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Allen, Willis – Allyn, John

Allen, Willis

congressman, was born in Tennessee; and was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1851 to 1855.

Allen, Zachariah

inventor, was born Sept. 15, 1795, in Providence, R. I.

He was a noted inventor and manufacturer of Providence; and the author of Practical Tourist Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; and Solar Light and Heat. He died March 17, 1882.

Allerton, Mrs. Ellen

poet, was born in 1835, in New York. She is the author of Poems of the Prairies, and contributes to current literature.

Allerton, Ellen Palmer

poet, was born Oct. 17, 1835, in Centerville, N. Y. She has contributed to Milwaukee and Chicago papers; was at one time book reviewer for the Milwaukee Sentinel, and is the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Prairies.

Allibone, Samuel Austin

author, was born April 17, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labor and research. He died Sept. 2, 1889, in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Allin, John

clergyman, author, was born in 1596 in England. He was a puritan scholar, who emigrated from England in 1637; became the first minister of Dedham; and was the author of several works. He died Aug. 26, 1671, in Dedham, Mass.

Allis, Lizzie May

educator, was born May 28, 1863, in Prattsburgh, N. Y., which city is still her home. She graduated from the Franklin academy; Elmira college and from Cornell university. She has filled the chair of German and English in the Jacksonville Female academy, Illinois; was preceptress for three years of the State Normal school of Mansfield, Pa.; and now fills the chair of French and German in the Iowa State college.

Allison, James

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1772, in Cecil county, Md. He studied law and acquired a high position at the bar of western Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the eighteenth congress; was re-elected to the nineteenth congress, but on account of ill health and his dislike of public life, declined the position. After practicing his profession for fifty years, he died in June. 1854.

Allison, John

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in Pennsylvania.

He studied law, but never practiced the profession; was elected to the assembly of his state in 1846, 1847, and 1849; was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-second and thirty-fourth gresses, and declined a nomination for reelection. In 1869 he was appointed register of the United States treasury. He died March 23, 1878, in Washington, D. C. con-

Allison, Robert

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, fm 1831 to 1833.

Allyn, Eunice Eloisae Gibbs

artist, poet, was born near Cleveland, Ohio.

She has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean; was a writer for the St. Louis 'Globe and the New York World; and still contributes both prose and verse to the leading publications of America. She has also won distinction as an artist and lecturer. For eight years she served as president of the Dubuque Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and is prominently identified with various other organizations.

Allyn, John

merchant, was born Sept. 4, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1805 he originated the ice trade; and developed the marvelous processes of harvesting, handling and storing ice, which are still in use wherever natural ice is obtained on a large scale. He died Feb. 6, 1864. in Boston, Mass.