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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ellicott, Andrew, civil engineer, mathematician, was born Jan. 24, 1754, in Bucks

county. Pa. In 1790 he was employed by the general government to survey and lay out the city of Washington; and in 1792 was appointed surveyor-general of the United States. In 1812 he became a professor of mathematics at West Point. He died Aug. 29, 1820, in Washington, D.C. Ellicott, Benjamin, congressman. In 181719 he was a representative from New York to the fifteenth congress. He died in Batavia,

N.Y.

Eugene, civil engineer, was born 1846, in Baltimore, Md. In 1864-90 engaged on the United States coast

Ellicott,

Dec.

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he was survey;

and in 1871 was connected with the San Juan boundary work. In 1887-88 he determined the line between Maine and New Brunswick from Calais twenty-five miles inland.

John Morris, naval officer, author, Sept. 4, 1859, in St. Inigoes, Md. In 1894-96 he was instructor in ordnance at Ellicott,

was born

United States naval academy. He took part in the battle of Manila bay, and was present at the surrender of Corregidor and at the blockade and capture of Manila in 1898. He received a medal from congress for service at Manila; and received the rank of lieutenant. He is the author of Justified, a novel; For Cuba; and other works. Joseph, engineer, founder, was bom Nov. 1, 1760, in Bucks county, Pa. He founded the cities of Buffalo and Batavia Ellicott,

New

York. He died Aug. 19, 1836, in Batavia, N.Y. Ellinwood, Frank Fisld, clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1826, in New York in

He

secretary of the presbyterian board of foreign missions. He is the author of The Great Conquest; and Oriental Religions and Christianity; and Questions and Phases of Modern Missions. Ellinwood, Truman Jeremiah, stenographer, educator, author, was born June 11, 1830, in Smithfleld, N.Y. He was educated in the common schools; City.

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at Oneida

academy; at

Cazenovia

seminary;

and at the

New York

central

college.

He

became an instructor and part owner of the Adelphi academy at Brooklyn, N.Y. and

taught in the evening high school the of Young men's christian association of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and in his own shorthand academy of that city. He was one of the founders, an officer and teacher of the Martha's summer institute; for twelve years he was president of the Cottage City rural improvement and library association; and was private stenographer to Henry Ward Beecher from 1858 until his

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death in 1887. He is the owner^ and manager of a settlement of summer cottages in Ellinwood Heights, on Martha's Vineyard and also trustee of the Oak Bluflfs free public library. He furnished verbatim reports ot Mr. Beecher's sermons and addresses to various periodicals; published six volumes of Mr. Beecher's sayings entitled Faith; Book of Prayer; Hidden Manna and WTiite Stone; Bible Studies; Metaphors and Similes; and Autobiographical Reminiscences. He was also co-editor of Treasury of Illustration; and also of Sermon Briefs by Henry Ward Beecher. Elliot, Benjamin, jurist, author, was bom in 1786 in Charleston, S.C. He was the

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author of Refutation of Calumnies respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery; and The Militia System of South Carolina. He died in 1836 in South Carolina. Elliot, Daniel Giraud, naturalist, author, was born March 7, 1835, in New York City. He is an ornithologist, at one time president of the American ornithologists' union; and now curator of zoology in the Field Columbian museum of Chicago, 111. He is the author of Monograph of the Pittidae or Family of the Ant Thrushes; The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America; The Life and Habits of

Wild Animals;

George Henry, military engineer,

Elliot,

author,,

and Synopsis and North American

Classification

the Trochilidae; Shore Birds. of

was born March

Mass.

He

31, 1831, in

Low-

a military engineer in the service of the United States. He is the ell,

is

author -of European Light-House bystems; and The Presidio of San Francisco. Elliot, George Thomson, physician, author, was born May 11, 1827, in New York City. In 1861 he was elected to fill the chair of obstetrics in the Bellevue hospital college. the author of Elliot's Obstetric Clinic. Died Jan. 29, 1871, in New York City.

He was

Elliot, Henry Rutherford, journalist, author, was born April 21, 1849, in WoodHe was the author of The bridge, Conn. Bassett Claim, a Story of Life in Washington; and The Common Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward. He was Washington cor-

New York Evening Post and was president of the Church Economist publishing company of respondent for the for

six

years;

New York York

City.

He

died in 1906 in

New

City.

Elliot, James, soldier, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 18, 1775, in Gloucester, Mass. For three years he served in the United States army. In 1803 he established himself in

Prior to legal practice in Brattleboro, Vt. 1809 he was a member of the United States congress. He served a short time in the war of 1812. He died Nov. 10, 1839, In

Newfane, Vt. Elliot, John, United States senator, was In 1794 he graduated born about 1773.