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Allyn, Joseph P – Alt, Gustave Adolph F. W

Allyn, Joseph P

jurist, was anative of Connecticut, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona.

Almy, John Jay

naval officer, was born April 25, 1815, in Rhode Island. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1829, advanced to the rank of commodore in 1869; and until 1876 was commander of the Pacific squadron.

Aldop, George

author, was born in 1638 in England. He published a book with this quaint title: A Character of the Province of Maryland; also a Small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians Susquehanokes of Maryland, their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion, together with a collection of historical letters. or

Alsop, John

merchant, congressman, was born in Middletown, Conn. He was a merchant, and by his ability, patriotism, and integrity secured his election to the continental congress in 1774, serving two years in that body. He died Nov. 22, 1794, in Newtown, N. Y.

Alsop, John

lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1776, in Middletown, Conn. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in New London. He afterward became a bookseller in Hartford, and still later in New York. His poems were never issued in book form, but appeared in various periodicals and collections. He died Nov. 1, 1841, in Middletown, Conn.

Alsop, Richard

poet, was born Jan. 23, 1761, in Middletown, Conn. He was a witty political satirist who, with Theodore Dwight, wrote The Echo in 1791, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications, orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are: The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; and The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana. He died Aug. 20, 1815, in Flatbush, N. Y.

Alston, Lemuel J

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1807 to 1811.

Alston, William

revolutionary soldier, state senator, was born in 1757 in Charleston, S. C. He was a captain in the revolutionary war; a capable soldier and a zealous patriot. After the war he served for many years in the state senate. He died June 26, 1839.

Alston, William J

congressman, was born in Georgia. Removing to Alabama, he was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.

Alston, Willis

congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. He appeared in public life as early as 1794, serving in the state legislature for several years. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1799 to 1815, and from 1825 to 1831. He died April 10, 1837.

Alston, Willis

state legislator, congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. In 1794 he was a member of the North Carolina state legislature; and for twenty years was a member of congress.

He died April 10, 1837.

Alt, Gustave Adolph F. W

physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 13, 1851, in Baden. He served two years as house surgeon in the New York ophthalmic and aural institute; and in 1887 was made lecturer on ophthalmology and otology in Trinity college. In 1879 he published in Germany, also in New York, The Normal and Pathological Histology of the Human Eye; and in 1883 he founded and edited the first ophthalmological journal, The American Journal of Ophthalmology.