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Estey, Julius Jacob, manufacturer, state senator, was born Jan. 8, 1845, in Brattleboro, Vt. He was president of the Estey organ company. In 1876 he was a member of the Vermont legislature, and in 1883 a state senator. He was lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the national guard of Vermont; and in 1892-98 was brigade commander. He died March 7, 1902, in Brattleboro, Vt.

Benjamin, congressman, was born Washington county, Va. In 1835-37 he was a representative from Virginia to the nineEstil,

in

teenth congress.

He

died in Virginia.

John Holbrook,

Estill,

soldier, journalist,

was born Oct. 28, 1840, in Charleston. During the war he served in the confederate army. In 1867 he secured control of the well known southern newspaper, the Savannah Morning News, and built up one of the most complete printing houses in the south. He was lieutenant-colonel on the governor's staflf; and was president of the Bethesda orphan home. He died in 1907 in Savannah, Ga. Estill,

Keverdy, clergyman, theologian, was

May

1848, in Charleston, W.Va. Jle of Wooster, at the theological seminary of Virginia, and at the general theological seminary. He has filled pastorates in the episcopal church in

born

6,

was educated at the university

Atlanta, Bowling

Newport; and

Portsmouth, and 1894 has been pastor

Green,

since

of St. Paul's church of Louisville,

Ky.

Albert, soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1845, in St. Bernard, La. In 1872-76 he was sheriff of St. Bernard parish; and in 1876-80 he was a member of the Louisiana house of representatives; and in 1880-1900 was a member of the state senate. In 1899 he was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention. In 1900-04 he was lieutenant-governor of Louisiana. In 1862-65 he served in the civil war. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Louisiana to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a Estipinal,

democrat. Estorge, Joseph Leonard, physician, surgeon, was born in 1830 in Opelousas, La. He was appointed a surgeon in the confederate army in the trans-Mississippi department, but was made a prisoner at Fort de Eussey. He died Aug. 21, 1880, in Opelousas, La.

Esty, Constantino C, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1824, in Framingham, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state senate in 1857-58; and of the house in 1867. He was appointed a member of the state board of education in 1871; and in 1871-73 he was a representative from

Massachusetts to the forty-second congress. Esty, William, electrical engineer, author, was born July 9, 1868, in Amherst, Mass. Since 1903 he has been a professor of electrical engineering the the Lehigh university. He is the author of Alternating Current Machinery; and part author of Elements of

Electrical Engineering, in two volumes; of Dynamo Laboratory Manual.

and

Etheridge, Emerson, lawyer, congressman, Sept. 38, 1819, in Currituck county, N.C. He was elected to the state legislature for two years. In 1853-61 he was' a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1867 he was candidate for governor. In 1869 he was a member of the state senate. He was surveyor of customs at Memphis in 1891-94.

was born

Etter,

Samuel M., educator, was born

May

Newville, Pa. In 1840 his father moved to Ohio; and he attended the frontlet school three months each year. When sixteen years of age he was sent to a boarding school at Twinsburgh, Ohio ; taught school one year; and then attended the high school at Massillon Ohio; and at the col16, 1830, in

Kalamazoo,

lege

of

Mich.

He was

a teach-

union school Perrysburg, Ohio

er of the

at 1855 took charge of the schools at Lacon, 111. In 1868 he became superintendent of schools at Galva, 111.; and in 1861 was elected county superintendent. In 1864 he was elected superintendent of the schools at Kewanee, 111.; and in 1868 became superintendent of schools at Bloomington, 111. In 1875 he became state superintendent of pub-

and

lic

in

instruction.

Etue, Peter D., soldier, journalist, poet, was born June 39, 1846, in Ontario, Canada. In 1863 he enlisted in the fourteenth New York cavalry, serving three years as a private, and as orderly for General Emory. He established the Kansas City Live Stock Indicator in 1878, disposing of it in 1893. He has held many political positions in Kansas City, Mo., including that of alderman and member of the school board. His poems have appeared in current newspapers and magazines.

Eustace, John Skey, soldier, was bom Aug. Flushing, L.I. Congress commissioned him major for his services in capturing the British colonel Burton. After the war he resided in Georgia, where he practised a,yr and became adjutant-general of the state; and held other civil and military offices. He 10, in

died Aug. 25, 1805, in

Newburg, N.Y.

Eustis, Abram, soldier, was born March 28, 1786, in Petersburg, Va. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious services in 1813; became lieutenant-colonel of the fourth artillery in 1822; brigadier-general in 1834; and a few months later colonel of the first artillery. He died June 27, 1843, in Portland, Maine.