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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Anthony, Richaid A., merchant, millionwas born May 24, 1861, in New York City, and is the son of Edward Anthony, the aire,

Antony, Edwin Le Roy, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1852, near Waynesboro, Ga. In 1886, during the illness of the

civil engineer who died in 1888. He is vice-president of the firm of E. and H. T. Anthony, photographic materials, of New York City, of which firm his father was the founder. He is a trustee of the United States savings bank of New York City; and

noted

regular district judge, filled that office as special judge. In 1892, while an alderman, he

he

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identified with various other financial industrial corporations.

is

was nominated and elected June 14, 1892, as a representative from

and

Texas to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. At the expiration of his term he returned to his home and resumed the practice

Anthony, Susan Brownell, reformer, was born Feb. 15, 1820, in South Adams, Mass. Her father was a Quaker and proprietor of a cotton mill. She at';,

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tended school in Philadelphia; and taught school in the state of New York. She participated in the temperance and anti-slavery movements. She was

known

as an ardent supporter of the political enfranchisement of women. At one time she edited a chiefly

called tlie Revolution.

paper in New York She was the president

of the national association to secure the enfranchisement of women in all the states of the union. She died March 13, 1906, in Roch-

N.Y. Anthony, Susanna, author, was born in 1726 in Rhode Island. Extracts from her writings on religious subjects were published, with a memoir by Dr. Hopkins. She died July 23, 1791, in Newport, E.I. Anthony, William, lawyer, jurist. In 181118 he was associate- justice of the state supester,

reme court of Rhode Island. Anthony, William Arnold, educator,

elect-

engineer, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 17, 1835, in Coventry, R.I. For fifteen years in 1872-87 he was professor of physics at Cornell university, where he planned and equipped the physical laboratory building; and organized and had charge of the department of electrical engineering. He is now director oi the physical department and professor of physics and electricity in the Cooper union. He is also an eminent consulting electrical engineer of New York City. He is part author of a Text-Book of Physics. rical

Antin, Mary, author,

was bom June

13,

1883, in Russia. She is the author of From ?lotzk to Boston. Antisdale, Edwin Sawyer, physician, oculist, inventor, was bom May 17, 1861, in Manchester, N.Y. Since 1897 he has practiced his rrofession in Chicago, 111.; and since 1898 has been professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Harvey medical college. In 1901-03 he was assistant surgeon to the Illinois charitable eye and ear infirmary. In

1902 he was granted a United States patent on a book rest.

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law, in which he

is still

his profession engaged.

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Antrim, Mrs. Minna Thomas, author, was born Oct. 13, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was educated at Mary's hall of Burlington, N.J. and married Mr. W. H. Antrim of Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of Naked Truths and Veiled Allusions; A Book of Toasts The Wisdom of the Foolish and the Folly of the Wise; Mazes, Phases and Crazes of Love; The Mimic Calendar; and other



works. Aparicio, Manual, coflfee importer, millionHis father was a merchant of Spanish

aire.

ancestry who opened an office in New York City to market his own productions of cofi'ee on his extensive plantations in Guatemala. Apes, William, clergyman, author, was born about 1800. He was an Indian preacher of the Pequot tribe. He was the author of A Son of the Forest; Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe; Indi-

an Nullification; and Eulogy on King

Philip.

Apgar, Austin Craig, educator, naturalist, author, was born Aug. 4, 1838, in Peapack, N.J. In 1862 he graduated from the New Jersey state normal school and since that time has been engaged in educational work. He has studied under Louis Agassiz and Alexander Agassiz at Penikese. He is a member of the council of education of New Jersey; and is now a professor in the New Jersey state normal school at Trenton. He is the author of Geographical Hand Book; Geographical Drawing Book; Plant Analysis; Mollusks of the Atlantic Coast; Pocket Key of Trees; Trees of the Northern United States Pocket Key of Birds; and Birds of the United States. Aplin, Henry Harrison, soldier, merchant, congressman., was born April 15, 1841, in Thetford, Mich. In 1861-65 he served in the civil war in the sixteenth regiment Michigan infantry; and attained the rank of second lieutenant. He has been a successful merchant of West Bay City, Mich.; and was postmaster in 1869-86 and again in 1898-1900. In 1886-90 he was auditor-general of the state of Michigan; and in 1894-95 was a member of the Michigan state legislature. In 1901-03 he was a representative from Michigan to the



fifty-seventh congress as a republican.