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156 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS Johns Hopkins university. He was made com mander of the military order of the Loyal legion, the first president of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, and president of the 23rd regiment Ohio Volunteers association. Much of his time was devoted to benevolent and useful enterprises. He was president of the trustees of the John F. Slater education-fund, one of the trustees of the Peabody education fund, president of the National prison-reform association, an active member of the National conference of corrections and charities, a trustee of the Western Reserve university at Cleve land, Ohio, of the Wesleyan university of Dela ware, Ohio, of Mount Union college, at Alliance, Ohio, and of several other charitable and educa tional institutions. On the occasion of a meeting of the National prison-reform association, held at Atlanta, Ga., in November, 1886, he was received with much popular enthusiasm, and greeted by an ex-governor of Georgia as one to whom, more than to any other, the people were indebted for the era of peace and union which they now enjoyed, and by the governor, Gen. John B. Gordon, as the man who had "made a true and noble effort to complete the restoration of the Union by restoring fraternal feeling between the estranged sections. * Thus he devoted the last years of his life to dignified occupations and endeavors, mostly of a philanthropic character, which were congenial to