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ALFORD, William Hays, lawyer; b. Bowie Co., Tex., Sept. 14, 1866; s. Benjamin Michael and Josephine M. A.; chmn. Dem. State Com. Calif., 1896; mem. Calif. legislature, 1893; Dem. nominee for Congress, 7th dist., Calif., 1894; candidate U. S. senate, 1899; distinguished as a jury lawyer. Unmarried. Residence: Olympic Club. Office: Clunie Bldg., San Francisco. ALFRIEND, Edward Morrisson, dramatist; b. Richmond, Va., Oct. 25, 1843; s. Thomas M. and Mary Ann A.; ed. William and Mary Coll., Williamsburg, Va. married. Author: A Woman's Ordeal, 1877; A Foregone Conclusion, 1889; The Louisianian, 1891; Across the Potomac, 1892; Diplomats, 1894; The Great Diamond Robbery, 1895; His Double Life, 1896; New York, 1897. Address: Ashland House, New York. ALGER, Russell Alexander, ex-sec. of War of U. S.; b. Lafayette Tp., Medina Co., O., Feb. 27, 1836; orphaned at 11 yrs. of age, and for 7 yrs. worked on farm, earning money to defray expenses at Richfield (O.) Acad. during winters. Taught school 2 winters; admitted to bar, 1859; began practice in Cleveland; removed to Mich., Jan. 1, 1860; began lumbering in a small way; enlisted, Sept. 2, 1861, and served as capt. and maj. 2d Mich., lt.-col. 6th Mich., col. 5th Mich. cav.; bvtd. brig.-gen. and maj.-gen. vols. In lumber business after war; head of Alger, Smith & Co., and Manistique Lumbering Co., which owns and operates extensive timber tracts and mills in Mich. and Minn. Was gov. Mich., 1885 and 1886; a leading candidate for pres. in Rep. Nat. Conv., 1888; 1 term comdr. -in-chief G. A. R.; Sec. of War of U. S., 1897-9, resigned. Home: Detroit.

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ALGER, William Rounseville, Unitarian clergyman; b. Freetown, Mass., Dec. 28, 1822; grad. Harvard Theol. School, 1847 (A. M., Harvard, 1852); m. 1847, Anne Langdon Lodge, Boston. Filled pastorates Roxbury, Mass.; Boston; New York; Denver; Chicago; Portland, Me., and returned to Boston. Author: Symbolic History of the Cross; The School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Genius of Solitude; The Friendships of Women; Poet-. ry of the Orient; Life of Edwin Forrest; Sources of Consolation in Human Life; etc. Address: 6 Brimmer St., Boston. ALI FERROUH BEY, E. E. & M. P. of Turkey to U. S. since March, 1895; b. Constantinople, 1865; degree of licentiate from Nat. Univ., Constantinople; diploma of Ecole de Sciences Politiques et Morales, Paris. Was sec. of embassy at Paris, London and Bucharest; counsellor of embassy in St. Petersburgh. Author: Public and Private International Law; History of Turkey; History of Arabia. Address: Cleveland Park, D. C. ALLAN, William Temple, D. D., P. E. clergyman; b. Clarke Co., Va., Dec. 15, 1855; descended from Robert Allan, who settled in Va. 1834; attended common schools until 17 yrs. of age; at Theol. Sem. of Va., 2 yrs.; taught in public schools of W. Va., and Ch. School of Seguin, Tex.; 2 yrs. at Univ. of the South. Ordained deacon, 1880;

priest, 1883, San Antonio, Tex. Built the church at Boerne, Tex., and at Gadsden, Ala.; had charge of St. John's Ch., Ft. Smith, Ark., 2d in size in State; erected a handsome stone church there; sec. bd. of mgrs. diocesan missions; mem. standing com. diocese of Ark.; delegate to Gen. Conv., 1898; chaplain Ben. T. Duval Camp, Confederate Veterans, 5 yrs.; chaplain Am. Guild, 4 yrs.; chaplain Battery B of Ft. Smith, Ark., organized for war with Spain; state missioner of Ark. for Foreign and Domestic Missionary Soc. of New York; became rector Christ Ch., Springfield, Mo., Feb. 10, 1899; chaplain Actors' Ch. Alliance; chaplain Blue Lodge of Masons; mem. Archæol. and Palæontol. Soc., Univ. of Pa., apptd. div. chaplain Sons of Confederate Address: Veterans of Mo., Feb. 20, 1901. Springfield, Mo.

