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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. souri in 1893; and in 1894 was elected probate judge of Holt county for four years. For twelve years he was chairman of the republican central committee; and for two years president of the Oregon school board. He has written extensively on law and judicial subjects. In 1894-98 and since 1902 he has been judge of the probate court for Holt county, Mo. Allaire, Anthony J., soldier, was born Feb.. 17, 1829, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the civil war; and rose to the rank of

brigadier-general. In 1867 he was appointed police captain of the twenty-flrst precinct of New York City. Allan, Chilton, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 6, 1786, in Albemarle county, Va. He settled in Kentucky as a wheelwright; educated himself for the legal profession; from Clark county was elected in 1811 to the legislature of Kentucky, and was re-elected for several terms,

In 1831-37 he was a representative from Kentucky state to the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses. In

1838 he

was president

of the board of in-

ternal improvement; and in 1842 was again returned to the state legislature. He died Sept. 3, 1858, in Winchester, Ky. Allan, John, soldier, patriot, was born Jan. 13, 1746, in Scotland. In 1770-76 he was a member of the provincial assembly. When the American colonies engaged in the struggle for independence he gave them active and efficient aid, securing the alliance of the Indian tribes of that region. Congress nominated him superintendent of the eastern Indians, and gave him a colonel's commission in January, 1777; and with his Indians he protected the otherwise exposed line of the northeastern frontier. The Nova Scotia authorities offered a price for his apprehension, while his house was burned and his wife thrown into prison. In 1784 Colonel Allan settled in Maine. The state government of Massachusetts 1792 in granted him a tract of twenty-two thousand acres, on which the town of Whiting now stands; and in 1801 congress gave him two thousand acres in Ohio in compensation for the losses he sustained for the patriot cause. He died Feb. 7, 1805, in Lubec, Maine. Allan, John, antiquarian, was born Feb. 26, 1777, in Scotland. He made a valuable and unique collection of pictures, books, autographs, and rare and curious articles. His collection was sold at auction a short time after his death, and the total receipts

amounted to nearly fifty thousand died Nov. 19, 1863, in New York

He

dollars. City.

Allan, William, soldier, author, was born in 1837 in Virginia. He was a lieutenantcolonel in the confederate army during the civil war. He was the author of Battleships of Virginia; Jackson's Valley Campaign; and Army of Northern Virginia. He died in

AUard, Luther Stockton,

ist, statesman, was born Aug. 28, 1821, in North Brookfield, Miss. In 1836 be became United States surveyor in Michigan terri-

He was subsequently a teacher, docarmy officer in two wars, a postmaster,

tory. tor,

a police judge, and for several years editor and proprietor of the Daily News of Hot Springs, Ark. In 1860 he was a delegate to the first Lincoln convention; and in 1868 was a delegate to the first Grant convention. He died about 1880. Allardice, Robert Edgar, educator, mathematician, scientist, was born March 2, 1863, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 1892 he has been professor of mathematics at the Stanford university of California. He has made original researches in the properties of certain systems of conies.

AUcock, Thomas, was born about 1835 in England. In 1861 he was major of the fourth

New York

artillery; became lieutenant-colonel in 1863; and in 1865 was brevetted colonel of volunteers for gallant and meritorious conduct at Eeam's station, Va. He

was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign against Richmond and in the battles before

He died Dec. 37, 1891. Alderdice, Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow, author, was born about 1830. She was the author of Heart's Delight; Over the Hill to the White House; and Our President. She died about 1900 in New York City. Allen, Addison, lawyer, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 28, 1865, in New York City, and is a lineal descendant of General Ethan Allen. In 1872-75 he attended Leonard academy; in 1875-79 attended the Essex county grammar school of New Jersey; in 1879-84 studied in the New York school of Petersburg, Va.

languages; in 1884-87 he attended Amherst college; in 1887-90 attended Columbia university; and has received the degrees of M.A., LL.B. and Ph.D. In 1889 he was admitted to the New York bar; in 1889-91 traveled through every country of Europe and Western Asia; and since 1891 has practiced law in New York City. Since

1884 he has been a speaker in every presiand numerous municipal campaigns in the interest of the republican party. He is a member of the American association

dential

for the advancement of science; and various other patriotic and scientific societies. He has lectured for the New York board of education; and is the author of valuable articles on European Travel and other subjects which have been a valuable acquisition to American literature.

AUee, James

1889. soldier, journal-

85

States senator,

Frank,

was born

merchant, United in 1857 in Dover,