George Pickerel, Mrs. T. A. Ross, Mrs. J. G. Butler, Mrs. E. L. Ford, Mrs. Homer Baldwin, Mrs. R. W. Taylor, Mr. Thomas H. Wilson, Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson, Mrs. Willard Wilson, Mrs. M. T. Herrick, Mrs. M. A. Hanna, Major William McKinley, and Mrs. McKinley.

Those at the east executive committee table were Judge and Mrs. T. K. Dissette, Hon. A. J. Williams, Rabbi M. J. Gries, W. A. Ingham, Mrs. W. A. Ingham, Mrs. Bradford, Mrs. F. A. Ärter, Mrs. J. R. Blakeslee, Mr. C. H. Weed, Mrs. C. H. Weed, Mr. H. A. Griffin, Mrs. H. A. Griffin, Mrs. G. P. Sperry, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. White, Miss Lilla White, Miss Elizabeth Blair, Mrs. Gertrude V. R. Wickham, Mr. M. B. Schwab, Mrs. M. B. Schwab.

At the west executive table were Rev. Dr. Henry M. Ladd, Mr. Charles W. Chase, Mrs. Charles W. Chase, Professor A. H. Tuttle, Mrs. A. H. Tuttle, Miss Katharine Wickham, Mr. L. A. Russell, Mrs. L. A. Russell, Hon. O. J. Hodge, Mrs. O. J. Hodge, Professor Charles F. Olney, Mrs. Charles F. Olney, Mr. Wilson M. Day, Mrs. Wilson M. Day, Hon. Elroy M. Avery, Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, Mr. Augustine C. Wright, Mrs. Benjamin F. Taylor, Mrs. Ella Sturtevant Webb, Miss Louise E. Webb, Mrs. P. H. Babcock, Mr. L. F. Mellen, Mr. George Smart, Miss Birdelle Switzer.

At the pioneer table were Mr. Levi Booth, Mrs. Levi Booth, Mrs. W. J. McKinnie, Mrs. Richard Allen, Mrs. H. J. McKinnie, Mrs. F. S. Smith, Miss H. E. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Foote, Miss Elizabeth Petton, Miss Ellary H. McKinnie, Mrs. I. T. Fisher, Mrs. C. M. Gayton, Mrs. Pard B. Smith, Mr. John Corlett, Mr. James Wade, Miss Margaret G. Wade, Mr. John Paul Baldwin, Mrs. F. M. Stearns, Mrs. James McCrusky, Mrs. A. C. Gardner, Mrs. E. F. Stafford, Mrs. J. F. Mund, Mrs. L. J. Talbot.

At the early settlers' table were Mrs. M. H. Rodman, Mrs. Anna E. Prather, Mrs. B. S. Cogswell, Mrs. D. Leuty, Mrs. A. M. Vennard, Mrs. R. C. White, Mr. R. C. White, Mrs. S. C. Brooks, Mrs. F. E. Shipherd, Mrs. M. B. Evins, Mrs. I. M. Knowlton, Mrs. R. H. Ingraham, Mrs. Peter Thatcher, Mrs. Cornelia E. Lester, Mrs. William Bowler, Mrs. Mary West, Miss Anna Wilber, Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, Mr. Samuel R. House, Mrs. Henry A. Sherwin, Miss F. F. Gee, Mrs. W. T. Smith. Mrs. O. B. Skinner.

At the Colonial table were Miss M. C. Quintrell, Mrs. Charles R. Miller, of Canton, O.; Ellen Louise Hine, Mrs. Lucy J. Mays, Mrs. Q. J. Winsor, Mrs. Helen B. Olmsted, Mrs. M. E. Bishop, Mrs. F. Muhlhauser, Hon. J. C. Hutchins, Mrs. J. C. Hutchins, Miss Kerruish, Mr. X. X. Crum, Mrs. X. X. Crum, Mrs. Z. P. Rhoades, Miss Hatch, Mrs. R. R. Rhoades, Mrs. George H. Palmer, Mrs. Adelbert Kinney, Miss E. Churchill, Mrs. M. E. Donover, Mrs. M. M. Tuttle, Mr. N. P. Bowler, Mrs. Louisa Southworth.

