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McArthur, James R., Captain, 6th Ilinois Cavalry. Marshall, Thomas B., Ist Sergeant, K 83J Ohio.
Morton, Oliver P., Governor of Indiana; C. S. Senator. Miller, Benjamin F., F 3d; Lieutenant, C 35th Ohio. Murray, O. H., F 3d: Captain, I 5th Obio Cavalry.
-Miller, Frank E., 66tl: U. S. C. T.
Millikin, Minor, Col., Ist Oblo Cavalry; fell at Stone River. Moody, Stilman. Martindell, James K. P., A 86th ; Sergeant, I 167th Ohio. Morris, Aaron H., K SBth ; I 167th Ohio. Morrow, Jeremiah, A 86th Ohio; Porter's Fleet.
Mayo, Archibald, B 20th Ohio.
Mayo, Jolin W., B 20th Ohio. Mitchell, Claud. N., A S6th ; Ist Sergeant, K Soth Ohio. Morey, Henry Lee, Captain, 75th Ohio.
Moore, Thomas, Colonel, 16,th Obio.
Nayler, James M., Sergeant. I 81st Ohio. Owens, Jas. W., BE 20th ; Lieut., A. 86th; Capt., K SCth Ohio: Oldfather, Jeremiah M., H 93d Ohio, Olds, William W., Captain, 46th Ohio; fell at Port Gibson. Peck, George B., Assistant Surgeon.
Peck, Morris, A 86th Ohio, Peck, Hiram D., A Soth Ohio.
Porter, Wm. L., Major, staff of Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas. Patterson, Jolin H., A 131st Ohio.
Parshall, J. M., 146th Ohio.
Parrish, O V., A 167th Ohio.
Platter, Cornelius C., D Sist Ohio; Capt., Gen. Hazen's staff. Rees, Clayton S., Sergeant, A 86th Ohio. Rowan, Alexander II., A 86th Ohio.
Rabb, George J., A 86th Ohio. Ryan, Michael C., Colone !. 50thi Ohio.
Reid J. Whitelaw, Captain. -
Rankin, William, K 37th Indiana.
Runkle, Benjamin P., Colonel, 45th U. S. Infantry. Rodgers, Andrew W., Colonel, Sist Illinois.
Rodgers, J. Harrison, Surgeon. Roberts, George W., B 20th Ohio. Schenck, Robert C., Major-general Volunteers; M. C. Smith. Samuel M., Surgeon-general State of Ohio. Seoby, John S., A 68th Indiana ; Colonel. Strong, Hiram, Colonel, 934 Ohio. Scott, John N., Major, 79th Indiana; U. S. Paymaster. Smith, Joseph C., E 5th Ohio Cavahy ; Mejor. Sidler, WiDiata K . Surgeon, 19th Kentucky. Smith, John B., Chaplain, 19th Net. Vol. and 69th Ohio. Swan, Benjamin C., Chaplain, 151st Illinois. Snow, David B., 21 Sergegat, K Su Oloo. Seriver, Edison M., A U4th Ohio. Smith, Palmer W., A 167th Ohio.
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Smith, Josiah, C 93d Ohio.
Smith, Ransford, B 35th Ohio; Capt. on staff of Gen. McCook. Sinith, William H., Jr., U. S. Navy.
Sheely, Virgil G., A 86th Ohio. Shuey, William II., A S6th Ohio. Shuey, Alfred M., A 167th Ohio.
Secrist, Jolm H., A 86th, K 86th Ohio; Lieut., Ind. Vol .; felt at Nashville.
, Shepherd, John H., B 20th Ohio.
Stewart, James E., Captain, A 167th Ohio.
Sheppard, Samuel C., 4th Cavalry ; A 167th Ohio.
Schenck, John S., A 86th Ohio.
Sloan, William G., B 20th; D 47th Ohio.
Simpson, George W., D 47th Ohio.
Steele, John W., E 15th, A 60th; Ist Sergeant, K SSth Ohio. Spence, Colin, Assistant Surgeon, SSta Ohio.
