Aldrich, Cyrus – Aldrich, Truman H
Aldrich, Cyrus
contractor, public official, congressman, was born in June, 1808, in Smithfield, R. I. He received a common-school education; followed the various occupations of a sailor, a boatman, a farmer, a contractor on public works, and a mail contractor; was a member of the Illinois legislature, and also a register of deeds and register of the land office at Dixon, in that state, for four years. Having removed to Minnesota, he was a member of the constitutional convention of that state and member of the county board of Hennepin county, in that state. He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. After leaving congress he was appointed commissioner to settle claims against the Sioux Indians.
In 1867 he was appointed postmaster at Minneapolis, Minn.
Aldrich, Emma B
educator, journalist, author, was born April 4, 1845, in Cape May county, N. J. In 1864 she graduated from the state normal school of Trenton, N. J.; and subsequently attained success in educational work. She was married in 1866 to Mr. Levi L. Aldrich; and in connection with her husband published the Public Record of Cawker City, Kan. She was one of the organizers of the national woman's relief corps, one of the founders of the woman's Hesperian library club, and the founder of the Kansas woman's press association.
Aldrich, Flora L
physician, surgeon, was born Oct. 6, 1859, in Westford, N. Y. In 1883 she was married to Dr.
A. G. Aldrich, of Adams, Mass. In 1877 she graduated from the medical department of the Minnesota state university, and has since taken post-graduate courses in the best schools in America and Europe. She has attained eminence as a successful physician and surgeon of Anoka, Minn.; is at the head of several literary and scientific organizations; and contributed extensively to current literature.
Aldrich, Francis Frederick
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 26, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was graduated at the law department of the university of Pennsylvania in 1866. He has published A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia, and A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania from 1883 to 1887.
Aldrich, J. Frank
civil engineer, business man, congressman, was born April 6, 1853, in Two Rivers, Wis.; removed to Chicago in April, 1861; attended public schools and Chicago university, and graduated at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1877, with degree of civil engineer. He engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil and subsequently in the gas business. He has been a member of the Cook county board of commissioners, and was president of that body during the reform period in 1887; was also a member of the county board of education and chairman of the committee of citizens of Chicago appointed from the various clubs and commercial organizations to inaugurate and further the drainage act; and served as commissioner of public works of Chicago from 1891 to 1893. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Aldrich, James
journalist, poet, was born in 1810 in Suffolk, N. Y. He was a littérateur of New York, and established The Literary Gazette in 1840, in which a number of his verses appeared.
His poems were privately printed by his daughter in 1884. He died in October,
Aldrich, James
legislator, jurist, was born July 25, 1850, in Barnwell, S. C., and is the son of James Thomas Aldrich.
In 1872 he graduated from the Washington and Lee university of Lexington, Va. He was a member of the South Carolina legislature from 1878 to 1889, missing one term only through sickness. In 1889 he was elected circuit judge of the second circuit of South Carolina; he was reelected in 1893, and is now the presiding judge. He has always taken an interest in educational matters, and has done considerable literary work, and has published numerous addresses, essays and articles on various topics.
Aldrich, James Thomas
lawyer, author, was born in 1819, in Charleston, S. C. He refused every political position tendered him except as an officer in the service of the confederacy. In 1842 he was admitted to practice law, and soon became one of the leaders of the South Carolina bar, especially in the courts of equity. Mr. Aldrich, like many of his name, was the author of a number of poems and literary articles that have been a valuable acquisition to current literature. He died in 1875, at his residence in Barnwell C. H., S. C.
Aldrich, Josephine Cables
philanthropist, author, was born in Connecticut. In 1882 she founded The Occult World, a publication devoted to advanced thought and reform work. She is vicepresident of the woman's national industrial league; vice-president of the woman's national liberal union; and one of the founders of the woman's national university and school of useful and ornamental arts; and resides in Aldrich, Ala.
Aldrich, Julia Carter
author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1834, in Liverpool, Ohio. For awhile she was engaged in educational work in her native town; and subsequently contributed to periodical literature under the pen name of Petresia Peters. She has written extensively on reformatory measures in the interest of humanity; and is also the author of a volume of poems.
Aldrich, Leander Jefferson
clergyman, educator, college president, was born May 21, 1851, in Conklingville, N. Y. In 1880 he graduated from Oberlin college; and from the theological seminary in 1885.
He has filled pastorates in Dover, Ohio, and in Merom, Ind. In 1886 he became president of the Union christian college of Merom, where he also fills the chair of rhetoric and botany, and also that of christian ethics. He has traveled extensively in foreign countries as a special student of ancient history and literature. He is also pastor of the college church.
Aldrich, Levi
physician, state senator, was born Jan. 27, 1820, in Erie county, N. Y. He received an academical education, studied medicine at the Albany medical college and Buffalo medical university, and practiced medicine successfully in Erie county and at Edwardsburg. He was representative in the Michigan state legislature from Cass county in 1863-4; senator in 1865, and a member of the constitutional convention in 1867.
Aldrich, Mary Jane
temperance reformer, lecturer, was born March 19, 1833, in Sidney Plains, N. Y. She has been president of the woman's christian temperance union of Iowa, of which she is now corresponding secretary; has lectured extensively, and was a member of the national convention of 1890, held in Cleveland, Ohio.
Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth
merchant, United States senator, was born Nov. 6, 1841, in Foster, R. I. He received an academic education; engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was president of the common council of Providence, R. I., in 1872 and 1873. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1875 and 1876, serving as speaker during the latter year. He was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh. congresses, and resigned in 1881 to take his seat as a senator of the United States from Rhode Island for the term of six years from March 4, 1881, and received the re-election in 1886 and in 1893.
Aldrich, Orlando W
lawyer, was born March 30, 1840, in Clarence, N. Y.
He filled the chair of law in the Illinois Wesleyan university; was professor of law in the Ohio state university; president of the Ohio society of war of 1812, and judge advocate department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic.
Aldrich, Samuel N
lawyer, financier, was born Feb. 3, 1838, in Upton, Mass. He is a graduate of the Worcester academy and the Brown university, and has attained success as a noted lawyer.
He has been president of the central Massachusetts railway company; was assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston under President Cleveland's first administration, and since 1890 has been president of the State National bank of Boston, Mass.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
author, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1836, in Portsmouth, N. H. He is a poet and novelist whose work in both verse and prose is distinguished for grace of expression and delicacy of execution. His early youth was spent in Louisiana. At the death of his father he entered the counting-house of his uncle in New York city. He occupied editorial positions for ten years on various papers; and in 1881 succeeded William D. Howells as editor of the Atlantic Monthly, which position he resigned nine years later to devote his entire time to personal literary work and travel. He is the author of the following poetical works: The Bells; Ballad of Baby Bell; Pampinea; Flower and Thorn; Cloth of Gold; Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book; XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets; The Sisters' Tragedy; Wyndham Towers; Unguarded Gates; Mercedes and Later Lyrics; Judith and Holofernes. His prose works are: Prudence Palfrey; The Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater Tragedy; Marjorie Daw and Other Stories; Two Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales; The Story of a Bad Boy; An Old Town by the Sea: a description of Portsmouth, the author's birthplace: From Ponkapog to Pesth; and Travel Sketches.
Aldrich, Truman H
civil engineer, railroad president, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1848, in Palmyra, N. Y. He was educated in the public school at that place, at the military academy in West Chester, Pa., and was graduated from the Rensselaer polytechnic institute of Troy, N. Y., as a mining engineer in class of 1869. After practicing his profession in New York and New Jersey removed to Selma, Ala., in winter of 1871-72; was in the banking business there for two years and then made coal mining a business.