Annals of Cleveland

Chapin's hall

Abstracts: 13

931

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 December 1864 (25 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

931 - L Dec. 1:4/4, 5 - The St. Andrew's society celebrated its 19th
anniversary last night, at Chapin's hall. The festival was largely
attended, and the hall was decorated with banners and flags. The banquet
was prepared by S. W. Garrett. Mr. Denham, president of the society,
called the assembly to order.
A toast, "Scotland and America, our native and adopted Homes," was
responded to by Mr. McReynolds in a pithy, ringing speech. He said that
Scotchmen came to this country from choice, not from necessity. He
boasted that half the blood in his veins was Scotch, but he was called
an Irishman because he was born in Ireland. Another toast, "Cleveland
with its Mayor and Authorities," was responded to by the band, which
rendered "Home, Sweet Home." John Proudfoot then read a capital metri-
cal report of the society for 1864. (25)

Foreign Population / Scotch

Index terms:

Chapin's hall; Denham, J. L. (president of St. Andrew society); Garrett, S. W.; Ireland; McReynolds; Proudfoot, John; St. Andrew's society

932

Cleveland Morning Leader, 31 December 1864 (13 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

932 - L Dec. 31:4/3 - The Mutual Benefit society of the Manxmen celebrat-
ed its ninth anniversary Dec. 28 at Chapin's hall. Feasting, toasting,
responses, music, and dancing were the order of the evening. J. H.
Rylance spoke on the objects and benefits of the organization, consider-
ing the subject in its strictly natural, or economical and religious
aspects.
"Ellan Wannin,'
a manz song, was sung by Mrs. Herruish. (13)

Foreign Population / Welsh

Index terms:

Chapin's hall; "Eilan Wannin" (Manx song); Kerruish, Mrs.; Mutual Benefit society; Rylance, Rev. J. H.; *Welsh Population

1445

Cleveland Morning Leader, 25 March 1864 (9 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1445 - L Mar. 25:4/3 - The tenth annual session of the Right Worthy lodge
of Good Templars will be held tomorrow at Chapin's hall. Delegates in
attendence will be: Hon. Samuel D. Hastings, John Evans, L. E. Wright, and
32 others. The delegates will come from 19 states and Canada. The lodge
includes a total of 101,458 members. - (9)

Organizations / Fraternal and Benevolent

Index terms:

Canada; Chapin's hall; Evans, John; Hastings, Samuel D.; Right Worthy lodge of Good Templars; Wright, L. E.

1583

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864 (ed; 128 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2,3,4 ~ View at ChronAm

1583 - L June 1; ed:2/2-4; 4/3-5 - "Yesterday... was a great day for
politicians. It was the day in which (vide the New York WORLD and -
HERALD, the Chicago TiMES and the Cincinnati ENQUIRER), the greatest
political movement of modern times was to be set on foot, a new party
be formed, and the next President nominated - a day more fatal to
Abraham Lincoln than the Ides of March to Caesar. -- -
"The day certainly passed off with most remarkable quiet. Besides
the arrivals chronicled yesterday, but few made their appearance, and
the convention, for one so widely heralded and anxiously prepared for,
was singularly small in numbers and weak in talent."
The convention inet at eleven o'clock at Chapin's hall. "The two
thousand delegates from Missouri have not been heard from. It is sup-
posed that they stopped at Cincinnati for consultation with the proprietor -
of the ENQUIRER as to the best mode of defeating Lincoln. The two
thousand from New York were similarly missing, and the convention was
in numbers a very slim affair....
"There was also a 'most pleasant lack' of leaders in the convention.
Horace Greeley... was absent, and his absence was regretted by delegates
even more than that of the masses. B. Gratz Brown was also unaccountably
missing, and the convention felt the loss of his active and commanding
intellect. -
"From the first it was evident that there was a secret, but
irrepressible conflict between the friends of General Grant, including
most of the New York delegation and many from the Eastern States, who
were mainly of Democratic antecedents, and those of General Fremont,
composed mainly of the old abolitionists and the radical Germans,
and led by Coionel Moss, of Missouri."
E. Gilbert, president of the New York "Fremont" club, called the
convention to order and immediately nominated ex-Governor Johnston of
Pennsylvania as temporary chairman. Johnston was elected by acclama-
tion. B. H. Brooks of California and S. Wolf of Washington were
chosen secretaries. A committee on permanent organization, of ten
members, was appointed.
The number of delegates attending the convention was so small that
the committee appointed to enroll their names never made its report.
"We believe, however, that there were about one hundred and fifty dele-
gates present, of whom nearly half were from Missouri and wild for
Fremont, and ihe others mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois."
In addressing the convention, General Cochrane said, in part: "You
assemble here intending to support the army in the field, and at the
same time to organize a great civil army to fight for principles, and
to save for all generations the precious legacy obtained for us by the
sacrifices of the soldiers of the Union. The rebellion, it must be
suppressed; the Union, it must be preserved."
The nomination of Grant "was very faintly cheerei, and it was evident
that the name of the hero of Spottsylvania would pale before that of
the swordless general of New York.
"Nothing would do however, for the St. Louis Germans, who voted not
to recognize God's hand in war, but to nominate Fremont.
"General Fremont was nominated by acclamation.
"The 3,000 delegates, with whom the city was said to swarm yesterday
by the imaginative PLAIN DEALER, cheered heartily over the good work."
General Cochrane was nominated by acclamation for vice president. The
naming of the party was deferred until night when a committee, appointed
in the afternoon, reported the name of the new party to be the Radical
Democracy. Bird B. Chapman represented Ohio on the executive committee,
consisting of 15 members. (128)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Brooks, B. H. (California); California; Chapin's hall; Chapman, Bird B.; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Cincinnati, O.; Cincinnati ENQUIRER; Cleveland PLAIN DEALER; Cochrane, General George; Fremont club; Gilbert, E.; Grant, Gen. U. S.; Greeley, Horace; Illinois; Johnston; Lincoln, Abraham; Mass, Colonel (Mo.); Missouri; New York city; New York HERALD; New York WORLD; Ohio; Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Mo.; Spottsylvania, Va.; Union; Washington, D. C.; Wolf, S. (Washington, D. C.)

