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 200 ELLIS. ELLIS. dained March 11, TS40, as pastor of the Harvard Congregational church, Charles- town. From 1S57 till '63, he was professor of systematic theology in Harvard divinity school. In 1864 he delivered before the Lowell Institute, a course of lectures on the "Evidences of Christianity," in 1 S7 1 a course on the "Provincial History of Massachusetts," and in 1S79 a course on "The Red Man and the White Man in North America." He resigned the pastorate of Harvard church in June, 1869. GEORGE E. ELLIS Mr. Ellis was at one time editor of the "Christian Register," and afterwards joint editor with Rev. George Putnam, D. D., of the " Christian Examiner," which he sub- sequently conducted alone. He has been vice-president of the Mas- sachusetts Historical Society, and is now president. He was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard in iS5o-'5i, serv- ing one year as secretary. Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1847, and LL. D. in 18S3. Mr. Ellis is the fourth person who has received both of these degrees from the university. lb' was chairman of the committee of publication of the Massachusetts Histori- cal Society for editing the MS. journal of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, and published an address on the life and character of the judge. He delivered the address at the unveiling of the statue of John Harvard, in Cambridge (1884). He is a fellow of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, member of the American Antiquarian Society, and corre- sponding member of the Historical socie- ties of New York, Connecticut, New Ha- ven, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. He delivered an address before the New York Historical Society upon its eighty- second anniversary, November 16, 1S86. He has published lives of John Mason (1844), Anne Hutchinson (1845), and Wil- liam Perm (1847), m Sparks' " American Biography ;"" Half Century of the Uni- tarian Controversy" (1857); "Memoir of Dr. Luther V. Bell" (1863); "The Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massa- chusetts, and their Treatment of Intruders and Dissenters" (1869); "Memoir of Jared Sparks " (1S69) ; " Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford "(1871); "1 lis- tory of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital" (1872); "History of the Battle of Bunker Hill " (1875) ; " Memoir of Charles Wentworth Upham" (1877) ; "Memoir of Dr. Jacob Bigelow " (1S80) ; " Memoir of Nathaniel Thayer" (1885); an address before the city government on the centen- nial of the evacuation by the British arm}'-, with an account of the siege of Boston (1876) ; and numerous other memoirs, ser- mons and addresses. Mr. Ellis wrote three historical chapters for the " Memo- rial History of Boston " (i8So-'8i) ; "The Religious Element in New England," and five other chapters in the " Narrative and Critical History of America" (18S6) and several articles on American subjects for the ninth edition of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica." He has also contributed nu- merous articles to periodicals. He pub- lished in 1882 "The Red Man and the White Man in North America;" in 1S88, "The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay," and in 1888, an historical address delivered in Dedham, November 19th, on "The Church and the Parish in Massachusetts, Usage and Law." ELLIS, George Livingston, son of Edson and Mary Sherman Ellis, was born in Plympton, Plymouth county, November 10, 1S38. He is a lineal descendant from old Plymouth " Mayflower" stock. His education commenced in the com- mon schools of Plympton. He was gradu- ated from Plympton Academy, of which he afterwards became principal. While fitting