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three years he was in the electrical engineering department of Johns Hopkins university for six years was professor of mechanical engineering in West Virginia university and for two years was professor of electrical engineering in the university of Illinois. In the Spanish-American war he served as passed assistant engineer in the United States navy with the relative rank of lieutenant; and was attached to the United States steamship Vulcan in Admiral Sampson's fleet. Since 1901 he has been director of the Thomas S. Clarkson memorial school of technology at

Potsdam, N.Y. Aldridge, Enoch, soldier, statesman, was born about 1810 in Alabama. For a quarter of a century in 1837-61 he served almost continuously either as a representative or member of the state senate of Alabama. He served as lieutnant-colonel in the forty-seventh Alabama regiment in the confederate service during the civil war ; and was wounded at Cedar Run. He died about 1875 in Blount county, Ala. Aldridge, George Washington, contractor, 38, 1856, in Michigan City, Ind. In 1894 he was elected mayor of Rochester, N.Y. and resigned as mayor to become state superintendent of public works. During his second term he had charge of the construction of the New York state capitol. His father attained a wide reputation and prominence as a builder and contractor. He remodeled the Academy of music, Wilder's arcade and several private residences of prominence and architectural beauty.

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Alemany, Joseph Sadoc, missionary, archwas born in 1814 in Spain. In 1841 he came to the United States; and bishop; author,

in 1853-83 he was Roman catholic archbishop of San Francisco, Cal. He returned to Spain. He was the author of Life of Saint Dominie. He died in 1888 in Spain.

Alerding, Herman Joseph, clergyman, bishop, author, was born April 13, 1845, in Newport, Ky. In 1900 he became Roman catholic bishop of Fort Wayne, Ind. He is the author of History of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Vincennes, Ind.; and of Plymouth

Rock and Maryland. Aleshire, James Buchanan, army officer, was born Oct. 31, 1856, in Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1880 he graduated from the United States military academy. He served in the SpanishAmerican war; and in 1907 was appointed quartermaster-general in the United States army with the rank of brigadier-general. Alexander, Abner, soldier, physician, surgeon, legislator, was born Sept. 28, 1845, in Tyrrell county, N.C. During the civil war he

was lieutenant of company H, sixty-first North Carolina troops, army northern Virginia, confederate service. In 1879-93 he was superintendent of health for Tyrrell county, in 1885-97 he was superintendent of public instruction for his county. For

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three terms in 1895-1903 he was a member of the North Carolina legislature, being the only republican ever elected to represent the county. He died April 8, 1904, in Baltimore,

Md. Alexander, Abraham, statesman, was born North Carolina. He represented Mecklenburg county in the colonial legislature prior to 1775. He was chairman of the meeting which unanimously adopted the Mecklenburg declaration of independence, which document antedated by more than a year the formal declaration of 1776. He died April 23, 1786, near Charlotte, N.C. Alexander, Adam R., lawyer, congressman, was born in Washington county, Va. He practiced law in Madison county, Tenn. In 1833-27 he was a representative in congress from Tennessee to the eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He died in Jackson, Tenn. in 1718 in

Alexander, Albert Davidson, physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 25, 1865, in McKinley, Ala. In 1888 he graduated from the Medical college of Alabama; and in 1898 was a post graduate of the Missouri medical college. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Mer Rouge, La. He has been surgeon for several railroads ; and medical examiner for numerous life and accident insurance companies. He is a member of the American medical asoeiation; a member of the Louisiana state medical asoeiation; and a member of the Morehouse parish medical association. His ancestors lived in Mecklenburg county, N.C. ; and were members of the original signers of the declaration of independence. Alexander, Andrew Jonathan, soldier, was born in Kentucky. In 1861 he was first lieutenant of the mounted rifles; and served in the third cavalry during the civil war; attaining the rank of major in the eighth cavalry in 1866. During the civil war he was brevetted captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-general in the United

army for meritorious services at different times. He was also brevetted colonel and brigadier-general in the United States volunteers. He died May 4, 1887. States

Alexander, Archer, freedman, was born about 1810 near Richmond, Va. He was a slave, and fled to St. Louis in 1863-, then under martial law; and was formally liberated the same year. He served as the model for the freedman in the bronze group by Tromas Ball, standing in the capitol grounds in Washington, and known as Freedom's memorial. He died Dec. 8, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo. Alexander, Archibald, educator, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1772, in Rockbridge county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and was professor at Princeton theological seminary in 1812-51. He was the author of Evidences of Christianity; The Canon of Scripture; Moral Science; Bible Dictionary; and other works. He died Oct. 22, 1851, in Princeton, N.J.