Alger, Horatio – Allen, David Oliver
Alger, Horatio
author, was born Jan. 13, 1854, in Revere, Mass. He graduated from Harvard college, and for fifteen years has prepared boys for college in New York city. He is the author of a series of popular juvenile tales, among which the Ragged Dick stories are best known. His stories of the street life in New York have made him a great favorite with boys everywhere.
Alger, Russell A
general, governor of Michigan, secretary of war, was born Feb. 27, 1836, in Lafayette, Ohio.
He was admitted to practice law in 1859.
During the rebellion he entered the union army as a private, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general for gallant conduct. In 1884 he was elected governor of Michigan; in 1888 was a candidate for president in the republican national convention; and in 1889 was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. President McKinley appointed him secretary of war in 1897. He is one of the wealthiest men in Michigan, in which state he owns very large lumber interests.
Alger, William Rounseville
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 30, 1822, in Freetown, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman and lecturer of Boston, and the author of Symbolic History of the Cross; The School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient; and Life of Edwin Forrest.
Alison, Francis
educator, clergyman, was born in 1705 in Ireland. He was appointed vice-provost and professor of philosophy in the college of Philadelphia; and was the pastor of the First presbyterian church of that city. He died Nov. 28, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Alkire, Henry T
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1854, in Platte county, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the district school; graduated from the Kirksville State Normal school in 1875, and from the Missouri State university in 1881. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Oregon, Mo., of which city he has been mayor; and for three terms was city attorney. He was a member of the thirty-fifth general assembly of Missouri; was the nominee for secretary of state of Missouri; and in 1894 was elected probate judge of Holt county for four years. For six years he was chairman of the republican central committee; and for two years president of the Oregon school board; besides filling various other positions of honor. He has written extensively on law and judicial subjects, and is one of the brightest men of Missouri.
Allaire, Anthony J
soldier, was born Feb. 17, 1829, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He served in the civil war; and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. In 1867 he was appointed police captain of the twenty-first precinct of New York city.
Allan, John
soldier, patriot, was born Jan. 13, 1746, in Scotland. He became a justice of the peace, and then clerk of the supreme court, and from 1770 to 1776 was a member of the provincial assembly. When the American colonies engaged in the struggle for independence he gave them active and efficient aid, securing the alliance of the Indian tribes of that region. Congress nominated him superintendent of the eastern Indians, and gave him a colonel's commission in January, 1777, and with his Indians he protected the otherwise exposed line of the northeastern frontier. The Nova Scotian authorities offered a price for his apprehension, while his house was burned and his wife thrown into prison. In 1784 Col.
Allan settled in Maine. The government of Massachusetts in 1792 granted him a tract of 22,000 acres, on which the town of Whiting now stands, and in 1801 congress gave him 2,000 acres in Ohio in compensation for the losses he sustained for the patriot cause. He died Feb. 7, 1805, in Lubec, Maine.
Allan, John
antiquarian, was born Feb. 26, 1777, in Scotland. He made a valuable and unique collection of pictures, books, autographs, and rare and curious articles. His collection was sold at auction a short time after his death, and the total receipts amounted to nearly fifty thousand dollars. He died Nov. 19, 1863, in New York city.
Allan, William
soldier, author, was born in 1837 in Virginia. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the confederate army during the civil war; and the author of Battlefields of Virginia; Jackson's Valley Campaign; and Army of Northern Virginia. He died in 1889.
Allanson, Edward G
poet, was born Nov. 11, 1863, in Elgin, Ill. He attended the Iowa Business college of Des Moines; has attained success as a writer; and is the author of several meritorious poems.
Allen, Alexander Viets Gris- Wold
educator, clergyman, author, was born May 4, 1841, in Otis, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman, prominent among leaders of modern religious thought, and a professor in the Episcopal Theological school at Cambridge. He is the author of The Continuity of Christian Thought: a Study of Modern Theology in the Light of Its History; Life of Jonathan Edwards; The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century; and Religious Progress.
Allen, Andrew
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1775 to 1776. an
Allen, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 29, 1789, in Hudson, N. Y. He published in 1815 the weekly Layman's Magazine, and in 1820 abridgment of Burnet's History of the Reformation. In 1821 he was chosen rector of St. Paul's church, Philadelphia. In 1827 he established a printing-house for the publication of tracts and printing of prayer-books. He published Christ and Him Crucified; and Living Manners, a tale; and other works. He died at sea Jan. 13, 1829.
Allen, Charles
state senator, congressman, jurist, was born on Aug. 9, 1797, in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature in 1829, 1833, 1834, 1838, and 1840; a state senator in 1835, 1838, and 1839; and judge of the court of common pleas from 1842 to 1844.
He was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1853; chief justice of the superior court of Suffolk county from 1858 to 1859; and subsequently chief justice of the superior court of the state. He was a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1853 and 1859; a commissioner to negotiate the Webster treaty in 1842; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died Aug. 6, 1869, in Worcester.
Allen, Charles H
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born April 15, 1848, in Lowell, Mass. He received his early education in the public schools; graduated from Amherst college in 1869; and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He received the degree of A. M. from Amherst college in 1872. He held several local offices in Lowell; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1881 and 1882; was a state senator in 1883; in 1884 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-ninth congress, and received the re-election to the fiftieth congress.
Allen, Charles Wellington
physician, surgeon, was born July 17, 1855, in North Hero, Vt. He graduated from the Toledo, Ohio, School of Medicine and from the university of Vermont. He was mayor of Story City, Iowa, for two terms; president of the Central District Medical association of Iowa; and president and secretary of the Story County Medical society.
Allen, Chilton
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 6, 1786, in Albermarle county, Va. He settled in Kentucky as a wheelwright; educated himself for the legal profession; from Clark county was elected in 1811 to the legislature of Kentucky, and re-elected for several terms. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1837. In 1838 was president of the board if internal improvement; and in 1842 was again returned to the state legislature.
He died Sept. 3, 1858, in Winchester, Ky.
Allen, Clarence Emir
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1852, in Girard, Pa. He was trained in the common schools of Girard, fitted for college at Grand River institute, Austinburg, Ohio, and graduated from Western Reserve college with the class of 1877.
He taught one year at Grand River institute, and then was principal of the preparatory of Western Reserve college three years; went to Salt Lake City, Utah, in August, 1881, where he was an instructor in Salt Lake academy until 1886, when he resigned and entered upon the business of mining. He was elected to and served in the territorial legislatures of 1888, 1890, and 1894; was elected county clerk of Salt Lake county, Utah, in August, 1890, and served until Jan. 1, 1893; was admitted to the bar at Salt Lake City, in 1892; was the liberal candidate for delegate to congress in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Allen, David Oliver
educator, missionary, author, was born in 1800, in Barre, Mass. He was graduated at Amherst college in 1823, taught in Lawrence academy, and then entered Andover Theological seminary, which he left in 1827 to go as a missionary to Bombay. He established schools and preached in that province, and made extensive tours in western India. In 1844 he took charge of the Bombay printing establishment. He wrote tracts in Mahratta, and supervised a new translation of the Bible in that language. Injured in health by the Indian climate, he returned to America in 1853.
After his return he published a History of India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and Religious.
He died July 17, 1863, in Lowell.