Ela, Jacob H – Eliot, Samuel Aitkins
Ela, Jacob H
journalist, congressman, was born July 18, 1820, in Rochester, N. H. He established and edited the Herald of Freedom, and also participated in establishing the Independent Democrat.
In 1857-58 he was a member of the state legislature, and filled several other state offices. In 1861 he was appointed United States marshal for his state, holding the office until 1866. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the fortieth and forty-first congresses; and in 1872 was appointed fifth auditor of the United States treasury; and in 1881 was appointed sixth auditor of the treasury.
Elam, Joseph B
lawyer, congressman, was born June 12, 1821, in Hempstead county, Ark. He was admitted to practice law in Alexandria, La., in 1843; served two terms in the state legislature; and in 1851 removed to De Sota parish. In 1861 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention; again served in the legislature during the civil war; and was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.
Elbert, Samuel
soldier, governor, was born in 1743, in Prince William parish, S. C. He served in the revolutionary war and attained the rank of brigadiergeneral; and in 1785 was elected governor of Georgia. He died Nov. 2, 1788, in Savannah, Ga.
Elbert, Samuel Hitt
state legislator, governor, was born April 3, 1833, in Logan county, Ohio. In 1869 he was elected to the Colorado legislature; and in 1873 was elected governor of Colorado, serving until 1874.
Elder, Cyrus
public official, author, poet, was born June 16, 1833, in Somerset, Pa. He was a revenue commissioner of Pennsylvania; and the author of Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise; Man and Labor; Short Studies; and May Gift, a volume of poems.
Elder, George a. M
priest, college president, author, was born in 1794, in Hardin's Creek, Ky. He was a Roman catholic priest who founded the college of St. Joseph at Bardstown, Ky., and was its first president. He wrote Letters to Brother Jonathan; and other works. He died in 1838, in Bardstown, Ky.
Elder, John
clergyman, was born in 1706, in Ireland. He trained his parishioners for cavalry service against the Indians, and afterward received a colonel's commission from the proprietaries and had charge of the block-houses from Easton to the Susquehanna. He died in 1792, near Harrisburg, Pa.
Elder, Joseph Freeman
educator, clergyman, was born March 10, 1839. in Portland, Maine. Since 1870 he has been pastor of the Baptist church of the Epiphany of New York city. In 1885 he became president of the New York Baptist City mission.
Elder, Mrs. Susan Blanchard
educator, author, was born about 1835, in Fort Jessup, La. She has written extensively for Roman catholic periodicals; and is the author of The Loss of the Papacy; James the Second; Savonarola; and Ellen Fitzgerald, a southern tale.
Elder, William
physician, author, was born July 23, 1806, in Somerset, Pa.
He was a Philadelphia physician, prominent as an abolitionist; and the author of Periscopics, a volume of miscellanies; The Enchanted Beauty; The Life of Dr.
Kane; The Debt and Resources of the United States (1863); Questions of the Day, Economic and Social; and Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political Economy. He died in 1885.
Elder, William Henry
bishop, was born March 22, 1819, in Baltimore, Md. He was made a bishop in 1857, beginning his active duties in charge of the see of Natchez. In 1880 he was nominated coadjutor bishop of Cincinnati, and in 1883 became archbishop.
Eldred, Nathaniel B
congressman, was born in 1795, in Orange county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1822 to 1828; was for a time canal commissioner of Pennsylvania; and naval officer at Philadelphia from 1852 to 1856. He died Jan. 27, 1867, in Bethany, Pa.
Eldredge, Barnabas
manufacturer, was born June 19, 1843, in Munson, Ohio. In 1879 the Eldredge Manufacturing company was organized, and he was chosen its first president. In 1886 the company was consolidated with the National Sewing Machine company, and the two corporations removed from Chicago to Belvidere, Ill., where they built a large plant for the manufacture of their machines.
Eldredge, Nathaniel B
physician, lawyer, congressman, was born March 28, 1813, in Auburn, N. Y. He was a state senator of Michigan in 1848; and judge of probate from 1852 to 1856. In 1861 he raised a company of volunteers and joined the seventh Michigan infantry; and became a lieutenant-colonel in 1862.
