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340 Philadelphia, till 1844, and of the Northern Liber- ties church in that city till 1851, when he had a paralytic shock. He undertook to establish a col- lege and theological seminary in Missouri, in 1884, but reverses discontinued his efforts while others carried on the work. He was one of the founders and trustees of Jefferson medical college, for, in its pecuniary straits he bought the lot and erected the building where the institution now stands. He was active in works of benevolence, giving during his life about $50,000 to various institu- tions, including Jefferson medical college and Ma- rion college. Mo. Washington college, Tenn., gave him the degree of D. 1). Dr. Ely edited gratui- tously for several years a religious paper called the " Philadelphian." He published a memoir of his father, Rev. Zebulon Ely ; " Visits of Mercy " ; " The Contrast " ; " Ely's Journal " ; " Sermons on Faith " ; " The Science of the Human Mind " (1819) ; " Contrast between Calvinism and Hop- kinsianism " (1811); and "Endless Punishment" (1835). He also edited, with William McCorkle and Rev. Gregory Bedell, a " Collateral Bible, or Key to the Holy Scriptures" (3 vols., Philadel- phia, 1826-'8) ; and left in manuscript a " History of the Churches of Phila(leli)hia."

ELY, Richard Theodore, political economist, b. in Ripley, N. Y., 13 April, 1854. After attend- ing the New York state normal school, he was graduated at Columbia in 1876, and, as holder of the graduate fellowship of letters in that institu- tion, studied at Heidelberg university, Germany, in 1876-'9, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in the latter year. Since 1885 he has been associate in political economy at Johns Hopkins, secretary of the Amer- ican economic association, and has also served as tax commissioner of Maryland since 1885. He has contributed to periodical literature, and has pub- lished '* French and German Socialism in Modern Times " (New York, 1883) ; " The Past and Present of Political Economy" (Baltimore, 1884); "The Labor Movement in America " (New York, 1886). He has also edited, with an introduction, " Co-op- eration in America " (Baltimore, 1887).

ELY, Saiimel Rose, clergyman, b. in West Springfield, Mass., 29 Dec, 1803 ; d. in Roslyn. L. I., 11 May, 1873. He was graduated at Williams in 1830, studied theology at Princeton, and held Presbyterian pastorates in Carmel, N. Y., and East Hampton. Brooklyn, and Roslyn, L. I. He received the degree of D. D., from Columbia in 1865.

ELY, William G., soldier, b. about 1835. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a private for the throe months' call, went out again as lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Connecticut infan- try, and was afterward elected colonel of the 18th regiment. On 13 June, 1863, in charge of the 2d brigade, he advanced upon the Fort Royal pike, and, while in action, was made a prisoner. He was confined in Libby prison, Richmond, Va., till the following February, when, with 108 other officers, he escaped through the famous tunnel dug under Twentieth street. About fifty of the party were recaptured, among them Col. Ely, in a state of great exhaustion. He was taken by cav- alry forty-two miles out, after being absent four days, and returned to the prison. A few weeks later he was pai'oled, and returned north, his ex- change following. On 17 May, 1864. he rejoined his regiment, and commanded it at the battle of Piedmont on 4 June, 1864. On 18 June, in the ad- vance toward Lynchburg, he was wounded in the throat and temporarily disabled. In August he was assigned to the command of a brigade, and in Sep- tember was brevetted a brigadier-general.

ELY, William Mather, politician, b. in Bing- hamton, N. Y., in 1818; d. there, 5 Feb., 1873. He was educated at Amherst college, but was not graduated. After leaving college he followed mer- cantile pursuits for a time, but afterward engaged in farming, and was for several years president of the State agricultural society. In 1868 he was elected to the legislature, and served till his death. He was an industrious legislator, and had acquired extensive knowledge of state affairs.

ELZEY, Arnold, soldier, b. in Somerset coup- ty, Md., 18 Dec, 1816 ; d. in Baltimore, Md., 21 Feb., 1871. His name was originally Arnold Elzey Jones, but he dropped the last name shortly after his graduation at the U. S. military academy in 1837. He was assigned to the 2d artillery, "and served in the Florida war of 1837-"8 and in the Canada border disturbances. During the Mexican war he was brevetted captain for gallantry at Con- treras and Churubusco, and was also at Fort Brown, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, San Antonio, Mo- lino del Rey, Chapultepec, and the capture of the city of Mexico. He became captain in the 2d ar- tillery, 14 Feb., 1849, and served against the Semi- noles in 1849-50 and 1856. On 25 April, 1861, he resigned and entered the Confederate service, with the rank of colonel. At the first battle of Bull Run he was senior colonel of Kirby Smith's bri- gade, and in the afternoon after Gen. Smith was wounded, led a successful charge, for which he was complimented by Gen. Beauregard, and promoted on the field to a brigadier-generalship by Jefferson Davis. He commanded a brigade through Stone- wall Jackson's valley campaign, was wounded and had his horse shot under him at Port Republic, and at Cold Harbor was shot through the head. This last wound prevented him from seeing any more active service, but after his recovery lie was promoted to major-general, and commanded the department of Richmond till just before the close of the war, when he joined Hood in Georgia, and was with iiim at Chattanooga. After the close of the war he retired to a farm near Jessup's Cut, Anne Arundel co., Md.

EMANGARD, or ESMANGARD, Charles, West Indian jurist, b. in Port au Prince, Hayti, in 1755 ; d. in Paris in 1837. He studied in the Jesuit college of Port au Prince, and after graduation he was appointed substitute judge of the police court of his native city, where his father was president of the civil court. Young Emangard began to administer equal justice to all without regard to persons, and thereby made enemies of the rich proprietors of the island. His first offence against the privileged classes was the condemnation of a rich planter to a large fine for maltreating his slaves. In 1780 Emangard volunteered as counsel for Elmira, a mulatto girl who had been emancipated by her former master at his death, but had been detained and atrociously tortured by his widow, out of jealousy. The woman, Madame de Laureal, was arrested, and, as the feeling on both sides ran high, she was sent to France for an impartial hearing. The case was submitted in privy council to the king, who ordered the widow's estate to be confiscated and given to Ehnira; and as Emangard's position in Port au Prince had become untenable in consequence, he wa§ promoted judge of the civil court of the island of Martinique. At the outbreak of the rebellion of the negroes in Santo Domingo in 1800 he was sent by the government to that island, where he was the means of saving from death a great number of prominent proprietors, some of them formerly his enemies. Bonaparte, in recompense, promoted