\u201cDearest Martha, I do not intend to tax your eyes, time and patience with an epistle so long as the one I last \u00a0sent you. I, however, have as much to write. My soul is quite as full as when last I communed with the best woman on the globe. I have made arrangements for boarding with our beloved brother Merrick [of Merrick Hall]. He has no objections to boarding me but they did not know about my city wife \u2013 they were fearful they would be too plain for her. I allayed. It will be quite pleasant for us. I am so glad because we will be more likely to seek after entire holiness of heart in the communion of so holy a man …<\/p>\n
For the meantime I have fixed me a study in the college building for a home for the \u201cold man\u201d. I will give you a description of it. No. 1) Trunk, No. 2) a curtain under which to hang clothes, No. 3) fire place, No. 4) window, No. 5) window, No. 6) bed, No. 7) stove, No. 8) table, No. 9) desk, No. 10) wash stand, No. 11) door. [Lorenzo made an appropriate penciled drawing to coincide with the number key descriptions.] In looking over this building, I think that with some attention it might be made one of the finest college buildings in the whole country. The grounds are not now so pleasant as at Athens, but I think with an equal amount of care and attention they might be made to surpass. The trustees intend doing away with students boarding and rooming in college. That would then give us the entire building for recitation rooms, studios, apparatus rooms, a room for the reception of visitors and a laboratory.<\/p>\n
The institution is worth \u2013 its buildings and grounds – $40,000. She has three agents now in the field soliciting donations. The stock is being taken I see for a railroad to pass through this place. If you look at a map of the state you will find that the place is near the center of Ohio and the intention is to throw all the conference territory together and from the solid state to make four conferences all to corner at this point. This then will be the center of its, i.e. the Church\u2019s, efforts in the great cause of education in Ohio. If all this takes place, this must be the most popular, the most independent and the most useful institution in Ohio. But my heart tells me that I am in the region of futurity and futurity is all uncertainty.<\/p>\n
I begin to love Delaware very much. It seems much like Athens. Same hours for prayers, same hours for recitations, the same subjects and the same classes. I am treated with that respect and attention that every honest hearted man deserves. Brother Merrick has charge of the institution. We have 3 professors and 2 in the preparatory department, 75 students, more expected. I have 4 recitations daily … The students looked as if they thought they never saw it done on this fashion when I announced the rules of my classroom and the requisitions of my department. I want to push up the Mathematical Department higher than ever in any college in the country \u2013 \u2018east or west\u2019 … \u201d<\/p>\n
Lorenzo\u2019s Life in Delaware<\/strong><\/p>\n Upon his arrival in Delaware, Lorenzo started the philosophy and religion departments at OWU. Later, for two short periods of time, he served as interim President of OWU. In a letter to Ann Grinton from her father (Harry Grinton) he noted that Lorenzo was one of the founders of the Beta Chapters at both Ohio U,and OWU as well as one of the founders of the Miami Triad.\u00a0During their years in Delaware, Lorenzo and his 2nd\u00a0wife Calista became good friends of Rutherford B. & Lucy Hayes. The ladies were \u201cbar bashers\u201d and became two of the founders of the W.C.T.U. \u201cLemonade Lucy, so-called due to her tee totaling ways. She had all the wine glasses in the White House turned upside-down.\u201d Further, Lorenzo performed the marriage of \u00a0Rutherford and Lucy, presided over their 25th\u00a0anniversary at the White House. When the Hayes and Lorenzo attended church after the anniversary celebration, the streets of Washington Lorenzo\u2019s Portraits<\/strong><\/p>\n While in the White House, President Hayes commissioned oil paintings of Lorenzo and Calista and presented them as gifts in gratitude for their friendship. Lorenzo also had his portrait painted in New York City while on a speaking tour. It is said he pawned his gold watch to have the portrait painted. We think it was painted by Winner, but we find no signature. The portrait is in the possession of Holly Hoover Smithwick-Roy in Portland, Oregon. It was on this trip that Lorenzo met Calista Clark who had a girls\u2019 academy in Albany, N.Y. She later became Lorenzo\u2019s second wife. She was a very strong-minded lady, and insisted on taking her pet monkey on their wedding trip on the Erie Canal from New York to Ohio. The monkey managed to wreak havoc on the canal barge, tearing down curtains, and causing much destruction.<\/p>\n Lorenzo\u2019s Letter to President Lincoln<\/strong><\/p>\n From Janet McCabe Hoover Smithwick \u2014 greatgranddaughter of Lorenzo Dow McCabe … Regarding the L.D.