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Austin, George Lowell – Avery, Alexander R

Austin, George Lowell

physician, author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He was a Boston physician whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a Doctor's Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water Analysis, a Handbook for Water- Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow; and Life of Wendell Phillips.

He died in 1893.

Austin, Helen Vickroy

journalist, horticulturist, was born in 1829, in Miamisburg, Ohio. As a writer of sketches and essays, and as a reporter and correspondent she has exhibited marked capacity; but she is best known by her writings for the agricultural and horticultural press.

Austin, Henry

lawyer, author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston, who has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws; American Fish and Game Laws; and Liquor Law in New England.

Austin, Henry Willard

journalist, poet, was born in 1858. He is a journalist of Boston, and the author of Vagabond Verses.

Austin, James Trecothick

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 7, 1784, in Boston, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer of Boston, and published a Life of Elbridge Gerry. He died May 8, 1870, in Boston, Mass.

Austin, Jane Goodwin

novelist, was born Feb. 25, 1831, in Worcester, Mass. She was the author of Standish; Betty Alden; The Nameless Nobleman; Dr. LeBaron and His Daughters; and various other works. She was also the author of numerous meritorious poems; and her contributions to the literature of early New England possess a rare value. She died March 30, 1894, in Boston, Mass.

Austin, Samuel

clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 7, 1760, 1 in New Haven, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Worcester, Mass, 1790-1815, and afterwards president of the University of Vermont. He was the author of Views of the Church; Theological Essays; and Letters on Baptism. He died Dec. 4, 1830, in Glastonbury, Conn.

Avann, Ella H. Brockway

educator, was born May 20, 1853, in Newaygo, Mich. In 1871 she graduated from the Albion college of Michigan; and subsequently became preceptress of that institution. She filled the chair of English literature and also lectured on the history of music. For ten years she was president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society; makes frequent contributions to the religious press; and holds official positions in various literary, social and benevolent societies.

Aver, Henry Ogden

architect, was born Jan. 31, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

He designed monuments and mortuary chapels, as well as houses of very notable excellence. He died April 30, 1890, in New York city.

Averett, Thomas H

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a resident of Halifax county; and was elected a representative in congress from the third district in that state, from 1849 to 1853.

Averill, John T

manufacturer, general, state senator, congressman, was born March 1, 1825, in Alna, Maine. He completed his studies at the Maine Wesleyan university; was a manufacturer; and was elected to the state senate of Minnesota in 1858-59. He entered the union army in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel of the sixth Minnesota infantry, and was mustered out in 1865, as brigadier-general of volunteers. He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.

Avery, Alexander R

lawyer, was born Nov. 14, 1846, in Canada. He began the practice of law at Port Huron, Mich.; and was appointed city attorney in 1876; was prosecuting attorney in 1884-87; and in 1891 he was appointed postmaster; and in 1881 was elected great commander of the order of the Knights of Maccabees.