Ayres, Alfred
author, was born He has displayed Feb. 26, 18-, in Montrose, Ohio. He is business ability of a the author of The Orthoepist; The Verbalhigh order, and his ist; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; and previous legal train-The Essentials of Elocution. He has also ing has aided to make him a successful financier. Among many philanthropic acts, it is told of him that in 1890 he gave $5,000 for books for a public library in the town house of Ayer, and later built for the town the Ayer Memorial Library building, at a cost of about $40,000. He is a director of The Lake Superior Ship Canal Railway and Iron Co., The Portage Lake and River Improvement Co., The Lowell and Andover railroad, The J. C.
Ayer Co., The Tribune association in New York, and the Tremont and Suffolk mills.