Elder, Cyrus
public official, author, poet, was born June 16, 1833, in Somerset, Pa. He was a revenue commissioner of Pennsylvania; and the author of Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise; Man and Labor; Short Studies; and May Gift, a volume of poems. ELDER, GEORGE A. M., priest, college president, author, was born in 1794, in Hardin's Creek, Ky. He was a Roman catholic priest who founded the college of St. Joseph at Bardstown, Ky., and was its first president. He wrote Letters to Brother Jonathan; and other works. He died in 1838, in Bardstown, Ky.