Angell, Joseph Kinnicut – Antony, Edwin Le Roy
Angell, Joseph Kinnicut
author, was born April 30, 1794, in Providence, R. I. He was a legal writer of Rhode Island, among whose works are Treatise on the Common Law of Watercourses; The Law of Tide Waters; and The Limitation of Actions. He died May 1, 1857, in Boston, Mass.
Angell, William Gorham
inventor, was born Nov. 21, 1811, in Providence, R. I. In 1838 he became manager of the Eagle Screw company, which subsequently was merged into the American Screw company. His inventive mind was fertile in expedients for the improvement of machinery; and he was also a successful architect and builder, and a good draughtsman. H e He was the inventor of the famous screw-making machine, which has revolutionized that business. He was a liberal supporter of public charities. He died May 30, 1870, in Providence, R. I.
His son, Edwin Gorham Angell, now conducts the business.
Angwin, Mattie W
poet, was born Aug. 31, 1850, in Darke county, Ohio. She is a writer of Mount Vernon, Mo.; and her poems have appeared in the Toledo Blade and other prominent publications.
Ansbacher, Adolph Benedict
manufacturer, was born Oct. 4, 1832, in Germany. In 1852 he emigrated to New York and established a mercantile house, which was one of the foremost in that line of business.
Ansorge, Charles
musician, was born in 1807 in Germany. He taught music in an asylum at South Boston; and in 1863 became conductor of several musical colleges in Chicago, Ill. He wrote musical and political articles for several newspapers and periodicals. He died Oct. 28, 1866, in Chicago, Ill.
Anspach, Frederick Rinehart
clergyman, author, was born in January, 1815, in Central, Pa. He was a lutheran clergyman of Hagerstown, Md.; and is the author of Sons of the Sires; Sepulchres of Our Departed; and The Two Pilgrims.
He died Sept. 16, 1867, in Baltimore, Md.
Anthon, Charles
educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1797, in New York city.
He was a noted classical scholar, for many years professor of ancient languages at Columbia college. He was the author of some fifty classical text-books, including a Classical Dictionary. He died July 29, 1867, in New York city.
Anthon, John
jurist, author, was born May 14, 1784, in Detroit, Mich. He was a jurist of New York city, and the author of Essay on the Study of Law; and Analysis of Blackstone. He died March 5, 1863, in New York city.
Anthony, Andrew Varick Stout
artist, was born in 1835 in New York city. Among his best-known works are the illustrations for Whittier's Snow Bound; Ballads of New England; and Mabel Martin; Longfellow's Skeleton in Armor; and Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
Anthony, Augusta
lecturer, author, was born May 25, 1844, in Rockland, Mass. As a lecturer she has gained eminent success in California. Mrs. Anthony is the author of several prose works and numerous poems of merit, and many of her poems have been set to music.
Anthony, Charles Edward
numismatist, was born Dec. 6, 1822, in New York city. He was a son of John Anthon; was graduated at Columbia college in 1839, and from 1853 until 1883 he held the chair of history and belleslettres in the college of the city of New York. He was an enthusiastic collector of coins, and owned one of the most valuable collections ever gathered in the United States. For some time he was president of the American numismatic society. He died June 7, 1883, in New York city.
Anthony, Cyrus A
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 29, 1839, in Hackettstown, N. J. He served four years in the fifty-first lilinois infantry, rising from private to captain. He moved to Missouri in 1870; prosecuting attorney of Nodaway county 1875-76; elected to the thirty-first general assembly; twice appointed on committees to settle with the state treasury; elected to the thirty-third general assembly; elected judge of the twentyninth circuit in 1886; and re-elected in 1892.
Anthony, Daniel Read
pioneer journalist, was born Aug. 22, 1824, in South Adams, Mass. He visited the state of Kansas in 1854, and while there helped to found the city of Lawrence. He located in Kansas at Leavenworth, and in 1863 was elected mayor of that city. He is the owner of the Leavenworth Times, now one of the most extensive newspaper establishments in the west.
