Ellwanger, Henry Brooks – Ely, Melvin G
Ellwanger, Henry Brooks
horticulturist, author, was born in 1851 in New York. He was a horticulturist of Rochester, N. Y., and the author of The Rose, a Treatise on Cultivation; and History of Roses. He died in 1883.
Ellwood, Reuben
manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1821, in New York. He located at Sycamore, Ill.; engaged largely in manufacturing; and became president of several manufacturing companies. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Ellyson, Henry Keeling
journalist, legislator, was born July 31, 1823, in Richmond, Va. In 1854-55 he served his native city in the Virginia legislature; from 1857 till 1865 was sheriff of Henrico county; and in 1870 was elected mayor of Richmond. He has long been connected, as associate proprietor and editor, with the Richmond Dispatch, one of the most widely circulated journals in the south.
Elmendorf, John James
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1827, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman, and professor of philosophy in Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1867-88, and later connected with the Western Theological seminary at Chicago. He was the author of Manual of Rites and Ritual; History of Philosophy; Outlines of Logic; Aspects of Modern Philosophy; and Moral Philosophy. He died in 1896.
Elmendorf, Lucas
was born in 1758. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1797 to 1803; a member of the assembly of that state in 1804 and 1805; and a state senator from 1814 to 1817. He died Aug. 17, 1843.
Elmer, Ebenezer
soldier, physician, state senator, congressman, was born in 1752, in Cedarville, N. J. He was a field officer of the revolutionary war; and also a surgeon in the army. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1801 to 1807; and served a number of years in the state assembly, and was chosen speaker. He was also for a long time adjutant-general of the New Jersey militia; and during the war of 1812 commanded the troops on the Delaware. In 1807 and 1815 he was a member and vice-president of the state council; and in 1808 was appointed collector of Bridgeton, and held the office for many years. He died Oct. 18, 1843, in Brighton, N. J.
Elmer, Jonathan
physician, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1745, in Fairfield, N. J. He was a member of the continental congress; and a senator in congress under the federal constitution from New Jersey from 1789 to 1791. During the war of the revolution he was a sheriff, a surrogate, and a judge; and was a member of the Philosophical Society of America. He died Sept. 3, 1807, in Burlington, N. J.
Elmer, Lucius Quintius Cincin- Natus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1793, in Bridgeton, N. J. For many years he was prosecutor for the state; and was in the assembly from 1820 to 1823, the last year being speaker of that body. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1843 to 1845. In 1852 he was appointed one of the justices of the supreme court of his state, which office he continued to hold until 1859. He was the author of A Digest of the Laws of New Jersey, commonly styled Nixon's Digest; Genealogy of the Elmer Family; History of Cumberland County; and History of New Jersey. He died March 11, 1883, in Bridgeton, Conn.
Elmore, Franklin Harper
soldier, lawyer, banker, United States senator, was born Jan. 16, 1799, in Laurens, S. C. He was a colonel of militia; and also a trustee of the South Carolina college. In 1822 he was elected solicitor of the southern circuit, and was continued in this office, by re-elections, until 1837, when he was elected to the house of representatives in congress, and served until 1839. He was in that year elected president of the bank of the State of South Carolina, which office he held till his appointment to the United States senate in 1850, to fill a vacancy. He died May 29, 1850, in Washington, D. C.
Elmore, Rush
jurist, was born about 1810 in Alabama. He settled in Kansas; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that territory, residing at Lecompton.
Elsberg, Louis
physician, author, was born April 2, 1836, in Iserloin, Prussia. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of Laryngoscopal Medication; and The Throat and Its Functions. He died Feb. 1, 1885, in New York city.
Elshemus, Louis M
artist, poet, was born in 1864, in Laurel Hill, N. J.
He has studied art in New York and Paris; and has exhibited paintings in several art exhibitions in this country and abroad. He has contributed to New York magazines, and has published two volumes of verse, Moods of a Soul; and Songs of Spring and Blossoms of Unrequited Love, the latter issued with illustrations by the author.
