Allen, Thomas – Alley, John B
Allen, Thomas
landscape and animal painter, was born Oct. 19, 1849, in St. Louis, Mo. He was president of the Paint and Clay club of Boston; Boston Society of Water Color Painting, and the Boston Art club. In 1894 he was judge of awards, department of fine arts, at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago.
Allen, Timothy Field
physician, author, was born April 24, 1837, in Westminster, Vt. He is a physician of New York city, and has been dean of the Homœopathic Medical college since 1882.
He is the author of Characcæ Americanæ; and General Symptom-Register of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He has edited Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica.
Allen, William
clergyman, college president, author, was born Jan. 2, 1784, in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1802 he graduated at Cambridge; and two years later was licensed to preach.
During 1804-10 he was a regent in Harvard college; and devoted much of his time to the preparation of the American Biographical and Historical Dictionary. For two years he was president of Dartmouth university; and in 1820 was inaugurated president of Bowdoin college. He resigned in 1839, and moved to Northampton, Mass., where he devoted himself to literary work. He was the author of An Account of Remarkable Shipwrecks; A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, many of which were original; a second and enlarged edition of the Biographical Dictionary; and a work entitled Junius Unmasked. He died July 16, 1868, in Northampton, Mass.
Allen, William
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor of Ohio, was born in 1806 in Edenton, N. C.
He received a good education; was connected by family ties with Allen G. Thurman; was an early emigrant to the state of Ohio; and adopted the profession of the law. He was a representa tive in congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1835; was elected a senator in congress from 1837 to 1849; and in 1874 became governor of Ohio, serving as such until 1876. He refused to accept any office except such as was conferred upon him by an election of the people. He died July 11, 1879.
Allen, William
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1827, in Butler county, Ohio. He received a good English education; taught school for a time; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1850 he was elected a county prosecuting attorney, and re-elected in 1852. In 1858 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1864, and also to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.
Allen, William Francis
educator, author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in Northborough, Mass., and was a brother of J. H. Allen. He was a professor in the university of Wisconsin, and published Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; Monographs and Essays; and edited a collection of Slave Songs. He died in
Allen, William Henry
educator, college president, was born in March, 1808, in Readfield, Maine. In 1833 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then became a teacher of Greek and Latin in the Cazenovia seminary, N. Y.
In 1836 he took charge of the high school in Augusta, Maine; then filled a position in Carlisle, Pa., where for ten years he was professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Dickinson college. In 1850 he became president of the Girard college of Philadelphia, Pa.
For thirteen years he filled that position and then resigned; but at the end of four years he was persuaded to again accept the presidency of that institution.
Allen, William Howard
naval officer, was born July 8, 1790, in Hudson, N. Y. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1808, and was promoted lieutenant in 1813. He was second lieutenant of the Argus, and commanded in the fight with the Pelican off the coast of England after Captain Allen and the first officer were disabled. He was killed in attempting to board piratical vessels with boats near Matanzas, in the island of Cuba. His friend Halleck made his early death the subject of a tender and touching poem.
He was killed in action Nov. 9, 1822.
Allen, William J
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1828, in Tennessee. He removed with his father to Illinois in 1829; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 1854 was elected to the Illinois legislature; in 1855 was appointed United States attorney for the district of Illinois, which office he resigned in 1860, and was then elected judge of the circuit court. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-seventh congress, for the unexpired term of John A. Logan, resigned, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
Allen, William Temple
clergyman, was born on Dec. 15, 1855, in Virginia. He is a clergyman of St. Peter's, Talladega. He built the church at Boeme, Texas, and also the church at Gadsden, Ala.
Allen, William Vincent
lawyer, legislator, jurist, United States senator, was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Medway, Ohio.
He received his education in the Iowa common schools and the Upper Iowa university of Fayette.
He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company G, thirty-second Iowa volunteer infantry. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar; removed to Nebraska in 1884; and in 1891 was elected judge of the ninth judicial district of that state. In 1893 he was elected a member of the United States senate for the full term of six years. As a lawyer, judge and senator, he has established an admitted leadership. He is a marvel of senate oratory, having made a notable fifteen hours' speech in the great silver debate; and is the unquestioned populist leader in the entire congress.
Allen, Willis
congressman, was born in Tennessee; and was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1851 to 1855.
Allen, Willis Boyd
author, was born July 9, 1855, in Kittery Point, Maine.
He attended the Boston Latin school, and in 1878 graduated from Harvard college.
He has been editor of Cottage Hearth; Our Sunday Afternoon, and Wellspring.
He is the author of twenty-eight books for young people, the most notable of which are: Pine Cone Stories, in six volumes; Red Mountain of Alaska; Lion City of Africa; Camp Vagabond; Mammoth Hunters; The Great Island; Boyhood of John Kent; Christmas at Surf Point; Snowed In; A Son of Liberty; Called to the Front; Mountaineer Series, in five volumes; Forest Home Series, in five volumes; John Brownlow's Folks; and In the Morning.
Allen, Zachariah
inventor, was born Sept. 15, 1795, in Providence, R. I.
He was a noted inventor and manufacturer of Providence; and the author of Practical Tourist Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; and Solar Light and Heat. He died March 17, 1882.
Allerton, Mrs. Ellen
poet, was born in 1835, in New York. She is the author of Poems of the Prairies, and contributes to current literature.
Allerton, Ellen Palmer
poet, was born Oct. 17, 1835, in Centerville, N. Y. She has contributed to Milwaukee and Chicago papers; was at one time book reviewer for the Milwaukee Sentinel, and is the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Prairies.
Allerton, Isaac
pilgrim, was born about 1583. He went from England to Leyden in 1608, and came to America in 1620 in the first voyage of the Mayflower.
He was a wealthy and enterprising member of the colony, and took a leading part in its affairs. He treated with Massasoit, and made several trips to England as the agent of the colony to purchase the rights of the adventurers, to secure patents for lands, and to bring over the rest of the congregation at Leyden. He died in 1659 in New Haven, Conn.
Allerton, Samuel Waters
packer, was born May 26, 1828, near South Amenia, N. Y. In 1873 Mr. Allerton began packing meats, and carried on the business as The Allerton Packing Co., of which he is president. He now has forty thousand acres of farm land in Illinois, Ohio, and in Iowa-upon which live stock is raised and fattened. He is one of the two survivors of the organizers of the First National bank of Chicago; and a large owner in The Chicago City Railway; The Arcade File Works of Anderson, Ind., and president of The Allerton bank of Allerton, Ill.
Alley, John B
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1817, in Lynn, Mass. He entered largely into the shoe and leather business; served several years in the city councils of Lynn; was a member of the governor's council in 1851; a member of the Massachusetts senate in 1852; of the state constitutional convention held in 1853; and in 1858 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the unirty-sixth congress. He was elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses, and was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalist convention of 1866.