Ellis, Powhatan – Ellwanger, George Herman
Ellis, Powhatan
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born about 1794, in Virginia. He became one of the judges of the supreme court of that state; in 1825 was appointed to a seat in the United States senate, but was displaced by the legislature. In 1827, however, the legislature elected him a senator in congress, where he served until 1833, after which he was appointed United States judge for the district of Mississippi. In 1836 he was appointed charge d'affaires to Mexico; and in 1839 minister to that republic. He died about 1844.
Ellis, Rufus
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Boston, Mass.
He was lecturer in the Harvard divinity school in 1869 and 1871, and for several years before his death was editor of the Religious Monthly Magazine. He died Sept. 23, 1885, in England.
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Ellis, Sumner
clergyman, author, was born in 1828, in Massachusetts. was a universalist clergyman of Boston and Chicago, and the author of At Our Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H.
Chapin; and Hints on Preaching. He died Jan. 26, 1886, in Chicago, Ill.
Ellis, Theodore Gunville
civil engineer, soldier, was born Sept. 25, 1829, in Boston, Mass. Prior to the civil war he was chief engineer of the Saratoga railroad; and had charge of silver mines in Mexico. At Gettysburg his regiment captured five battle flags in a bayonet charge; and he subsequently attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1867 he was surveyor-general of Connecticut; and at the time of his death had charge of the government works on the Connecticut river. He died Jan. 8, 1883, in Hartford, Conn.
Ellis, William C
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825.
Ellis, William R
educator, journalist, congressman, was born April 23, 1850, in Waveland, Ind. He moved to Oregon in 1883; has lived in Heppner since 1884; and served one term as county superintendent of schools and three terms as district attorney of the seventh judicial district of Oregon. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.
Ellis, William T
lawyer, congressman, was born July 24, 1845, in Daviess county, Ky. He was elected county attorney of Daviess county in 1870; and was re-elected in 1874. He was presidential elector for the second congressional district in 1876; and was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses, and was re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Ellison, Andrew
congressman, was born in Ireland. He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855.
Ellison, William H
college president, was born Dec. 4, 1805, in Charleston, S. C. In 1838 he was chosen professor of mathematics in Wesleyan Female college at Macon; two years later he was elected president, in which position he remained until 1851. He died Dec. 26, 1884, in Clayton, Ala.
Ellmaker, Amos
jurist, was born Feb. 2, 1787, in New Holland, Pa. He was deputy attorney-general for Dauphin county in 1809-12, and served in the legislature in 1812-14. He was appointed president judge of his judicial district in 1815. He died Nov. 28, 1851, in Lancaster, Pa.
Ellmore, Alfred
clergyman, poet, was born Aug. 11, 1838, in Frankfort, Ind.
For thirty-five years he has been a successful clergyman; for twenty years was field editor on the American Christian Review; for seven years co-editor of the Christian Leader; and since 1892 has been editor of the Gospel Echo. He is the author of a large number of tracts, and a volume of verse, entitled Maple Valley Poems.
Ellsberry, William W
physician, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1833, in New Hope, Ohio. He was a member of the county military board of Brown county; settled at Georgetown, Ohio; and was three times chosen county auditor.
In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress.
Ellsworth, Charles C
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1824, in Berkshire, Vt. He was appointed prosecuting attorney of Livingston county, Mich., in 1850. He moved to Montcalm county in 1851, and was a member of the state house of representatives from 1852 to 1854. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Montcalm county; and was appointed a paymaster in the army in 1862, and served until the close of the He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. war.
Ellsworth, Ephraim Elmer
soldier, was born April 23, 1837, in Mechanicsville, N. Y. In 1860 he organized a regiment of zouaves, which became renowned for the perfection of their discipline, and of which he was commissioned colonel. He died May 24, 1861, in Alexandria, Va.
Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott
inventor, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1822, in East Windsor, Conn. He is an inventor of Connecticut, who published in 1855 a volume of poems of very uneven excellence, some of which were popular for a time. a
Ellsworth, Eugene Stafford
was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He served in the war as a drummer boy in the company which his father commanded.
He subsequently did very extensive business in loaning money for eastern capitalists on Iowa improved farms. In 1880 he organized the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and Northwestern Land and Town Lot company, which purchased lands and town sites for over three hundred miles along the Burlington railroad; and he justly claims to be the founder of more than thirty cities and towns in Iowa. He is a prominent financier and the president of numerous business enterprises. Ellsworth college of Iowa Falls was named in his honor.
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in Windsor, Conn. He was appointed resident commissioner among the Indian tribes in Arkansas; and was United States commissioner of patents from 1836 to 1845. His reports to congress during this period added greatly to the improvement of agriculture. He then settled in Lafayette, Ind., where he was a purchaser of United States land. He was the author of Digest of Patents from 1770 to He died Dec. 27, 1858, in Fair Haven, Conn.
Ellsworth, Henry W
lawyer, author, was born in 1814, in Windsor, Conn.
He moved to Indiana in 1835; was counsel for S. F. B. Morse in some of his suits connected with telegraph patents; and was appointed charge d'affaires to Sweden in 1845. He was the author of Sketches of the Upper Wabash Valley; and American Swine Breeder. He died August, 1864, in New Haven, Conn.
Ellsworth, James William
capitalist. He is president of the Ohio Coal company, at St. Paul, and president of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Dock company, in Cleveland.
Ellsworth, Mary Wiggins
author, was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Exeter, N. H. She wrote biographical articles for Cypress Leaves, and was the author of Peace or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the Children; Smith's Saloon; and compiled Juvenile Miscellany. She died Aug. 12, 1870, in Newton, Mass.
Ellsworth, Oliver
jurist, United States senator, was born April 29, 1745, in Windsor, Conn. In 1780 he was elected to the council of Connecticut, and was a member of that body until 1784, when he was appointed a judge of the superior court of that state; and in 1787 was elected a member of the convention which framed the federal constitution. When the federal government was organized, in 1789, he was a member of the senate from Connecticut; and in 1796 was appointed by President Washington chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, but resigned the office on account of ill-health in 1800.
In 1799 he was appointed by President Adams envoy extraordinary to France, for the purpose of concluding a treaty with that nation. He died Nov. 26, 1807.
Ellsworth, Samuel S
congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1840; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
Ellsworth, William Wolcott
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in Windsor county, Conn. He was professor of law in Trinity college; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1829 to 1833. In 1838 he was elected governor of Connecticut, and re-elected for four years; and was a judge of the supreme court of Connecticut for many years. He died Jan. 15, 1868, in Hartford, Conn.
Ellwanger, George
nurseryman, was born Dec. 2, 1816, in Wurtemberg.
He came to America in 1835 and settled in Rochester, where in 1839 he established the firm of Ellwanger and Barry for the raising of fruit and shade trees, shrubs, and flower and foliage plants. This was the pioneer nursery of the west, and being located just beyond the city limits on the Mount Hope road, took the name of the Mount Hope nursery. He built and owns the large Ellwanger and Barry office building of Rochester, N. Y.
Ellwanger, George Herman
journalist, author, poet, was born July 10, 1848, in Rochester, N. Y. For many years he was the editor of the Rochester Post- Express, and is the author of The Garden's Story; The Story of My House; In Gold and Silver; Idyllists of the Country- Side; Love's Demesne; and A Garland of Contemporary Love Poems.