Atwood, Isaac Morgan – Austin, Archibald
Atwood, Isaac Morgan
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1838, in Pembroke, N. Y. He was educated at Lockport, N. Y.; entered the universalist ministry in 1859, and was pastor of churches in New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. Since 1879 he has been president of Canton Theological seminary, St. Lawrence university, where he is also professor of theology and ethics. The degree of A. M. was conferred on him by St. Lawrence university in 1872, and that of D. D. by Tufts in 1879. He was editor of the Boston Universalist in 1867-72, and of the Christian Leader in 1873-75; and has been associate editor of the latter journal since 1875. He is the author of Have We Outgrown Christianity; Glance at the Religious Progress of the United States; Latest Word of Universalism; Walks About Zion; and Manual of Revelation.
Atwood, William A
merchant, state senator, was born April 11, 1835, in Newfane, N. Y. For the past ten years he has been director and vice-president of the Genesee County Savings bank, and in 1881 he was elected mayor of Flint, Mich. He was elected to the Michigan state senate in 1887.
Aubry, Leander J
manufacturer, was born May 1, 1848, in Canada. He is a successful carriage manufacturer of New Haven, Conn.; and manufactures carriages for the best makers in the United States; carries the leading styles of both light and heavy work, and makes special and exclusive designs.
Audenried, Joseph C
soldier, was born Nov. 6, 1839, in Pottsville, Pa. He served through the civil war and was brevetted captain in 1866; lieutenantcolonel, aide-de-camp, in 1866; and colonel aide-de-camp, in 1869. He remained on Gen. Sherman's staff until his death. He died June 3, 1880, in Washington, D. C.
Audsley, George Ashdown
architect, author, was born in 1838 in Scotland. He is a Scottish architect and art writer of note of Plainfield, N. J. With his brother, William James Audsley, he has published Colour in Dress; a Manual for Ladies; Floral Decoration of Churches; Cottage, Lodge, and Village Architecture; Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles; Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, in ten volumes; Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediæval Styles; and (with James Lord Bowes) The Keramic Art of Japan. His separate works include Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting; Handbook of Christian Symbolism; The Art of Chromo-Lithography; Notes on Japanese Art; and The Ornamental Arts of Japan.
Audubon, John James
naturalist, author, was born May 4, 1780, near New Orleans, La. His admirable work, The Birds of America, now in the Astor library, sold for $1,000 a copy, and was pronounced by Cuvier to be the most magnificent monument that art ever raised to ornithology. His other works are Ornithological Biography; and Quadrupeds of America. He died Jan. 27, 1851, in New York city.
Aughey, John H
educator, clergyman, college president, was born May 8, 1828, in New Hartford, N. Y. He graduated from the Franklin college, Ohio, and for nearly half a century has been a minister of the gospel. For many years he was principal of the high school of Winchester, Ky.; has served as president of the Female college, Miss.; and is now pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Mulhall, O. T. He is the author of two works entitled Tupeh, and Spiritual Gems. on
Augur, Christopher Colon
soldier, was born in 1821 in New York. In 1843 he graduated from West Point; and during the next two years served frontier duty. In 1846 he took part in the Mexican war in the advance to the Rio Grande. In 1852 he was promoted captain; and served with great ability in the Indian troubles in Oregon during 1855-56. He served with distinction through the civil war; and in 1865 received the brevet of brigadier-general; and also the brevet of major-general. He commanded at Washington during 1863- 66, and was promoted colonel of the twelfth infantry. In 1869 he was made brigadier-general of the United States army; and was retired in 1885. His son, Jacob Arnold Augur, is also a graduate of West Point, and a captain in the fifth United States cavalry.
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Augur, Hezekiah
sculptor, was born Feb. 12, 1791, in New Haven, Conn.
He was unsuccessful in business, and turned his attention to sculpture and mechanical inventions. His best work, Jeptha and His Daughter, is in the Trumbull gallery, Yale college. His most important invention was a machine for carving wood, which came into general use. died Jan. 10, 1858, in New Haven, Conn.
