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Epperson, Elmer H – Erskine, John

Epperson, Elmer H

farmer, state legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1852, in Benton county, Iowa. In 1870 he moved to Kansas, where he is a successful farmer in Scott county. During 1896-97 he was a member of the Kansas state legislature.

Eppes, John Wayles

congressman, United States senator, was born in 1773 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1815. He was a senator in congress from 1817 to 1819, when he resigned because of ill health.

He died Sept. 20, 1823, in Richmond, Va.

Erben, Peter

organist, was born in 1771, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became an organ builder; and was also organist in Trinity parish from 1807 till 1839. He died in 1863 in New York city.

Erdman, Constantine J

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1846, in Lehigh county, Pa. He attended the common schools of the district and a classical school at Quakertown; entered Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1861, and graduated in 1865; read law, and was admitted to the bar of Lehigh in 1867, and since has practiced there. He was elected district attorney in 1874; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Erdman, Jacob

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847. He died July 20, 1867, in Lehigh county, Pa.

Ericsson, John

engineer, inventor, was born July 31, 1803, in Sweden. To this skilled inventor belongs much of the success of the late civil war, by the building of his iron-clad turret, the Monitor, just in time to defeat the Merrimac, and thus save the ports of the north from southern or from foreign invasion. He died in 1896.

Ernst, Louis

soldier, financier, was born July 19, 1825, in Germany. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. From 1874-76 he was president of the Rochester German Insurance company. He died April 3, 1892, in Rochester, N. Y.

Ernst, Oswald Hubert

engineer, author, was born June 27, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a military engineer with the rank of major, and the author of A Manual of Practical Military Engineering.

Errani, Achille

musician, was born Aug. 20, 1823, in France. He settled in New York as a teacher of the Italian style of singing. His most famous pupils are Minnie Hauck, Miss Thursby, Mme.

Durand and Stella Bonheur.

Errett, Isaac

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 2, 1820, in New York city.

He was a Campbellite clergyman of Cincinnati, and the author of Debate on Spiritualism; Brief View of Missions; Walks about Jerusalem; Talks to Bereans; Letters to Young Christians; and Evenings with the Bible. He died Dec. 19, 1880, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Erskine, Ebenezer

clergyman, was born Jan. 31, 1821, in Ridley Park, Pa. In 1870 he was called to the church in Newville, Pa. He was moderator of the synod of Harrisburg, and in 1878 became a director of the Princeton Theological seminary.

Erskine, John

jurist, was born in Ireland. He resided at Atlanta, Ga.; and in 1866 was appointed United States judge for the district of Georgia.

ERSKINE, MASSENA BERTHIER, manufacturer, was born Dec. 19, 1819, in Royalton, Mass. He is president of the Racine Wagon and Carriage company and the Manufacturers' National bank of Racine, Wis. In all the affairs of Racine he has taken a lively interest, and served as mayor in 1869-70, 1871 and 1879.