The crimson flower, In Flanders fields, an answer, and other verse
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Samuel Lewis: Ohio's Militant Educator and Reformer (Classic Reprint)
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This was the tribute of Samuel vvood worth to his home adjoining the little village. The flight of years has changed the place, but its rural beauty remains. The subject of this sketch, like the poet, when far from this peaceful spot in the western wilderness beyond the moun tains, fondly reverted to the cot of hisfather and the blessed associations that bound him to the dear old home.
The days that he spent at Scituate he was wont to declare the happiest of his life. There, at the age of fourteen years, he bade farewell to grandparents and aunts with whom he had spent many j oy ful days when his father, a sturdy sea captain, was sailing his ship over the bounding main. This, in the realm of his memory, was ever to him the home of his childhood, but his eyes first opened to the light in Falmouth, Massachusetts. March I7, 1799. I love to dwell on, my early days spent at Scituate, said he. Falmouth has a place in my recollec tions, but when I turn to reminiscences of early days Falmouth is the episode while Scituate is the history.
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Alexander Coffman Ross, Author of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" (Classic Reprint)
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Especially was this true of young Ross, who seems to have been from early years studious, industrious and prompt to make the best of his Opportunities.
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Charles Burleigh Galbreath was an American writer, historian, educator, and librarian in Ohio.
Background
Galbreath was born on February 25, 1858 in Leetonia, Ohio, the son of Quaker parents, Edward Paxon and Jane Minerva (Shaw) Galbreath, and the eldest of their six children. He was a descendant of James Galbraith, an Irish Quaker who arrived in Pennsylvania sometime before 1761.
Education
After attending local schools and the New Lisbon high school Galbreath entered Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, where in 1882 he received the degree of bachelor of philosophy and in 1885, the degrees of bachelor of commercial science and bachelor of arts.
Career
From 1884 to 1886 Galbreath was superintendent of schools at Wilmot, Ohio, and for the next seven years at East Palestine, where he also served as county school-examiner. In 1893 he went to Mount Hope College, Rogers, Ohio, as vice-president and professor of history and literature, becoming its president in 1896. Within the year, however, he resigned this position to accept the librarianship of the state library, which, under the active leadership of a new library commissioner, Rutherford P. Hayes, was taking on a new lease of life and usefulness. During Galbreath's administration, from 1896 to 1911, better service was developed for the state as a whole, especially through the system of small traveling libraries, sent out to schools, granges, clubs, and other organizations in the rural districts, which had previously had little access to books. Of lasting importance, also, were the organization of the legislative reference service, and his compilation and publication of Statistics of Ohio Libraries (1902), the first authoritative history and description of these institutions. In 1912-1913 he was secretary of the fourth Ohio constitutional convention, and compiled and edited Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio 1912 (1912). He was recalled to the state library in 1915 for another three years, and he returned to it again temporarily in 1927 to give voluntary service when it had fared badly through political interference. The joint committee on administrative reorganization of the Ohio General Assembly engaged him as research assistant in 1919, and he edited its Report on Administrative Reorganization in Other States (1920). In 1920 his official connection with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society began, a connection which was to continue for the remaining fourteen years of his life. He edited its Quarterly and enriched it by important contributions from his own historical and biographical studies. He also built up the society's newspaper collection of 25, 000 volumes, which is now known as the Charles Burleigh Galbreath Newspaper Library. He published numerous articles and monographs on historical and political subjects, but his most extensive work was his History of Ohio in five volumes, which appeared in 1925. He was also a writer of poetry and published in 1919 The Crimson Flower; In Flanders Field, an Answer; and Other Verse. He was a member of many organizations and was the first president of the National Association of State Libraries. He died in Columbus of pneumonia two days prior to the seventy-sixty anniversary of his birth.