At the Hiram table were Mr. William Bowler, Mrs. L. A. Ferguson, J. P. Dawley, Mr. W. H. Brett, Mrs. W. H. Brett, Mrs. L. J. Pope, Mrs. L. L. Pope, Mr. A. R. Odell, Mrs. A. R. Odell, Mr. J. G. Warren, Miss Marcia Henry, Mrs. Martha H. Elwell, Mrs. E. Fern Guyles, Mr. A. R. Teachout, Mrs. A. R. Teachout, Rev. Harris R. Cooley, Mrs. G. A. Robertson, Mrs. George A. Robertson, Mr. H. E. McMillin, Mrs. H. E. McMillin, Mrs. B. G. Dean, Rev. E. V. Zollars.

At the table of Medina County and Benevolent Association were

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Caskey, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Isham, Miss Carrie R. Ainsworth, Medina; Mrs. Lizzie D. Williams, Mechanicsburg; Mr. T. B. Williams, of Mechanicsburg; Mrs. Lena Springsteen, Dr. Wallace S. Springsteen, Mr. F. C. Case, Mrs. F. C. Case, Mr. R. M. McDowell, Mrs. R. M. McDowell.

At the Lake County table were Mrs. J. H. Morley, Mrs. Thomas H. Marshall, Mr. T. H. Marshall, Mr. J. R. Garfield, Mrs. L. R. Garfield, Mrs. E. J. Baldwin, Lucy C. Matthews, Mrs. R. L. Gauter, Mr. H. C. Gray, Mrs. M. D. Mathews, Mrs. E. C. Burrows, Mr. J. B. Burrows, Adelaide M. Smith, Emilie J. Sanford, Lydia E. Cahoon, Laura E. Cahoon, Martha W. Cahoon, Mrs. Edward F. Schneider, Mrs. Frederick T. Pomeroy.

At the Oberlin table were Mr. J. G. Fraser, Miss Grace S. Fraser, Mrs. A. A. F. Johnston, Miss Smith, Mrs. W. H. Rice, Mrs. George Kenney, Mrs. E. J. Goodrich, Mr. E. J. Goodrich, Mrs. E. J. Phinney, Mrs. A. H. Johnson, Mr. A. H. Johnson, Mary J. Shafer, Mrs. Mary A. Springer, Mr. G. F. Wright, Mrs. G. F. Wright, Miss Calista Andrews.

At the table of the Cleveland belles were Mr. T. B. Williams, Mr. E. M. Springsteen, Mary Upson, Mrs. I. D. Barrett, Mr. A. P. Churchill, Laura R. Rudd, William C. Rudd, Jr., Mrs. H. D. Cooke, Mr. Ernest F. Krug, Edna M. Ong, Mr. Eugene H. Churchill, Cora Zoller, Greensburg, Ind; Ethel M. Shiely, Cincinnati; Miss Willie Luelle Curus, New York; Mr. Harry W. Springsteen, Miss Clara Bassett, Miss Florence Springsteen.

At the Portage County table were Mrs. Arthur B. Foster, Mrs. Ella Beebe, Mrs. Harmon, Mrs. T. Spencer Knight, Major and Mrs. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Streator, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Esty, Mrs. D. R. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Elliot, Mr. and Mr. P. H. Babcock, Mr. Morton McKinstry, Mr. T. Spencer Knight, Mr. G. W. Williams.

At the bicycle table were Mrs. D. A. Upson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fetterman, Mr. and Mrs. John Holah, Miss Ettinger, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Upson, Mrs. John Upson, Mrs. Charles P. Mathewson, Miss Haskell, Mr. Lozier, Mrs. F. H. Gates, Mrs. E. G. Wilson, Miss E. Chipman, Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Striebenger, Mr. Charles Holstein, Mr. and Mrs. Brown.

