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SEEPE - HAMILTON CO [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:31:24 EDT From: Fldollfin@aol.com Subject: Nelson School 1942 newsclip Newspaper clip found in La Rue's (my mother) Bible after Gene's (my father) death. Warren Tribune March 23, 1942 Dutter is Named Nelson Principal Gene Dutter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dutter, of Freedom, was promoted to the principalship of Nelson School, to succeed C. O. Gerren, at a meeting of the Nelson School Board held last Friday night. Mrs. Emory Tarr of Ravenna is substituting in the vacancy caused by Dutter's promotion. Dutter graduated from Freedom High School in 1936, entered Hiram College the same year; entered Kent State University in 1937 and graduated in 1940. He majored in mathematics and his minors were social science and journalism. While in college he was active in swimming and worked as a lifeguard at Twin Lakes during the summer, also worked three summers at an orphanage near Cleveland. Dutter commenced his teaching career at Nelson High School in 1940, and coached basketball this year. Dec. 31, 1940, he married Miss LaRue Malone of Ravenna. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:05:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 20 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY - part 20 THE CRUSADERS AMONG THE GERMANS. -When the temperance crusade opened the Germans were dumbfounded. Beer is with them as water is with us, and is used from infancy to old age. They received the crusading bands with stolid silence, looking at the ladies from out of their round blue eyes with an expression that showed that their sensations must have been queer, indescribable. Not a saloon in the city was closed. The ladies might as well have prayed and sang before the Rock of Gibraltar. One day the crusade among the Germans came to a sudden end. An entire band of ladies, wives and mothers of the very best citizens, were arrested and escorted to the police station, and charged with violating the city laws in obstructing the sidewalks. As is usual with criminals, they were compelled to register their names, residence and ages! As they were not put in "the lock-up," their pockets were saved the usual emptying. During these exciting times the temperance meetings were crowded, and men and women alike addressed the multitudes, the exercises being varied with prayer and song. It was noted that while the men always more or less hesitated, the women never. Their words always flowed as from an everlasting fountain. Pathos, poetry and matter of fact were the concomitants in varied measures of their speech. At some of these meetings the narratives were so touching that hundreds were melted in tears. We remember one we attended when we were so affected by an involuntary twitching of the facial muscles, that to conceal anything that might happen we bowed our head and looked into the bottom of our hat to study and see if we could not improve the lettering of the hatter's advertisement. And we believe we succeeded! And the speaker who so aroused our emotions by the plaintive melody of her voice and the heart-melting scenes of her narrative, was a woman, and she with crispy hair and black as the ace of spades! The earthly tabernacle is as nothing, but it is the divine spirit, wherever it enters, that gives dignity to its possessor, lifts and unites with the Infinite. In the interior of the State, among an American orthodox population, the Crusaders were for a time wonderfully successful. Peter the Hermit had come again -this time in the form of Dio Lewis. In some villages every saloon was closed. It seemed for a time as though another age of miracles had dawned upon mankind. Some ladies spent weeks in the open air, often exposed in cold, inclement weather. Two whom we knew of caught colds and died; another, from being lean, dyspeptic and complaining, grew fat and cheerful and has looked smiling from that day to this. She had been to Palestine and got back. This speaking of the Holy Land carries us back by association to childhood years, to our father's house, to a pretty picture acted there, wherein the maid of the broom, moving from room to room, rosy, blithe and happy, doing the useful things, as making the beds and spatting the pillows, was wont, from the abundance of her heart, to burst out, birdlike, in song, her mind being upon love and the gay cavaliers in the days of chivalry, as she caroled forth: "It was Dunois, the young and brave, Was bound for Palestine." The word "Crusade," which the good ladies used to designate their forays upon the saloons, we verily believe, by the association of ideas -the romantic word with the prosaic fact -helped to lighten their disagreeable labors. To them every saloon was as a Jerusalem to be taken but without the holy places. THE ORIGINAL GERMAN IMMIGRANTS to Cincinnati are mainly of the humble classes. But very few people of elegance are among them. They are a highly valued body of citizens, commanding respect