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1887 he was elected Professor of Pedagogy in the 

 University of the City of New York, and on March 

 30, 1890, he saw the fruition of his years of labor and 

 hope in the establishment, by the council of the uni- 

 versity, of the (School of Pedagogy. In 1893 his health 

 forced him to relinquish active work, and he was 

 elected professor emeritus. During his career as an 

 educator Dr. Allen produced a large amount of lit- 

 erary work of permanent value. Besides editing 

 " Barnes's Educational Monthly " for four years, and 

 assisting in editing the " Teachers' Institute and 

 School Journal" for five years, he published U A 

 Handbook of Experimental Chemistry for Laboratory 

 Use"; "A Grammar and Analysis"; "Methods for 

 Teachers in Grammar " ; " Manual of Map Drawing " ; 

 u Mind Studies for Young Teachers " ; " Tempera- 

 merit in Education " ; and " Short Studies in Eng- 

 lish " ; and was joint author of the first part of " Bolt- 

 wood's Grammar " and a reviser of ' Monteith's Geo- 

 graphical Series," in which he incorporated his system 

 of map drawing. 



Allyn, Eobert, educator, born in Ledyard, Conn., 

 Jan. 25, 1817 ; died in Carbondale, 111., Jan. 7, 1894. 

 He was graduated at Wesley an University in 1841 ; 

 was principal of Wesley an Academy at Wilbraham 

 in 1845-'48 and of the academy at East Greenwich, 

 R. I., in 1848-'52 ; and was also a Methodist Episcopal 

 clergyman, a member of the Khode Island Legisla- 

 ture, State Commissioner of Public Instruction in 

 Rhode Island, and editor of the " Rhode Island School- 

 master." On removing to the West he was succes- 

 sively Professor of Ancient Languages in Ohio Uni- 

 versity, President of Wesleyan Female College and of 

 McKendree College, and, from 1874 till his death, 

 President of the Southern Illinois Normal University 

 at Carbondale. He had received the degrees of D. D. 

 and LL. D. 



Ames, Sarah Etta, educator, born in Laurens. Otsego 

 County, N. Y., May 10, 1826; died in Round Lake, 

 N. Y., Sept. 10, 1894. She was a daughter of the Rev. 

 Elijah King; was graduated at Miss Willard's Semi- 

 nary, Troy, N. Y., with the degree of Mistress of Lib- 

 eral Learning in 1852 ; taught for thirty-five years ; 

 and was widely known as the principal for twelve 

 years of the Mechanicsville, N. Y., Academy. She 

 married the Rev. B. D. Ames in 1854; shared with 

 him the experiences of the itinerary in Vermont ; 

 taught with him at Fort Edward, N. Y., Institute, 

 East Greenwich, R. I., Seminary, and Mechanicsville 

 Academy ; and on his death succeeded him as princi- 

 pal of the latter institution. She was" a sister of the 

 Rev. Joseph E. King, D. D., principal of the Fort 

 Edward Collegiate Institute, and the mother of Prof. 

 Charles B. Ames, of Rutgers College. 



Ammen, Jacob, military officer, born in Botetourt 

 County, Va., Feb. 7, 1806; died in Lockland, Ohio, 

 Feb. 6, 1894. In 1818 he removed to Ohio, and was 

 appointed from that State to the United States Mili- 

 tary Academy, where he was graduated in 1831. lie 

 served a year at the academy as assistant instructor in 

 mathematics and infantry tactics, was then assigned 

 to duty in Charleston harbor, and was a full instruc- 

 tor at the academy in 1834-'37, resigning his commis- 

 sion on Nov. 30 of the latter year. From the time of 

 his resignation till 1855 he held the chair of Mathe- 

 matics in Bacon College, Georgetown, Ky., Jefferson 

 College, Washington, Miss., and the University of 

 Indiana. During 1855-'61 he was employed as acivil 

 engineer in Ripley, Ohio. In April, 1861, he entered the 

 Union army as a captain in the 12th Ohio Volunteers ; 

 in May following he was promoted lieutenant-colonel ; 

 and on July 16, 1862, he was commissioned a briga- 

 dier-general of volunteers. Pie took part in the first 

 West Virginia campaign; was in command of camps 

 of instruction in Ohio and Illinois in 1862-'63, and of 

 the military district of East Tennessee in 1864; and 

 was retired from the army on Jan. 4, 1865. Several 

 Grand Army posts and Sons of Veteran camps in 

 Hamilton County had arranged to celebrate the 

 eighty-eighth birthday of the general at his home on 

 the day following his death. 