ALLEN, Addison, lawyer; b. New York, Feb. 28, 1865; s. John Hull and Mary (Hill) A., lineal descendant of Gen. Ethan Allen and Joseph Addison; ed. Leonard Acad., Essex Co., N. J.; Grammar School, New York School of Languages; Amherst Coll., 1884-7; grad. Columbia, 1888, M. A., 1889; grad. Columbia Coll. Law School, cum laude, 1889; unmarried. In ins., iron and stock brokerage business, 1881-4; admitted to N. Y. bar, May 16, 1889; traveled through every country of Europe, 1889-91; has spoken on stump in every campaign since 1884; practicing law since 1891; mem. Sons Am. Revolution, Columbia Coll. Alumni Assn., Alpha Delta Phi, and Quill Clubs. Wrote articles in The Educator: Language As a Study, 1887; Railroads, 1887; My Summer Home, 1887; The Owl and the Kitten, 1887; The City, 1887; contributor to Sag Harbor Express on European Travel, 1897-9. Residence: 31 E. 127th St. Office: 120 Broadway, New York. ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, prof. ch. history, Episcopal Theol. School, since 1867; b. Otis, Mass., May 4, 1841; s. Rev. Ethan and Lydia Child (Burr) A.; grad. Kenyon Coll., 1862; Andover Theol. Sem., 1865 (D. D., Harvard, 1886); m. 1872, Elizabeth Kent Stone (died, 1892). Ordained priest in P. E. Ch., 1805. Author: Continuity of Christian Thought, 1884 H5; Life of Jonathan Edwards, 1889 H5; Religious Progress, 1893 H5; Christian Institutions, 1897 S3; Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks, 1900 D4. Has contributed theol. and biog. articles to reviews and mags. Address: 2 Phillips Pl., Cambridge, Mass.

ALLEN, Alfred, author, playwright; b. Alfred, N. Y., April 8, 1866; s. Rev. Dr. J. A., pres. Alfred Univ.; grad. Alfred Univ. (A. B. and A. M.); also studied at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Columbia univs.; sp'l studies Am. Acad. Dramatic Arts, New England Conservatory of Music; unmarried. Prof. at Alfred Univ.; teacher in Baltimore, 4 yrs.; geologist State Survey of N. Y.; owner of mines in Ga. and Fla., 5 yrs.; editor and publisher of "Florida," "2 yrs.; editor, 2 yrs., "Dramatic Studies"; prof. de Mille and Alberti schools, and Am. Acad. of Dramatic Arts. Pres. N. Y. Johns Hopkins Alumni, 3 yrs. Author: (Novels): The

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Heart of Don Vega; Judge Lynch; Chivalry;
The Cup of Victory, (with Richard Hovey);
The Triumph of Todd, (with Theodore Burt
Sayre). Plays (produced): Jack the Giant
Killer; A Burglar Honeymoon; Playmates;
Head of the House. Has contributed short
stories to Cosmopolitan, Criterion, South-
ern, Harper's and other mags. Address: 316
W. 57th St., New York.

ALLEN, Amos L., congressman; b. Water-
borough, Me., March 17, 1837; grad. Bow-
doin Coll., 1860; studied law Columbian Law
School; admitted to bar York Co., Me., 1866;
clerk U. S. Treasury Dept., 3 yrs.; clerk of
courts, York Co., Me., 1870-83; clerk judi-
ciary com., U. S. Ho. of Reps., 1883-4; sp'l
examiner pension bureau, 1884-5; mem. leg-
islature, 1886-7; delegate at large, and mem.
com. on resolutions, Rep. Nat. Conv., St.
Louis, 1896; private sec. Speaker Thomas B.
Reed, 1893-6; succeeded him as mem. 56th
Congress, 1st Me. dist; re-elected to 57th
Congress; Rep. Home: Alfred, Me.
ALLEN, Andrew Hussey, chief Bureau
Rolls and Library, Dept. of State of U. S.;
b. New York, Dec. 6, 1855; grad. Harvard,
1878; lawyer by profession, but has never
practiced; disbursing agt. court of comm'rs
of Alabama Claims, 1882-5; mem. U. S. Bd.
on Geographic Names since Sept. 4, 1890; ac-
tive
Am. Hist. Soc.; inaugurated
Sept., 1893, and is editor Bulletin of Rolls
and Library of Dept. of State, as a medium
for publication of catalogues, indexes and
important papers of the National Archives;
now editing, in the Bulletin, the Documen-
tary History of the U. S. Constitution. Un-
married. Author: Official Relations of
United States with the Hawaiian Islands,
from the First Appointment of a Consular
Office there by the United States Govern-
ment, 1893 W8; The Historical Archives of
the Department of State, 1895 W8; Method
of Recognition of Foreign Governments and
Foreign States by the Government of the
United States, 1897 W8. Residence: 1500 Ver-
mont Av. Office: Dept. of State, Washington,
D. C.