Scott, Henry, Capt., Brevet-major, 70th Indiana, 3d div. A. C. Stokes, H. M., B 146th Ohio.
Schenck, Robert C., Jr., B 146th Ohio.
Skinner, Charies M., K 157th Ohio. Stemble. Roger N., Captain Gunboat, U. S. Navy.
Thomas, Webster, Captain, E 47th Obio.
Thomas, Waiter S., Miss. Squadron, Acting Master's Mate. Taylor, Edward L., Captain. D 95th Ohio.
Taylor, Henry C., A SCth Ohio.
Thurston, Gates P., Major U. S. Volunteers.
Thurstor, Dickinson P., Captain.
Todd, David W., Lieut., H. 86th; Lient. Col., 134th Ohio.
Tuttle, Joel, Lieutenant, 7th Iowa.
Woodruff, Thomas J., A 86th; I 167th Ohio.
Warren, Charles, Surgeon.
Wright, John M., A 86th Ohio ; 135th Indiana.
Wright, Irwin B., B 20th Ohio; Lientenant, 11th C. S. I.
Whiteside, John A., B 86th Ohio.
Wilson, Joseph M., B 20th; C 81st Ohio.
Williams, Edward P., Captain. 100th Indiana.
Ward, J. Darbin, Brigadier-general Volanteers. Woods, John, Chaplain, 35th Ohio. Walton, Allen M., Assistant Surgeon, 86th Indiana. Williams, Henry.
Wright, Edward M. Woodhull, Max. V. Z., Colonel on Staff.
Whitaker, James S., Assistant Surgeon.
Welty, Philip II., Ist Lieutenant, I 167th Ohio.
Yates, Richard, Governor of Illinois.
Yaryan, J. Lee, Captain, General Wood's staff. Zeller, Jacob A., A 167th Ohio.
The university is situated in the eastern part of the mile square appropriated for the town of Oxford. The situation is elevated, descending by a graded slope front the college building in all directions, except on the west, next to the town, with which it is on a level. The edi- fices at present creeted for the use of the college are three. They consist of the main building, which is sixty feet front and eighty-six feet deep and three stories high, fronting the south and north. The fronts are finished with pediments, having a venetian door in the south front, with venetian windows in the stories above. The stories are over eighteen feet high in the clear. A hall ur passage, thirteen feet wide in the clear, runs from east to west through the building, and a passage twelve fect wide runs from the south front door to the middle hall.
The north part of the lower story of the building is un- divided, and was fitted up for a chapel. It is now used as a chemical room and as a museum. The rest of the building is divided into spacious rooms. The chapel is on the second floor in the new wing. Adjoining on the west was the old building first erected, forming part of a wing. There is now a new and large wing here, erected in 1868. The design of the whole, according to the plan, when completed, is to have wings of eighty feet in length on the east and west of the main building, which makes the whole two hundred and twenty feet in length. The center hall or passage is designed to extend from enst to west the whole length of the wings. which are to he suh- divided into rooms for the accommodation of students.
In 1829 another building was completed for the pur- poses of the institution. It stands east of the main build- ing and distant about two hundred feet therefrom. The intention was that fire might not be communicatedi from one building to the other. It was called the north-east build- ing, and is one hundred feet in length by forty feet wide and three stories high. It is divided by two holis run- ning from east to west through the building, and divided into rooms for study and lodging rooms for the students.
In 1836 another cdifice was erected and completed. called the south-east building. It is situated south and on a line with the building last mentioned. It is one hundred feet long, forty feet wide and three stories high. There is a hall running from the north to the south through the whole length of the building, and the building is divided into rooms of a suitable size for the accommodation of students. These buildings are all substantially built of brick and well calculated for the purposes which they are intended. There is also a brick buliding south-west of the main building erected for the purposes of a laboratory.
