Eells, Samuel – Eiseman, Benjamin
Eells, Samuel
lawyer, was born in 1811, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He was a successful lawyer and founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832. He died March 13, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Effner, Valentine
congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the assembly of that state in 1829; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837.
Efird, Cyprian M
lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 18, 1856, in Lexington, S. C. During 1892-96 he served as state senator for Lexington county in the South Carolina legislature. He is a lawyer of prominence and has been reporter for the state supreme court.
Egan, Maurice Francis
journalist, author, poet, was born May 28, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist and is now professor at the Roman Catholic university of Notre Dame, Ind. His prose writings include That Girl of Mine; That Lover of Mine; A Garden of Roses; Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The Theater and Christian Parents; Modern Novelists; Lectures on English Literature; The Disappearance of Mr. Longworthy; A Primer of English Literature; A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The Success of Patrick Desmond; and The Flower of the Flock. In verse he has published Preludes; and Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems.
Egan, Michael
bishop, was born in Ireland. He was appointed pastor of St.
Mary's church of Philadelphia; and in 1810 was consecrated bishop of the newly created diocese of Philadelphia. He died June 22, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Egan, Thomas W
soldier, was born in 1836, in New York city. In 1862 he was promoted colonel, and participated in all the battles of the army of the Potomac.
At the battle of Boydton plankroad he commanded the division, and was brevetted major-general. He died Feb. 24, 1887, in New York city.
Egar, John Hodson
clergyman, author, was born in 1832, in England. He is an episcopal clergyman of Rome, N. Y.; and the author of The Threefold Grace of the Holy Trinity; and Christendom, Ecclesiastical and Political.
Egbert, a. G
physician, farmer, congressman, was born April 13, 1828, in Mercer county, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress.
Egbert, Joseph
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Ege, George
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania during the years 1796 and 1797 to fill a vacancy.
Eggleston, Benjamin
was born Jan. 3, 1816, in Corinth, N. Y. He was president of the Cincinnati city council; and was for some years a member of the state legislature. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth congress. He was the author of several novels.
Eggleston, Edward
author, was born Dec. 10, 1837, in Vevay, Ind. He is a novelist now living near Lake George, N. Y., who, in the early part of his career, was a methodist minister. His first important work, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, attracted widespread notice. Other fiction by him include The End of the World; The Circuit Rider; Roxy; The Graysons, a story of Illinois; The Faith Doctor; The Hoosier Schoolboy; Queer Stories for Boys and Girls; Schoolmasters' Stories; Mr. Blake's Walking Stick; Duffels. Still other works are Sundayschool Manual; Counsel for Teachers; School History of the United States; Household History of the United States; First Book in American History; Stories of Great Americans; and The Beginners of a Nation, the first volume in a History of Life in the United States. With his daughter, Mrs. Seelye, he has written Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet; Pocahontas; Brandt and Red Jacket; and Montezuma.
Eggleston, George Cary
soldier, Journalist, author, was born Nov. 26, 1839, in Vevay, Ind. He is a brother of Edward Eggleston. During the civil war he served in the confederate army, and afterwards filled several journalistic positions in New York city, becoming editor of the Commercial Advertiser in 1886. He is the author of How to Educate Yourself; A Man of Honor: A Rebel's Recollections; How to Make a Living; How to Make Money; The Big Brother, or a Story of the Indian War; Captain Sam; Signal Boys; The Wreck of the Red Bird; Strange Stories from History for Young People; Red Eagle; and Juggernaut: A Veiled Record.
Eggleston, Joseph
soldier, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1754, in Amelia county, Va. He served in the revolutionary war as a captain and major of cavalry under Colonel Henry Lee; and was in several of the battles fought by Gates and Greene. He served in the Virginia assembly for several years; was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1798 to 1801; and from the time of his leaving congress until his death was a justice of the peace. He died Feb. 13, 1811.