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ALLEN, Charles, justice supreme judicial
Greenfield,
b.
1882-1898;
court of Mass.,
Mass., April 17, 1827; grad. Harvard Univ.,
1847 (LL. D., 1892). Practiced law in Green-
field till 1862, after that in Boston. Reporter
Court, Mass.,
Decisions, Supreme Jud.
1861-7; atty.-gen. of Mass., 1867-72; chmn.
of Comm'n to Revise Statutes of Mass., 1881.
Author: Allen's Mass. Reports (14 vols.),
Ad-
1861-9; Telegraph Cases, 1873; Notes on the
Bacon-Shakespeare Question, 1900 H5.
dress: Boston.

ALLEN, Charles Dexter, editor "In Lan-
b. Windsor
tern-Land" since Dec., 1898;

Locks, Conn., May 8, 1865; ed. in common
and high schools, Hartford, Conn.; is by oc-
cupation a banker. Author: American Book
Plates, 1894 M1; A Classified List of Early
American Book Plates, 1894; Ex Libris, Es-
says of a Collector, 1896 L2. Wrote article
on book plates in 1899; edit. Appleton's Cy-
Mem. Authors Club, New York,
clopedia.
and other literary clubs; v.-p. Ex Libris

Ad

Porto

Soc., London; Bibliog. Soc., London.
dress: 78 Vernon St., Hartford, Conn.
ALLEN, Charles Herbert, gov.
Rico since April 18, 1900; b. Lowell, Mass.,
as
April 15, 1848; grad. Amherst, 1869 (A. M.);
in business
LL. D., Amherst, 1900;
Served in both
at Lowell.
lumber mcht.
branches Mass. legislature; mem. Congress,
1885-9; Rep. candidate for gov. Mass., 1891;
defeated; asst. sec. U. S. navy, 1898-1900.
Address: San Juan, Porto Rico.

ALLEN, Dudley P., M. D., prof. theory
and practice of surgery and clinical surgery,
Med. Coll., Western Reserve Univ.; b. Kins-
man, O., March 25, 1852; grad. Oberlin, 1875
(A. M., 1879); grad. med. dept. Harvard,
1880; m. Aug. 4, 1892, Elizabeth S. Sever-
ance. Visiting surgeon, Lakeside Hosp.; con-
sulting surgeon, Charity and Citp hosps.,
Cleveland; mem. Am. Surg. Ass'n. Address:
278 Prospect St., Cleveland, O.
ALLEN, Edward Archibald, prof. Eng-
lish language and literature, Univ. of Mo.,
School,
since 1885; b. Suffolk, Va., Oct. 3, 1843; ed.
Dr. Gessner Harrison's Classical
Randolph-Macon Coll., and Univ. of Va.
(hon. Litt. D. Washington and Lee Univ.);.
m. Liberty, Va., 1872, Priscilla Armistead
Saunders. Prof. English and modern lan-
guages Central Coll., Fayette, Mo., 1881-5;
contributor to leading edn'l and literary
journals; mem. Sons Am. Revolution; Mod-
ern Language Ass'n of America; Grammat-
Address: 900 Conley
ical Soc. of England.
Av., Columbia, Mo.
R. C. bishop; b.
ALLEN, Edward P.,
Lowell, Mass., March 17, 1853; s. John and
Mary (Egan) A.; grad. Mount St. Mary's
Coll., Emmitsburg, Md., June 26, 1878, fol-
lowed by 4 yrs.' course in theology. Or-
dained priest Dec. 17, 1881. Remained at
Mount St. Mary's as prof. until spring of
1882; then became asst. at the Cathedral at
Boston, and later at Framingham, Mass.;
pres. Mount St. Mary's Coll. from 1884 until
consecrated, May 16, 1897, 5th bishop of Mo-
Address: Mobile, Ala.
bile, Ala.
ALLEN, Edwin West, asst. director, Of-
fice of Expt. Stas., U. S. Dept. of Agr.; b.
Amherst, Mass., Oct. 28, 1864; grad. Mass.
Agr'l Coll., 1885 (B. S., Boston Univ.; Ph.
D., Univ. of Göttingen); m. April 2, 1890,
Estelle Standish Perkins, Amherst, Mass.
Author of various papers on agr'l chemistry
and on history and work of agr'l expt. stas.;
now editor "Experiment Station Record,"
published by U. S. Dept. of Agr. Address:
1725 Riggs Pl., Washington.
ALLEN, Elizabeth Akers, poet and mis-
cellaneous writer; b. (Chase) Strong, Me.,
Oct. 9, 1832. Began to write at 15 under pen-
under which she
name "Florence Percy,"
published her first vol. of verse, Forest
Buds, 1855. Became contributor to Atlantic
wrote her famous poem,
Monthly, 1858;
"Rock Me to Sleep, Mother," 1859. Was
for several years literary editor Portland
(Me.) Advertiser; frequent contributor to
periodical literature; m. Paul Akers, the
sculptor (died, 1861); 2d, 1865, E. M. Allen
of New York. Author: Forest Buds from the

