Averell, William Woods – Avery, William T
Averell, William Woods
soldier, was born Nov. 5, 1832, in Cameron, N. Y.
He was engaged with the army of the Potomac in its most important campaigns. In March, 1863, he began the series of cavalry raids in western Virginia that made his name famous. He started with a force of 5,000 men and drove the confederates out of Greenbrier county, capturing three guns and about one hundred prisoners. In December he was again in motion, advancing with a strong force into southwestern Virginia. In Dec. 16 he struck the Virginia and Tennessee railroad at Salem, Gen. Longstreet's base of supplies. He destroyed the railroad, severing an important line of communication between the confederate generals Lee and Bragg, and burned a large quantity of provisions, clothing, and military equipments.
Averett, Thomas H
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a resident of Halifax county; and was elected a representative in congress from the third district in that state, from 1849 to 1853.
Averill, John T
manufacturer, general, state senator, congressman, was born March 1, 1825, in Alna, Maine. He completed his studies at the Maine Wesleyan university; was a manufacturer; and was elected to the state senate of Minnesota in 1858-59. He entered the union army in 1862 as lieutenant-colonel of the sixth Minnesota infantry, and was mustered out in 1865, as brigadier-general of volunteers. He was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
Avery, Alexander R
lawyer, was born Nov. 14, 1846, in Canada. He began the practice of law at Port Huron, Mich.; and was appointed city attorney in 1876; was prosecuting attorney in 1884-87; and in 1891 he was appointed postmaster; and in 1881 was elected great commander of the order of the Knights of Maccabees.
Avery, Alida Cornelia
physician, was born June 11, 1833, in Sherburne, N.
Y. She taught in sundry schools in New York state; was resident physician and professor of physiology and hygiene in Vassar college from 1865-74; and president of the Colorado State Suffrage association in 1876-77.
Avery, Alphonso Calhoun
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 11, 1837, in Morganton, N. C. He entered the army in 1861, and was commissioned first lieutenant; in 1862 was elected captain; and the same year was appointed major and assistant adjutant-general. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law, and in 1888 he was nominated associate justice of the supreme court of North Carolina for a term of eight years.
Avery, Benjamin Franklin
manufacturer, was born Dec. 3, 1801, in Aurora, N. Y. The principal products of his industry were cotton sweeps, and chilled, wheel gang, shovel, steel, subsoil and sulky plows. The old firm are now incorporated with a capital of $1,500,000, the stock being owned almost wholly by the Avery family. The founder was a man of great force of character and business genius and became one of the most highly regarded citizens of Louisville, Ky.
Avery, Benjamin Parke
journalist, author, was born in 1829, in New York city. He was a Californian journalist who was appointed minister to China in 1874; and was the author of Californian Pictures. in Prose and Verse. He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Art association. He died on Nov. 8, 1875, in Pekin, China.
Avery, Catharine Hitchcock Tilden
educator, author, was born Dec. 13, 1844, in Monroe, Mich. In 1867 she graduated from the Framingham Normal school of Massachusetts; and attained success in educational work. In 1870 she was married to Dr. Leroy M.
Avery, the author of a series of textbooks on natural philosophy and chemistry. She is president of the East End Conversational club of Cleveland, Ohio; and has held high positions in various organizations of that city.
Avery, Daniel
congressman, was elected a representative from Cayuga county in con congress from New York from 1811 to 1815; and again from 1816 to 1817.
Avery, Elroy Mckendree
Ph. D., LL. D., soldier, journalist, legislator, author, was born July 14, 1844, in Erie, Mich. He served with distinction through the civil war; enlisted in the first company that went from Monroe to the front, and was promoted to sergeantmajor. During his military service he also acted as correspondent of the Detroit Daily Tribune. In 1871 he graduated from the university of Michigan; and during his collegiate course was engaged in journalistic work. Early in life he taught school, and in 1871 became superintendent of public schools of East Cleveland, Ohio; then principal of the East High school, and subsequently of the Normal school. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Ohio state legislature, and received the re-election in 1895. He is the author of Avery's Elements of Physics; Avery's Elements of Natural Philosophy; School Physics; Elementary Physics; and First Lessons in Physical Science. For the past ten years he has given most of his time to the preparation of a Popular History of the United States, soon to be published in eight octavo volumes, with maps and illustrations.
Avery, Isaac Wheeler
lawyer, journalist, author, was born May 2, 1837, in St. Augustine, Fla. He held a successful law practice in Dalton, Ga., but in 1869 removed to Atlanta and became the chief editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
He is the author of Digest of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports; and a History of Georgia.
Avery, John
physician, surgeon, congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1824, in Watertown, N. Y. He removed to Michigan in 1836; graduated from Cleveland Medical college in 1850, and has been in the active practice of his profession since that time. He was assistant surgeon and surgeon of the twenty-first Michigan infantry; served in the army of the Cumberland in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea.
He was member of the state legislature from Montcalm county in 1869- 70; was appointed member of the state board of health in 1880 and reappointed in 1886, and for the last six years has been president of the board. He has been a United States pension examiner for the last sixteen years, member of the Stanton board of United States examiners for six years, and president of the board for the last three years; has been member of the school board and common council of the city of Greenville; and has been annually elected for twelve years supervisor of the first ward. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Avery, Omer H
lawyer, legislator, was born April 3, 1854, in Lincoln county, Mo. He was educated in the public schools and at the state university; elected public administrator of Lincoln county in 1880, and prosecuting attorney in 1888; and was a member of the thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth general assembly of the Missouri state legislature.
Avery, Oscar F
soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 19, 1841, in Hillsdale county, Mich., and entered Hillsdale college in 1860. In 1861 he left school and enlisted in the eleventh Michigan infantry, company B, and served until November, 1865, when he was mustered out. He participated in the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga. He has served with distinction as a member of the Illinois state legislature.
Avery, Rachel Foster
woman suffragist, was born Dec. 30, 1858, in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1871 she became identified with the Citizens' Suffrage association of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1881 she planned the series of ten conventions to be held in the different New England states; in 1882 she conducted the Nebraska amendment campaign; and in 1883 went to Europe with Susan B. Anthony and traveled through nearly all the European countries in the interests of woman suffrage. She is at the head of almost every movement of the National Woman Suffrage association; and contributes extensively to current literature.
Avery, Rosa Miller
reformer, was born May 21, 1830, in Madison, Ohio.
During the years of the war her pen was actively engaged in writing for various journals on the subject of union and emancipation. For nearly twenty years she has resided in Chicago, and many of her ably-written articles and responses to the opponents of franchise for women have appeared from time to time in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Avery, Samuel P
artist, was born March 17, 1822, in New York city. He founded the Avery Architectural library at Columbia college, New York city; and is the author of an article entitled Progress of the Fine Arts in New York During Fifty Years.
Avery, Waitstill
lawyer, patriot, was born May 3, 1745, in Groton, Conn.
In 1775, he was a delegate to the congress at Hillsborough which organized the military force of the state. In the summer of 1776, he joined the army of Gen. Rutherford in the Cherokee nation, and was a commissioner at the treaty of Holston, which gave peace to the western frontier.
In the fall of 1776, he was again a member of the state congress. In 1781 he moved to Burke county, which he represented many years in the state legislature. He was the first state attorney-general of North Carolina in 1777. He died March 15, 1821, in Burke county, N. C.
Avery, William T
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 11, 1819, in Maury county, Tenn. He was a lawyer by profession; was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1843; and held several creditable positions in his native state.
He was chosen a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.