In 1865 he removed to Adrian, Mich., and was elected mayor in 1870. In 1874 he was elected sheriff of Lenawee county; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Eldridge, Charles A
was born Feb. 27, 1821, in Bridgeport, Vt. In 1848 he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis. In 1854 and 1855 he was a member of the state senate; and in 1862 was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirtyeighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, fortysecond and fortythird congresses as a democrat. He served on several important committees while a member of congress.
Eldridge, Edwin
capitalist, was born in 1811. He became president of the Elmira Iron and Steel company, and was long connected with the Erie railroad. He gave a public park to Elmira, and contributed materially to the progress of that town. He died Dec. 16, 1876, in Elmira, N. Y.
Eldridge, Edwin R
educator, lecturer, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1843, in Burnettsville, Ind. He received his education at the Indiana common schools; Burnettsville seminary; Washington college, Iowa; and subsequently received the degree of doctor of laws from the Drake university of Des Moines, Iowa.
He has always been prominently identified with educational work; has been county superintendent of schools; for fourteen years was president of the Eastern Iowa Normal school; and for nineteen years was lecturer in normal institutes in connection with county superintendency and normal school presidency. He is now president of the State Normal college of Troy, Ala., which position he has filled since
Eliot, Andrew
clergyman, was born Dec. 28, 1718, in Boston, Mass. In 1742 he was ordained pastor of the new North church in Boston, where he remained until his death. He was a great student of literature and science, and was influential in the cause of American freedom. He died Sept. 30, 1778, in Boston, Mass.
Eliot, Charles
author, was born in 1791, in Boston, Mass. His first writings appeared in the General Repository, a Boston periodical, and he was specially interested in the preparation of Scheusner's Lexicon. His Miscellaneous Writings were edited by Andrews Anton. He died in 1813.
Eliot, Charles William
educator, college president, was born March 20, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He was a distinguished educator who has been president of Harvard university since 1869. He is the author of a Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Manual of Inorganic Chemistry.
Eliot, Ephraim
druggist, author.
He published Historical Notices of the New North Religious Society, with Anecdotes of Rev. Andrew Eliot and John Eliot.
Eliot, Jared
clergyman, scientist, author, was born Nov. 7, 1685, in Guilford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Killingworth, Conn., in 1707- 63. He was awarded a medal by the London institute in 1756 for producing malleable iron from American black sand. He was the author of Essays upon Field and Husbandry, and many single sermons. He died April 22, 1763, in Killingworth, Conn.
Eliot, John
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1604, in England. He was a puritan minister of Roxbury who came to America in 1631, and is famous in history as the Indian apostle. He is chiefly remembered for his famous translation of the Bible into the Indian language, but he was the author of other works, among which are the Communion of Churches; The Harmony of the Gospels; Dying Speeches of Several Indians; The Indian Primer; and Indian Logic Primer. He died May 21, 1690, in Roxbury, Mass.
Eliot, John
clergyman, author, was born May 31, 1754, in Boston, Mass. He was a clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New North Congregational church in 1779- 1813, and author of the New England Biographical Dictionary. He was also a missionary to the Indians; and translated the first Bible into the Indian dialect, which translation was also the first Bible printed in America. He died Feb. 14, 1813, in Boston, Mass.
Eliot, Samuel
educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Boston, Mass. During 1856-64 he filled the chair of history and political science in Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.; was its president in 1860-64; and was a lecturer on constitutional law during 1864- 74. For two years he was superintendent of the Boston public schools. He is the author of History of Liberty; Manual of the United States History; and Life and Times of Savonarola.
Eliot, Samuel Aitkins
manufacturer, congressman, author, was born March 5, 1798, in Boston, Mass. He was mayor of Boston from 1837 to 1839; and a representative and senator in the legislature for three or four years. He was a representative in congress from 1850 to 1851; and was also treasurer of Harvard college for eleven years. He published Observations on the Bible for the Use of Young Persons; and Sketch of the History of Harvard College. He died Jan. 29, 1862, in Cambridge, Mass.