THE HISTORICAL TIMES

NEWSLETTER OF THE GRANVILLE, OHIO, HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Volume X Number 2 Spring: 1996

THE CHURCH BUILDER IN NEWARK WHO BECAME THE HERO OF A WILLA CATHER NOVEL

Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first resident Roman Catholic Pastor of the Church of St. Luke in Danville, had the Catholic community of Newark as part of his pastoral circuit. In 1842, Lamy, who eventually became the of Santa Fe, built the first in Newark and named it after one of his favorite early modern French saints, Francis de Sales. Lamy's life was fictionalized by Willa Cather in her famous American novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop. The Church-builder in Traveling from Newark to his Newark mission stop on Jug Street, Lamy who Became the Hero of a certainly must have ridden his Willa Cather Novel horse through the streets of Granville. One looks in vain, however, in Lamy's letters a n d Many of us have read Willa reports for any reference to Cather's Death Comes for t he Granville. Archbishop, which is the charming tale of Bishop Jean The Son of Clermont-Ferrand Marie Latour, the courageous clergyman of the nineteenth Jean-Baptiste Lamy was born on century American Southwest. October 11, 1814 in the village of Latour, as Willa Cather's novel Lempdes near the city of goes, was a French priest who, in Clermont-Ferrand in central the years i mmediately preceding France. First educated in his the Civil War, became the Roman village, at the age of nine he Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe, entered the Jesuit school at Billom, New Mexico. a short distance from Clermont- Ferrand. On his eighteenth Yet few of us realize that the birthday, Lamy decided to fictionalized hero portrayed in embrace the religious vocation of Cather's famous American novel the priesthood. indeed had a real-life counterpart, Jean-Baptiste Lamy. Fewer still He matriculated at the Petite know that Lamy spent his early Seminarie of Clermont-Ferrand years in the United States as a where he undertook the classical Roman Catholic pastor and circuit course then in vogue as a rider in Knox and Licking Counties. preparation for the later Furthermore, Lamy established theological studies necessary for and built the first Church of Saint ordination as a Roman Catholic Francis de Sales in Newark. In priest. He continued his education addition, a circuit mission for at the Grand Seminarie of Mon t- Lamy was a small community of Ferrand, which was then Irish farmers living on what is administered by the members of today Jug Street in northern the Sulpician Order, historically Jersey Township in Western the group of teachers e n t r u s t e d Licking County. Eventually a with the education of future church, named in honor of Saint members of the Roman Catholic Joseph, was built on the Jug Street clergy. There, under the code of site, where today only a small strict discipline then common in burial ground and a modest Sulpician schools, the young Lamy historical marker remain. grew in knowledge, perseverance

2 and spirituality, all of which were to bode him well in his life's work.

While a student at Mont-Ferrand, Lamy became a close friend with another French seminarian, Joseph P. Machebeuf. These young men became life-long friends, living and working near one another in the United States for most of their productive lives. Machebeuf was two years older than Lamy, born in Riom near Vichy on August 11, 1812. Both were from middle class French families and were accustomed to the amenities of nineteenth century French village life, so different from their nearly half century work in the United States. In Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Machebeuf is portrayed as "Father Vaillant."

Missionary Life in America

While students at the Grand Joseph Machebuef as Bishop of Denver Seminarie, Lamy and Machebeuf in his later years. read voraciously about the work of their ecclesiastical comrades in apostle, Flaget undertook his the newly established republic in missionary work in Indiana, America. In 1833, both Lamy and Maryland and Kentucky for nearly Machebeuf attended a talk by the forty years, with almost a quarter then elderly Bishop of Bardstown, century administering the diocese Kentucky, Benedict Joseph Flaget, of Bardstown. At the time of h i s on the needs of the fledgling appointment as bishop in 1808, American Catholic Church. Bardstown became the administrative center for the only Flaget a half century earlier had Catholic diocese west of the been a student at Mont-Ferrand Allegheny mountains and and, in 1791, journeyed to the encompassed most of t h e new American republic in order to hardscrabble frontier of Kentucky, escape the revolutionary terror in Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan and France. A veritable frontier Ohio.

3 second Bishop of Cincinnati, following the death in 1832 of the original Cincinnati prelate, Edward Fen wick.

