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Elmendorf, Lucas – Ely, Frederick David
Elmendorf, Lucas
was born in 1758. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1797 to 1803; a member of the assembly of that state in 1804 and 1805; and a state senator from 1814 to 1817. He died Aug. 17, 1843.
Elmore, Rush
jurist, was born about 1810 in Alabama. He settled in Kansas; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that territory, residing at Lecompton.
Elsberg, Louis
physician, author, was born April 2, 1836, in Iserloin, Prussia. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of Laryngoscopal Medication; and The Throat and Its Functions. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in New York city.
Elshemus, Louis M
artist, poet, was born in 1864, in Laurel Hill, N. J.
He has studied art in New York and Paris; and has exhibited paintings in several art exhibitions in this country and abroad. He has contributed to New York magazines, and has published two volumes of verse, Moods of a Soul; and Songs of Spring and Blossoms of Unrequited Love, the latter issued with illustrations by the author.
Elson, Louis Charles
journalist, author, was born April 17, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He is a Boston journalist, editor of the Vox Humana; and the author of History of Music; History of German Song; and Curiosities of Music.
Elton, John Prince
manufacturer, legislator, was born April 24, 1809, in Watertown, Conn. In 1832 he went into business in Waterbury, Conn., and in 1833 his firm began the manufacture of brass wire, being the first in the country to take up that industry. In 1840, 1849, 1851, and 1863 he served in the state legislature. He died Nov. 10, 1864, in Waterbury, Conn.
Elwell, Edward Henry
journalist, author, was born Dec. 14, 1825, in Portland, Maine. Since 1848 he has been editor and manager of the Portland Transcript. He is the author of Portland and Vicinity; The Boys of Thirty-five, a story of a seaport town; and Fraternity Papers, a volume of essays and sketches.
Elwell, Joseph C
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1850, in Milford Center, Ohio. He has served as district attorney of the third district of Colorado; and as judge of the district court of the tenth judicial district of Colorado.
Ely, Alfred
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 18, 1815, in Lyme, Conn. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He published a Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond.
Ely, Charles Wright
educator, soldier, was born March 14, 1839, in Madison, Conn. He served with distinction as a soldier during the civil war. Since 1870 he has been principal and superintendent of the Maryland state school for the deaf.
Ely, Ezra Stiles
clergyman, author, was born June 13, 1786, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, and the author of Contrast Between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism; Endless Punishment; The Science of the Human Mind; Sermons on Faith; Visits of Mercy; Memoir of Zebulon Ely; The Contrast; and Ely's Journal. He died June 18, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ely, Frederick David
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1838, in Wrentham, Mass.
At Dedham, Mass., he was a trial justice from 1867 to 1885; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1873; and was a state senator in 1878 and 1879.
He was a member of the school committee of Dedham from 1882 to 1885; and in 1884 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.