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San Francisco to the California state legislature. In 1894 he was the democratic nominee for congress; and in 1899 was a candidate for the United States senate. • Alfred,

Frank Edward, lawyer,

jurist,

was

stoves.

He

Alger, Russell

1856,

in

Boston,

Alexander, soldier, gover-

He was admitted practice



Great Diamond Robbery and His Double Life.

4,

nor, cabinet officer. United States senator, was born Feb. 27, 1836, in Lafayette, Ohio.

born Feb. 35, 1853, in Fairfax, Vt. He was educated at the New Hampton institute ancf in 1876 graduated from Harvard law school. For four years he was state's attorney for Orleans county, Vt.; for six years was judge advocate-general for the state of Vermont; and since 1893 has been judge of probate for Orleans district, with headquarters, at Newport, Vt. He is also counsel in Vermont for the Canadian pacific railway company; the Dominion express company; and various other corporations. Alfriend, Edward Morrisson, dramatist author, was born Oct. 25, 1843 in Richmond Va. He is the author of A Woman's Ordeal A Foregone Conclusion; The Louisianian Acress the Potomac; The Diplomats; The

died Feb.

Mass.

to

law in 1859.

the civil war he entered the union army as a private; was captain and major of second Michigan cavalry ; and lieutenant-colonel fifth Michigan cavalry. He par-

During

ticipated in sixty-seven battles and skirmand in 1865 ishes; was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general for gallant In 1885-87 he was governor of conduct. Michigan; in 1888 was a candidate for president in the republican national con-

Alfriend, Thomas Lee, soldier, insurance president, financier, was born Feb. 19, 1843, in Richmond, Va. He served t^AO years during the civil war in the confederate army. Since 1865 he has been in the insurance business in Richmond, Va. ; and is president of the Life underwriters' association of Vir-

vention; and in 1889-90 was coramander-in chief of the grand army of the republic. President McKinley appointed him secretary of war in 1897. In 1901-07 he was a member of the United States senate. He was one of the wealthiest men in Michigan, in which state he owned very large lumber interests. He died Jan. 34, 1907, in Washing-

ginia.

ton, D. C.

George William, lawyer, author, was born about 1870 in Burlington, Vt. Since 1895 he has practiced law in New York City. He is the author of Moral Overstrain. Alger, Horatio, educator, author, was born Jan. 13, 1834, in Revere, Mass. He graduated from Harvard college; and for fifteen years prepared boys

Alger, William Rounseville, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 30, 1822, in Freetown, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman and

Life.

Alger,

for the college in New York City. He was the author of a series of popular juvenile tales,

among which the Rag-


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with

1841 began the practice of law in New City. In 1859-78 he was justice of the marine court. He died Nov. 23 1886, in New in

York

best known. His stories of the street life

York

in

stories

New York made

<i0^^^^ him a great favorite ^^^k ^^^ ^^H| with boys everywhere ^^^^^^r___^BBI His books have had a wider circulation am-

ong boys, than any other in the United States. He died July 18, 1899, in Natick, Mass. Alger, Cyrus, iron founder, inventor, was born Nov. 11, 1781, in West B'ridgewater, Mass. Early in life he became an iron-founder, and established his business in Easton, Mass. In 1809 he removed to South Boston, where he founded the works that since 1817 have been known as the South Boston iron company. He devised numerous improvements in the construction of time fuses for bomb-shells and grenades. In 1811 he patented a method of making cast-iron chilled rolls; and in 1833 first designed cylinder

Henry, lawyer, jurist, was born 21, 1820, in France. In 1826 he came his parents to Jersey City, N.J.; and

Alker,

May

are

ged Dick

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lecturer of Boston, Mass. He was author of Symbolic History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient; and Life of Edwin Forrest. He died in 1905 in Boston, Mass.

City. Alkire, Henry T., lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1854, in Platte county. Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the district school; graduated from the Missouri state normal school at Kirksville in 1875 ; and from Missouri state university in 1881. He has

attained prominence as an able lawyer of Oregon, Mo., of which city he has been mayor and for three terms was city attorney. He

was in the thirty-fifth general Miss'ouri state legislature;

a.

representative

assembly of the

was the republican nominee for secretary of state of Mis-