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Early, Jubal Anderson

general, author, was born Nov. 3, 1816, in Franklin county, Va. He was a distinguished general in the confederate army who settled in New Orleans after the close of the civil war. He was the author of Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States; Campaigns of General Lee; and Jackson's Campaign against Pope. He died in 1894.

Early, Lewis Johnson

educator, journalist, author, was born Feb. 2, 1865, in Ohio county, Ky. He commenced life as a teacher in Hawesville, Ky.; and subsequently was instructor of elocution in the West Kentucky college. He is the editor and proprietor of The Telephone of Cannelton, Ind.; and is also the author of a book of selections entitled The Elocutionist's Favorite.

Early, Peter

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born June 20, 1773, in Madison county, Va. He served in the United States house of representatives from Georgia from 1802 to 1807. On his return to Georgia he was made a judge of the supreme court of the state; in 1813 was elected governor; and was subsequently a state senator. He died Aug. 15, 1817, in Greene county, Ga.

East, Thomas Sadler

business man, was born Aug. 11, 1879. He graduated from the Military academy of Clinton, La., in which city he is successfully engaged in business.

Eastburn, James Wallis

clergyman, author, poet, was born Sept. 26, 1797, in London, England. At the age of eighteen he wrote the hymn O Holy, Holy, Holy Lord! and was a contributor to various periodicals. He published, in conjunction with Robert C. Sands, Yamoyden, a romantic poem, founded on the history of King Philip, the sachem of the Wampanoags. He died at sea Dec. 2, 1819.

Eastburn, Manton

bishop, author, was born Feb. 1, 1801, in England. He was the fourth protestant episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. He was the author of Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and Greek Poetry; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians; and Essays and Dissertations on Biblical Literature. He died Sept. 11, 1872, in Boston, Mass.

Easterbrook, Experience

lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1813, in Lebanon, N. H. He was a member of the convention that formed the constitution of Wisconsin; served also in the legislature, and was attorney general of the state. In 1854 he was appointed United States district attorney for the territory of Nebraska, which office he held until 1859, when he was elected a delegate from Nebraska to the thirty-sixth congress.

Eastland, Mrs. Clara F

poet, was born June 16, 1835, in Rutland, Vt. She is the author of a number of poems.

Eastman, Alvah

legislator, journalist, was born Aug. 22, 1858, in Lovell, Maine. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Minnesota legislature; and during 1890-93 was United States revenue agent.

He is the editor and owner of the Daily and Weekly Journal of St. Cloud; and president of the Minnesota Editorial association.

Eastman, Benjamin C

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Wisconsin from 1851 to 1855. He died Feb. 5, 1856, in Platteville, Wis.

Eastman, Charles Gamage

poet, was born June 1, 1816, in Frysburg, Maine.

He was a poet of Montpelier, Vt., who published in 1848 a volume of Poems, descriptive of rural life in New England. He died in 1861 in Burlington, Vt.

EASTMAN, CHARLES ROCHESTER, scientist, author, was born in 1868 in Indiana. He is a scientist of Cambridge, an assistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. He edited and translated from the German of Karl von Zittel a Text- Book of Palæontology.