At the Quaker table were Mrs. Joshua Ross, Mrs. W. C. Ong, Mr. M. H. Barrett, Mrs. M. H. Barrett, Mrs. Emma E. Horton, Miss F. Estelle Quayle, Mrs. W. L. Malone, Mrs. Arthur E. Hatch, Mrs. Alice M. Terrell, Mrs. I. T. Bowman, Mrs. Chancey Stillman, Mr. James S. Malone, Mrs. James S. Malone, Mr. J. W. Conger, Mrs. J. W. Conger, Mrs. L. H. Malone, Mr. George P. McKay, Mrs. George P. McKay.

At the Summit County table were Hon. F. W. Pelton, Mrs. F. W. Pelton, Mrs. T. E. Young, Mr. William Prescott, Mrs. William Prescott, Miss Millie Sears, Miss Carrie Elwell, General A. C. Voris, Mrs. A. C. Voris, General J. J. Elwell, Mr. F. H. Mason, Mrs. F. H. Mason, Mrs. J. C. Alden, Hon. E. R. Harper, Mrs. Mark Hayne, Mrs. C. E. Sheldon, Mr. Clarence Howland, Mrs. Clarence Howland, Mrs. Jeannette Shepard, Mrs. Victor J. Allen, Mrs. John Rigg, Mr. N. M. Jones, Jr., Mr. E. K. Wilcox, Mrs. E. K. Wilcox.

At the Geauga table were Mrs. J. M. P. Phelps, Mr. C. B. Bishop, Mrs. C. B. Bishop, Mr. George T. Bishop, Mrs. George T. Bishop, Mrs. J. R. Tatum, Miss Lucy A. Proctor, Miss Nellie Leaming, Mrs. Morris

Oppenheimer, Mrs. Louis Leon, Mrs. Isaac Strauss, Mrs. W. R. Coates, Miss Elizabeth Hale, Mrs. J. Edwin Bradley, Miss Mary L. Peterson, Mrs. Robert J. Bellamy, Veronica McLaughlin, Mrs. J. H. Paine, Mrs. William J. Rattle, Mrs. Alfred S. Field, Mrs. A. C. Miller, Mrs. F. J. Welton, Miss Welton, Mrs. C. Knowles.

At the round table were Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Boynton, of Elyria; Mrs. E. B. Brown, Mrs. W. H. Stoddard, and Miss M. R. Stoddard, both of Chicago.

At the Huron County table were Mrs. Charles B. Stowe, Mrs. Henry Lewis, Mrs. Edwin G. Rose, Miss E. Rogers, Mrs. M. Egbert, Mrs. W. G. Mack, Charlotte A. Watson, Mrs. W. A. Mack, Mrs. S. H. Waring, of Toledo; Mrs. A. J. Minard, of Chicago; James G. Gibbs, Mrs. O. W. Williams, Helen Gates, Mrs. D. B. Andrews, Mrs. W. B. Woolverton, Mrs. J. F. Dewey, Mrs. James G. Gibbs, Mr. A. J. Minard, of Chicago; Eula Dewey, of Norwalk; Mrs. Arthur E. Whiting, Mrs. L. C. Laylin, of Norwalk Miss Eleanor Andrews, of Milan; Dr. Lillian G. Towslee, Miss Lillian Wightman.

At the Ashtabula table were Mrs. Rufus P. Ranney, Mrs. N. B. Prentice, Mrs. S. A. Northway, Jefferson; Mrs. E. C. Wade, Jefferson; Mrs. George E. Nettleton, Ashtabula; Mrs. H. P. Fricker, Ashtabula; Mrs. J. P. Treat, Geneva; Mrs. S. F. Higley, Geneva; Mrs. E. L. Lampson, Jefferson; Mrs. S. J. Smith, Conneaut; Mrs. Hiram Lake, Conneaut; Mrs. Willis E. Robison, Kingsville; Mrs. E. C. Sheldon, Mrs. Myra B. Binger, Andover; Mrs. Sara Phelps-Holden, Kingsville; Mrs. Martha Coleman Robertson, Mrs. E. Robertson-Miller, Canton; Mrs. Elvina Lobdell Bushnell, Mrs. J. A. Howells, Jefferson; Mrs. R. B. Hickox, Kelloggsville; Mrs. C. M. Traver, Conneaut; Mrs. Edward H. Fitch, Jefferson; Mrs. W. F. Stanley, Conneaut.

