HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Andius, John H., jurist, statesman, was born in 1768 in Colchester, Conn. In 1780 he settled in Danby, Vt.; and in 1805-13 and in 1816 he was a representative from that town to the Vermont general assembly. In 1814 he was a member of the state constitutional convention. In 1811-14 he was assistant judge of Rutland county court; and in 1820-21 was Councillor. He died in 1841 in Pawlet, Vt. Andrus, Reuben, clergyman, educator, college president, was born Jan. 29, 1829, in Watertown, N.J. He was president of a woman's college in Jacksonville. After the war he reorganized Quincy, now Chaddock college of Illinois. In 1872 he was elected president of Asbury university of Indiana. He died Jan. 17, 1887, in Indianapolis, Ind. Andrus, Wesley P., soldier, educator, state senator, was born Feb. 19, 1834, in Potter, N.Y. In 1861 he entered the forty-second Illinois volunteer infantry; and was promoted to a captaincy for meritorious service at Stone River. He has been mayor of Cedar Springs, Mich. In 1877 he served as a member of the Michigan state senate. Andruss, Elias Van Arsdale, soldier, was born Dec. 18, 1839, in Newark, N.J. In 185456 he served as acting midshipman in the United States navy; and in 1864 graduated from West Point military academy. In 1902 he was retired as brigadier-general in the United States army. Angel, Benjamin Franklin, agriculturist, diplomat, was born Nov. 28, 1815, in Burlington, N.Y. He was surrogate in 1838-43 and 1S44-47. In 1853 he went to Honolulu, Hawaii as United States consul. In 1855 he was sent by President Pierce to China as special commissioner to settle a dispute between some American merchants and the Chinese government in regard to the exaction of export duties. He was president of the New
York state agricultural society
He
in 1873-74. died Sept. 11, 1894, in Geneseo, N.Y.
Angell, George Thorndike, lawyer, philanthropist, author, was born June 5, 1823, in
Southbridge, Mass.
He
is
president of the
American humane
ed-
ucative
the
society ;
Massachusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and of the American band of mercy. He founded the Massachusetts society in 1868 and established a magazine
entitled
Our
Dumb
Animals. Since that time he has given his time and energy to the protection of dumb animals, establishing twenty thousand branches of the Ameri-
can band of mercy and the American humane education society. For nearly half a century he has been president of the Massachusetts society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
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Angel, William G., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 17, 1790, in New Shoreham, R.I. He received his education in Litchfield, N.Y.; studied medicine in 1807; and in 1817 began the practice of law in Burlington, N.Y. In 1825-33 he was a representative from New York to the nineteenth, twentieth,
twenty-first and twenty-second congresses as a democrat. He then resumed the practice of
law in Hammondsport, N.Y.;
in
1846 was a
member
of the state constitutional convention; and in 1847-52 was judge of Alleghany county, N.Y. He died Aug. 13, 1858, in Angelica, N.Y. Angell, Edward L., architect, was born March 11, 1847, in Providence, R.I. In 1883 he took up the practice of his profession in New York City; and was the architect of the hotels Endicott, San Remo, Grenoble, Regent and Amidon apartments; and also architect of the medical pavilion of the Flower hospital of New York City. Angell, Henry Clay, educator, oculist, author, was bom Jan. 27, 1829, in Providence, R.I. He was a professor of ophthalmology in the Boston university for twenty years. He is the author of Diseases of the Eye; and How to Take Care of Our Eyes. Angell, Israel, soldier, was born in 1741. He was major of Hitchcock's regiment at the siege of Boston was promoted colonel in 1777; and commanded the first Rhode Island regiment during the remainder of the war. He died in May, 1832, in Smithfield, R.I. Angell, James Burrill, educator, college president, diplomat, was born Jan. 7, 1829, in Seituate, R.I. He graduated from Brown university in 1849; and in 1853-60 filled the chair of modem languages in that institution. In 1866 he became president of the university of Vermont; and since 1871 has been president of the university of Michigan. He served as United States minister to China
and in 1897 was appointed United States minister to Turkey; and has filled various other public positions. He is a -frequent contributor to leading magazines and in 1880-81
reviews. Angell, James Rowland, educator, psychologist, author, was born May 8, 1869, in Burlington, Vt. "He is a successful educator of Chicago, 111. He is the author of PsychologyAngell, Joseph Kinnicut, lawyer, author,
was born April 30, 1794, in Providence, R.I. He was reporter to the Rhode Island supreme court; and prepared the first published reports of that state. He was the author of Treatise on the Common Law of Watercourses The Law of Tide Waters and The
Limitation of Actions. in Boston, Mass.
He
died
May
1,
1857,
Angellotti, Frank M., lawyer, jurist. He practiced law in San Rafael, Cal. Since 1902 he has been associate justice of the state supreme court of California for ihe term ending 1910; and resides in Sacramento, Cal.
Angler, Nedom L., educator, physician, statesman, was born Nov. 10, 1814, in Ac-
