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AMORY.ANDERSON. of Indiana in 1839, '40, '43, '48. He engaged in civil engineering at Ripley, O., from 1855 to 1861, and when the civil war broke out he joined the army as captain of the 12th Ohio volunteers, serving in the campaigns of West Virginia, Tennessee and Mississippi. He gained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers in July, 1862, and commanded the district of East Tennessee, when he resigned Jan. 14, 1865. He died Feb. 6, 1894. AMORY, Robert, physician, was born in Boston, May 3, 1842. He was graduated from Harvard university in 1863, and from Harvard medical school in 1866. He went directly to Europe to study, and on his return to America began the practice of medicine in Brookline, Mass. In 1869 he was appointed lecturer on the physiological action of drugs, at Harvard, and professor of physiology at Bowdoin college in the following year, resigning his chair in 1874. For six years he was medical examiner for Norfolk county. He also served as secretary of the Brookline school committee, and as president and manager of the Brookline gas-light company. Among his publications are, with Dr. E. H. Clarke, "Physiological and Therapeutical Action of Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium" (1872); and with Prof. Edward S. Wood, "Wharton and Stille's Medical Jurisprudence," fourth and fifth edition (1882); "Treatise on Electrolysis in Medicine," (1886). He also became a member of the Massachusetts Medical society and of the American Academy of Arts and Science. AMORY, Thomas Coffin, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 16, 1812. He was educated at Harvard college, and in 1834, was made a member of the Suffolk bar. He served in the legislature of Massachusetts, and in the municipal government of Boston during many years, and at the same time contributed articles to periodicals. His published works include: "Life of James Sullivan," governor of Massachusetts (1858); "The Military Service of Major-General John Sullivan" (1868); "Life of Sir Isaac Coffin; His English and American Ancestors" (1886); and a number of poems and sketches published in magazines; and pamphlets on subjects incident to the times of the revolutionary war. His "William Blaxton, Sole Inhabitant of Boston," was a poem written at the time of the threatened destruction of the Old South Church, Boston, and did much to save that historic landmark. He died Aug. 20, 1889. AMORY, Thomas J. C, soldier, was born in Massachusetts about 1830. He was graduated from West Point in 1851, afterwards serving in the Utah expedition, and on the frontier from 1851 to 1860. At the outbreak of the civil war, he was made colonel of the 17th Massachusetts volunteers. He took part in the operations in North Carolina, being regularly promoted in the United States army up to the rank of major, which he reached on Sept. 19, 1864, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 1, 1864. He died of yellow fever in Newberne, N.C., Oct. 8, 1864. ANDERS, Thomas Jefferson, jurist, was born in Bloomville, Ohio, April 4, 1838. He was graduated at the University of Michigan LL.B. 1861; engaged in teaching school in the state of Wisconsin, and removed to Montana in 1864. He practised law in the territory 1864-71, and at Walla Walla, Washington, 1871-88. He became judge of the supreme court at the first state election in 1889, and was re-elected in 1898. He married, Dec. 10, 1873, Viola Hull, of Walla Walla. ANDERSON, Alexander, wood engraver, was born in New York city April 21, 1775. He was graduated at Columbia college, M.D., 1796; began to engrave on metal at an early age, and turned his attention to wood engraving in 1798. He made his own tools and produced the first wood engravings in the United States. He confined himself to wood engraving from 1820, and was engraver for the American Tract society for several years. His work includes illustrations for Bewick's "Birds;" illustration for Webster's Speller, and forty engravings for an edition of Shakespeare. He died in New York city, Jan. 17, 1870. ANDERSON, Charles, governor of Ohio, was born at "Soldiers' Retreat," Louisville, Ky., June 1, 1814, son of Robert Clough and Elizabeth (Clark) Anderson, and brother of Richard C. Anderson, United States minister to Colombia, and of Gen. Robert Anderson. He was graduated at Miami university in 1833, and in 1843 was admitted to the bar, establishing himself in practice at Dayton, O. He soon gained a wide practice and was appointed county attorney. In 1844 he became a member of the upper house of the state legislature, and after finishing his term went abroad. On his return he settled in Cincinnati, and practised there until 1859, when he purchased a farm in San Antonio, Texas, where he remained until the outbreak of the civil war. Returning to Ohio he volunteered in the Federal army and was appointed colonel of the 93d Ohio volunteers. He was severely wounded in the battle of Stone river, and resigned his commission, returning to Ohio, where in 1863 he was elected lieutenant-governor, with John Brough as governor. The death of the latter in 1865 gave the gubernatorial chair to Mr. Anderson. He died at Paducah, Ky., Sept. 2. 1895. ANDERSON, Charles Palmerston, bishop-coadjutor of Chicago and 197th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Kemptville, Ont., Sept. 8, 1863, son of Henry Anderson. He was educated at the university of Toronto; was admitted to the diaconate by the Bishop of Ontario in 1887, and advanced to the priesthood