Which statue of a historic Ohioan should be sent to Washington to represent the state in the National Statuary Hall Collection?
Paul Brown from Massillon
Thomas Edison from Milan
Bob Hope from Cleveland
Dean Martin from Steubenville
Annie Oakley from from Greenville
Jesse Owens from Cleveland
The Wright Brothers from Dayton
Currently one of Ohio's two statues is William Allen a congressman and former Ohio Governor (?)
I read an article about it in the Columbus Dispatch. I'd never heard of Allen before... or why Allen is losing his spot. Other states have switched statues. Each state has 2 statues. President James Garfield is Ohio's other statue.
From the Cleveland.com blog:
Cleveland.com goes on to say:
"History hasn't been kind to former Ohio Gov. William Allen of Chillicothe. Political stands that he took in the 1800s -- backing slavery and criticizing Abraham Lincoln -- didn't exactly wear well with time.
Two years ago, a group of state legislators in Columbus decided that Allen's marble likeness should no longer represent Ohio in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall Collection, where each state contributes two sculptures of native sons and daughters."
The poll was first published yesterday on ColumbusBestBlog.com Jessie Owens from Cleveland is in the lead.... others I put on the poll based on the AP article in the Columbus Dispatch....who each have one vote each? Annie Oakley, The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison.
The committee selecting the statues has already been to visit Edison's birthplace.
Someone voted for General Willam Tecumseh Sherman from Lancaster Ohio on the "other button" poll on ColumbusBestBlog.com General Sherman of the Civil War?
An old, old NY Times article - November 3, 1885 dateline "Columbus" about William Allen's statue being added to the group. That article referred to William Allen as a former Governor of the Ohio.
Or should Allen remain? The Cleveland.com post says:
"Allen isn't the only figure in the collection who took political stances that weren't vindicated by history.
Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee are there, too, along with anti-evolution crusader William Jennings Bryan."
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In the interest of equal opportunity...non-sexual discrimination I vote for Annie...I got her costume as a "consolation prize"...make that consoling prize when my sister was born....red boots, fringed skirt and vest and hat with red chin string...how cooool was that ? She deserves a place somewhere...
I remember reading her biography as a kid.
There are actually a number of women on the list of statues, (not 50% mind you) one from Illinois, one from Minnesota. At first I thought you had to go further west to find women, noticed one in Washington, one in Colorado.
*I remember reading a biography as a kid of the woman who started kindergarten in the US... and it was in Columbus Ohio but I don't remember the womans name. I have seen trivia that the first kindergarten was in Columbus (German Village?) but not who she was.
Your outfit sounds lovely.
WI's statues are La Follette (may be spelled wong, fighting Bob) and Marquette. Marquette is probably one of the earliest and one of the most international.
Edit *Wikipedia says the first kindergarten was in Watertown WI
"The first kindergarten in the United States was founded in Watertown, Wisconsin by Margarethe (Meyer) Schurz (wife of activist/statesman Carl Schurz) in 1856. It was based on Fröbelite principles that she had learned about in Europe. Schurz’s older sister, Bertha Meyer Ronge, had opened "Infant Gardens" in London (1851), Manchester (1859), and Leeds1860). Margarethe Schurz initially taught five children in her home (including her own daughter, Agatha) in Watertown, Wisconsin. Her success drove her to offer her education to other children as well. While Schurz's first kindergarten was German-language, she also advocated the establishment of English-language kindergartens. She is credited with converting Elizabeth Peabody to the Fröbel philosophy at a meeting in Boston in 1859."
Kindergarten controversy...