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Ellis, Rufus

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Boston, Mass.

He was lecturer in the Harvard divinity school in 1869 and 1871, and for several years before his death was editor of the Religious Monthly Magazine. He died Sept. 23, 1885, in England.

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Ellis, Sumner

clergyman, author, was born in 1828, in Massachusetts. was a universalist clergyman of Boston and Chicago, and the author of At Our Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H.

Chapin; and Hints on Preaching. He died Jan. 26, 1886, in Chicago, Ill.

Ellis, William C

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825.

Ellis, William R

educator, journalist, congressman, was born April 23, 1850, in Waveland, Ind. He moved to Oregon in 1883; has lived in Heppner since 1884; and served one term as county superintendent of schools and three terms as district attorney of the seventh judicial district of Oregon. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.

Ellis, William T

lawyer, congressman, was born July 24, 1845, in Daviess county, Ky. He was elected county attorney of Daviess county in 1870; and was re-elected in 1874. He was presidential elector for the second congressional district in 1876; and was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses, and was re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Ellison, Andrew

congressman, was born in Ireland. He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855.

Ellison, William H

college president, was born Dec. 4, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. In 1838 he was chosen professor of mathematics in Wesleyan Female college at Macon; two years later he was elected president, in which position he remained until 1851. He died Dec. 26, 1884, in Clayton, Ala.

Ellmaker, Amos

jurist, was born Feb. 2, 1787, in New Holland, Pa. He was deputy attorney-general for Dauphin county in 1809-12, and served in the legislature in 1812-14. He was appointed president judge of his judicial district in 1815. He died Nov. 28, 1851, in Lancaster, Pa.

Ellmore, Alfred

clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 11, 1838, in Frankfort, Ind.

For thirty-five years he has been a successful clergyman; for twenty years was field editor on the American Christian Review; for seven years co-editor of the Christian Leader; and since 1892 has been editor of the Gospel Echo. He is the author of a large number of tracts, and a volume of verse, entitled Maple Valley Poems.

Ellsberry, William W

physician, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1833, in New Hope, Ohio. He was a member of the county military board of Brown county; settled at Georgetown, Ohio; and was three times chosen county auditor.

In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress.

Ellsworth, Henry W

lawyer, author, was born in 1814, in Windsor, Conn.

He moved to Indiana in 1835; was counsel for S. F. B. Morse in some of his suits connected with telegraph patents; and was appointed charge d'affaires to Sweden in 1845. He was the author of Sketches of the Upper Wabash Valley; and American Swine Breeder. He died August, 1864, in New Haven, Conn.

Ellsworth, James William

capitalist. He is president of the Ohio Coal company, at St. Paul, and president of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Dock company, in Cleveland.