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Rh till he reached the age of seventy, when his term expired by limitation. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of New York in 1838. An oration delivered at his funeral by George A. Gould was publislied (Hartford, 1868). — Henry Leavitt's son, Henry William, lawyer and au- thor, b. in Windsor, Conn., in 1814 ; d. in New Haven in August, 1864, was graduated at Yale in 1834, studied in the law-school, and removed to In- diana in 1835. He was charge d'affaires to Sweden, 1845-'50, and after this counsel for Samuel P. B. Morse in suits connected with his telegraph patents. He was author of " Sketches of the Upper Wabash Valley, Indiana " (New York, 1838), and " Ameri- can Swine Breeder " (1840), and was a contributor to the "Knickerbocker Magazine."

ELLYSON, Henry Keeling, journalist, b. in Richmond, Va., 31 July, 1833. He was apprenticed at an early age as a printer, and steadily rose in his calling. In 1854-'5 he served his native city in the Virginia legislature, from 1857 till 1865 was sheriff of Henrico county, and in 1870 was elected mayor of Richmond. He has long been connected, as as- sociate prj)rietor and editor, with the Richmond " Dispatch," one of the most widely circulated journals in the south. Mr. Ellyson has been prominently identified with all the great enter- prises of the Virginia Baptists for the past forty years, and as secretary of the state mission board iie has performed a most valual)le work. He is president of the trustees of Richmond college.

ELMENDORF, Joachim, b. in Rochester, Ul- ster CO., N. Y., 26 March, 1827. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1850, and at the New Brunswick, N. J., theological seminary in 1853. He was licensed to preach by the Dutch Reformed church in Poughkeepsie in the same year, and had pastorates in Syracuse, Albany, and other places, till 1872, when he was called to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he remained until he removed to New York city in 1886. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers college in 1869. He is the author of several discourses, memoirs of Richard Varick De Witt and Alice Justina De Peyster (1872), and many addresses and contributions to periodical literature. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Union.

ELMENDORF, John James, educator, b. in New York city, 27 June, 1827. He was graduated at Columbia in 1845, and entered the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1848 he be- came instructor of mathematics at Columbia, and in 1868 professor of philosophy and belles-lettres in Racine college. Wis. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Columbia in 1866. His publications include " Manual of Rites and Rit- ual " (1867); "A History of Philosophy" (1876); and " Outlines of Logic" (1884).

ELMER, Jonathan, jurist, b. in Fairfield, Cumberland co., N. J., 29 Nov., 1745 ; d. in Bur- lington, N. J., 3 Sept.. 1807. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1771, and elected the next year a member of the American philosophical society. He began the practice of medicine, and afterward turned his at- tention to political affairs, raised a military com- pany, was active in the committee of vigilance, entered the Provincial congress in 1776, and was a member of the committee that formed the first constitution of the state. He was a member of the National congress during the Revolution, and was a medical inspector of the army. After the estab- lishment of independence he was for two years a member of the National house of representatives, and was a member of the upper house of the state legislature in 1780, and again in 1784. He was high sheriff, and afterward surrogate, of Cumber- land county, holding the latter office from 1784 till 1802. In 1787 he was elected to the presidency of the State medical society, and in 1789 was chosen to represent the state as a Federalist in the U. S. senate, resigning it in 1791. He was one of those who voted for establishing the seat of government on the Potomac. For many years after leaving the senate he devoted himself both to literary and legal pursuits, and was presiding judge of the county court of common pleas, which office he re- signed in 1814. — His brother, Ebenezer, physician, b. in Cedarville, N. J., in 1752; d. in Bridgeton, N. J., 18 Oct., 1843, after receiving an academic edu- cation, studied medicine with his brother, and was admitted to practice. He entered the army as an ensign, and in 1777 was appointed surgeon of the 2d New Jersey regiment. He practised medicine in Bridgeton, N. J., was a member of the state house of representatives from 1789 till 1795, serving as speaker of the assembly in 1791 and 1795, and was thrice elected to congress, serving from 1801 till 1807. He was appointed collector of customs in Bridgeton in 1808. He was vice-president of the state council from 1807 to 1815, and held the otfice of vice-president of Burlington college from 1808 till 1817, and again from 1822 till 1832. During the war of 1812 he commanded a brigade of New Jersey militia on the eastern bank of the Delaware. He was president of the Society vt the Cincinnati for New Jersey at the time of his death, and was the last survivor of the original members, as he was also the last surviving Revolutionary officer of New Jersey. — Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, son of Ebenezer, jurist, b. in Bridgeton, N. J., 3 Feb., 1793; d. there, 11 March, 1883, was educated in the schools of his native town and at Woodbury, Bordentown, and at Philadelphia. He served in the militia during the war of 1812 as lieutenant of ar- tillery, and was promoted to the rank of brigade major and inspector. In 1815 he studied law, was admitted to the bar of New Jersey, and practised in his native town, where he was prosecuting at- torney for the state for many years, and was a member of the assembly from 1820 till 1823, and in the latter year acted as its speaker. In 1824 he was prosecutor of the pleas for Cumberland county,^ and in the same year he was made U. S. attorney for the state. He was elected a representative in, congress, as a Democrat, in 1842, was appointed at- torney-general of New Jersey in 1850, holding the- office two years, and twice appointed justice of the state supreme court — in 1852, and again in 1859. In 1866 he retired from public life. Hewaspresideilt of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati when he died. Princeton gave him the degree of A. M. in 1824, and that of LL. D. in 1865. His published works were " A Digest of the Laws of New Jer- sey," which became known as " Nixon's Digest " (Newark, 1838 ; 4th ed., 1868) ; "Genealogical and Biographical Account of the Elmer Family " (Bridgeton, N. J., 1860) ; " History of Cumber- land County " (1869) ; " History of the Constitution and Government of New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of the Governors from 1776 till 1845 " (1872) ; " Eulogium on Garrett D. Wall, delivered before the Bench and Bar of New Jersey " (1872) ; and several historical collections.

ELMORE, Franklin Harper, financier, b. in Laurens district, S. C, 16 Jan., 1799 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 29 May, 1850. He was the second son of Gen. John A. Elmore, a soldier of the Revolution. He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1819, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1821. From 1822 till 1836 he was solicitor