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ADDISON.ADLER. M.E. church at Pekin, Ill., five years, and in 1889 accepted the chair of theology in Central Wesleyan college, Warrenton, Mo., and was made its president in 1894. ADDISON, Daniel Dulany, clergyman, was born in Wheeling, W. Va., March 11, 1863; son of Thomas Grafton and Maria Eliason (Addison) Addison, grandson of Daniel Dulany and Louise (Gordon) Addison, great-grandson of Thomas and Henrietta (Paca) Addison; grandnephew of Walter Dulany Addison, and a descendant of William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of Col. John Addison, first ancestor in America, who was a cousin of Joseph Addison, English poet and essayist. He was prepared for college at Emerson Institute, Washington, D.C., and was graduated at Union college in 1883, and at the Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, Mass., in 1886. He was assistant minister at Christ church, Springfield, Mass., 1886-'89; rector of St. Peter's church, Beverly, Mass., 1889-'95, and of All Saints church, Brookline, Mass., from 1895. He was married Feb. 20, 1889, to Julia de Wolf Gibb. His published books include: "New England Town in the Civil War" (1890); "Phillips Brooks" (1892); "Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters and Diary" (1894); "All Saints Church, Brookline" (1895); "The Life and Times of Edward Bass, First Bishop of Massachusetts, 1726-1803" (1897); "The Clergy in American Life and Letters" (1899). ADDISON, Walter Dulany, clergyman, was born in Annapolis, Md., Jan. 1, 1769; son of Thomas and Rebecca (Dulany) Addison. He studied at Greenwich, England, 1784-'87, with his uncle, rector at Epsom, and in London under Dr. Barrow, 1787-'89. He returned to America, where he studied theology, 1789-'92, and was ordained a priest in 1793, the first candidate to receive orders in the Protestant Episcopal church at the hands of a bishop (Claggett) consecrated in America. He was rector of Queen Anne's parish, Md., 1793-'96, and held services in various denominational churches in Maryland and in the Presbyterian church, Washington, D.C., 1793-1801, which resulted in the foundation of the "Old Church" (St. John's), Washington, D.C., erected in 1804. He was rector of Broad Creek parish, 1801-'09, of St. John's parish, Georgetown, 1809-'26, and of Rock Creek from 1826. He became blind in 1827. He married in June, 1792, Elizabeth D. Hesselius. He died in Baltimore, Jan. 31, 1848. ADE, George, author, was born in Kentland, Ind., Feb. 9, 1866, son of John and Adaline (Bush) Ade. He was graduated at Purdue university B.S. 1877; became reporter and telegraph editor on the Evening Call at Lafayette, Ind., in 1877, and a reporter on the Daily News, now the Record, in Chicago, Ill., in 1891. He subsequently contributed a special series of humorous articles to that paper, which were syndicated. He is the author of "Artie" (1896); "Pink Marsh" (1897); "Doc Horne" (1898); "Fables in Slang" (1899); "More Fables" (1900). He also wrote the following successful comic operas: "The Sultan of Sulu," "Peggy from Paris," "Yankee Consul" and "The County Chairman," a comedy. ADEE, Alvey Augustus, official, was born at Astoria, N.Y., Nov. 27, 1842, son of Augustus Alvey Adee, fleet surgeon in the U.S. navy. He was educated under private tutors, and was appointed secretary of legation at Madrid, Sept. 9, 1870, where he served as charge d'affaires several times. He was appointed a clerk at Washington, D.C., July 9, 1877; chief of the diplomatic bureau June 11, 1878; third assistant secretary of state July 18, 1882, and second assistant secretary of state Aug. 3, 1886. He was present at the signing of the peace proctocolsprotocols [sic] between the United States and Spain; served as secretary of State, during a vacancy, Sept. 17-29, 1898, and as acting secretary of state during the difficulties with the Chinese in August and September, 1900. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1888. ADLER, Cyrus, educator, was born at Van Buren, Ark., Sept. 13, 1863. His parents removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1864, and there he attended the public schools. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, and was graduated in 1883. He afterwards pursued Oriental studies in Johns-Hopkins university, was appointed university scholar there in 1884, and was fellow in Semitic languages from 1885 to 1887, when he received the degree of Ph.D., and was appointed instructor in Semitic languages. He was promoted to be associate professor in 1890. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States national museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archæology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian exposition to the Orient in 1890, and he passed sixteen months in Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco securing exhibits. On Dec. 1, 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Smithsonian institution at Washington. He was made lecturer