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He was advanced to the grade of brigadiei -general 13 May. 1821, and was made adjutant-general 21 June. " He served with distinction in the Black Hawk war, and was in command of the U. S. forces in the engagements on Bad Axe river, 1 and 2 Aug.. 1832, where the Indians were defeated.

ATKINSON, John, clergyman, b. in Deerfield, N. J., 6 Sept.. 1835; d. in Haverstraw, N. Y., 8 Dec. 1897. He was admitted to the ministry in the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal conference in 1853, and was pastor of churches in Paterson, Newark, and Jersey City, N. J. ; in Chicago, 111. ; Bay City and Adrian, Mich. ; and in Haverstraw. Illinois Wesleyan university gave him the degree of D. D. in 1878. He was the author of the well- known hvmn " We Shall Meet Beyond the River." Dr. Atkinson for more than thirty years contrib- uted to the periodical press, especially that of his •own denomination. He published "The Living Way " (New York, 1856) : " Memorials of Method- ism' in New Jersey" (Philadelphia, 1860): "The Garden of Sorrows " (New York, 1868) ; " The Class Leader " (1874) ; " The Centennial History of Amer- ican Methodism" (New York, 1884): and "The Wesleyan Movement in America " (1896).

ATKINSON, Thomas, bishop of the Episcopal church, b. in Mansfield. Va., 6 Aug.. 1807 ; d. in Wilmington, N. C, 4 Jan., 1881. He entered Yale college, but left before completing the course, and wentto Hampdeii- Sidney college, Virginia, where he graduated in 1825. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised for nine yens. He was or- dained deacon in Ndrtolk, 18 Nov., 1836, and priest in thefoUowingyear. Dr. Atkinson held several rector- ships in Virginia, and was rector of St. Peter's church,

Baltimore, Md.,

at the time of his election to the episcopate of North Carolina, 26 May, 1853. He was consecrat- ed bishop in St. John's chapel. New York, 17 Oct., 1853. Bishop Atkinson was an able and efficient administrator of his diocese and prominent in the councils of the church. In 1873 he was given an assistant. Dr. Theodore Benedict Lyman, who suc- ceeded liim in 1881.

ATLEE, John Light, physician, b. in Lancaster, Pa., 2 Nov., 1799 ; d. there, 1 Oct., 1885. He was a son of Col. W. P. Atlee, and grandson of Judge W. A. Atlee. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Humes in Philadelphia, and was graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1820. He re- turned to his native city, began practice, and soon became successful, especially in surgical cases. Dr. Atlee's operation for double ovariotomy, in 1843, was the first in the history of medicine. He was one of the founders of the Lancaster city and county medical society in 1843, and twice served as its president. He assisted in organizing the Pennsylvania medical society in 1848, and became its president in 1857, and was also one of the or- ganizers of the American medical association in Philadelphia, and was elected vice-president in 1865, and president in 1882. At the union of Franklin and Marshall colleges, in 1853, he became professor of anatomy and physiology, and con- tinued there until 1869. He was a school director for forty years, was president of the board of trus- tees of the Pennsylvania state lunatic asylum at Harrisburg, was elected honorary fellow of the American gynaecological society in 1877, and was a trustee of numerous public institutions. — His brother, Washington Lemuel, surgeon and au- thor, b. in Lancaster, Pa., 22 Feb., 1808; d. 6 Sept., 1878. At the age of fourteen he was placed in a store, where he remained but eighteen months, when he entered the office of his brother. After studying there and with Dr. George McClellan, of Philadelphia, he received his diploma, in 1829, from the Jefferson medical college, in that city. Soon afterwaixl he married, and settled in the vil- lage of Mount Joy, where he practised until 1834. During the next ten years he practised in his na- tive place, and while there suggested the remark- able series of experiments on the body of an executed criminal, which are described in the " American Journal of the Medical Sciences " for 1840. In 1845 he became professor of medical chemistry in the medical department of Pennsyl- vania college at Philadelphia, but resigned his chair in 1853 and devoted himself to his private practice, which became very large. He was presi- dent of the Philadelphia county medical association in 1874, and of the state association in 1875, and was also vice-president of the American medica. association. Dr. Atlee was noted for his advocacy of the difficult operation of ovariotomy, which he was one of the first to practise. He ably defended its propriety when it was in universal disrepute, and, by his great skill in over 300 cases, he aided in making it one of the legitimate operations of surgery. When he first performed this operation in Philadelphia he was denounced by medical men on all sides as a dangerous man. Few sur- geons dared to be present at his operations, and there was even talk of having him arrested. Dr. Atlee was also noted for his skill in the remov- al of uterine 'fibroid tumors. He was a brilliant speaker and debater, and a copious writer on medi- cine, chemistry, and botany, having published over eighty articles in various journals. Among his writings are "Ovarian Tumors" (Philadelphia, 1873) ; an address before the Philadelphia county medical association, 1 Feb., 1875, on "Struggles and Triumphs of Ovariotomy " ; a paper on " Fi- broid Tumors of the Uterus," read before the in- ternational medical congress in Philadelphia in September, 1876 ; and a prize essay on the same subject. ,

ATONDO Y ANTILLON, Isidore, Spanish navigator, lived in the latter part of the 17th cen- tury. He was placed in charge of an expedition sent to California, in 1678, to establish colonies in that part of the continent. After exploring the coast, he founded the town of San Bruno, and took possession of Lower California in the name of the king of Spain.

ATTA-CULLA-CULLA, Indian chief, lived in the 18th century. About 1738 he was chosen vice-king under Oconostota, their archimagus. In 1755, three years after the outbreak of hostilities between the French and the English, he was party to a treaty that ceded to the English a site for forts. The tribe, having been attacked by white settlers in retaliation for thefts committed in the Fort Duquesne expedition, made war upon the English, and reduced to famine, and finally massacred, the garrison of Fort Loudon. Capt. Stuart was saved by