for their industry and general sobriety of deportment. An excellent and very wealthy part of the German element is the Hebrew. They, however, are German but little more than in language. Everywhere they are the same peculiar people. The routine of their domestic daily lives, the preparation of their food, etc., is regulated by certain rules and ceremonies which form an essential part of their religion, so that they never can socially assimilate with other people. There is just but little visiting between the families of Jews and Gentiles. Cincinnati is a sort of paradise for the Hebrews. They number about 10,000 souls. Among them are some very learned men, as the Rabbis Wise and Lilienthal. Finer specimens of mercantile honor and integrity do not exist than are exemplified in some of their leading merchants. These people -we speak from knowledge and neighborhood -carry out among themselves more closely perhaps than is common even with Christians, the Christly injunction, "Love one another." This is not surprising, as previous to the year A.D. 1, they had all the Christianity there was anywhere. They allow none among them to sink into pauperism, but help each other with no stinted hand. And when one returns from a journey his friends run to embrace and kiss him. Music, dancing, theatricals, gayety, bright colors and a good time in this life are the cardinal objects with them. Originally an Oriental people, they naturally take to bright, sensuous things. As many of them nowadays have serious doubts of immorality, these act on the principal of "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." This is pitiful when we reflect that the highest joy and the loftiest virtue only can come to the soul when it feels its inestimable value through its conviction of immortality. THE CAUSE OF CINCINNATI'S PRE-EMINENCE. -It may be asked, why has Cincinnati obtained its pre-eminence in art, literature and public spirit over other Western cities, for instance Chicago? We answer, Cincinnati is older than this century. More than forty years ago, when Chicago was a mere fort and Indian trading post. Cincinnati was a city of 25,000 people with a cultured society noted even then for its fostership of literature and art. In those days Cincinnati had such men as Chief-Justice McLean, Salmon P. Chase, Jacob Burnett, Dr. Daniel Drake, James C. Hall, Nicholas Longworth, Nathaniel Wright, Nat. G. Pendleton, Charles Hammond, Henry Starr, Bellamy Storer, Larz Anderson, Bishop McIlvain, Lyman Beecher, D.K. Este, John P. Foote, Nathan Guilford, General William Lytle, General William H. Harrison, Colonel Jared Mansfield, etc. The last named had been Surveyor-General of the N.W. Territory and Professor of Mathematics at West Point. BRILLIANT WOMEN. -Colonel Mansfield, with Mrs. Mansfield, were natives of this city, and she it was who introduced into Cincinnati society the custom of New Years calls. Probably there is scarcely a single individual aside from the writer, in this, the city of her birth and childhood, who remembers this lady, now long since deceased, but New Haven never produced, nor Cincinnati never held, a more queenly woman. Her son, the Hon. E.D. Mansfield, the statistician of Ohio and well known writer of Cincinnati, who graduated at the head of his class at Princeton, and then second at West Point, is New Haven born. Although about as old as the century, his spirits are as buoyant, as youthful as those of any school-boy who now carries a happy morning face through the streets of his native city. Among other ladies who have figured in the old society of the city were Mrs. Trollope, Fanny Wright Darusemont and harriet Beecher Stowe. CINCINNATI'S AND CHICAGO'S CHARACTERISTICS. -Cincinnati has ever been a great manufacturing and creating centre, instead of a great trading, distributing, land speculating point like Chicago. The latter in consequence has drawn to itself from its first uprising out of the bogs, hosts of wild speculators and adventurers of all sorts, who came under the influence of the elixir of an exhilarating climate, with their imaginations excited to money making by the sight of vast prairies of wonderful fertility stretching away in easy gradations from its site, forming a greater body of rich land than lies around any other city in all Christendom. The growth of Cincinnati having been comparatively slow, its best elements have had time to take root, untie and strengthen with the rolling years. Her population has been stable and not changing. Hence there is in this generation an aristocracy of "town born," of culture united to wealth, as the Longworth, Groesbecks, Dexters, Pendletons, Andersons, Goshorns, etc., who take immense pride in their native city, forming a nucleus around which gather those forces which are impelling it on its upward career. CINCINNATI A LITERARY CENTRE. -Cincinnati more than any other Western city, has been a literary centre -a great book-publishing, book-selling mart. The bookstore of Robert Clarke & Co. is the literary focus of the city and adjoining