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Ellinwood, Truman J

educator, editor, was born June 11, 1831, in Smithfield, N. Y. He has taught in district schools and in the Brooklyn Adelphi academy and high schools; in the Martha's Vineyard Summer institute, and in the Ellinwood School of Phonography, of which he is proprietor. For thirty years he was official reporter of the Rev.

Henry Ward Beecher's Discourses; and since 1887 Mr. Ellinwood has been transcribing his unpublished shorthand notes of this great preacher's pulpit and other utterances; and has caused to be issued three volumes of the same entitled A Book of Prayer; Bible Studies; and Metaphors and Similes. He is the editor and owner of The Students' Journal; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.