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 ELLIOTT 545 ingness of his medical colleagues and of the council of the university to allow the mesmeric cure to be applied to the hospital patients in- duced him, in December, 1838, to sever his connection with University college; and in 1849 a mesmeric hospital was founded, of which he was physician. A mesmeric journal, called "The Zoist," was also established by him. His principal contributions to medical science are: a translation with voluminous notes of Blumenbach's "Physiology" (1817); " Lectures on Diseases of the Heart " (1830) ; "Human Physiology" (1835-'40); "Principles and Practice of Medicine " (1840) ; and " Surgi- cal Operations without Pain " (1843). ELLIOTT, an E. county of Kentucky, drained by Little Sandy river and the N. fork of the Licking; pop. in 1870, 4,433, of whom 22 were colored. The surface is broken by hills con- taining coal and iron ore. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 8,261 bushels of wheat, 171,389 of Indian corn, 21,600 of oats, and 12,- 024 of potatoes. There were 908 horses, 1,083 milch cows, 2,129 other cattle, 6,835 sheep, and 6,493 swine. Capital, Sandy Hook, or Martinsburg. ELLIOTT, Charles, D. D., an American clergy- man, born at Greenconway, county Donegal, Ireland, May 16, 1792, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Jan. 6, 1869. In his youth he became a member of the Wesleyan Methodist society, and soon after began a course of study pre- paratory for the ministry. In 1815 he emi- grated to America, and went to Ohio, where he was received into the travelling connec- tion of the Ohio conference in 1818. In 1822 he was appointed superintendent of the mis- sion among the Wyandot Indians at Upper idusky, was subsequently for five years presiding elder of the Ohio district, and was then elected professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown, Pa., where he remained four years. In 1831 he was stationed in Pitts- burgh, and was subsequently presiding elder of that district. While serving in this capa- city he was chosen editor of the "Pittsburgh Conference Journal," and afterward of the "Western Christian Advocate," at Cincin- nati, where he remained till 1848. He again entered the regular work of the ministry, but in the general conference of 1852 he was re- elected editor of the "Western Advocate." From 1857 to 1860 he was professor of Biblical literature and president of the Iowa Wesleyan university. He was then appointed editor of the " Central Christian Advocate " at St. Louis, Mo., and during the civil war strongly sustained the cause of the Union. After its close he was again connected with the Iowa university till 1866. His chief works are: "Treatise on Baptism" (1834); "Delineation of Roman Catholicism" (2 vols. 8vo, 1851); "Life of Bishop Roberts" (1853); "History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episco- pal Church" (1855); "Political Romanism" (1859) ; " Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission;" "Southwestern Methodism;" and two works against slavery. ELLIOTT, Charles Loring, an American painter, born in Scipio, N. Y., in December, 1812, died in Albany, Aug. 25, 1868. He was for some time employed in a country store, but that oc- cupation being distasteful to him, his father, who was an architect, allowed him to study drawing with a view to that profession. El- liott went to New York and became a pupil of Trumbull, and subsequently of Quidor, a painter of fancy pieces, with whom he remained long enough to acquire a knowledge of the technicalities of his art. His chief employ- ment for some time was copying prints in oils, and he afterward attempted portraits. Some of his paintings representing scenes from Ir- ving's and Paulding's works attracted atten- tion. After about a year's residence in New York he returned to the western part of the state, where he practised portrait painting for about ten years. Returning to New York in 1845, he established himself there as a portrait painter, and soon rose to the head of his pro- fession. He painted about 700 portraits, many of them of prominent persons, and all remark- able for fidelity of likeness and vigorous color- ing. Not long before his death he established his studio and residence in Albany. ELLIOTT, Charles Wyllys, an American author, born in Guilford, Conn., May 27, 1817. He is a lineal descendant in the fifth generation from Eliot the "Indian Apostle." After some years spent in mercantile life in the city of New York, he in 1838-'9 studied horticulture and landscape gardening with A. J. Downing at Newburgh, and from 1840 to 1848 practised those pursuits at Cincinnati. He then returned to New York and engaged in mercantile busi- ness, but devoted attention to literary pursuits. He was one of the founders and first trustees of the " Children's Aid Society " in 1853. In 1857 he was appointed one of the commission- ers for laying out the Central park in the city of New York. He has published " Cottages and Cottage Life" (1848); "Mysteries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural " (1852) ; " St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Tous- saint 1'Ouverture " (1855) ; " The New England History, from the Discovery of the Continent by the Northmen, A. D. 986, to 1776" (2 vols., 1857); "Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land " (1867) ; and " Wind and Whirl- wind, by Thorn Whyte " (1868). He has also been a frequent contributor to periodicals, and is the author of several novels published anon- ymously. He is now (1874) a resident of Cambridge, Mass., and manager of the " House- hold Art Company " of Boston. ELLIOTT, Ebenezer, an English poet, called "the corn law rhymer," born at Masborough, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, March 17, 1781, died near Barnsley, Dec. 1, 1849. His father, who was employed in a foundery near Masbor- ough, was a dissenter of what was called the Berean sect, an occasional preacher, and a forci-