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Ellsworth, Charles C

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1824, in Berkshire, Vt. He was appointed prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, Mich., in 1850. He moved to Montcalm county in 1851, and was a member of the state house of representatives from 1852 to 1854. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Montcalm county; and was appointed a paymaster in the army in 1862, and served until the close of the He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. war.

ELLSWORTH, EPHRAIM ELMER, soldier, was born April 23, 1837, in Mechanicsville, N. Y. In 1860 he organized a regiment of zouaves, which became renowned for the perfection of their discipline, and of which he was commissioned colonel. He died May 24, 1861, in Alexandria, Va.

ELLSWORTH, ERASTUS WOLCOTT, inventor, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1822, in East Windsor, Conn. He is an inventor of Connecticut, who published in 1855 a volume of poems of very uneven excellence, some of which were popular for a time. a ELLSWORTH, EUGENE STAFFORD, was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He served in the war as a drummer boy in the company which his father commanded.

He subsequently did very extensive business in loaning money for eastern capitalists on Iowa improved farms. In 1880 he organized the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northwestern Land and Town Lot company, which purchased lands and town sites for over three hundred miles along the Burlington railroad; and he justly claims to be the founder of more than thirty cities and towns in Iowa. He is a prominent financier and the president of numerous business enterprises. Ellsworth college of Iowa Falls was named in his honor.

ELLSWORTH, HENRY LEAVITT, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in Windsor, Conn. He was appointed resident commissioner among the Indian tribes in Arkansas; and was United States commissioner of patents from 1836 to 1845. His reports to congress during this period added greatly to the improvement of agriculture. He then settled in Lafayette, Ind., where he was a purchaser of United States land. He was the author of Digest of Patents from 1770 to He died Dec. 27, 1858, in Fair Haven, Conn.