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 HERRINGSHAWS LTBRABY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dudley Peter, surgeon, was born Kinsman, Ohio. In 1875 he graduated from Oberlin college; and in Allen,

March

35, 1852, in

1879 received the degree of M.A. In 1879 he graduated from the medical department of Harvard university. He is visiting surgeon to the Lakeside hospital; consulting surgeon to the charity and city hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio; and professor of surgery in Western reserve university.

of the

He

a member

is

American surgical association.

Allen, Ebenezer, soldier, was born Oct. 17, 1743, in Northampton, Mass. In 1771 he moved to Poultney, Vt.; and became a lieutenant in Colonel Warner's regiment of Green

mountain boys. He removed to Tinmouth in 1775; and was a delegate from that town to the several conventions in the New Hampshire grants in 1776, and to those that declared the state independent and formed the state constitution during the following year. He was appointed a captain in Colonel Herrick's battalion of rangers in 1777 and distinguished himself at the battle of Bennington. In September of the same year he captured Mount Defiance by assault; and on the retreat of the enemy from Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them prisoners. Subsequently he was made major in the rangers and showed himself a brave and successful partisan leader. He died March 26, 1806, in Burlington, Vt. Allen, Edmund Thompson, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 10, 1836, in Fairhaven, Mass. He was educated at the Friends academy of



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Bedford, Mass.; attended Williston seminary of East Hampton, Mass.; and in 1867 graduated from Yale university. In 1859-63 he practiced law in New Bedford, Mass. In 1863-66 he was a shorthand writer in the military courts of St. Louis, Mo.; and is now a member of the law firm of E. T. and C. B. Allen of St. Louis, Mo. He is a member of the Missouri bar association, St. Louis bar association, and the New England society. In 1904 he was a delegate-at-large to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists

held in St. Louis, Mo.

Edward

Archibald, educator, author, was bom Oct. 3, 1843, in Suffolk, Va. He was educated at the Eandolph-Macon college; and at the university of Virginia. In 1881-85 he was professor of English and modern languages at Central college of Fayette, Mo.; and since 1885 has been professor of English language and literature at the university of Missouri at Columbia. He was coeditor of The World's Best Orations, in ten volumes; associated-editor of The World's Best Essays, in ten volumes and the author Allen,



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of the English Lang-

Allen, Edward Chauncey, educator, farmer, was born about 1800 in Meriden, Conn. For

several years he taught school. He bought the farm adjoining the family homestead; and his farm was regarded as one of the model farm's of Connecticut. He was an officer in the Connecticut state agricultural society. He died July 13, 1887, in Meriden, Conn. Allen,

Edward

P., soldier,

lawyer, congress-

man, was born

He

Oct. 38, 1839, in Sharon, Mich. helped to raise a company for the twen-

ty-ninth regiment Michigan infantry; was

commissioned

first lieutenant; and was mustered out as captain. He was alderman of Ypsilanti in 1872-76; was made mayor in 1880 and was prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw county in 1872. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature in 1872-80. He was appointed assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1869 and was United States Indian agent for Michigan in 1883--85. In 1887-91 he was a representative from Michigan to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.



Allen,

Edward

P., college president,

Rom-

an catholic bishop, was born March 17, 1853, in Lowell, Mass. In 1882 he became assistant at the cathedral at Boston; and later at Framingham, Mass. In 1884-97 he was president of Mount St. Mary's college. In 1897 he was consecrated fifth bishop of Mobile, Ala. Allen,

Edwin

R., soldier, state senator, lieu-

tenant-governor, was born Nov. 36, 1840, in Windham, Conn. In 1826 he enlisted in company A, seventh regiment Rhode Island volunteers; was corporal, sergeant-major, second lieutenant and then first lieutenant; and

was

in

command

of his

company when

it

was

mustered out of service in 1865. He served as state senator in 1889-90 and in 1892-92; and in 1894-96 was lieutenant-governor of

Rhode

Island.

Allen, Edwin West, scientist, author, was born Oct. 38, 1864, in Amherst, Mass. He is assistant director in the officeof experiment stations of the United States department of agriculture. He is the author of various papers on agricultural chemistry and on history and work on agricultural experiment stations; and editor of the Experiment Station

Record. Allen, ^lisha H., lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born Jan. 38, 1804, in New Salem, Mass. He served in the legislature of Maine in 1836-41 and in 1846; and in 1838 was speaker. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Maine to the twenty-seventh congress. In 1847 he removed to Boston; was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1849; and then was appointed consul to Honolulu. He afterward became connected with the government of the Sandwich islands; and in 1856 visited the United States as envoy. In 1857-64 he was chief justice

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