Agnew, David Hayes – Akeley, Healy Cady
Agnew, David Hayes
physician, author, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a successful physician and was for a long time professor of surgery in the university of Pennsylvania. His writings were the outcome of wide experience. His works are: Handbook of Practical Anatomy; Principles and Practice of Surgery: treatise on Surgical Diseases and Injuries, which has been translated into the Japanese language. He died in 1892. a
Agnus, Felix
soldier, journalist, was born July 4, 1839, in France. In 1864 he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the civil war. He is a leading journalist of the south.
Ahearn, John F
merchant, state senator, was born April 18, 1853, in New York city. His early life was devoted to mercantile pursuits. In 1882 he was elected to the New York state assembly; to the state senate in 1889, again in 1891, 1893, and in 1895. con-
Ahl, John A
manufacturer, gressman, was born in August, 1815, in Strasburg, Pa. He received a good En- •glish education; studied medicine with his father and graduated at the Washington Medical college of Baltimore. He abandoned his profession in 1850, and turned his attention to various kinds of manufactures. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyfifth congress.
Ahrens, Mary A
lawyer, philanthropist, was born Dec. 29, 1836, in England. She received her education in the seminary of Galesburg, Ill.; and in 1889 graduated from the Chicago Union College of Law.
She has been vice-president of the Protective Agency for Women and Children; chairman of the Woman's School Suffrage association of Cook county; and is a member of the Illinois Woman's Press association.
Aiken, Charles Augustus
educator, college president, was born Oct. 30, 1827, in Manchester, Vt. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1846 and at Andover Theological seminary in 1853. From 1859 to 1866 he was professor of Latin at Dartmouth, and from 1866 to 1869 at Princeton college. From 1869 to 1871 he was president of Union college.
Aiken, D. Wyatt
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born March 17, 1828, in Winnsboro, S. C. He graduated at the South Carolina college in 1849; taught school for two years; engaged in farming; and served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion from 1861 until disabled by wounds. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1864, and again in 1866. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1876; was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses.
Aiken, John
educator, was born in 1797 in Vermont. He was trustee of the Andover Theological seminary, and for fifteen years one of the board of commissioners for foreign missions. He died Feb. 11, 1867.
Aikens, Amanda L
editor, philanthropist, was born May 12, 1833, in North Adams, Mass. Since 1887 she has been editor of The Woman's World, a special department of The Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee, Wis.; of which publication her husband is one of the proprietors. She has been president of the Board of Local Charities and Corrections; was two years president of the Woman's club of Milwaukee, and has filled other positions of honor in various institutions. She was one of the organizers of the First Woman's Republican club of Wisconsin; and for nearly twenty years has been identified as officer or director with the Art Science Class, a literary organization for the purpose of developing a taste in architecture, painting, sculpture and science.
Aikens, Andrew Jackson
manufacturer, journalist, was born Oct. 31, 1830, in Barnard, Vt. In 1856 he was city editor of the Evening Wisconsin; and in 1864 the firm of Cramer, Aikens and Cramer, commenced publication of the patent insides with advertisements, being the only pioneer house in the business.
Aikin, William
governor of South Carolina, was born in 1806 in Charleston, S. C. He graduated at the South Carolina college in 1825; was a member of the state legislature in 1838, 1840, and 1842; was governor of South Carolina in 1844; and a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1857. He was considered one of the most successful riceplanters in his native state, and was one of the leading men of his state who did not take part in the rebellion. He was also noted for his liberality, benevolence, and culture as a scholar.
Aikman, Granville P
lawyer, orator, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1857, in London, Ky. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Kansas, the London seminary, and from private instructors. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of Eldorado, Kan.; and was prosecuting attorney of Butler county in 1882. In 1883 he was elected judge of the probate court; and in 1895 received the nomination for circuit judge. He has taken great interest in republican politics, and is well known as a brilliant orator. For several years he was editor of The Eldorado Eagle, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Aikman, Hugh
was born July 11, 1790, in Nova Scotia. He was for a number of years president of the New York Marine Bible society, and was also a member of the New York peace society.
He was notable for his earnestness in advocating the principle of peace in the intercourse of nations with each other. died in 1867 in Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Aikman, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1824 in Italy. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and the author of The Moral Power of the Sea; Life at Home, or the Family and Its Members; The Altar in the Home; and A Bachelor's Talks about Married Life.
Ainslie, George
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1838, near Boonville, Mo. He attended the St. Louis university two years; studied law; was admitted to practice in 1860, and removed to Colorado. In 1862 he settled in that portion of Washington territory which now constitutes the territory of Idaho; served in the territorial legislature, and was president of the council during one session. He was editor of a newspaper from 1869 to 1873; was elected district attorney in 1874, and re-elected in 1876. He was elected a delegate from Idaho to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.
Ainslie, Hew
poet, was born in 1792 in Scotland. He was a Scottish poet who emigrated to America in 1822 and lived mainly in Kentucky. He was the author of Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, a prose work with lyrics interspersed; and Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems. He died in 1878.
Ainsworth, Frank Beveridge
reformer, was born Aug. 11, 1841, in Lisbon, N. Y. In 1870 he was a delegate from the state of Indiana to the international congress on penitentiary and reformatory discipline at Cincinnati, Ohio; and in 1867 he was superintendent of the Indiana House of Refuge.
Ainsworth, James Galveston
farmer, merchant, legislator, was born May 26, 1846, in Copiah county, Miss. He is a successful farmer and merchant of Ainsworth, Miss.; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Mississippi state legislature, his term expiring in 1900.
Ainsworth, Laban
clergyman, was born July 19, 1757, in Woodstock, Conn.
He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1778, and was ordained pastor of the church at Jaffrey in 1782, where he remained until his death, seventy-six years. This is probably the longest pastorate on record. He died March 17, 1858, in Jaffrey, N. H.
Ainsworth, Lucien Lester
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 21, 1831, in New Woodstock, N. Y. He was educated at the common schools and at the Oneida Conference seminary, New York; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1854. In 1855 he removed to West Union, Iowa; was a member of the lower house and senate of the state for several years; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress. He entered the union army in 1862 as captain in the sixth regiment Iowa cavalry, and served for three years against the Indians in the northwest.
Aitken, David D
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1854, in Genesee county, Mich. He started in life as a bookkeeper, then became a teacher, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. In 1880 he organized the Venus Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees, of which order he was elected supreme commander in 1882, and supreme counselor and great commander in 1892. He is a successful lawyer of Flint, Mich., and served with distinction as a member of the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses.
Aitken, Robert
journalist, author, was born in 1734, in Scotland. He settled in Philadelphia in 1769, and published the Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Monthly Museum, in 1775-76, having Hopkinson and Witherspoon for contributors, and was imprisoned in 1777 for his attachment to the cause of independence. He printed the first American Bible in 1782, and is reputed to have been the author of An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States. He died July, 1802, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Akeley, Healy Cady
lumber merchant, was born March 16, 1836, in Stowe, Vt. He was educated in the local schools, and began life as a farmer and surveyor, and later became a lawyer. In 1863, he enlisted in the second Michigan cavalry as a private, and was mustered out in 1865 as adjutant of the regiment. 1872, he went into the manufacture of lumber in Grand Haven, Mich., and continued therein until removal to Minneapolis in 1887. He was mayor of Grand Haven two terms, and 1866-81 collector of customs for the district of Michigan.
Mr. Akeley is now president of The H. C.
Akeley Lumber Co. of Minneapolis, in partnership with Charles H. Hackley and Thomas Hume, of Muskegon, Mich., president of The Itasca Lumber Co., and president of The Flour City National bank and The Metropolitan Trust Co.