At the electric light table were Mr. and Mrs. George Hoag, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Scovill, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McKinstry, Mrs. R. G. Pate, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cox, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bagnall, Mr. George B. Tripp, Mrs. W. E. Scovill, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dalzell, Mr. and Mrs. K. Gill, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. D. Johns.

At the Trumbull County table were Mrs. Henry C. Ranney, Mrs. A. E. Adams, Mrs. W. Packard, Mrs. Homer Stewart, Mrs. Mary Hutchins Cozzens, Mrs. Jane Tod Ratliff, Mrs. L. P. Gilder, Mrs. C. B. Darling, Mrs. E. P. Babbitt, Mrs. H. B. Perkins, Miss E. H. Baldwin, Mrs. Cornelia Fuller Harmon, Mrs. B. F. Taylor, Mrs. Mantie L. Hunter, Mrs. Charles Ranney, Mr. Charles Ranney, Mr. Julius Lembeck, Mr. Alfred Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Homer, Mrs. Helen Tayler McCurdy, Miss Olivia Hapgood.

Before partaking of the feast the guests listened to an address of welcome by Mrs. W. G. Rose, who spoke as follows:

Ladies and Gentlemen: I greet you to-night as citizens of the Western Reserve. In this year of retrospect we have been astonished at the number of able men and famous women given to the nation by a section of but 120 miles east and west and sixty miles north and south. Twelve counties are here represented, and each has in the past century produced some persons of whom we are proud. Mahoning has its Maguffy and Governors Tod and McKinley. Trumbull has Simon Perkins, of canal fame, Seth Pease and Judge R. P. Ranney. Ashtabula has Joshua R. Giddings, Ben Wade, Howells, Tourgee, and Spencer, of the Spencerian system. Lake was the home of President Garfield and Governor Huntington, Peter Hitchcock, Almeda Booth, and

Miss Evans. Geauga has Governor Ford. Portage has Arthur Tappan and Roswell Kent. Summit has John Brown, David Hudson, David Bacon, Presidents Pierce, Hitchcock, and Cutler, Dr. Crosby, R. P. Spalding, O. C. Barber, Ferd. Schumacher, J. D. Rockefeller, General Voris, and many others. Medina has General M. D. Leggett and General Alger, Huron has the great traveler, Kennan, Erie has Rush R. Sloane, and is the birthplace of Thomas Edison, the great inventor. Lorain has Charles G. Finney, the evangelist, A. A. Wright, the geologist, Asa Mahon and Professor Morgan. Cuyahoga has Governors Wood and Hoadly, John Baldwin, E. I. Baldwin, the authors, Sarah K. Bolton, Lydia Hoyt Farmer, A. M. Perkins, and Artemus Ward. It was General Leggett who gave us the graded school system. It was the Mack Brothers, of Akron, who solved the problem of running sewing machines over thick and thin material. It was Charles F. Brush who gave us the brilliant electric light and who is bringing to perfection the storage battery. H. B. Hurlbut gave his home for an art gallery. Mrs. S. M. Kimball, was the founder of the School of Design. John Huntington, gave his home for a school of ceramics. Amasa Stone gave us Adelbert College, and the Home for Aged Women; and H. R. Hatch, the college library building. J. H. Wade gave the Wade Park, and W. J. Gordon and J. D. Rockefeller the boulevards more beautiful than are in any city east or west.

The Western Reserve is said to send through the mails more personal letters, books and magazines, than any other like portion in the United States.

One word to our guests from the committees. The electric car brings people to all our great assemblies. Our own citizens now live out on the hilltops and country roads. They feel the invigoration and health which come from being in contact with nature. Our citizens are no longer confined to city limits. We can claim you in the same sense that you contribute to our intelligence and wealth. We are one. The Western Reserve is one.

