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 HBRRINGSHAWS lABRART OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Alcorn,

James Lusk,

soldier, lawyer, gov-

ernor. United States senator, was born Nov. 4, 1816, near Goleonda, 111. In 1843 he was elected to the Kentucky legislature; removed in 1844 to Mississippi; and served sixteen years in the legislature of that state in the house and senate. He was founder of the levee system in his state; and in 1858 was chosen .president of the levee board of the Mississippi Yazoo delta. He was elected to the state convention of 1851, and again to that of 1861, the latter body electing him a brigadier-general. In 1865 he was elected to

the United States senate, but not allowed to take his seat. In 1869-70 he was governor of Mississippi. He was United States senator in 1871-77. He died Dec. 20, 1894, in Eagle Nest, Miss. Alcott, Amos Bronson, educator, lecturer, philosopher, author, was born Nov. 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Conn. He first taught an infants' school, in which he was successful. He was a philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of greater interest than his writings. He was the author of Conversations with Children on the Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets ; and New Connecticut, a poem. He died March 4, 1888, in Boston, Mass. Alcptt, Louisa May, author, was born Nov. 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pa.; and was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott. She served as a hospital nurse in Washington in 1862-63; and subsequently wrote books for young people. She was the author of Lit-

Women;

Little Men; An Old-Fashioned Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs; Moods; Hospital Sketches; and A Modern Mephistopheles. The thoughtful poem, Thoreau's Flute, is her finest effort. She died March 6, 1888, in Roxbury, Mass. tle

Girl;

Alcott, May, painter, artist, was born Dec. 1840, in Concord, Mass. She married Ernest Nieriker. She was a successful copyist in oils and water colors, which were used in art schools for pupils to observe and copy. 1,

Concord Sketches, with a preface by her Louisa May Alcott, was published in 1869. She died in December, 1879, in Roxbury, Mass. Alcott, William Alexander, physician, reformer, author, was born Aug. 6, 1798, in Wolcott, Conn. He was an earnest writer upon diet reform and practiced medicine for several years. He was the author of The House I Live In; Vegetable Diet; and Libsister,



rary of Health.

He

died

March

29, 1859, in

Auburndale, Mass. Alden, Aloiizo, soldier, was born in New York. In 1861 he was second lieutenant in the thirtieth regiment New York infantry; became major in 1862; and colonel in 1864. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865; and six months later was honorably mustered out. He died Jan. 16, 1900.

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Alden, Bradford R., soldier, was born in 1800 in Meadville, Pa. He was an instructor in West Point in 1833-40; and then served for nearly two years as aide to General Scott. He was commandant at West Point in 1845-52; and later led an important expedition against the Rouge river Indians. He died Sept. 10, 1870, in Newport, R.L Alden, Carlos Coolidge, lawyer, author, was born June 4, 1866, in Wilmington, 111. In 1892 he graduated from the New York university law school; and received from that institution the degree of LL.B. In 1893 he received the further degree of LL.M. In 1896-98 he was associate professor of law at the New York university; and in 1898-1904 was professor of law at that institution. In 1904 he was appointed dean of the law department of the Buffalo university. In 18931904 he was in active practice at New York City as senior member of the firm of Alden and Carpenter. He is the author of Abbott's Forms of Pleading, in two volumes; and Handbook of New York Code of Civil Procedure. Alden, Charles Henry, army surgeon, was born April 28, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1856 he graduated from Brown university with the degree of A.M.; and in 1858 graduated from the Pennsylvania medical college with the degree of M.D. In 1859 he entered the medical department of the United States army; became brigadier-general; and was retired in 1900. He has been president of the Army medical school; president of the association of military surgeons; and a member of numerous medical, military and patriotic societies.

Alden, Mrs. Cjmthia May Westover, educaauthor, was born May 31, 1862, in Afton, Iowa. She is a graduate of the Colorado state university and the Denver business college and received the degree of M. Litt from Alfred university. She has been a teacher of geology, bookkeeping and vocal music; and as a soprano soloist she sang for several years in the New York church choirs. In 1887 she became inspector of customs of the United States government in New York City, making some of the most important seizures in the service. She resigned to devote herself entirely to journalistic work; for several years was editor of the woman's department of the New York Tribune and the New York Herald; and is now on the staff of the Ladies' Home Journal. She is the founder and president-general of the Sunshine society, of which the Ladies' Home Journal is the official organ. She is the author of Manhattan, Historic and Artistor, journalist,