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Ellery, Christopher – Elliot, George Henry

Ellery, Christopher

United States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1768, in Newport, R. I. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1801 to 1805; and in the latter year was appointed United States commissioner of loans. He was appointed collector of Newport in 1828. He died Dec. 2, 1840, in Newport, R. I.

Ellery, Frank

naval officer, was born July 23, 1794, in Newport, R. I. He commanded the steamer Enterprise in 1840, was put on the reserved list in 1855, commanded the Boston rendezvous again in 1861, and was commissioned commodore on the retired list in 1867.

Ellet, Alfred W

soldier, was born in Penn Manor, Pa. He served during the civil war; and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of brigadiergeneral.

Ellet, Mary

patriot, was born June 17, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been termed the Cornelia of America.

She won the name by her heroic reply to one who sympathized with her in the loss of sons and grandsons during the civil war.

Ellet, William Henry

chemist, was born Nov. 1, 1806, in New York city.

For his discovery of a new and cheap method of preparing gun-cotton the legislature of South Carolina presented him with a vote of thanks and a pension. He died Jan. 26, 1859, in New York city.

Ellett, Tazewell

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in Richmond, Va. He was presidential elector in 1888 on the democratic ticket; was a member of the state democratic committee of fifty for about twelve years, and during a part of the time acting as a member of the executive committee of ten. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Ellicott, Andrew

civil engineer, was born Jan. 24, 1754, in Bucks county, Pa. In 1790 he was employed by the general government to survey and lay out the city of Washington; and in 1792 was appointed surveyor-general of the United States. In 1812 he became a professor of mathematics at West Point. He died Aug. 29, 1820.

Ellicott, Benjamin

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819.

Ellington, Clarence H

farmer, state senator, was born July 22, 1853, in Elberton, Ga. He has been state senator of the Georgia legislature; and for two years was president of the Georgia State Farmers' alliance.

ELLINWOOD, FRANK FIELDS, clergyman, author. He was a presbyterian clergyman, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions; and the author of The Great Conquest; and Oriental Religions and Christianity. He died in 1826, in New York.

Elliot, Benjamin

jurist, author, was born in 1786, in Charleston, S. C.

He was a South Carolina jurist who published Refutation of Calumnies respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery; and The Militia System of South Carolina. He died in 1836.

Elliot, Daniel Giraud

ornithologist, author, was born in 18... He is an ornithologist of Chicago, at one time president of the American Ornithologists' union, and is the author of Monograph of the Pittidæ or Family of the Ant Thrushes; The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America (1869); The Life and Habits of Wild Animals; Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidæ; and North American Shore Birds.

Elliot, George Henry

military engineer, author, was born March 31, 1831, in Lowell, Mass. He is a military engineer in the service of the United States, and the author of European Light-House Systems; and The Presidio of San Francisco.