In the School Monthly, a meritorious publication, edited by the grammar school boys of Germantown, in aid of a fund to establish a public school library, we find the following anecdote of Wilson, the famous ornithologist and poet, in connection with the history of the Ellwood Public School:

"Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, taught from 1807 to 1808, when he was succeeded by his nephew, William Duncan, until January, 1809. when the Rev. John Bachman, from Rensselaer county. New York, a divinity student, by persuasion of Wilson taught the school one year. He afterward settled at Charleston, S. C, where he remained pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church fifty-five years, dying in 1867 at an advanced age. Wilson had a class in botany while he taught here; he also spent his leisure time with his pupils in collecting specimens, drawings of which were preserved for a long time among those he taught, some of which are still extant".