The college square is beautiful. About twenty acres of the eastern part of the college grounds yet remain in a state of nature. It is a delightful grove, shaded by the native growth, covered with a grassy carpeting, and is neatly cleared of all that would disfigure its beauty. In this grove, when the weather was pleasant, were held the commencement exercises, and for the students it afforded a delightful promenade for recreation as well as retire- ment. " The cupola on the top of the main college build- ing is elevated one hundred feet above the ground, from which is presented a beautiful and picturesque vien of the surrounding country. Near at hand con be distinctly traced the course of' Pour-mile Creck, a limpid stream which meanders its serpentine course around the base of the hill and through the valley, along which can dis- tinctly be traced the gentle elevations of the hills for a long distance either way.
Looking around the eye surveys a large extent of beautiful country doited with its felds and farm houses, and as the view widens the largest of those seem in the distance mere garden spots and inconsiderable -packs upon the landscape. Looking to the east, the eye, extending
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its view, takes in its farthest range the hills along the great Miami River, whose woodland summits present to the observer a blue streak, delicately tinged and appar- ently elevated but a few inches above the intervening landscape as they grow dinner and still more dim, until they fade entirely in the extent.
The libraries belonging to the literary societies were united with the college library, and placed in one room. It comprises about ten thousand volumes, in almost every variety of literature and science, both ancient and modern. Some of the books are old and very rare and curious. It contains all the principal standard works, and, particularly, the circle of history is very complete. A fund was ap- propriated by the trustees for the annual increase of the library, which was open to the students, under certain regulations. It has received of late a large number of documents.
In the year 1825 the Board of Trustees caused to be purchased in London a philosophical apparatus which cost about one thousand dollars, which was deposited in the college, since which time various appropriations have, from time to time, been made for the purpose of purchasing additional chemieal, mathematical, and philosophical ap- paratus.
In the year 1848 the trustees purchased from David Christy a geological cabinet, for which they paid $2,222. . These specimens, added to a small collection before pos- sessed by the college, were scientifically arranged, and inelosed in glass cases, in a very tasteful manner, which afford the means of a very complete exhibition of the sub- jects of geology and mineralogy. They have lately been arranged, and large additions made to them by Professor Osborn.
Literary societies have been formed and organized, belonging to the Miami University. The Erodelphian Society was organized in September, 1825, having for its professed object the cultivation of seienee, eloquence, and friendship. The members were all students of Miami University.
They occupied a large room in the third story of the main college building, exelusively for their own use, where they -held their meeting's. The room was fitted up in handsome style, and kept at all times neat and clean. The floor was covered with a earpet. On the east was an elevated stand, for the presiding officer of the meetings, and tables and desks for the secretaries. On the opposite side of the room was formerly their library, tastefully arranged on shelves, surmounted by a handsome eornice, and supported by Corinthian columns. The whole was arranged in a style of neatness and elegance rarely sur- passed. The members of the society met regularly ouce every week during the college session, and spent from three to five hours in the investigation of subjects which have a bearing on the business of active life.
The Erodelphian Society of Miami University was in- corporated by an act passed by the Legislature of the
1 State of Ohio, on the third day of February, 1831. The society holds its anniversary on the day preceding the annual commencement of the college, at which time an address is delivered by some individual of distinguished talents, who had previously been invited by the society.
The Miami Union Literary Society had objects similar to that of the Erodelphian Society, and was, in like man- ner, composed of members who were students in the Miami University. They had also a room in the third story of the main eollege building, fitted ap with the same care and neatness as that of the other society. Over the chair- man's stand was a portrait, presenting a good likeness, of the Rev. Robert H. Bishop, president of the university. The library which belonged to the society has been united with the college library. They had eases in their room containing a valuable cabinet of minerals, geological specimens, and natural curiositics.
The society was originally kuown as the Union Literary Society, but another society sprang up, which maintained au existence for several years. As the university, how- ever, was not large enough to support three societies, the Union and the Miami finally consolidated under the name of Miami Union.
The last inceting of the trustees of the Miami Uni- versity was hell ou the 15th of Jane, 1881, with the president, John W. Herron, in the chair. The members present were : William Beckett, Hamilton: Colone! John G. Lowe, Dayton; David W. McClung, Nelson Sayler, John B. Peaslee, Rev. B. W. Chidlaw, Samuel F. Hunt. H. W. Hughes, Cincinnati; John M. Millikin, James E. Neal, Hamilton ; J. MeLain Smith, Dayton; Dr. G. W. Keely, L. N. Bonham, Oxford.
