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with his profession as a clergyman. He served as president of the annual meetings of the Arkansas Baptist state conventions, 1878-98, and as chairman of its executive board. He vras mar- ried in 1882 to Mary, daughter of William and Kate (Oldham) Kavanaugh of Madison county, Ky. Mrs. Eagle became a prominent worker in the Baptist church, and was president of the Woman's ceuti*al committee on missions and of the Woman's missionary union. She was also a member of the board of lady managers of the World's Cokunbian exposition, and chairman of the state committee on congresses, preparing the program, presiding over the woman's congress which met daily in the woman's building dur- ing the continuance of the exposition, and editing The Congress of Women, the official organ of the congress.

EAMES, Charles, diplomatist, was born in New Braintree, Mass., March 20, 1812. He was graduated at Harvard in 1831, studied law at Harvard and completed his course in the office of John Duer, afterward chief justice of the New York superior court. He was prevented from practising on account of ill health, and in 1845 was appointed by Secretary Bancroft to an office in the navy department in Washington. He also became associate editor of the Union. President Polk appointed him tJ.S. commissioner to the Sandwich islands in 1849, where he negotiated an important treaty. In 1850 he edited the Nash- ville Union and at the end of six months re- turned to the Washington Union and continued work on that journal, 1850-54. In 1854 President Pierce appointed him charge d'affaires to Ven- ezuela, S.A., and soon after his arrival there made him U.S. minister. He resigned the office in 1857 and became an admiralty lawyer. He died in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1867.

EAMES, Emma, see Story, Emma Eames.

EAMES, Jane Anthony, author, was born in Wellington, Mass., Jan. 21, 1816; daughter of Hezekiah and Sally (Bowers) Anthonj^, and granddaughter of David and Submit (Wheeler) Anthony. She was educated in Providence, R.I. She was married in 1839 to the Rev. James, son of James and Sarah (Mumford) Eames. Mr. Eames was graduated from Brown in 1839, re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Norwich in 1862; was rector of St. Paul's church, Concord, N.H., 1858-77, and died Dec. 10, 1877. In 1858 Mrs. Eames accompanied her husband on a long tour through Europe, Egj^pt, Syria and Palestine. She published: A Budget of Letters (1847) ; M>j blather's Jewel (1850); The Christmas Gift (1851); Sarah Bamj (1852) ; Home (1853) ; Another Budget (1854) ; Memorial of the Bev. James H. Eames (1878) ; and Memorial of Hezekiah Anthony (1885). She died in Boston, Mass., July 8, 1894.

EAMES, Wilberforce, librarian, was born in Newark, N.J., Oct. 12, 1855; son of Nelson and Phoebe Harrison (Crane) Eames of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; grandson of Jolm and Sarah (Matthews) Eames; and a descendant of Robert Eames of Wobum, Mass. He was taken to Brooklyn, N.Y., at the age of six and there acquired a common school education. In 1873 he obtained employ- ment in a book store, and in 1885 was made an assist- ant in the Lenox library, New York city. He became first assistant in 1888, assistant libra- rian in 1892, and librarian in 1893. In 1895 the Astor, Lenox and Tilden libraries were com- bined and Mr. Eames was made Lenox librarian. Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1896. He edited a comparative edi- tion of the authorized and revised versions of the New Testament (1882) ; Vols. XV. -XX. of Sabin's Dictionary of Books relating to America (1885-92); and a comparative edition of four Latin texts, with a translation of Columbus's letter to Sanchez on the discovery of America (1892). He contributed to numerous bibliographical works and periodicals, and also published editions of the Bay Psalm Book (1885) ; Bibliography of Sir Walter Baleigh (1886) ; editions of Ptolemy's Geography (1886) ; Bibliographic Xotes on ElioVs Indian Bible, etc. (1890) ; and Early Xeio England Catechisms

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EARL, Robert, jurist, was born in Herkimer, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1824; son of Jolm and Margaret (Petry) Earl; grandson of Paul Earl, and of Dr. William Petry, a surgeon in the Revolutionary army; and a descendant of Ralph Earl, who came to Rhode Island from England in 1638. He was prepared for coUege at Herkimer academy and was graduated at Union in 1845. He was county judge of Herkimer covmty, 1856-60, was surrogate of the county, and in 1869 was elected judge, and for a time was chief judge of the court of appeals of the state. On the reorganization of that court in 1870 he was made a member of the commission of appeals. He was appointed in 1875 by Gov- ernor Tilden a judge of the court of appeals on the death of Martin Grover and in November, 1876, he was elected a member of the court for the full term of fourteen years. He was re-elected in 1890 and in January, 1892, was appointed chief