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Andros, R. S. S

public official, author, was born in Berkeley, Mass. He edited several newspapers, was deputy collector in Boston for some years, and subsequently, as special agent of the treasury department, was engaged in reorganizing custom houses in the south. He was the author of the Customs Guide, a codification of the revenue laws; contributed poems to the Democratic Review, and published Chocoruna and Other Sketches. He died in August, 1868, in Berkeley, Mass.

Andrus, Reuben

college president, clergyman, was born Jan. 29, 1829, in Watertown, N. J. He was principal of the Central academy of Springfield, Ill.; and president of a women's college in Jacksonville. After the war he reorganized Quincy (now Chaddock) college, Illinois; in 1867 went to Indiana, and was elected president of Asbury university in 1872.

He died Jan. 17, 1887, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Andrus, Wesley P

soldier, educator, state senator, was born Feb. 19, 1834, in Potter, N. Y. In 1861 he entered the forty-second Illinois volunteer infantry, and was soon commissioned first lieutenant; was promoted to a captaincy for meritorious service at Stone River.

He has been four years a member of the common council of Cedar Springs, Mich., and has been its mayor. In 1877 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state senate.

Andrus, William W

merchant, state senator, was born July 24, 1821, in Wyoming county, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1867; was assessor of internal revenue under Grant; and in 1881-82 served as a member of the Michigan state senate.

Angel, William G

congressman, was born in New Shoreham, R. I. He was elected a representative in congress from Burlington, N. Y., from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1833.

Angell, Henry Clay

educator, author, was born Jan. 27, 1829, in Providence, R. I. He is a professor of ophthalmology in Boston university; and the author of Diseases of the Eye; How to Take Care of Our Eyes; and Records of W. M.

Hunt.

Angell, Joseph Kinnicut

author, was born April 30, 1794, in Providence, R. I. He was a legal writer of Rhode Island, among whose works are Treatise on the Common Law of Watercourses; The Law of Tide Waters; and The Limitation of Actions. He died May 1, 1857, in Boston, Mass.

Angwin, Mattie W

poet, was born Aug. 31, 1850, in Darke county, Ohio. She is a writer of Mount Vernon, Mo.; and her poems have appeared in the Toledo Blade and other prominent publications.

ANSBACHER, ADOLPH BENEDICT, manufacturer, was born Oct. 4, 1832, in Germany. In 1852 he emigrated to New York and established a mercantile house, which was one of the foremost in that line of business.

Anthon, Charles

educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1797, in New York city.

He was a noted classical scholar, for many years professor of ancient languages at Columbia college. He was the author of some fifty classical text-books, including a Classical Dictionary. He died July 29, 1867, in New York city.

Anthony, Augusta

lecturer, author, was born May 25, 1844, in Rockland, Mass. As a lecturer she has gained eminent success in California. Mrs. Anthony is the author of several prose works and numerous poems of merit, and many of her poems have been set to music.

Anthony, Cyrus A

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 29, 1839, in Hackettstown, N. J. He served four years in the fifty-first lilinois infantry, rising from private to captain. He moved to Missouri in 1870; prosecuting attorney of Nodaway county 1875-76; elected to the thirty-first general assembly; twice appointed on committees to settle with the state treasury; elected to the thirty-third general assembly; elected judge of the twentyninth circuit in 1886; and re-elected in 1892.