Professor R. H. Bishop, secretary, was re-elected, as were S. C. Richey treasurer, and P. D. Matson collecter. The treasurer made the following report:
Amount invested at S per cent, . . . . . $26,950 00
Received for rent on lands, . . $5.838 22 Received for interest on loans. . 1.655 50 Received for loans refunded, . . 1.055 (0) Received for various other goods, 872 75
Cash in treasury June, 1880, . .
$9,382 27
1.353 37
$10,755 5-4 Paid out to Finance Committee, $1,000 00 Paid ont for incidentals, . 2,520 07
Cash in treasury Jane 15, 1881, . . . $4,206 57
The following distinguished persons are graduate, of Miami University :
GOVERNORS.
J. J. McRae, class of 1834. Alabama.
William Dennison, 1835, Ohio.
R. P. Lowe, 1529, lowa. Charles Anderson, 1833, Ohio. PRESIDENTS OF COLLEGES
W. F. Ferguson, class of 1528, Macon College. Illineis. Freeman G. Cary, 1831, Farmers' College, Ohio.
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T. E. Thomas, 1834, Sonthi Hanover College, Indiana.
D. A. Wallace, 1846, Monmouth College. Illinois. Samuel S. Laws, 1845, University of Missouri.
PROFESSORS IN COLLEGES.
J. P. Pressly, class of 1826, Erskine College, South Carolina.
J. H. Harvey, 1827, Indiana University.
G. B. Bishop, 1828, Hanover Theological Seminary, Indiana. J. A. Matson, 1828, Asbury University.
J. I. Morrison, 1828, Indiana University.
T. Armstrong, 1830, Miami University.
E. N. Elliott, 1830, Planters' College, Port Gibson, Mississippi.
R. H. Bishop, 1831, Miami University.
S. W. MoCracken, 1831, Miami University.
Samuel Galloway, 1833, South Hanover College, Indiana.
J. M. Stone, 1834, Hanover College and University of Iowa.
C. N. Olds, 1836, Miami University.
S. M. Smith, 1836, Darling Medical Institute.
C. L. Telford, 1836, Cincinnati College.
E. B. Stevens, 1843, Medical College, Cincinnati.
T. D. Morrison, 1846, Monmouth College, Illinois.
J. C. Hutchison, 1856, Monmouth College, Illinois.
J. A. P. MeGaw, 1856, Monmouth College, Illinois.
David Steele, 1857, Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, Phila- delphia.
R. C. Smith, 1837, Oglethorpe.
J. M. Young, 1837, Erskine College; South Carolina.
John Thompson, 1826, Wabash College, Indiana.
G. W. Gerard, 1868, Farmers' College, Ohio.
Among the graduates of this renowned institution are also the following eminent persons:
Robert C. Schenck, of Franklin, Ohio, class of 1527, lawyer, Member of Congress, general in the Union army, minister to court of St. James; still living.
William M. Thompson, 1828, preacher, missionary to Palestine, author of "The Land and book;" still living.
Samuel W. Parker, 1828, distinguished lawyer, of Conners- ville, Indiana; deceased.
William N. McClain, preacher, secretary American Coloniza- tion Society, Washington, D. C .; deccased.
William S. Groesbeck, lawyer and statesman, counsel for An- drew Johnson in his impeachment trial.
James J. Faran, editor and proprietor of Cincinnati Enquirer. Samuel F. Cary, temperance lecturer, candidate for Vice- president on Greenback ticket in 18: 6.
Joseph G. Monfort, president of Glendale Female College, and editor of Cincinnati Herald and Presbyter.
Benjamin W. Chidlaw, minister, general agent American Sunday-school Union.
Samuel Shellabarger, lawyer, Member of Congress, United States minister to Portugal, judge in Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.
Benjamin Harrison, United States Senator.
George Junkin, Junior, of Philadelphia, a distinguished lawyer.
Milton Sayler, Member of Congress.
David Swing, minister, Chicago.
