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of Music. Alleguash (al'ē-gwosh), or Allegash. A river in northern Maine, a branch of the St. John. Alleine, Edward. See Alleyne . Alleine (al'en), Joseph. Born at Devizes, England, 1634: died Nov. 17, 1668. An English Puritan clergyman, ejected under the Uniformity Act of 1662: author of "An Alarm to the Unconverted" (1672), etc. Alleine, Richard. Born at Ditcheat, Somerset, England, 1611: died Dec. 22, 1681. An English Puritan clergyman, ejected under the Uniformity Act of 1662: author of "Vindicie Piet at is" (1663), etc. Alleine, William. Born at Ditcheat, Somersets hire, in 1614: died at Yeovil, Somersets hire, Oct., 1677. An English Puritan clergyman, brother of Richard Alleine. He was ejected under the Act of Uniformity of 1662; author of two books on Allemaine (al-man'). An obsolete name of Germany. etc. Allemand (äl-mon'), Comte Zacharie Jacques Théodore. Born at Port Louis, Mauritius, 1762: died at Toulon, March 2, 1826. A French naval commander. Allen (al'en). A township in Michigan, 60 miles southwest stof of Lansing. Population (1900), 1,328. Allen, Arabella. In Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers," a young lady, afterward Mrs. Nathaniel Winkle. Allen, Barbara. See Barbara Allen's Cruelty . Allen, Benjamin. In Charles Dickens's "Pick “ "a coarse, stout, thick-set" young surgeon, "with black hair cut rather short and a white face cut rather long." Allen, Bog of. A group of peat mora es, 372 square miles in extent, in Kildare and Queen's counties, Ireland. Allen, Carl Ferdinand. Born at Copenhagen, April 23, 1811: died at Cop Copenhagen, Dec. 27, 1871. A Danish historian, author of hand Allen, Carl Ferdinand books of Danish history, of a "History of the Three Northern Kingdoms" (1864-72), etc. Allen, Charles Grant Blair fin die: pseudonyms Cecil Power, J. Arbuthnot Wilson. Born at Kingston, Canada, Feb. 24, 1848: died at Haslemere, Surrey, Oct. 25, 1899. A British naturalist and novelist. Allen, Elisha Hunt. Born at New Salem, Ma , Jan. 28, 1804: died at Washington, D. C., Jan. 1, 1883. A politician and diplomatist. He was a Whig member of Congre from Maine 1841-43, and for many years Hawaiian chief justice and minister to the United States. Allen, Mrs. (Elizabeth Chase): pseudonym Florence Percy. Born at Strong, Maine, Oct. 9,1832. An American poet and general writer. She is also known as Mrs. Akers Allen (from Paul Akers, the sculptor, her first husband). Allen, Ethan. Born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737: died at Burlington, Vt., Feb. 13, 1789. A noted American Revolutionary com mander, colonel of the "Green Mountain Boys." He captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British May 10, 1775; was a prisoner 1775-78; and was later commander of Vermont militia. He wrote "Reason the only Oracle of Man" (1784). Allen, Harrison. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., April 17, 1841: died there, Nov. 14, 1897. An American anatomist and naturalist. He was a istant surgeon in the United States army 1862-65, and profe or (of comparative anatomy and later of physiology) in the University of Pennsylvania from 1865. Allen, Henry. Born at North amp ton, N. H., Feb. 2, 1748: died at Newport, R. I., June 14, 1784. The founder of a short-lived religious sect in Nova Scotia, named from him “Allenites." His peculiar doctrine related chiefly to the fall, and to the creation of the material world, which he regarded as a consequence of the fall. Allen, Ira. Born at Cornwall, Conn., April 21, 1751: died at Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7, 1814. An American Revolutionary soldier and politician, brother of Ethan Allen. He took part in the battle of Bennington in 1777, was a member of the Vermont legislature 1776-77, secretary of state, treasurer, and surveyor-general; and was sent as a delegate to the convention which ratified the Federal Constitution in 1792. Having been appointed major-general, he went in 1795 to Europe to purchase arms. as. On the return voyage he was captured by the English, and brought to England on a charge of supplying the Irish rebels with arms, and was acquitted only after a suit of eight years in the Court of Admiralty. He wrote "The Natural and Political History of Vermont" (1798), etc. IMG:content-0066.png:[blocks in formation] Allen, William. Born at Edenton, N. C., 1806: died July 11, 1879. A lawyer and politician, Democratic member of Congre from Ohio 1833-35, United States senator 1837-49, governor of Ohio 1874-76. He was the leading ex pounder