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war; and attained the rank of lieuten-

ed inventor belongs much of the success of the civil war; for by the building of his iron-clad turret, the Monitor, just in time to defeat the Merrimac, saved the ports of the north from the southern or from foreign invasion. He died March 8, 1889, in New

ant-colonel. In 1874-76 he was president of the Rochester German insurance company. He died April 3, 1892, in Rochester, N.Y. Ernst, Oswald Herbert, soldier, engineer, author, was born June 27, 1842, in Cincin-

York

nati, Ohio.

Citj'.

Erlanger, Mitchell L., lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 15, 1857, in Buffalo, N.Y. In 190405 he was sheriff of New York county, effecting many reforms and securing the release of over five hundred prisoners. In 1907 he was elected justice of the supreme court of New York for the term ending in 1920.

Ermentrout, Daniel, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born on Jan. 24, 1837, in Reading, Pa. He was elected district attorney of Berks county for three years in 18B2;

and was

solicitor

for

the city of Reading in 1867-1870. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1873-80. He was a member of the board of school control of

Reading

for

He is a military engineer with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; and served in the Spanish-American war in Cuba and Porto Rico as a brigadier-general of volunManual of teers. He is the author of Practical Military Engineering.

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Errani, Achille, musician, was 20, 1823, in Italy. He settled in

forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses. He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress, but died before taking his seat. He died Sept. 17, 1899, in Reading, Pa.

Ernst, August Frederic, educator, clergycollege president, was born June 25, 1841, in Germany. Since 1863 he has been a clergyman of the Lutheran church; since 1869 professor in the Northwestern university of Watertown, Wis.; and since 1870 has been president of that institution. Ernst, George Alexander Otis, lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 8, 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer, of Boston, Mass.; and in 1883-84 was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature. He was a member of the Bos.ton school board in 1900-03; and a leader in the movement for reform in the Boston schools. He is the author of Law of Married Women

man,

in Massachusetts.

Ernst, Harold Clarence, scientist, author. is professor of bacteriology in Harvard medical school of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Infection and Immunity. Ernst, Henry, clergyman, theologian, college president, was born May 17, 1842, in Germany. Since 1865 he has been- in the Lutheran ministry. Since 1885 he has been president and professor of theology in the Lutheran seminary of St. Paul, Minn. Ernst, Louis, soldier, financier, was born July 19, 1825, in Germany. He served in the

born Aug.

New York

City as a teacher of the Italian style of singing. His

Hauck,

most famous pupils were Minnie Thursby, Mme. Durand and

Emma

Stella Bonheur. He died in January, 1897, in New York City.

Errett, Isaac, clergyman, journalist, college president, author, was born on Jan. 2, 1820, in New York City. In 1840 he became

and filled preacher Pittsin pastorates burg, Pa.; in New Lisbon, Warren, and North in Bloomfield, Ohio



many

years; and was appointed in 1877 member of the Pennsylvania statutory commission. In 1881-89 and 1897-99 he was a representative from Penn. sylvania to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth,

He

civil

Detroit, Muir and Mich.; and in Chicago, 111. He was associated with Alexander Hamilton in the Millennial Harbinger and in 1866 began the publication of Christian Standard of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1868 he was elected president of Alliance college. He received the degree ot LL.D. from Butler university in 1886. For three years he was corresponding secretary of the Ohio christian missionary society; and in 1867-70 was president. In 1874-76 he was president of the general christian missionary society; and in 1875-86 was president of the foreign society. He was the author of Brief Views of Missions; Walks About Jerusalem; Letters to Young Cliristians; Evenings with the Bible; and other works. He died Dec. 19, 1880, in Cincinnati, Ionia,

Ohio. Errett, Eussell, journalist, state

senator,

congressman, was born in 1817 in New York. In 1861-66 he served in the union army, as additional paymaster. He was a state senator in 1867; was assessor of internal revenue in 1869-73; and clerk of the state senate in 1872-76. In 1877-83 he was a. representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died April 7, 1891, in Cologne. Erskine, Albert, soldier, was born in Maine. served in the civil war; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Nov. 22, 1862.

He

Erskine, Ebenezer, clergyman, was born Jan, .31, 1821, in Ridley Park, Pa. In 1865-