\u00a0McCabe letter to President Lincoln, Janet writes, \u201cThe original\u00a0of the letter to Lincoln regarding the Emancipation Proclamation\u00a0is in the archives, I believe, at the Dayton Theological Seminary\u201d \u00a0[now called the United Theological Seminary, 1 of 13 Methodist\u00a0seminaries in the US and located in Dayton, Ohio]. The subject\u00a0was L. D. McCabe\u2019s Letter to Abraham Lincoln Concerning the\u00a0Stand of the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal\u00a0Church on Emancipation<\/strong>\u00a0[Note<\/strong>: A copy of the full text of the letter is available by\u00a0contacting the editor or by going to www.thetachapterbtp.org\u00a0and from the news menu select \u201ccurrent news\u201d.]<\/p>\n Excerpts From \u201cOhio Wesleyan\u2019s First Hundred Years\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0By Henry Clyde Hubbart, Ph.D, Copyright \u001894\u0018\u00a0In 1934,<\/strong> Professor Henry Clyde Hubbart became head of the History and Social Science Department at Ohio Wesleyan University, his special fields being American history and modern Europe. Following are direct quote excerpts where Professor\u00a0McCabe is mentioned, with appropriate page references from\u00a0Hubbart\u2019s book entitled \u201cOhio Wesleyan\u2019s First Hundred Years\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u2022 McCabe\u2019s arrival at Delaware and OWU\u00a0<\/strong>In 1845, Athens (Ohio U) temporarily closed its doors, and Lorenzo Dow McCabe, Athens graduate (1843), and professor (1844) came to Ohio Wesleyan as Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 William D. Godman comments on Professor McCabe\u00a0<\/strong>Describing his later college experiences, William D. Godman (1st\u00a0OWU Graduate in 1846) tells of his acquaintance with \u201cTutor Williams, a young man\u201d. To him Professor McCabe, who came in 1845 as the new Professor of Mathematics, was \u201ca rare specimen of manly beauty, the most popular professor in the early history of the university\u201d. We catch our first, fleeting glimpse of Lucy Webb, our first \u201cco-ed\u201d. The Webbs lived in one of the campus cottages, located southeast of the present site of Merrick Hall.<\/p>\n \u2022 A Strange Civil War Return of a Veteran Student\u00a0<\/strong>Charles Cardwell McCabe (1860), nephew of the professor, and Chaplain of the 122nd\u00a0O.V.I., was reported in the Delaware Gazette of June 24, 1863, as having been taken prisoner. Later released, he served the college as financial agent, became famous as the \u201csinging chaplain\u201d and as a lecturer on his experiences in Libby Prison, besides, being elected a Methodist bishop. A strange war story centers around Captain Alfred E. Lee (1859). Severely wounded at Gettysburg, reports had it that he had died and the college had assembled in chapel to\u00a0honor him with a memorial service. Professor McCabe was ready with his speech, when suddenly Lee himself, just arrived in Delaware, hobbled into the room. The versatile professor substituted an address on missions, and Lee himself subscribed $100. Later he served as Consul-General to Frankfort-on-theMain as editor of the Ohio State Journal.<\/p>\n \u2022 McCabe\u2019s role in the construction of Merrick Hall\u00a0<\/strong>[Referring to the difficulty in completing the construction\u00a0of the Merrick Science Building]. Finally, when the building\u00a0was opened in 1873, it provided quarters for the young science\u00a0professor, Dr. Edward T. Nelson, and for two faculty men\u00a0who were to serve with distinction for several decades, the\u00a0one, L. D. McCabe, especially known as a great inspirational\u00a0force, and the other, Hiram M. Perkins, as an effective\u00a0mathematics teacher.<\/p>\n \u2022 A Civil War veteran speaks\u00a0<\/strong>John B. Schwin (1869), who lived until 1942, bearer of the alumni cane, has described conditions in the vigorous post-war years. \u2022 McCabe\u2019s acting presidency and the union with the Female\u00a0College\u00a0<\/strong>During McCabe\u2019s acting-presidency (1873-1876) the demand for action crystallized, but opponents [referring to the 1877 union of the Female College with OWU, an all male school to The final action of the Board of Trustees came in June, 1877. A special committee presented a report which in its preamble ventured the following statement: \u201cIt is conceded that modern tendencies are in favor of coeducation and the most conservative of the higher institutions of learning are yielding to advancing public sentiment.\u201d The almost insurmountable obstacle was felt to be the location of the Female College. Finally came the fateful resolution: \u2022 A Sketch of Professor McCabe\u00a0<\/strong>In the Payne faculty two men were outstanding personalities. Lorenzo Dow McCabe, graduate of Ohio University in 1843, a man of remarkable personal magnetism, and one who in 1845, when he came to Delaware had impressed young Godman with his luminous face, bright eyes and \u201cmanly beauty,\u201d was now at his prime as a faculty figure. Beginning in 1864, he had already served fifteen or more years as\u00a0Professor of Philosophy. Like Merrick committing himself\u00a0unreservedly to the college, his total term of service was fifty\u00a0years; for two periods, 1873-76 and 1888-1889, he was its\u00a0acting-President.