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ATWILL.ATWOOD. professor of chemistry at Wesleyan university. From 1875-'77 he was director of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station. Professor Atwater wrote authoritative articles on agricultural and chemical subjects, which were published in agricultural reports of several states. Popular Science Monthly, and the publications of the American association for the advancement of science. He published several volumes of reports of work at agricultural experiment stations, "Commercial Fertilizers at Home and Abroad" (1874); "Farm Experiments with Fertilizers" (1878); "Fertilizers: Co-operative Experimenting, etc." (1882). In conjunction with G. B. Goode, he wrote "The American Menhaden." His scientific writings found acceptance in European journals. Professor Atwater made thorough investigation, under the auspices of the Smithsonian institution, of the chemical composition and nutritive values of American foods, and also made exhaustive experiments in vegetable physiology. He was made a member of the American association for the advancement of science. ATWILL, Edward Robert, first bishop of West Missouri, and 155th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Red Hook, Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1840. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1862, and at the General theological seminary in 1864. Ordained a deacon by Bishop Potter, July 3, 1864, he was advanced to the priesthood by the same prelate, April 1, 1865. During his diaconate he officiated as curate at St. Luke's, New York, and immediately on taking full orders, became rector of St. Paul's, Williamsburg, L. I.; he was next curate to the bishop of Vermont, at St. Paul's, Burlington, and in 1867 became rector of that parish. In 1882 he was chosen rector of Trinity church, Toledo, O., where he remained until advanced to the episcopal office. He received the degree of S. T. D. from the university of Vermont in 1883, and was consecrated first bishop of the new diocese of West Missouri, Oct. 14, 1890, his see comprising an area of 36,720 square miles, and embracing a population of 1,388,531 souls. He published a tract on "Confirmation," and numerous sermons and addresses. ATWOOD, Charles B., architect, was born at Charleston, Mass.. May 18, 1849, and in 1866 became a pupil in an architectural office in Boston. After passing through the scientific school at Harvard, he established himself as an architect, and won many first prizes for designs for public buildings. In 1875 he went to New York city. He designed the interior decorations of many of the palatial residences throughout the country, notably that of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in San Francisco, and the residences of William H. Vanderbilt and David Dows in New York city. He won the prize of five thousand dollars for the best design for a new city hall in New York. He planned the public library building in Boston, and furnished the designs for the house of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, in Great Barrington, Mass. In 1891 he went to Chicago, where he designed the Art Palace at the World's Fair, now the Columbian Museum, also the peristyle, and the great terminal station. He died at his home near Chicago, Dec. 19, 1895. ATWOOD, Charles Edwin, physician, was born at Shoreham, Vt., July 21, 1861, a lineal descendant of Capt. John Parker, the first patriot soldier to fall at Lexington in the American Revolution. He was taken to Ithaca, N. Y., at an early age, where he was graduated at Cornell university in 1879. He received his M. D. degree from the Bellevue Hospital medical college in 1881. He was appointed assistant physician to the Hudson River state hospital at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1884. In 1887 he was transferred to the Utica state hospital, and in 1892 received the appointment of physician in charge of the male department of the Bloomingdale asylum, the insane department of the New York Hospital. Dr. Atwood was for over four years associate editor of the American Journal of Insanity. He became a member of the American social science association, associate member of the American medico psychological association, clinical assistant in the department of neurology at the Vanderbilt clinic of the Columbia college of physicians and surgeons, and served as an expert in medico-legal cases in the New York courts. ATWOOD, Isaac Morgan, clergyman, was bom at Pembroke, Genesee county, N. Y., March 24, 1838. At the age of twenty-one he became pastor of a Universalist church in New York state, afterwards holding pastorates in Maine and Massachusetts. After twenty years of preaching he was elected president of the Canton theological school, St. Lawrence university, at which institution he was also given the chair of theology and ethics. He received the degree of A.M. from St. Lawrence university in 1872, and that of D.D. from Tufts college in 1879. Among his published works are: "Have we outgrown Christianity?" (1870); "Glance at the Religious Progress of the United States" (1874); "Latest Word of Universalism" (1881); "Walks about Zion" (1881); "Revelation, or Manual of Faith and Duty" (1888), and "The Balance Sheet of Biblical Criticism" (1895). In 1867 he became editor of the Boston Universalist, acting as such for five years. He assumed the editorship of the Christian Leader in 1873.