Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — The Oldest Author. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest Author.

Rev. W. K. Gleig, of England, was one of the warmest friends of the second Dnke of Wellington, recently deceased. Mr. Gleig is almost a nonagenarian, and is the oldest living antnor who still wields a pen. “He was present at the battle of New Orleans in 1815, 3 says Labonchere in Truth, “and saw Gen. Fakenham killed, and some of the picked regiments of the British army defeated by Gen. Andrew Jackson and a few American backwoodsmen. Mr. Gleig, who subsequently took orders and became Chaplain General, wroted a spirited description in his ‘Subaltern’ of the engagement at New Orleans, and, having started as an

author in 1815, has quite lately contributed an article to Blackwood's Magazine. His mind and mempry are still entirely unshaken. He was a great favorite with the Iron Duke.”— Philadelphia Inquirer.