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that

He

city.

died April 14, 1867, in

New

Yorli City.

Abrahamson, author,

Laurentius

G.,

,clergyinan

was born March 2, 1856, in Sweden. years he was president of the Illinois

For six Lutheran conference; and is president of the board of directors of the Augustana hospital of Chicago, 111. He is the author of Jubel Album. Abrams, Albert, educator, physician, author, was born Dec. 8, 1863, in San Francisco, Cal.

He

is

Pittsburg, Pa.

Lungs; Nervous

York

Breakdown; The Antiseptic Club; and SelfPoisoning. He was the

Acker, Ephraim L., educator, journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1 827, in MarlHe was the editor borough township. Pa. and publisher of the Norristown Register; superintendent of common schools for Montgomery county in 1854-60; was appointed postmaster at Norristown in TSBO; and was inspector of Montgomery county prison for three years. In 1871-72 he was a member of the fifty-second congress from Pennsylvania. He died in Norristown, Pa. Acker, Franklin, merchant, millionaire, was born Feb. 16, 1853, in New York City. In 1870-72 he was connected with the wholesale grocery house of Acker, Merrall and Condit of Boston, of which firm his father was the founder. He is a director of the David D. Acker company of New York City and other corporations. Acker, George Sigourney, soldier, was born in New York. In 1861 he was captain in the first Michigan cavalry; and was made major in 1862; lieutenant-colonel in 1863; and colonel in 1864. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1865 for gallant and soldierly conduct during the east Tennessee and Atlantic campaigns. Acker, Thomas Jefferson, physician, surgeon, was born July 27, 1837, in Ossining,N.Y. He was educated" at Claverack college

tion;

Diseases of the

discoverer of the heart

and lung

reflexes

Abrams and

of

other re-

same name. Abrams, Leroy, educator, botanist, author,

flexes bearing the

was born

Oct. 1, 1874, in Sheffield, Iowa. .In 1899 he graduated from the Leland Stanford university; and since 1904 has been a professor of botany in that institution. He is the author of The Flora of Los Angeles and

Vicinity.

Acheson, Alexander Wilson, lawyer, jurist, 14, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1835-36, 1839 and 1845-46 he was deputy attorney-general for Washington county. Pa. For eleven years in 1866-77 he was president judge of the twenty-seventh district of Pennsylvania. died July 10, 1890, in Washing-

was born June

H

ton, Pa.

Acheson, Edward Goodrich, electrician, manufacturer, inventor, Was born March 9. 1856, in Washington, Pa. He is the inventor of carborundum; and also the inventor of a

making

Acheson, Marcus W., lawyer, jurist, was born in Washington, Pa. He settled in Pittsburg in the practice of his profession; in 1880-91 was United States district judge for the western district of Pennsylvania; and in 1891-1906 was judge of the United States circuit court of appeals. He died in 1906 in

Heart; Diseases of the

Consumption, Causes and Pi'even-

of

can.

Acker, David D., merchant, banker, finanwas born June 13, 1823, in Bergen county, N.J. In 1868 he entered the mercantile business; was vice-president of the New York national exchange bank; and an active and influential member of the produce and mercantile exchanges and of the chamber of commerce. He died March 23, 1888, in New

president of the Emanuel sisterhood polyclinic. He is the author of Manual of Clinical Diagnosis;

method

enth, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses from Pennsylvania as a republi-

graphite.

Acheson, Ernest Francis, journalist, publisher, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1855, in Washington, Pa. In 1879 he purchased the Washington Observer, of which he has since been editor. He

was elected president of the Pennsylvania editorial association in 1893; and the same year was chosen as recording secretary of the national editorial association.

For

ten

years he was a member of the republican state committee;

was

a delegate to the republican national conventions at Chicago in 1884 and at St. Louis in 1896. In 1895-1909 he was a member of the fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-sev-

cier,

City.

of

New

York; and

in

1865 graduated with the degree" of M.D. from Bellevue hospital medical college of New -York City. For two years he practiced medicine at Pines Bridge, N.Y.; and since 1867 has built up a successful practice at Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester county, N.Y. He is a fellow of the New York state medical association; a permanent member of the American medical association; and honorary member of the New York state railway surgeons' associa-