Elson, Louis Charles
journalist, author, was born April 17, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He is a Boston journalist, editor of the Vox Humana; and the author of History of Music; History of German Song; and Curiosities of Music.
Elton, John Prince
manufacturer, legislator, was born April 24, 1809, in Watertown, Conn. In 1832 he went into business in Waterbury, Conn., and in 1833 his firm began the manufacture of brass wire, being the first in the country to take up that industry. In 1840, 1849, 1851, and 1863 he served in the state legislature. He died Nov. 10, 1864, in Waterbury, Conn.
Elwell, Edward Henry
journalist, author, was born Dec. 14, 1825, in Portland, Maine. Since 1848 he has been editor and manager of the Portland Transcript. He is the author of Portland and Vicinity; The Boys of Thirty-five, a story of a seaport town; and Fraternity Papers, a volume of essays and sketches.
Elwell, Joseph C
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1850, in Milford Center, Ohio. He has served as district attorney of the third district of Colorado; and as judge of the district court of the tenth judicial district of Colorado.
Elwell, Maria Huntington
lecturer, was born March 9, 1845, in Hadley, Mass. Many of her ancestors distinguished themselves in colonial and revolutionary times-Governor Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was one of them. She attended the best academies of Hadley, Mass., and Farmington, Conn., and subsequently taught in Cambridge and in Philadelphia.
In 1870 she married John D. Elwell, and has since lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. She has been president of the Brooklyn Woman's club; vice-president of the Christian Socialist society; historian-general of the Daughters of the Revolution; secretary of the New York League of Unitarian Women; and lecturer for the American Humane Education society.
Elwyn, Alfred Langdon
philanthropist, author, was born July 9, 1804, in Portsmouth, N. H. he originated the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society and Farm School, and was president in 1850.
He was president of the Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind; Training School for Feeble Minded Children; Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He wrote Bonaparte; Glossary of Supposed Americanisms; Letters to Hon. John Langdon During and After the Revolution; Melancholy and Its Musings; and A Few Hints to the City on Intemperance. He died March 15, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ely, Alfred
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 18, 1815, in Lyme, Conn. In 1858 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He published a Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond.
Ely, Charles Wright
educator, soldier, was born March 14, 1839, in Madison, Conn. He served with distinction as a soldier during the civil war. Since 1870 he has been principal and superintendent of the Maryland state school for the deaf.
Ely, Ezra Stiles
clergyman, author, was born June 13, 1786, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, and the author of Contrast Between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism; Endless Punishment; The Science of the Human Mind; Sermons on Faith; Visits of Mercy; Memoir of Zebulon Ely; The Contrast; and Ely's Journal. He died June 18, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ely, Frederick David
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1838, in Wrentham, Mass.
At Dedham, Mass., he was a trial justice from 1867 to 1885; was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1873; and was a state senator in 1878 and 1879.
He was a member of the school committee of Dedham from 1882 to 1885; and in 1884 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Ely, George H
manufacturer, banker, state senator, was born Nov. 15, 1844, in Elyria, Ohio. He organized the Elyria Stone company; and is now president of the National Bank of Elyria. He has served with distinction as a state senator in the seventy-first and seventy-second general assemblies of Ohio.
Ely, Griswold Lord
merchant, was born Sept. 1, 1842, in New York city.
In 1863 he was appointed assistant paymaster in the United States navy; and in 1875 established the cutlery firm of Ely and Wray of New York city.
Ely, John
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841, having previously served two years in the assembly of that state.
Ely, Melvin G
educator, journalist, lawyer, was born Aug. 22, 1865, in Beech Spring, Va. After receiving his education at the Cumberland college of Rose Hill, Va., he began educational work; was professor in Turkey Cove seminary during 1887-90; and the two succeeding years was principal of Mt. Pleasant high school, Ky. He then entered journalism as editor of the Weekly Bulletin of Harlan C. H., Ky.; and is now successfully engaged in the practice of law at Jonesville, Va.