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ment, Wisconsin national guard; and was commissioned captain, retaining the office until 1887. Upon his removal to La Crosse he helped to organize company of the same regiment, being first lieutenant and afterwards captain; and in 1894 he was commissioned acting judge advocate general, with the rank of colonel. In 1899-1911 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the

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fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Esher, John Jacob, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 11, 1833, in France. He was the first agent of the Northwestern college; and started that institution of learning. In 1863-1901 he was bishop of the Evangelical church at Chicago, 111. He was the author of Over Land and Seas; and edited the Sunday-School and Juvenile Literature of his church. He died April 17, 1901, in Chicago, 111. Eshleman, Isaac Stauffer, physician, was born May 22, 1820, in Lancaster county, Pa. He claimed to have been among the first to use stimulants in pneumonia; and also to have proved that blisters are not revellents, but stimulants. He found that cerebro-spinal meningitis yielded to free depletion if made use of early in the stage, and followed by chloroform taken internally. This experience prepared him for the use of chloral, which he successfully prescribed in every form of convulsion. He was the author of papers showing originally of practice in placenta previa. He died in Fresno, Cal. Eshner, Augustus A., physician, author, was born Nov. 17, 1862, in Memphis, Tenn. He is a noted physician and scientist of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Essentials of Diagnosis; and Hand-5ook of Fevers. Eskridge, Thomas P., lawyer, jurist. He was appointed United States judge for the territory of Arkansas, serving in that capacity as late as 1831. He died in Arkansas. Esling, Mrs. Catherine Harbeson, poet, was born April 12, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was the author of The Broken Bracelet and Other Poems. She died in Philadelphia, Pa. Esling, Charles Henry Augustine, lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pa. For twenty years he practiced law in his native city;

and has been honored on two occasions by being selected for diplomatic commissions abroad, which he declined. He was a special envoy from the catholics of the United States to the Vatican; and has travelled extensively. He was the translator from the Italian of

The Life

of

Saint Germaine Cousin; The Shepherdess of Pibrac; Legends of the Madonna from the

French; and a volume of original poems entitled Melodies of Mood and Tense. He died in 1907 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Espenshade, Abraham Howry, educator, author, was born May 30, 1869, in Lancaster, Pa. Since 1898 he has been assistant professor of English and rhetoric at the Pennsylvania state college. He is the author of Essentials of Composition and Rhetoric.

Espy, James Pollard, meteorologist, auwas born in 1785 in Pennsylvania. He was a meterologist of Philadelphia, sometimes called the storm king. In 1843 he received an appointment under the war department, enabling him to prosecute his inthor,

vestigations in the

Washington observatory.

He was the author of Philosophy of Storms. He died Jan. 24, 1860, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Essary, John Thurman, lawyer, governofficial, was born Oct. 17, 1855, in Puscounty, Va. In 1884 he was appointed secretary of the Tennessee state bureau of

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agriculture. In 1892 he lector of international

was appointed

col-

revenue for East Tennessee. In 1897 he became commissioner of agriculture for Tennessee.

Samuel was born Jan.

Essick, tor,

Ohio.

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V., soldier, lawyer, inven19, 1841, in

served in the

civil

New

Franklin,

war as a

private.

The most important effort on which he entered was the invention of the Essick printing telegraph; and in 1889 a company was organized under the name printing telegraph company.

of

He

the Essick died in 1900

in Yonkers, N.Y.

Estabrook, Arthur Frederick, banker, philanthropist, was born May 17, 1847. He is a successful banker of Boston, Mass.; and built the Estabrook school near Boston,

Mass. Estabrook, E., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, poet, was born April 30, 1813, in Lebanon, N.H. In 1851 he was elected attorney-general of Wisconsin; and in 1854 was appointed United States attorney for Nebraska. In 1859 he was elected to congress.

Estabrook, William Booth, lawyer, jurist, genealogist, was born Jan. 27, 1856. He has been special county judge of Tompkins county, N.Y. He is the author of Estabrook Genealogy.

Estaugh, Elizabeth, colonist, was bom in 1682, in London, Eng. She was the daughter of John Haddon, a Quaker. She married John Estaugh, a Quaker preacher. Mrs. Estaugh's house became a place of general resort for Friends and an asylum for benighted travelHaddonfield, N.J. was named for her. Her medical skill is so well remembered that the old nurses of New Jersey are said still to recommend her preparations. She died in 1762 in New Jersey. ers.