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Allanson, Edward G

poet, was born Nov. 11, 1863, in Elgin, Ill. He attended the Iowa Business college of Des Moines; has attained success as a writer; and is the author of several meritorious poems.

ALLEN, ALEXANDER VIETS GRIS- WOLD, educator, clergyman, author, was born May 4, 1841, in Otis, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman, prominent among leaders of modern religious thought, and a professor in the Episcopal Theological school at Cambridge. He is the author of The Continuity of Christian Thought: a Study of Modern Theology in the Light of Its History; Life of Jonathan Edwards; The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century; and Religious Progress.

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