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Elliot, George Thomson – Elliott, Franklin Reuben

Elliot, George Thomson

physician, author, was born May 11, 1827, in New York city. In 1857 he was chosen visiting physician of the Lying-in hospital in New York, and in 1861 was elected to fill the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children and of clinical midwifery in the Bellevue hospital college. His principal medical work is Elliot's Obstetric Clinic. He died Jan. 29, 1871, in New York city.

Elliot, Henry Rutherford

journalist, author, was born in 1849. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Basset Claim, a Story of Life in Washington; and The Common Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward.

Elliot, John

congressman. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1819 to 1825, serving on several important committees. He died Aug. 9, 1827, in Sunbury, Ga.

Elliot, Samuel Hayes

clergyman, author, was born in 1809 in Vermont. He was a congregational clergyman of New Haven; and the author of Rolling Ridge, or the Book of Four-and-Twenty Chapters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Realities; New England's Chattels, or Life in a Northern Poor-House; and The Attractions of New Haven. He died in 1869.

Elliot, William Horace

genealogist, was born in 1824 in New Haven, Conn. He compiled a Genealogy of the Eliot Family. He attained prominence as a lawyer. He died Dec. 8, 1852, in St.

Croix, W. I.

Elliott, Anna

patriot of the revolution. American prisoners that were brought into Charleston were aided and relieved by her assiduous ministrations.

Elliott, Charles

clergyman, author, was born in 1792 in Ireland. He was a methodist clergyman, and at one period was president of Iowa Wesleyan university. He was the author of Treatise on Baptism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; Life of Bishop Roberts; History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church; Political Romanism; Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission; Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and Slavery; and Sinfulness of American Slavery. He died Jan. 6, 1869, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

Elliott, Charles

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1815 in Scotland. He was a presbyterian minister, professor of Hebrew at Lafayette college, Easton, Pa. He was the author of The Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; and Vindication of the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.

Elliott, Charles Loring

painter, was born in December, 1812, in Scipio, N. Y. He was a successful portrait painter of Albany, N. Y., where he died Aug. 25, 1868.

Elliott, Eugene Stanhope

lawyer, journalist, was born Aug. 13, 1842, in Vermilion county, Ill. In 1868 he purchased a half interest in the Milwaukee Journal of Commerce, and in 1868 assumed the entire charge. In 1886 he was nominated for the office of city attorney.

Elliott, Ezekiel Brown

statistician, author, was born July 16, 1823, in Sweden, N. Y. He was a government statistician of note, and the author of Unification of International Coinage. He died in 1888.

Elliott, Franklin Reuben

horticulturist, author, was born April 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a horticulturist of Cleveland, and the author of The Western Fruit Book; Popular Deciduous and Evergreen Trees; Handbook for Fruit Growers; and Handbook of Practical Landscape Gardening. He died Jan. 10, 1878, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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