sembly relating to the practice of the courts, are valuable. In 1883 he received the degree of LL. D. from the New Brunswick university, and in 1889 he was made a knight bv the queen.
ALLEN, William Vincent, senator, b. in
Jlidway, Madison eo., Ohio, 28 Jan., 1847. He
removed with his family to Iowa, where he was
educated in the common schools, and attended for
a time the Upper Iowa university, but was not
gra*iuated. lie served in the rebellion as a private, and during the last five months of the war as
a member of the staff of Gen. James I. Gilbert.
He was admitted to the bar in 1869, practising in
Iowa and Nebraska, to which place he removed in
1884. Some years later Mr. Allen was elected
judge of the ninth judicial district, and in 1893
he was president of the Nebraska Populist state
convention. He succeeded Algernon Sidney Pollock as U. S. senator for the full term of six years.
ALLEYN, Charles, Canadian lawyer, b. in
SIvrus Wood, County Cork, Ireland, in September, 1817; (b. in Quebec, 4 April, 1890. His father
was a commander in the British navy. The son
was educated at Pcrmoy school and Clongowes col-
lege, and settled in Quebec in 1834. He studied
law, and was called to the bar in 1840. He began
early to identify himself with politics, and in 1854
he was elected mayor of Quebec, and a member of
parliament. Three years later he was created a
queen's counsel, and invited by Sir John A. Macdonald to enter the government of Canada as
commissioner of public works. This otiice he held
for a year, and on the reconstruction of the cabinet
he was sworn in as provincial secretary. He ad-
ministered the affairs of this department with ef-
ficiency during a critical period. On the fall of
the government he resigned with his colleagues,
and though he sat in parliament until 1866 he did
not again enter the ministry. In 1866 he was appointed sheriff of the district of Quebec. In 1883,
on the reconstruction of the shrievalty, he was appointed, with fitienne Paquet, joint sheriff of the
district. — His brother, Ricliard, Canadian jurist,
b. at Trabolgan, County Cork, Ireland, in 1836; d.
in St. Germain de Riraouski, Quebec, 16 Aug., 1883.
He went to Canada at an early age, and was graduated in law at Laval university in 1856. In the
following year he became a member of the bar of
Lower Canada and entered into partnership with
his brother Charles. For many years he was crown
prosecutor at the court of queen's bench, and in
1873 he was made a queen s counsel. He early
connected himself with the militia and volunteers,
and in 1861, at the time of the "Trent" affair, he
joined the active force. Two years afterward, as
commander of the Victoria rifles, he was sent to
the western frontier of Ontario, and he remained in
that capacity until 1865. Soon after this he was
promoted to the majority of the 8th royal rifles,
and in due time he became colonel of the regiment,
which post he continued to hold until he accepted
a seat on the bench. He was chosen to the Quebec
house of assembly in 1877, but in 1878. on the
famous Letellier question, he was defeated, and in
1881 he was raised to the bench. He was granted
the degree of LL. D. by Laval university, and
named professor of criminal law in that college.
ALLINSON, David, publisher, b. in Woodbury,
N. J., in 1774; d. in Burlington, N. J., in 1858.
His father, Samuel Allinson, a prominent New
Jersey lawyer and a member of the Society of
Friends, compiled the as.seml)lv laws of that state
from 1703 till 1776, a vaUiable'compilation, which
is known as " Allinson 's Laws." The son was for
many years a printer and publisher at Burlington,
and edited several periodicals, among them the
"Rural Visitor." He published many valualile
legal, literary, and theological works, a small dictionary, and a large English and classical dictionary, which is regarded as valuable (1813). — His nephew, Samuel, reformer, b. in New York city,
24 Dec., 1808; d. near Yardville, N. J., 5 Dec., 1883, was educated at the Friends' boarding-school at Westtown, Chester co.. Pa., and established himself, at the age of twenty-one, on a farm near Yardville, where he continued to reside till his death. He was instrumental in founding
the reform school for boys at Jamesburg and the
industrial school for girls near Trenton. He was
one of three commissioners that were apjMjinted in
1868 to consider better methods of discipline and
government in the state prison, and was the author of the commutation law of New Jersey. He
read a paper on "Discharged Prisoners" before
the prison reform congress in 1873, and one on
"Scholastic and Industrial Education in Reform
Schools" at the meeting in 1876.
ALMON, William Johnson, Canadian senator,
b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 27 Jan., 1816. He was
the son of William Almon, M. D., a member of the
legislative council of Nova Scotia, and grand.son of
William James Almon, who was appointed assistant surgeon to the royal artillery in New York in
June, 1776, and after serving till thecloseof the war
settled as a surgeon in Halifax, Nova Strotia. The
son was graduated at King's college, Windsor, in
1834, studied medicine at the universities of Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, and in 1838 was graduated at
the latter. In 1872 he waselectetl to the Dominion
parliament for the county of Halifax, and he was
called to the senate in 1879. He is a governor of
King's college, Windsor, consulting physician to
the Halifax hospital and dispensary, and surgeon
of the Halifax field artillery. He is a Conservative,
and in favor of strengthening the connection between Canada and the mother country.
ALTGELD, John Peter, lawyer, b. near Berlin,
Germany, 30 Dec., 1847. He was brought to
this country in childhood by his parents, who lived
on a farm in Richland county, Ohio. After a
limited elementary education he enlisted in the
volunteer army in 1864, and afterward taught for
several years. In 1869 he went to St. Louis, a great
part of the way on foot, and later taught and studied
law in northwestern Missouri, being admitted to
the bar in 1872. In 1875 he removed to Chicago.
where he built up a large practice. In 1884 he was
an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for congress.
In 1886 he was chosen judge of the Cook county
superior court, and in 1890 he became its chief
justice. After serving as judge for five years he
resigned, giving as his reason the necessity of devoting
all his time to his private business. In 1892 he
was nominated by the Democrats for governor, and
during his canvass visited all parts of the state,
seeking to meet voters personally as well as by
holding public meetings. He was elected by a
plurality of 23,000 over Joseph W. Fifer, his
Republican predecessor. The most striking incident
of his administration was his protest against the
sending of federal troops to Chicago during the
railway strikes (see Cleveland, Grover). In 1896
he was a candidate for re-election, but was defeated
by his Republican opponent, John K. Tanner, by a
plurality of more than 100,000.
AMBLER, James Markhani Marshall, surgeon, b. in Fauquier county, Va.. 30 Dec, 1848; d. in the Lena delta, Siberia, 31 Oct., 1881. He was educated at Washington and Lee university, Virginia, and at the medical college of the University
