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coin county, Ga. His life work has been in the educational field; and he has had a wide experience in the best schools of Georgia. For ten years he was a scientific teacher in the Savannah high school; and since 1896 has been superintendent of schools of that city. He is a well-known writer and lecturer on educational and scientific subjects. He is the author of Grier's Almanac, the best known publication of its kind in the south; and is also the author of A Manual of Pro-

nunciation.

Ashmore, Sidney

educator,, au1853, in London, England. In 1863-68 he attended the school of Charles d'Urban thor,

Gillespie,

was born April

15,

Morris in

New York

City; and in 1872 gra-

duated from Columbia university. In 1873-76 he was instructor in latin and Greek at Lehigh university ; in 1876-81 was instructor in latin at Columbia university ; and since 1881 has been professor of latin at Union college of Schenectady, N.Y. He is the editor of Terence's Adelphoe in Macmillan's Classical Series ; and also editor of Terence, Collective Edition, published by the American branch of Oxford university press. He is the author of The Classics and Modern Training; and The Comedies of

Terence.

Ashmun, Eli Porter, lawyer, United States was born June 24, 1770, in Blandford, Mass. He was for several years a memsenator,

ber of the Massachusetts house of representatives and state senate. In 1816-19 he was United States senator from Massachusetts. He died May 10, 1819, in Northampton, Mass.

Ashmun, George, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1804, in Blandford, Mass. He graduated from Yale college in 1823. He studied law and settled in Springfield in 1828. He served in the Mas-

sachusetts state legislature in 1833, 1835, 1836, 1838 and 1841, and also officiated as speaker of the house in the latter year. In 1845-51 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. In 1860 he was president of the Chicago convention; and in 1866 was chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia, national union convention. He died July 17, 1870, in Springfield,

Mass.

Ashmun, Jehudi, missionary, author, was

bom

in April, 1794, in

Champlain, N.Y.

He

in charge of an expedition to reinforce the colony of Liberia; remained ii» the colony for six years; and in 1828 was obliged to return home on account of illhealth. He was the author of a volume entitled Memoirs of Samuel Bacon. He died Aug. 25, 1828, in Boston, Mass.

was placed

Ashmun, John Hooker, lawyer, jurist, was born July 3, 1800, in Blandford; Mass.; and was the son of Eli P. Ashmun. On the establishment of the law department of Harvard university he was appointed its first professor under the endowment of Isaac Koyall. Prior to this he was associated with Judge Howe and Elijah J. Mills in establishing a law school in Northampton. He died April 1, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. Ashton, Charles, clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 2, i R23, in Lincolnshire, England. In 1832 he located with his parents on a farm in Richland county, Ohio. He became a minister of the methodist episcopal church, and in 1870-79 preached for nine years in western Iowa. In 1879 he became editor of the Guthrian of Guthrie Center, Iowa. He was the organizer and first president of the Guthrie and northwestern railway, now a branch of the Bock Island. He was a member of the Iowa Columbian commission; and was superintendent of the horticultural exhibit. He was the author of Hand-Book of Iowa. He died about 1906 in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Ashton, Joseph, soldier, was born in New York. He was captured in the assault on Quebec in 1775; and was exchanged in 1776. In 1777 he was second lieutenant in the second continental artillery; became first lieutenant in 1778; and was made captain in 1781. In 1789 he was captain in the first regiment United States infantry; became major in the second infantry in 1791; and resigned in 1792.

Ashton, Joseph Hubley, lawyer, founder, was born March 11, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1854 he graduated from the university of Pennsylvania with the degree of A.M.; and subsequently received the degree of LL.D. from Georgetown university. In 1864-67 and in 1868-00 he was assistant attorney general of the United States; and in 1870-74 was proffessor of pleading, practice and evidence in the law department of Georgetown university. In 1885 he was counsel for the government before the Venezuela claims commission; and in 1890-97 was counsel in cases under Chinese exclusion laws. In 1878 he was one of the founders of the American bar association. He edited four volumes of Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States. He died in 1907 in author,

Washington, D.C. Ashton, Laurence, physician, author, was born in 1847 in Virgmia. He is an eminent physician of Dallas, Texas. He is the author of Puerperal Septicaemia.