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hunger and exposure, until finally he reached the union forces 

 in safety and was welcomed as one returned from the dead, for 

 he had been reported among the fallen. 



He was a member at large of the Mass. State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, 1859-61, and member ex-officio, 1867-79; presidential 

 elector and secretary of the electoral college, 1864; represen- 

 tative to the Legislature, 1864 (receiving every vote in the dis- 

 trict but seven), 1865, and 1867 ; president of the Hampshire Agri- 

 cultural Society, 1860, 1861, and 1870 ; trustee of Williston Sem- 

 inary, Easthampton, 1863-76, and president of the board, 1874- 

 76 ; was also a trustee and vice-president of trustees of Amherst 

 Academy several years, and first president of the Amherst Water 

 Company. Was one of a commission of three appointed in 1<S63 

 by Gov. Andrew to consider the expediency of establishing a 

 State Military Academy. Received the degree of LL.D. from 

 Amherst College in 1874. Fellow of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences ; member of the Mass. Horticultural, and New 

 England Agricultural Societies ; honorary member of the Mass. 

 Society for Promoting Agriculture, and resident member of the 

 New England Historic Genealogical Society. 



Author of the following papers in Liebig's Annalen : " Ueber 

 Chlomagnesium-Arnmoniak," 1851; "Analyse des Steinmarks 

 aus dem Siichsischen Topasfels," 1851 ; " Analysen von Meteor- 

 eisen," 1852. Contributed the following articles to the annual 

 reports of the Mass. State Board of Agriculture: "Report on 

 Horses," 1859-60; "Professional Education the Present Want 

 of Agriculture " ; " The Work and the Wants of the Agricultural 

 College," 1868 ; " The Cultivation of Cereals," 1868 ; " Nature's 

 Modes of Distributing Plants," 1870 ; " The Relations of Botany 

 to Agriculture," 1872 ; " The Circulation of Sap in Plants," 1873 ; 

 " Observations on the Phenomena of Plant Life," 1874 ; " Agri- 

 culture of Japan," 1878. Translated Prof. Scheerer's " Blowpipe 

 Manuel," 1869. Died from an affection of the heart, at Amherst, 

 9th March, 1886. He married, 25th May, 1853, Harrietta Keo- 

 puolani Richards, daughter of Rev. William Richards, and adopt- 

 ed daughter of Samuel Williston of Easthampton. Eight of their 

 eleven children are living, three sons having died iii infancy. 



SAMUEL FISHER MILLER, B. A., C. E., son of Rev. Moses and 

 Bethiah (Ware) Miller, was born 5th October, 1822, at Heath. 

 He prepared for college with his father. Entered Amherst Col- 



