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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Eells, Myron, clergyman, author, poet, was born Oct. 7, 1843, in Walker's Prairie, Wash. Since 1875 he has been a missionary

to the Indians in the state of Washington. He has a collection of geological, Indian, Chinese, and other specimens of antiquity. He is the author of Indian Missions Ten Years at Skokonish Father Eells

Puget Sound Indians;

Chinook Jargon Hymns; Chinook gon Dictionary



JarLife

Marcus Whitman; Life of Rev. H. H. Spalding; a Book of Poems; and other works. He died in 1907 in Mason county, of Dr.

Washington. EfiSnger, John Robert, educator, author, was born July 3, 1869, in Keokuk, Iowa. Since 1901 he has been professor of French in the university of Michigan. He is the author of The Beginnings of a Romantic School.

Effner,

Valentine,

state

legislator,

con-

gressman, was born in Schoharie county, N.y. He was a member of New York state assembly in 1839; and in 1835-37 he was a. representative to the twenty-fourth congress; He died in New York. Egan, John M., railroad president, was born March 36, 1848, in Springfield, Mass. In 1863 he entered railroad service as a mechanic's apprentice and in 1881 was advanced to superintendent. In 1890-95 he was president of the Chicago, St, Paul and Kansas City railroad; and in 1904-07 was president of the Bridge and terminal railroad company of Kansas City, Mo. Since 1907 he has been general manager of the Brazilian railroad company at Rio de Janeiro. Eganj^ Maurice Francis, journalist, diplomat, author, poet, was born May 24, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa.; and was professor at the Roman catholic Notre university of

Dame,

Ind. of Englanguage and literature in the Catho;

lish

university of Washington, D.C. and is

lic



now

United

States Copenminister for hagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Life

Around Ua The Thea;

and Christian Par-

ter

ents Modern NovelLectures on English Literature; The Disappearance of John Longworthy; A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The Success of Patrick Desmond Prom the Land of St. Lawrence; Studies in Literature; and Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems. Egan, Michael, clergyman, bishop, was born in Ireland. He was appointed pastor

ists;



of in

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St. Mary's church of Philadelphia; and 1810 was consecrated bishop of the newly

created diocese of Philadelphia. 23, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Egan, 1836 in

Thomas W.,

He

died June

was born in In 1863 he was promoted colonel; and participated in all the battles of the army of the Potomac. At the battle of Boydton plankroad he commanded the division; and was brevetted major-general. He died Feb. 24, 1887, in

New York

New York

soldier,

City.

City.

Egan, William B., lawyer, jurist. In 187780 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana.

Egar, John Hodson, clergyman, author, was born in 1832 in England. He is an episcopal clergyman of Rome, N.Y. He is the author of The Threefold Grace of the Holy Trinity; and Christendom, Ecclesiastical

and

Political.

Egbert, Albert G., physician, pioneer, congressman, was born April 13, 1828, in Mercer county. Pa. In 1854 he graduated as a doctor of medicine from the Western reserve college at Cleveland, Ohio; and practiced his profession in Venango county until after the discovery of petroleum as a commercial commodity in 1859. He was a pioneer in the petroleum industry; and purchased the first plot of land sold as oil property in America, if not in the world. He continued in the petroleum business from that time until hia death. In 1875-77 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and declined a reelection. He died March 28, 1896, in Franklin, Pa. Egbert, Henry Clay, soldier, was born about 1839 in Pennsylvania. He served coutinuously as a line officer for nearly forty years.

He was more

closely identified with

the twelfth infantry than any other organization, having served with distinction in that regiment in the civil war. As lieutenant colonel he was killed at the head of his regiment in a battle fought near Manila. He was given the rank of brigadier-general. He died March 26, 1899, in Manila, P.I. Egbert, Seneca, educator, author, was born Feb. 17, 1863, in Petroleum Center, Pa. and is the son of the late Hon. Albert G. Egbert. He was educated at of the high school Franklin, Pa.; attended Phillips academy of Hanover, Mass.; he graduated from Princeton university and the university of Pennsylvania; and has received the degrees of

and M.D. In 1890-91 he was a lecturer on hygiene at university of Pennsylvania; in 1896-99 was professor of anatomy, physiology and hygiene at the Temple college of Philadelphia, Pa.; and since 1893 has A.M.