1816-1916 Cedarville Centennial Souvenir

power and concentration on what he wisht to do. Naturally, too, of a noble spirit, he never gave his parents a moment's trouble. The fifth commandment of the Decalog was deeply imprest upon his mind. In his father:'s last sickness, in 1865, he left the New York Tribune office and hastened to his father's bedside, and nursed him to the end; and then made ample provision for his mother's comfort to the end of h~r days. She lived to be 92 years of age. William McKinley was Governor of Ohio, and, out of respect to Whitelaw, attended her funeral. ~ - ?>-, ~~ d?~ L~ ) - 13 rwv I "1 /J 3 ~tW-1 ~ WHITELAW REID'S PARENTS As a mark of affection he kept the old homestead in a condition that makes it an attractive place to all who visit it. The farm con– tains 200 acres. He shipt in foreign trees from distant parts of our country and planted them among those of native growth. The view from the front door of the $20,000 dwelling is scarcely excelled any– where. For sentiment he continued to own the old home where the happy days of his youth were spent; and doubtless his wife and two children will, for his sake, never suffer his old home to pass into other hands. Whitelaw Reid went up to world-wide fame on his own merits. His wife (we hear) in young womanhood said: "The young man that I marry. must be possest of two things-good character and brains; and I do not care if he has not a dollar," and she surely got her ideal husband. He was thoro in everything that he did. When he entered college, sophomore class, in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, he was a better Latin and Greek scholar than the higher classmen. When he delivered his commencement oration, and turned to take his seat, all the dfgni– taries on the platform shook his hand, and, tho all did well, he was the only one whose hand they did shake. After his graduation, he was 'a teacher, ·editor, reporter, librarian at Washington, D. C.; he repre– sented the Government at the coronation of King Edward, was nom– inated on the Republican National ticket in 1892 for Vice-President