As a missionary circuit rider in Ohio and then as Bishop of Cincinnati, Fenwick had made early visits to Licking and Knox Counties. In 1818, Fenwick established the first Roman The St. Francis de Sales Church Catholic Church in Ohio, St. Complex in 1870 indicating the Joseph's, located southeast of Church and Rectory Lamy built in Somerset in central Perry County. 1842. The Diocese of Cincinnati which Purcell inherited encompassed all In addition to Catholics from of Ohio. Purcell desperately Maryland moving west, many needed ordained clerics to help in European Roman Catholics were this vast area. beginning to emigrate to the n e w American nation, and especially to As ordained priests in the Roman the area west of the Alleghenies. Catholic Church, Lamy and The need for ordained clergy was Machebeuf were serving small almost insurmountable. The village churches in the French elderly bishop visited several countryside. But they had never European seminaries in the hope forgotten their earlier desires for that a sufficient number of young religious adventure a n d men, both priests a n d commitment in America. Both seminarians, would answer his call were deeply affected by the plea for assistance and embark on t h e of Purcell and resolved to return life of a frontier missionary priest with him to the new country and and circuit rider. work in what Purcell referred to as the vineyard of the Lord. The Influence of Bishop Purcell Crossing the Atlantic, Traversing the Alleghenies, Five years later, in 1838, the then and Going Down the Ohio bishop of Cincinnati, the energetic River thirty-nine year old , was touring Europe Leaving France on July 8, 1839, seeking missionary circuit riders Lamy and Machebeuf, along with to help in the still pioneer country several other priests, sailed with of Ohio. Purcell was named the Purcell from the port city of Le

4 Havre, the point of departure for accustomed to their new so many Europeans emigrating to homeland. the United States. Their ship was the veteran North Atlantic wooden Within three weeks of t h e i r ship, the Sylvie de Grasse, with arrival, however, Purcell gave about sixty passengers quartered them their new ecclesiastical with Lamy and Machebeuf. Many assignments in frontier Ohio; more poorer emigrants were in Machebeuf to the northern Ohio the steerage. On their forty-third village of Tiffin with charge of day of passage, the cry of "Land! what today is known as Fremont Land!" was heard and the ship and Sandusky, and Lamy to t h e began the entry voyage into the Catholic village of Danville in Port of New York. eastern Knox County. With little time for getting used to Ohio, Purcell's party docked at the Machebeuf and Lamy were off to South Street docks, paid a quick begin their work as Roman visit to Bishop Dubois of New York, Catholic pastors and circuit riders and then journeyed to Baltimore in the Diocese of Cincinnati, which to pay their respects to the leader then encompassed all of the state of the American Catholic Church, of Ohio. Archbishop Eccleston. There they transferred from canal boat to Lamy to Danville stage coach for the long t r e k across the Allegheny Mountains to Danville is a quiet pastoral village Wheeling on the . From nestled in the rolling countryside Wheeling, the group traveled by of Eastern Knox County. Originally steam packet down the Ohio River known as Sapp's Settlement-- to Purcell's Episcopal see city of named after its founders, George Cincinnati. Lamy and Machebeuf and Catherine Arnold Sapp, native arrived in Cincinnati on September 19, 1839, after a full two months of arduous t r a v e l from the port city of Le Harve.

Once in Cincinnati, Lamy and Machebeuf thought they would have sufficient time to continue learning English, which lessons they had begun in earnest during the two month trip from France to southwestern Ohio. They also An Early Photograph showing to the hoped for time to become b e t t e r left, the Steeple of Lamy's Church and the Rectory he built in Newark.

5 Marylanders from Lord Baltimore's Catholic community, who emigrated to Knox County early in the nineteenth century-- Danville's Roman Catholic community built what was to become the seventh oldest Catholic Church in Ohio, St. Luke's, dedicated in October, 1824. Circuit Riders from the Dominican Order's Priory of St. Joseph's, founded in 1818 near the Perry County village of Somerset, t h e first Roman Catholic Church in Ohio, cared for the Danville community and the log church of St. Luke until Lamy arrived in 1839 as the first permanent pastor.

