Eddy, Frank M – Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum
Eddy, Frank M
educator, business man, congressman, was born April 1, 1856, in Pleasant Grove, Minn. He was elected clerk of the district court of Pope county, and he has held this position, also that of court reporter of the sixteenth judicial district, continuously ever since. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.
Eddy, Henry Clarence
musician, was born June 23, 1851, in Greenfield, Mass. He has attained success as a musician of Chicago, Ill.
Eddy, Henry Turner
educator, mathematician, author, was born June 9, 1844, in Stoughton, Mass. He is a mathematician, and since 1874 a professor in the university of Cincinnati; and the author of Analytical Geometry; Researches in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; and Maximum Stress under Concentrated Loads.
Eddy, John H
geographer, was born in 1782. He published a circular map of the country for thirty miles around New York in 1814; a map of the western part of New York; a map to illustrate the communication between Lake Erie and the Hudson; and a map of the state of New York; and was engaged on a general atlas of America at the time of his death. He died Dec. 22, 1817.
Eddy, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover
author. She is a resident of Concord, N. H., widely known as the founder of the sect of Christian Scientists.
Besides Christian Science; Science and Health, she has published a number of pamphlets on the general subject of Christian Science. She has lectured extensively throughout the United States on Christian Science; and has also contributed extensively to current publications on that subject.
Eddy, Norman
congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1810, in Scipio, N. Y. He removed to Indiana; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. He died Jan. 28, 1872, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Eddy, Richard
clergyman, author, was born June 21, 1828, in Providence, R. I. He is a universalist clergyman of Melrose, Mass.; and the author of Universalism in America; History of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; and The Martyr to Liberty.
Eddy, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 31, 1769, in Providence, R. I. In 1798 he was chosen secretary of state and held the office for twenty-one years, when he resigned. He was elected a representative in congress from his native state from 1819 to 1825; and was subsequently chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island for eight years. He died Feb. 2, 1839, in Providence, R. I.
Eddy, Thomas
philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1758, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist whose efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform, and was the author of The State Prisons of New York. He died Sept. 16, 1827, in New York city.
Eddy, Thomas Mears
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 7, 1823, in Newtown, Ohio. He was a methodist minister of Chicago, who published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that state during the civil war. He died Oct. 7, 1874, in New York city.
Eddy, Zachary
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1815, in Stockbridge, Vt.
He was a presbyterian minister of Augusta, Ga.; and the author of Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church; and Songs of the Church. He died in 1891.
Eden, Charles
governor, was born in 1674. He was governor of North Carolina from 1713 to 1722. He died March 26, 1722, in North Carolina.
Eden, John R
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1826, in Bath county, Ky. In 1856 he was appointed state attorney for the seventh district, which office he held four years. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress; and was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, fortyfifth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Eden, Robert
governor, was born in England. In 1768 he became governor of Maryland; advised the repeal of the tax on tea; and when the colonel of militia demanded the arms and ammunition, he readily gave them up. He died Sept. 2, 1786, in Annapolis, Md. was
Edes, Benjamin
journalist, born Oct. 14, 1732, in Charlestown, Mass.
In 1755 he was the editor and proprietor of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, a patriotic newspaper that exerted a powerful influence before the revolution and during that struggle. He was one of the Sons of Liberty. In his house the patriots comprising the Boston tea party assembled on the afternoon of Dec. 16, 1773, and drank punch from a bowl that was subsequently given by Mr. Edes's family to the Massachusetts Historical society, afterward disguising themselves as Indians in the Gazette office. During the siege of Boston, Mr. Edes escaped to Watertown, where he continued the publication of the Gazette. After forty-three years of editorship he discontinued it in 1798. He died Dec. 11, 1803, in Boston, Mass.
Edes, Henry Herbert
genealogist and historian, was born March 29, 1849, in Charlestown, Mass. Since 1892 he has been director and treasurer of the Conveyancers' Title Insurance company of Boston, Mass. He was the founder of the Colonial society of Massachusetts. He is the author of a Genealogy of the Edes Family; Charlestown Historic Points; and Memorial of Josiah Barker.
Edes, Richard Sullivan
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 1810, in Providence, R. I. He published a memoir of Peter Edes in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Journal and Letters relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and 1789 made by Col. John May, with a biographical sketch, and assisted in the preparation of A Genealogy of the Descendants of John May. He died Aug. 26, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
Edes, Robert Thaxter
physician, author, was born Sept. 23, 1838, in Eastport, Maine. He is a physician of Washington; and the author of Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous System; Therapeutical Handbook of United States Pharmacopœia; and Text-Book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
Edgar, Cornelius Henry
clergygan, author, was born April 11, 1811, in Rahway, N. J. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Easton, Pa.; and the author of Lectures on Slavery; Discourses on the Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted; and Exposition of the Nine Last Wars (1867). He died Dec. 23, 1884, in Easton, Pa.
Edgar, John Todd
clergyman, author, was born April 13, 1792, in Sussex county, Del. He became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Nashville, Tenn., in 1833, and remained there till his death. At one time he edited the American Presbyterian, published at Nashville. He died Nov. 13, 1860, in Nashville, Tenn.
Edgecomb, Willard W
diplomat.
He was a citizen of Maine, and while holding the position of consul at Cape Town, Africa, was empowered to negotiate a treaty of friendship and commerce with the Orange Free State, in 1871.
Edgerton, a. J
soldier, jurist, United States senator, was born June 7, 1827, in Rome, N. Y. He graduated from the Wesleyan university of Ohio. During the civil war he served nearly five years in the union army; and was promoted to colonel and brevetted brigadier-general of the United States volunteers. He was senator from Minnesota in 1881; chief justice of Dakota; president of the constitutional convention, which adopted the constitution of South Dakota; was United States district judge of South Dakota; and became chief justice. He died in 1896.
Edgerton, Alfred P
journalist, statesman, was born Jan. 11, 1813, in Plattsburgh, N. Y. In 1845 he was elected to the state senate of Ohio; and in 1848 was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention. In 1850 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-second congress; and in 1852 was. re-elected to the thirty-third congress. In 1885 he was appointed United States civil service commissioner, and became the president of the commission.
Edgerton, James Arthur
journalist, poet, was born Jan. 30, 1869, in Plantsville, Ohio. For several years he was managing editor of the Evening Herald of Kalamazoo, Mich.; then became connected with The Register of Marietta; and subsequently moved to Lincoln, Neb., where he is the editor and owner of the Nebraska Independent.
He is prominent in political affairs; has been chairman of the people's party state committee of Nebraska; and secretary of the people's party national committee. He is the author of two volumes of poems, and has contributed extensively to the periodical press, principally on reform matters.
Edgerton, Jesse
business man, poet, was born July 12, 1845, in Barnesville, Ohio. He is the secretary of the Columbiana Handle company of Columbiana, Ohio; and is the author of a number of poems.
Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum
lawyer, railroad president, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1818, in Vorgennes, Vt. In 1855 he was president of the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad company, and subsequently financial agent of the same when consolidated with the Pittsburg road. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-eighth congress.