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Ellsworth, Mary Wiggins – Ellis, Ezekiel John

Ellsworth, Mary Wiggins

author, was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Exeter, N. H. She wrote biographical articles for Cypress Leaves, and was the author of Peace or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the Children; Smith's Saloon; and compiled Juvenile Miscellany. She died Aug. 12, 1870, in Newton, Mass.

Elliott, Theodore Bates

lawyer, was born July 12, 1836, in Wayne county, N. Y. He attained success as one of the most prominent lawyers of Milwaukee county, Wis. He died Jan. 11, 1883, in Wisconsin.

Elliott, Warren G

railroad president. In 1890 he became president of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad; and the same year became president of the Petersburg railroad.

Elliott, William

patriot of the revolution, was born in 1761, in Beaufort, S. C. He served in the patriot army while still a youth, and was taken prisoner at the surprise of John's Island, and confined in the prison ship. He died in 1808, in Beaufort, S. C.

Elliott, William

author, was born April 27, 1788, in Beaufort, S. C. His published works include an Address Before the St. Paul's Agricultural Society; and Carolina Sports by Land and Water.

He was also the author of Fiesco, a tragedy. He died in February, 1863, in Beaufort, S. C.

Ellis, Abner

patriot, was born in Dedham, Mass. He represented that town in the provincial congresses of October, 1774, and February and May, 1775, taking a prominent part in the proceedings.

Ellis, Caleb

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1767, in Walpole, Mass. He was a representative in congress from 1805 to 1809; was a member of the council, and in 1811 elected to the state senate. In 1812 he was one of the electors of president and vicepresident; and in 1813 was judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire. died May y. 1816.

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Ellis, Charles

founder, was born Jan. 31, 1800, in Muncy, Pa. He was one of the founders of the college of pharmacy of Philadelphia, and was its fourth president from 1854 to 1869. He died May 16, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ellis, Charles Mayo

lawyer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer of prominence as an abolitionist, who published a History of Roxbury. He died Jan. 26, 1878, in Brookline, Mass.

Ellis, Cheselden

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.

Ellis, Eleazer Holmes

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1826, in Green Bay, Wis. He has been justice of the peace, alderman and mayor of Green Bay, Wis., of which city he was appointed postmaster in 1896. For eight years, during 1871-79, he was judge of the circuit court of Wisconsin in the tenth judicial circuit.

Ellis, Ezekiel John

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, in Covington, La. He served throughout the civil war in the confederate army as private to captain. From 1867 until his death he practiced law in New Orleans, La. In 1874 he was elected to the fortyfourth congress; and received the re-election to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. He died April 19, 1889, in Washington, D. C.