<\/p>\n Versatile and changeable in mood, with his vivid imagination, flashes of wit and bursts of eloquence, he showed some of the\u00a0marks of genius. His method of teaching Butler\u2019s Analogy was by a rather rigid memoriter system, but formalism yielded to an element of surprise by a trick he used for several years of calling on students by number from a basket of blocks on which the numbers were inscribed. Then, too, in a moment of excitement of righteous indignation, textbook and formal philosophy went by the board and he spoke out freely from his vivid personal experience and imagination. \u201cIt was then,\u201d said Berne Jones (1889), \u201cthat we really learned philosophy.\u201d A loyal Republican, McCabe felt extreme reverence for the magic name of Ulysses S. Grant, and the protective tariff was to him little less than a sacred dogma. Sparring matches between McCabe and Professor Semans, Democratic free trader, became a campus tradition. The \u201cpernicious doctrine of evolution,\u201d just coming to our campus called forth McCabe\u2019s blasting condemnation.<\/p>\n \u2022 McCabe in the classroom\u00a0<\/strong>Inevitably, later, students became acquainted with Professor Lorenzo Dow McCabe, theologian, philosopher, author, and sometime acting-President. When he called students by name to rise and recite they were expected to continue until he stabbed a forefinger at another student, perhaps clear across the room, with the demand \u201ctake it there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 McCabe on the object of a liberal arts education\u00a0<\/strong>Professor McCabe had maintained that the object of the liberal arts college as \u201cto develop all the powers of the soul as an end but not as an instrument,\u201d and the catalogue as late as 1901 maintained that the classical course was unequalled in securing \u201ccorrectness in mental processes\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dedication of the University Hall & Gray Chapel\u00a0<\/strong>Elaborate dedication exercises made the commencement season of 1893 most memorable. On June 20, 1893, Governor William McKinley delivered a memorial address for our ex-trustee, Rutherford B. Hayes. Dr. Payne took the floor and by subscription raised $15,000 toward the payment of the debt (University Hall & Gray Chapel). On June 21, speeches were made by the Honorable John Sherman, United States Senator, Mrs. Anna Sanborn Clason, class of 1859, and \u2022 Student Life Under Bashford\u00a0<\/strong>As to discipline, Professor McCabe in his acting-Presidency (1888-1889) denounced \u201crebukes, threats, suspicions and espionage\u2026Never in our history has there been more decorum and propriety in our chapel service.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 McCabe Approach to Philosophy\u00a0<\/strong>In 1860 Lorenzo Dow McCabe, earlier engaged in the fields of mathematics and physics, took over Biblical literature and moral philosophy, and in 1864, became Professor of Philosophy, which chair he held for more than thirty years. Extended accounts of (Professor Frederick) Merrick and\u00a0McCabe are given elsewhere. The approach to philosophy\u00a0under McCabe is well illustrated by the catalogue statement\u00a0for the years from 1881 to 1895:\u00a0The subjects taught in the department are the facts of\u00a0mental phenomena, embracing the cognitions, feelings\u00a0and the cognitive powers; the cause and laws of mental\u00a0action; the necessary laws of thought; the philosophy of the\u00a0beautiful in nature and in art; the science of pure being;\u00a0the history of philosophy; the principles of national wealth\u00a0and prosperity; the secret of success in the construction\u00a0and delivery of discourses; the evidences of Christianity;\u00a0and the Analogy of Bishop Butler. The inspiration,\u00a0enlargement and even development of all the mental and\u00a0moral faculties are the great objects sought by the head of \u00a0this department of the university.<\/p>\n Lorenzo\u2019s Family Tree<\/strong> Among the OWU, Beta and Greek connections in this family are the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n Lorenzo Dow McCabe Ohio U & OWU Professor, Inter. Pres., #14 on OU Beta Roll Lorenzo\u2019s Pin & Portrait Displays<\/strong><\/p>\n The oil portraits of Lorenzo and his wife, commissioned by their friend President Rutherford B. Hayes, are currently on display in the Paul and Annie Grinton Kisseberth home. Lorenzo\u2019s portrait is shown to the right. Of most significance to Beta, the McCabe family has generously agreed to place the\u00a0Lorenzo Dow McCabe Beta pin on loan to the Theta Chapter House Corporation which\u00a0in turn will transmit by loan to the Beta Theta Pi administrative offices in Oxford, Ohio\u00a0with appropriate material to tell this story. The McCabe pin, shown to the right, will be\u00a0appropriately displayed in the Beta Museum.