and rufus putnam said we have to preserve this. how do we preserve it or keep the developers from tearing it down? they decided to make it a community graveyard in cemetery and it worked. the first example that i know of in our country of historic preservation so they had history on their mind. and they had this ideal of education which was not easy and led once again by ephram cutler serving in the legislature for a long time toward the end he was in the senate. and communicating at that time back home in marietta and her name is sally. the second wife because the first wife died. and he tended to overwor overwork, except on sunday and then he was up in the legislature one day and was reading the bible one morning and contemplating somebody said you know what day this is cracks he said it sunday know it's not. he mistakenly thought it was sunday as a traditional ritual of recognition of the sabbath. otherwise he always worked. he succeeded what he attempted to do and very often he would pour out his anguish and frustration to his

working with one of washington's generals who was one of the original pioneers to go out, named rufus putnam and they were battling to stop this move to disband the rule and allow slavery. and the day of the vote ephraim cutler was deathly ill in bed in a boarding house near the legislature building. and putnam came to him. putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said you've got to get up out of bed because we're going to cast the vote today. and he said i can't. he said you've got to. so he did. some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. i found no proof of that. in any event, he got to the legislature. he gave a powerful speech, and he voted. and the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole northwest territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] >> and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [applause] >> people have said to me, if you had put this in a novel, your editor would say no, this would never happen in real life. it did happen in real life. and we should know about that and know about him and he's the one who did more than an

working with one of washington's generals who was one of the original pioneers to go out, named rufus putnamnd they were battling to stop this move to disband the rule and allow slavery. and the day of the vote ephraim