1585

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1585 - L June 3; ed: 1/1 - The Chicago TIMES says that the Cleveland
Fremont convention at Chapin's hall had more than 2,000 delegates,
and followed by saying the convention hall was filled. The New York
WORLD writes that this hall will hold 3,000.
"The hall will not hold more than six hundred at the outside, and
at no time was it more than two-third full." - - (6)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Chapin's hall; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Fremont, General John C.; New York WORLD

1811

Cleveland Morning Leader, 25 June 1864 (30 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1811 - L June 25:4/3, 4 - Iligh school commencement exercises were held at
Chapin's hall yesterday.
Officers of the board of education present were: John H. Sargent,
president; J. D. Hodson, secretary and Anson Smyth, superintendent.
Graduates of East and West High school were: Ilenry Fair lamb Clark,
Catherine Hannah New man, and Martha Ann Hewett. Sixteen other graduates.
The program consisted of the follow irg:
A prayer; and oration, "Let There B : Light." W. Howard Webster; an
essay, "Hidden Treasures," Martha A. Hewett; an essay, "Woman's Work is
Never Done," Emily L. Hurlburd; an essay, "Lifting the Weil, " Helen C.
La Gourgue. Six more essays.
All essays had to do with the present war, and the future after the
war is over.
John H. Sargent, in concluding his speech said: "The liberality of
our city has enabled you, at home, among your own friends, to prepare
yourselves for the pursuit of knowledge, within the higher institutions
of learning in our country, or to take part understandingly, and credit-
ably in all the common intercourse of refined civilized society."
There have been 80 teachers laboring faithfully in the city schools.
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(30)

Schools and Seminaries

Index terms:

Chapin's hall; Clark, Henry Fair lamb; Cleveland board of education; East High school; Hewett, Martha Ann; Hodson, J. D.; Hurlburd, Emily L.; LaGaurgue, Helen C.; Newman, Catherine Hannah; Sargent, John H.; Smyth, Anson; Webster, W. Howard; West Side High school

2676

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 October 1864 (10 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

2676 - L Oct. 21:4/4 - The meeting of welcome to Lieut. William Pitten-
ger in Chapin's hall last evening was an enthusiastic and brilliant
affair.
Lieutenant Pittinger gave an address narrating his personal observa-
tions and experiences in the South. He portrayed the workings of slav-
ery, and gave an outline of the adventures of himself and his companions,
of their journey into Rebel territory, the seizure of a railroad tra in
and an extraordinary run of 65 miles an hour to escape their pursuers,
the break-down of the train, and their capture, all of which formed one
of the most daring and thrilling narratives of suffering and trial ever
recorded in history.
His description of the execution of seven of his comrades was partic-
tº larly touching. His book entitled DARING AND SUFFER1|NG is now
being sold by his agent, Lieutenant Buffum. (10)

Wars / Civil War / Receptions and Celebrations

Index terms:

Buffum, Lieut.; Chapin's hall; DARING AND SUFFERING (book); Pittenger, Lieut. William; South