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Avery, Alphonso Calhoun

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 11, 1837, in Morganton, N. C. He entered the army in 1861, and was commissioned first lieutenant; in 1862 was elected captain; and the same year was appointed major and assistant adjutant-general. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law, and in 1888 he was nominated associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina for a term of eight years.

AVERY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, manufacturer, was born Dec. 3, 1801, in Aurora, N. Y. The principal products of his industry were cotton sweeps, and chilled, wheel gang, shovel, steel, subsoil and sulky plows. The old firm are now incorporated with a capital of $1,500,000, the stock being owned almost wholly by the Avery family. The founder was a man of great force of character and business genius and became one of the most highly regarded citizens of Louisville, Ky.