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Albaugh, John W – Alden, George Adelbert

Albaugh, John W

actor, was born Sept. 30,1837, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he gained popularity in the play Louis XI; and since that time has been manager of the Holiday Street theater, and the lessee of the popular Albaugh Grand Opera House of Washington, D. C. He is also the possessor of the most varied and extensive dramatic library in America.

Albert, John S

engineer, was born in 1835. He entered the navy in 1855 from New York, and was appointed chief engineer in 1861, in which capacity he served during the war with credit. He died July 3, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Albert, William J

merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1816, at Baltimore, Md. He was educated at St. Mary's college; was a merchant; retired from business in 1856, and was a presidential elector in 1864. He was subsequently interested in banking and manufactures, and was elected to the fortythird congress as a republican.

Albertson, Nathaniel

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from the first congressional district of Indiana from 1849 to 1851.

Albright, Andrew

inventor, was born June 23, 1831, in Dryden, N. Y. He is the inventor of rubber bound and set brushes, which his firm, the Rubber and Celluloid Harness Trimmings Company, manufacture; and also of a great part of the machinery used in manufacturing his inventions.

Albright, Charles J

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected from the state of Ohio as a representative to the thirty-fourth congress.

Albright, Jacob

clergyman, was born May 1, 1759, in Pottstown, Pa. Beginning a religious life in 1790, and being successful as an exhorter, he soon became a methodist minister. He made many converts, almost exclusively Germans, and in 1800 a separate church organization was created for them, Albright being their first presiding elder. He was appointed bishop in 1807. His denomination is now known as the evangelical association, but in many places its adherents are named Albrights. He died in 1808.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

educator, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Conn. He was a philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of greater interest than his writings. He was the author of Conversations with Children on the Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets; and New Connecticut, a poem. He died March 4, 1888, in Boston, Mass. He was the father of Louisa May Alcott.

Alcott, Louisa May

author, was born Nov. 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pa.

She was a writer whose books for young people have been widely popular. She served as a hospital nurse in Washington in 1862-63. She was the author of Little Women; Little Men; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs; Moods; Hospital Sketches, and A Modern Mephistopheles. The thoughtful poem, Thoreau's Flute, is her finest effort.

She died March 6, 1888, in Boston, Mass.

Alden, Emily Gillmore

educator, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Boston, Mass. She has taught in Castleton, Vt., and now has charge of the departments of history, rhetoric and English literature in the Monticello seminary of Godfrey, Ill. She is the author of numerous meritorious poems, and has contributed extensively to current literature.

Alden, George Adelbert

merchant, was born April 7, 1830, in Hope, Maine. He started a brokerage business in drugs and crude rubber, adopting the firm name of George A. Alden and Co. In 1878 his oldest son, Adelbert Henry Alden, then just of age, came into the concern as a partner. The firm now enjoy a large business in importing rubber, and have gradually come to deal in various other foreign products.