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338 of the southern circuit. In 1334 he was appointed aide to Gov. Manning, with the rank of colonel. He married Harriet, the second daughter of Presi- dent Taylor. He was elected trustee of the state in 1825, 1829, and 1833, was elected to congress in 1835, as a State-rights Democrat, and remained un- til 1839, when he was elected president of the bank of the state of South Carolina. To this office he was annually elected till April, 1850, when by the governor's appointment he became U. S. senator, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John C. Calhoun, and his own life closed twenty-three days after he entered the senate. He had been selected in 1838, by the congressional delegation, to obtain authentic information concerning the anti-slavery movement ; and the letters that passed between him and James Gr. Birney were printed, under the title of the " Elmore Correspondence." — Plis broth- er. Rush, jurist, b. in Alabama about 1810, was educated for the bar, served in the Mexican war, and in 1854 was appointed an associate justice of the U. S. court in Kansas, residing in Lecompton. He died during the civil war.

ELMSLEY, John, Canadian jurist, b. in Eng- land in 1762; d. in Montreal, 29 April, 1805. He was a nephew of the noted London bookseller of the same name. After serving for a time as puisne judge in Upper Canada, he became speaker of the legislative council of Lower Canada, and was a member of the executive council. In October, 1802, he was appointed chief justice. — His son, Johu, Canadian legislator, b. in Elmsley House, Toronto, in 1801 ; d. in Toronto. 8 Aug., 1863, en- tered the British navy, attained the rank of cap- tain, and after his retirement from the service took a leading part in the public affairs of Upper Cana- da. He was called by royal mandamus to the legis- lative council, and sat as a member of that body until the union of the two provinces in 1840. On his marriage with Miss Sherwood, a Catholic lady of Toronto, he went over to the Church of Rome, and henceforth he was a munificent patron of Catholicism. He established the House of Provi- dence at Toronto, and in a great measure was in- strumental in founding the College of St. Michael in the same city. He also established the first Ro- man Catholic school in Upper Canada.

ELPHINSTONE, George Keith, Viscount, British naval officer, b. in Scotland in 1746; d. 10 March, 1823. He was made commander in 1773, and as post-captain he served in America in 1775-'6. During the American war hecommanded- the " Pearl," a frigate of 32 guns, participated in the attack on Mud Island, and at the capture of Charles- ton commanded a detachment of seamen. In 1782 he captured the French frigate '• L'Aigle," of 40 guns. He obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1795, and the same year captured Cape Town. In 1800 he was commander-in-chief in the Mediterra- nean, where he took Malta and Genoa. For his services in Egypt he was raised to the British peer- age, as baron (1801), having for four years had the same title in the Irish peerage. In 1805 he was made admiral of the white, and in 1814 was cre- ated a viscount of the United Kingdom. He was a son-in-law of the noted Mr. and Mrs. Thrale, friends of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

ELSBERG, Louis, physician, b. in Iserlohn, Prussia, 2 April, 1836; d. in New York city, 19 Feb., 1885. He emigrated to Philadelphia with his parents in 1849, was educated in the public schools of that city, and was graduated at Jeft'er- son medical college in 1857. For six months after graduation he was resident physician at Mount Sinai hospital, New York. He then studied in Europe for a year, and on his return introduced medical laryngoscopy into the United States. He settled in New York city, delivered a course of lect- ures at University medical college in 1861. and in 1862 established the first public clinic for diseases of the throat. This was his specialty, and he contrib- uted largely to the literature of the subject, both by lectures and published papers. In 1865 a prize gold medal was awarded by the American medical association to his essay on " Laryngoscopical Sur- gery, illustrated in the Treatment of Morbid Growths within the Larynx." From 1880 till 1884 he published the "Archives of Laryngology," a quarterly, and "A Complete Manual of Throat Diseases." He also wrote many essays on subjects pertaining to music, general literature, and science, among which are the " Discovery of a New Kind of Resultant Tones," " Explanation of Musical Har- mony," " The Preservation of Organic Molecules," and on " The Plastidule Hypothesis."

ELSON, Louis Charles, musical critic, b. in Boston, Mass., 17 April, 1848. His theoretical knowledge of music was mostly gained from Carl Gloggner, under whorn he studied at the Conserva- tory of music in Leipsic. In 1876 he became a contributor to the " Musician and Artist," and in 1877 began contributing to the " Vox Humana.'" of which he became editor in 1879. He is chiefly known as one of the editors of the Boston " Musi- cal Herald." and through his criticisms in the Bos- ton " Courier." He has contributed articles to the Boston " Transcript," New York " Tribune," and " St. Nicholas " magazine, and has translated and arranged over two thousand German, French, and Italian songs. He has composed songs in the style of the German Lied, has published " Curiosities of Music " and " German Songs and Song- Writers," and is now (1887) engaged in prejjaring a " His- tory of German Song."

ELTON, John Prince, manufacturer, b. in Watertown, Conn., 24 April, 1809 : d. in Waterbury, Conn., 10 Nov., 1864. His education was received in the public schools and in the academy at Farm- ington. Conn. In March, 1832, he went into business in Waterbury, Conn., and in January, 1833, his firm began the manufacture of brass wire, being the first in the country to take up that industry. In 1836 the manufacture of brass and copper tubing was begun. In 1840, 1849, 1851, and 1863 he served in the state legislature. In 1858 he engaged in private banking, under the style of the Elton loan and trust company, and after his death the business was or- ganized into a joint stock company. In 1864 he was a yjresidential elector.

ELTON, Romeo, clergvman, b. in Ellington, Conn., in 1790; d. in Boston, 5 Feb., 1870. He spent his early days on his father's farm, and was graduated at Brown in 1813. He studied theology, was ordained in June, 1817, pastor of the 1st Baptist church in Rhode Island, and in 1824 held a charge in Windsor, Vt. Failing health obliged him to resign each pastorate. After his resignation at Newport he was called to the chair of Latin and Greek at Brown in 1835, and passed two years in Europe in preparing himself for the duties of the professorship. Resigning in 1843, he visited England, and resided in Exeter until 1867, and in Bath two years. On returning to this country, he was again pastor in Rhode Island and Connecticut, resunied his residence in England after two or three years, and returned to the United States again in 1869, and was a pastor in Boston. He was one of the editors of the " Eclectic Review," and received the degree of D. D. from Nashville university in 1843. Among other bequests that Dr. Elton made