An energetic person all his life, Lamy began his Danville pastorate An Early Photograph of Lamy with vigor and animation. He planned and built a new frame church near the site of the original more than two Sundays a month log church, about a mile from the in Danville." village of Danville. Purcell came for the dedication of the new St. Building a Church in Newark Luke's church on November 10, 1840. The same year, Lamy s e t A bit homesick for France, both about building a small brick Machebeuf and Lamy planned for church in Mt. Vernon. Lamy was a brief vacation in their beloved so busy, however, that he could homeland. But they had few hardly give enough time to either funds and much work to finish place. His mission duties entailed first in Ohio. Writing to his father, traveling the circuit to Mansfield, Machebeuf noted that their Ashland, Loudonville, Wooster, proposed trip to France "cannot be Canal Dover, Massillon a n d carried out until we have each Newark. In a letter to Machebeuf built two churches, [Lamy' in Mt. at Tiffin, Lamy wrote that "I h a v e Vernon and Newark, I at my two bought a horse, and I am now a Sanduskys...." , This is an early great `traveler': for I have many reference to Lamy's intention to places to attend, and I don't stay build a church in Newark.

6 In late Autumn, 1841, Lamy The Newark Congregation attempted to obtain the deed to a Newark property so that he might Lamy, it seems, enjoyed begin to build the church. The i mmensely his Newark deed in hand by February, 1842, congregation. He once wrote that Lamy set about constructing what there was "good spirit" in t h e came to be the Church of St. members of his church. In the Francis de Sales. Wheeling and early 1840's, the Catholic dealing with the pastor of the congregation of Newark was Church of St. John in Zanesville, mostly German. Lamy wrote to Purcell that he would be able to buy windows Lamy noted that his parishioners and an altar from the church at had music in them; he wrote to his Zanesville, and that he intended to bishop: "We have then a very get them "very cheap." good choir of German Catholics with some fair instruments. They The Churches of sing very well, but almost all in St. Vincent de Paul and German, except the Kyrie, Gloria, St. Francis de Sales and Credo in Latin [for the Sunday Mass], till they get some books of Lamy named the Church in Mt. church music." He asked Purcell Vernon after his favorite French for some books of liturgical music saint, Vincent de Paul; another and also for about two h u n d r e d favorite early modern French dollars to help in rebuilding the Saint was Francis de Sales, a n d fire devastated church in Mt. this saint became the patron of Vernon. the new Church in Newark. This explains why two somewhat rural That he spoke but little German cities in central Ohio have Roman bothered Lamy about his work in Catholic churches named after Newark. He writes to Purcell: early modern French Saints--they "One thing is wanted for me, it is were the particular favorites of the german language, and though the French worker-priest, who I speak but very little English, built the edifices, Jean-Baptiste could I speak the dutch so well, i t Lamy. would be very good." Interested in the bodily and spiritual well- Lamy visited Newark every fourth being of his flock, Lamy Sunday. At one ti me, he established temperance societies considered moving his parish site when he could. He writes to from Danville to Newark, the busy Purcell that "great many in county seat of Licking County and Danville have joined t h e then a bustling canal town. temperance Society, and some in Newark."

7 Financial matters on the frontier Lamy continued to blame himself were tenuous at best and for perhaps assuming too much a t catastrophic at worst. The early Newark and undertaking more 1840's also witnessed a financial than could be done in a reasonable depression. Machebeuf notes in amount of time. He was so his letters to France how seriously bothered about the financial the markets have been depressed. burden of his Newark Nonetheless, Lamy was about to congregation that, he writes set upon the project of building Purcell, he would pledge a two additional churches in t h e substantial portion of whatever vast area which made up his eventually he might inherit to traveling circuit. assist in solving this financial problem. Lamy even asks Purcell A Bout with Self-doubt if the Dominican Friars from Somerset might once again return Within five years of his coming to to Newark as they had done Knox County, the religious sporadically before Lamy began demands of the Newark his travels in 1839. congregation increased dramatically and he realized that Riding the Circuit he could not care for Newark appropriately with Danville Much of Lamy's time was spent in thirty-six miles away. Newark the saddle. He writes to Purcell was growing so much faster than that he has a "great many places Danville. Perhaps he should to attend" and that he was almost consider moving to Newark. The "constantly on horseback." So church of St. Francis was still n o t much to undertake and so little plastered. ti me. A new worry was the growing community of Mansfield, Lamy was beset with self-doubt-- especially with the forthcoming had he been too ambitious in railroad. How, he asks Purcell, can building the church in Newark? he manage Mansfield too? But it He also built a modest rectory so is i mportant that something be he could have a place to stay in done because "there is no regular Newark. He writes to Purcell: clergyman who attends Mansfield "Perhaps I ought to be blamed to regularly." do so much in these hard times. In this case I beg your pardon but No matter how much time Lamy I do hope good intention will b e was away from Danville, Newark, some excuse...." A hundred dollar Mt. Vernon or Mansfield, note was soon due on the Newark nonetheless the members of his rectory. congregations held great love and

