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all parties. On the expiration of his term he declined being a candidate for re-election. In June, 1822, he was appointed by the board of trustees secretary of the Miami university, which office he held until June, 1855, a term of thirty-three years, when he resigned. During a considerable portion of the time he was also superintendent of the college grounds and college buildings, the duties of which he discharged with fidelity and care. On Mr. Collins resigning the office of secretary, the board of trustees then in session, on the 28th of June, 1855, unanimously passed the following resolu

tion:

Resolved, That in consideration of the long and faithful services, and the great purity of character of our venerable secretary, Joel Collins, the president of this board cause to be prepared and presented to him a silver pitcher, with proper inscription, at our next annual meeting, the cost not to exceed thirty dollars.

The pitcher was prepared and presented as directed.

Joel Collins had a strong and muscular frame, well fitted to endure the hardships of a frontier life. In all the walks of private life, socially and politically, he was esteemed an honest man. In politics he was a whig of the old school. But even those opposed to him in politics, when speaking of him, would say: "Joel Collins is an honest man.' In the year 1833 he made a public profession of his belief in the truth of the

Bible and the Christian religion, and connected himself with a congregation of disciples called Reformed Baptists, and ever afterward continued to be a consistent member. He built a meeting house in the town of Oxford for that denomination of Christians.

Mr. Collins and Elizabeth, his wife, lived happily together for upward of fifty-eight years. They had no children. Mrs. Collins died at Oxford on the 1st day of August, 1855, aged seventy-seven years. Mr. Collins, on the 25th day of April, 1858, married Mrs. Mary Woodruff, a widow lady of Oxford, aged about sixty-five years. Although in extreme old age, Mr. Collins enjoys good health, and retains to a considerable degree the use of all his mental faculties. His memory, especially of the events of his youth, is clear and vivid, and he delights to look back to the farthest extremity of the long vista of his life, and recall the acts and incidents of his early years.

*Joel Collins died at Oxford, Ohio, on the 16th day of November, 1860, in the 89th year of his age.

APPENDIX.

Muster Roll of Captain Joel Collins' Volunteer Company of

Captain-Joel Collins.

Lieutenant-Ephraim Gard.

Ensign-John Hall.

Riflemen.

Sergeants-Jeremiah Gard, David Sutton, Joseph Haines, John Price. Corporals-Zachariah Parrish, Joseph Douglas, George Sutton, Jacob

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IV.

Isaac Anderson.

SAAC ANDERSON was long and favorably known

in Butler county, Ohio, having been a resident of county and state more than forty years. His life was an eventful one, and if written by an able hand would be interesting and instructive. He was born in the county Donegal, in the north of Ireland, September 15, 1758, and was the youngest of thirteen children. When about twelve years old both his parents died within a short time of each other, and there being no legal guardian appointed for him, he was left pretty much to his own control, and in after life was often heard to say, that until he arrived at near the age of fourteen he was a selfwilled and very rude boy. At that time, however, he resolved to reform, and at once became industrious and steady. He took to studying, and in two years acquired some proficiency in mathematics and made himself master of the art of surveying. He then, at the age of sixteen, determined to seek his fortune in America, at that time a colony of Great Britain. Accordingly he sailed from Donegal and landed at Philadelphia in the early part of the year 1774. During the passage he kept up

his mathematical studies by learning navigation under the tuition of the captain.

Several of his brothers and sisters had come to America some years previous, and settled in Virginia, where great numbers of their descendants are yet residing. Young Isaac did not choose to seek for them, preferring to rely upon his own exertions. Accordingly he stopped in Pennsylvania until the spring or summer of the year 1776, when, the war with Great Britain having commenced, he shouldered his knapsack and rifle and tendered his services to the country of his adoption. He was soon enrolled in Colonel Morgan's rifle regiment, and from that time was an active intrepid soldier of the Revolution to the end of the war.

General Schuyler, who had the command of the American army belonging to the Northern department, was superseded by General Gates on the 19th of August, 1777. The day after General Gates assumed the command, Colonel Morgan arrived with his corps, five hundred strong, to which were presently added two hundred and fifty picked men under Major Dearborn. This made the American army about six thousand strong, besides detached parties of militia under General Lincoln, which hung on the British rear. The first, or nearly first effective service in which Mr. Anderson was engaged, with the newly organized corps of Colonel Morgan, was at the battle of Bemis Heights, between the American army under the command of General

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