Elliot, Daniel Giraud – Elliott, Stephen
Elliot, Daniel Giraud
ornithologist, author, was born in 18... He is an ornithologist of Chicago, at one time president of the American Ornithologists' union, and is the author of Monograph of the Pittidæ or Family of the Ant Thrushes; The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America (1869); The Life and Habits of Wild Animals; Classification and Synopsis of the Trochilidæ; and North American Shore Birds.
Elliot, George Henry
military engineer, author, was born March 31, 1831, in Lowell, Mass. He is a military engineer in the service of the United States, and the author of European Light-House Systems; and The Presidio of San Francisco.
Elliot, George Thomson
physician, author, was born May 11, 1827, in New York city. In 1857 he was chosen visiting physician of the Lying-in hospital in New York, and in 1861 was elected to fill the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children and of clinical midwifery in the Bellevue hospital college. His principal medical work is Elliot's Obstetric Clinic. He died Jan. 29, 1871, in New York city.
Elliot, Henry Rutherford
journalist, author, was born in 1849. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Basset Claim, a Story of Life in Washington; and The Common Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward.
Elliot, John
congressman. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1819 to 1825, serving on several important committees. He died Aug. 9, 1827, in Sunbury, Ga.
Elliot, Samuel Hayes
clergyman, author, was born in 1809 in Vermont. He was a congregational clergyman of New Haven; and the author of Rolling Ridge, or the Book of Four-and-Twenty Chapters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Realities; New England's Chattels, or Life in a Northern Poor-House; and The Attractions of New Haven. He died in 1869.
Elliot, William Horace
genealogist, was born in 1824 in New Haven, Conn. He compiled a Genealogy of the Eliot Family. He attained prominence as a lawyer. He died Dec. 8, 1852, in St.
Croix, W. I.
Elliott, Anna
patriot of the revolution. American prisoners that were brought into Charleston were aided and relieved by her assiduous ministrations.
Elliott, Charles
clergyman, author, was born in 1792 in Ireland. He was a methodist clergyman, and at one period was president of Iowa Wesleyan university. He was the author of Treatise on Baptism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; Life of Bishop Roberts; History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church; Political Romanism; Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission; Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and Slavery; and Sinfulness of American Slavery. He died Jan. 6, 1869, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Elliott, Charles
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1815 in Scotland. He was a presbyterian minister, professor of Hebrew at Lafayette college, Easton, Pa. He was the author of The Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; and Vindication of the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.
Elliott, Charles Loring
painter, was born in December, 1812, in Scipio, N. Y. He was a successful portrait painter of Albany, N. Y., where he died Aug. 25, 1868.
Elliott, Charles Wyllys
author, was born May 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a New York writer, at one time a landscape gardener of note, and the author of The Book of American Interiors; Pottery and Porcelain; Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Mysteries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural; St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint l'Ouverture; New England History, from its Discovery by the Northmen; and Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. He died in 1883.
Elliott, Eugene Stanhope
lawyer, journalist, was born Aug. 13, 1842, in Vermilion county, Ill. In 1868 he purchased a half interest in the Milwaukee Journal of Commerce, and in 1868 assumed the entire charge. In 1886 he was nominated for the office of city attorney.
Elliott, Ezekiel Brown
statistician, author, was born July 16, 1823, in Sweden, N. Y. He was a government statistician of note, and the author of Unification of International Coinage. He died in 1888.
Elliott, Franklin Reuben
horticulturist, author, was born April 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a horticulturist of Cleveland, and the author of The Western Fruit Book; Popular Deciduous and Evergreen Trees; Handbook for Fruit Growers; and Handbook of Practical Landscape Gardening. He died Jan. 10, 1878, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Elliott, Gilbert Molleson
soldier, was born Oct. 7, 1840, in Thompson, Conn. In April, 1861, when Fort Sumter was fired upon, he unfurled the stars and stripes from the college building, and in his address declared he would defend his country's honor with his life's blood. He died Nov. 24, 1863, in Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
Elliott, Henry Wood
artist, author, was born Nov. 13, 1841, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is an artist in the employ of the Smithsonian institution, and the author of Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska; and Our Arctic Provinces.
