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Tourgee, Albion Wimegar

lawyer, jurist, diplomat, author, was born May 2, 1838, in Williamsfield, Ohio. He received his education at the Kingsville academy and the Rochester university. During the civil war he was first lieutenant in the one hundred and fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry.

During 1868-76 he was judge of the superior court of the seventh district of North Carolina; has been code commissioner; and was a member of the constitutional conventions of North Carolina in 1868 and in 1874. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley as minister to He is the author of A Fool's Errand, his most noted work, and the following books: A Royal Gentleman; Figs and Thistles; Bricks Without Straw; John Eax; Hot Plowshares; Black Ice; Button's Inn; Pactolus Prime; Murvale Eastman; With Gauge and Swallow; A Son of Old Harry; Out of the Sunset Sea; The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House; An Outing with the Queen of Hearts; An Appeal to Cæsar; The Veteran and His Pipe; The Man of Destiny; Letters to a King; The Story of a Thousand; The War of the Standards; The Code with Notes; Digest of Cited Cases; and The Bystander, in the Chicago Inter Ocean since 1886.