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282 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
and great interest AA'as shown. Reverend Mr. Farr, Reverend Mr. Lehrer,
Reverend Mr. Coleman, Reverend Mr. Sturgiss, Reverend Father Marks
of Huron, Mr. U. T. Curran and Doctor Massey took part in the exercises,
and the Great Western Band, even as Ackley's band does IIOAV, gaA'c their
services gratuitously, furnishing excellent and appropriate music. The
clergy, 1o a man, urged the need of a hospital in Sandusky and enumerated
the benefits which would accrue from establishing such an institution,
the Reverend Mr. Lehrer's address being in German. Mr. Curran
spoke of the invakened interest of the people in the project and AA'as loud
in his praise of those fathering the enterprise. Doctor Massey gave an
interesting account of hospitals in large cities and their conduct, even
tracing the Avork of the European houses of healing from their founding
in the sixth century. In America the first hospital came into being fifty
years ago. The placing in the cornerstone of the tin box by Mr. Farr,
with its list of the national, state and municipal office-holders, the copies
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL, SANDUSKY
of the daily papers, and hospital documents, AVIIS folloAved by prayer and
the benediction, Avhich closed the services. In response to a call of all
those interested in the new hospital, forty ladies assembled, some fourteen
months after the laying of the cornerstone, and named an executive
committee, to devise ways and means to establish a free pharmacy at the
hospital, and also to aid in completing the building. This committee
included Mrs. John R. Miner. Mrs. John Zollinger, Mrs. W. A. Simpson,
Mrs. R. M. Wilcox, Mrs. J. Krontlial, Mrs. Sophia Xorris, Mrs. John L.
Moore and Mrs. Cornelia ('lemons. TAVO physicians of each school had
signified their Avillingness to attend, free of charge, to the compounding
of medicines and prescriptions in the proposed free pharmacy, tAvo
evenings of each week. Later, one person, presumably Mr. Keech. gave
the whole amount, $150, to establish the dispensary. The ladies comprising
the Hospital Aid Society immediately determined upon raising
$1,000 by forming a Century Club, each member of which was to
give $10, and the club to number 100 members. As soon as that Avas
accomplished, they planned a house-to-house canvass of the city, to accept