attach themselves to an institution conducted in an unfamiliar tongue, and in January, 1901, Concordia decided to adopt the English ritual, which was used after June in that year, and in June, 1902, the two Groves consolidated under the older

Zanesville Aerie, No. 302, Fraternal Order of Eagles, was instituted January 18, 1903, by Col. H. C. Voute, state deputy grand president, with the following officers: J. C. Drohan, past worthy president; E. Ebert Peabody, worthy president; R. K. Hine, worthy vice president ; D. A. T. Westall, worthy chaplain; MM. L. Tracy, worthy conductor; Simon Linser, jr., worthy treasurer; J. P. Daugherty, worthy secretary; John C. Francks, worthy inner guard; J. Friedenauer, worthy outer guard; L. E. Dixon, E. qe Tracy, and C. W. Morrison, trustees. Rooms for lodge and club purposes were fitted up in the upper stories of the Commercial Bank building, southeast corner of Main and Fifth streets.

The order was introduced into Muskingum county at Zanesville, and a meeting, preliminary to the institution of Buckeye Camp, No. 3224, was held in the studio of J. Lincoln Smith September 2, 1895, when all preparations were concluded for the formal opening of the Camp on September 23 by R. E. Cornelius, Deputy Head Consul. The charter bears date September 18, 1895, and the ceremonies of institution were conducted in the rooms on the second floor of the former Masonic building, corner of Market and Fourth streets, with the following list of charter members :

The first place of regular assembly was in Rechabites hall, in Maginnis block, for about one year; K of P. hall, two years; Choral hall, three years, and rgo0r in the present commodious rooms at southeast corner of Main and Third streets.

Denner Lodge, No. 45, was organized in Choral hall, February 8, 1899, as the labor of Benjamin Denner, and was installed Dy. Nemo. \Mvler, supreme secretary. The charter roll contained one hundred names and the first officers were:

B. V. Woodburn, past president; John Drake, president; Frank Israel. vice president; J. B. Smith, chaplain: Harry Hauk, secretary; Henry Knoedler, treasurer; H. C. Gitter, sergeant at arms: James Paine, guide; \[rs. John Drake, inner guard; John Young, outer euard; George \fcCormick, S. G. Sprague and Howard Shirer, trustees. Meetings are held in the Druids' hall on alternate Saturday nights.

Fraternal Censor

Zanesville Council, No. 34, was instituted Tune 5, 1899, by E. S. Guiser, supreme president, and James S. Hill, deputy, with the following officers :

Jacob Burgey, president; G. W. Foley, vice president: Silas Vansant, secretary ; F. K. Jackson, financial secretary; F. L. Israel, treasurer ; F. K. Jackson, representative; Silas Vansant, alternate: and the following additional charter members: L. L. Magruder and wife: George R. Fairall and wife; Mrs. G. W. Foley; Miss E. Magruder; Miss Grace Foley and J. P. Zinsmeister.

Hebrew Societies

Gihon Lodge, No. 195, Independent Order of P'nai Berith was organized April 27, 1873, with \ichael Steinfeld. president; W. Dryfus, vice president ; Henry Baer, secretary , H. Horkheimer, treasurer; B. S. Dryfus, Rudolph Shonfield,

King Solomon Lodge, No. 133, Kesher Shel Barzal, was instituted August 16, 1874, with the following first officers: W. Freedman, president; M. S. Witkosky, vice president; L. Witkosky, recording secretary; A. Cohen, financial secretary ; B. Frosh, treasurer; L. Newman, outer guard; J. Stern and A. Cohen, trustees; and D. Frosh, H. Weber, S: ee Goldberger, T. Rosher, J. Haber, J. Wollner, H. Heflich, Ignatius Stern, S. Freilich, S. Schwartz, S. Regan, W. Klein, A. L. Freedman, H. Reich, J. Metzendorf, S. Engleman, M. Levy, B. Singer, J. Freedman, 5. Cohen, S. Klein, J. Gotlob, W. Deutch, A. Starn, J. J. Klein, L. Klein, H. Kohn. ~The order disbanded about 1goo.

Grand United Order Of Odd Fellows

The order is composed of colored men and has no affiliation with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, composed of white men. The first Lodge in America was numbered 646 and was opened in New York city, in 1843, and called Philomathean. The authority to open Lodges in America is derived from the Committee of Management in England, underwritten by a sub- Committee of Management in America, and March 4, 1878, the English authority, and July 8, 1878. the American authority issued a Dispensation for the formation of

Guiding Star Lodge, No. 1880, at Zanesville, which was instituted July 30, 1878, by officers from Amity Lodge, at Cambridge, when the following officers were chosen and installed : Charles H. Sawyer, N. F.; Elisha' Guy, N. Ge; JohnH. Hargraves, V. G.; Enoch Harper, P. John Barnell, E..S.; George W. Johnson, sr., W. T was chartered June 20, 1875, with G. W. Johnson, high priest; Samuel Guy, king; Wesley Gazaway, scribe. . Malta Commandery, No. 17, Knights Templars, was chartered June 30, 1880, with G. W. Johnson, eminent commander ; Samuel Guy, generalissimo; James A. Guy, captain general.

The following fraternities have organizations, active or dormant, in the city, but no information respecting their origin has been possible of attainment :

First Sundan Scitool

The first Sunday school held in Zanesville was convened in the court room, of the court house, 11 1816, and the bar and jury benches w ere used by the assemblage: it was designated a "Union Sunday school," and w as promoted by Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists, and