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EUenbecker,

John

G.,

educator,

college

was born Jan. 29, 1869, in Hancock, Mich. When two years of age his parents moved to Kansas, where he was edupresident, poet,

cated, and graduated from the Marysville High school in 1888. He taught school for awhile, and subsequently graduated from the scientific class of the Kansas normal college,

with the degree of B.S.

subsequently receivof B.A. He organized the Modern normal college of Marysville, Kan. of which institution he is president. Some of his poems appear in Poets of America and

Pa.

He

built the first wire suspension bridge

He served during the civil war as a colonel in the federal army; and was killed in an engagement on the Mississippi. Ha was the author of Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley; Coast and Harbor Defences; and The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers with Plans for Protecting the Delta from Inundation. He died June 21, 1862, in Cairo, in

America.

ing the degree

111.

other standard works.

Ellet, Charles Rivers, soldier, was born in 1841 in Georgetown, D.C. He served during the civil war; and attained the rank of colonel. He died Oct. 29, 1863, in Bunker Hill,

James Edwin, farmer, merehajit, was born Jan. 13, 1861, in Marion county, S.C. In 1887-92 he was enEllerbe,

congressman,

gaged as a farmer and merchant; and since that time has been farming on a large scale. In 1894-96 he served in the South Carolina general assembly; and in 1895 was a member of the South Carolina constitutional convention. In 1905-11 he was a representative from South Carolina to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.

Ellerbe, William Haselden, farmer, governor, was born April 7, 1863, in Marion county. S.C. In 1882 he became engaged in farming. In 1890 he was elected comptrollergeneral of South Carolina. In 1896 he became governor of South Carolina. He died June 2, 1899, in Columbia, S.C.

EUery, Christopher, United States senator,

was born Nov. 1, 1768, in Newport, K.I. In 1801-05 he was United States senator from Rhode Island; and in the latter year was appointed United States commissioner of loans. He was appointed collector of Newport in 1828. He died Dec. 2, 1840, in Newport, R.I. Ellery, Frank, naval officer, 23, 1794, in

Newport,

R.I.

was

bom

July

He commanded the

steamer Enterprise in 1840; was put on the

commanded the Bosin 1861; and was commissioned commodore on the retired list

reserved list in 1855; ton rendezvous again

He

in 1867.

died in Newport, R.I.

Ellery, William, lawyer, jurist, congressbom Dec. 32, 1727, in Newport,

man, was

In 1776-81 and 1783-85 he was a delegate to the continental congress from Rhode Island. He was a signer of the declaration of independence, and also of the articles of confederation. In 1786 was appointed commissioner of loans for Rhode Island; and in 1780-81 was chief justice of the supreme court of the state. In 1789-1820 he was collector of Newport. He died Feb. 15, 1830, in E.I.

Newport,

R.I.

Washington, soldier, was Penn Manor, Pa. He served during the civil war; and for gallant and meritorEllet,

bom

Alfred

in

ious services received the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died Jan. 9, 1895, in Eldorado,

Kan. Ellet, Charles, soldier, civil engineer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1810, in Penn's Manor,

111.

Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries Lummis, author, poet, was bom in 1818 in Sodus Point, N.Y. She was the author of Domestic History of the American Revolution; of the American Revolution; Court Circles of the Republic; Queens of American Society; Pioneer of the West; Novelettes of the Musicians; Rambles in the West; The

Women

Women

Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures from the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily; The Characters of Schiller; and Women Artists in All Ages. She died June 3, 1877. Ellet, Mary, patriot, was born June 17, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been termed the Cornelia of America. She won the name by her heroic reply to one who sympathized with her in the loss of sons and grandsons during the civil war. She died in Philadelphia, Pa. Ellet, William Henry, chemist, inventor, was born Nov. 1, 1806, in New York City. For hia discovery of a new and cheap method of preparing gun-cotton, the legislature of South Carolina presented him with a vote of thanks and a pension. He died Jan. 26, 1859.

EUett, Henry T., congressman. In 1847 he was a representative from Mississippi to the

twenty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy. Ellett, Oren Daniel, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born April 5, 1862, in Swart«wood, N.J. He was educated at Albion college, at Northwestern university and at the Chicago seminary of science. He has been state lecturer and chief templar of a district in Iowa; and state chairman of the prohibition party of Iowa. He is a successful clergyman of the methodist episcopal church at Lineville, Iowa and is a member of the Des Moines conference. He is a noted lecturer. He is the author of Why the Bible Wins; The Republican Party and Prohibition; The Conflict; and other works. Ellett, Tazewell, lawyer, congressman, was bom Jan. 1, 1856, in Richmond, Va. He was presidential elector in 1888 on the democratic ticket; and was a member of the democratic committee of fifty for about twelve years. In 1895-97 he was a representative from Virginia to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.