Woods of Maine, 1855 01; Poems by Elizabeth Akers, 1866-8-9; Queen Catharine's Rose, 1885 01; The Silver Bridge, 1885 H5; The Triangular Society (prose), 1887; Two Saints, 1888 X1; The High-Top Sweeting, 1891 S3; The Proud Lady of Stavoren, 1897 X1; The Ballad of the Bronx, 1901 X1. Address: Tuckahoe, N. Y.

ALLEN, Ethan, lawyer; b. in Monmouth Co., N. J., May 12, 1832; s. Samuel Fleming and Phoeby Goble A.; grad. Brown Univ., 1860 (M. A.); m. Aug. 20, 1861, Eliza Clagett, Washington (died, Feb. 8, 1899). Practiced law, New York, 1870-90; never lost a case. Recruited brigade for Civil war, but did not enter service; deputy U. S. atty. Southern dist. N. Y., 1861-69; chmn. Nat. Com. of Liberal Reps. to make Horace Greeley pres.; pres. Cuban League U. S.; retired from business, 1890. Author: Washington, or the Revolution (history Am. Revolution in dramatic form, blank verse; also in prose). Residence: 45 W. 52d St. Office: 115 Broadway, New York.

ALLEN, Fred Hovey, author, Congregational clergyman; b. Lyme, N. H., Oct. 1, 1845; s. Philander and Rhoda (Lord) A.; grad. Hartford Theol. Sem.; studied Boston Univ., Berlin, Vienna, Paris. Filled pastorates E. St. Ch., Boston; Olivet Ch., Boston; Abington, Mass.; 1st Ch., Rockland, Mass. One of founders and edited Lawrence, Mass., Eagle; editor and prop'r Suffolk Co. Journal, Boston. Author and lecturer on art topics; mem. Boston Art Club, Soc. of Am. Authors; m. Auburn, Me., 1881, M. Cora Bumpus. Author: Glimpses of Parisian Art, 1882; Masterpieces of Modern German Art, 1884 E2; Modern German Masters, 1885 E2; Recent German Art, 1885 E2; Great Cathedrals of the World, 1886; Famous Paintings, 1887; Grand Modern Paintings, 1888; Bowdoin Art Collection, 1887; Popular History of the Reformation, 1887 E2; Grand Modern Paintings, 1888. Edited various biog. and art works. Address: Rockland, Mass. ALLEN, Frederick Innes, U. S. Comm'r Patents since March, 1901; b. Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1859; s. William A.; ed. Auburn High School and Phillips Acad., Andover; grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1879; class prize for mineralogy; m. Auburn, N. Y., June 3, 1884, Cornelia Margaret, d. Gen. William H. Seward. Studied law, admitted to bar, 1882; has since practiced patent law at Auburn. Home: Auburn, N. Y. Office: Patent Office, Washington.

