SULLIVAN, Alexander, lawyer, born near Waterville, Maine, 9 August, 1847. His parents were natives of Ireland. He acquired reputation as an orator in Michigan before he became of age. He afterward removed to Chicago, and in 1876 shot and killed Francis Hartford, the author of an anonymous letter calumniating Mr. Sullivan's wife, which had been read at a meeting of the common council. The shooting took place at an interview that Sullivan sought for the purpose of obtaining a retraction, at which not only he was assaulted by Hanford and one of the latter's friends, but his wife was also struck by Hanford when she, by chance seeing an altercation, sought appealingly to stop it. Sullivan was tried and acquitted. He was then admitted to the bar and took an honorable place in his profession. In 1883 he was chosen first president of the Irish national league of America, whose object is to promote home rule in Ireland. In an address to President Arthur he pointed out that the British government, under the dictation of evicting landlords, first reduced their victims to pauperism and then shipped them out of the poor-houses under an assisted emigration law. Mr. Sullivan took this step with the approval of Mr. Parnell and the other home-rule leaders, by whom it was pronounced "the worst blow England had received since the war of 1812." President Arthur, after hearing Mr. Sullivan's argument, immediately ordered the emigration commissioners at New York to enforce the statute against the admission of paupers. The wide publicity given to this address did much to benefit the Irish cause. He resigned in 1884, and now devotes his entire time to his profession. His wife, Margaret Frances (BUCHANAN), has been for several years a leading writer for the newspapers, and is a frequent contributor to magazines. Mrs. Sullivan has visited Europe several times for study, and is now literary and art editor of the Chicago "Tribune" and an editorial contributor to the press of New York. She is author of " Ireland of To-Day " (Philadelphia, 1881), and co-author with Mary E. Blake of "Mexico--Picturesque, Political, and Progressive" (Boston, 1888).