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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Amos, William Frederick, physician, surgeon, author, was born Sept. 3, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a noted physician and surgeon of Portland, Ore. He is the author of

Monographs on Anaesthesia; and on other medical subjects.

Amsbary, Wallace Bruce, actor, lecturer,, author, was born Feb. 13, 1867, in Pekin, 111. In 1886-97 he was engaged as an actor; and since then has been a lecturer on literary subjects. He is the author of The Ballads of Bourbonnais.

Amsinck, Gustav, merchant, millionaire, was born about 1835 in New York City. In 1861 he became a partner in the firm of L. K. Amsinck and company, which in 1874 became G. Amsinck and company, importers and commission merchants of New York City, who also conduct a banking business. For fifty years he has been an active spirit in the wholesale trade of

New York

City.

Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana, author, poet, was born in 1844. She was a daughter of Dr. S. G. Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and the wife of M. Anagnos, late superintendent of the Perkins institute for the blind in Boston, Mass. She was the author of Stray Chords, a volume of verse; and Philosophise Questor. She died March 10, 1886, in Boston, Mass.

Anagnos, Michael, educator, author, philwas born Nov. 7, 1837, in Epirus, Turkey. He began his education in the village school of Papingo then entered the high school at Janina; and in 1856 entered the anthropist,

seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth conHe was one of the representatives designated by the house to attend the funeral of General Scott in 1866. Anderegg, Frederick, educator, mathematician, author, was born June 11, 1852, in Switzerland. Since 1890 he has been professor of mathematics at Oberlin college of Ohio. He is the author of Algebra Tablets and Exercises in Geometry; and a textbook gresses.

on Trigonometry. Anders, James Meschter, physician, surgewas born July 22, 1854, in Montgomery county. Pa. In 1877 he graduated from the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania; and is now professor of theory, practice of medicine and clinical medicine to the Medico-chirurgical college; physician to the Medico-chirurgical hospital; and consulting physician to the Jewish hospital of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of House Plants as Sanitary Agents and Principles and Practice of Medicine. Anders, Thomas Jefferson, lawyer, jurist, was born April 4, 1838, in Bloomville, Ohio. on, author,



He removed

to Montana,

Walla, opening a law

ical

St.

In 1874-87 he was pastor of the Lutheran church in Muskegon, Mich.; then was pastor at Appleton, Minn.; and since 1888 has been pastor at Montevideo, Minn. In 1888-99 he filled the

editor-in-chief of

Eoumania. Ancona, Sydenham E., business man, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in Warwick, Pa. Removing to Berks county, he was for several years connected with the Reading railroad company. In 1861-7 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-

seminary of

Louis, Mo.



of Dr. S. G. Howe and Julia Ward Howe. Upon the death of Dr. Howe in 1876 he was made director and given full charge of the Perkins institution and Massachusetts school for the blind of Boston, Mass. In 18»2-1906 the main institution was improved and extended in all its departments; and now possesses the equal of any special library of the sort in the world. He was the author of Education for the Blind; and numerous books in raised letters for the blind. He died March 17, 1906, in

Walla

Wisconsin, and from the Concordia theolog-

French and philoso-

ame

later to

office



phy then devoted some attention to law; and about 1862 becone of the first daily newspapers in Athens. As secretary to Dr. S. G. Howe he visited schools, hospitals and prisons in western and southern Europe. He married the daughter

and

at the latter town in 1871. He was city attorney; and served five times as prosecuting attorney for that district. He was the unanimous choice of his brother judges for the first chief justice of the supreme court of Washington and since 1889 has filled that high position. Anderson, Abel, clergyman, educator, was born Dec. 6, 1847, in Albion, Wis. He graduated from the Luther college, university of

national university in Athens. For four years he studied Greek, Latin,

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chair of ancient and modern languages in the Windom institute. He was school inspector for a number of years; and in 1884 was a delegate from Michigan to the republican

national convention.

Anderson, Abraham Archibald, portrait painter, artist, was born in 1847 in New Jersey. He is honorary president of the American art association of Paris, France; and vice-president of the Portrait society of America. He built the Bryant Park studio building of New York City. He has painted portraits of General 0. 0. Howard, Governor Morgan, Thomas A. Edison, Bishop Cleveland Coxe, Elihu Root, John Wanamaker and other celebrities. Anderson, Adna, soldier, civil engineer, was born in 1827 in Orleans county, N.Y. In 1863 he was chief engineer of military railroads in