John W. Herron, lawyer, Cincinnati, president Board of Trustees Miami University.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of New York Tribune.
James H. Brooks, Presbyterian minister, St. Louis.
Kev. J. P. E. Kumler, Presbyterian minister, Cincinnati.
Dr. John S. Billings, assistant United States surgeon, Wash- ington, D. C.
| George E. Pugh, lawyer, United States Senator; deceased. William B. Callwell, lawyer, judge Supreme Court of Ohio; deceased.
William M. Corry, lawyer, Cincinnati; deceased.
Governor Morton, of Indiana, and Governor Yates, of Illinois, also were in the university, but did not graduate. With Dennison of Ohio, these were the war governors of three of the Northern States.
The following students, from Butler County, have graduated from Miami University since its organization : # John MeMechan, M. D., Darrtown.
* George B. Bishop, professor of Oriental languages and Biblical literature, Theological Seminary, Hanover, Indiana.
# James Reity, minister from Texas to United States, Houston. Robert P. Brown, lawyer, Dayton.
Robert II. Bishop, professor of Latin, Miami University.
Marcus H. Brigham, lawyer. William R. Cochran, ex-probate-judge of Butler County. Ebenezer B. Bishop, professor at Trenton, Tennessee.
Lyman Harding, superintendent public schools, at Cin- cinnati.
* William C. Woods, lawyer. Hamilton.
# Thomas E. Thomas, minister in Presbyterian Church.
William C. Caldwell, judge, Supreme Court of Ohio. Lucius A. Brigham, lawyer.
Oliver S. Witherby, lawyer, San Diego, California.
Alfred Thomas, lawyer and clerk, Washington. D. C.
John M. Graham, minister, Monmouth, Illinois.
Thomas Millikin, lawyer, at Hamilton.
James W. Parks, lawyer. St. Charles, Missouri.
William P. Parks, minister, St. Louis, Missouri.
# Francis D. Rigdou, physician, at ILunitou.
# Rufus K. Harris, Washington, D. C. John Riley Knox, lawyer, Greenville. Robert H. Parks, lawyer, St. Charles, Missouri.
# Michael C. Ryan, ex-clerk Common Pleas of Butler County. L. Orestes Smith, teacher, Lonisiane.
S. Taylor Marshali, lawyer, Keokuk, Iowa.
Robert W. Wilson, minister, Bloomington, Indiosa. William P. Young, lawyer, Hamilton.
George L. Andrew, physician, Laporte, Indiana.
John M. Bishop, minister. Bloomington.
John M. Jankin, physician. "Tercer County, Pennsylvania. James Long, teacher, Moumouth, Hinois. James A. I. Lowes, professor in Miami University.
John Ogle, lawyer, Fayette, Mississippi.
* R. L. Yates Peyton, lawyer, Harrisonville, Missouri. Benjamin Corey, physician, San Jose, California.
# Thomas Craven, minister, College Hill, Indiana. George Junkin, lawyer, Philadelphia.
* Daniel McCleary, lawyer, Hamilton.
$ James E. Tiffany, minister, Oxford. David S. Anderson, minister, Delta.
Jolin 'S. Ilittle, California. William Beckett, manufacturer, Hamilton.
$ Robert K. Long, physician, Americus, Indiana. $ Spencer C. Lyons. Oxford. William Shotwell, lawyer, Hamilton. Washington Fithiau, physician, Paris, Kentucky. Jacob W. Ogle, farmer, Terre Haute, Indiana.
[Those marked with an asterisk (*) are deceased .;
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Henry Taylor, merchant, Lafayette, Indiana. William Christy, editor, Jacksonville, Florida. Robert Christy, lawyer, Washington, D. C. William J. Mollyneaux, lawyer, Charleston, South Carolina. James Corry, physician. Santa Clara, California. James R. McArthur, teacher, Montezuna, Indiana. James N. Swan, minister, Glasgow.
* John J. Tiffany, minister. Urbana. Charles Waterinan, Lebanon.
Andrew M. Brooks, superintendent public schools, Spring- field, Illinois. Abner S. Lathrop, lawyer, Brazoria, Texas.
