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Elwyn, Alfred Langdon

philanthropist, author, was born July 9, 1804, in Portsmouth, N. H. he originated the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society and Farm School, and was president in 1850.

He was president of the Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind; Training School for Feeble Minded Children; Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He wrote Bonaparte; Glossary of Supposed Americanisms; Letters to Hon. John Langdon During and After the Revolution; Melancholy and Its Musings; and A Few Hints to the City on Intemperance. He died March 15, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.