In the Western Reserve centennial album we present to you to-night, we have endeavored to gather on its pages buildings, people, and avenues that will soon be forgotten except in name. We have been assisted by almost every prominent citizen. They gave us willingly of photographs and cuts from colleges, seminaries, and parks. We only regret that we did not enter upon it earlier. But we trust that it will aid our grandchildren in recalling the times and places when the next centennial is celebrated in Cleveland and the Western Reserve.

Rev. Dr. H. M. Ladd, of the Euclid avenue Congregational Church, invoked divine blessing, and attention was then given to the menu. During the serving of the courses musical selections were rendered by

the Schubert Club and the Wagner Quartette. Following the banquet interesting after-dinner speeches were made. Mrs. Sarah E. Bierce was the toastmistress. By way of introducing the programme she said:

Madame President, ladies and gentlemen-guests of the Woman's Board of the Centennial Commission:-It was a happy thought to make Cleveland, the beautiful Forest City, the Mecca of all Western Reserve pilgrims for this Centennial summer. It is especially fitting that one day should be set apart for the daughters of the Reserve. For this purpose, the Women's Board extended the invitation which has met with such a flattering response. Thousands came to the great Central Armory to-day and even this capacious hall cannot hold those who would fittingly close this auspicious occasion at the reception and banquet. Between these daughters of the Reserve gathered as we are from many States, there are bonds of sympathy and love that are strong and true. We are daughters of the men and women who have made some of the very best chapters of American history. We are proud and happy upon this centennial occasion to pay our tributes of love and respect to these most worthy ancestors. We are honored to-night, sisters, -the next President of this great Republic is from the Reserve and he is our guest. If we are the daughters of noble men and noble women, we are also the mothers of the young men and young women who will bear the standard names for liberty, and truth, in the century upon which we have just

entered.

We greet you, too, as co-workers in every grand movement looking to the advancement of women in the industries, in higher education, in the charities, and all along the lines that make a higher type of womanhood and better service for God and humanity. Mayor Robert McKisson will welcome you for the City of Cleveland.

The mayor, in response to the toast" For the City of Cleveland," said:

Madam Toastmistress, Women of the Western Reserve, and Gentlemen :

It was Lamertine, I believe, who said: "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." The century now closing has been prolific in great achievements for our city and our nation, and were a true record made woman's hand might be found as the guiding force in nearly all of them. Well may her praises be sounded tonight; well may her glorious deeds be recounted in speech and song. This occasion is one of rare significance and dignity. A hundred years have passed since woman, side by side with man, began her noble work, enduring hardship, sharing toil for the upbuilding of our fair and now illustrious city. On woman's brow we place a laurel wreath, and one and all rise up and call her blessed. It is an accepted fact long known to mankind that the silent forces of the world are the greatest. All along the pathway of our nation's history woman's quiet but ever powerful influence has manifested itself in countless ways. Chief of all it has made itself felt in the relationship of wife to husband, of mother to son, and of sister to brother. One of the most eloquent things the great and sturdy Lincoln ever said was: "All I am I owe to my mother." Garfield on the happiest, grandest moment of his life, that of his inauguration, turn aside from the plaudits of the multitude and press upon his mother's lips a sacred kiss. Hear Lady Washington say, with true motherly pride: "I am not surprised at what George has done, for he was always a good boy.

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Tributes such as these speak volumes for the devoted womankind of our land. In the Western Reserve there are 3,000,000 acres of land; in no section of the country are to be found more worthy women than here. They have gone out during the years through the country elevating society and brightening the firesides and homes. Nowhere in the land are better wives to be found. This was shown in the very first wedding that occurred on the soil of the Western Reserve. History tells us that a young Canadian, after looking over her Majesty's Domain, came down to our little settlement and married one of our girls. That wedding took place in the first log cabin built in Cleveland, and was solemnized by a land agent who happened to also be a minister. I do not know how the young men of the town felt toward this Canadian, but he was allowed to escape with his bride. The records do not show, however, that any more of his countrymen ever dared to follow his example and run the risk of facing the suitors of our native city.

It is interesting to recall the many incidents of pioneer life in those early days. Necessity compelled the early settlers to be ever alert in guarding their homes against attacks from enemies both on land and lake. With what vigilance this was done is