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ALDRICH.ALEMANY. the McKinley tariff bill, his suggestions being accepted, after the proposition made by Mr. Blaine had been discussed and dropped by mutual consent. In his subsequent career in the senate he was prominent in the discussion of the great financial questions that arose in Congress. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey, poet and novelist, was born at Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 11, 1837. Until he was thirteen he spent a part of each year in New Orleans, after which he made his home with his grandfather at Portsmouth, and in 1853 went to New York to begin his business life. He entered a counting-house, and began to write for publication, and his ballad of "Baby Bell," which appeared in a newspaper when the author was nineteen years old, was copied and quoted so widely that he immediately attained a literary reputation. He abandoned commercial for literary pursuits, and quickly gained prominence as a writer. He contributed to the leading magazines and the New York papers, and in 1856 filled a place on the editorial staff of the New York Home Journal. In 1865 Mr. Aldrich removed to Boston to assume the editorship of Every Saturday. This periodical ceased to exist in 1874, and he became a regular contributor to and, in 1881, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, resigning that position in 1892, to apply himself to general literary work. He became as well known in other English-speaking countries as America. Several of his prose books were translated into French, Spanish, German, and Danish. Hawthorne wrote of it: "I have been reading some of Aldrich's poems this evening. I find them rich, sweet and imaginative in such a degree that I am sorry not to have fresher sympathies, in order to taste all the delights that every reader ought to draw from them. I was conscious here and there of a delicacy that I hardly dared to breathe upon." He married in 1865 Lillian Woodman, of New York, and they resided on Mt. Vernon street in Boston, with summer homes at Ponkapog, Mass., and on the Maine coast. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1881, and from Harvard in 1896, and Litt.D. from Yale in October, 1901. He is the author of the following books: "The Bells: A Collection of Chimes" (1855); "Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It" (1857), "The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth" (1858); "The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems" (1859); "Pampinea and Other Poems" (1861); "Out of his Head" (1862); "Poems" (1863); "The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich" (1865); "Père Antoine's Date Palm" (1866); "Pansy's Wish: A Christmas Fantasy" (1870); "The Story of a Bad Boy" (1870); "Marjory Daw and Other People" (1873); "Cloth of Gold and Other Poems" (1874); "Prudence Palfrey" (1874); "Later Poems" (1876); "Flower and Thorn" (1877); "The Queen of Sheba" (1877); "The Stillwater Tragedy" (1880); "Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book" (1881); "The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich" (1882); "From Ponkapog to Pesth" (1883); "Mercedes and Later Lyrics" (1884); "The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich" (1885); "The Second Son" (1888); "Wyndham Towers" (1890); "The Sister's Tragedy: with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic" (1891); "An Old Town by the Sea" (1893); "Two Bites at a Cherry; with Other Tales" (1894); "Unguarded Gates and Other Poems" (1895); "Judith and Holofernes" (1896). ALDRICH, William Farrington, representative, was born in Palmyra, N.Y., March 11, 1853; son of William and Louisa (Klapp) Aldrich; grandson of Nathan Aldrich, and a descendant of Bishop Aldrich of Oxford, England. He was educated at the public schools of Palmyra, removed with his father to New York city in 1865, and was graduated in civil engineering at Warren's military academy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1873. In 1874 he removed to Alabama, where he engaged in mining and established the mining town of Aldrich in Shelby county, Ala. He was nominated by the Republicans and endorsed by the Populists in 1894 as representative from the 4th district of Alabama in the 54th congress. The certificate of election was given to his Democratic opponent, Gaston A. Robbins, and Mr. Aldrich contested the seat on the ground of fraud in the returns and March 13, 1896, he was seated, serving till the close of the 54th congress, March 3, 1897. He was renominated for the 55th congress and claimed re-election in 1896. Thomas Scales Plowman, Democrat, was given the certificate and Mr. Aldrich again successfully contested the election, and was seated Feb. 9, 1898. In 1898 he was a candidate for the 56th congress, and his opponent, F. A. Robbins, received the certificate of election, claiming it by 1230 majority. Mr. Aldrich again contested the seat before the committee on privileges and elections in the 56th congress, where the case was decided in his favor, and he served 1899-1901. ALEMANY, Joseph Sadoc, R. C. archbishop, was born at Vich, Catalonia, Spain, July 13, 1814. In 1821 he entered the Dominican order and pursued his theological studies at the convents of Trumpt and Garona. After his ordination at Viterbo in Italy, 1837, he was master of novices,