first established at Hudson. In 1880 it removed to Cleveland and its name was changed to Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. It was modeled after Yale. The relations of the Connecticut and Ohio institutions have continued close throughout the years, though there has been frequent admixture of elements drawn from other colleges and other states. Like Oberlin, Western Reserve has grown by leaps and bounds and with its affiliated institutions is one of the most important educational centers of the Middle West, and the pride of the city of Cleveland. Alike, then, in institutions and individuals Ohio shows today the effects of the New England leaven. These effects are more marked in certain sections than in others. Moreover, the influence of other streams of immigration is evident, often compelling adjustments and modifications in the forms in which the underlying democratic idea expressed itself. But broadly speaking Ohio is a part of the larger New England and Ohioans in plentiful numbers are in their main characteristics transplanted New Englanders. THE blood of those New England home missionaries was full of red republican bioplasts, and they refused to make the pilgrim polity geographical, for if it had holding power in the dark days of the old colony it certainly had cohesion enough for the Western Reserve. Therefore we reverence their spirit, and the qualities which builded even better than they knew. The temper of steel was in them and the tenderness of Christian love. These two qualities whenever they are linked together make heroic men and heroic women. They were few, but like the Spartans who held the Pass at Thermopylae, every man counted ten. . . . These full-freighted years of magnificent service and of consecrated life are builded into the kingdom of God, and therefore they abide. They are builded into us of Michigan, and therefore we could not forget them if we would-we would not if we could." ... REV. WILLIAM H. DAVIS, D. D., at a Jubilee Meeting in Jackson, Mich., May 19-22, 1892. CHAPTER V NEW ENGLAND AND MICHIGAN The story of Michigan's development constitutes another stirring chapter in the history of New England's outreach into the world. Today more furniture is manufactured in Grand Rapids than in any other place in the United States. The first cabinetmaker there came from Keene, N. H. The immense resources the state possessed in its lumber belts, mines, forests and farms began to be available as New Englanders along with other adventurous spirits from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio pushed through hitherto trackless woods, opened up trails and explored the waterways. The rival fur companies of early days were agreed in but one particular and that was in the intention to give Michigan territory an evil reputation as a country of morasses, malaria and pestilent diseases unfit for agriculture or even settlement by white men. Settlement would interfere with the fur business. So for many years pioneers from the East, thus rendered suspicious, hurried through Michigan to Indiana, Illinois and farther west. In due time, however, this prejudice was outgrown. The tide set |