Enos, Benjamin Franklin – Erwin, Robert Wesley
Enos, Benjamin Franklin
lawyer, was born Oct. 1, 1851, in Defiance, Ohio. He attended the union schools of his native city, and graduated from the business college of Toledo, Ohio. In 1873 he was admitted to the bar; was elected city solicitor of Defiance in 1879, and held that position for eight successive terms; and in 1880 was elected as prosecuting attorney, which position he filled with distinction for two terms.
Ensor, Thomas Hera
lawyer, orator, was born Nov. 13, 1855, in Baltimore county, Md. For many years he was a high school professor; has been railroad attorney; and for five years was attorney for several large Chicago corporations.
He has been prominent in political affairs, and in the campaign of 1896 lectured extensively under the direction of the national democratic committee, and gained a national reputation as an able orator. For twenty years he has been a regular contributor to law literature and the periodical press; and is one of the leading lawyers of Missouri.
Enyart, Charles Francis
educator, college president, clergyman, was born Feb. 9, 1865, near Logansport, Ind.
He reorganized the Hillsboro college of Ohio, and was its president in 1895. He now fills a pastorate in the methodist episcopal church at Georgetown, Ohio.
Epes, James Fletcher
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 23, 1842, in Nottoway county, Va. He received a thorough education and graduated from the university of Virginia. During the civil war he served in the cavalry branch of the confederate service; had three horses shot from under him and received two bullet wounds. After the war he became a prominent member of the bar; and served with distinction in the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat. He has now retired from active life and lives on a farm owned in former years by his father, in Nottoway county, Va.
Epes, Sydney P
journalist, congressman, was born Aug. 20, 1865, in Nottoway county, Va. He was elected in 1891 a member of the general assembly to represent the counties of Nottoway and Amelia; was appointed in 1895 register of the land office to fill an unexpired term, and at the following session of the general assembly was elected by acclamation for the full term; and before the expiration of his term he was elected to the firty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Epperson, Elmer H
farmer, state legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1852, in Benton county, Iowa. In 1870 he moved to Kansas, where he is a successful farmer in Scott county. During 1896-97 he was a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Eppes, John Wayles
congressman, United States senator, was born in 1773 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1815. He was a senator in congress from 1817 to 1819, when he resigned because of ill health.
He died Sept. 20, 1823, in Richmond, Va.
Erben, Peter
organist, was born in 1771, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became an organ builder; and was also organist in Trinity parish from 1807 till 1839. He died in 1863 in New York city.
Erdman, Constantine J
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1846, in Lehigh county, Pa. He attended the common schools of the district and a classical school at Quakertown; entered Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1861, and graduated in 1865; read law, and was admitted to the bar of Lehigh in 1867, and since has practiced there. He was elected district attorney in 1874; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Erdman, Jacob
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847. He died July 20, 1867, in Lehigh county, Pa.
Ericsson, John
engineer, inventor, was born July 31, 1803, in Sweden. To this skilled inventor belongs much of the success of the late civil war, by the building of his iron-clad turret, the Monitor, just in time to defeat the Merrimac, and thus save the ports of the north from southern or from foreign invasion. He died in 1896.
Ermentrout, Daniel
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1837, in Reading, Pa. He was elected district attorney of Berks county for three years in 1862; was solicitor for the city of Reading in 1867-1870. He was elected to the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1873 for a term of three years, and re-elected in 1876 for four years.
He was a member of the board of school control of Reading for many years; and was appointed in 1877 a member of the Pennsylvania statutory commission. He was in 1880 elected as a democrat to represent Berks county in the forty-seventh congress, and successively in the fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-fifth congresses.
Ernst, Louis
soldier, financier, was born July 19, 1825, in Germany. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. From 1874-76 he was president of the Rochester German Insurance company. He died April 3, 1892, in Rochester, N. Y.
Ernst, Oswald Hubert
engineer, author, was born June 27, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a military engineer with the rank of major, and the author of A Manual of Practical Military Engineering.
Errani, Achille
musician, was born Aug. 20, 1823, in France. He settled in New York as a teacher of the Italian style of singing. His most famous pupils are Minnie Hauck, Miss Thursby, Mme.
Durand and Stella Bonheur.
Errett, Isaac
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 2, 1820, in New York city.
He was a Campbellite clergyman of Cincinnati, and the author of Debate on Spiritualism; Brief View of Missions; Walks about Jerusalem; Talks to Bereans; Letters to Young Christians; and Evenings with the Bible. He died Dec. 19, 1880, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Errett, Russell
journalist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1817 in New York. He adopted the profession of an editor; was comptroller of Pittsburg in 1860; and clerk of the state senate in 1860 and 1861. He served in the union army, as additional paymaster, from 1861 to 1866. He was a state senator in 1867; was assessor of internal revenue from 1869 to 1873; and again clerk of the state senate from 1872 to 1876. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Erskine, Ebenezer
clergyman, was born Jan. 31, 1821, in Ridley Park, Pa. In 1870 he was called to the church in Newville, Pa. He was moderator of the synod of Harrisburg, and in 1878 became a director of the Princeton Theological seminary.
Erskine, John
jurist, was born in Ireland. He resided at Atlanta, Ga.; and in 1866 was appointed United States judge for the district of Georgia.
Erskine, Massena Berthier
manufacturer, was born Dec. 19, 1819, in Royalton, Mass. He is president of the Racine Wagon and Carriage company and the Manufacturers' National bank of Racine, Wis. In all the affairs of Racine he has taken a lively interest, and served as mayor in 1869-70, 1871 and 1879.
Ervin, James
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1778, in Williamsburg district, S. C. He served in the state legislature in 1801 and 1802, and from 1804 to 1816; was a solicitor of the northern circuit; and for eight years was a trustee of the South Carolina college. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1817 to 1821. He died July 7, 1841, near Darlington, S. C.
Erving, George William
diplomat, was born in 1771 in Boston, Mass.
He was made consul to London by Jefferson; was secretary of legation to Spain in 1804; special minister to Denmark in 1811; and minister to Spain in 1814. He died in July, 1850, in New York.
Erving, John
merchant, was born in 1693 in Scotland. He was one of the wealthiest and most distinguished merchants of Boston, and was a member of the council of Massachusetts for twenty years. He died Aug. 12, 1786, in Boston, Mass.
Erwin, Alexander R
clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 12, 1820, in Louisiana. He occupied a high rank in the ministry, and presided over the Clarksville Female academy and the Huntsville Female college. He died Jan. 10, 1860, in Huntsville, Ala.
Erwin, David
jurist. He was an early emigrant to Michigan; and in 1832 was appointed judge for the territory of Michigan.
Erwin, George Z
lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 15, 1840, in Madison, N. Y. He has been trustee of the village, chief of the fire department, and a member of the local board of the normal training school of Potsdam, N. Y. In 1881 he was elected to the assembly from St.
Lawrence county, and in 1887 to the state senate.
Erwin, Robert Wesley
physician, surgeon, was born May 24, 1842, in Laceyville, Ohio. In 1868 he graduated from the Ohio university with the degree of B. S.; and in 1870 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college of New York city, with the degree of M. D. During the civil war he served as a volunteer soldier in an Ohio regiment. He has attained success as a physician in Bay City, Mich.; and has served as United States examining surgeon.