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third United States dragoons; and was honorably mustered out in 1848. He served with distinction in the civil war; in 1863 was additional paymaster in the United States volunteers; and resigned in 1864. He attained prominence as an eminent physician and surgeon of Missouri; and was a member of various medical associations and scientific societies. He filled various positions of trust and honor. He died Oct. 2, 1882, in Missouri.

Atkinson, John M. P., educator, college was born Jan. 10, 1817, in Mansfield, Va. In 1857-83 he was president of the Hampden Sidney college. He died in 1883 in president,

Virginia.

Atkinson, Samuel C, lawyer, jurist. He was associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia in 1900-07.

Atkinson, Spencer R., lawyer, jurist. He of the railroad commission of Georgia. In 1898 he became associate justice of the state supreme court of Georgia.

was chairman

Atkinson, Theodore, soldier, jurist, was born Dec. 20, 1697, in New Castle, N.H. He was secretary of the colony in 1741; chief justice in 1754; and major-general of militia in 1769; but the revolution deprived him of all these offices. He was a delegate to the congress at Albany in 1754; and was one of the committee that drew up the plan of the union for the defense of the colonies. He was for many years in the legislature and council; also held the office of clerk of the court of

common

pleas;

was

colonel of militia;

and was in active service during the French and Indian wars. He died Sept. 23, 1779. Atkinson, Thomas, clergyman, bishop, was born Aug. 6, 1807, in Mansfield, Va. He was elected bishop of North Carolina in 1853. He attended the general convention of the episcopal church in 1865; and did much to hasten the reunion of the northern and southern dioceses. He died Jan. 4, 1881, in Wilmington, N.C. Atkinson, William Bittle, physician, author, was horn June 21, 1832, in Haverford, Pa. He was educated in Philadelphia, graduating from the Central high school; and in 1853 graduated from the Jefferson medical college. He has written

many

articles for medjournals on subjects in general practice and the diseases of children. In 186499 he was permanent secretary of the American medical association; and of the state medical society of Pennsylvania in 1862-97. He was lecturer on diseases of children at the Jefferson medical college in 1877-86; and was professor of sanitary science and pediatrics in the medico-chirurgical college of Philadelphia in 1888-91. During the civil war he ical

was assistant surgeon in the United States volunteers. He was associate-editor of the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Physicians and Surgeons of the United States; Hints in the Obstetric Procedure; Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics; and other works. Atkinson, William Elrie, lawyer, college president, was bom July 24, 1852, in Shelby county, Ala. For many years he practiced law in Little Rock, Ark. In 1885 he was a. delegate to

the

congressional

and was one of the leading

convention;

spirits in found-

ing the Ouachita baptist college at Arkadelphia, of which institution he is now president.

Atkinson, William Parsons, educator, auwas born in 1830 in Massachusetts j and was a brother of E. Atkinson. He was a professor of history at the Massachusetts institute of technology. He was the author of The Right Use of Books History and the Study of History; and Classical and Scientific Studies. He died in 1890 in Massachusetts. thor,



Atkinson, William Patterson, educator, auwas born Feb. 5, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated at Princeton, from which institution he received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. In 1893-97 he was head of the English department at St. John's military school of Manlius, N.Y.; and since 1899 has been head of the English department at the high school of Jersey City, N.J. He edited an edition of George Eliot's Silas Maruer. Atkinson, William Walker, journalist, author, was born Dec. 5, 1862, in Baltimore, Md. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar; and since 1901 has been editor of New Thought of Chicago, 111. He is the author of thor,

Nuggets of

New

Thoughts;

and Memory

Culture.

Atkinson, William Yates, lawyer, governwas born June 26, 1855, in Newnan, Gu. In 1878 he began the practice of law in Newnan, Ga. In 1886-94 he was a representative in the Georgia state legislature; and in 1890 and 1892 was president of the democratic state conventions. In 1894-98 he was governor,

or of Georgia. nan, Ga. Atlee,

He

died Aug.

8,

1899, in

New-

John Light, physician, surgeon, was

born Nov. 3 1799, in Pennsylvania. Dr. Atlee's operation for double ovariotomy in 1843

was the first in the history of surgery. He was one of the founders of the Lancaster city and county medical society in 1843, and twice served as its president. He assisted in organizing the Pennsylvania medical society in 1848, and became its president in 1857. He was also one of the organizers of the American medical association in Philadelphia; was elected its vice-president in 1865; and became president in 1882. At the union of Franklin and Marshall colleges in 1853 he became professor of anatomy and physiology, and continued there until 1869. He died Oct. 1, 1885, in Pennsylvania.