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Ewing, William Bellford

physician, was born in 1776 in Greenwich, N.

J. He settled in Greenwich, where he practiced for twenty-eight years. For many years he was presiding judge of the county courts, for ten years a member of the legislature, and a member of the New Jersey constitutional convention of 1841. He died April 23, 1866, in Greenwich, N. J. was EWING, WILLIAM LEE DAVIDSON, soldier, lawyer, United States senator, born in 1795. In 1826-27 he was United States surveyor of public lands and general of state militia. He served as major of the Spy battalion in the Black-Hawk war in 1832; became a member of the state senate in that year, and was its speaker in 1834. In 1835 he was chosen to the United States senate to fill a vacancy. He was speaker of the state house of representatives in 1840, and in 1843 was chosen state auditor, which office he held until his death. He died March 25, 1846, in Ohio.