In 1848 Horace Mann was elected to Congress to fill the unexpired vacancy caused by the death of John Quincy Adams. Four years later he became president of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and here he died on the second day of August in the year 1859, at the age of sixty three.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=whRQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA728 Presbyterian Banner, Volume 89]</ref> | In 1848 Horace Mann was elected to Congress to fill the unexpired vacancy caused by the death of John Quincy Adams. Four years later he became president of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and here he died on the second day of August in the year 1859, at the age of sixty three.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=whRQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA728 Presbyterian Banner, Volume 89]</ref> |