Augustin, John
soldier, author, was born Feb. 11, 1838, in New Orleans, La. His volume, War Flowers, is a collection of poems that were written by him during his service in the confederate army. He held at different times the city editorship of nearly every newspaper of New Orleans. He died Feb. 5, 1888.
Augustine, Ogden W
musician, composer, was born in 1841 in Franklin county, Ohio. He was educated under private teachers. He is teacher of voice culture and music in the public schools; and the author of a considerable number of Sunday school singing books and works for classes and musical conventions.
Augustus, John
philanthropist, was born in 1785. He was a shoemaker, doing business in Boston, and devoted his means and his labors to aiding and reclaiming the poor and the vicious. For more than twenty years he was a constant visitor to the police courts, seeking subjects for his charitable efforts. He died June 21, 1859, in Boston, Mass.
Auhl, Mrs. Alice B
florist, poet.
Her poems are generally on floral subjects, and have appeared extensively in the press of Iowa. She is also the author of a work on the subject of Flowers.
Auld, Isaac N
lawyer, journalist, was born March 20, 1858, in Benton county, Iowa. He graduated from the Tillto purchase supplies for the United States steamers in Japan, and to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce with that empire; and commenced the important work which was completed by Commodore M. C. Perry. He died April 27, 1873, in Washington, D. C.
Aull, Elbert H
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Aug. 18, 1857, in Newberry county, S. C. In 1880 he graduated from the Newberry college. He taught school after graduation, and for two years was professor in the Newberry college. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar, and for three years practiced that profession with success. In 1886 he became the editor and owner of the Newberry Herald News. He was president of the South Carolina Press association for three years; and is the author of several historical works; a School History of South Carolina; and other works.
Ault, John S
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 3, 1841, in New Philadelphia, Mo. He received his education in the public schools of Illinois; and graduated from the Colonel Wing Law school of Salem, Mo. He has been a lieutenant of cavalry, justice of the peace, mayor of Salem, Mo.; besides filling numerous other offices of trust. He has attained success as an able lawyer of his state.
Aultman, Cornelius
manufacturer, was born March 10, 1827. In 1851 he entered into partnership with Ephraim Ball, an ingenious inventor, in the firm of Ball, Aultman and Co., and engaged in the manufacture of the plows and stoves patented by Mr. Ball. Being a man of marked executive ability, Mr.
Aultman devoted his attention to the general affairs of the firm, while Mr. Ball continued to invent new devices, which the firm took charge of and manufactured. The Ohio mower, the World mower and reaper, the Buckeye mower, and the New American harvester were brought out successively, and were manufactured in enormous quantities. After 1872 the style was changed to C. Aultman and Co. Having accumulated more means than could be employed to advantage in his own business, Mr. Aultman invested his surplus resources in various industrial concerns, including the Wrought Iron Bridge company, the Mansfield Mower and Reaper works, and Aultman, Miller and Co., of Akron, Ohio. He died Dec. 25, 1884, in Canton, Ohio.
Auringer, Obadiah Cyrus
clergyman, author, was born June 4, 1849, in Glens Falls, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York state, whose writings in verse include Scythe and Sword; The Heart of the Golden Roan; The Episode of Jane McCrea; and The Book of the Hills.
Austen, Peter Townsend
educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1852, in Clifton, N. Y. He has been professor of chemistry at Rutgers college since 1877; and has contributed much to scientific journals, and published Chemical Lecture Notes; and Organic Chemistry, from the German of Pinner.
Austill, Hurieosco
soldier, lawford Collegiate academy of Vinton, Iowa.yer, legislator, was born Feb. 16, 1843, In 1882 he moved to Plankinton, S. D., where he was city auditor for three terms. In 1892 he moved to Oacoma, and there established the Gazette-Leader, of which he is editor and owner. He was twice elected register of deeds; and then became state's attorney for the district comprising five adjoining counties.
Aulick, John H
naval officer, was born in 1789, in Winchester, Va. In 1851 he was empowered to obtain permission in Mobile, Ala., which has always been his place of residence. He graduated from the university of Alabama, and soon attained success as an eminent lawyer.
During the war he served as a captain in the confederate army. He has been a member of the Alabama state senate, and served with distinction in that body.
Austin, Archibald
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1817 to 1819.