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Votaw, Elihu Hilles

clergyman, lecturer, author, poet, was born June 21, 1839, in Salem, Ohio. He received his education at the Amherst college; then engaged in teaching in Yonkers, N. Y.; and Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he was ordained a clergyman of the congregational church; and has since filled pastorates in Cleveland, Ohio; St. Paul, Minn.; Geneva, Ohio; Princeton, Ill.; and is now filling a pastorate in Anita, Iowa. He is the author of Pillars and Perils of the Republic, and other works. He is also a brilliant lecturer, and a poet of acknowledged excellence.