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 HKRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Aimstroug-Hopkins, Mrs. Saleni, physician, author, was born Jan. 31, 1855, in Canada. In 1887-89 she conducted a private hospital for women and children and missionary training school for nurses in Bombay, India; and now practices in Syracuse, N.Y. She is the author of Motto and Resolutions of a Divine Call to Foreign MissLittle Girl; ionary Service; Seven Thoughts in Seven Garbs; Record of Daily Work; and of other

A

works.

Amdt, Walter Xallmadge,

editor, author, Oct. 11, 1873, in Depere, Wis. He contributed over one thousand articles on American histft-y and biography to the New International Encyclopaedia; and since 1905 has been on the editorial staff of the EncyclopEEdia Britannica.

was born

Arnecke, Christopher Adam Heinrich, physician, pharmacist, public official, was born April 20, 1860, in Arenekeville, Texas. He received a thorough education; attended lectures at the medical department of the Louisville university; and

he graduated from the medical department of the university of the

South

at Sewanee, Tenn. He is a successful physician and drug-

Arneckevillo Texas and medical examiner for several life insurance companies and various lodges. He is a notary public; a, member of the county, state and American medical societies; and prominently identified with the business and gist

of

public affairs of his

community.

ArneiU, James Rae, physician, author, was born March 6, 1869, in Depere, Wis. Since 1903 he has been a practicing physician of Denver, Col.; and since 1904 has been professor of medicine at the university of Colorado. He is the author of Clinical Diagnosis and Uranalysis.

David Reeve, physician, was born N.Y. He was an eminent physician of Prospect Hill and Goshen, N. Y. He was president of the Orange county medical society; and in 1820 delivered an address before that body which resulted in the Arnell,

in 1771 in Minisinck,

erection of a monument to the memory of forty-five men of the Goshen' regiment who were killed at the battle of Minisinck in 1779. He died Sept. 2, 1826, in Goshen, N.Y. Arnell, David Reeve, educator, author, was born about 1830 in Goshen, N.Y. He taught classics in the south. He was the author of a Christmas Story; and a volume of poems entitled Fruit of Western Life. He died about 1852 in Columbus, Ohio.

Arnell,

James Morrison, clergyman,

poet,

was born

in 1808 in Goshen, N.Y. For twenty years he was pastor of Zion church of

Maury

county, Tenn.

He was

the author of

161

Addreses, Pulpit Sketches, and Poems. He died March 4, 1850, in Maury county, Tenn. Arnell, Samuel Mayer, educator, lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born May 3, ISSS, in Maury county, Tenn. He received his education in private schools and at Amherst college, Mass. In 1859 he went into the business of manufacturing leather; in 1861 took an active interest in the civil war; and suffered in person and property from the confederate army. He was elected to the Tennessee state legislature; and advocated the passage of the constitutional amendment in 1865. In 1865-71 he was a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses. He is the corresponding secretary of Washington county his;

torical society.

Arnett, Benjamin William, clergyman, bishauthor, was born March 6, 1838, in Brownsville, Pa. He was chosen bishop in 1888 to the episcopal' district of South Carolina and Florida. He was the author of The Light Along the Jordan and Fifty Years in the Field. He died Oct. 7, 1906, in Xenia, Ohio. Arnold, Aaron, merchant, was born 1794 on the Isle of Wright. In 1827 he established a wholesale and retail drygoods store in New York City. He died March 18, 1876, in New op,



York

City.

Abraham Kerns,

soldier, was born Bedford, Pa. In 1862 he was brevetted captain for gallantry at Gaines' Mill; major in 1864 for gallantry at Todd's Tavern; and received a congressional medal of honor for gallantry in action. He served against the Indians on the frontier; was commissioned brigadier-general United States volunteers in 1898 ; and in 1899 commanded the second division seventh army corps in Cuba. He died Nov. 23, 1901. Arnold, Albert Nicholas, clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1814, in Cranston, R.I. In 1844-54 he was a missionary to Greene. He held professorships in several baptist seminaries successively. He was the author of Pre-requisites to Communion; Evils of Infant Baptism; and One Woman's Mission. He died Oct. 11, 1883, in Cranston, R.I. Arnold, Alexander A., educator, lawyer, railroad president, statesman, was born Oct. 20, 1833, in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He served in company C, thirtieth regiment Wisconsin vo-

Arnold,

March

24, 1837, in

lunteer infantry; and

was promoted

to cap-

He

has been county superintendent of schools; was district attorney; was a member of the state senate of Wisconsin; and was also a member of the assembly. He has been president of the Wisconsin state agricultural society; and president of the Galestain.

ville

and Mississippi railroad company.

Arnold, Asa, manufacturer, inventor, was born Nov. 4, 1788, in Pawtucket, R.I. In 1813 he started a factory for the manufacture of woolen blankets and invented and applied the devices of endless roving and differential