from those required in the same positions in other colleges. Here he was called on not only to organize and harmonize a staff of professors for the educational department of the college, but there devolved on him also the organization of what may be termed a "household staff" of officers-ladies and gentlemen-whose duties were the care of pupils when not engaged in school. It was also his duty to officiate in all the religious and devotional exercises of the institution, as the will of Stephen Girard, the founder of the college, prohibited the admission of clergymen within its pale. No sectarian teachings were to be introduced, and the minds of the pupils were to be kept free from denominational bias, so that when they should leave the institution by reason of their advanced age and education, they could better choose the creed which they would adopt for the future. Thus it will be seen, that there devolved on him the supervision of the school, the home, and the moral training of about five hundred boys. It was a great task, when it is considered that they embraced those ranging from the tender age of eight years to the active and impulsive youth of seventeen. How well and admirably he performed his manifold duties, how complete the satisfaction of the Directors, his long continuance in office testifies, and how well he has succeeded in gaining and keeping the respect and esteem of the numerous professors and officers of the institution is also proved by their many years of service under his administration. Last, but not least, the love and regard in which he is held by hundreds of the graduates of the institution, adds another link to the testimony, all going to show that in him the college has found a man equaled by very few and surpassed by none in his peculiar fitness for the position.

In December, 1862, he resigned the position which he had filled so acceptably for thirteen years, and retired to the walks of private life, taking up his abode on a farm on the banks of the Delaware, not far from the city. Here he remained for two years, when he received a call from the Pennsylvania Agricultural College to become its President; he accepted it, and continued in the position two years. In 1867, he was recalled to Girard College, thus receiving the most emphatic endorsement of the efficiency of his former administration. In religious belief he is a Methodist, and has been for many years a member of that church. He was honoured, in March, 1872, by being elected President of the American Bible Society, which position he continues to hold. In 1850, the year he was first inaugurated as President of Girard College, the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Union College, Schenectady, New York,

and also by Emory and Henry College of Virginia. He has been married four times. First, in 1836, to Martha, daughter of Bishop Richardson, of Toronto, Canada; his second wife was Ellen Honora Curtin, of Bellefonte, a sister of Governor Curtin; his third, Mary Quincy, of Boston; and his fourth and present wife was, at the time of her marriage, Mrs. Anna Maria Gemmill, the widow of one of Philadelphia's most successful and highly esteemed merchants.

JOSEPH CRAIN AUDENRIED,

ON of the Hon. William Audenried, and his wife, Jane M. Wills, was born at Pottsville, Penn., November 6th, 1839. His father was a member of the State Legislature from 1822 to 1824, and of the Senate of Pennsylvania from 1824 to 1828, during which period he originated the idea of a specific fund for the support of the common schools of the state, which only failed in being brought to a successful issue, from the fact that, to quote from the press of that day, “those associated with him had not the moral courage to adopt his suggestions or carry out his proposed reforms."

His grandfather, Lewis Audenried, came to America from the Republic of Switzerland, in 1789. On his maternal side he is descended from Robert Wallace, who came to America from the county of Londonderry, Ireland, before 1738, and settled on Swatara creek, then Lancaster, now Dauphin county, in 1738. This Robert Wallace, together with the Rev. William Bertram, Hugh Wilson, and others, received from the proprietors, Thomas and John Penn, a patent for one hundred acres of land, upon which they erected the church of Derry, the first Presbyterian Church in that part of the country. This patent is recorded at Harrisburg, and is dated July 18th,

1741.

At the death of Robert Wallace, in 1783, his plantation, as it was called, passed to his son James, who had married Sarah, a daughter of the Rev. John Elder, of Paxton and Derry Church. This James Wallace served in the Revolutionary army, was appointed, in 1807, one of the first Brigadier Generals under the new Militia law; was a member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, from 1806 to 1810, and of the Congress of the United States from 1815 to 1821.

When the Manor of Lowther, now in Cumberland county, was surveyed and divided into lots, in 1767, lot No. 4 was taken up by Moses Wallace, the eldest son of Robert Wallace, for which he paid to the proprietors, Thomas and John Penn, three hundred and eightyone pounds, ten shillings. The warrant for this was granted in 1771, and the patent in 1774.

Moses Wallace married Jean Fulton, daughter of Richard Fulton, of the township of Paxton, in the county of Lancaster. Moses Wallace was born in 1741, and died in 1803. Jean Fulton was born

in 1748, and died in 1786. They are both buried in the Paxton graveyard. Robert Wallace, born 1712, died 1783; and Mary, his wife, born 1721, died 1784, being buried in Derry Church graveyard. Out of several children born to Moses and Jean Wallace only one survived them, and this was Isabel, born 1776, who married Alexander Wills, the son of James and Mary Wills. In 1809, Alexander Wills was commissioned by Governor Snyder, as Justice of the Peace for Allen township, Cumberland county, and this office he held for nearly forty years.

They had three daughters, the eldest, Jane M., born June 8th, 1808, married the Hon. William Audenried, of Schuylkill county, Pa., the second, Rebecca Y., born January 23d, 1811, married Dr. Joseph Crain, son of Richard M. Crain, Esq., (a Captain in the War of 1812,) and grandson of Captain Ambrose Crain of the Revolutionary army. The third daughter, Caroline, born April 12th, 1817, married Dr. Matthew Semple, afterwards Professor of Chemistry in the Homœopathic College of Philadelphia.

From the marriage between Jane M. Wills and the Hon. William Audenried comes the subject of this sketch, who, in 1857, was appointed to the United States Military School at West Point, from the Congressional District of Pennsylvania embracing the counties of Cumberland, Perry and York. After a course of study of four years, he graduated at that institution June 24th, 1861, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the then Fourth, now First Cavalry, but afterwards he was commissioned as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Sixth Cavalry, the commission dating from June 24th, 1861. The following, taken from General Cullom's biographical history of the officers and graduates of West Point, Vol. II, will give his military record: "Served in the rebellion of the seceding States, 1861-1866; in drilling volunteers at Washington, D. C., June and July, 1861; in the Manasses campaign, of July, 1861; as Aide-deCamp to Brig. Genl. Daniel Tyler (second in command); being engaged in the action at Blackburn's Ford, July 18th, 1861; and battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861; in the defences of Washington, D. C., July, 1861, to March, 1862, being attached to the Second Artillery until December, 1861; as Adjutant of the Sixth United States Cavalry, December 1st, 1861, to July 21st, 1862, during which time he was detached in the Virginia Peninsular campaign (Army of the Potomac), as acting Assistant Adjutant General of the First Cavalry Brigade, from March, 1862, to July, 1862, being engaged in the siege of Yorktown, April 5th to May 4th, 1862; battle of Williamsburg, May 5th, 1862;