Aker, Leonard – Alcorn, James Lusk
Aker, Leonard
farmer, soldier, legislator, was born in 1842 in Ravenna, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in company F, twelfth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. After serving thirteen months, was mustered out at expiration of service, May 27, 1862. He re-enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, to serve three years, in company F, one hundredth Indiana volunteers. Commissioned second lieutenant; promoted to first lieutenant; and then captain, July 28, 1864, which rank he held when mustered out at the close of the war. Captain Aker was appointed on the commission to locate the Kansas soldiers' graves, and to erect a monument to the memory of the fallen heroes of the eighth Kansas, on the fields of Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, at the Chattanooga cemetery, in 1895. He served with distinction as a member of the Kansas state legislature in 1897.
Aker, William W
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born in Darke county, Ohio.
He graduated from the Cincinnati law school and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1872, but shortly after removed to Eaton, Ohio. He served in the union army as lieutenant of company H, ninety-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and in 1897 was post commander of Calep Marker post, G. A. R., at New Paris. He was elected to the seventy-first general assembly of the Ohio state legislature as a republican; and was re-elected to the seventy-second general assembly.
Akerly, Samuel
physician, author, was born in 1785. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1804. He contributed to medical and scientific periodicals, was active in establishing institutions for deaf mutes and the blind, and published an Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River and Observations on Deafness. He died July 6, 1845, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Akerman, Amos Tappan
lawyer, was born 1819 in New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1842, was admitted to the bar in 1841, and settled in Elberton, Ga., in 1850. He followed his state in secession in 1861, and served the confederate government in the quartermaster's department; but after the war he was a republican and reconstructionist. He was appointed district attorney for Georgia in 1866 and attorney-general of the United States in 1870, remaining in that office until 1872.
Akers, Benjamin Paul
sculptor, was born July 16, 1825, in Westbrook, Maine. His best known works are: Peace; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Diana and Endymion; Paul and Francesca; Milton; and The Dead Pearl Diver. He died May 21, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa. man.
Akers, Thomas Peter
congress- He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-fourth congress for the unexpired term of J. G. Miller, and served one session.
Akins, Francis Asahel
farmer and secretary State Grange, was born Jan. 2, 1849, in Mayfield, Ohio. He graduated from the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio. He was president of the state association of Mutual Fire Insurance associations; in 1890 was elected secretary of the Ohio State Grange Patrons of Husbandry, and received the re-election for four successive terms.
Albaugh, John W
actor, was born Sept. 30,1837, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he gained popularity in the play Louis XI; and since that time has been manager of the Holiday Street theater, and the lessee of the popular Albaugh Grand Opera House of Washington, D. C. He is also the possessor of the most varied and extensive dramatic library in America.
Albee, John
author, poet, was born in 1833, in Bellingham, Mass. He graduated from Phillip academy of Andover, Mass., and the Harvard university. For many years he was a successful clergyman. He has written extensively and published the following books: Literary Art; An Indian Idyl; History of New Castle, N. H.; and Prose Idyls. He has been a constant contributor to the leading magazines and periodicals of America, and his poems have been given prominence in standard publications.
Alberger, Franklin Augustus
business man, was born Jan. 14, 1825, in Baltimore, Md. He was appointed canal commissioner in 1862, serving six years; was elected to the assembly in 1871, and re-elected for the three following terms.
With the close of his assembly term he retired from public life and devoted himself to private business. He died Aug. 24, 1877.
Albert, John S
engineer, was born in 1835. He entered the navy in 1855 from New York, and was appointed chief engineer in 1861, in which capacity he served during the war with credit. He died July 3, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Albert, William J
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1816, at Baltimore, Md. He was educated at St. Mary's college; was a merchant; retired from business in 1856, and was a presidential elector in 1864. He was subsequently interested in banking and manufactures, and was elected to the fortythird congress as a republican.
Albertson, Nathaniel
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from the first congressional district of Indiana from 1849 to 1851.
Albright, Andrew
inventor, was born June 23, 1831, in Dryden, N. Y. He is the inventor of rubber bound and set brushes, which his firm, the Rubber and Celluloid Harness Trimmings Company, manufacture; and also of a great part of the machinery used in manufacturing his inventions.
Albright, Charles
lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1830, in Berks county, Pa. He was educated at Dickinson college; studied law and came to the bar in 1852. In 1854 he visited Kansas, and in 1856 returned to Pennsylvania; in 1860 was a delegate to the republican national convention; entered the army in 1862; commissioned colonel, commanding the third was was brigade at Chancellorsville, and placed in command at Camp Muhlenburg, Pa., to organize troops. In July he was sent to Philadelphia to assist in the draft; in September, 1864, was assigned to an independent command to protect railroads and the outer defenses of Washington, and in March, 1865, was promoted to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers.
After the war he was sent to the command of the Lehigh military district to pacify tumults in the mining regions; in 1865 was mustered out of service, and in 1872 was a delegate to the republican national convention at Philadelphia. He was elected to the forty-third congress.
Albright, Charles J
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected from the state of Ohio as a representative to the thirty-fourth congress.
Albright, Eliza Downing
educator, temperance worker, was born March 13, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa. After her marriage in 1867 to the Rev. Louis M.
Albright, she was engaged in teaching mathematics and natural sciences in the Ohio Wesleyan female college; and has also filled the chair of mathematics in the Depauw female college, of which institution her husband was president. Since 1877 she has been identified with the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman's Foreign Missionary society, and has filled numerous positions of honor as secretary, chairman and speaker.
Albright, Jacob
clergyman, was born May 1, 1759, in Pottstown, Pa. Beginning a religious life in 1790, and being successful as an exhorter, he soon became a methodist minister. He made many converts, almost exclusively Germans, and in 1800 a separate church organization was created for them, Albright being their first presiding elder. He was appointed bishop in 1807. His denomination is now known as the evangelical association, but in many places its adherents are named Albrights. He died in 1808.
Albrook, J. B
educator, clergyman, was born July 18, 1844, in Monroe, Pa.
In 1870 he graduated from the Cornell college, Iowa. In 1863 he was first lieutenant in Milo guards; in 1874 was chaplain of the Iowa Independent Order Good Templars; in 1892 was department chaplain of the Iowa Grand Army of the Republic.
In 1896 he was a delegate to the general conference of the methodist episcopal church; and is now pastor of one of the largest and best churches in Iowa methodism.
Albuoy, William a. H
clergyman, was born July 19, 1861, in Bermuda, West Indies. In 1888 he graduated from the Lincoln university, Virginia, and pursued his theological studies in the same institution. In 1891 he was ordained a presbyterian clergyman. He has organized four churches in Charlotte county, Va.; and in 1897 became moderator of the presbytery of southern Virginia.
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Alcorn, James Lusk
lawyer, general, governor of Mississippi, United States senator, was born Nov. 4, 1816, near Golconda, Ill. He settled in Kentucky; was educated at Cumberland college; was appointed deputy sheriff of Livingston county, and held the office for five years. In 1843 he was elected to the legislature; removed in 1844 to Mississippi; entered upon the practice of law, and served sixteen years in the legislature of that state in the house and senate. 1852 he was chosen elector, and was nominated for governor in 1857, but declined. He was founder of the levee system in his state, and in 1858 was chosen president of the levee board of the Mississippi- Yazoo delta. He was elected to the state convention of 1851, and again to that of 1861, the latter body electing him a brigadier-general. In 1865 he was elected to the senate of the United States, but not allowed to take his seat. In 1869 he was elected governor of Mississippi, and was elected to the senate of the United States in 1871 for six years.