# Matthew Hueston, lawyer, deputy treasurer of Butler County.
John W. Lindley. John M. Trembly, physician, farmer, and mathematician.
Samuel B. Matthews, lawyer, Cincinnati. J. Knox Boude, physician, Carthage, Illinois.
# Isaac S. Lane, lawyer, Memphis, Tennessee. Lewis W. Ross, lawyer, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
J. Alexander Anderson, minister, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania.
P. Corey Conklin, lawyer, Hamilton.
Jeremiah P. E. Kumler, minister, Cincinnati.
Stephen Crane, lawyer, Hamilton.
George A. Howard.
David W. McClung, collector of customs, Cincinnati.
Frederick Maltby, farmer, St. Paul, Minnesota.
" Minor Millikin, colonel, First Ohio Cavalry.
# Isaac Anderson, farmer, Venice.
Andrew J. Corey, physician. California.
Ransford Smith, lawyer, Cincinnati.
Henry J. Lathrop, Chicago, Illinois.
Benjamin F. Miller, lawyer, Hamilton.
Jacob A. Zeller, superintendent public schools, Evansville, Indiana.
John S. Billings, assistant-surgeon, United States Army, Washington, D. C.
James P. Caldwell, teacher, Memphis, Tennessee.
Jamies Ferguson, physician, Camden, Ohio.
Benjamin F. Thomas, probate judge, Hamilton.
# Joel Tuttle, lawyer, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Robert F. Brooks, surgeon, United States Navy.
Edward A. Guy, Cincinnati. . Abn F. Jones, minister.
$ George M. I.ytle, Oxford.
# Charles B. Magill, minister. J. Barnes Patterson, minister, Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Frank H. Scobey, editor, Hamilton.
John B. Smith, president Farmers' College, College Hill. W. Mark Williams, minister in China.
Joseph Millikin, professor in Ohio Agricultural College, Columbus, Ohio.
John K. Brooks, Carthage, Missouri.
Palner W. Smith, lawyer, Oxford.
Thomas J. Woodrad; farmer, Oxford.
Heber Gill, Reading.
George W. MeCracken, Oxfordl.
* C. C. Holbrook, Oxford. George S. Bishop. lawyer, Jewell, Kansas. Henry H. Farr, Oxford. R. M. L. Huston, physician, Oxford.
John N. Wyman, lewyer, Topeka, Kansas. B. F. Davis, teacher, Hamilton, Ohio.
W DeCamp Hancock, physician, Millville.
James W. Moore, lawyer, Hamilton. James C. Oliver, Santa Barbara, California. W. H. Talbert, Venice. Nehemiah Wade, Jr., farmer, Venice. Edward N. Evans, United States collector.
# Harvey Lee, lawyer, Indianapolis. James M. McFarland, Topeka, Kansas. Joseph MeMakin, reporter Cincinnati Enquirer, Hamilton. W. V. Shafer, physician, Hamilton.
William Stewart, principal publie schools, Oxford, Ohio.
Matthew Wade, minister, Venice, Ohio. Philip G. Berry, lawyer, Hamilton.
William S. Giffen. lawyer, Hamilton.
Jeremiah M. Hunt, physician, Trenton.
Frank F. Scott, farmer, Venicc.
John Marshall Van Dyke, physician, Mason, Ohio.
Elias R. Zeller, superintendent public schools, Burlington, Iowa.
R. H. Adams, principal Marion Academy, Marion, Kentucky.
S. L. Bishop, civil engineer, Kansas.
B. R. Finch, teacher, Oxford.
Thomas Fitzgerald, minister.
# Samuel Maltert, lawyer, Hamilton ..
Joseph C. Mckee, journalist, Indianapolis.
N. E. Warwick, lawyer, Hamilton.
Roger Williams, journalist, Paddy's Run.
A. A. Lovett, physician, Eaton, Ohio.
The following is a list of the faculty of the University:
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
APPOINTED. RESICMED.
