Avery, William W – Babbitt, Edwin B
Avery, William W
lawyer, state senator, was born May 25, 1816, in Suan Ponds, N. C. He was speaker of the North Carolina senate in 1856; and was again elected in 1860. In 1861 he was elected by the convention as one of the members from the state at large of the provisional congress of the confederate states. He died July 3, 1864, in Morgantown, N. C.
Ax, Christian
manufacturer, was born Nov. 12, 1823, in Prussia. Coming to America in 1851 he was employed as a traveling salesman by George W. Gail, manufacturer of smoking tobacco, to whom he proved so valuable an aid that, in 1855, Mr. Gail admitted him to partner- ➤ ship. The firm of G. W. Gail and Ax developed during the life of Mr. Ax one of the largest manufacturing plants of its class in the country. It is now identified with The American Tobacco Co. He died March 20, 1887.
Axtell, John T
physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 11, 1856, in Roseville, Ill.
He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of Kansas; in 1879-80 attended the university of Michigan; and in 1883 graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college.
For many years he filled the chair of orthopedic surgery in the college of Physicians and Surgeons (university of Kansas City). He is the proprietor of the Axtell hospital of Newton, Kan., and one of the most prominent men in the medical profession of that state.
Axtell, Samuel B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 14, 1819, in Franklin county, Ohio. He was educated at Oberlin, and Western Reserve colleges; studied and practiced law; emigrated to California in 1851; and was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
In 1874 he was appointed governor of Utah; in 1875 was appointed to the same position in New Mexico; in 1876 was selected as one of the judges at the Centennial exhibition; and in 1882 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Mexico.
Aycrigg, John B
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was a presidential elector; and was a candidate for election to the twenty-sixth congress. was or-
Ayer, Franklin Deming
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1832, in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He graduated from Dartmouth college and the Andover Theological seminary. He dained in 1861, and has filled pastorates in the congregational church at Milford, N. H., during 1861- 67; and at the First Congregational church at Concord since 1867. During 1871-80 he was secretary of the New Hampshire General association; is trustee of the New Hampshire Home Missionary society; president of the New Hampshire Prisoners' Aid society since 1881; and moderator of the General association of New Hampshire since 1887. He is the author of History of the First Church of Concord, N. H.; several published sermons; and many articles in current literature. His church is one of the oldest and strongest in the state.
Ayer, Frederick
manufacturer, was born Dec. 8, 1822, in Ledyard, Conn.
In 1855 Mr. Ayer retired to join his brother in the manufacture of Ayer's Proprietary Medicines in the firm of J. C. Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass., and was made treasurer of the company. In 1885 he bought The Washington Mills of Lawrence; was president for the first year, and has been treasurer ever since. The company employs three thousand two hundred hands. position he held for three years, serving at the first battles of Bull Run, Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill. In 1865 he removed to Virginia; in 1867 was elected a delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention; and was elected to the fortyfirst congress.
Aylsworth, William Prince
clergyman, theologian, was born Dec. 12, 1844, in Cuba, Ill. He attended the Chicago university and Bethany college, receiving the degrees of B. A. and M. A. from the latter institution, and LL. D. from Cotner university. He has held pastorates at Angola and Fort Wayne, Ind., and in Columbus, Ohio. He was president of the Fairfield college, and is now president of Cotner university of Lincon, Neb.
Ayer, Frederick Fanning
lawyer, was born Sept. 12, 1851, in Lowell, Mass. Upon his father's death in 1878 Mr. Ayer became the manager of the great properties which his father had created.
Ayres, Alfred
author, was born He has displayed Feb. 26, 18-, in Montrose, Ohio. He is business ability of a the author of The Orthoepist; The Verbalhigh order, and his ist; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; and previous legal train-The Essentials of Elocution. He has also ing has aided to make him a successful financier. Among many philanthropic acts, it is told of him that in 1890 he gave $5,000 for books for a public library in the town house of Ayer, and later built for the town the Ayer Memorial Library building, at a cost of about $40,000. He is a director of The Lake Superior Ship Canal Railway and Iron Co., The Portage Lake and River Improvement Co., The Lowell and Andover railroad, The J. C.
