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Rh (chairman), street railways, and railroads. He has taken a quiet but active interest in all the reforms of the day—temperance, civil service, suffrage, and the purity of the ballot. A staunch believer in Republican principles, he yet shows a firm independence of party dictation.

Mr. Ernst was married in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 11, 1879, to Jeanie, daughter of Edwin and Caroline (Edgarton) Bynner. Of this union are two children: Roger and Sarah Otis Ernst.

 ESTABROOK,, son of Thomas and Sybil (brown) Estabrook, was born at Reading, Windsor county, Vermont, December 9, 1828. He is in the sixth generation from Thomas Estabrook, of England, who settled in Concord, 1660, and the eighth generation from Nicholas Brown, the first settler of Reading, Mass.

His early education began in his native town. When seventeen he went to school near Buffalo, N. Y., and from eighteen to

twenty attended the academy in Woodstock, Vt. At twenty he began to teach, still continuing his studies at the academy, and at twenty-five was chosen principal of Centerville Academy, Michigan, where he remained for two years. During that time he secured the arrest and sentence to prison for life of three murderers of his brother Thomas. Loss of health required him to return to the East.

On the 5th of January, 1857, in Woodstock, Vt., Mr. Estabrook was married to Emma W., daughter of Daniel and Rebekah (Dickerman) Tarbell. Their children are: Viola May and Athelia Gertrude.

After his return to the East, Mr. Estabrook engaged in various undertakings. He was a printer, a merchant, a postmaster under Lincoln, and was connected with the Vermont Central Railway at East Granville. In 1863 he sold his real estate and moved with his parents to Lunenburg, where he has since been engaged in the more congenial and peaceful work upon a farm.

In 1868 he accepted the office of school committee and has been interested in town affairs to the present time. In 1876 he was a representative in the state Legislature and served upon several committees, among others that of re-districting the State. In 1879 he wrote a brief history of Lunenburg for the Worcester County History.

 ESTES,, son of Joseph and Maria (Edwards) Estes, was born in Gorham, Cumberland county, Maine, March 4, 1840; removed to Augusta, Maine, in 1855, and to Boston, 1859.

His early educational training was obtained in the public schools. At the beginning of the war of the rebellion he enlisted as private in the 13th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers; was three times wounded at the battle of second Bull Run, August 31, 1862, in which battle his only brother, Albert S. Estes, was killed.

Returning to Boston, he became the head of the publishing house of Estes & Lauriat, 1872; removed to Brookline, 1881; edited a series of volumes entitled "Half Hour Recreations in Popular Science;" compiled several volumes of juvenile and standard poetry, 1872–'74; became life member of the American Archæological Institute, 1882; Bostonian Society, 1883; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1884; Boston Memorial Association, 1885; director of the latter, and first secretary of the Pine Tree State Club, 1886 to '89; visited England, and was entertained by Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hughes, 1887; organized the International Copyright Association, and was its first secretary, November, 1887; brought from northern Italy a large collection of Paleo-Italian antiquities of great archæological value, 1888; was president of Brookline Club, 1888–'89; won the celebrated series of "Chatterbox" international trademark