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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ade, George, journalist, author, was born 9, 1866, in Kentland, Ind. He is a successful Chicago journalist; and for many years was on the staff of the Chicago Daily News. He is the author of Artie, a Story of the Streets and Town; What a Man Sees Who Goes Away From Home; Pink Marsh; Doc Home; Fables in Slang; and other works.

Feb.

Adee, David Graham, lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 31, 1837, in Chelsea, Mass. He was United States commissioner to the Sandwich islands in 1883 ; during the war he was military secretary on staff duty; and practiced law in New York for ten years. He was the author of the novel No. 19 State Street. He died in 1901 in Washington, D.C. Adelsberger, Louis, physician, public official, was born Feb. 16, 1862, in Waterloo, 111. His surname originated from the city of Adelsberg, u s t r i a of

A

which

,

an Adelsberg

was burgomaster, the city deriving its name from him; and his descendants emigrated to

Baltimore, Md. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native city; and in 1884 graduated with the degree of M.D. from the medi a 1 department o f Washington university at St. Louis, Mo. In 1897-1901 he was president of the Illinois

state board of health. In 1897 he was a delegate to the international medical congress held in Moscow, Russia. He holds a prominent position in the medical world; and since 1890 has practiced his profession in Waterloo, 111.

Aden, Ebenezer, soldier, pioneer, was born In 17, 1743, in Northampton, Mass. 1763 he began the first settlement of Poultney, Vt. In 1777 he distinguished himself for his gallantry at the battle of Bennington as captain of a company of minute men. He was subsequently commissioned a major for Oct.

his gallanty.

He

died

March

26,

1806, in

Vermont.

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Adkins, William Lucius, lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 18, 1859, in Colorado

He

county, Tex.

received a thorough education and graduated from the Texas milita;

ry institute. He has attained success in the practice of law in Col-

umbus, Colorado county, Tex. He has been chairman of the county

democratic party;

and he served as a

de-

mocratic congressional chairman. He has been a representative in the

Texas state legislatand served on several important committees. He was presidential elector for Alton B. Parker; and a delegate to the democratic national convention that nominated William Jennings Bryan the second time. ure;

Adkinson, Mrs. Mary Osburn, temperance reformer, was born July 28, 1843, in Rush county, Ind. She is the wife of the Rev. L. G. Adkinson, the president of the New Orleans university. She took a leading part in the organization of the woman's foreign missionary society of Madison, Ind.; and was four times its president. She has been superintendent of the woman's christian temperance union in the state of Louisiana and is also matron in the New Orleans university. Adier, Cyrus, librarian, archaeologist, author, was born Sept. 13, 1863, in Van Buren, Ark. He has been president of the American

Jewish historical society; and since 1892 librarian of Smithsonian institution of Washington, D.C. He is the author of Told in the Coffee House, a book of Turkish Tales. Adler,

Dankmar,

was

designer, architect,

born July 3, 1844, in Germany. From 1869 he practiced architecture in Chicago, 111. and was architect of the Auditorium, Stock Exchange and Schiller building. He died in

,1900, in Chicago, 111. Adler, Felix, reformer, author, Aug. 13, 1851, in Germany. He is

was born an ethical

reformer of New York City and established a new religious society called the society of ethical culture. He is the author of Creed

and Deed; and The Moral Instruction of

Adgate, Asa, legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in the legislature of New York from Clinton county in 1798-99. In 1815-17 he was a representative from Essex county to the fourteenth congress. He was again a member of the New York state legislature in 1823. died in Clinton, N.Y.

He

Adkins, E., educator, clergyman, author, was born Dee. 17, 1805, in Greenfield, N.Y. He studied law and taught school in Tennessee and Illinois. For several years he filled a professorship in Marietta college of Ohio. He was the author of What is Baptism; Ecclesia; The Church; and The Ages to Come. He died about 1880 in Elyria, Ohio.

Children. Adler, George

J.,

philologist, author,

was

born in 1821 in Germany. In 1846-54 he was

German in the university of He was the author of a valuable

professor of

New

York.

German and English dictionary and other educational works. He died Aug. 24, 1868, in

New York

City.

Adler, Isaac, physician, author, was born April 6, 1849, in Germany. He was a medical student at the universities of Heidelberg, Vienna, Prague and Berlin. In 1871 he received the degree of M.D. from Heidelberg university; and in 1892 was professor of clinical pa-

thology at the New York polyclinic medical school." In 1898 he was consulting physician