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1763, in Killingworth, Conn. Eliot, John, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1604, in England. He was a puritan minister of Roxbury who came to America in 1631; and is famous in history as the Indian apostle. He is chiefly remembered for his famous translation of the bible into the Indian language. He was the author of Communion of Churches; The Harmony of the Gospels Dying Speeches of Several Indians

The Indian Primer and Indian Logic Primer.

He

died

May

31, 1690, in

Roxbury, Mass. was born

Eliot, John, clergyman, author, May 31, 1754, in Boston, Mass.

He was

pastor of the New North congregational church of Boston in 1779-1813. He was the author of the New England Biographical Dictionary. He died Feb. 14, 1813, in Boston. Eliot, Samuel, educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 22, 1821, in Boston, Mass. In 1860-64 he was president of Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.; and was a lecturer on constitutional law during 186474. For two years he was superintendent of the Boston public schools. He was the author of History of Liberty; Manual of United States History; and Life and Times of Savonarola. He died Sept. 15, 1898, in Beverly Farms, Mass. Eliot, Samuel Aitkins, manufacturer, congressman, author, was bom March 5, 1798, in Boston, Mass. He was mayor of Boston in 1837-39; and a representative and state senator in the legislature for three or four years. In 1850-51 he was a representative to the thirty-first congress; and was treasurer of Harvard college for eleven years. He was the author of Observations on the Bible for the Use of Young Persons; and Sketch of the History of Harvard College. He died Jan. 29, 1863, in Cambridge, Mass. Eliot, Thomas Dawes, state legislator, congressman, was born March 20, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He served in both houses of the Massachusetts state legislature. In 1853-55 and 1859-69 he was a representative to the

thirty-third, thirty-sixth, the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died June 12, 1870, in New Bedford, Mass. Eliot, Walter Grame, civil engineer, author, was born Nov. 16, 1857, in New York City. In 1880-81 he was sanitary engineer for the health department of New York City. He is the author of Sketch of the Eliot Family, Noted Physicians of New York City; College Presidents of the United States ; and History of the Stoutenburg Family. Eliot, William Greenleaf, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1811, in New Bedford, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of St. Louis; and chancellor of Washington university there in 1872-87. He was the author of Doctrines of Christianity; Early

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Men; Lectures to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; Manual of Prayer; The Unity of God; The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom; and Influence. He died Jan. Christian, Miss.

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Elken, J. A., soldier. He attained the rank of general in the United States army. He died March 27, 1891, in Louisville, Ky. Elkin, John P., lawyer, jurist, was born in 1860 in Indiana county, Pa. In 1884 he began the practice of law in Indiana, Pa. In 1884-86 he was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives. In 1895-99 he was deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania; and in 1899-1903 was attorney -general. Since 1904 he has been an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He is president of the Farmers' bank of Indiana, Pa. Elkin, William Lewis, astronomer, was born April 29, 1855, in New Orleans, La. In 1884 he became an astronomer at the observatory of Yale university. His investigations at this place have Included a triangulation of the pleiades with the heliometer, and other researches with that instrument, the only one of its kind in America; also researches on the parallaxes of northern stars.

painter, artist, was 30, 1847, in Vershire, Vt. He reto Chicago in 1856. Among his pic-

Elkins,

born

Henry Arthur,

May

moved

tures are Mount Shasta; The Thirty-eighth Star; Storm at Shasta; New Eldorado; and Crown of the Continent. He died July 25, 1884, in Georgetown, Col. Elkins, Stephen Benton, soldier, lawyer, congressman. United States senator, was born Sept. 36, 1841, in Perry county, Ohio. He was a member of the territorial legislative assembly of New Mexico in 1864-65; and held the offices of territorial district at-

torney, eral,

attorney-gen-

and United States

attorney. In 1873-77 he was a territorial delegate to forty-third and the forty-fourth congresses. After leaving congress he renioved to West Virginia and devoted himself to business affairs; in 189193 he was secretary of war; and in 18951913 he was a United States senator. district

Elkins,

May

William

Lukens,

financier,

was

Virginia. He went to Philadelphia and became one of the first to engage in the refining of crude oil. Several

born

2,

1833, in

West

small refineries were purchased, the Belmont oil works were leased, and he soon controlled the entire local industry of oil refining. He died March 13, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pa.