Eliot, Thomas Dawes – Elliot, Benjamin
Eliot, Thomas Dawes
was born March 20, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature; was a representative in congress to fill a vacancy; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died June 12, 1870, in New Bedford, Mass.
Eliot, William Greenleaf
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1811, in New Bedford, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of St. Louis, and chancellor of Washington university there in 1872-87. He was the author of Doctrines of Christianity; Early Religious Education; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; Manual of Prayer; The Unity of God; The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom; and Home Life and Influence.
He died Jan. 23, 1887, in Pass Christian, Miss.
Elkins, Henry Arthur
artist, was born May 30, 1847, in Vershire, Vt.
He removed to Chicago in 1856, taught himself to paint, and achieved some success. Among his pictures are Mount Shasta; The Thirty-eighth Star; Storm at Shasta; New Eldorado; and Crown of the Continent. He died July 25, 1884, in Georgetown, Col.
Elkins, Stephen Benton
soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 26, 1841, in Perry county, Ohio. He was a member of the territorial legislative assembly of New Mexico in 1864 and 1865. He held the offices of territorial district attorney, attorney-general, and United States district attorney; elected to the fortythird congress as a republican, and while was abroad was renominated and elected to the forty-fourth congress. After leaving congress he removed to West Virginia and devoted himself to business affairs; was appointed secretary of war in 1891; and in 1894 was elected to the United States senate as a republican. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Elkins, William Lewis
astronomer, was born April 29, 1855, in New Orleans, La. He has attained note as an eminent astronomer.
Elkins, William Lukens
financier, was born May 2, 1832. He went to Philadelphia and became one of the first to engage in the refining of crude oil.
Several small refineries were purchased, the Belmont Oil works were leased and control of the entire local industry of oil refining had soon been obtained by Mr.
Elkins.
ELLEDGE, WILLIAM MADISON, MADISON, clergyman, was born March 17, 1862, in Perry, Ill. In 1891 he graduated from the Fremont Normal school, Nebraska; and in 1896 from the Chicago Theological seminary. For many years he taught school; has been editor of a newspaper, and was at one time a candidate for the Nebraska state legislature. He now fills a pastorate in the Congregational church at Overbrook, Kan.
Ellenbecker, John G
educator, college president, poet, was born Jan. 29, 1869, in Hancock, Mich. When two years of age his parents moved to Kansas, where he was educated, and graduated from the Marysville High school in 1888.
He taught school for awhile, and subsequently graduated from the scientific class of the Kansas Normal college, with the degree of B. S.; subsequently receiving the degree of B. A. He organized the Modern Normal college of Marysville, kan., of which institution he is president.
Some of his poems appear in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Ellery, Christopher
United States senator, was born Nov. 1, 1768, in Newport, R. I. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1801 to 1805; and in the latter year was appointed United States commissioner of loans. He was appointed collector of Newport in 1828. He died Dec. 2, 1840, in Newport, R. I.
Ellery, Frank
naval officer, was born July 23, 1794, in Newport, R. I. He commanded the steamer Enterprise in 1840, was put on the reserved list in 1855, commanded the Boston rendezvous again in 1861, and was commissioned commodore on the retired list in 1867.
Ellery, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1727, in Newport, R. I. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1776 to 1780, and from 1783 to 1785. He was a signer of the declaration of independence, and also of the articles of confederation. In 1786 he was appointed commissioner of loans for Rhode Island; and was elected chief justice of the state. In 1789 he was appointed, by President Washington, collector of Newport, which office he held until his death, which occurred Feb. 15, 1820, in Newport, R. I.
Ellet, Alfred W
soldier, was born in Penn Manor, Pa. He served during the civil war; and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of brigadiergeneral.
Ellet, Charles
soldier, civil engineer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1810, in Penn's Manor, Pa. He was an engineer of note who built the first wire suspension bridge in America. He served during the civil war as a colonel in the federal army, and was killed in an engagement on the Mississippi. He was the author of Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley; Coast and Harbor Defences; and The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, with Plans for Protecting the Delta from Inundation. He died June 21, 1862, in Cairo, Ill.
Ellet, Charles Rivers
soldier, was born in 1843, in Georgetown, D. C.
He served during the civil war and attained the rank of colonel. He died Oct. 29, 1863, in Bunker Hill, Ill.
Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries Lummis
author, poet, was born in 1818, in Sodus Point, N. Y. She was the author of Domestic History of the American Revolution; Women of the American Revolution; Court Circles of the Republic; Queens of American Society; Pioneer Pioneer Women of the West; Novelettes of the Musicians; Rambles in the West; The Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures from the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily; The Characters of Schiller; and Women Artists in All Ages.
She died June 3, 1877.
Ellet, Mary
patriot, was born June 17, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been termed the Cornelia of America.
She won the name by her heroic reply to one who sympathized with her in the loss of sons and grandsons during the civil war.
Ellet, William Henry
chemist, was born Nov. 1, 1806, in New York city.
For his discovery of a new and cheap method of preparing gun-cotton the legislature of South Carolina presented him with a vote of thanks and a pension. He died Jan. 26, 1859, in New York city.
Ellett, Tazewell
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1856, in Richmond, Va. He was presidential elector in 1888 on the democratic ticket; was a member of the state democratic committee of fifty for about twelve years, and during a part of the time acting as a member of the executive committee of ten. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Ellicott, Andrew
civil engineer, was born Jan. 24, 1754, in Bucks county, Pa. In 1790 he was employed by the general government to survey and lay out the city of Washington; and in 1792 was appointed surveyor-general of the United States. In 1812 he became a professor of mathematics at West Point. He died Aug. 29, 1820.
Ellicott, Benjamin
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819.
Ellicott, Joseph
civil engineer, was born in Bucks county, Pa. In 1797 he was employed by the Holland Land company and three years later was appointed its general agent, with a grant of six thousand acres of land, and five per cent. commissions on the sale of land. In 1803 he located the land office in Batavia, N.
Y.; and the surveys of the Holland Land company were all made in his name. He died Aug. 19, 1826, in Batavia, N. Y.
Ellington, Clarence H
farmer, state senator, was born July 22, 1853, in Elberton, Ga. He has been state senator of the Georgia legislature; and for two years was president of the Georgia State Farmers' alliance.
ELLINWOOD, FRANK FIELDS, clergyman, author. He was a presbyterian clergyman, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions; and the author of The Great Conquest; and Oriental Religions and Christianity. He died in 1826, in New York.
Ellinwood, Truman J
educator, editor, was born June 11, 1831, in Smithfield, N. Y. He has taught in district schools and in the Brooklyn Adelphi academy and high schools; in the Martha's Vineyard Summer institute, and in the Ellinwood School of Phonography, of which he is proprietor. For thirty years he was official reporter of the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's Discourses; and since 1887 Mr. Ellinwood has been transcribing his unpublished shorthand notes of this great preacher's pulpit and other utterances; and has caused to be issued three volumes of the same entitled A Book of Prayer; Bible Studies; and Metaphors and Similes. He is the editor and owner of The Students' Journal; and has contributed extensively to periodical literature.
Elliot, Benjamin
jurist, author, was born in 1786, in Charleston, S. C.
He was a South Carolina jurist who published Refutation of Calumnies respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery; and The Militia System of South Carolina. He died in 1836.