RIDPATH, JOHN CLARK: 1841-1900. Despite the fact that his amazingly voluminous output occasionally included hack work of the most obvious sort, the contribution which John Clark Ridpath made to the diffusion of knowledge in the U. In the Nineteenth century was of great importance. Born on a farm in Putnam County, Ind., on Apr. 26, 1841 (some sources give 1840), he attended local schools and graduated from Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University in 1863. He received the A.M. From the same institution in 1866 and, in 1880, an honorary LL.D.

From Syracuse University. 22, 1862, he married Hannah R. Smythe and, after receiving his degree the following spring, took up teaching. He taught in the Boone County (Ind.) Academy, was superintendent of the Lawrenceburg schools for three years and, in 1869, returned to Greencastle as a member of the Asbury Institute faculty, which he continued to serve variously as professor of English literature, belles lettres, history and political science, and as vice-president, until 1885. It was Ridpath who secured for Asbury the De Pauw endowment which put the institution on a firm financial basis and which resulted in the changing of its name.

Besides his work as an educator, administrator and writer, Ridpath spent a year (1897-98) as editor of THE ARENA, a Boston periodical, contributed largely to the press and was for some time literary director of the Jones Brothers Publishing Company. He died on July 31, 1900. Textbooks are omitted from the list of his works. Information from the Greencastle Public Library; Who's Who in America; De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920; American Authors, 1600-1900; and Parker and Heiney– Poets and Poetry of Indiana. • History of the U. Prepared Especially for Children. Philadelphia, 1874.

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BIRTH AND ANCESTRY. Genius delights in hatching her offspring in out-of-the-way places.— Irving. • When some great work is waiting to be done, • And Destiny ransacks the city for a man • To do it; finding none therein, she turns • To the fecundity of Nature's woods, • And there, beside some Western hill or stream, • She enters a rude cabin unannounced, • And ere the rough frontiersman from his toil, • Where all day long he hews the thickets down, • Returns at evening, she salutes his wife, • His fair young wife, and says, Behold!

Thou art • The Mother of the Future!— Anonymous. MEN, like books, have their beginnings. James Abram Garfield was born on the 19th day of November, 1831. His outlook upon things was from a cabin door in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The building was of rough logs, with mud between the cracks, to keep out the winter cold.