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296 but left the army in 1837, and was port warden of St. Louis, Mo., from 1850 till 1877.— William's first cousin, Amos, botanist, b. in Chatham, N. Y., 17 May, 177G; d. in Troy, N. Y., « May, 1842, was graduated at Williams in 17t)9, studied law under Elisha Williams and Joseah 0. Uolfman, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1802, and afterward became agent and surveyor of the Livingston estates on the Hudson river. He studied chemistry, miner- alogy, and botany, in 1810 delivered at Catskill a popular course of lectures on botany, and began lecturing on the natural sciences at Williams col- lege in 1817. His lectures were also delivered in several New England cities, and in 1818, by request of Gov. Clinton, were repeated before the legisla- ture of New York. As a result of his suggestion at Albany, " The Natural History of New York " was published. In 1820 Gen. Stephen Van Rens- selaer employed him to make a geological and agricultural survey of several counties and of the regions through which the Erie canal afterward passed, and it was the initiation of such surveys in this country, reports of which were published. Also in 1820 he was elected professor of natural history in the medical college at Castleton, Vt. When Van Rensselaer established the Polytechnic institute at Troy in 1824, Mr. Eaton became its principal and senior professor. He was author of numerous works, including " Manual of the Botany of North America," the first popular text-book on that science published in the United States (1817) ; an "Index to the Geology of the Northern States" (Albany, 1818) ; " (geological and Agricultural Sur- vey of the Disti-iet adjoining the Erie Canal " (1824); "The Philosophical Instructor" (1824): and a "Treatise on Engineering and Surveying" (New York, 1888).— His son. Amos Bcebe, soldier, b. in Catskill. N. Y., 12 May, 1806; d. in New Haven, Conn., 21 Feb., 1877, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1826. He took part in the Seminole war, was appointed chief commissary of subsistence of Gen. Taylor's army at the begin- ning of the Mexican war, and wps brevetted major after the battle of Buena Vista. He was depot purchasing commissary in New York from 1861 till 1864, when he was appointed commissary-gen- eral of the subsistence bureau in Washington, D. C. After being promoted successively to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general, he was brevetted major-general in 1865, and was placed on the retired list in 1874. — Amos Beebe's son, Daniel Cady, botanist, b. at Fort Gratiot, Mich., in 1834; d. in New Haven in 1895. He was graduated at Yale, and studied botany at Harvard. He became professor of botany at Yale in 1864. He is the author of that part of Chapman's "Flora of the Southern States " (1860) that treats of ferns, and the corresponding part of "Gray's Manual" (5th ed., 1867), and has published "The Ferns of North America" (Boston, 187!:)-'80)), and vai'ious scientific papers. — Amos Beebe's nephew, Daniel Cady, b. in Johnstown, Fulton co., N. Y., 16 June, 1837, was educated at Gottingen gymnasium, Yale, where he was graduated in 1860, and the University of Berlin. He was professor of the history of art in Yale from 1869 till 1876, and is the aiithor of a "Hand-Book of Greek and Roman Sculpture" (Boston, 3d ed., 1886), and numerous pamphlets on art and education, including one on "Yale College in 1883," published anonymously, which attracted much attention (New Haven, 1883).

EATON, William Wallace, senator, b. in Tol- land, Conn., 11 Oct., 1816. He was educated by private tutors and in the puljlic schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He soon became prominent in local politics, was elected to the Connecticut house of representatives in 1847 and 1848, and to the state senate in 1850. Shortly afterward he removed to Hartford, and frequently represented that city in the legislature from 1853 till 1875. He was clerk of the superior and supreme courts of Tolland and Hartford counties, and for several years one of the judges of the Hartford city court. For four years he was a recorder of Hart- ford. During the civil war he was a pronounced " peace democrat." In 1875 he succeeded William A. Buckingham in the U. S. senate, and served till 1881. In 1883-'5 he was a representative in congress.

EATON, Wyatt, artist, b. in Phillipsburg, Canada, 6 May, 1849; d. in Newport, R. I., 7 June, 1896. After studying at the National academy, New York, he was a pupil of Gérôme in Paris. In 1872 he studied and sketched in England and France. For several years his studio was in New York city, where he painted portraits and landscapes with figures. He was the first secretary of the Society of American artists. His works include &ldquo;Farmer's Boy&rdquo; (1870); &ldquo;Reverie&rdquo; (1875); &ldquo;Harvesters at Rest&rdquo; (1876); &ldquo;Boy Whittling&rdquo;; &ldquo;Portrait of William Cullen Bryant&rdquo; (1879); and &ldquo;Grandmother and Child&rdquo; (1880).

EBELING, Christoph Daniel, German scholar, b. near Hildesheim, Hanover, in 1741; d. in Hamburg, 30 June, 1817. He studied theology at Göttingen, but devoted himself to geographical studies, and held for thirty-three years the chair of history and Greek in the Hamburg gymnasium. He was also superintendent of the Hamburg library, and collected about 10,000 maps and nearly 4,000 books relating to America. His collection was bought by Israel Thorndike in the year after Ebeling's death, and given by him to Harvard. Ebeling's great work was a &ldquo;Geography and History of North America&rdquo; (5 vols., Hamburg, 1796-1816), forming a continuation of Büsching's &ldquo;General Geography.&rdquo; He received a vote of thanks from the congress of the United States for this work.

EBERLE, John, physician, b. in Lancaster county. Pa., 1 Dec, 1787; d. in Lexington, Ky., 2 Feb., 1838. He studied medicine in Lancaster and Philadelphia, and was graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1809. He began to practise in Manheim, Pa., and, after living for a short time in Lancaster, accepted a commission as surgeon of militia, serving at the battle at Baltimore in 1814. He then removed to Philadel- phia, where he was appointed physician to the poor. He was one of the founders of Jefferson medical college in 1822, and was given the chair of physic there in 1825, being transferred in 1830 to that of materia medica, and lecturing at the same time on obstetr'ics. He removed in 1831 to Cincin- nati, where he held the professorship of materia medica in the Medical college of Ohio till 1837, and was next called to the chair of the pi'actice of medicine in the medical department of Transyl- vania university, Lexington, Ky., where he con- tinued till his death. He was a member of many medical and scientific societies. Dr. Eberle was one of the editors of the " Western Medical Ga- zette" and the "Ohio ]\Iedical Lyceum," as well as of the Philadelphia "Medical Recorder," which he conducted from 1818 till 1823. His works include " Botanical Terminology" (1818); "Treatise on the Diseases and Physical Education of Children" Philadelphia, 1819); "Treatise on Therapeutics and Materia Medica " (2 vols., 1822 ; 5th ed., 1847); and "Notes of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine" (2 vols., 1844). Some of these works have been translated into German,