<\/strong><\/p>\n Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n It is with the deep appreciation and thanks to the McCabeGrinton-Newhard-Kisseberth-Smithwick-Beeghly family that the Theta Chapter House Corporation has accepted possession of the Lorenzo Dow McCabe pin for use of the House Corporation and for loan to the national Beta Theta Pi administrative offices in Oxford, Ohio for an appropriate display at the Beta Theta Pi Museum. December 14, 2006 \u2022 Thomas J. Tatham, Editor, Theta Data \u2022 A publication of the Theta Chapter House Corporation of Beta Theta Pi.<\/p>\n Lorenzo Dow McCabe<\/p>\n L. D. McCabe Pin<\/p>\n Annie Grinton and Paul Kisseberth
\nwere so muddy that Rutherford walked to church, while Lucy and Lorenzo rode in the carriage. The carriage is on display at the Hayes museum in Fremont, Ohio. Lorenzo often visited the White House and presided over Rutherford\u2019s funeral on the grounds of the Hayes Museum and home in Fremont, Ohio.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOne man in my class was forty years old. It was a common thing to see men with an arm or a leg missing. Chaplain McCabe, the great singing bishop, frequently visited the college, and the whole student body would gather on the campus and join with him in one great festival of song.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthat point] pointed out \u201cinsuperable obstacles\u201d. The buildings were remote from each other; the scheduling of recitations would be difficult; certain classes would still have to be held at Monnett. Would the girls obtain scholarships or would they pay tuition? \u201cThe university has endowment and no tuition; the college, tuition and no endowment. The Board of Trustees went on record against union as late as June, 1875. The two institutions were solidly crystallized; why unite them?<\/p>\n
\nThat if the Trustees of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College deem it best to discontinue the active operation of their institution and to transfer its property, after its debts are paid, to the trustees of the University, we would accept such property and open the University to girls upon the same terms as men.<\/p>\n
\nDr. David H. Moore, editor of the Western Christian Advocate. At the dedication ceremonies held in the afternoon, Bishop Henry W. Warren delivered the dedicatory sermon, followed by Dr. Payne in a vigorous attempt to raise the residue of the debt. \u201cChaplain McCabe was there to lead the singing. All who have ever been present when Dr. Payne or Chaplain McCabe or both of them came in conflict with a church debt know the result,\u201d said the Practical Student.<\/p>\n
\nFollowing his 1st\u00a0wife\u2019s passing, Lorenzo and his 2nd\u00a0wife, Harriet Calista Clarke had 3 children. One of them, a son, John Jay McCabe and his wife, Effie Eugenia Capps McCabe, had 4 daughters: (1) Katharine Laura McCabe Grinton [Annie\u2019s mother], (2) Miriam Dow McCabe Hoover [Janet Smithwick\u2019s mother] and (3) Josephine Calista McCabe Newhard [the Newhard\u2019s mother] and (4) Emma Eugenia McCabe Moore. John Jay, also an OWU graduate class of ??, remained in Delaware and became the pastor of Asbury Methodist Church. It is through this family lineage that the following table shows some of the primary connections of the family with Beta Theta Pi and \/ or Ohio Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n
\nJohn Jay McCabe OWU \u2019?? Beta #165 on Theta Chapter Roll
\nJohn McCabe??? OWU \u2019?? Beta #203 on Theta Chapter Roll
\nHarry Grinton Connecticut Wesleyan Beta at Connecticut Wesleyan
\nKatharine McCabe Grinton OWU \u201919 No Greek Affiliation
\nJoe Newhard OWU \u201943 Beta #685 on Theta Chapter Roll
\nMary Calista Newhard Adams OWU \u201947 Pi Beta Phi
\nPersis Effie Newhard Snoke OWU \u201954 Pi Beta Phi
\nMary Snoke Junham OWU No Greek Affiliation
\nAndrew Junham OWU Phi Gamma Delta
\nHillary Junham OWU 2000 No Greek Affiliation
\nMiriam Dow McCabe Hoover OWU \u201913 No Greek Affiliation
\nHarold Smith Hoover OWU \u201912 Delta Tau Delta
\nJanet McCabe Hoover Smithwick OWU \u201948 Gamma Phi Beta
\nBix Newhard OWU \u201952 Beta #837 on Theta Chapter Roll
\nPaul Kisseberth OWU \u201954 Beta #884 on Theta Chapter Roll
\nAnnie Grinton Kisseberth OWU \u201954 Kappa Alpha Theta
\nMary Grinton Beeghly (Annie\u2019s Sister) OWU \u201948 Delta Gamma
\nTom Beeghly (Beeghly Library Family) OWU \u201948 Phi Delta Theta
\nMary Kisseberth Bedson (Annie\u2019s daughter) OWU \u201979 Pi Beta Phi
\nScott Bedson OWU \u201981 Phi Kappa Psi<\/p>\n![\"Lorenzo](\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/Lorenzo-Dow-McCabe-1817-1897.jpg\")
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\n\u201954 at 50th OWU Reunion<\/p>\n