=Alsop= [awl´sop], =Richard.= _Ct._, 1761-1815. A once noted political satirist, chief of the “Hartford Wits,” who wrote The Echo, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications, orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana. =Alvord= [awl´vord], =Benjamin.= _Vt._, 1813-1884. A United States officer who served in the Mexican and Civil wars. Tangencies of Circles and Spheres; Interpretation of Imaginary Roots in Questions of Maxima and Minima. =Ames, Charles Gordon.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. A Unitarian clergyman who became pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston on the death of J. F. Clarke, _infra_. George Eliot’s Two Marriages; As Natural as Life: Studies of the Inner Kingdom. =Ames, Mrs. Eleanor Maria [Easterbrook]=, “Eleanor Kirk.” 1830- ----. A littérateur of Brooklyn. Up Broadway and Its Sequel; Information for Authors; Perpetual Youth. =Ames, Fisher.= _Ms._, 1758-1808. Son of N. Ames, _infra_. A statesman whose speeches are marked examples of condensed effective statement as well as of felicitous expression. Laocoon and Other Essays. _See Works of, with Memoir, 1854; Magoon’s Orators of the American Revolution._ =Ames, Lucia True.= _N. H._, 1856- ----. A Boston writer who has published Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers; Memoirs of a Millionaire, a novel. _Hou. Put._ =Ames, Mary Clemmer.= _See Hudson, Mrs._ =Ames, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1708-1764. A physician of Dedham, Massachusetts, who published, 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and Almanac which contained much shrewd humour and original philosophy and was widely popular. _See Tyler’s American Literatures; Essays, Humour and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, edited by S. Briggs, 1891._ =Ammen, Daniel.= _O._, 1820-1898. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, the designer of the Ammen life raft. The Atlantic Coast; Country Homes and their Improvement; The Old Navy and the New. _Lip. Scr._ =Amory, Thomas Coffin.= _Ms._, 1812-1889. A lawyer of Boston. Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan; Life of Sir Isaac Coffin. =Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana [Howe].= 1844-1886. Daughter of Dr. S. G. and Julia Ward Howe, _infra_, and wife of M. Anagnos, the Superintendent of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Stray Chords, a volume of verse; Philosophiæ Questor. =Anderson, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1775-1870. The first wood-engraver in the United States. He was the author of an illustrated General History of Quadrupeds. =Anderson, John Jacob.= _N. Y._, 1821- ----. An educator of New York city who prepared a number of historical text books, among which are A History of France; Common School History of the United States. _My._ =Anderson, Mary.= _See Navarro._