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Allmond, Marcus Blakely, educator, founwas born Aug. 17, 1851, in Standardsville, Va. He was one of the thir-

der, author, poet,

teen original students Norwood of Cabell's academy; subsequently attended the famous school of Major Horace Jones at Charlottesville, Va.; and is a, graduate of the university of Virginia. In 1870-73 he was prinhigh cipal of the school at Paris, Mo.; became professor of in ancient languages the male high school of Louisville, Ky. and was professor of mental and moral science at the Southwestern university of Jackson, Tenn. He then founded and for fourteen years was headmaster and proprietor of the university school of Louisville, Ky.; was professor of latin and German at the Hampden-Sidney college of Virginia; and is now principal of the Anne Arundel academy at Millersville, Md. He won a fifty dollar gold medal for the best article published in the Virginia University Magazine. He is the author of Estelle, an Idyll of Old Virginia, Fairfax, My Lord, a Narrative Poem; Agricola, an Easter Idyll; Miscellaneous Poems; Essays and Lectures; Outlines of Latin Syntax; and other works.

AUread, James Isaac, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 29, 1858, in Darke county, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools of his native county; and at the high school of Greenville, Ohio. He soon attained success in the practice of law. In 1895 he became judge of the circuit court of Ohio; and since 1903 has been judge of the court of

common pleas of the state of Ohio, receivingthe re-election to that office in 1908. Allston, Joseph, legislator, governor, was in 1778 in South Carolina. He was a planter of education and ability ; was several years a member of the South Carolina state legislature; and was governor of that state in 1813-14. He married a daughter of Aaron Burr; and for that reason was suspected, but unjustly, of being concerned in the questionable enterprises of that famous man. His wife was lost at sea on her passage from New York to Charleston in 1813. He died Sept. 10, 1816, in South Carolina.

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Allston, Robert Francis Withers, governor, author, was born on April 21, 1801, in All Saint's parish, S.C. He was a Carolina statesman, well known at one time as an agricultural reformer. In 1856-58 he was governor of South Carolina. He was the author of Memoir on Eice; Essay on Seacoast Crops; and Report on Public Schools. He died April 7, 1864, near Georgetown, S.C.

Allston, Mrs. Theodosia Burr, was born in 1783 in Albany, N.Y.; and was the daughter of Aaron Burr. At the age of eleven years she became the mistress of her father's house in Washington, v.'hen he was at the zenith of his political popularitj'; and she was said to have been the most charming and accomplished woman of her day. In 1801 she was married to William Allston, a wealthy planter of South Carolina, who afterward became governor of his state. Her son, Aaron Burr Allston, was proclaimed by his proud grandfather as the intended heir to the throne of the empire of Mexico, which he dreamed of wresting from the Montezumas. She was drowned in December, 1813, while on a voyage from Charleston to New York en the coasting schooner Patriot. Allston, Washington, artist author, poet, was born Nov. 5, 1779, in Waccamaw, S.C. He was the foremost of the American painters in his delineations of sacred history. Among his sacred historical paintings are Jacob's Dream; Elijah in the Desert; Belshazzar's Feast; and numerous other sacred historical paintings. He also possessed poetical talent of a high order; and was the author of Sylphs of the Seasons; Romance of Monaldi; Lecture on Art; and other works. He died July 9, 1843, in Cambridge, Mass. Allston, William, soldier, statesman, was born in 1757 in Charleston, S.C. He was an extensive planter and slave owner. During the revolutionary war he was a captain under Marion. Subsequently he served many terms as a state senator of South Carolina; and was a presidential elector. His son, Joseph Allston, was governor of South Carolina. He died June 26, 1839, on his home plantation in South Carolina.

Allwardt, Henry Augustus, clergyman, author,

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educated in the public schools Of Cattaraugus county, N.Y., and in 1862 graduated from Concordia theological seminary. Since 1874 he has been a pastor in the Lutheran church at Watertown, Wis. He is the author of a Testimony Against the False Doctrine of Predestination. AUyn, Eunice Eloise Gibbs, artist, author, poet, was born near Cleveland, Ohio. She has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean; and was a writer for the St. Louis Globe and the New York World. She has won distinction as an artist and lecturer; and for eight years she served as president of the Dubuque woman's christian temperance union. She is the author of A Thousand Smiles ; and also poems,

and essays. Allyn, John, merchant, was born Sept. 4, 1783, in Boston, Mass. In 1805 he originated the ice trade; and developed the marvelous processes of harvesting, handling and storing ice, which are still in use wherever natural ice is obtained on a large scale. He died Feb. 6, 1864, in Boston, Mass. stories