Ayer Co., The Tribune association in New York, and the Tremont and Suffolk mills.
Ayer, Harriet Hubbard
business woman, journalist, was born in 1852, in Chicago, Ill. She graduated from the convent of the Sacred Heart. She became a business woman of the highest type in New York city; and rapidly made a fortune from her Recamier preparation.
The Recamier company, of which she is the president and chief owner, now occupies a five-story building in New York city, and employs nearly a hundred people.
Ayer, James Cook
manufacturer, was born May 5, 1818, in Groton, Conn., which city now bears the name of Ledyard. He has become famous as a manufacturer of proprietary medicines, and as an organizer and financier. In his veins ran the blood of old American families, distinguished for personal character and active interest in public affairs. Frederick Ayer, his father, who served as a soldier of the war of 1812 and died in 1825, was a son of Elisha Ayer, a hero of the American revolution. Ayer's Almanac was given away by the millions of copies.
The principal remedies prepared by Dr.
Ayer were his Cherry Pectoral, Sarsaparilla, Ague Cure, Hair Vigor, and Pills. A large laboratory was built to accommodate the growing manufacture, and was expanded until it gave employment to nearly three hundred persons. In 1874 he received the republican nomination for congress. He left a fortune of twenty million dollars. He died July 3, 1878, in Winchendon, Mass.
Ayer, John A
banker, was born Aug. 2, 1847, in Jacksonville, Ill. He attended the Illinois college; and has attained success in business affairs in his native city; where he is a prominent banker.
Ayer, Richard S
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1829, in Waldo county, Maine. He engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits; at the breaking out of the rebellion enlisted as a private in the fourth Maine volunteers, and was promoted to a captaincy, which attained success as a dramatist and actor.
Ayres, Anne
author, was born in 1816, in England. She was the first member of an American sisterhood in the protestant episcopal church, becoming a sister of the Holy Communion in 1845.
She was the author of Evangelical Sisterhoods; and Life of W. H. Muhlenberg. She died in 1896.
Ayres, Romeyn Beck
soldier, was born Dec. 20, 1825, in East Creek, N. Y.
He served during the civil war, and in 1864 was made major-general of volunteers, for conspicuous gallantry in the battles of the Virginia campaign. He died Dec. 4, 1888, in Fort Hamilton, N. Y.
Baart, P. A
priest, was born in 1858 in Coldwater, Mich. In 1881 he was ordained to the priesthood; and in 1890 was appointed one of the four irremovable rectors of the Detroit diocese, and also chosen one of the examiners of the clergy.
Babb, Washington I
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 2, 1844, in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from the Wesleyan university. He was elected a member of the Iowa state legislature; has served as district judge of the second judicial district; and was the democratic candidate for governor of Iowa in 1895.
Babbitt, B. T
manufacturer, was born in 1809, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He discovered a new process for making saleratus at a great saving of cost, and in a few years acquired control of the trade of the whole country. He also manufactured soda and potash. In 1858 he began the manufacture of soap, from which he amassed a fortune. He died Oct. 20, 1889, in New York.
Babbitt, Clinton
farmer, public official, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1831, in Westmoreland, N. H. He received a common school education and graduated from Keene academy, New Hampshire; removed to Wisconsin in 1853; is by occupation a farmer and breeder of blooded stock, and resides on his farm, giving his personal attention to that business. He was for several years secretary of Wisconsin State Agricultural society; was elected alderman, and was one of the members of the first city council of Beloit. He was appointed postmaster of Beloit in 1886; was democratic candidate for congress in 1880; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Babbitt, Edwin B
soldier, was born about 1802 in Connecticut. He was brevetted brigadier-general for his services on March 13, 1865. He died Dec. 10, 1881, in Fortress Monroe.