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Atkinson, John M. P – Atwood, Anthony

Atkinson, John M. P

educator, college president, was born Jan. 10, 1817, in Mansfield, Va. In 1857-83 he was elected president of the Hampden Sidney college. He died in 1883.

Atkinson, Thomas

bishop, born Aug. 6, 1807, in Mansfield, Va. He was elected bishop of North Carolina in 1853. He attended the general convention of the episcopal church in 1865, and did much to hasten the reunion of the northern and southern dioceses. He died Jan. 4, 1881, in Wilmington, N. C.

Atkinson, William Elrie

lawyer, was born July 24, 1852, in Shelby county, Ala. He has attained success as a noted lawyer; in 1885 was a delegate to the congressional convention, and was one of the leading spirits in founding the Ouachita Baptist college at Arkadelphia.

Atkinson, William Parsons

educator, author, was born in 1820 in Massachusetts, and was a brother of E. Atkinson. He was a professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the author of The Right Use of Books; History and the Study of History; and Classical and Scientific Studies. He died in 1890.

Attwood, Julius

banker, was born Feb. 23, 1824, in East Haddam, Conn. In 1859 he was elected judge of the probate court; from 1873-74 was a member of the general assembly of Connecticut; and in 1883 was elected president of the National bank of New England.

Atwater, Amzi

pioneer, was born May 23, 1776, in New Haven, Conn. He settled in Mantua, Ohio, in 1800; and on the organization of Portage county was elected one of the county judges. He died June 22, 1851.

Atwater, Francis

author, journalist and publisher, was born in Plymouth, Conn. He learned the printing trade early in life, and in 1886 established and became president of the Journal Publishing company, of Meriden, Conn., proprietor of the Meriden Daily News, and Connecticut School Journal. He is the author of the Histories of Plymouth, Conn., and Kent, Conn.

Atwater, Horace Cowles

clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in New York. He was a clergyman of the methodist church, south, and published Incidents of a Southern Tour. He died in 1879.

Atwater, John W

farmer, state senator, was born Dec. 27, 1840. He served in the first North Carolina regiment throughout the war, surrendering with Lee at Appomattox. When the Farmers' Alliance was organized in Chatham county, N. C., he served as president two terms, and afterward for two terms as president of the sub-alliance. Has represented his people for three terms in the state senate.

Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss

educator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1813, in New Haven, Conn. He was a professor of philosophy at Princeton college, and long a noted contributor to the Princeton Review; and the author of A Manual of Elementary Logic. He died Feb. 17, 1883, in Princeton, N. J.

Atwater, Wilbur Olin

educator, author, was born May 3, 1844, in Johnsburg, N. Y. He has been professor of chemistry at Wesleyan university since 1873. He has written extensively upon agricultural chemistry, and published Co-operative Experimenting as a Means of Studying the Effect of Fertilizers; and Results of Field Experiments with Various Fertilizers.

Atwood, Anthony

clergyman, author, was born in 1801 in New Jersey.

He was a methodist clergyman, whose only published work is The Abiding Comforter. He died in 1888.