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 HKRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Schenectady, N.Y.

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England in reand became acquainted with the great Stephenson. He imported the first locomotive ever brought to America; and he vj^as the first locomotive engineer in the United States. He was at different times consulting engineer, chief engineer and president of the Erie railroad; and devised the swiveling truck, now generally adopted by visited

lation to locomotives;

railroads.

He was

consulting engineer of the

Brooklyn bridge; and assistant engineer in building the croton aqueduct of New York City. He died Dec. 31, 1889, in Montrose, N.J. Allen, Ira, soldier, author, was born April 21, 1751, in Cornwall, Conn. He was an officer in the American army during the revolutionary war; and was afterwards instrumental in settling the disputes between Vermont and its neighbors. He was the author of Natural and Political History of Vermont. He died Jan.

7,

1814, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Allen, Ira H., public ofBcial, legislator, was born aiout 1792 in Colchester, Vt. In 1814 he took charge of the lands in Irasburg, Vt., all that was left immense estate of Ira Allen. He represented his town for eleven years in the Vermont general assembly; for seventeen years was clerk of Orelans county court; and in 1828-31 was councillor. He died in April,

which constituted nearly of the once

1866, in Irasburg, Vt. Allen, Ira Wilder, educator, lawyer, college president, was born July 5, 1827, in Potsdam, N.Y. For four years he taught school

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while

attending

the

Lawrence academy; and in 1850 graduated from Hamilton St.

college of Clinton,

N.

Y. He taught Latin, Greek, German, Span-

mathematics, sciand philosophy in Manlius academy of New York, of which

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he was principal. He became president of Union christian the college; and subsequently practiced law in Albany, N.Y. In 1870 he became president of Lake Forest university; and subsequently established Allen's academy in Chicago, 111. Allen, Isaac Leroy, soldier, maaiifaxiturer, champion, was born Dec. 29, 1841, in New York City. He served with distinction in the union army during the civil war; and is a member of the grand army of the republic. He is a manufacturer of rope and cordage in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was one of the American rifle team in the great centennial international matches; was also in six international matches; and was never defeated in any of the contests. Allen, J. Henry, physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1854 in Canada. He was educated in the public schools; in 1884 graduated with the degree of M.D. from the univ-

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ersity of Michigan; and also received a postgraduate degree in medicine from the Hering medical college. Since 1884 he has been a homoepathic physician; and in 1901 was pre-

sident of the international Hahnemannian association. For fourteen years he has been professor of diseases of the skin and miasmatics in the Hering medical college; and has been city physician to the Baptist hospital and Hering hospital. He is the author of Diseases of the Skin; The Chronic Miasms, in two volumes; and has contributed prose and poetry to literary publications. Allen, J. Adams, physician, author, was born Jan. 16, 1825, in Middlebury, Vt. He received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from the Middlebury college

and in 1846 graduated with the degree of M. D. from Castleton medical college. In 1848 he taught therapeutics in the Indiana medical college;

and

subse-

accepted the physiology chair of and pathology in the medical department of the university of Michigan. He practiced medicine in Kalamazoo; and was president of the state medical society of Michigan. In 1859 he became professor of principles and practice of medicine in Rush medical college of Chicago, 111. For several years he was editor and proprietor of the Chicago Medical Journal. He js the author of Medical Examinations for Life Insurance; and Principles and Practice of Medicine.

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Allen, James, army oflicer, aeronaut, was born Sept. 11, 1824, in Barrington, R.I. In 1857 he made his first ascension, reaching a height of over eight thousand feet. During the civil war he made captive balloon ascensions, and every movement of the enemy was watched. In 1862 the United States government gave him the rank of captain, and be-

gan to pay him for his services. Brazil paid him ten thousand dollars for balloon services He in their war with Paraguay in 1867. died Sept. 24, 1897, in Providence, R.I. Allen, James, clergyman, author, was born in 1 692 in Roxbury, Mass. He was ordained in 1718, and became the first minister of Brookline, remaining in that charge until his death. His remarks concerning the religious revival of 1743 drew upon him severe animadversion. He published a Thanksgiving Sermon; a discourse on Providence; a discourse entitled The Doctrine of Merit Exploded, and Humility Recommended; a Fast Sermon oil the Earthquake, and other works. He died Feb. 18, 1747, in Brookline, Mass. Allen, James, soldier, was born Feb. 13, 1849 in Laporte, Ind. In 1868 he was a cadet in the military academy; in 1872 was second lieutenant of the third cavalry; became captain in 1888; and in 1898 was colonel and