1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

What township can measure up to Cedarville? She has furnished a pub.Ucist and diplomat; a candidate for Vice-President of the United States; editor, reporter, man of letters, ambassador to France and England, thus rising to the top round on the ladder of fame, asso– ciated with kings and nobles of the earth-our own Whitelaw Reid, who was born and grew up in our midst, whose old home remains a monument of affection and loyalty to his native plac~ an w en he died in on on, e King and Queen an nobility bore his body to Westminster Abbey, and great men of every nation attended his funeral, and all uncovered their heads in token of respect to the noble character who had finished his life-work. The same may be said of his funeral in New York. President, ex-President, cabinet officers, United States Senators,-in short, the great men of our nation were there. Both funerals were really world-wide. He rests from his labors in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N. Y. He shed no blood to be great. - · --- - - ·Tl1en, ··oui: t~*~ship has furnished a United States Senator; three men to the legislatures; fifty-five ministers of the gospel; forty-five preachers' wives, and school teachers by the hundred. GENERAL COMMITTEE J. S. E. McMichael Andrew Jackson Dr. J. W. Dixon Andrew Winter Committee on Finance Committee on Parade Committee on Decorating - Committee on Landmarks Committee on Publicity Committee on Invitation Chairman Secretary Treasurer A. E. Richards Dr. J. W. Dixon, Chairman Andrew Winter, Chairman John Ross, Chairman W. J. Tarbox, Chairman S. C. Wright, Chairman J. S. E. McMichael, Chairman Committee on Program Andrew Jackson, .Chairman Committee on History - - H. P. Jackson, Chairman Committee on Relic Room Mrs. Dora J. Kerr, Chairman Committee on Domestic Display Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Chairman Reception Committee Miss Mary B. Ervin, Chairman