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Eddy, Edward – Eden, John R

Eddy, Edward

actor, was born in 1821 in Troy, N. Y. He came to New York in 1851, and was successively manager of the Metropolitan theater, Burton's Chambers street theater, the Old Bowery, and the old Broadway theater.

He died Dec. 19, 1875, in Jamaica.

Eddy, Frank M

educator, business man, congressman, was born April 1, 1856, in Pleasant Grove, Minn. He was elected clerk of the district court of Pope county, and he has held this position, also that of court reporter of the sixteenth judicial district, continuously ever since. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.

Eddy, Henry Clarence

musician, was born June 23, 1851, in Greenfield, Mass. He has attained success as a musician of Chicago, Ill.

Eddy, Henry Turner

educator, mathematician, author, was born June 9, 1844, in Stoughton, Mass. He is a mathematician, and since 1874 a professor in the university of Cincinnati; and the author of Analytical Geometry; Researches in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; and Maximum Stress under Concentrated Loads.

Eddy, Norman

congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1810, in Scipio, N. Y. He removed to Indiana; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. He died Jan. 28, 1872, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Eddy, Richard

clergyman, author, was born June 21, 1828, in Providence, R. I. He is a universalist clergyman of Melrose, Mass.; and the author of Universalism in America; History of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; and The Martyr to Liberty.

Eddy, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 31, 1769, in Providence, R. I. In 1798 he was chosen secretary of state and held the office for twenty-one years, when he resigned. He was elected a representative in congress from his native state from 1819 to 1825; and was subsequently chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island for eight years. He died Feb. 2, 1839, in Providence, R. I.

Eddy, Thomas

philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1758, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist whose efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform, and was the author of The State Prisons of New York. He died Sept. 16, 1827, in New York city.

Eddy, Thomas Mears

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 7, 1823, in Newtown, Ohio. He was a methodist minister of Chicago, who published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that state during the civil war. He died Oct. 7, 1874, in New York city.

Eddy, Zachary

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1815, in Stockbridge, Vt.

He was a presbyterian minister of Augusta, Ga.; and the author of Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church; and Songs of the Church. He died in 1891.

Eden, Charles

governor, was born in 1674. He was governor of North Carolina from 1713 to 1722. He died March 26, 1722, in North Carolina.

Eden, John R

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1826, in Bath county, Ky. In 1856 he was appointed state attorney for the seventh district, which office he held four years. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress; and was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, fortyfifth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.