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Addicks, George B – Adrain, Robert

Addicks, George B

clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 9, 1854, in Hampton, Ill. For many years he was professor of German language and literature in the Iowa Wesleyan university of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; and subsequently became president of the Central Wesleyan college and clergyman of the German methodist episcopal church of Warrenton, Mo.

Addis, Emmerson W

journalist, state legislator, was born Oct. 13, 1853, in Litchfield, Conn. He is the editor of The Standard of Brewster, N. Y.; has been postmaster, justice and trustee of Brewster; and in 1895 was elected a member of the New York state assembly.

He was re-elected in 1897, and has taken an active part on various committees.

Ade, George

journalist, author, was born in 1866 in Illinois. He is a successful Chicago journalist; and the author of Artie, a Story of the Streets and Town.

Adee, Alvey A

public official, diplomatist, was born Nov. 27, 1842, in Astoria, N. Y. He was educated by private tutors; studied civil engineering; and was secretary of the American legation at Madrid, Spain, from 1870 to 1877. In 1877 he was transferred to the department of state at Washington; in 1878 became chief of the diplomatic division of that department; and in 1882 was appointed third assistant secretary of state.

Adee, David Graham

lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 31, 1837, in Chelsea, Mass. He was United States commissioner to Sandwich islands in 1883; during the war he was military secretary on staff duty, and has practiced law in New York ten years. He is the author of the novel No. 19 State Street, and is still largely engaged in literary work. The poems of this great jurist have appeared in the leading daily newspapers of America, and in current magazines.

Adgate, Asa

legislator, congressman. He was a representative in the legislature of New York from Clinton county from 1798 to 1799; was a representative in congress from Essex county from 1815 to 1817; and was again a member of the legislature in 1823.

Adkinson, Mary Osburn

temperance reformer, was born July 28, 1843, in Rush county, Ind. She is the wife of the Rev. L. G. Adkinson, the president of the New Orleans university. She took a leading part in the organization of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of Madison, Ind.; and was four times unanimously elected its president. She has been superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance union in the state of Louisiana; and is also matron in the New Orleans university.

Adler, Felix

reformer, author, was born Aug. 13, 1851, in Germany. He is an ethical reformer of New York city; and the author of Creed and Deed; and The Moral Instruction of Children.

Adler, Georg

philologist, author, was born in 1821, in Germany. He was a philologist of New York city; and was the author of a valuable German and English dictionary and other educational works. He died Aug. 24, 1868, in New York city.

Adrain, Garnett B

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1816, in New York city. He graduated from Rutgers college in 1833; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He was a representative from New Jersey in the thirtyfifth congress; and was also elected a member of the thirty-sixth congress. In 1861 he offered the resolution of thanks to Major Robert Anderson for his defense of Fort Sumter. He died Aug. 17, 1878, in New Brunswick. N. J.

Adrain, Robert

lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 17, 1853, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was elected president of the senate of New Jersey in 1891, and successively re-elected in 1892 and 1893. He was appointed prosecutor of the pleas of Middlesex county in 1890, and continued to hold the position for several years.