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from Michigan to the forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a democrat. Eldridge, Charles A., state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 37, 1821, in Bridgeport, Vt. He was educated in the public schools

of

Vermont.

In 1848 he removed to Fond du Lac, Wis.; and in 1854-55 was a member of the state senate. In 1863-75 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-eighth, thirtyninth, fortieth, forty-

forty-second and forty - third congressHe es as a democrat. died Oct. 26, 1896, in first,

Fond du Lac, Wis. Eldridge, Charles Henry, naval officer, was born Sept. 21, 1839, in Dedham, Mass. In 1861 he was appointed assistant paymaster in the United States navy; and in 1901 was retired with the rank of rear-admiral. Eldridge, Edward Henry, educator, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 8, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1895 he has been engaged in educational work; and since 1899 has been lecturer on psychology at Simmons college of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Hypnotism. Eldridge, Edwin, capitalist, philanthropist, was born in 1811. He became president of the Elmira iron and steel company; and was long connected with the Erie railroad. He gave a public park to Elmira; and contributed materially to the progress of that town. He died Dec. 16, 1876, in Elmira, N.Y. Eldridge, Edwin R., educator, lecturer, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1843, in Burnettsville, Ind. For fourteen years he of the Eastern Iowa normal school; and since 1888 has been president of the state normal college of Troy, Ala. Eldridge, Hamilton N., soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 23, 1831, in South Williamstown, Mo. He became a brigadier-general during the civil war. He attained eminence as a lawyer of Illinois. He died Nov. 27, 1882, in

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Eldridge, Maurice Owen, lecturer, author, was bom July 3, 1873, in Lenoir, Tenn. In 1893 he became expert draughtsman in the office of road inquiry. United States department of agriculture; and in 1898 was promoted to assistant director in that office. In 1905 he was transferred to the position of chief of records. He has lectured extensively, notably on road building in the United States and Europe; and is an authority on road construction economics. He is the author of Construction of Country Koads; Progress of Road Building in the United States Good Eoads for Farmers and Earth Roads; and Public Road Mileage and Expenditures in the United States, all of which were pub-

lished by the United States department of agriculture. Eliot, Andrew, clergyman, patriot, was born Dec. 28, 1718, in Boston, Mass. In 174278 he was pastor of the new North church in Boston. He was influential in the cause of American freedom. He died Sept. 30, 1778, in Boston, Mass. Eliot, Charles, litterateur, author, was born in 1791 in Boston, Mass. He was specially interested in the preparation of

Miscellaneous Lexicon. His Seheusner's Writings were edited by Andrews Anton. He died in 1813 in Boston, Mass.

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Eliot, Charles, lawyer, architect, was 1, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1869 he began the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; and he was instrumental in securing sites for public parks in Boston and other cities in the United States. He died March 24, 1897, in Brookline, Mass. Eliot, Charles William, educator, college president, was born March 20, 1834, in Bos-

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ton, Mass. Since 1869 he has been president of Harvard university. He is a member of the committee of ten of the National association. He is the author of a Manual of

Qualitative Chemical Analysis; and Manual of Inorganic Chemistry. Eliot, Edward Cranch, lawyer, jurist, was born July 3, 1858, in St. Louis, Mo. In 187881 he graduated from the Washington university with the degrees of A.B. and A.M.; and in 1880 graduated with the degree of LL.B from the St. Louis law school. Since 1880 he has been in the active practice of law; and in 1887-1903 was lecturer on commercial law in the St. Louis law school. In 1897-1903 he was a member of the St. Louis board of education; and its president in 1898-99. In 1902 he was republican candidate for the St. Louis court of appeals; and in 1904 was a delegate in the universal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis, Mo. In 1898-99 he was president of the St. Louis bar association; in 1903-04 was president of the civic improvement league; and also president of the soldiers' and orphans' home. Eliot, Ephraim, druggist, author. He graduated from Harvard in 1780; and became a druggist in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Historical Notices of the New North Religious Society, with Anecdotes of Rev. Andrew Eliot and John Eliot. Died in Boston. Eliot, Mrs. Henrietta Robins Mack, litterateur, author, poet, was born in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Portland, Oregon;

and has translated Froebel's Mother Play. She

the author of Laura's Holidays; its Laura in the Mountains and numerous short stories for adults and children. Eliot, Jared, clergyman, scientist, inventor, author, was born Nov. 7, 1685, in Guilford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Killingworth in 1707-63. He was awarded a medal by the London institute in 1756 for producing malleable iron from American is

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