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general of volunteers for meritorious services during the civil war. Amherst, J. H., actor, dramatist, was born in 1776 in London, England. He came to the United States in 1838 as director of Cook's equestrian company; and first acted as the Castilian in Mazeppa in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an accomplished classical scholar; and the author of several plays, of which the best known are Will Watch, or the Black Phantom; Napoleon Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia, or the Conflagration of Moscow; Ireland as It Was; The Battle of Waterloo; and Ireland as It Is. He died Aug. 12, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa. Amick, Thomas Cicero, educator, college president, was born Feb. 14, 1869, in Mount Pleasant, N.C. He was educated at the university of North Carolina, at the university of Nashville and at Central university. He has attained success in the educational world; and for many years was a teacher of Greek and latin at the Ingram institute of Virginia. He is now president of Liberty normal

Importers' and traders' bank of New York City; director of the United States life insurance company; and director of the Dundee water-power company. He is the author of Historical Collections.

Ammon, John

H., soldier, publisher, was 29, 1840, in Auburn, N.Y. During the civil war he became lieutenant-colonel in

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New York artillery volunteers. manager of the wholesale department of Harper and brothers, publishers of New York City. Amory, Arthur, merchant, founder, was the sixteenth

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born Feb. 6, 1841, in Boston, Mass. Since 1866 he has been a successful cotton merchant; and in 1891 became senior partner in the firm of Amory, Browne and company of Boston, Mass. In 1897 he founded the Indian Head mills of Alabama; and was its first president.

Amory, John J., manufacturer, president, was born in 1856 in Fond du Lac, Wis. In 1878-80 he was engaged as a miner at Tombstone, Ariz.; in 188384 was a hotel propri-

North Carolina. AmidoD, Charles Fremont, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 17, 1856, in Clymer, N.Y. In 1893 he was a member of the commission to revise the codes and statutes of North Dakota. Since 1896 he has been United States judge for the district of North Dakota. Amiger, William T., educator, clergyman, college president, was born July 16, 1870, in Culpeper, Va. He was educated at the state normal school at Geneseo, N.Y.; attended the college of

Lincoln university of Oxford, Pa. studied in the Newton theological seminary of Newton Center, Mass.; and received the degree of A. M. In 1903-08 he was pastor of the third baptist church; and since 1908 has been president of the state university of Kentucky at Louisville. Ammen, Daniel, naval officer, author, was born May 15, 1820, in Brown county, Ohio. He was chief of the naval bureau of navigation in 1870-78; and was sent to the so-called Paris canal congress in 1879. At the close of the civil war he designed the Ammen life raft, which saved the lives of more than half the crew of the Kearsarge when she was wrecked on a reef. He attained the rank of rear admiral; and was retired in 1886. He was the author of The Atlantic During the Civil War The Old Navy and the New and Recollections of Grant. He died July 11, 1898, in Washington, D.C.

etor at Billings, Mont. in 1885-86 was secretary and treasurer of the Armstrong manufacturing company of Bridgeport, Conn. He is now president of the Gas engine and

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president of Charles L.

Heights, Morris of City, manufacturers of marine machinery. He is president of the national association of engine and boat manufacturers; and is a member of the society of naval architects and marine engineers.

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1843, in Boston, Mass. In 1869 he was appointed lecturer at Harvard, college on the physiological action of drugs; and was afterward professor of physiology in the medical school at Bowdoin college, but resigned that chair in 1874. He is the author of Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium; and Action of Nitrous Oxide. 2,

Amory, Thomas CofSn, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan and Life of Sir Isaac Coffin. He died Aug. 20, 1889, in Boston, Mass. Amory, Thomas Jonathan Coffin, soldier, was born about 1830 in Massachusetts. He graduated from West Point in 1851, and served on garrison and frontier duty in the Utah expedition and on recruiting service until 1861, when he became colonel in the seventeenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers.

Ammen,

Jacob, soldier, civil engineer, was born Jan. 7, 1808, in Virginia. He graduated from West Point in 1831; and served there as assistant instructor in mathematics, and afterward as instructor of infantry tactics. He was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863. He died Feb. 6, 1894, in Lockland, Ohio.

Ammidown, Edward Holmes, merchant, was born Oct. 28, 1833, in Southbridge, Mass. He has been director of the author,

He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Oct. 8, 1864, in Newburn, N.C.