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Endress, Christian

clergyman, author, was born March 12, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pa., who published in German The Kingdom of Heaven not Susceptible of Union with Temporal Monarchy and Aristocracy. He died Sept. 30, 1827, in Lancaster, Pa.

ENGELHARD, JOSEPH ADOLPHUS, soldier, journalist, was born Sept. 27, 1832, in Monticello, Miss. He entered the confederate army as captain and quartermaster in 1861, and in 1862 was promoted to be major and quartermaster of Branch's brigade. He became the editor of the Wilmington Journal in 1865, and was afterward elected secretary of state, which office he held till his death.

He died Feb. 17, 1879, in Raleigh, N. C.

ENGELHARDT, FRANCIS ERNEST, chemist, was born June 23, 1835, in Hanover. In 1886 he became chemist to the Genesee Salt company, and is one of the experts for the state board of health.

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