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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ALGER APPLETON.) 



private counsel for Col. Shepard. On the death 

 of Col. Shepard, Mr. Alexander and R. E. A. 

 Dorr carried on the paper for the Shepard estate 

 until 1897, when they became owners. At that 

 time Mr. Alexander was treasurer and editor and 

 Mr. Dorr was president and publisher. He re- 

 signed the treasurership in 1808. He was a trustee 

 of Union College, and he organized and was two 

 years president of the Adirondack League Club. 

 * Alger, Horatio, author, born in Revere, Mass., 

 Jan. 13, 1834; died in Natick, Mass., July 18, 

 1899. He was graduated at Harvard in 1852, and 

 several years later at the Cambridge Divinity 

 School. *He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian 

 Church at Brewster, Mass., in 1804, but removed 

 to New York city in 18(56 and devoted himself to 

 the writing of books for young people. The lit- 

 erary quality of his work is very slight, but it 

 is morally unexceptionable. His books include 

 Bertha's Christmas Vision; Nothing to Do, a 

 poem; Frank's Campaign; Helen Ford, a novel; 

 Paul Preston's Charge; Abraham Lincoln, the 

 Backwoods Boy; Ben the Luggage Boy; Bob Bur- 

 ton; Bound to Rise: Brave and Bold; Charlie 

 Codman's Cruise; Dan the Detective; Do and 

 Dare: The Errand Boy; Fame and Fortune; 

 Frank Fowler; From Canal Boy to President; 

 (J rand father Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other 

 Ballads and Poems; Helping Himself; Herbert 

 Carter's Legacy ; Hector's Influence ; Jack's Ward ; 

 Joe's Luck; Julius; Luck and Pluck; Mark 

 the Match Boy; Paul the Peddler; Phil the 

 Fiddler; Ragged Dick; Risen from the Ranks; 

 Rough and Ready; Rufus and Rose; Sam's 

 Chance; Shifting for Himself; Sink or Swim; 

 Slow and Sure; The Store Boy; Strive and 

 Succeed; Strong and Steady; Tattered Tom; The 

 Telegraph Boy; Tom the Bootblack; Tom Tem- 

 ple's Career; Tony the Hero; Try and Trust; 

 Wait and Hope; Young Adventurer; Young Cir- 

 cus Rider; Young Explorers; Young Miner; 

 Y T oung Outlaw; Only an Irish Boy; Erie Train 

 Boy (1890); Struggling Upward (1890); Young 

 Boatman of Pine Point; Dean Dunham (1891); 

 Five-hundred-dollar Check (1891); Digging for 

 Gold (1892) ; Facing the World (1892) ; In a New 

 World (1893); Victor Dane (1894); Adrift in 

 the City (1895) ; Odds against Him (1896) ; Frank 

 Hunter's Peril (1896); The Young Salesman 

 (1896); Frank and Fearless (1897); The Young 

 Bank Messenger (1898). 



Ames, Oakes Augier, manufacturer, born in 

 North Easton, Mass., April 15, 1829; died there, 

 Sept. 19, 1899. He was the eldest son of Oakes 

 Ames, of Credit Mobilier and Union Pacific Rail- 

 road fame, and a brother of the late Oliver Ames, 

 ex-Governor of Massachusetts. Oakes Augier 

 spent his business life in close attention to the 

 extensive shovel manufactory with which the 

 Ames family has been connected for many years, 

 resisting all inducements to enter political life. 

 He entered the shovel factory when eighteen years 

 old, and became superintendent of the concern in 

 1873 and president in 1877. As a member of the 

 old firm of Oliver Ames & Sons he participated 

 in the gift of a schoolhouse to North Easton. In 

 association with his brother Oliver he erected a 

 public hall in the town at a cost of $60,000 and 

 placed a costly window in the Unitarian Church, 

 both in memory of his father. The Ames cor- 

 poration also gave the town the plot of 9 acres. 



