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ented an automatic cut-off valve and other inventions. He was the author of Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; and Solar Light and Heat. He died March 17, 1833, in Providence, R.I. Allerdice, William Hilary, naval officer,

was born about 1850 in Pennsylvania. In 1880 he graduated from the military academy; and in 1883 became assistant engineer. In 1889 he was given the rank of lieutenant; .and in 1900 was attached to the Yorktown. AUerton, Mrs.

Ellen Palmer, literateur,

was born Oct. 17, 1835, in Centerville, N.Y. She was at one time book reviewer

poet,

the itilwaukee Sentinel. She is the author of Poema of the Prairies. AUerton, Isaac, pilgrim, was born about 1583. He went from England to Leyden in 1608; and came to America in 1630 in the first voyage of the Mayflower. He was a wealthy and enterprising member of the colony, and took a leading part in its affairs. He treated with Massasoit; and made several trips to England as the agent of the colony to purchase the rights of the adventurers, to secure patents for lands, and to bring over the rest of the congregation at Leyden. He died in 1659 in New Haven, .

Conn. AUerton, Samuel Waters, packer, banker, was born May 36, 1838, near South Amenia, N.Y. In 1873 he began packing meats, and carried on the business as the AUerton packing company, of which he was president. He now has forty thousand acres of farm land in Illinois, Ohio and Iowa, upon which live stock is raised and fattened. He is one of the two survivors of the organizers of the First national bank of Chicago, is a large owner in the Chicago city railway and the Arcade file works of Anderson, Ind.; and is president of the AUerton bank of Illinois. Alley, John Buffum, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1817, in Lynn, Mass. He entered largely into the shoe and leather business; and for years was in the city council of Lynn, Mass. He was a pioneer of the old freesoil party. He was a member of the governor's council in 1851; a member of the Massachusetts state senate in 1853; and a member of the state constitutional convention held in 1853. In 1861-67 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalist convention of 1866. He died Jan. 19, 1896, in Lynn, Mass. Alley, John W., soldier, was born in Maine. In 1850 he graduated from the United States military academy; and was made lieutenant in the third regiment United States infantry. He served in the civil war; and attained the

rank of captain. AUibone, Samuel Austin, philologist, auwas born April 17, 1816, in Philadel-

thor,

phia, Pa. He is widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labor and research. He died Sept. 3, 1889, in Lucerne, Switzerland. Alligood, Charles Alexander, soldier, was' born in Pennsylvania. He served in the civil war; was military storekeeper in the quartermaster's department; and in 1866 attained the rank of captain of the military storekeepers in the quartermaster's department United States army. He died March 31, 1890 in Pennsylvania. Allin, Arthur, educator, author, was born in 1869 in Canada. In 1896-1903 he was a professor of psychology and pedagogy at the He was the author of Ohio university. Psychology of BeUef; and The Psychology of Attention. He died in 1903 in Ohio. Allin, John, clergyman, author, was born He was a puritan in 1596 in England. scholar, who emigrated from England in

1637; and became the first minister of DedHe was the author of several works.

ham.

He

died Aug. 36, 1671, in

Dedham, Mass.

Allin, Roger, farmer, legislator, governor, was born Dec. 18, 1848, in England. He lived in Canada until 1878 ; then in Michigan until 1879; when he settled in Dakota, filing on

land he now farms. He was a member of the territorial council in 1886-89; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1889; was a member of the first legislative assembly of North Dakota in 1889; became lieutenant governor in 1890; and was the fourth governor of North Dakota in 1895-97. Alline, Henry, clergyman, author, was born June 14, 1748, in Newport R.I. He was a clergyman of New Brunswick and Maine. He was the author of about four hundred hymns. He died Feb. 3, 1784, in Northampton, N.H. Ailing, Arthur Nathaniel, physician, oceulist, author, was born July 1, 1863, in New Haven, Conn. Since 1891 he has practiced medicine in New Haven, Conn. He is the author of Diseases of the Eye. Allison, David, publisher, was born in 1774 in Woodbury, N.J. His father, Samuel Allison, a prominent New Jersey lawyer and a member of the society of friends, compiled the assembly laws of that state for 1703-76, which is known as Allison's Laws. The son was for many years a printer and publisher

Burlington, N.J., and edited several periamong them the Rural Visitor. He published many valuable legal, literary and noted theological works, a small dictionary, and a large English and classical dictionary. He died in 1858 in Burlington, N.J. of.

odicals,

Allison, Francis Greenleaf, educator, author, was born in 1856 in Burlington, N.J. Since 1898 he has been professor of philology in Brown university. He is the author of

Greek Prose Composition.