ALLEN. Henry D., congressman 2d Ky. dist., 1899-1903; b. Henderson Co., Ky., June 24, 1854; attended Morganfield Coll. Inst.; reared on farm; taught in public schools until 1875; grad. Mo. Med. Coll., 1877; licensed to practice law, 1878. School comm'r Union Co., Ky., 3 yrs.; co. atty. 9 yrs.; has been mem. Dem. State Central Com. Married. Home: Morganfield, Ky.

ALLEN, Horace N., U. S. minister Korea since 1897; b. Delaware, O., April 23, 1858; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; m. Frances A. Messenger. Was med. missionary Presby'n Ch. in China; went to Korea, 1884; saved

life of a Prince in a revolution; became med. officer to the Korean court; went to Washington, 1887, with first Korean legation; returned to Korea, 1890, as U. S. sec. of legation; promoted to be minister, 1897. Address: Seoul, Korea.

ALLEN, James Lane, author; b. in Ky., 1849; grad. Transylvania Univ.; taught in Ky. Univ.; later prof. Latin and higher English Bethany, W. Va., Coll.; since 1886 given entire attention to literature. Author: Flute and Violin; The Blue Grass Region and Other Sketches of Kentucky; John Gray: a Novel; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A Summer in Arcady; The Choir Invisible; The Reign of Law. Address: Care Macmillan Co., New York. ALLEN, James Lane, lawyer, author; b. Lexington, Ky., March 3, 1848; grad. Bethany Coll., W. Va., 1867 (M. A., 1880); taught high school; admitted to bar; practiced at Omaha, Neb., 1870-2; in Chicago since 1872; director Chicago public library; m. Josephine E. Fenkell, Waukegan, Ill., 1870. Has written numerous mag. papers and sketches, including: Exodus of the Children of Ham; Aunt Viney's Story; The Horse-Shoe Bend. Author: Allen's Handbook of the Nebraska Code. Residence: 4050 Grand Boul. Office: 409 Ashland Bldg., Chicago.

ALLEN, Joel Asaph, curator vertebrate zoology, Am. Museum Natural History, since 1885; b. Springfield, Mass., July 19, 1838; studied at Wilbraham Acad.; then studied zoology under Agassiz, Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (Ph. D., Ind. Univ.); m. 1st, Oct. 6, 1874, Mary Manning Cleveland (died April 17, 1879); 2d, April 27, 1886, Susan A. Taft. Was with several expeditions, later asst. in ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, until 1885. Was first pres. Am. Ornithologists' Union, 1883-90; mem. Nat. Acad. Sciences since 1876; corr. mem. Zool. Soc., London; foreign mem. British Ornithologists' Union, etc. Author: History of North American Pinnipeds, U6; Monographs of North American Rodentia (with Elliot Coues, U6); etc. Editor: Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1876-83; The Auk (ornithological quarterly), 1884-1901; Bulletin and Memoirs, Am. Museum Natural History, 1889-1901. Has written hundreds of contributions (monographs, articles, reviews) on researches in mammalogy and ornithology. Address: Am. Museum of Nat. History, New York. ALLEN, John Beard, ex-U. S. senator, lawyer; b. Crawfordsville, Ind., May 18, 1845; ed. Wabash Coll.; served private 135th Ind. vols., Civil war; after war in Rochester, Minn., until 1870; admitted to bar; removed to Washington Ty., 1870; U. S. atty. for Washington Ty., 1878-85; was reporter for Territorial and U. S. courts for years; author 1st volume of Washington Territory Reports; elected to Congress for term 1889-91, but resigned on being elected U. S. senator on admission of Washington as State; took his seat, Dec. 2, 1889; term expired March 3, 1893. Now practicing law in firm of Struve, Allen, Hughes & McMicken. Address: Seattle, Wash.

ALLEN, John Johnson, lawyer; b. Utica, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1842; s. Joseph Dana and Eliza R. (Johnson) A.; grad. Univ. of Vt. (A. B., 1862; A. M., 1865); Columbia Law School (LL. B., 1866); admitted to bar, 1866; m. Newark, N. J., June 30, 1870, Louise A. Shaler. Acting provost marshal, 1865; asst. U. S. dist. atty., 1866-73; mem. assembly, 1874; U. S. chief supervisor of elections, 1874-93; U. S. comm'r, 1874-1901; master in chancery, U. S. courts, 1874-1901; counsel to various corporations. Residence: Hotel St. George, Brooklyn. Summer Residence: Burlington, Vt. Office: 203 Montague St., Brooklyn.