8 From the 1875 Licking County Atlas showing the site of the Jug Street Church in Western Licking County respect for their French pastor to cross a creek in a much too from the village of Lempdes. His inadequate wooden boat. four principal stations had over three hundred families, and the many mission stops on his circuit To Kentucky and then to held many more. Santa Fe

One of his mission stops was the In 1847, Purcell assigned Lamy to little community of farmers St. Mary's parish in Covington, residing on or near Jug Street Kentucky, directly across the river close to its intersection with Mink from Cincinnati. Of course, the Street in northern Jersey people in central Ohio were sorry Township. Often he would swim to see their beloved pastor leave. his horse across a stream in Years later, Francis Sapp, the spring, ride on a frozen river in grandson of George Sapp, t h e the winter, traverse the founder of Danville, wrote that overgrown trails of the summer, Lamy's `" name is held in in order to be with his flock. Once benediction by all the old he almost drowned with several residents of the county, other persons as they attempted irrespective of creed." During this

9 year, Lamy became a citizen of t h e United States, his now fully adopted homeland.

In 1850, following the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the area reverted to the United States. All of this area was formerly under the Bishop of Durango, Mexico. Hence, a bishop was needed for Santa Fe in the newly acquired New Mexico Territory. Lamy was nominated and then named to this position. He requested that Machebeuf be permitted to go along as his Vicar General, the second in command of a diocese in the Roman Church. Lamy and Machebeuf traveled to Santa Fe and began the next chapter in their always eventful lives.

A Large Diocese

The Santa Fe diocese included not only New Mexico, but also large A Statue of Lamy in front of the areas of five other huge western Cathedral of St. Francis which he built states: Arizona, Nevada, Utah, in Santa Fe. Colorado, and California. This land mass was larger than the whole of Lamy's native France. Paul Lamy brought his tremendous Horgan's Lamy of Santa Fe is a energy and organizational abilities marvelous narrative of Lamy's to his new position. In addition to triumphs and travails in the restoring twenty old churches and former Spanish territory of New constructing forty-five new ones, Mexico. Lamy's French training in 1869, Lamy began building the and culture were sometimes at magnificent Cathedral of St. odds with the prevalent Hispanic Francis in Santa Fe. In his later culture of the southwest. In 1868, years in Santa Fe, Lamy became Machebeuf became the first somewhat of an ecological pioneer bishop of Denver. in the region, especially known as

1 0 a gardener and a planter of trees. The Diocese of Columbus: The Paul Horgan notes the abundant History of Fifty Years: 1 8 6 8- fruit crop Lamy's gardens 1 9 1 8 [Columbus, 1918], which is a produced. compiled account of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, is Lamy died on February 13, 1888, useful for the most part, but some nearly forty years after b e g i n n i n g of its historical data are n o t his American church work in the reliable. Lamy's name is little village of Danville in eastern mentioned often as the pioneer Knox County, with an important priest for many of churches in stopover in the Licking County Knox and Holmes counties seat of Newark. A year later established in the mid-nineteenth Machebeuf died in Denver. century. The Sesquicentennial Book: 1842-1992 [ Newark, Anthony J. Lisska 1992] for St. Francis De Sales Denison University and Church provides a useful historical Granville Historical Society narrative of the foundation a n d development of the first Church. Note on Sources

The letters from Lamy used in t h i s article have been left in his original halting English with the occasional mis-spelling and grammatical error.

