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2-34 Historic Hopedale / Clark Gable, "The King of Hollywood"

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Front Text: Platted by educator and abolitionist Cyrus McNeely in 1849, Hopedale was the site of McNeely Normal School, later Hopedale Normal College, the first coeducational college for teachers in eastern Ohio. It operated from 1849 to 1902. Among its graduates was George Armstrong Custer in 1856. Hopedale served as an important stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves fleeing bondage in the southern states. Local tradition notes several "stations" in the village, three at private homes and one at a hotel. Back Text: Born in Cadiz, Ohio, on February 1, 1901, William Clark Gable lived and attended school in Hopedale from 1903 to 1917. After several years as a stage actor he went to Hollywood, where he made sixty-seven movies in a remarkable career that spanned four decades. Gable won an Academy Award for It Happened One Night in 1934 but is best known for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 classic "Gone with the Wind." Gable joined the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and fought in Europe. He died in Los Angeles in 1960. His boyhood home is located 1/4 mile south on Mill Street.
Address: Mill Street/OH 151, Hopedale
Location: Just S of US 22 at the W corner of Mill Street and Lahm Drive
3-34 Franklin College, Alma Academy / Cornerstone of Civil Rights

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Front Text: One of Ohio's earliest colleges, Alma College (earlier known as Alma Academy) was founded in 1818 and became Franklin College in 1825. Its founders were primarily of Scots-Irish descent who had settled in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio and were of the Presbyterian faith. Many nineteenth-century national and international leaders attended this school, including 8 U.S. Senators, 9 U.S. Representatives, 32 State Legislators, and 2 Governors. Notables include John Bingham, author of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and chief prosecutor of President Abraham Lincoln's assassins; Civil War General George W. McCook; Ohio Supreme Court Justice John Welch; and Joseph Ray, publisher of the universally popular school text Ray's Arithmetic. The slavery question bitterly divided the school, and its enrollment declined in the years following the Civil War. Franklin College closed in 1921, and its charter was later transferred to Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. Back Text: John Bingham, Franklin College class of 1837, was the primary author of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment protects the privileges and immunities of American citizens and guarantees due process of law and equal protection. Bingham later wrote to Franklin College classmate and friend, Reverend Titus Basfield, a former slave, "In the Fourteenth Amendment I sought to obtain for all human beings, including the long oppressed members of your race, the precious rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This means due process of law whereby the judicial system must look benignly at a person's attempt to seek redress of wrong to his immortal rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Address: 187 N. Main Street, New Athens
Location: Franklin Museum
4-34 Mary L. Jobe Akeley / Harry F. Hazlett

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Front Text: Mary Leonore Jobe was born on January 29, 1878, near Tappan, Harrison County, Ohio. She earned a bachelor's degree from Scio College and master's degree from Columbia University. While studying, she began a life-long career of exploration and natural history investigation. She first explored areas of British Columbia, Canada in 1905 and in 1916 started Camp Mystic, a summer camp in Connecticut for girls. She married explorer Carl E. Akeley in 1924 and completed an expedition to Africa when Carl died in the Belgian Congo in 1926. Honors include the naming of Mount Jobe in Canada to recognize her achievements and Belgium awarding her the Cross of the Knight, Order of the Crown, for her work in the Belgian Congo. She is known for her books and contributions to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She died on July 19, 1966, and is buried in Deersville. Back Text: Major General Harry F. Hazlett was born in Deersville on April 17, 1884. His military career spanned three decades, beginning in 1916 in the Mexican Border War. He served overseas in World War I as a machine gun officer, earning the Belgian War Cross for bravery in action. After the war, he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at both the University of Akron and the University of Dayton. During World War II he served as chief of staff of the Replacement and School Command of the Army ground forces until 1946 and went on to serve as Post Commander at Yokohama, Japan until 1947. After retiring from the military, he lived in California.
Address: Main Street, across from the Deersville United Methodist Church, Deersville
Location: At street marked as the Patterson Union Cemetery Entrance

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2-34 Historic Hopedale / Clark Gable, "The King of Hollywood"

3-34 Franklin College, Alma Academy / Cornerstone of Civil Rights

4-34 Mary L. Jobe Akeley / Harry F. Hazlett

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