ALLEN, John Kermott, journalist; b. Chelsea, Mich., May 9, 1858; s. John M. and Nancy (Bancroft) A.; ed. Grass Lake, Mich., 1864-76; sp'l studies political economy, Univ. of Chicago; m. Biddeford, Me., July 31, 1882, Lillie Morton. Chief clerk Mich. State Bd. of Health, 1878-83; editor The Sanitary News, Chicago, 1883-8; editor American Storekeeper, 1888-91; editor and publisher Domestic Engineering, Chicago, 1891. Has written many articles on sanitation in various journals. Ex-pres. Am. Trade Press Ass'n, hon. mem. Chicago Architects' Club; mem. Chicago Press Club; Chicago Congregational Club, and Nat. Liberal Club, London. Residence: 798 Monroe St. Office: 64 N. Jefferson St., Chicago. ALLEN, John M., ex-congressman, lawyer; b. Tishomingo Co., Miss., July 8, 1847; ed. common schools; private C. S. army, 1861-5; grad. Univ. of Miss., LL. B., 1870; established practice as lawyer at Tupelo, Miss.; dist. atty. 1st jud. dist., Miss., 1875-9; mem. Congress, 1885-1901, 1st Miss. dist.; Dem.; widely known for the humorous flavor of his speeches. Address: Tupelo, Miss. ALLEN, John Robert, prof. mental and moral philosophy Southwestern Univ. since 1892; b. Iredell Co., N. C.; childhood in Chickasaw Co., Miss.; grad. Southern Univ., Greensboro, Ala., 1873 (D. D., 1891). M. E. South clergyman in North Miss. Conf., 1873-5; after that in Tex., as pastor and presiding elder; had charge of Ladies' Annex, Southwestern Univ., 1892-1900; m. Oct. 3, 1878, Mollie Crutchfield. Author: Man, Money and the Bible, M12; Form Book for Methodist Church Courts (later edition named The Itinerant's Guide), M12. Address: Georgetown, Tex.

ALLEN, John Stevenson, clergyman; b. Mercer, Pa., Oct. 20, 1857; s. Cochran and Elizabeth (Wilson) A.; grad. Westminster Coll., Pa., 1882; Union Theol. Sem., New

York, 1885; m. June 6, 1888, Edith Hedden,

Orange, N. J. Pastor Presby'n Ch., Westchester, N. Y., 1885-8; Presby'n Ch., Paterson, N. Y., 1888-92; New York Av. Reformed Ch., Newark, since Oct. 1, 1892. Address: 100 New York Av., Newark, N. J. ALLEN, Lyman Whitney, Presbyterian clergyman; b. St. Louis, Nov. 19, 1854; s. George Otis and Julia Olds (Whitney) A.; grad. Washington Univ., St. Louis (A. M.); studied theol. Princeton Theol. Sem.: postgraduate studies Princeton Univ. (D. D.,

Univ. of Wooster); in ministry since 1880; m. Sept. 5, 1880, Myra, d. Archibald Steele Irwin, St. Louis. Now pastor South Park Presby'n Ch., Newark, N. J.; mem. Soc. Am. Authors; chaplain N. J. Soc. Sons Am. Revolution; mem. Princeton Club, New York; director Bd. of Home Missions, Presby'n Ch., New York. Author: Abraham Lincoln: The Star of Sangamon (the New York Herald's $1,000 prize poem), 1895 P2. Has written many poems and articles, notably, The Coming of His Feet (poem). Address: 41 Spruce St., Newark, N. J.

