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presented to Museums, he left some four thousand specimens 

 which were purchased by the German Wallace College at Berea, 

 consisting of fishes, numbering 27O' specimens, Corals 2300, 

 favosites 150 large pieces, blastoids 250 specimens, bryozoa 400, 

 f,pongia 40, pelecypoda 40 species, brachiopoda 200 species, and 

 about 100 genera of crinoids, besides an excellent complete 

 specunent of Sphaerexochus romingeri, which as far as known is 

 the only complete specimen in existence. 



He married Miss Pauline Seiherlich of Waterloo, Michigan, 

 in 1859 who died November 3, 191 1. 



Some years agO' he received a stroke of apoplexy and upon 

 the death of his wife, heart trouble followed which ended his life 

 May 26, 1912. 



W. N. Speckman. 



German Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. 



DR. H. L. TRUE. 



The sad news reached McConnelsville Tuesday morning, 

 October 22nd, that Dr. H. L. True of this place had passed 

 away at Grant Hospital, Columbus, at 5 :30 o'clock. 



Hiram L. True was born in Athens County, Ohio, June 4, 

 1845 and received his literary education at Weethee College, in 

 that county, and at a Chillicothe Commercial school. His medical 

 education was obtained at the Eclectic Medical College, of Cin- 

 cinnati, which he attended in 1869 and 1870, and where he be- 

 came acquainted with his present wife. 



When the civil war broke out young True was not old 

 enough to enlist, but June 28, 1863, enlisted for six month in -the 

 169th Regiment, Co. A. He has always been loyal to the local 

 Post and loved by all the boys. 



When the Morgan County Scientific and Historical Society 

 was established here several years ago, who but Dr. True could 

 be its president ? He has given to the Society the very best of his 

 thought and research. As he rode over the country, he was a 

 part of nature. No flower, shrub, plant, grass, weed, leaf, fruit- 



