Famous Visitors

          While President Hayes was President (1877-1881) a mini Republican meeting was held here in Bucyrus, Presi­dent Hayes was a dinner guest of Jacob Scroggs and he spent the night in the southwest bedroom.

          Vice-president Dawes who was vice-president under President Coolidge from 1925-1929 was a law student classmate of Charles Scroggs. He also was a guest in this house. He stayed in the southwest bedroom also.

          The Historical Society is proud to have a dresser which was in the White House. In the southwest bed­room you will find a dresser that was used during the term of President James K. Polk 1845-1849. Our dresser was purchased by Ex-Governor Wilson Shannon, Ohio's gov­ernor from 1838-1844.  After his term, Gov. Shannon lived in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He moved West to become Gov­ernor of the Territory of Kan­sas in 1855. At that time Mrs. Josephine Metzger's maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, lived in St. Clairsville, and purchased the historic dresser at the Shan­non sale. The dresser was in­herited by Mrs. Metzger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Caldwell, who lived in Bucyrus in the frame house across from the Presbyterian Church where Mrs. Metzger was born. The dresser has been in Josephine Caldwell Metzger's possession until she gave it to the Historical Society.