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from Yale college; and in 1819-25 he was United States senator from Georgia. He died Aug. 9, 1827, in Sunbury, Ga. Elliot, Samuel Hayes, clergyman, author, was born in 1809 in Vermont. He was the author of Rolling Ridge, or the Book of

Four-and-Twenty Chapters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Realities; New England's CShattels, or Life in a Northern Poor-House; and The Attractions of New Haven. He did in 1869 in New Haven, Conn. Elliot, Washington Lafayette, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1846 he enlisted in the United States army as second lieutenant of the mounted riflemen. In 1861 he was colonel in the second regiment Iowa cavalry; and in 1862 attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier -general and majorgeneral.

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retired in 1879.

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29, 1888.

Elliot, William ogist, was born in

Horace, lawyer, geneal1824 in New Haven, Conn. He compiled a Genealogy of the Eliot Family. He died Dec. 8, 1852, in St. Croix, W.I. Elliott, A. Slarshall, educator, historian, author, was born Jan. 24, 1846, in Wilmington, N.C. In 1866 he graduated from Haverford college; in 1868 graduated from Harvard college; and has received the degrees of A.M., Ph.D. and LL.D. In 1868-71 he spent three years in the college de France at Paris; studied two years in Florence, Italy; one year at the university of Madrid; and three years in 1874-76 at the German and Austrian universities of Munich and Vienna. For seven years he was secretary of the Modern language association of America and was its president for one year. Since 1876 he has been professor of romance languages at the Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, Md. He is editor of Modern Language Notes, now in the twentieth volume. Elliott, Anna, patriot. American prisoners that were brought into Charleston dur-

ing the revolutionary war were aided and by her assiduous ministrations. Elliott, Byron K., lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1835, in Hamilton, Ohio. During the civil war he served as captain in the one hundred and thirty-second Indiana volunteers. In 1865-69 he was city attorney of Indianapolis, Ind. In 1876 he was elected judge of the supreme court; and in 1880-92 was judge of the state supreme court of Indiana. He is the author of Gen-

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eral Practice, in

two volumes; and The Law

of Railroads. Elliott, Charles, clergyman, educator, author, was born March 18, 1815, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian minister, and from 1886 professor of Hebrew at Lafayette college of Easton, Pa. He was the author of The Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; and Vindication of the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch. He died Feb. 14, 1892, in Easton, Pa.

Elliott, Charles, clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1792 in Ireland. He was at one period president of Iowa Wesleyan university. He was the author of Treatise on Baptism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; Life of Bishop Roberts; History of the Great Secession from the

Methodist Episcopal Church; Political Romanism; Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission; Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and Slavery; and Sinfulness of American Slavery. He died Jan. 6, 1869, in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Elliott, Charles Burke, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1861, in Morgan county, Ohio. He practiced law in Minneapolis, Minn. In 1890-93 he was judge of the municipal court; and in 1890-97 was professor of corporation and international In law at the university of Minnesota. 1893-1905 he was judge of the district court of Minnesota; is now associate justice of the supreme court of Minnesota for term of 1907-13. He is the author of The United States and the Northwestern Fisheries; The Law of Private Corporations; The Law of Public Corporations; and The Law of Insurance. Elliott, Charles G., civil engineer, author, 8, 1850, in La Salle county, Since 1878 he has been engaged in civil engineering; and since 1903 has been engineer in charge of the drainage investigations office of experiment stations in the United States department of agriculture. He is the author of Practical Farm Drain-

was born June 111.

age and Engineering for Land Drainage. Elliott, Charles Loring, painter,

was

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December, 1812, in Scipio, N.Y. He opened a studio in New York City; and was elected a member of the national academy He is said to have painted over in 184.6. seven hundred portraits of eminent men. He died Aug. 25, 1868, in Albany, N.Y. in

Elliott, Charles WyUys, landscape gardener, author, was born May 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was the author of The Book of American Interiors; Pottery and

Porcelain; Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Mysteries, or Glimpes of the Supernatural; New England History, from its Discovery by the Northmen; and Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. He died in 1883 in New York City. Elliott,

Ezekiel

Brown,

statistician,

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was born July 16, 1823, in Sweden, N. Y. He was a government statistician of note. He was the author of Unification of Inter-

thor,

national Coinage.

He

died in 1888.

Franklin Reuben, horticulturist, author, was born April 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a horticulturist of Cleveland, Ohio. He was the author of The Western Fruit Book; Popular Deciduous and EverElliott,