Elliott, James
congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1770, in Guilford, Vt. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1803 to 1809. He died Nov. 10, 1830, in Newfane, Vt.
Elliott, John G
legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1850, in Alleghany county, N.
Y. He received his education in the schools of northern Indiana and at the normal college of Valparaiso. For four years he was county recorder of Merced county, Cal., and also its county clerk for four years. He is now a member of the California state assembly, and takes an active part in public affairs.
Elliott, John M
lawyer, congressman, was born May 16, 1820, in Scott county, Va. He was elected to the state legislature in 1847; and in 1853 was elected a representative in congress.
Elliott, Jonathan
soldier, journalist, author, was born in 1784 in England. For thirteen years he edited and published the Washington Gazette, and was the author of American Diplomatic Code; Debate on Adoption of the Constitution; Funding System of the United States; Statistics of the United States; The Comparative Tariffs; and Sketches of the District of Columbia. He died in 1802 in Washington, D. C.
Elliott, Mrs. Maud
(HOWE), author, was born Nov. 9, 1855, in Boston, Mass. She is a fiction writer of Chicago, and the author of Atalanta in the South; Mammon; A Newport Aquarelle; The San Rosario Ranch; Honor; and Phyllida.
Elliott, Mortimer F
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1842, in Cherry Flats, Pa. He commenced the practice of law at Wellsboro, Pa., and in 1870 was an unsuccessful candidate for president judge. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1873; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Elliott, Robert Brown
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1842, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of South Carolina in 1868; and was a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina from 1868 to 1870. In 1869 he was appointed assistant adjutant-general, which position he held until elected to the forty-second congress; and was reelected to the forty-third congress. died in 1884, in New Orleans, La.
He
Elliott, Robert Woodward Barnwell
was born Aug. 16, 1840, in Beaufort, S. C. He was ordained a priest in Savannah, Ga., in 1871, and in Novem-
Elliott, James M
railroad presi-ber of that year became pastor of St. dent, was born Nov. 12, 1854, in Rome, Ga.
In 1889 he became president of the Gadsden and Attalla Union railroad.
Elliott, James T
lawyer, jurist, journalist, congressman, was born April 22, 1823, in Monroe county, Ga. He was chosen president of a railroad company in 1858; and was elected a circuit judge in Arkansas in 1866. He established a newspaper at Camden, in that state, in 1867, called the South Arkansas Journal; and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy.
Elliott, Jesse Duncan
naval officer, was born July 14, 1782, in Maryland.
In 1804 he entered the navy as a midshipman; was in the war with Great Britain; and captured two armed British brigs. In 1813 he succeeded Perry in command of Lake Erie. He died Dec. 18, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Elliott, John
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1768, in Clinton, Conn.
He was a congregational minister at Madison, Conn., during 1791-1824, and co-author with S. Johnson of the first American dictionary of the English language. He died Dec. 17, 1824, in Madison, Conn.
Philip's church in that city. In 1874 he was consecrated missionary bishop of western Texas. He died Aug. 26, 1887, in Sewanee, S. C.
ELLIOTT, SAMUEL MACKENZIE, oculist, was born April 9, 1811, in Scotland. In 1835 he opened an office in New York city and devoted himself to the cure of eye diseases. He died May 1, 1875, in Brighton, N. Y.
Elliott, Sarah Barnwell
author, was born in 18-. She was the author of Jerry; John Paget, a novel of New York and Newport; and The Felmeres.
Elliott, Stephen
naturalist, author, was born Nov. 11, 1771, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a naturalist of South Carolina, and a professor in the state medical college. He was the author of The Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. He died March 28, 1830, in Charleston, S. C.
Elliott, Stephen
lawyer, bishop, was born Aug. 31, 1806, in Beaufort, S. C.
He practiced law in Charleston and Beaufort until 1833. In 1841 he was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Georgia. He died Dec. 21, 1866, in Savannah, Ga.