Andrews. George Leonard, military officer, 

 born in Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 31, 1828; died 

 in Brookline. Mass., April 4, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at the United States Military Academy at 

 the head of his class in 1851 ; entered the army as 

 brevet second lieutenant of engineers; was pro- 



moted second lieutenant in 1854; and resigned 

 to engage in civil engineering, Sept. 1, 1855. On 

 May 25, 1861, he was commissioned lieutenant 

 colonel of the 2d Massachusetts Infantry, of which 

 he became colonel on June 13, 1862. For highly 

 meritorious services in the battles of Winchester, 

 Cedar Mountain, and Antietam he was promoted 

 brigadier general of volunteers in November fol- 

 lowing. In the campaigns of the Army of the 

 Gulf he served as chief of staff to Gen. N. P. 

 Banks, and received the surrender of the Con- 

 federates under Gen. Frank Gardner at Port Hud- 

 son, La. As chief of staff to Gen. E. R. S. Canby 

 he rendered such important service in the opera- 

 tions against Mobile and its defenses that he was 

 bre vetted major general of volunteers, March 26, 

 1865. In August following he was mustered out 

 ^of the volunteer army and resumed civil en- 



fineering. After holding the office of United 

 tates marshal for the district of Massachusetts 

 for four years, he was appointed Professor of 

 French at the Military Academy, Feb. 28, 1871, 

 and June 30, 1882, was advanced to the chair of 

 Modern Languages. He was retired with the pay 

 of colonel, Aug. 31, 1892. Gen. Andrews was one 

 of the 15 officers named in the Army Register 

 who received commissions " for specific distin- 

 guished services." He participated in several of 

 the most venturesome exploits of the civil war, 

 and at Mobile he personally conducted large num- 

 bers of troop ships through the harbor, then filled 

 with mines and torpedoes. 



Anthony, James Danelly, clergyman, born in 

 Abbeville District, S. C., in 1825; died in Savan- 

 nah, Ga., Jan. 26, 1899. He was a son of the Rev. 

 Whitfield Anthony, and in early youth accom- 

 panied his parents to the Cherokee district in 

 Georgia, where he was reared among the Indians. 

 In 1846 he united with the South Georgia Meth- 

 odist Conference, with which he remained through 

 life, excepting a period of service in Alabama. 

 During the fifty years of his active ministry he 

 had held the highest offices his conference could 

 confer, and because of his almost continuous 

 service in the one field he was popularly known 

 as " Bishop of the Wiregrass." In late years he 

 wrote his memoirs, which at the time of his death 

 had passed through two editions. 



Appleton, William Henry, publisher, born in 

 Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 27, 1814; died at River- 

 side, N. Y.; Oct. 19, 1899. His father, Daniel 

 Appleton, born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1785, was 

 a dry-goods merchant in Haverhill, and afterward 

 in Boston. The son's education was obtained at 

 private and public schools in Haverhill, and at 

 Phillips Academy, Andover. In 1825 Daniel Ap- 

 pleton removed to New York. Soon after his 

 arrival he decided to engage in bookselling, and 

 he was joined in the venture by his brother-in- 

 law, JoHathan Leavitt, a bookbinder. Half of 

 his little store in Exchange Place was devoted to 

 dry goods and half to books, and this new de- 

 partment was placed under the charge of Wil- 

 liam H. Appleton, then a clerk in his father's 

 employ. It was a time when, as Mr'.* Appleton 

 once said in an interview, " Exchange Place was 

 a promenade for ladies, and fashionable life was 

 found down around the Battery and Bowling 

 Green." The book business, which consisted of 

 importation of foreign books and their sale at 

 retail, prospered in the hands of father and son, 

 and after a short time Mr. Leavitt left the firm 

 and Daniel Appleton devoted himself altogether 

 to the book business, which was removed to the 

 old Clinton Hall. In 1831 the house published 

 its first book, of which William H. Appleton said 

 a few years since : " This book was about three 



