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 MINER. MINER. 415 of these he was, during the later years of his service, the chairman on the part of the House. He devoted much time and atten- tion to the interests of the charitable insti- tutions, of one of which he was appointed a trustee by Governor Ames, a position he still holds. Mr. Milne is not only a gentleman held in the highest honor and esteem by his fel- low-citizens, but he carries his purity of character into his editorial work, and labors to disseminate only such journalistic matter as appeals to the higher moral elements of society. MINER, ALONZO AMES, son of Bena- jah Ames and Amanda Miner, was born on the 17th of August, 1814, at Lempster, Sullivan county, N. H. He was educated at the public schools and at various New England academies, and afterwards studied privately. From the time he was sixteen years old he taught school during the winters, for four years, and in 1S34 became associate prin- cipal with James Garvin, of an academy at Cavendish, Vt. A year later he took entire charge of an academy known as the Unit)' Scientific and Literary Academy, founded especially for him at Unity, N. H., by the parents of those sons and daughters who had been under his previous tuition, where he remained for four years. During the last year and a half he often filled neighboring pulpits on Sunday. He re- ceived fellowship as a Universalist clergy- man in 183S, was ordained in 1839 and settled in Methuen. In 1S42 he removed to Lowell, and thence to the Second Universalist church — now the Columbus Avenue church, of Boston, in 1848, suc- ceeding the Rev. Dr. Chapin, as associate with the venerable Hosea Ballou. In August, 1S36, at Lempster, N. H., Dr. Miner was married to Maria S., daugh- ter of Edmund and Sarah (Bailey) Perley. Dr. Miner has been a member of the school board in Methuen, Lowell and Bos- ton ; he was elected by the Legislature a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College ; a member of the state board of education for eight years, by ap- pointment of Governor Claflin, and again for a similar term by appointment of Governor Rice. He still holds the same office under the appointment of Governor Robinson. From 1S62 to '75 Dr. Miner was president of Tufts College, and is still a member of the board of trustees. He is a trustee of the Bromfield school at old Harvard ; president of the trustees of the Universalist Publishing House ; a director of the American Peace Society ; for eigh- teen years president of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance ; president of the committee of ore hundred for the preserva- tion of our public schools ; and appointed by Mayor Cobb, of Boston, chairman of the commission in the treatment of drunk- enness in the city institutions, whose re- port embodied methods since widely intro- duced into Sherborn and Concord reform- atories and in the police court by the pro* bation officer. He has thus, in many ways, made him- self a most important factor, and exerted a controlling influence in the cause of re- form, easily taking the place of a leader in the temperance movement and in the school question recently agitating the State of Massachusetts. . Gl ALONZO A. MINER. In 1 86 1 Dr. Miner received the honorary degree of A. M. from Tufts College, in 1863 the degree of S. T. D. from Harvard College, and in 1875 the degree of LL. D. from Tufts College. He delivered the oration, July 4, 1855, before the city authorities of Boston. Among many literary productions, Dr. Miner's most popular, perhaps, are: "Bible Exercises," (published in 1854, the last edition of which was published in 1884-85), and 'Old Forts Taken" (published in
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