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jud'jje Uy Guveniur Flower to suci-oeil Williaiii Crawford Kujjjer, deceased. In November, 1^1)2, Cluirles -Vndrews was elected chief judge. Jud^e Earl retired from the bench by reason of aj^e limit, Jan. 1, l!SU."i. He received the degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1^74 and from Cohuubia colUs'e in ISST.

EARLE, Alice Morse, anthor, was born in Worcester, ila.ss.. April 27. 1S53; daughter of Edwin and Abby Mason (Clary) Morse; grand- <laughter of Benjamin and Elizabetli (Hoar) Morse; ami a ilescendaut of Capt. Humphrey Ath- «rt ) I, Capt. Hugh Mason, Capt. Jonathan Hoar, the Hon. Ricliard Heard and the Hon. William lirowne. Slie was gra-iuated from the Worcester higli sciiool in 1872 and in 1874 was married to Henry Earle of Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the autlior of: Tlte Sabbath in ruritan New England (1891); China Collecting in America (1892); Customs and F'n^hions in Old Xew England (1893); Early Prose and Verse of Xew York (witii E. E. Ford, 1893); Costume of Colonial Times (1894); Life of M'lr'fint Winthrop (1894); Diary of Anna Green Winslow (edited, 1894); Colonial Dames and Good- inrrs (189.")); Curious Funishments of Dy-gonr Days (18%); Colonial Daysin Old New York (1896): Old Nnrrngavsett (1898); Home Life in Colonial Days (1898); Child Life in Colonial Days (1899).

EARLE, Baylis John, jurist, was born in (ireenville di.'^trict, S.C, Jan. 24, 1795; son of .Samuel and Harriet (Harrison) Earle. He was graduated with the first honor at the South Caro- lina college in 1811. He served six months as a .Holdier in Captain Kelly's cavahy in the war iigainst the Creek nation and was afterward pro- moted brigade-major of militia. Having studied law at Greenville, he was admitted to the bar in April, 1816, and was elected a representative in the South Carolina legislature in 1820. In Decem- ber, 1 822, he was elected solicitor of the western circuit, and was elevated to the bench Dec. 2, 1830, as ju'lge of common pleas, and Dec. 19, 1835, as judge of the supreme court of appeals. He declined in Decemljer, 1842, to oppose his friend, D. E. Huger, for a seat in the United States senate to succeed John C. Calhoun. He resigned his seat on the bench in December, 1843, and died in Greenville. S.C, Dec. 24, 1844.

EARLE, Elias, representative, was born in Frederick county, Va., June 19, 1762; son of Sam- uel and Eilizjilieth (Holbrook), gran-, from the southwest of Eng- Imd in 1649-52. first to St. Mary's, Md., and then to Northumberland county, Va. Between 1652 and the year of liis <leath, 1660, John Earle received, for the transportation of thirty-four i)ersons into

the colony, patents, besides earlier ones reverted, aggregating 17UU acres of land, located on Earle's Creek and Yeocomico river, now Westmoreland county; which, exclusive of others sub.seciuently granted by the Lords Proprietors of the Northern Neck, descended in a single male representative for one hundred years to Samuel, the eldest half brother of Elias Earle. His father, born in 1692, educated at William and Mary college, was a plant- er, attorney-at-law, member of the house of burgesses from Frederick, 1746, jus- tice, colleague of Lord Fairfax, 1747-52, col- lector of tobacco, 1748, high sherifl', church warden, 1751, and major of George William Fairfax's

colonial regiment. He married first Anna, daugh- ter of Thomas and Elizabeth Sorrell, 1726, and had Samuel, Baylis, John, Rachel and Hannah; and second Elizabeth, daughter of Randall and Jeanuette Holbrook, 1752, and had E.saias, Elias, Samuel, 'Ziah and Lettie. He died in 1771. In September, 1787, Elias followed the emigration of all his svirviving brothers and sisters, except Esaias, to South Carolina. He settled in what is now Greenville county. He was one of the earliest iron-mastei"s of the south, and about 1807 prospected and negotiated in the iron region of Georgia. He was a state senator in 1800; and a representative in the 9th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th congresses. He married Frances Wilton Robin- .son, and had four sons and four daughters. He died in Centerville, S.C, May 19, 1823.

EARLE, John Baylis, representative, was born in South Carolina, Oct. 23, 1766; son of Jolm and Thomasine (Prince) Earle; and grandson of Sam- uel and Anna (Sorrell) Earle. Soon after mar- riage, migi-ating from Virginia to South Carolina, his father settled finally in Rutherford, N.C; built " Earle's Fort " as a refuge and defence for Whig families during the Revolution; was a mem- ber of the committee of safety of Tryon county; and raised and commanded a company of rangers. .John Baylis, a lad of eleven, was flogged and left Ijouud to a tree by a |)arty of Tories because he would not betray his father and uncle; and later served as a drummer boy and soldier. He was a representative from South Carolina in the 8th congress, 1803-05. Declining a re-election and suc- Ceedsd by his uncle Elias Earle, he accepted in 1805 the office of adjutant and inspector-general