The best biography of Lamy is Paul Horgan's wonderful account, Lamy of Santa Fe [New York, 1975]. This book is highly recommended reading for a n y o n e interested in a general overview of religious life in the nineteenth century United States. Many of the letters quoted above are found in Horgan's book. William J. Howlett's Life of Joseph Machebeuf [Pueblo, CO, 1908] contains many letters from Machebeuf to his family in France. Horgan quotes quite freely from Lamy's Santa Fe Cathedral Built in a this cache of letters. Classical French Style However, some of the dates for might consult the author's article, the foundations of other churches "O'Daniel and Mulhane on the are incorrect. The Bulletin o f Second Oldest Church in Ohio," the Catholic Record Society Bulletin of the Catholic ]Columbus, 1975 ff.' is devoted to Record Society, ]Columbus, OH, publishing the history of the September and October, 1986]. Diocese of Columbus. The Ohio church communities Patrick W. Carey's The Roman mentioned in this article all Catholics [ Westport, CT, 1992[ survive today, with the exception contains a succinct biography of of St. Joseph's Church on Jug Street Lamy. James Hennesey's in Western Licking County. Of American Catholics [Oxford, course, newer physical structures 19811 notes the cultural have been built since Lamy's time difficulties Lamy and Machebeuf in Ohio. encountered in their dealings with the Hispanic Catholics in the American Southwest. Jay P. Dolan's The American Catholic Experience [Garden City, NY, BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE 1987] also suggests these cultural GRANVILLE HISTORICAL difficulties. SOCIETY

There is a veritable historical President Richard Daly squabble over the foundation date Vice President of St. Luke's in Danville. The Thomas?vlartin marker in front of the Church Secretary proclaims it is the second oldest John Senn Treasurer Catholic Church, founded in 1820. David Neel There is reliable historical evidence, however, that three TermEnds1999: other Roman Catholic churches Florence Hoffman Anthony Lisska were dedicated in Ohio before Richard Shiels 1820. Moreover, additional evidence suggests that St. Luke's Term Ends1998: was dedicated in October, 1824; Robert Watson James Siegel this makes the church the seventh Maggie Brooks oldest in Ohio. Victor O'Daniel has established this order of the Term Ends1997 foundation of Roman Catholic Kevin Bennett Kay Koeninger Churches in Ohio. For an account Cynthia Court of this fascinating historical controversy, the interested r e a d e r

1 2 facility. She will be sorely missed; we wish Kay and her family well.

We appreciate the efforts of Cynthia Cort and John Kessler as they continue to push forward in upgrading our facilities and its service to our community.

Our Historical Society continues to add to its collection of enlarged From the President's Desk.... turn-of-the-century photographs of Granville scenes and lifestyles, The Granville Historical Society is thanks to the efforts and expertise absolutely delighted by the of former Board Member and acquisition of the Civil War Society Vice-President, Dan correspondence and sword of o n e Campbell. Many of these larger of Granville's native sons, William than life photos were on display Henry Harrison Avery [1840- during the Fourth of July 19171. W.H.H. Avery was a festivities at the Old Academy member of Company D of t h e Building. The ti mes were 113th Ohio volunteer Infantry different but the atmosphere a n d from Granville. This gift was ambiance captured in detail then made possible through t h e remain the same today. We trust generosity of the Avery Family that you had the opportunity to and the efforts of Thomas Avery visit the Academy Building and of California and our own view these glimpses of yesteryear. archivist, Flo Hoffman. When a properly secured display has been This fall, several exciting acquired, these fascinating a n d programs have been scheduled for valuable pieces of history will be your enjoyment. In September, featured in the Society's museum. we will hear from the authors of Celebrate 2005, a bicentennial Kay Koeninger and family will book now being developed soon depart for Yellow Springs, featuring the first 200 years of Ohio, where Kay's husband, Scott our Granville community. Later in Warren, has accepted a position as the fall, Tom Avery will be Dean of Students at Antioch visiting with us to tell us more College. Kay has done a about the life of William Henry tremendous job as m u s e u m Harrison Avery. Join us and bring curator and advancing a friend. opportunities for the community to visit our small but quality Dick Daly