Anthony, George Christian
lawyer, educator, was born March 19, 1820, in Red Hook, N. Y. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Henry Anthon; was graduated at Columbia college in 1839; studied law, and was admitted to practice at the New York bar. He removed to New Orleans and there began teaching, but returned to New York and was appointed professor of Greek in the university of the city of New York. He established the Anthon grammar school in 1854, and was its principal until his death. He died Aug. 11, 1877, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Anthony, George T
statesman.
He was governor of Kansas from 1877 to 1879.
Anthony, Henry B
United States senator, was born April 1, 1815, in Coventry, Boston. He graduated at Brown university in 1833; in 1838 he assumed the editorial charge of the Providence Journal, which he retained until called to a seat in the United States senate.
He was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1849; reelected in 1850; and declined a further re-election; and was a elected a senator in congress in 1859, and served until his death; was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1871.
He was a member of the national committee appointed to accompany the remains of President Lincoln to Illinois; was one of the senators designated by the senate to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866; was also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866.
He died Sept. 2, 1884, in Providence, R. I.
Anthony, John Gould
naturalist, author, was born May 17, 1804, in Providence, R. I. He accompanied Agassiz on the Thayer expedition to Brazil in 1865.
He was recognized as an authority on the American land and fresh water mollusca.
He died Oct. 16, 1877, in Cambridge, Mass.
Anthony, Joseph B
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1838. He died Jan. 17, 1851, in Williamsport, Pa.
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Anthony, Philip Frederick
patriot, statesman, was born July 2, 1730.
He held several public offices; was a member of the provincial council and of the general and state assemblies; judge of the court of common pleas; and a colonel of state militia. He was so conspicuous and ardent a patriot during the revolution that. the British offered a reward for his head. In 1776, in company with a Mr. Potts, at Warwick furnace, he successfully cast an eighteen-pounder, the first cannon ever made in America. died Sept. 20, 1801, in Lancaster, Pa.
Anthony, Susan Brownell
woman suffragist, was born Feb. 15, 1820, in South Adams, Mass. Her father was a Quaker, and was proprietor of a small cotton mill, in which his daughter worked from an early age. Subsequently she attended school in Philadelphia, and taught school in the state of New York. She has participated in temperance and reformatory movements. She is chiefly known as an ardent supporter of the political enfranchisement of women. At one time she edited a paper in New York called The Revolution.
Anthony, William Arnold
educator, lecturer, electrical engineer, was born Nov. 17, 1835, in Coventry, R. I.
For fifteen years during 1872-87 he was professor of physics at Cornell university, where he planned and equipped the physical laboratory building, and organized and had charge of the department of electrical engineering. He is now a consulting electrical engineer of New York city; and part author of a Text-Book of Physics; and numerous papers presented before technical societies and in scientific periodicals.
Anthony, William Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 2, 1827, in New York city. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and soon became distinguished in its practice. In 1851 he served as member of the state legislature, and during the civil war he was judgeadvocate-general on Gov. E. D. Morgan's staff. He died Nov. 7, 1875, in New York city.
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1852, near Waynesboro, Ga. He was admitted to practice in the courts of that state Jan. 8, 1874, and at once entered upon the duties of his profession; two years later he was elected county attorney of his county, the first under the constitution of 1876, being also ex-officio district attorney for his county; in 1886, during the illness of the regular district judge, he filled that office as special judge; in 1892, while an alderman of his city, was nominated and elected, June 14, 1892, to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. At the expiration of his term he returned to his home and resumed the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged. He was, and still is, an ardent supporter and admirer of President Cleveland, and is of the school of politics known as gold standard democrats. In 1876 he was married to Miss Augusta Houghton, a native Texan, and a daughter of Judge Joel A. Houghton, of Georgetown, Tex.