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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. thirty-third congress; and in 1870-72 was elected secretary of state. He died Jan. 28, 1872, in Indianapolis, Ind. Eddy, Richard, clergyman, author, was bom June 21, 1828, in Providence, R.I. From 1886 he was editor of Universalist Quarterly. He was the author of Universalism in America; History of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; The Martyr to Liberty; Alcohol in History; Alcohol in Society; Universalism in Gloucester, Mass.; and History of Universalism. He died in 1906 in Chatham,

Mass. Eddy, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 31, 1769, in Providence, R.I. In. 1798 he was chosen secretary of state and held the office for twenty-one years, when he resigned. In 1819-25 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth con;

gresses; in 1826-27 was associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and in 1827-35 was chief justice. He died Feb. 2, 1889, in Providence, R.I. Eddy, Thomas, philanthropist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1758, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist whose efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform. He was the author of The State Prisons of New York. He died Sept. 16, 1827, in New York City. Eddy, Thomas Mears, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 7, 1823, in Newtown, Ohio. He was a methodist minister of Chicago; and in 1856-68 was editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate; published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that state during the civil war. He died Oct. 7, 1874, in New York City. Eddy, Zachary, clergyman, author, was born Dee. 19, 1815, in Stockbridge, Vt. He was a presbyterian minister of Augusta, Ga. He was the "author of Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hvmns of the Church; and Songs He died Nov. 15, 1891, in of the Church. Detroit, Mich.

Eden, John Rice, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1S26, in Bath county, Ky. He was educated in the public schools of Rush

county, there

Ind. ; and school

taught

and studied law. In 1856-60 he was state's attorney for the seventh district of Illinois ; and attained success in the practice of law in Sullivan, 111. In 1863-65, 1873-79,

and 1885-87 he was a representative from Ilto the thirtyeighth, the forty-third, and forty-ninth forty-fifth linois

forty-fourth, congresses as a democrat. In 1868 he was the democratic nominee for governor of He was one of the commissioners Illinois. 23

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that secured the land connected with the hospital; and procured the erection of the building and fixtures. He still

Watertown

practices law in Sullivan,

111.

George Michael, surgeon, author, was born May 8, 1853, in New York City. Since 18-93 he has been a consulting surgeon of New York City. He is the auEdebohls,

thor of Disease.

The Surgical Treatment

of Bright's

Eden, Charles, colonial governor, was bom He was colonial governor of North

in 1673.

Carolina 1722, in

in

1715-23.

He

died

March

26,

North Carolina.

Eden, Robert, colonial governor, was bom in England. In 1769-77 he was colonial governor of Maryland ; advised the repeal of the tax on tea; and when the colonel of militia

demanded the arms and ammunition, he readily gave them up. He died Sept. 2, 1786, in Annapolis, Md. Edenborn, William,

was born March

capitalist, inventor, 20, 1848, in Prussia. Since

1882 he has been president of the American steel and wire company or its predecessors. Since 1903 he has been president of the Louisiana railroad and navigation company. He is the inventor of many patents important in the wire industry. Edes, Benjamin, journalist, patriot, was born Oct. 14, 1732, in Charlestown, Mass. In 1755 he was the editor and proprietor of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, a patriotic newspaper that exerted a powerful influence before the revolution and during that struggle. He was one of the Sons of Liberty. In his house the patriots comprising the Boston tea party assembled on the afternoon of Dec. 16, 1773, and drank punch from a bowl that was subsequently given by Mr. Edes's family to the Massachusetts historical society, afterward disguising themselves as Indians in the Gazette office. During the siege of Boston, Mr. Edes escaped to Watertown, where he continued the publiAfter forty-three cation of the Gazette. years of editorship he discontinued it in 1798. He died Dec. 11, 1803, in Boston, Mass. Edes, Henry Herbert, genealogist, historian, founder, was born March 29, 1849, in Charlestown, Mass. Since 1892 he has been manager, a director and treasurer of the Conveyancers' title insurance company of Boston, Mass. He was the founder of the Colonial society of Massachusetts. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He is the author of a Genealogy of the Edes Family; Charles-

town Historic Points; Memorial of Josiah Barker; and History of the Harvard Church in Charleston.

Edes, Richard Sullivan, clergyman, author, 24, 1810, in Providence, R.l. He published a memoir of Peter Edes in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Journal and Letters relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio County in 1788

was born April