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few years, with partners, he managed Month's 

 Theater, New York: tlie I'ai-k 'i'healer, Philadel- 

 jihia : tin- Metropolitan Casino and tlie Grand-* >pera 

 House. New York : and tlie I 'ark Theater. l!<tnii. by 

 turns. The Metropolitan Opera House. New York. 

 wa> ..pened by Abbey \ Schoeliel on Oct. 22. INS:!. 

 with Campaiiini and Mine. Xilssnn in "Faust." 

 Subsequently, Maurit-e Gran became a member of 

 the firm, which gave a season of German opera at 

 the Metropolitan, managed f or short period- Wai- 

 lack's and the Star Theaters, and at the beginning 

 of the season of 1891-'!I2 secured control of the 

 Metropolitan again and returned to Italian opera. 

 In 1893 the linn produced a spectacular piece. 

 "America," in the Chicago Auditorium, during the 

 World's Exposition, and the same year built and 

 opened Abbey's Theater. New York, and managed 

 the Metropolitan, the Tremont Theater in Boston. 

 and the Irving, the Coquelin and Hading, and the 

 Bernhardt companies. The firm failed in May, 

 1896. 



Alley, John Buffnm, manufacturer, born in 

 Lynn, Mass., Jan. 7. 1817: died there Jan. 19, 1896. 

 He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and subse- 

 quently engaged in the manufacture of shoes, and 

 was in the hide and leather business till 1886. when 

 he retired. Mr. Alley was one of the originators of 

 the Free-soil movement. In 1851 he became a 

 member of the Governor's Council : in 1852 was 

 elected to the State Senate, in which he was chair- 

 man of the Committee on Railroads: and in 1853 

 was elected to the State Constitutional Convention. 

 He was elected to Congress as a Republican in 

 1858, 1860. 1862. and 1864; was chairman of the 

 Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads: and 

 during the civil war was active in behalf of the 

 soldiers, giving liberally of his wealth, and. with 

 his wife, making regular visits to the hospitals. 

 Mr. Alley was the financial manager of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad at the most critical period in its 

 early history, and placed it on a firm footing. 



Allison. Joseph, jurist, born in Tlarrisbursr. Pa., 

 in 1819; died in Philadelphia. Pa.. Feb. 8, 1896. 

 He was admitted to the bar in his native city in 

 1843. and soon afterward removed to Philadelphia. 

 In 1851 he was first elected to the bench of the 

 Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia as a 

 Whig; and by re-election as a Republican fre- 

 quently adopted as the Democratic candidate also 

 he held the office till his death, a period of forty- 

 five years, during the last thirty of which he was 

 the presiding judge of the court. 



Ang'eline. Indian princess : died in Seattle. 

 Wash:. May 31. 1896. She was a daughter of Chief 

 Seattle, for whom the city was Darned, and was one 

 of the celebrities of the north Pacific coast for 

 many years. Of her early life nothing is known. 

 At the time of her death she was nearly blind, and 

 was popularly believed to be over a hundred years 

 old. She was held in high esteem by the pioneers 

 of the city and their descendants, because in the 

 early fiftie's she had given timely warning of an in- 

 tended Indian massacre, and so had probably saved 

 several hundred lives. Her few wants thereafter 

 were amply supplied by the citizens. 



Anthony. Georsre T.. journalist, born in Mat- 

 field. Fulton County, X. Y., June 19. 1824; died in 

 Topeka, Kan., Aug. 5. 1806. He was brought up 

 on a farm, and learned the tinsmith's trade. At 

 the beginning of the civil war lie entered the Xa- 

 tional army as commander of the 17th Xew York 

 Independent Battery, and he served with it in the 

 Army of the Potomac till the close of the war. In 

 1865' he settled in Leavenworth, Kan., and estab- 

 lished a Republican newspaper, in which his strong 

 utterances made him widely known. He was suc- 

 cessively President of the Kansas State Board of 



Agriculture and collector of internal revenue. In 



ISlli he was elected Governor of the State. ]; 



he was appointed Superintendent of Insurance. 



