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Del.

He

learned the trade of jeweler and

his father, whom he succeeded in that business, and which he still continues in Dover, Del. In 1898 and 1902 he was elected a member of the Delaware state senate; and in 1903 was elected to the

watchmaker from

United States Senate from Deleware to fill a vacancy for term expiring in 1907. He is president of the Bay state gas company; and president of the Staten Island brick

company. Alleman, tist,

(ieUert, educator, chemist, scienJuly 33, 1871, in Little-

was bom

town, Pa. Since 1902 he has been professor of chemistry at Swarthmore college of Pennsylvania. He has made original researches on the chemistry of Portland cements. Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold, educator, clergyman, author, was born May 4, 1841, in Otis, Mass. He is prominent among leaders of modern religious thought; a professor in the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge; and a member of the Massachusetts historical society. He is the author of The Continuity of Christian Thought; A Study of Modern Theology in the Light of Its History ; Life of Jonathan Edwards ; The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century; Religious Progress; Christian Institutions; and Life of Phillips Brooks. Allen, Alfred, miner, dramatist, author, was born April 8, 1866, in Alfred, N.Y. He is the author of The Heart of Don Vega; and Judge Lynch; and plays entitled Chivalry; The Cup of Victory; The Triumph of

A

Burglar Honeymoon; Playmates; Todd; Head of the House; and other works. Allen, Amos L., lawyer, congressman, was born March 17, 1837, in Waterborough, Maine. He was admitted to the bar of York county in 1866. He served as clerk in the treasury department for about three years;

was

clerk

of the

courts for

York

county in 1870-82; was in 1883-84 clerk of the judiciary committee, house of representatives; and a special examiner under the pension bureau for a year in 1884-85. He was a member of the Maine legislature in

1886-87;

and was private secretary to

Speaker Reed in the fifty-first, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses. In 1899-1911 he

was a representative from Maine to the

fifty-

the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses. sixth,

Allen, Andrew, congressman. In 1775-76 he was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the

continental congress.

Andrew was born March

Aniel, railroad manager, 19, 1853, near Monmouth, m. Since 1868 he has been in railroad service. He has been general superintendent of the Wisconsin central railroad; and general manager of the Chicago and northern pacific railroad. Since 1895 he has been assistant general manager, and since 1903 vice-president and general manager of the Missouri,

Allen,

Kansas and Texas railroad company. He was one of the directors of the Louisiana purchase exposition company. _

Allen, Andrew Hussey, historian, author, was born Dec. 6, 1855, in New York City. He is chief of the bureau of rolls and library at Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Historical Archives of the Department of

State; and other government publications. Allen, Annie Story, author, was born in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. She contributes to the New York magazines. She is the author of Merry Hearts. Allen,

Augustus

born in 1810, in a representative

F., orator,

New

York.

statesman, was

He was

elected to the forty-fourth congress as a republican, but He died Jan. died before taking his seat. 22, 1875, in Jamestown, N.Y.

from

New York

Allen, Benjamin, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 29, 1789, in Hudson, N.Y. He published in 1815 the T^ayman's Magazine; and in 1820 published an abridgment of Burnet's History of the Reformation. In 1821 he was chosen rector of St. Paul's church of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1827 he established a printing house for the publication of tracts

and printing of prayer-books. He published Christ and Him Crucified; Living Manners, a tale; and other works. He died Jan. 13, 1829, at sea.

Allen, official,

Benjamin Thomas, lawyer, public was born Feb. 23, 1852, near Thom-

Ga., where the thriving village of is located. He was educated at the Fletcher institute of Thomasville, Ga.; and at the Valdosta institute of Georgia. Since 1877 he has been engaged in the practice of law, and for one session was reading clerk in the Florida state legislature. He now practices his profession in Pearson, Coffee county, Ga.; and is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of his asville,

Metcalf

community. His paternal ancestors came from North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, and were of Irish exto Georgia

traction. Allen, Bennett Mills, educator, embryologist, scientist, was born July 4, 1877, in Greencastle, Ind. Since 1903 he has been

instructor of anatomy in the university of Wisconsin. He has made original researches in the embryonic development of ovary and testis of the mammals. Allen, Calvin Francis, educator, civil engineer, author, was born July 10, 1851, in

Roxbury, Mass.

He is professor of railroad engineering of the Massachusetts institute for technology. He is the author of Tables for Earthwork Computation; and Field and Ofiice Tables. Allen, Mrs. Caroline R., missionary, hymnist, was born about 1825. For forty years she was a missionary to the Armenians in Turkey. In 1897 a small book of her hymns was published. She died Nov. 25, 1898.