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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 413
department of Oberlin College, spending six years there in securing a
classical education. He graduated in the class of 1870 Avith the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, and two years later Master of Arts.
Immediately after leaving college he became connected Avith the
Register of Sandusky, of Avhich his older brother, I. F. Mack, Jr., was
editor. The tAvo brothers published the paper until 1909, when I. F.
Mack AvithdreAV from all active connection and retired. From that date
until Mr..John Mack's death, July 8, 1914, he edited and published the
Register.
Mr. Mack Avas one of six publishers of Ohio daily neAvspapers Avho
founded the Associated Ohio Dailies, November 5, 1885, the largest
state daily newspaper organization in the country. From 1889 until
his death he was president of that organization. In February, 1893, he
succeeded ex-President Hayes as trustee of the Ohio State University,
serving continuously on that board until his death. He was a member
of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Masonic lodge.
February 10, 1873, Mr. Mack married his classmate at Oberlin,
Flora Alice Davenport. Five children blessed their union—John D. and
Egbert II., of Sandusky; Mrs. Alice Ritchart Snyder, of NorAvalk; Mrs.
Ethel Beebe Blinn, of Evansville, Indiana; and Mrs. Penelope Cornelia
Stark, of Westfield, NCAV Jersey.
The editorial Avork of Mr. Mack at times Avas equal to that of any
metropolitan editor. His personality AA'as a pleasant one, and he left
behind him a record of achievement unusual for an editor of a paper
published in a small city, and of which his children may Avell be proud.
After the death of John T. Mack, his son, Egbert Mack, succeeded him
as editor and business manager, Avith the result that the Register has
progressed in several lines creditably under his management.
The Register of January 26, 1852, announces the destruction by fire
of the Clarion office, by Avhich fire the files of the Clarion Avere nearly all
consumed.
In the year 1868 the Register office Avas again visited by fire, Avhich
destroyed most of its files, so that the neAA-spaper records of Erie County
are much mutilated. For the benefit of future generations, it may be
stated that the Firelands Historical Society, of NorAvalk, has complete
files of the Clarion from 1824 to 1831, except 1827, said to be in the
possession of the family of Clarke Waggoner, of Toledo. In the Sandusky
Library there are several files of the Clarion prior to 1836, but not complete,
and then there are no knoAvn files of the paper until in the '40s,
when Mrs. Kate Thomas has several bound volumes between 1845 and
1852, part of the time the Clarion had for its head the picture of Sandusky
published in HoAve's First History of Ohio. There is a volume of
the Mirror of 1854 in the Sandusky Library, presented to it by the
author. There are no knoAvn files extant of the Sandusky Journal, or
the Journal and Local. The extant Register files begin on May 27, 1853,
continue to November 1, 1854, skip to 1862, include 1862 and 1863, and,
together with those in the library, are complete to the present time.
The Sandusky Journal Avas established as a daily and Aveekly in 1866