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Ayer, John A – Ayres, Romeyn Beck

Ayer, John A

banker, was born Aug. 2, 1847, in Jacksonville, Ill. He attended the Illinois college; and has attained success in business affairs in his native city; where he is a prominent banker.

Ayer, Richard S

soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1829, in Waldo county, Maine. He engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits; at the breaking out of the rebellion enlisted as a private in the fourth Maine volunteers, and was promoted to a captaincy, which attained success as a dramatist and actor.

Ayres, Anne

author, was born in 1816, in England. She was the first member of an American sisterhood in the protestant episcopal church, becoming a sister of the Holy Communion in 1845.

She was the author of Evangelical Sisterhoods; and Life of W. H. Muhlenberg. She died in 1896.

Ayres, Romeyn Beck

soldier, was born Dec. 20, 1825, in East Creek, N. Y.

He served during the civil war, and in 1864 was made major-general of volunteers, for conspicuous gallantry in the battles of the Virginia campaign. He died Dec. 4, 1888, in Fort Hamilton, N. Y.