ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, a coeducational (Methodist Episcopal) institution in Meadville, Pa.; organized in 1815; reported at the end of 1919: Professors, 26; students, 601; president, William H. Crawford, D. D.
ALLEGHENY RIVER, a river of Pennsylvania and New York;, a headstream of the Ohio. It rises in Potter county, Pa., and joins the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Among its tributaries are French creek. Clarion, and Conemaugh rivers. Its length is about 400 miles, and it is navigable for about 150 miles above Pittsburgh.
ALLEGORY, a figurative presentation of a subject, which carries with it another meaning besides the literal one. It is as often used in painting, sculpture. and other imitative arts as in language, although it is usually considered rhetorical. Like the fable and the parable, it has an underlying moral. It is metaphor extended to the minutest details, as in “Pilgrim's Progress.”
ALLEN, CHARLES HERBERT, an American diplomatist, born in Lowell, Mass., April 15. 1848; was graduated at Amherst College in 1869; served in both branches of the State Legislature, and in Congress in 1885-1889; was defeated as the Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1891; and succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in May, 1898. On the passage by Congress of the Porto Rico Tariff and Civil Government bill, in April, 1900, the President appointed him the first civil governor of the island. He became president of the American Sugar Refining Co. in 1913.
ALLEN, ELIZABETH AKERS, an American poet, born (ELIZABETH CHASE) at Strong, Me., Oct. 9, 1832. She was married in 1860 to Paul Akers, the sculptor, who died in 1861, and in 1865 to E. M. Allen, of New York. Her first volume, "Forest Buds," appeared under the pen name of "Florence Percy" (1855). Other works: "The Silver Bridge and Other Poems" (1866); a volume of "Poems" (1866), which contains "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"; "The High Top Sweeting and Other Poems" (1891); "The Sunset Song" (1902).
ALLEN, ETHAN, an American Revolutionary hero, born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737. His services in the War of the Independence, as Colonel of the "Green Mountain Boys," capturing Fort Ticonderoga; his attack on Montreal; sufferings as a prisoner in England; skillful diplomacy in behalf of Vermont, etc., are well known. He wrote an account of his captivity (1779), "A Vindication of Vermont" (1784), and "Allen's Theology, or the Oracles of Reason" (1784), in which he declared reason to be the only oracle of man. He died near Burlington. Vt., Feb. 12 1789.
ALLEN, GRANT (CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN), an English naturalist, essayist, and novelist, born in Kingston, Canada, Feb. 24. 1848. He graduated from Oxford, and was professor at Queen's College, Jamaica. He became a follower of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, and was author of scientific essays in a light, attractive style. After 1883 he produced a large number of novels. Among them are "Babylon" (1885); "The Devil's Die" (1888); "Under Sealed Orders" (1896). He died Oct. 25, 1899.
ALLEN, HENRY J., an American statesman, born in Warren co.. Pa., in 1868. He was educated at Baker University and Washington College. In 1894 he began newspaper work and soon became owner of several daily newspapers m Kansas, the most important of these being the Wichita "Daily Beacon." He was president of the Kansas State Board of Charities for five years. During the World War he went to France under the auspices of the Red Cross and during his absence was nominated and elected Governor of Kansas. His prompt action during the coal-mining strike in the winter of 1919 attracted attention throughout the country. In response to his call volunteers from all classes undertook to man the mines abandoned by the miners. Following this there was passed a measure providing for an industrial court for the prevention of strikes. He was mentioned as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1920. In the same year he was re-elected Governor,
ALLEN, JAMES LANE, an American novelist, born near Lexington, Ky., in 1850. He graduated at Transylvania University, taught there for a time, and became subsequently Professor of Latin and English in Bethany College. His fame rests mainly upon his powerful and popular novels of manners and people in the "blue grass" region and elsewhere, the best known being "Summer in Arcady" (1896); "The Choir Invisible" (1897); "A Kentucky Cardinal"; "Aftermath"; "The Cathedral Singer" (1916); "The Kentucky Warbier" (1917); "The Emblem of Fidelity" (1918).
