Elliott, Theodore Bates – Ellis, Perry Canby
Elliott, Theodore Bates
lawyer, was born July 12, 1836, in Wayne county, N. Y. He attained success as one of the most prominent lawyers of Milwaukee county, Wis. He died Jan. 11, 1883, in Wisconsin.
Elliott, Warren G
railroad president. In 1890 he became president of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad; and the same year became president of the Petersburg railroad.
Elliott, William
patriot of the revolution, was born in 1761, in Beaufort, S. C. He served in the patriot army while still a youth, and was taken prisoner at the surprise of John's Island, and confined in the prison ship. He died in 1808, in Beaufort, S. C.
Elliott, William
author, was born April 27, 1788, in Beaufort, S. C. His published works include an Address Before the St. Paul's Agricultural Society; and Carolina Sports by Land and Water.
He was also the author of Fiesco, a tragedy. He died in February, 1863, in Beaufort, S. C.
Elliott, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 3, 1838, in Beaufort, S. C. He served as an officer throughout the war in the confederate army; and in 1866 was elected a member of the South Carolina legislature and intendant of Beaufort. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-second congresses; received the certificate of election to the fifty-first congress, but was unseated by the house; was given the certificate of election to the fifty-fourth congress, but was unseated June 4, 1896, and the seat given to his republican opponent. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Ellis, Abner
patriot, was born in Dedham, Mass. He represented that town in the provincial congresses of October, 1774, and February and May, 1775, taking a prominent part in the proceedings.
Ellis, Caleb
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1767, in Walpole, Mass. He was a representative in congress from 1805 to 1809; was a member of the council, and in 1811 elected to the state senate. In 1812 he was one of the electors of president and vicepresident; and in 1813 was judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire. died May y. 1816.
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Ellis, Calvin
physician, was born in 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1863 he became adjunct professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Harvard, and in 1865 adjunct, and in 1867 regular, professor of clinical medicine, which chair he held till his death. Among his publications the most important are papers on Obstruction of Lung, Caused by Pressure on the Primary Bronchus; and The Tendency of Disease in One Part to Excite it in Another; and clinical lectures on Capillary Bronchitis. He died Dec. 14, 1883, in Boston, Mass.
Ellis, Charles
founder, was born Jan. 31, 1800, in Muncy, Pa. He was one of the founders of the college of pharmacy of Philadelphia, and was its fourth president from 1854 to 1869. He died May 16, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ellis, Charles Mayo
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer of prominence as an abolitionist, who published a History of Roxbury. He died Jan. 26, 1878, in Brookline, Mass.
Ellis, Cheselden
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester
educator, author, was born April 11, 1840, in Geneva, Ohio. He was trustee and superintendent of schools of Trenton. He is the author of thirty juvenile works, and still issues two annually. He is the author of two arithmetics and various other educational works, and also The Youth's History of the United States, and The Standard History of the United States.
His other works include From the Throttle to the President's Chair; Lost in Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; The Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the Tapajos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Daniel Boone; and Storm Mountain.
Ellis, Eleazer Holmes
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1826, in Green Bay, Wis. He has been justice of the peace, alderman and mayor of Green Bay, Wis., of which city he was appointed postmaster in 1896. For eight years, during 1871-79, he was judge of the circuit court of Wisconsin in the tenth judicial circuit.
Ellis, Ezekiel John
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, in Covington, La. He served throughout the civil war in the confederate army as private to captain. From 1867 until his death he practiced law in New Orleans, La. In 1874 he was elected to the fortyfourth congress; and received the re-election to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. He died April 19, 1889, in Washington, D. C.
Ellis, George Edward
clergyman, author, was born in 1814, in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, who was pastor of the Harvard church in Charlestown in 1840-69, and for many years president of the Massachusetts Historical society. He was the author of A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts; Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in Sparks's American Biography; and History of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most important work. He died in 1894.
Ellis, John
physician, inventor, author, was born Nov. 26, 1815, in Ashfield, Mass. He lectured for six years in the Homeopathic Medical college of Cleveland, Ohio, and was professor of the theory and practice of medicine for two years in the New York Homeopathic Medical college. He invented a process for refining petroleum; and in 1881 purchased a tract of land at Edgewater, N. J., and constructed one of the most complete oil refineries in the world.
Ellis, John Breckenridge
educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 11, 1870, in Marion county, Mo. He received his education at the Woodland college, and in 1886 graduated from the Plattsburg college. He has filled the chair in Plattsburg college, in which institution he is now professor of English literature. He is the author of several novels entitled Hand of Fire; The Flitterfleds; Mizzouri Ville Sketches; a volume of poems, and other works.
Ellis, John Millot
clergyman, educator, was born July 14, 1793, in Keene, N. H. He moved to Illinois and was pastor at Kaskaskia and Jacksonville, where he established a female seminary. He died Aug. 6, 1855.
Ellis, John Washington
banker, was born Aug. 15, 1817, in Williamsburg, Ohio. When the national bank act was passed in 1863, he organized the First National bank of Cincinnati. The most important operation of his life was the resuscitation of the Northern Pacific Railroad company in 1879-80, after the failure under Jay Cooke's management in 1873. Mr. Ellis formed a syndicate, which took $40,000,000 of Northern Pacific bonds and finished the road to the Pacific.
Ellis, John William
educator, lawyer, lecturer, author, college president, was born Dec. 29, 1839, in Carthage, Ill.
When an infant he removed to Kentucky; and in 1869 to Missouri, where he has attained distinction as an able lawyer, being a member for ten years of the bar at St. Louis, and subsequently of Plattsburg. He has been president of the Warsaw college, Kentucky; president of the Woodland college, Missouri, and is now president of Plattsburg college, Missouri. He is author of The Life Mission, a poem of great merit; and translator into English of a metrical translation of The Song of Solomon. He has conducted Chautauqua assemblies, and in 1889 received the degree of LL. D. from that institution.
Ellis, John Willis
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Nov. 23, 1820, in Rowan, N. C. He was a member of the house of commons of North Carolina from 1844 to 1848; and then judge of the superior courts of law and equity; and was governor of North Carolina from 1859 until his death. He died in 1861, in Raleigh, N. C.
Ellis, Louis F
soldier, patriot, was born July 17, 1843, in Sing Sing, N. Y.
His grandfather came from England; was a prominent wholesale merchant in New York city, 120 years ago. He graduated from the public schools of New York city, and was just entering Rutgers college when the war broke out.
He went to the front in a militia regiment, and later enlisted for three years in the one hundred and thirty-first New York volunteer infantry, and was rapidly promoted and commanded his company in all the engagements of his regiment in the department of the Gulf. He volunteered as a member of the Port Hudson Forlorn Hope Storming Column, and was voted a medal by congress for gallant and meritorious conduct. He served as department commander of Ohio two terms; and also as national commander of the union veterans. He has been chairman of the republican county committee; a delegate to state and national conventions, and received the unanimous endorsement for congress. He is connected with the Standard Oil company at Lima, Ohio.
Ellis, Perry Canby
journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 1867, in Boone county, Ky. He received his education in the Woodland college, and in 1885 he graduated from the Plattsburg college.
He was on the editorial staff of the St.
Louis Star, Kansas City Times and the Kansas City World. He is the author of a Political Handbook, and several short stories.