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Ellet, Charles Rivers

soldier, was born in 1843, in Georgetown, D. C.

He served during the civil war and attained the rank of colonel. He died Oct. 29, 1863, in Bunker Hill, Ill.

ELLET, MRS. ELIZABETH FRIES LUMMIS, author, poet, was born in 1818, in Sodus Point, N. Y. She was the author of Domestic History of the American Revolution; Women of the American Revolution; Court Circles of the Republic; Queens of American Society; Pioneer Pioneer Women of the West; Novelettes of the Musicians; Rambles in the West; The Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures from the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily; The Characters of Schiller; and Women Artists in All Ages.

She died June 3, 1877.