Egle, William H
physician, state librarian, historian, was born Sept. 17, 1830, in Harrisburg, Pa. For three years he served in the civil war; and since 1870 has been surgeon in the national guard of Pennsylvania. In 1887 he was appointed state librarian of Pennsylvania. He is the author of a History of Pennsylvania; History of Dauphin County; History of Lebanon County; Historical Register; Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch- Irish and German; Pennsylvania in the Revolution; Notes and Queries relative to Interior Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania Archives in twelve volumes.
Egleston, Azariah
soldier, state senator, jurist, was born Feb. 23, 1757, in Sheffield, Mass. He served in the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of major. In 1807-09 he was elected state senator; and in 1808 he was appointed associate justice of the court of sessions.
He died Jan. 12, 1822.
Egleston, Thomas
mining engineer, author, was born Dec. 9, 1832, in New York city. He is a metallurgist of note; and has been professor of mineralogy at Columbia college from 1864. He is the author of Metallurgy of Silver; Catalogue of Minerals; Lectures on Mineralogy; and Life of John Patterson, Major- General in the Army of the Revolution.
Ehninger, John Whetton
artist, was born July 22, 1827, in New York city.
The subject of his first painting, Peter Stuyvesant (1850), was taken from Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York, and was engraved by the American Art union. He died Jan. 22, 1889, in Saratoga, N. Y.
Ehrhardt, John Adam
lawyer, was born Dec. 6, 1848, in Germany. He received his education at the Western Union college and the Illinois Military academy. He has gained distinction as an able lawyer of Stanton, Neb., and has been prosecuting attorney of his county.
In 1897 he was elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Nebraska; and has also served as grand master of Masons in Nebraska.
Eichelberger, Abdiel W
railroad president, was born Dec. 6, 1819, in Hanover, Pa. He is president of the Baltimore and Harrisburg railway; and is also president of the Berlin Branch railroad.
Eickhoff, Anthony
journalist, congressman, was born April 11, 1827, in Westphalia, Germany. He had editorial charge of newspapers at St. Louis, Louisville, and finally at New York, where he located permanently in 1852. In 1863 he was appointed commissary general of subsistence of the state of New York; and was subsequently elected a representative in the New York legislature. He was elected coroner of the city of New York in 1873; and was elected a representative from New York to the fortyfifth congress.
Eidlitz, Cyrus Lazelle Warn- Er
architect, was born July 27, 1853, in New York city. Among the buildings that he has designed are the Michigan Central railway station in Detroit; the Dearborn station in Chicago; and the Buffalo library.
Eidlitz, Leopold
architect, author, was born March 29, 1823, in Prague, Bohemia. He was an architect of New York city; and the author of The Nature and Function of Art. He died in 1896.
Eighmey, Charles Henry
lawyer, banker, was born Nov. 28, 1834, in Saratoga, N. Y. He was educated at Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, N. Y. During 1861-71 he practiced law with success. He has been vice-president, cashier, and president of the First National bank of Dubuque since 1871; and still is its honored president. Mr. Eighmey has been prominently identified with religious institutions, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Dubuque, Iowa, half a century. He is a trustee and chairman of the building committee of the new St. Luke's Methodist church of Dubuque, to the construction of which he was a liberal donor.
Eiland, Charles Levi
clergyman, legislator, was born March 20, 1852, near Troy, Ala. He is a successful clergyman of the baptist church; served with distinction as a member of the Alabama state legislature in 1892-93, and again in 1895-96. For ten years he has been moderator of the New Providence association; and now fills a pastorate in Brantley, Ala.
Eilers, Frederic Anton
metallurgist, was born Jan. 14, 1839, in Germany. He is considered one of the foremost experts in the United States in his branch of metallurgy.
Einstein, Edwin
merchant, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress.
Eiseman, Benjamin
merchant, was born Nov. 16, 1833, in Germany. In 1879 he moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he established a large dry goods house. He assisted in organizing several insurance companies and the First National bank.
He was also for two years president of the Chamber of Commerce of Memphis, Tenn.