Anlcn, Thomas lloyle, military ollicer, h,,ni in 

 New York citv, Mav 27. 1*13: died in i 

 X. Y.. Aug. 13. Is'.Mi. He wa- graduated al 

 L'nited States Military Academy in ls:;5; \\,.- 

 signed to the 7th Infantry; and was immediate] v 

 onload to active service on the Indian frontier. 

 After serving at Fort Gibson. Ark.. New Or 

 and in the Seniinole Indian war in Florida. 1 

 turned to the Military Academy, and was a istant 

 instructor in infantry tactics in 1*37-'41. 11 

 signed from the army in the following year. In 

 IMil lie otl'eivd his services to the Government, 

 and. while awaiting a reply, ,-erved through the 

 Patter-on campaign as aid to Gen. Sand ford, of the 

 Xew York militia. Soon afterward Gov. Morgan 

 appointed him his military adviser and aid. with 

 the rank of colonel. He was constantly visiting 

 and supervising the camps of volunteers in various 

 parts of Xew York State, and looking after the 

 welfare of the Xew York troops in the field, par- 

 ticularly those in the Army of the Potomac. 



Ariuitatre, Thomas, clergyman, born in Ponte- 

 fract. England. Aug. 2. 1819 ; died in Yonkers. X.Y., 

 Jan. 2(>. 1896. He was early prepared for the min- 

 istry: delivered his first sermon when sixteen years 

 old"; and was a local preacher till 1838, when lie re- 

 moved to Xew York city. Soon afterward he en- 

 tered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, in which he was active for ten years, and 

 was then received into the Baptist Church. Almost 

 immediately he received three calls to Baptist pas- 

 torates. In June. 1848, he accepted a call from the 

 Xorfolk Street Church. Xew York city. The day 

 after he delivered his first sermon there the build- 

 ing was burned down. Another building was used 

 till 1859. when the congregation built the edifice 

 on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-sixth 

 Street, subsequently known as the Fifth Avenue 

 Baptist Church. There he officiated till 1890, when 

 he was made pastor emeritus, presented with a resi- 

 dence in Yonkers. and voted n substantial life in- 

 come. He received the degree of D. D. from 

 Georgetown (Ky.) College in 1855, and that of 

 LL. D. from the University of the City of Xew 

 York in 1886. Dr. Armitage entered upon the 

 ministry without any college training, and became 

 widely known as a classical and historical scholar. 

 He was one of the founders of the American Bible 

 Union, and its president from 1856 till 1875 : and 

 was active in promoting Bible revision. He pub- 

 lished "Preaching: Its Ideal and Inner Life" 

 (Philadelphia. 1880) and "A History of the Bap- 

 tists" (Xew York, 1886). 



Ashley. James Monroe, legislator, born near 

 Pittsburg, Pa.. Xov. 14. 1*24: died in Alma. Mich., 

 Sept. 16. IS'.Ki. His grandfather and father were 

 Baptist ministers, and both desired him to take a 

 college course as a preparation for the same call- 

 ing, but he refused, and found employment on a 

 Mississippi river steamboat. When sixteen years 

 old he entered the office of the " Dispatch." at 

 Portsmouth. Ohio: within two years he was ;<.- 

 ant editor of the paper: and within another two 

 years was editor and proprietor of the only Demo- 

 cratic newspaper in Scioto County. During this 

 period he publicly avowed himself an uncompro- 

 mising abolitionist, and became an enthusiastic 

 temperance advocate. He studied law in Ports- 

 mouth ; was admitted to the bar in 1849: and re- 

 moved to Toledo in 1851. There he w.s engaged 

 in the wholesale drug business till his election to 

 Congress as a Republican in 1855). In this body he 

 served continuously till March 3. 1869, being de- 

 feated for re-election to a- fifth term. For eight 



