Autobiography - Publications Societies of Which He Was Member

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14th Question: I was appointed Secretary of the Board of Canal Commissioners on the 8th of April 1833 and assumed the duties of the office at Columbus on the 4th of May following. The cholera appeared here in July of the same year. Here I performed certain duties in the office of the State Treasurer & was intrusted with the care of very large sums of money.
In 1835-6 I aided in securing the passage of a law authorising a geological survey of Ohio, was appointed one of the commissioners to report upon the best method of accomplishing it*; and in May I made a number of observations with the view; but my removal from the state prevents all further connection with that survey.

*See Newberry's Report on the Geol. of Ohio 1873 p. 1.