ALLEN, Stephen Haley, lawyer; b. Sinclairville, N. Y., March 19, 1847; s. Caleb Johnson and Emily (Haley) A.; ed. at home; studied law; admitted to bar, Buffalo, N. Y., May 5, 1869; m. Dec. 24, 1872, Lucina A. Smith. Located in Pleasanton, Kan., Feb. 1, 1870, and began practice; co. atty. Linn Co., 1874; judge 6th jud. dist., 1890-2; asso. justice Supreme Court Kan. (by combined vote of Populists and Democrats), 1892-9; now practicing law. Address as pres. Kan. State Bar Ass'n. on The Federal Judiciary, published 1899. Residence: 424 Greenwood Av. Office: 501 Jackson St.. Topeka, Kan. ALLEN, Thomas, landscape and animal painter; b. St. Louis, Oct. 19, 1849; ed. common schools and Washington Univ., St. Louis; grad. Royal Acad., Düsseldorf, Germany, 1877; studied 3 yrs. in France; 1st exhibited at Nat. Acad. Design, New York, 1877; at salons in Paris, 1882, 1887 and 1889. Became mem. Soc. Am. Artists, 1880; asso. Nat. Acad., 1884; resided in Boston since 1883; m. 1st, 1880, Eleanor G., d. Prof. J. D. Whitney, Cambridge; 2d, 1884, Alice, d. Hon. A. A. Ranney, Boston; pres. Paint and Clay Club and Boston Soc. Water Color Painters; v.-p. Boston Art Students' Ass'n; mem. permanent com., School of Drawing and Painting, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Was a judge of awards, World's Columbia Exp'n. Address: 12 Commonwealth Av., Boston. ALLEN, Thomas Grant, M. D.; b. Leeds Co., Ont., Oct. 14, 1863; grad. Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ont., 1888 (gold medalist, firstclass honorman chemistry; M. A., 1889); M. D., Northwestern Univ., Chicago, 1898; m. July 10, 1890, Nettie Mabel Fralick, Toronto, Ont. Demonstrator and instr. Queen's Univ., 1888-9; science master in Seaforth and Ingersoll, Ont., 1890-3; prof. chemistry Armour Inst. of Technology, 1894-8; Univ. Extension lecturer on chemistry, Univ. of Chicago, 1895-8. Address: 57th St., cor. Madison Av., Chicago.

ALLEN, Timothy Field, M. D.; b. Westminster, Vt., April 24, 1837; grad. Amherst Coll., 1858 (LL. D., Amherst, 1885); M. D., Univ. City of New York, 1861; M. D., Univ. of State of N. Y. and Hahnemann Med. Coll., Phila., 1865; acting asst. surgeon, U. S. A., 1862-4. Prof. materia medica and dean New York Homo. Med. Coll.; pres. bd. trustees N. Y. Homo. Med. Coll.; long surgeon in and now pres. of New York Ophthalmic Hosp.; fellow, N. Y. Acad. of Sciences. Author of numerous works on materia medica, botany, ophthalmology, etc.;

m. 1862, Julia Bissell. Address: 3 E. 48th St., New York.

ALLEN, Viola, actress; b. in the South; d. C. Leslie A., character actor, of old Boston family, and Sarah (Lyon) A., English- | woman of good descent; went to Boston when 3 yrs. old; ed. in Boston, and at Wykham Hall, Toronto, and boarding school in New York. Made début, Madison Sq. Theatre, New York, in Esmeralda, at age of 15; after few months joined John McCullough Company, playing Virginia, Desdemona, Cordelia, etc. Subsequently played leading classical, Shakespearean and comedy rôles with Lawrence Barrett, Tommaso Salvini, Joseph Jefferson and William J. Florence. Leading lady at Boston Museum for a season; also at Empire Theatre in 1893, and 4 yrs. following, creating and playing rôles in "Liberty Hall," "Sowing the Wind," "The Masqueraders," "Under the Red Robe," etc. Starred, 1898, as Gloria Quayle in "The Christian," by Hall Caine, and in 1900, produced "In the Palace of the King," by F. Marion Crawford and Lorimer Stoddard. Permanent Address: Care of Lieber & Co., Knickerbocker Bldg., 1402 Broadway, New

York.

ALLEN, Walter, journalist, author; b. Boston, Mass., March 21, 1840 (descendant Walter A., Newbury, Mass., 1640); grad. Yale, 1863 (A. M., 1893); acting asst. paymaster U. S. N., 1864-5; m. Grace Mason Weston, of New Braintree, Mass. Employed as corr., writer and editor on Cairo, Ill., Times, New York Herald, Cincinnati Gazette, Boston Advertiser, Portland, Me., Press, New York World, New York Times. Contributor to other papers and to New England Mag., Atlantic Monthly, etc. Was clerk U. S. senate Com. on Indian Affairs; mem. comm'n apptd. by President Hayes to investigate condition of Ponca Indians; now editorial writer Boston Herald. Mem. Mil. Order Loyal Legion. Was in sp'l service, New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co., 1895-9. Asst. editor Webster's International Dictionary. Author: Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina, P2; Life of General Ulysses S. Grant (Riverside Biog. Series), H5. Residence: Newton Highlands, Mass. ALLEN, William Vincent, ex-U. S. senator, lawyer; b. Midway, Madison Co., O., Jan. 28, 1847; removed with family to Iowa, 1857; ed. in common schools and Upper Iowa Univ.; private 32d Iowa inf. in Civil war; admitted to bar May 31, 1869; practiced law in Iowa until 1884; after that in Neb., until elected judge dist. court, 9th jud. dist. Neb., in 1891; U. S. senator from Neb., 1893-9. Permanent pres. Populist State Conv., 1892 and 1894; permanent pres. Populist Nat. Conv., 1896, and now mem. of Exec. Com. of Populist Nat. Com. Address: Madison, Neb.

