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Avery, Alida Cornelia – Ayer, Harriet Hubbard
Avery, Alida Cornelia
physician, was born June 11, 1833, in Sherburne, N.
Y. She taught in sundry schools in New York state; was resident physician and professor of physiology and hygiene in Vassar college from 1865-74; and president of the Colorado State Suffrage association in 1876-77.
Avery, Daniel
congressman, was elected a representative from Cayuga county in con congress from New York from 1811 to 1815; and again from 1816 to 1817.
Avery, Isaac Wheeler
lawyer, journalist, author, was born May 2, 1837, in St. Augustine, Fla. He held a successful law practice in Dalton, Ga., but in 1869 removed to Atlanta and became the chief editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
He is the author of Digest of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports; and a History of Georgia.
Avery, Omer H
lawyer, legislator, was born April 3, 1854, in Lincoln county, Mo. He was educated in the public schools and at the state university; elected public administrator of Lincoln county in 1880, and prosecuting attorney in 1888; and was a member of the thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth general assembly of the Missouri state legislature.
Avery, Oscar F
soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 19, 1841, in Hillsdale county, Mich., and entered Hillsdale college in 1860. In 1861 he left school and enlisted in the eleventh Michigan infantry, company B, and served until November, 1865, when he was mustered out. He participated in the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga. He has served with distinction as a member of the Illinois state legislature.
Avery, Rosa Miller
reformer, was born May 21, 1830, in Madison, Ohio.
During the years of the war her pen was actively engaged in writing for various journals on the subject of union and emancipation. For nearly twenty years she has resided in Chicago, and many of her ably-written articles and responses to the opponents of franchise for women have appeared from time to time in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Avery, Samuel P
artist, was born March 17, 1822, in New York city. He founded the Avery Architectural library at Columbia college, New York city; and is the author of an article entitled Progress of the Fine Arts in New York During Fifty Years.
Avery, William T
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1819, in Maury county, Tenn. He was a lawyer by profession; was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1843; and held several creditable positions in his native state.
He was chosen a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
Avery, William W
lawyer, state senator, was born May 25, 1816, in Suan Ponds, N. C. He was speaker of the North Carolina senate in 1856; and was again elected in 1860. In 1861 he was elected by the convention as one of the members from the state at large of the provisional congress of the confederate states. He died July 3, 1864, in Morgantown, N. C.
Aycrigg, John B
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was a presidential elector; and was a candidate for election to the twenty-sixth congress. was or-
Ayer, Frederick Fanning
lawyer, was born Sept. 12, 1851, in Lowell, Mass. Upon his father's death in 1878 Mr. Ayer became the manager of the great properties which his father had created.
Ayer, Harriet Hubbard
business woman, journalist, was born in 1852, in Chicago, Ill. She graduated from the convent of the Sacred Heart. She became a business woman of the highest type in New York city; and rapidly made a fortune from her Recamier preparation.
The Recamier company, of which she is the president and chief owner, now occupies a five-story building in New York city, and employs nearly a hundred people.