Ewing, Elmore E
soldier, merchant, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1840, in Ewington, Ohio. He entered college at the age of twenty, and two years later enlisted as a private soldier in the civil war. He was soon afterward promoted to lieutenant, served with distinction, and was severely wounded in 1864. Since the war he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits, and is now successful a merchant of Portsmouth, Ohio. He takes a leading part in the public affairs of his county and state, and is prominent in several fraternal orders. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and is the author of a volume of poems entitled Bugles and Bells, containing incidents of the war and other themes.