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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRABY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 1887-92 he was a member of the Ohio state board of school examiners. In 1885 he was president of the Ohio superintendents' association; in 1888 was president of the Ohio teachers' association; and in 1902 was president of the Ohio college association. In 187883 he was member of the board of trustees of the Ohio state university; and in 1893-97 he was colonel on the staff of the governor of Colorado. He Is the author of History of the Ungraded Schools of Ohio; and numerous educational reports and addresses. Ellis, Anna M. B., Max Elliot, journalist, critic, author, was borrt in Ohio. He founded the Boston Amusement Gazette and edited it

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pondent of the Boston Herald.

Bermuda Romance; A Tragic Marriage; Part of a Summer; New Edinburgii Notes; Actors at Home; Clubs Are Trumps; thor of

and Sketches in Bermuda. Ellis, Augustus Van Home, soldier, was bom in New York. In 1862 became colonel in the one hundred and twenty-fourth regiment New York infantry; and in 1863 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He was killed July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa. Ellis, Caleb, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1767, in Walpole, Mass. In 180507 he was a representative to the ninth congress; was a member of the council; and in 1811 elected to the state senate. In 1812 he was one of the electors of president and vice-president ; and in 1813 was judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire. He died

May

1816. Calvin, physician, lecturer, author, was born in 1826 in Boston, Mass. In 186783 he was professor of clinical medicine in Harvard university. He was the author of The Tendency of Disease in One Part to Excite it in Another; and clinical lectures on Capillary Bronchitis. He died Dec. 14, 1883, in Boston, Mass. Ellis, Charles, college president, founder,, was born Jan. 31, 1800, in Muncy, Pa. He was one of the founders of the college of pharmacy of Philadelphia; and was its fourth president in 1854-69. He died May 16, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa. 9,

Ellis,

Ellis, Charles Mayo, lawyer, abolitionist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Boston. He was the author of a History of Roxbury. He died Jan. 26, 1878, in Brookline, Mass. Ellis, Cheselden, congressman, was born in New York. In 1843-45 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-eighth congress. He died in New York. Ellis, Edgar Clarence, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1854, in Verraontville, Mich. He received his education at Olivet college of Michigan and later received the degree of A.B. from Carleton college of Minnesota. In 1881-84 he was superintendent of public schools of the city of Fergus Falls, Minn. He practiced law in Kansas for a period of three years; and then moved to Kansas City. In 1905-09 he was a representative from Mis;

souri to the gresses.

fifty-ninth

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Ellis, Edward Sylvester, educator, author, was born April 11, 1840, in Geneva, Ohio. He was trustee and superintendent of the

schools of Trenton, N. J. He is the author ot thirty juvenile works, still issues two annually; and of two arithmetics and other

educational works. He is the author of The Youth's History of the United States; and

The Standard History United States; the Throttle to the President's Chair; Lost in Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; The Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the Tapajos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Danof the

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Boone; and Storm Mountain. Eleazer Holmes, lawyer, jurist, waa born Aug. 26, 1826, in Green Bay, Wis. He has been justice of the peace, alderman, postmaster, and mayor of Green Bay. During 1871-79 he was judge of the circuit court ot Wisconsin for the tenth judicial circuit. Ellis, Erastus R., educator, physician, surgeon, genealogist, was born in 1832. In 187375 he was a college professor in the Detroit homoeopathic college. He is the author ot Genealogy of The Ellis Family. iel

Ellis,

Ellis, Ezekiel John, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1841, in Covington, La. He served throughout the civil war in the confederate army from private to captain. In 1867-89 he practiced law in New Orleans, La. In 1875-85 he was a represen-

tative to the forty-fourth, forty-fifth, fortysixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. He died April 25, 1889, in Washington, D.C.

George Edward, clergyman, author, in 1814 in Massachusetts. He was pastor of the Harvard church in Charlestown in 1840-69; and for many years president of the Massachusetts historical society. He was the author of A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in Sparks's American Biography; and History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most important work. He died Dec. 21, 1894, in Boston, Mass. Ellis, George William, litterateur, author, was born in December, 1870, in Albany, N.Y. He is a writer on insurance economy and Ellis,

was born