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Andrews, Judson Boardman, alienist, born in North 

 Haven, Conn., April 25, 1834; died in Buffalo, N. Y.. 

 Aug. 3, 1894. lie was a descendant on his mother's 

 side of a brother of Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale 

 University ; was graduated at that institution in 1855; 

 and studied medicine in the Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia, Pa. In the spring of 1861 he was 

 teaching in Mechanicsville, N. Y ., where the family 

 of Col. Elmer Ellsworth resided, and on the death of 

 that officer he enlisted in the 77th New York Volun- 

 teers, which was recruited in Saratoga County, and 

 went to the seat of war as captain of Company 1. 

 With his regiment he took part in the Peninsular 

 campaign, participating in the siege of Yorkiown and 

 the battles of Williamsburg, Mechanicsville, Savage 

 Station, White Oaks Swamp, and Malvern Hill. In 

 July, 1862, he resigned his commission, and return- 

 ing to New Haven, completed his medical studies, 

 and was graduated at the Yale Medical School in 

 February, 1863. In July following he was commis- 

 sioned assistant surgeon and assigned to the 19th 

 Connecticut Heavy Artillery Volunteers, then on duty 

 at Alexandria, Va. This regiment served in Grant's 

 overland campaign in 1864, performed duty in the 

 trenches at Petersburg, and was mustered out of the 

 service in September, 1865. In 1867 Dr. Andrews 

 was appointed third assistant physician in the New 

 York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, and from 1880 

 till his death he was Superintendent of the New York 

 State Hospital for the Insane at Buffalo. He was 

 Professor on Insanity in the Buffalo Medical College 

 from 1881 till 1893 ; was elected President of the Erie 

 County Medical Society in 1886, of the New Y 7 ork 

 State Medical Association, of which he was a founder, 

 in 1892, and of the American Medico-Psychological 

 Association in the latter year; and was the principal 

 editor of " The American Journal of Insanity " for ten 

 years. Dr. Andrews was a member of numerous sci- 

 entific and medical societies and of the Military Order 

 of the Loyal Legion. 



Andrews, Justin, journalist, born in Worcester Coun- 

 ty, Mass., about 1819; died in Newton, Mass., Aug. 

 31, 1894. He removed to Boston in early ^outh, 

 learned the printer's trade in the office of the " Boston 

 Daily Times," and in December, 1844, in conjunction 

 with several other journeymen printers on that paper, 

 started a daily penny paper, in the interest of the Na- 

 tive American party, called the " American Eagle." 

 This paper was successful till the decline of the party 

 it represented, when its proprietors allowed it to die, 

 and immediately started a new paper, neutral in pol- 

 itics, which first appeared Aug. 31, 1846, under the 

 name of the "Boston Herald." In 1856 he became 

 assistant editor of the " Herald," and in 1869, with his 

 brother, Charles H. Andrews, R. M. Pulsifer, E. B. 

 Haskell, and George G. Bailey, purchased the entire 

 outfit of the paper and formed the firm of R. M. Pul- 

 sifer & Co. After having been on the editorial staff' 

 of the paper for seventeen years, a principal editorial 

 writer for much of the time, and one of the proprie- 

 tors for four years, he sold his interest to his partners 

 in 1873, and subsequently lived in Newton. 



Angel, Benjamin Franklin, lawyer, born in Otsego 

 County, N. Y ., in November, 1815; died in Geneseo. 

 N. Y.,'Sept. 11, 1894. He was admitted to the bar in 

 Geneseo when nineteen years old ; became surrogate 

 of Livingston County when twenty-two years old, 

 and held the office for eight years. In 1844-'47 he 

 was again surrogate; in 1852 was a delegate to the 

 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore; in 

 1853 was appointed United States consul at Honolulu ; 

 and in 1855 was appointed by President Pierce a 

 special commissioner to China to settle a dispute be- 

 tween some American merchants and the Chinese 

 Government regarding export duties. This mission 

 was successful, and on his return he was a candidate 

 for Congress, but was defeated. On the accession ot 

 James Buchanan to the presidency, he appointed Mr. 

 Angle United States minister to Norway and Sweden, 

 where he remained till near the close of 1862. In 

 1864 he was a delegate to the Democratic National 



