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representative to the Illinois state legislature.

Alsop,

Charles

Richard, lawyer,

states-

in 1803 in Middletown, Conn. In 1824-31 he pi'acticed law in Middletown and in New York City. In 1832-46 he was engaged in mercantile business in Middle-

man, was born

town, Conn.; and in 1843 became mayor of his city. In 1855 he was elected a member of the Connecticut- state senate. He died March 5, 1865, in Middletown, Conn. Alsop, George, author, was born in 1638 in England. In 1668 he settled in Maryland. He published a book with this quaint title: A Character of the Province of Maryland; also a Small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians of Susquehanokes of Maryland, and their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion, together with a collection of historical letters. He died about 1680 in Maryland. Alsop, John, merchant, congressman, was born about 1830 in Middletown, Conn. He was a merchant; and by his ability, patriotism, and integrity secured his election to the continental congress, serving in 1774-76. He died Nov. 22, 1794, in Newtown, N.Y. Alsop, John, lawyer, bookseller, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1776, in Middletown, Conn. He practiced law in New London; and afterward became a bookseller in Hartford and in New York City. His poems were never issued in book form, but appeared in various periodicals and collections. He died Nov. 1, 1841, in Middletown, Conn. Alsop, Joseph W., physician, statesman,

was born Aug.

He

New York City. New York City; and be-

30, 1838, in

practiced law in

came prominent in municipal affairs. In 1881-87 he was a member of the Connecticut state senate. In 1881-91 he was a member of the Connecticut state board of agriculture; and in 1890 received the nomination for lieutenant-governor for the state of Connecticut. He died June 24, 1891, in Fenwick, Conn. Alsop, Richard, poet, was born Jan. 23, 1761, in Middletown, Conn. He was a witty political satirist

wrote The Echo



and with Theodore Dwight,

and 1855 he was elected a representative to the South Carolina state legislature from Marengo county; and in 1839 was a member of the state senate. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Alabama to the thirty-first congress.

Alston, Willis, congressman, was born in Halifax county, N.C. He served in the North Carolina state legislature in 1791-92 and in 1820-21; and in 1794-96 was a member of the state senate. He was a representative from North Carolina in 1799-1815, and 182531 in the sixth to the thirteenth, and in the nineteenth to the twenty-first congresses. He died April 10, 1837, in' Halifax, N.C. Alt, Gustav Adolph, physician, surgeon, journalist, founder, was born Aug. 13, 1851, in Baden. In 1887 he was made lecturer on ophthalmology and otology in Trinity college; and is now professor of ophthalmology in the St. Louis university of Missouri. In 1879 he published in Germany and also in New York, the Normal and Pathological Histology of the Human Eye; and in 1883 he founded and edited the American Journal of Ophthalmology, the first journal of that description.

Alter,

Mark,

lawyer,

jurist,

was born

New York

City. He was educated at Wright's college of Brooklyn,

June

N.Y.;

29, 1869, in

and graduated from Columbia

col-

of New York City. He has attained success in the practice of law in New York City; and is identified with the public affairs of his city and state. lege

Altgeld, John. Peter, lawyer, governor, author, was born Dec. 30, 1847, in Germany. When sixteen years of age he entered the

union army; and carried a musket in the James river campaign. At nineteen he began to teach school; and at twenty-one went farther west. In 1884 he published a small

volume

entitled

Our

author of The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; and The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana. He died Aug. 20, 1815, in Flatbush, N.Y. Alston, Lemuel J., congressman, was born in South Carolina. In 1807-11 he was a representative from South Carolina to the tenth and eleventh congresses. Alston, William, revolutionary soldier, statesman, was born in 1757 in Charleston, S.C. He was a captain in the revolutionary war; a capable soldier and a zealous patriot. After the war he served for many years in the state senate. He died June 26,

Penal Machinery and Its Victims; in 1890 he published a volume entitled the Live Questions, being a discussion of some of the problems of the day; and in 1894 he published volume two of that work. He was elected judge of the superior court of Chicago in 1886; and was for a time chief justice of that court. After serving on the bench about five years he resigned to devote himself to private affairs. Meanwhile he had become interested in Chicago real estate; and built six of the finest business blocks in Chicago, one of them a sixteen-story fire-proof structure called the Unity, which is regarded as one

1839, in South Carolina. Alston, William J., congressman, was born in Georgia. He moved to Alabama; in 1837

of the finest office buildings in the country. In 1893-97 he was governor of Illinois. He died March 12, 1902, in Joliet, 111.

in 1791, a series of metrical

parodies upon current publications, orations, He was the state papers and the like.