Ewen, William
patriot, was born about 1720 in England. He was a member of the council of safety, and as first president of the executive council performed the duties of governor in 1775. He died soon after the revolution in Georgia.
EWER, FERDINAND CARTWRIGHT, clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1826, in Nantucket, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city of the extreme ritualistic school, whose Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism attracted much attention at the time of their delivery. His other writings include The Operation of the Holy Spirit; Grammar of Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the Fallibility of Spiritualism Exposed; and Sanctity and Other Sermons. He died Oct. 10, 1883, in Canada.