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Ellison, Thomas Emmet, la-wyer, jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 12, 1852, in La Grange, Ind. He was educated at Notre Dame college; and graduated from the university of Michigan with the degree of LL.B. Since 1873 he has practiced law in Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1895-99 he was a member of the Indiana state senate. Ellison, William Bruce, lawyer, author, was born July 17, 1857, in Canada. In 1893 he was a member of the New York state

missioned colonel. He died May 24, 1861, in Alexandria, Va. Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott, inventor, poet, was born Nov. 27, 1822, in East Windsor, Conn. He invented a drawing or copying instrument and a siphon. He is the author of a popular poem entitled Ariadne; and in 1855 he published a volume of his collected poems. Ellsworth, Eugene Stafford, soldier, financier, was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He served in the war as a drummer boy in the

In 1907 he was corporation counsel of New York. He is the author of Unification of the United States and Canada; and The Canadian American Fisheries. Ellison, William H., educator, college president, was born Dec. 4, 1805, in Charleston, S.C. In 1840-51 he was president of Weslevan female college of Macon. He died Dec. 36, 1884, in Clayton, Ala.

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Ellmaker, Amos, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 2, 1787, in New Holland, Pa. He was deputy attorney-general for Dauphin county in 1809-12; and served in the legislature in 1812-14. He was appointed president judge of the judicial district in 1815. He died Nov. 28, 1851, in Lancaster, Pa.

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clergyman, poet, was Frankfort, Ind. For forty years he has been a successful clergyman; for twenty years was field editor on the American Christian Review; for seven years co-editor of the Christian Leader; and since 1892 has been editor of the Gospel Echo. He is the author of a large number of tracts; and Maple Valley Poems.

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EUsberry, William W., physician, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1833, in New Hope, Ohio. He was a member of the county military board of Brown county; settled at Georgetown, Ohio; and was three times chosen county auditor. In 1885-87 he was a representative from Ohio to the fortyninth congress. Ellsler, E£5e, actress, was born in 1858. She has attained prominence as one of the foremost actresses in the United States;

and resides

in Philadelphia, Pa. Ellsworth, Charles Clinton, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1824, in Berkshire, Vt. He was a member of the Michigan state house of representatives in 1852-54; and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Montcalm county. He was appointed a paymaster in the army in 1862, and served until the close of the war. In 1877-79 he was a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. He died

June

25, 1899, in Greenville, Ind.

Ellsworth, Ephraim Elmer, soldier, was born April 23, 1837, in Mechanicsville, N.Y. Tn I860 he organized a regiment of zouaves, which became renowned for the perfection ot their discipline,

and of which he was com-

which

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father commanded. He subsequently did a very extensive business in loaning money for eastern capitalists on

Iowa

improved

farms. In 1880 he organized the Cedar Iowa Falls Rapids, and northwestern land

and town lot company, which purchased lands and town sites for over three hundred miles along the Burlington railroad; and he justly claims to be the founder of more than thirty cities and towns in Iowa. Ellsworth college of Iowa Falls was named in his honor. Ellsworth,

Henry Leavitt, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in Windsor, Conn. He was appointed resident commissioner among the Indian tribes in Arkansas; and was United States commissioner of patents in 1836-45. His reports to congress during this period added greatly to the improvement of agriculture. He was the author of

Digest of Patents in 1770-1859. He died Dec. 27, 1858, in Fair Haven, Conn. Ellsworth, Henry William, lawyer, diplomot, author, was born in 1814, in Windsor, Conn. He moved to Indiana in 1835; was counsel for Morse in some of his suits connected with telegraph patents; and was appointed charge d'affaires to Sweden in 1845. He was the. author of Sketches of the Upper Wabash Valley; and American Swine Breeder.

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died in August, 1864, in

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James

William,

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Haven,

capitalist,

president of the Ohio Coal company, at St. Paul; and president of the Cleveland and Pittsburg dock company. Since 1869 he has owned and operated mines. He is the builder of the town of Ellsworth, Pa. Ellsworth, Mary. Wolcott, litterateur, author, was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Exeter, N.H. She wrote biographical articles for Cypress Leaves. She was the author of Peace or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the Children; Smith's Saloon; and compiled Juvenile Miscellany. She died Aug. 12, 1870, in Newton,

Mass.

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