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Allibone, Samuel Austin
author, was born April 17, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labor and research. He died Sept. 2, 1889, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Allin, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1596 in England. He was a puritan scholar, who emigrated from England in 1637; became the first minister of Dedham; and was the author of several works. He died Aug. 26, 1671, in Dedham, Mass.
Allis, Lizzie May
educator, was born May 28, 1863, in Prattsburgh, N. Y., which city is still her home. She graduated from the Franklin academy; Elmira college and from Cornell university. She has filled the chair of German and English in the Jacksonville Female academy, Illinois; was preceptress for three years of the State Normal school of Mansfield, Pa.; and now fills the chair of French and German in the Iowa State college.
Allison, Burgess
educator, clergyman, inventor, was born Aug. 17, 1753, in Bordentown, N. J. He studied at Rhode Island college (now Brown university) in 1777, and subsequently had charge of a small congregation at Bordentown, N. J., where he established a classical boardingschool, which attained great reputation. In 1796 he withdrew from his teaching and devoted his time for several years to inventing. Some improvements in the steam engine and its application to navigation are due to his efforts. He was elected chaplain of the house of representatives in 1816, and later became chaplain at the navy-yard, Washington, where he remained until his death. He died Feb. 20, 1827, in Washington, D. C.
Allison, James
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1772, in Cecil county, Md. He studied law and acquired a high position at the bar of western Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from that state to the eighteenth congress; was re-elected to the nineteenth congress, but on account of ill health and his dislike of public life, declined the position. After practicing his profession for fifty years, he died in June. 1854.
Allison, John
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in Pennsylvania.
He studied law, but never practiced the profession; was elected to the assembly of his state in 1846, 1847, and 1849; was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-second and thirty-fourth gresses, and declined a nomination for reelection. In 1869 he was appointed register of the United States treasury. He died March 23, 1878, in Washington, D. C. con-
Allison, Robert
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, fm 1831 to 1833.
Allison, William B
lawyer, United States senator, was born March 2, 1929, in Perry, Ohio. He was educated at the Western Reserve college, Ohio; studied law and practiced in Ohio until he removed to Iowa in 1857. He served on the staff of the governor of Iowa and aided in organizing volunteers in the beginning of the war for the suppression of the rebellion. He was elected a representative in the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, and forty-first congresses, and was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. He was re-elected in 1878, 1884, 1890, and 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
Allston, Joseph
governor, was born in 1778 in South Carolina. He was a planter of education and ability; was several years a member of the South Carolina legislature; and was governor of that state from 1812 to 1814. He married a daughter of Aaron Burr, and for that reason was suspected, but unjustly, of being concerned in the questionable enterprises of that famous man. His wife was lost at sea on her passage from New York to Charleston in 1812. He died Sept. 10, 1816.
Allston, Robert Francis with- Ers
statesman, author, was born April 21, 1801, in All Saint's parish, S. C. He was a Carolina statesman well known at one time as an agricultural reformer. He was the author of Memoir on Rice; Essay on Seacoast Crops; and Report on Public Schools. He died April 7, 1864, near Georgetown, S. C.
Allston, Washington
artist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1779, in Waccamaw, S. C. He was the foremost of American painters in his delineations of sacred history. Jacob's Dream; Elijah in the Desert; and Belshazzar's Feast, the latter on which he was at work when he died, are among his sacred historical paintings. He also possessed poetical talent of a high order, and was the author of Sylphs of the Seasons; Romance of Monaldi; and Lectures on Art. He died July 9, 1843, in Cambridge, Mass.
Allyn, Eunice Eloisae Gibbs
artist, poet, was born near Cleveland, Ohio.
She has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean; was a writer for the St. Louis 'Globe and the New York World; and still contributes both prose and verse to the leading publications of America. She has also won distinction as an artist and lecturer. For eight years she served as president of the Dubuque Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and is prominently identified with various other organizations.
Allyn, John
merchant, was born Sept. 4, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1805 he originated the ice trade; and developed the marvelous processes of harvesting, handling and storing ice, which are still in use wherever natural ice is obtained on a large scale. He died Feb. 6, 1864. in Boston, Mass.
Allyn, Joseph P
jurist, was anative of Connecticut, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona.
Almond, Marcus Blakey
author, was born Aug. 17, 1851, in Stanardsville, Va. For many years he was professor of ancient languages in the male high school of Louisville, Ky., and is now headmaster of the university school of that city. His famous poem, Estelle, is a beautiful story in verse of some fifty pages, and was published in a volume with other poems. His next work was Agricola, an Easter Idyl; and he is the author of several educational works of acknowledged excellence.
Almy, John Jay
naval officer, was born April 25, 1815, in Rhode Island. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1829, advanced to the rank of commodore in 1869; and until 1876 was commander of the Pacific squadron.
Almy, William
educator, philanthropist, was born Feb. 17, 1761, in Providence, R. I. He was a teacher and a member of the society of Friends, and became wealthy through marriage with the only daughter of Moses Brown and resulting business arrangements for the manufacture of cotton goods. One of his most important charities was the establishment of the New England yearly meeting boarding-house in Providence, where he educated at his own expense eighty young persons selected by him.
He devoted large sums to other charitable objects. He died Feb. 5, 1836.
Aldop, George
author, was born in 1638 in England. He published a book with this quaint title: A Character of the Province of Maryland; also a Small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians Susquehanokes of Maryland, their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion, together with a collection of historical letters. or
Alsop, John
merchant, congressman, was born in Middletown, Conn. He was a merchant, and by his ability, patriotism, and integrity secured his election to the continental congress in 1774, serving two years in that body. He died Nov. 22, 1794, in Newtown, N. Y.
Alsop, John
lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1776, in Middletown, Conn. He was admitted to the bar, and began practice in New London. He afterward became a bookseller in Hartford, and still later in New York. His poems were never issued in book form, but appeared in various periodicals and collections. He died Nov. 1, 1841, in Middletown, Conn.
Alsop, Richard
poet, was born Jan. 23, 1761, in Middletown, Conn. He was a witty political satirist who, with Theodore Dwight, wrote The Echo in 1791, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications, orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are: The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; and The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana. He died Aug. 20, 1815, in Flatbush, N. Y.
Alston, Lemuel J
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1807 to 1811.
Alston, William
revolutionary soldier, state senator, was born in 1757 in Charleston, S. C. He was a captain in the revolutionary war; a capable soldier and a zealous patriot. After the war he served for many years in the state senate. He died June 26, 1839.
Alston, William J
congressman, was born in Georgia. Removing to Alabama, he was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Alston, Willis
congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. He appeared in public life as early as 1794, serving in the state legislature for several years. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1799 to 1815, and from 1825 to 1831. He died April 10, 1837.
Alston, Willis
state legislator, congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. In 1794 he was a member of the North Carolina state legislature; and for twenty years was a member of congress.
He died April 10, 1837.
Alt, Gustave Adolph F. W
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 13, 1851, in Baden. He served two years as house surgeon in the New York ophthalmic and aural institute; and in 1887 was made lecturer on ophthalmology and otology in Trinity college. In 1879 he published in Germany, also in New York, The Normal and Pathological Histology of the Human Eye; and in 1883 he founded and edited the first ophthalmological journal, The American Journal of Ophthalmology.