Ewart, Thomas West – Ewing, Thomas
Ewart, Thomas West
lawyer, was born Feb. 27, 1816, in Grand View, Ohio.
He was a member of the convention that formed the present constitution of Ohio.
He was a trustee of Denison university, president of the Ohio baptist state convention, and vice-president of the American Baptist Missionary union. He died Oct. 8, 1881, in Granville, Ohio.
Ewbank, Thomas
scientist, author, was born March 11, 1792, in England. He was a scientist of New York, at one period commissioner of patents; and the author of Thoughts on Matter and Force; Hydraulics; The World a Workshop; Life in Brazil; Experiments in Marine Propulsion; and Reminiscences in the Patent Office. He died Sept. 16, 1870, in New York.
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddart
soldier, educator, college president, was born June 10, 1810, in Washington, D. C.
During the civil war he served in the confederate army. In 1865 he became a second time president of the William and Mary college, which position he retained until his death.
Ewell, John Louis
clergyman, educator, was born Sept. 4, 1840, in Rowley, Mass. He filled the chair of Latin in the Washington university of St.
Louis; is a successful congregational clergyman; and since 1890 has been dean of the theological department, and professor of church history and biblical exegesis in the Howard university of Washington, D. C.
Ewell, Marshall Davis
educator, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1844, in Oxford, Mich. He is a lawyer of Chicago, and professor of law in Union College of Law in Chicago; and the author of Blackwell on Tax Titles: Treatise on the Law of Fixtures; Essentials of the Law; and Manual of Medical Jurisprudence.
Ewell, Philander
merchant, manufacturer, was born March 3, 1809, in Middlebury, N. Y. In 1855 he was a representative in the New York state legislature; subsequently he engaged in farming in Michigan; and since 1869 has been the proprietor of the Stony Creek Woolen mills of Rochester, Mich.
Ewell, Richard Stoddert
soldier, was born Feb. 18, 1817, in Georgetown, D. C. During the civil war he served in the confederate army; and was promoted to major-general. He died Jan. 25, 1872, in Springfield, Tenn.
Ewen, Mary Cecilia
actress, was born in 1836 in New York city. Among her greatest successes in the various theaters where she played were Life in New York; Child of the Regiment; and Pride of the Market. She died Nov. 10, 1.866, in New York city.
Ewen, William
patriot, was born about 1720 in England. He was a member of the council of safety, and as first president of the executive council performed the duties of governor in 1775. He died soon after the revolution in Georgia.
Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright
clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1826, in Nantucket, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city of the extreme ritualistic school, whose Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism attracted much attention at the time of their delivery. His other writings include The Operation of the Holy Spirit; Grammar of Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the Fallibility of Spiritualism Exposed; and Sanctity and Other Sermons. He died Oct. 10, 1883, in Canada.
Ewing, Andrew
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851; and took part in the rebellion as a confederate. He died June 16, 1864, in Atlanta, Ga.
Ewing, Charles
lawyer, jurist, was born July 8, 1780, in Burlington county, N. J. He graduated at the New Jersey college in 1798; was admitted to the bar in 1802, and practiced law at Trenton.
He became a councilor in 1812; was chief justice of the state from 1824 to his death. He received the degree of LL. D. from Jefferson college. He was brilliant lawyer and astute judge. He died Aug. 5, 1832, in Trenton, N. J. a
Ewing, Edwin H
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1847; and took part in the rebellion.
Ewing, Elie Metcalf
lawyer, capitalist, was born Jan. 9, 1856, in Elizaville, Ky. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and the following year moved to Waco, Texas. In 1879 he was assistant chief clerk of the Kentucky state senate.
He has attained success as an expert examiner of land titles; and has been prominently identified with the financial prosperity of his adopted state.
Ewing, Elmore E
soldier, merchant, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1840, in Ewington, Ohio. He entered college at the age of twenty, and two years later enlisted as a private soldier in the civil war. He was soon afterward promoted to lieutenant, served with distinction, and was severely wounded in 1864. Since the war he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits, and is now successful a merchant of Portsmouth, Ohio. He takes a leading part in the public affairs of his county and state, and is prominent in several fraternal orders. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and is the author of a volume of poems entitled Bugles and Bells, containing incidents of the war and other themes.
Ewing, Finis
clergyman, author, was born June 10, 1773, in Bedford county, Pa.
He was a presbyterian clergyman who with two others organized the Cumberland presbyterian church in 1810. He was the author of Lectures on Divinity, which is an exposition of the doctrines of his sect. He died July 4, 1841, in Lexington, Mo.
Ewing, Hugh Boyle
soldier, diplomat, author, was born Oct. 31, 1826, in Lancaster, Ohio. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war, and minister to the Netherlands in 1866- 70. Heis the author of A Castle in the Air; and Ladron, a Tale of Early California.
Ewing, James
soldier, was born Aug. 3, 1736, in Lancaster, Pa. He was a member of the general assembly from 1771 till 1775. At the outbreak of the revolution he was on the committee of safety for York county, and was chosen one of the two brigadier-generals of the Penn- He sylvania associators, July 4, 1776. served as vice-president of Pennsylvania from 1782 till 1784. In the latter year, and under the constitution of 1789-90, he was a member of the assembly of Pennsylvania, and served as state senator from 1795 till 1799. He died March 1, 1806, in Hellam, Pa.
Ewing, John
congressman, was born at sea, while his parents were on their way from Ireland to Baltimore. He served in both branches of the legislature of Indiana; and was a representative of that state in congress from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1857 in Vincennes, Ind.
Ewing, John
clergyman, author, was born June 22, 1732, in Nottingham, Md. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, provost of the university of Pennsylvania, 1777-1802, and eminent in his day as a scientific observer. He published an Account of the Transit of Venus, and his Lectures on Natural Philosophy were issued after his death. He died Sept. 8, 1802, in Nottingham, Md.
Ewing, John H
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
Ewing, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, was born June 17, 1848, in Uniontown, Pa. In 1869 he graduated from the Princeton college, N.
J.
He has served with distinction as. additional law judge, and president judge of the fourteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania. He has gained a good reputation as an able lawyer of Uniontown, Pa., the city of his birth. His grandfather, Nathaniel W.
Ewing, and his father, John K. Ewing, also filled the office of president judge in the same district; and his great-grandfather, John Kennedy, was one of the judges of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.
Ewing, Presley
congressman, was. born in Kentucky. He twice served in the legislature of Kentucky; and was a representative from that state to the thirtythird congress. He died Sept. 27, 1854, at Mammoth Cave, Ky.
Ewing, Thomas
lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in West Liberty, Va. In 1830 he was elected to a seat in the United States senate from Ohio, where he remained until 1837.
He was a member of President Harrison's cabinet as secretary of the treasury in 1841; and on the accession of President Taylor to the presidency, in 1849, was invited into the cabinet, and took charge of the new department of the interior. In 1850 he was appointed to a seat in the United States senate, where he remained until 1851, when he retired from political life and resumed the practice of his profession in Ohio. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; also chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention in 1866, but did not take part in its proceedings. He died Oct. 26, 1871, in Lancaster, Ohio.