186 PROCEEDINGS OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



eminent naturalists throughout the world, only to be univer- 

 sally accepted in the end. He founded the Cleveland Academy 

 of Science in 1845 and was its president for twenty years when 

 by vote of its members it became the Kirtland Society of Nat- 

 ural History. Dr. Kirtland was active in the improvement of 

 agriculture and horticulture and had great influence in matters 

 relating to them throughout the Northwest. He was one of 

 the early members of the National Academy of Sciences, having 

 been elected at its second meeting. He was a member of the 

 State Legislature for three terms and served without com- 

 pensation as examining surgeon for recruits during the civil 

 w^ar. Physically as well as intellectually. Dr. Kirtland was a big 

 man with broad sympathies, greatly beloved by all who knew 

 him. He died in Cleveland in 1877 in the eighty-fifth year of 

 his age. 



W. M. Mather, a lineal descendant of Richard Mather who 

 gave to New England and America that famous "brood" of 

 Mathers, deserves mention as the organizer and director of the 

 first geological survey of Ohio in 1837. Born in 1804, he was 

 graduated at the West Point Military Academy at the head of 

 his class in the then newly established department of chemistry 

 and mineralogy. While still an officer in the army he published 

 several papers on chemistry and geology in the American Jour- 

 nal of Science. A few years after the organization of the 

 geological survey of Ohio, he accepted an appointment as pro- 

 fessor of Natural Science in the Ohio University at Athens. In 

 1850 he resigned to accept an appointment as State Agricultural 

 Chemist and he was also for a time editor of the "Western 

 Agriculturist." He died in Columbus in 1859. 



Still another alumnus of the Military Academy at West 

 Point finds a place on our roll of pioneers in the person of Col. 

 Charles Whittlesey, who was born in Connecticut in the year 

 1808 and brought to Ohio at the age of five years by his parents 

 who settled in the small village of Tallmadge in Portage County. 

 He was a nephew of Elisha Whittlesey, member of Congress, 

 one of the many stalwart sons of Connecticut who gave to the 

 Western Reserve that flavor of New England which, after the 