1824 Rey. R. H. Bishop, D. D., 1841
1841 Rev. George Junkin, D. D., 1844
1844 Rev. John MeArthur [pro tem.]
1845 Rev. E. D. MeMaster, D. D ..
1549
1849 Rev. W. C. Anderson, D. D., 1:54
1854 O. N. Stoddard. A. M. [pro tem.]
1854 Rev. J. W. Hall, D. D., 1860
1866 Rov. R. L. Stanton, D. D., 1871
1872 Rev. A. D. Hepburn, 1873
PROFESSORS.
1824 John E. Annan, Mathematics and Nat. Phil., 1528
1824 William Sparrow, Languages, 1825
1825 William HI. MeGuffey, Linguages, 1832
1828 John W. Scott, Mathematics and Natural Science, 1832 1832 S. W. MeCracken, Mathematics, 1935
1832 Wm. FL. MeGuffey, Philology and Mental Science, 1536 1832 Thomas Armstrong, Languages, 1825
1832 John W. Scott, Natural Science, 1845
1885 S. W. MeCracken, Languages, 1837
1835 A. T. Bledsoe, Mathematics, 1836
1837 S. W. MeCracken, Mathematics, 1840
1837 John McArthur, Grecian Literature, 1849
1837 Chauncey N. Ols, Latin, 1840
1841 R. H. Bishop, D. D., History and Political Science, 1645 1841 J. C. Moffat, D. D .. Rom. Literature and Rhetoric, 1852 1841 John W. Armstrong. Mathematics,
1843 George Watterman, Jr., Mathematics, 1844
18445 Thomas J. Matthews, Mathematics, 1852
1845 O. N. Stoddard, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 1549 Charies Elliot, Grecian Literature and Logie,
1852 R. II. Bishop, Latin.
1852 T. A. Wylie, Mathematics,
1853 Charles Hruby, Modern Languages.
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PIONEERS AND SOLDIERS.
APPOINTED.
1853 R. W. MeFarland, Mathematics. 1858 J. C. Cristin, M. D., Modern Languages, jSG3 J. Y. McKer, Greek,
1860 Arthur Burtis, D. D., Greck [ pro tem.] S. H. McMullin, Greek. Caleb H. Carlton, Military Science. Joseph Millikin, Greek. Henry S. Osborn, LL. D., Natural Science. James D. Coleman, Greek.
PIONEERS AND SOLDIERS.
GENFRAL ANTHONY WAYNE.
GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the Ist of January, 1745. He was the son of an Irishman, who emigrated to this country in the year 1722, and afterward became a mem- ber of the provincial assembly and an officer in the various military expeditions which were fitted out against the Indians. After leaving school, in which his attention to the mathematical sciences was marked, Anthony Wayne became a surveyor. That calling he followed for a num- ber of years. devoting part of his time, however, to various county offices to which he had been chosen. Tu 1774 he was one of the provincial deputies who met in Philadelphia to deliberate upon the state of affairs, and was also a mem- ber of the convention and of the Legislature. In 1775 he was a member of the committee of safety. Before the close of that year he bad raised a regiment for im- mediate service, and, as its commander, he joined .Gen- eral Sullivan for duty in Canada. He was in the en- gagement of Three Rivers. He had command of five regiments at Ticonderoga and Mount Independence until May, 1777, when he joined General Washington, in New Jersey, and aided in driving the enemy ont of that State. He was defeated at Paoli, by a superior force, when in command, as brigadier-general, of fifteen hundred men. General Wayne led the attack of the American right wing at Germantown, and gave much efficient service to the American cause. He fought nobly at the battle of Moumouth. When Stony Point was to be captured, General Wayne was fixed upon by Washington as the proper man for the service, and be fulfilled the expecta- tions of his commander. The place was defended by six hundred meu and a strong battery of artillery. At mid- night he led his troops with unloaded muskets, Hints out, and fixed bayonets, and, without firing a single gun, carried the fort by storm, and took five hundred and forty-three prisoners. He was struck in the attack by a musket ball, in the head, and was supposed to have received a mortal wound. Hle called to his aids to carry hin forward and let him die in the fort. But he did not die. He recovered his health in time to take part in the Southern campaign in 1781. After the surrender of
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