of the "Ohio Idea" (which see). Allen, William Francis. Born at North borough, Ma ., Sept. 5, 1830: died Dec., 1889. An American cla ical scholar. He was a graduate of Harvard (1851), and was appointed profe or of Latin in the University of Wisconsin in 1867. He was the author of a series of Latin text-books, etc. Allen, William Henry. Born at Providence, R. I., Oct. 21, 1784: died at Plymouth, England, Aug. 15, 1813. An American naval commander. He served with distinction in the war of 1812, and was mortally wounded while in command of the Argus. Allen, William Henry. Born at Manchester, IMG:content-0067.png:[blocks in formation] Allevard (äl-vär'). A town in the department of Isère, France, situated on the Breda 23 miles northeast of Grenoble. Population (1891), commune, 2,850. Alley, The. See Change Alley . Alleyne (al'en), Edward. Born in the parish of St. Botolph, London, Sept. 1, 1566: died Nov. 25, 1626. A celebrated actor, and the founder of Dulwich College (incorporated 1619). He served with the Earl of Worcester's players, the Earl of Nottingham's, or the Lord Admiral's, company, and Lord Strange's players, and also engaged in various enter- prises with Philip Henslowe. Heis frequently mentioned with praise by contemporary writers. His name first appears as an actor in a list of the Earl of Worcester's players in 1586, and he was said by Nash in "Pierce Peni- Maine, March 27, 1808: died at Philadelphia, le e" in 1592 to be one of the four greatest English Aug. 29, 1882. An American educator. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College (1833), profe or of natural philosophy and afterward of philosophy and English literature at Dick in son College, president of the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg 1865-66, and president of Girard College 1850-62 and 1867-82. Allen-a-Dale (al'en-a-dal'). In the Robin Hood ballads, a brave, gaily dre ed, and mus i- cal youth whom Robin Hood a isted to elope with his bride who was to be married against her will to an old knight. He is usually introduced as "chaunting a round-de-lay": The youngster was cloathed in scarlet red, In scarlet fine and gay; And he did frisk it over the plain And chanted a round-de-lay. Child's Eng. and Scotch Ballads , V. 278. [He appears as Robin Hood's minstrel in Scott's "Ivanhoe."] Allen burg (äl'len-börg). A small town in the Allen, Joel Asaph. Born at Springfield, Ma ., July 19, 1838. American naturalist, 30 miles southeast of Königsberg. as a mammalogist. He was appointed a istant in in oruithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge in 1870, and curator of the department of Mammal i a and birds in the American Museum of Natural sped it i on York He accompanied Aga iz Allen, John. burgh, Feb. 3, 1771: died at Dulwich, England, to Brazil in Born at Colinton, near Edin April 10, 1843. A British political and historical writer, secretary to Lord Holland: author of "Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England" (1830), etc. Allen, Philip. Born at Providence, R. I., Sept. 1, 1785: died at Providence, Dec. 16, 1865. An American politician, Democratic governor of Rhode Island 1851-53, and United States sena tor 1853-59. anen llen, Ralph. Born 1694: died at Bath, England, June 29, 1764. An English philanthropist, known chiefly as the friend of Fielding, Pope, and Pitt. He was of obscure birth, but acquired a fortune by devising (1720) a system of cro -posts for England and Wales, and made a liberal use of his wealth. He was the original of All worthy in Fielding's "Tom Jones," and is well known from Pope's lines in the "Epilogue to the Satires of Horace": "Let humble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." Allen, Robert. Born in Ohio about 1815: died at Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 6, 1886. An American soldier. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy (1836), and was brevetted major April 18, 1847, for gallant conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo, and major-general March 13,1865. He became a istant quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel, July 28, 1566, and retired March 21, 1878. Allen, Samuel. Born in England, about 1636: died at Newcastle, N. H., May 5, 1705. An English merchant, proprietor and governor in New Hampshire. Allen, Thomas. Born at Uttoxeter, Stafford. province of East Pru ia, situated on the Alle Allen dale (al'en-dal). A town in Northum berland, England, 27 miles west of Newcastle. Allen dale. A township and town in Barn well County, South Carolina, 67 miles southwest of