1 3 The Bicentennial The Society plans to publish t h r e e Publication Project bound volumes drawn from many of these research projects in time /Society Vice-President, Torn Martin, for the Granville bicentennial in is chair of the committee discussing 2005. Volume One will consist of and implementing a substantive essays which will together publication project celebrating the two constitute a coherent history of hundredth anniversary of our village. the era. Authors already engaged Torn has kindly written the following for this project include Dr. Bradley account of this important society Lepper of the Ohio Historical project.] Society; Professor Richard Shiels of The Ohio State University-Newark The community of Granville will History Department; Dr. G. Wallace celebrate its bicentennial in t h e Chessman, Professor Emeritus of In year 2005. preparation, our History at Denison, Civil War society has commissioned a series expert Mr. Kevin Bennett of of local research projects. Granville, and Professors Donald Schilling and Jack Kirby of the The Society will aim for breadth. Denison University Department of Particular topics for research will History. highlight the cultural, economic, educational, political, religious, These essays may draw upon and and social history of the area. incorporate the findings of many They will include the Mound specific research projects. builders, the Welsh and the i mmigrants of more recent times Volume Two will include a in addition fo the party of New definitive bibliography of England migrants who arrived in Granville references, additional 1805. Particular attention will be essays of a topical nature, and given to groups and developments selected primary sources. Volume not covered in earlier histories. Three will consist of historical photographs, important maps, a n d Researchers will be asked to other graphic presentations. present their work in a variety of formats. Some will present The steering committee for this programs which will be open to projects consists of former the public. Some will publish Granville Historical Society articles in The Historical Times. Presidents Tony Stoneburner, Dick Still others will publish in Shiels, Torn Martin, and Rob Drake, pamphlet form or in appropriate along with Board of Management journals such as Ohio History or members Flo Hoffman, John Senn, Timeline. Maggie Brooks, and Tony Lisska.

1 4 Captain William H. H. Avery enlisted in Co. D, 113 '' Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was known as Granville's Own, in 1862 and served in Tennessee. Latend in the war he commanded Co. D, 42 U.S. Colored Infantry, in Georgia. The sword he is wearing in this 1865 photograph and the letters he wrote home during the war, have been presented to the Society by his great grandson, Thomas L. Avery.

From the Archives

Computerized Mailing Lists Annual Meeting in April

New Board of Management The annual meeting of the Society member, Cynthia Cort, is busy was held April 22 in the Old working at compiling a new and Academy Building. Elections were up to date computerized mailing held. Richard Daly is our new list for members of the Society. President and John Senn is o u r Cynthia's painstaking work should new Secretary. David Neel was provide for better mail re-elected as Treasurer and Tom communication with you, both Martin, former President, w a s through our general mailings and elected Vice-President. Dick for the bulk mailing of T h e Shiels returns to the Board and Historical Times. Cynthia Cort is a newly-elected Board Member. If you have questions about your mailing address, please contact Dick Mahard and Buck Sargent Cynthia in care of the Society. were named life Board members.

1 6 This i mportant project was Upcoming Events and inspired by Tony Stoneburner and Programs enthusiastically endorsed by the Granville Historical Society Board Dick Shiels and his Program of Management earlier this spring. Committee are planning the society presentations for the fall. It is the hope of the Board of The Summer Issue of T he Managers that many members of Historical Times will have more the Society will become involved information. with this fascinating project as our village prepares for its Kevin Bennett will again chair the bicentennial celebrations. If y o u Civil War Roundtable Program have documents and/or Committee. The last event of the photographs from Granville's Spring CWRT program was a history which you would be fascinating debate by Clarke willing to share with the Society, Wilhelm and Jamie Ryan on t h e please contact Tom Martin. proper historical status of General George McClellan. A large group For additional information, please of society members and visitors contact Tom Martin at 587-6631 attended this vigorous and lively [ Work] or 587-0504 (Home]. debate held in the Old Academy Building.

THIS IS THE Museum Open for SECOND ISSUE OF OUR Summer Hours TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR FOR THE HISTORICAL TIMES. Regular weekend hours again are being observed in the Society's We hope that the members Museum on East Broadway. If y o u of the Society have enjoyed our special have not visited recently, do stop expanded format. by to see the many marvelous exhibits in our lovely museum. Editorial Board Bring a Friend for a visit!

Flo Hoffman Maggie Brooks Cookie Shields Tony Lisska

Send comments, If you have not yet suggestions or queries to: renewed your Granville Historical Society The Granville Historical Society Membership for 1996, P.O. Box 129 please do so soon. Granville. OH 43023-0129

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