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was a brigadier-general

in the

confederate

states army. He died Oct. 24, 1864. Archer, John, soldier, physician, congressman, was born June 6, 1741, in Harford county, Md. At the commencement of the revolution he had command of a military company; and was a member of the Maryland state legislature. He was a presidential elector in 1797. In 1801-07 he was a representative from Maryland to the seventh, eighth and ninth congresses. As a medical man he commanded great influence; and several discoveries were made by him which have been adopted by the profession. He died in 1810 in Harford county, Md. Archer, Samuel B., soldier, was born about 1790. He was appointed to the army from Virginia in 1813 as captain in the second artillery; and in 1813 was brevetted major for gallantry and good conduct in the cannonade and bombardment of Fort George. He was distinguished at Stony Creek in 1813; and in 1821 became inspector-general with the rank of colonel. He died Dec. 11,

1825, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Archer, Stevenson, lawyer, jurist, congress-

man, was born about 1778 in Harford county, Md. He was a judge of the court of appeals. In 1811-17 and 1819-21 he was a representative from Maryland to the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth congresses, when he was appointed judge in Mississippi territory. In the interval from 1817 to 1819 he was United States judge for the territory of Mississippi. In 1845 he was appointed chief justice of Maryland. He was the son of John Archer. He died June 5, 1848, in Harford county, Md.

Archer, Stevenson, lawyer, congressman,

was born Feb. 28, 1827, in Harford county, Md. He was a member of the Maryland state legislature in 1854. In 1867-75 he was a representative from Maryland to the fortieth, forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses. His father, bearing the same name, and his grandfather, John Archer, were both representatives in congress from the same district 1898 in

which he represented. Maryland.

He

died in

Archibald, Andrew Webster, clergyman, author, was born April 10, 1851, in New

Kingston, N.Y.

He was

educated at Union college; at the Yale di-

vinity school; and subsequently received the degree of D.D. from

Union

college.

He

fill-

ed pastorates in congregational churches in Nevinville, Fontanelle, Stuart, Ottumwa and

Davenport, Iowa; and has filled pastorates in Hyde Park and Brockton, Mass. He was one of the trustees of the

Iowa

college;

and was president of the Iowa

home missionary society. He has been a moderator of the Boston ministers' meeting; a director of the Massachusetts' christian endeavor union; and Massachusetts delegate-at-large to the congregational national council. He is the author of congregational

The Bible Verified; and Centuries.

The Trend

of the

Archer, William S., congressman, United States senator, was born March 5, 1789, in Amelia county, Va. In 1812-19 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1820-35 he was a representative from Virginia in the sixteenth to twenty-third congresses. In 1841-47 he was United States senator. He died March- 28, 1855, in Amelia county, Va. Archibald, George D., clergyman, college president, was born Feb. 15, 1820, in Wash-

ington county, Pa. In 1861-66 he

was pastor

of the First presbyterian church at Madison, Ind. ; in 1866-70 was president of Hanover college; and in 1873-74 was president of Wilson female seminary at Chambersburg, Pa. For twelve years he was professor of moral and mental science in the Theological seminary of Danville, Ky.

Archibold, James F. J., journalist, war correspondent, author, was born Sept. 23, 1869, in New York City. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1888. He served in the Chinese-Japan-

he was with General Miles through the labor riots; and was in the Sioux campaign and the last Apache campaign. He was a volunteer aide-decamp in the fifth army corps through the Spanish-American war; he served in the Santiago campaign; was on the first scouting expedition that landed in Cuba; and was the first man •'ouuded in the war with Spain. In 1899 he was with the British forces in the Soudan; was with the Boer army in the South African war and was wounded in the battle of Pretoria. He was in the campaign in Venezuela; was with the Philippine constabulary against the Ladrones; and was with the Russian army as war eorrespondeiit for Collier's Weekly. He is the author of Blue Shirt and Khaki; and Tales from the Trenches. Archinard, Paul Emile, physician, bacteriologist, was born June 4, 1859, in New Orleans, La. In 1888 he studied bacteriology under Koch; and in 1899 studied under Pasteur. Since 1875 he has practiced his proese war;



fession in New Orleans, La.; and now gives his time chiefly to laboratory work and the treatment of nervous diseases. In 1896-98 he was president of the Louisiana state medical association.