THE OHIO CENTURY.

AUSTIN MATLACK COURTENAY.

A Spirit high and nobly wise,

Who saw creation's dawn of old, And watched with musing, wondering eyes

The great world-drama slow unfold, Led Abram's faith, and thrilled afar From David's heart the shepherd's

song,

Swung from his hand bright Bethl'hem's star

And wept for Calv'ry's holy wrong;

Then, and thence, for many an age He scanned this heart of all the world

Unknown, unsought of King or Sage,

No flag its wildness o'er unfurled;

God kept its maiden beauty fast

A. M. COURTENAY.

From old world lust, and greed, and hate
Until a worthy race at last

He chose for her love-wedded mate.

Earth's heart, of fairest soil and sky,

From Alleghany's laureled height

To far Sierra's snow-crown high,

Lay sleeping yet in undreamed might,

All draped in lustrous robe of green,

Wrought whole in Nature's mystic loom,
Stream-broidered with a silver sheen,

And clasped with jewelled-prairie bloom.

The sentinel Angel sagely saw

The tide-like torrent of a race

Which Freedom loved, yet reverenced Law,
And gave Religion temple space.
Blown landwise over seas appears

By trackless forest, mountain crest, Through years, wars, treaties, blood and tears, This Winner of God's virgin West.

And firstborn of their mighty brood,
Begotten of the Land and Race,

Ohio, like Minerva stood

Full-armed, brain-born, with heart of grace;

The Century struck to chime this birth
Of its incarnate inmost self

Where Labor, Learning, Native Worth,

Faith, Freedom, make the Commonwealth.

Had waited long to take his task

This guardian Genius of our Age,

Compact of all the vital past.

Inheritor of Saint and Sage;

At last he guides her destiny,

And shapes the fashion of her fate,

Then crowns with Immortality

The splendid myriad of her great.

Her pondering brow is Science' throne,
Her lips breathe sweetest poesy,
Her bounty stills pale famine's moan,
Her will doth order Liberty;

About her feet lie shattered crowns,

And trampling them in reasoned rage The mass of men, whose shouting drowns The droning lies of privilege.

Her strong right hand hath knighted toil,
Her heart-arm gathers to her breast

Woman and Childhood, from the coil

Of ancient wrong, so sore oppressed; She shelters on her affluent lap

The maimed of body and of mindThe martyrs of mankind's mishapAnd nurtures at her bosom kind.

She teacheth Law the grace of Love,
And bids sweet Charity be wise;

She wooeth wisdom from above

And marrieth our Earth and Skies;

She loveth Earth and yet her eyes,

Serene, profound, most gently bright,

With lowly reverence seek the skies
Adoring God who gave her might.

First, fairest offspring of thy state

With image, stature, spirit nigh

Thine own, O! Mother of the Great.

Then hail! Ohio, Hail to thee!

Be holy-wise and generous-strong,

Law-true, home-pure and bravely free,

Yet patient while thou curbest wrong, Then hail, heart's hail, dear land we love!

Thine Elders pray, while Childhood sings,

Thy dead acclaim thee from above;

Grace! Peace! beneath God's sheltering wings

PERSONAL SKETCHES OF THE SPEAKERS,

COMMISSION AND TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

ANDERSON, CHARLES M. Born in Juniata county, Pa., January 5, 1845. Son of James and Ruth (McCahan) Anderson, the former born in Lancaster County, Pa., April, 1792, the latter in January, 1800. His paternal grandparents were Irish and lived about twenty miles from Dublin, emigrated to America in 1791. Parents of Chas. M. were married in November, 1820. Family came to Ohio in 1855. Boyhood and youth of Chas. M. spent on a farm. Later taught school. Served as private in Co. B., seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Vol., and was honorably discharged January 6, 1866, at twenty-one years of age. Attended Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and also engaged in teaching. Studied law under direction of Judge D. L. Meeker, of Greenville, and admitted to the bar May 21, 1868. Opened an office at once and gradually rose to a position as a leader of the bar. Democratic candidate for nomination to congress in 1878. Defeated in convention by only one-fourth of a vote. Candidate August 7, 1884, in Dayton district. Nominated on first ballot. Elected in following October. Appointed one of the Board of Visitors at West Point. In January 1884, commissioned Judge-Advocate General of Ohio by Governor Hoadley. Second in command of Ohio troops during Cincinnati riot. In 1890 appointed by Governor Campbell one of Ohio's commissioners at the World's Fair (Chicago). In 1894 chosen by congress as one of the board of managers for the National Home of Disabled Volteer Soldiers. Re-appointed April 1900. Member Red Men, K. of P., and Masonic orders. Gen. Anderson is an orator of great power and has been heard by audiences in all parts of the country. Married June 7, 1870, to Miss Ella Hart, daughter of Moses Hart, of Greenville. Two sons, William H., graduate of West Point, and Robert T., a law partner with his father. Appointed by Gov. Nash a member of the Ohio Centennial Commission.

ANDERSON, JAMES H., son of Judge Thomas Jefferson and Nancy Dunlevy Anderson; born March 16, 1833, in Marion, Ohio; educated in the select schools, in the Marion Academy, and Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Graduate from the law department of Cincinnati College; admitted to the bar. Delegate to the first republican state convention in Ohio, July 13, 1855. Elected mayor of Marion and prosecuting attorney of Marion county.

Married to Miss