States. There one meets with the most eminent characters of society. Said a prominent bookseller of Chicago to a member of this firm: "I don't understand how you in Cincinnati, can sell such quantities of the higher class of scientific works -the books of the great thinkers and specialist; we have very little call for them here." A partial solution of this may be found in the capacity of the Cincinnati bookseller! The value of a bookseller, genial, book-loving and book-knowing to any community that has his services, are they not, Oh! appreciative reader, beyond your arithmetic? -continued in part 21 ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:05:29, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CAPT. ARGUS D. VANOSDOL -SOUVENIR SKETCH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - Part II, page 298-299 CAPT. ARGUS D. VANOSDOL, is a native of Jefferson county, Ind. He was born September 18, 1839. He is a son of Thomas J. Vanosdol and Charlotte (Eastwood) Vanosdol. Thomas J. Vanosdol was born in Mercer county, Ky., in 1813, and came to Vevay, Switzerland county, Ind., in the year 1818. In 1833 he located in Madison. Was a cutter and dealer in stone, and a builder. He spent the last thirty years of his life on a farm, in Switzerland county, Ind. He died April 11, 1886. Charlotte Eastwood Vanosdol was born in Ohio. The great-grandfather (Stewart) of Capt. Vanosdol was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was a native of Massachusetts Colony, but entered the army from the State of New York. Capt. Vanosdol's paternal grandfather, Jacob Vanosdol, was one of the Kentucky Rangers during the war of 1811-12; was at the battle of Tippecanoe with Gen. W. H. Harrison, and was engaged in other battles in that war. His maternal grandfather, Eastwood, was a German by birth, and was also a soldier in the War of 1812. July 4, 1861, Captain A.D. Vanosdol enlisted in Co. A, Third Regiment Indiana Cavalry, as a private soldier. He was made Sergeant-Major, and afterward promoted to the captaincy of Co. I, same regiment, in February, 1862. He continued in this position until the summer of 1863, when he was discharged on account of injuries received in the battles of 1862 and at Stone River. After his health was restored, early in 1865, he enlisted as a private in Co. B, 156th Regiment Indiana Vols., and was immediately promoted to the first lieutenantcy of his company, and served the most of the time on detached duty, until his discharge in August, 1865. Capt. Vanosdol was educated in the common schools and at the State University; and from the law department of that institution he graduated, with honor, in 1870. In May, 1871, he located at Madison in the practice of law. He is a hard student, possesses a fine memory, and stands high at the bar as a lawyer. In 1886, while in California attending the National Encampment of the G.A.R., he was tendered the nomination for Congress in his district by his party, but declined. Capt. Vanosdol was Inspector-General of G.A.R. in 1886, upon the staff of Gen. S. Burdette, Commander-in-Chief of G.A.R., and is at present Department Commander of Department of Indiana G.A.R. He is also colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Indiana Brigade Uniform Rank of K. of P. In politics he is a Republican. His wife was a Miss Mary C. Henry, to whom he was married in August, 1862. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:05:30, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: REV. JOHN B.H. SEEPE - HAMILTON COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - Part II, page 272-273 REV. JOHN B.H. SEEPE, Rector of St. Mary's Church, Madison, Ind., is a native of Hanover, Germany. He was born in 1830, and came to the United States in 1836, with his parents, who located in Cincinnati. He remained there until 1842, and attended the parochial school of Holy Trinity Church. He attended college at Latrobe, Pa., studied theology at Vincennes, Ind., and was ordained Priest, in 1859, at Vincennes. He was first stationed at Richmond, Ind., from 1859 to 1868, where he built St. Andrews Church and School. Subsequently he was Rector of St. James Church in Gibson county, Ind., until 1875; afterward he was Rector of St. Gabriel's Church in Connersville, Ind., until 1881. Father Seepe was appointed Rector of St. Mary's Church, of Madison, Ind., April 22, 1881, and arrived at Madison on May 5, 1881. St. Mary's congregation was organized in 1850, and the church was built in 1851. The present school-building -a commodious and fine building -was built in 1876, and contains four large school-rooms on the first floor, and a large hall on the second floor. The congregation numbers 250 families; and the school is attended by about 200 children, and is under the care of three Ursuline Sisters and one male teacher. The church was renovated in 1887 and 1888, to the amount of about $3,500, and is now one of the finest church building in Indiana. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #404 *******************************************