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and practised at Columbus, Ga. He was three times a member of the legislature in the lower house, and once in the upper, and was for seven years a judge of the superior court for the Colum- bus circuit. He was a presidential elector in 1844, and in 1846 was chosen to congress as a Democrat. He was afterward elected to the U. S. senate, and took his seat on 3 Dec, 1855, but withdrew, 28 Jan., 1861, on the passage by his state of an ordinance of secession. While in the senate he was for a long time chairman of the committee on claims. He was an open advocate of disunion, and one of the leaders of the secession movement. Just be- fore withdrawing from the senate he said in a speech that the southern states would never be satisfied with any concession " that does not fully recognize, not only the existence of slavery in its present form, but the right of the southern people to emigrate to the common territories with their slave property, and their right to congressional protection, while the territorial existence lasts." After hostilities had begun, Mr. Iverson became colonel of a regiment that he had raised for the Confederate army, and in November, 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general.

IVES, Levi, physician, b. in 1750; d. in New Haven, Conn., 17 Oct., 1826. He was a skilful practitioner, a founder of the New Haven medical society, and one of the editors of " Cases and Ob- servation," which was reputed to be the first medi- cal journal that was published in the United States. — His son, Eli, physician, b. in New Haven, Conn., 7 Feb., 1779 ; d. there, 8 Oct., 1861, was graduated at Yale in 1799, and for the next two years was rector of the Hopkins grammar-school in New Haven. He studied medicine in the mean time, and in 1801 began practice with his father, meeting with great success. In 1813, together with the elder Silliman, he secured the establishment of the medical department of Yale college, and he was professor of materia medica there from 1813 till 1829. He occupied the chair of the theory and practice of medicine from 1829 till 1852, when he resigned, but subsequently resumed his professor- ship for a short period. He gave special attention to indigenous vegetable remedies, and was one of the first to employ chloroform, having administered it in 1831 by inhalation for the relief of a case of difficult respiration. He founded, and was for many years president of, the Horticultural and Pomological societies, and spent much time and labor in the maintenance of a botanical garden. He had been president of the State and National medical association, and was an active advocate of temperance, education, and emancipation. He con- tributed four articles to the " Journal of Science," and published an " Address before the New Haven Horticultural Society" (1837). — Eli's grandson, Charles Miliums, physician, b. in New Haven, Conn., 22 June, 1831, was graduated at Yale in 1852, and at Jefferson medical college, Philadel- phia, in 1854. He began practice in New Haven in 1856, and in 1868-'73 was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Yale. He is the au- thor of an article on " Prophylaxis of Phthisis Pul- monalis," and a prize essay on the '• Therapeutic Value of Mercury and its Preparations," both pub- lished by the Connecticut medical society.

IVES, Levi Silliman, clergyman, b. in Meri- den, Conn., 16 Sept., 1797 : d. in New York city, 13 Oct., 1867. His studies were interrupted by the war of 1812, in which he served for about a year. He entered Hamilton college in 1816, but withdrew, owing to failing health. In 1819- he united with the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1822 was made deacon, in which year he married a daughter of Bishop Hobart. He was ordained priest by Bish- op White in 1823, and held pastorates in Batavia, N. Y., and in Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pa. In 1831 he was elected bishop of North Carolina. He manifested great interest in education, and espe- cially in the religious training of the negro slaves, for whom he prepared a catechism. Bishop Ives sympathized strongly with the tractarian move- ment in England, and in 1848-'9 began to publish and maintain doctrines that were objectionable to the majority in his diocese. A severe struggle en- sued. Bishop Ives at first publicly renounced the doctrines that he had espoused, but returned to them again, and on Christmas-day, 1852, while in Europe, made formal submission to the pope at Rome, and became a Roman Catholic. In the en- suing general convention he was pronounced ipso facto deposed from his bishopric. On his return to New York he became professor of rhetoric in St. Joseph's theological seminary, and lecturer on the same subject in the convents of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters of Charity. He also established the Catholic protectory for destitute children, was its first president, and bequeathed his library to this institution, which he left in a flourishing condition. He wrote a " Catechism " (New York) ; " Manual of Devotion " ; " Humility a Ministerial Qualifica- tion " (1840) ; " Sermons on the Obedience of Faith " (1849) ; and " The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism : a Letter to his Old Friends " (Bos- ton, 1853 ; London, 1854).

IVES, Thomas Poynton, naval officer, b. in Providence, R. I., 17 Jan., 1834; d. in Havre, France, 17 Nov., 1865. He was the son of a mer- chant in Providence, and when the civil war began offered his services to the government, entering the navy as a volunteer. At the same time he pre- sented his yacht to the navy department, and re- fused to receive any compensation for his services as an officer of the navy. He became acting master, 3 Sept., 1862, acting volunteer lieutenant, for " effi- cient and gallant conduct," 26 May, 1863, and acting volunteer lieutenant-commander, 7 Nov., 1864. He bore an active part in the earlier opera- tions against the Hatteras forts and at Roanoke island, was then transferred to the Potomac flotilla, and subsequently assigned to ordnance duty at the Washington navy-yard. Illness compelled him to tender his resignation, which the department re- fused to accept, but granted him leave of absence.

IVISON, Henry, publisher, b. in Glasgow, Scotland, 25 Dec, 1808 ; d. in New York city, 26 Nov., 1884. He came to the United States in 1820, and was apprenticed to William Williams, of Utica, for the purpose of learning the bookbinder's trade. After serving his time he continued with his employer until about 1830, when he established the house of H. Ivison and Co. in Auburn, N. Y. In 1846 he removed to New York city, and became associated with Mark H. Newman in the publishing business, and after Mr. Newman's

death in 1853 the

firm became Ivison and Phinney. This house made a specialty of publishing educational works,