Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-06
(By Miss VILLA cotton.)


The following paper on Some Noted |
Women of Ohio" was read before the
Centennial Association Monday, Mai ch
4th, 1901
Nearly hundred years have passed
since our beloved state Joined the Up-
ion and in that time she has so grown
in population, in wealth and import
ance that she now ranks fourth in the
great family of states.
She has sent six men to the White
House, two men to the Chief Justices
chair in the Supreme Court of the
United States, and three of her gener-
ais were selected by Congress for
special honors conferred on no other
military heroes since Washington
Enured to hardship and strengthened
by adversely, her sturdy sons, by pow
er of brain and will. have won honor
and distinction in the various walks of
life.
And the daughters of Ohio, what of
them? An English minstrel sings,
"The womans cause is mans they
rise or sink together,
Dwarft or god-like, bond or free.
For she that out of Lethe scales with
man
The shining heights of Nature shares
with man.
His nights and days, moves with hin
to one goal
Stays all the fair young planets in her
hand.
If she be small, slightnatured, miser
able,
How shall men grow?"
Would you find the cause of tho
greatness of Ohio men? 1t can be
etraced to the influence of a noble
womanhood All honor to the women
pioneers who came with husbands and
sons to help build up our glorious
commonwealth.
The New England woman came. The
blood of the stern old Puritans flowing
Ill uSt NtltlO SIrDiCu W Clluui y
the hardships of frontier life, and to
weave into the fabric of state the
/ threads of patience, self-denial and of
religion. The wife of the Virginia
cavalier came, bringing with her thl
courtly manners of the Old Dominion
and softening the stern realities of life
by her gracious ways. From the
Pennsylvania hills the German haus
frau came with frugality and thrift fo'
her watchwords, which helped in NJ
small way to add to the wealth of tn,
new country. The little Quakeress came
from the valleys of the Schuyikill ant
on the soil wet with the blood of thu
two great nations which strov'
for it's possession preached th
beauty of peace and tn
brotherhood af man. The Hugue
not maiden came from the sum.
Carolina, imbued with the though
that all men are free and equal and di'
her share in moulding the character O
the nation which at last wiped on
the curse of slavery.
Would you know the cause of tn
greatness of Ohio men? Is it strang
that with such mothers. sweetheart
and wives the noble pioneers shoul
have carved great state out of tn
wilderness, or that their children an
children's children should become tn
leaders of the nation?
On this happy day, when one c
Ohio's, sons is receiving the creates
honors our country can bestow, it
my pleasant task to pay tribute to
few of the women of Ohio. who b
the fame of our Buckeye State. TAX
great pride in mentioning first Mrs
Lake, one of the early settlers of Mar
eta, who organized the first Sunda
School in the Northwest Territory
1891. Indeed it may be said that sh
originated the Sunday School move
ment in this country, for while a fe
individual schools had been held bt
ore this time, the last one was broke
s up by the Revolution. But from til
time Mary Lake gathered together tf
little children in her room in Camp
u Martius the Sunday Schools have il
creased in our land until there are no
more than 100000 with an enrollmel
/ of nearly 100000. Mary Bird W;
born in Bristol, England, in 174
/. When she was twenty years old 81
married Archibald Lake, sea-fariI
man, and they moved to st. John
Newfoundland, but that place 500
}. came into the possession of France al
they decided to go to New Yor
m There the husband found employme
IN in the shipyards and became such /;
m ardent patriot that when New Yo
was evacuated, his family followed t
,ir army in their cantonment up Nor
lh river. Mrs. Lake was appointed ma
ron i'm one of the general hOsDitals al