AYRES, LEONARD PORTER

(1879), | came a teacher in Porto Rico in 1902, | jater served as superintendent of schools, | Thereafter (1908-20) he was director of | education and statistics for the Ru ell | Sage Foundation. During the World | War he acted as statistician in several departments for the U.S. Government and received: the Distinguished Service H x county, 8.W. Scotland; area, 724,523 acres; famous for early potatoes, dairy- “eclay, limestone, and honest one dean| cals, Burin, leather, Noon tools, Laren fisheries; won chief by Aye sea~ ports, Ayr (chief town), Ardro ap, tes diiete i Nand 8: hie? ren Loch Doon: ted by two M.P.'s: some Roman remains and. monastic ruins; scene of Alexander's defeat of Norwegians i in 1263, and of several 1; is ¢. Victotics 1 sence aS Uy Nk ee active part ent in ‘the land of Burns,’ after its most distinguished guished native., Pop., 1921 299,254 254.