Famous People with Name Alpheus

Alpheus Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Hyatt: was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.He fought in the US Civil War, reaching the rank of Captain. Studied under Louis Agassiz. A proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope. He edited American Naturalist between 1867 and 1870. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1870-1888. He established a laboratory for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Hyatt was the father of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington. His other children were his daughter Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, and his son Alpheus Hyatt III.

Alpheus Spring Packard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Spring Packard: was an American entomologist and palaeontologist. He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798-1884) and the brother of William Alfred Packard. He was born in Brunswick, Maine and was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878 until his death.

Alpheus Brown Alger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Brown Alger: was a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts State Senate, as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alger was active in the Democratic party. From 1878 to 1891 Alger was a member of the Cambridge

Alpheus Felch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Felch: was the fifth Governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan.He served as Governor of Michigan from 1846 to 1847 and during those fourteen months, state statutes were amended and the state capital was relocated to Lansing.Felch resigned as governor o

Alpheus Starkey Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Starkey Williams: was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. Congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.Williams was elected as a Democrat to the 45th United States Congress from Michigan's 1st congressional district, serving from March 4, 1875, to December 21,