ALLEN, Willis Boyd, author; b. Kittery Point, Me., July 9, 1855; grad. Harvard, 1878 (Boston Univ., LL. B.). Author: The Red Mountain of Alaska; Pine Cones; Silver Rags; Kelp; In the Morning (verse); The Mammoth Hunters; Navy Blue; The

Head of Pasht; also other books, making a total of 35, mostly for young people. Unmarried. Residence: 477 Commonwealth Av. Office: 87 Court St., Boston. ALLERTON, Samuel Waters, capitalist, mcht.; b. Amenia Union, Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 26, 1828; reared on farm; ed. common schools; dealer in live stock in N. Y., 1852-6; since then in Chicago. Has extensive interests in the stock yards at Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Phila., Jersey City and Baltimore; also owns 40,000 acres of stock farms in Ill., Ohio and Iowa; formerly pres. Allerton Packing Co., Chicago; candidate for mayor of Chicago, 1893; Rep. Residence: 1936 Prairie Av. Office: 710 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago. ALLIN, Roger, ex-gov. N. Dak.; b. Bradworthy, England, Dec. 18, 1848; ed. Canadian common and high schools; lived in Canada until 1878, then in Mich. until 1879, when he settled in Dakota, filing on land he now farms. Mem. Territorial Council, 1886-9; Constitutional Conv., 1889; 1st legislative assembly N. Dak., 1889; lt.-gov., 1890; gov. N. Dak., 1894-7; Rep.; m. March 22, 1881, Isabella McKenzie, Grand Forks, N. D. Resides on his farm nr. Grafton, N. Dak. ALLINSON, Francis Greenleaf, classical philology Brown Univ. since 1898; b. Burlington, N. J., 1856; s. William J. and Rebecca W. A.; grad. Haverford Coll., 1876 (A. M. by exam., 1879); Harvard Univ. (A. B., 1877); hon. A. M., Williams Coll., 1895; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, by exam., 1880; fellow Johns Hopkins Univ., 1877-80; m. Baltimore, Sept. 10, 1885, Mary Irwin Carey; asst. prof. Greek and Latin, Haverford Coll., 1880-2; head master classics, Univ. School, Baltimore, 1882-91; asst. prof. Greek and Latin, Williams Coll., 1892-5; asso. prof. Greek, Brown Univ., 1895-8. Author: Greek Prose Composition, 1895 A5; has written contributions to Am. Jour. of Philology, vols. I to 14; trans. and proc. of Am. Philol. Ass'n, vol. 27; transl. from Bacchylides, Century Mag., April, 1898; Lucianea, Harvard Studies in Class, Philology, 1901. Address: 434 Brook St., Providence, R. I.

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ALLISON, James, supt. House of Refuge, Cincinnati; long in plumbers' supplies business; director of Centennial Exp'n Ohio Valley, 1888; chief dept. manufactures, World's Columbia Exp'n. Address: 2515 Ingleside Av., Cincinnati.

ALLISON, William Boyd, U. S. senator, Iowa, 1873-1903; b. Perry, O., March 2, 1829; lived on farm in boyhood; ed. Allegheny Coll., Pa., and Western Reserve Coll., O.; practiced law in Ohio until 1857; afterward in Dubuque, Ia.; delegate to Nat. Rep. Conv., Chicago, 1860; mem. gov.'s staff and raised troops for Civil war, 1861; mem. Congress, 1863-71; Rep. Has been a leading candidate for President of the United States in several Nat. Rep. Convs. Home: Dubuque, Iowa.

ALLMOND, Marcus Blakey, prof. Latin and German, Hampden-Sidney Coll., since 1900; b. Stanardville, Va., Aug. 17, 1851; s. Alfred D. and Jane Allen (Blakey) A.; grad.

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