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Eliot, Andrew – Elkins, William Lewis

Eliot, Andrew

clergyman, was born Dec. 28, 1718, in Boston, Mass. In 1742 he was ordained pastor of the new North church in Boston, where he remained until his death. He was a great student of literature and science, and was influential in the cause of American freedom. He died Sept. 30, 1778, in Boston, Mass.

Eliot, Charles

author, was born in 1791, in Boston, Mass. His first writings appeared in the General Repository, a Boston periodical, and he was specially interested in the preparation of Scheusner's Lexicon. His Miscellaneous Writings were edited by Andrews Anton. He died in 1813.

Eliot, Charles William

educator, college president, was born March 20, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished educator who has been president of Harvard university since 1869. He is the author of a Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Manual of Inorganic Chemistry.

Eliot, Ephraim

druggist, author.

He published Historical Notices of the New North Religious Society, with Anecdotes of Rev. Andrew Eliot and John Eliot.

Eliot, Jared

clergyman, scientist, author, was born Nov. 7, 1685, in Guilford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Killingworth, Conn., in 1707- 63. He was awarded a medal by the London institute in 1756 for producing malleable iron from American black sand. He was the author of Essays upon Field and Husbandry, and many single sermons. He died April 22, 1763, in Killingworth, Conn.

Eliot, John

clergyman, author, was born May 31, 1754, in Boston, Mass. He was a clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New North Congregational church in 1779- 1813, and author of the New England Biographical Dictionary. He was also a missionary to the Indians; and translated the first Bible into the Indian dialect, which translation was also the first Bible printed in America. He died Feb. 14, 1813, in Boston, Mass.

Eliot, Samuel

educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Boston, Mass. During 1856-64 he filled the chair of history and political science in Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.; was its president in 1860-64; and was a lecturer on constitutional law during 1864- 74. For two years he was superintendent of the Boston public schools. He is the author of History of Liberty; Manual of the United States History; and Life and Times of Savonarola.

Eliot, Thomas Dawes

was born March 20, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature; was a representative in congress to fill a vacancy; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died June 12, 1870, in New Bedford, Mass.

Eliot, William Greenleaf

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1811, in New Bedford, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of St. Louis, and chancellor of Washington university there in 1872-87. He was the author of Doctrines of Christianity; Early Religious Education; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; Manual of Prayer; The Unity of God; The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom; and Home Life and Influence.

He died Jan. 23, 1887, in Pass Christian, Miss.

Elkins, Henry Arthur

artist, was born May 30, 1847, in Vershire, Vt.

He removed to Chicago in 1856, taught himself to paint, and achieved some success. Among his pictures are Mount Shasta; The Thirty-eighth Star; Storm at Shasta; New Eldorado; and Crown of the Continent. He died July 25, 1884, in Georgetown, Col.

Elkins, William Lewis

astronomer, was born April 29, 1855, in New Orleans, La. He has attained note as an eminent astronomer.