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300 ines of the Missionary Enterprise " (1854) ; " Angel Whispers" (Lowell, 1858); "City Side" (1854); " Young Woman's Friend " (1855) ; and " Waiting at the Cross " (Boston, 1859).

EDDY, Edward, actor, b. in Troy, N. Y"., in 1821 ; d. in Kingston, Jamaica, 19 Dec, 1875. His real name was Overocker, and he was at first a carpenter in Troy. He made his first appearance in that city, then played in Baltimore, and in 1847-8 in Boston. He "came to New York in 1851, and was successively manager of the Metropoli- tan theatre, Burton's Chambers street theatre, the Old Bowery, and the old Broadway theatre. Al- though he aspired to personate leading charac- ters, Mr. Eddy did not succeed in impressing his audiences favorably. His best efforts were in melo- drama, and in such Shakespearean parts as Laertes, Edgar, and Macduff.— His wife, Mary Mathews, b. in England ; d. in New Orleans, La.,' in 1865, was also on the stage, but retired after her marriage.

EDDY, Ezra Butler, Canadian capitalist, b. near Bristol, Vt., 22 Aug., 1827. He was educated at the public school, and when fifteen years of age went to New York, where he secured employment with a merchant. After a year he returned to Ver- mont, and in 1851 engaged in the manufacture of friction matches at Burlington. In 1854 he -re- moved to Hull, opposite Ottawa, Canada, and tiiere began the manufacture of matches, adding thereto, in 1856, the manufacture of articles of wooden ware. In 1858 he added lumbering to his other enterprises, and the yearly amount of this business is now (1887) neariy $2,000,000. Mr. Eddy was elected to the Quebec legislature in 1861, and was a representative for four years. When the Otta- wa ladies' college was established he was made its president, and held that office for sevei'al years.

EDDY, Henry Turner, mathematician, b. in Stoughton, Mass., 9 June, 1844. He was graduated at Yale in 1867, receiving the mathematical medal in his senior year, and then followed the engineer- ing course in Sheffield scientific school, where he held the office of instructor in field-work in en- gineering. In 1868 he received the appointment of instructor in mathematics and Latin in the University of East Tennessee, at Knoxville, and in 1869 he became assistant professor of mathematics and civil engineering in Cornell, where he received the degrees of C. E. and Ph. D. for advanced studies in pure and applied mathematics. After holding the office of associate professor in mathematics in Princeton for a year, he was called in 1874 to fill a similar chair in the University of Cincinnati, and was appointed dean of the faculty in 1874-'7 and 1884-'5. The year 1879-'80 he spent in study abroad. Dr. Eddy is a member of scientific so- cieties, and was vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science, of the section on mathematics and astronomy in 1884. He has contributed numerous papers to scientific and technical journals, and has published •' Ana- lytical Geometry " (Philadelphia, 1874) ; '• Re- searches in Oraphic Statics" (New York, 1878); " Thermodynamics " (1879) ; and " Neue Construc- tionenausder graphischen Statik " (Leipsic, 1880).

'''EDDY. Henry Clarence''', musician, b. in Green- field. Mass.. 21 June, 1S51 At the age of seven he began his musical education, and at fourteen filled a place as organist. He has legally dropped his first name. When sixteen he went to Hartford, Conn., wiiere he studied with Dudley Buck, and at the age of seventeen became organist of Bethany church, Montpeiier, Vt. Here he remained about two years and a half, teaching and devoting all his leisure time to his studies. In 1871 he wont to Berlin, where he studied tlie piano under Loesch- horn and the organ under Haupt. Alter making a concert tour through Saxony, Austria, and Switz- erland, playing in all the principal churches, he was invited in Berlin to play before the emperor and many of the nobility. Passing through Eng- land on his way home, he stopped in London, playing in the Royal Albert hall and in St. Paul's cathedral. On his return from Europe, Mr. Eddy became organist of the 1st Congregational church in Chicago. In 1876 Mr. Eddy became general director of the Hershey school of musical art in Chicago. In the spring of 1877 the music-hall connected with the school was finished, capable of seating 1,000 persons, and here, upon a fine three- manual concert organ, Mr. Eddy began a series of recitals unique in the history of organ music. They numbered 100 when completed in 1879, and embraced all the greatest works for the organ, of both ancient and modern authors. Mr. Eddy played at tiie Centennial exposition at Philadel- phia, and in different parts of the country, giving concerts and exhibiting many new organs. Among his publications are a prelude and fugue in A minor ; collections of organ compositions entitled " The Church and Concert Organist " (2 vols.. New York, 1882-'5), and " The Organ in Church " (1887) ; and a translation of Haupt's " Theory of Counter- point and Fugue" (1876).

EDDY, John H., geographer, b. in New York in 1782 ; d. 22 Dec, lbl7. He published a circular map of the country for thirty miles around New York (1814) ; a map of the western part of New York ; a map to illustrate the communication be- tween lake Erie and the Hudson ; and a map of the state of New York ; and was engaged on a general atlas of America at the time of his death.

EDDY, Norman, congressman, b. in Scipio, Cayuga CO., N. Y., 10 Dec, 1810; d. in Indianapo- lis, Ind., 28 Jan., 1872. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and removed in 1886 to Mishawaka, Ind., where he practised for several years, but finally gave up his profession for that of the law, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1847, removing to South Bend, Ind., in the same year. He was elected state senator on the Democratic ticket in 1850, and in 1852 was elected to congress over Schuyler Colfax, but was defeated by him in 1854. President Pierce appointed Mr. Eddy district at- torney for Minnesota in 1855, and in 1856-'7 he was commissioner of the Indian trust lands in Kansas. In the autumn of 1861 he organized the 48th Indiana regiment, was commissioned its colo- nel, and continued in command till July, 1868, when he resigned because of disability resulting from wounds received in the battle of luka, Miss. In that engagement the 48th lost 119 killed or wounded out of 420 that entered the fight. Col. Eddy was appointed collector of internal revenue by President Johnson in 1865, and in 1870 was elected secretary of state of Indiana, which office he held till his sudden death from heart disease.

EDDY, Richard, author, b. in Providence, R. I., 21 June, 1828. He was apprenticed to a book- binder at the age of fifteen, but in 1848 went to Clinton. N. Y., where he studied theology and became a Universalist minister. He had pastorates in Rome and Buffalo, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and Canton, N. Y., and in 1861-'8 was chaplain of the 60th New York regiment. He was librarian of the Pennsylvania historical society in 1864-'8, and then held pastorates in Franklin and Gloucester, Mass., Akron. Ohio, and Melrose, Mass., where he went in 1881. Since 1878 he has been president of the