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 EARLE

EARLY

cupy a chair in an American medical institution, lie introduced the lecture course in insiine asy lums and was the lirst to address an audience of the insiine on a secular or scieutitic subject, lie was an exjiert witness at the trial of CJuiteau for the murder of President Gartield. He was a founder of the American medical association, the New Yorkacademy of medicine.the Association of medical su|>erintendentsof American institutions for the insiine, and the New England psychological society. Ilis published works include: ^1 Visit to Thirti'cn AstjlHinsfor the Insane in Europe (^1840); The Jlintori/, Dt'scription and Statisticj; of the Jilnominijdale Asylum (1848); Institutions for the In- nane in Prussia, ticrmany and Austria (1853); An Examination <»/ the Practice of Blood-Li'tting in Men- tal Disorders (18.54); PsychoUxjic Medicine, its im- portance as apart of the Medical Curriculum; The Psychopathic Hospital of the Future; Prospective Provisions fur the Insane; A Glance at Insanity and the Management of the Insane in the American States; Tlie Curability of Insanity: a Series of Studies (1887); and <ieneal»yy of the Earle Family (1888). He died at Northampton, Mass., May 17, 1892.

EARLE, Ralph, painter, was boin in Leices- ter, Mass.. May 11, 1751; son of Ralph and Phebe (Whittemore) Earle; grandson of William and Anna (Howard) Earle; great-grandson of Ralph and Mary (Hicks) Earle; great^ grandson of Wil- liam and Mary (W^alker) Earle; and great^ granilson of Ralph and Joan Earle, who came from England about 1634. His father served as a captain in the American army during nearly the whole of the Revolutionary war. He was edu- cated as an artist and was known to have painted portraits in Connecticut as early as 1771. In 1777 he painted two full-length portraits of Timothy Dwight, afterward president of Y^ale college. He executed, from sketches taken upon the spot, four liistorical paintings, believed to be the first his- torical paintings by an American artist. The sub- jects were: " The Battle of Lexington "; "A View of Ck)ncord, with the Royal troops destroying the stores "; " The Battle of the North Bridge, Con- cord "; and • ' A View of the South Part of Lexing- ton, where the First Detachment was joined by Lord Percy." In 177G he went to England and studied under Sir Benjamin West. He was elected a meml>er of the Royal academy in London and painted in London until 1786. when he returned to America and lived at various times in Massa- chu.setts. New Y'ork and Connectir-ut. His brother James. 1761-98, was a ]»ortrait i)ainter in Charles- ton, S.C.. and James's son, AugtLstu.s, born in 1793, also a painter, travelled all over the world. Ralph Earle (4th) was married about 1773 to Sarah Gates, and one of his sons, Ralph, became an artist, stud- ied in London, was married to a niece of Gen. Andrew Jackson, and during a considerable i)art

of the latter's term as President was a member of his household at Washington. He painted a full-length jjicture of Jackson which was highly commended, lialph Earle (4th) died in Bolton, Conn., "Aug. 10, ISUI.

EARLE, Samuel, representative, was born in Frederick county, Va., Nov. 28, 176U; son of Bay- lis and Mary (Prince) Earle; and grandson of Samuel and Anna (Sorrell) Earle. With his father he migrated to South Carolina in 1774. He was ensign in Bowie's company, 5th S.C. conti- nentals, June 11, 1777, and was promoted 2d and 1st lieutenant at the battle of Stono, June 20, 1779. He was paroled by the British June 11, 1780; again took up arms in October, 1780, "acting generally as a volunteer, in different offices and with different corps," and engaging in "many battles, sieges and skirmishes ''; was with Sumter at Blackstocks, November 20, and declined a cap- taincy with him, 1781; was with Roebuck at Bush River, with Greene on the retreat into Virginia, with Lee's legion and Hammond's cavalry at the siege of Augusta, and on Pickens's staff in the Cherokee invasion, whence detached in the spring of 1783, he raised a company of rangers which he commanded to the close of the war. He was a representative in the state legislature for L'nion and Spartanburg, 1784-88, a delegate to the state convention which ratified the Federal constitu- tion, voting for that instrument. May 12, 1788, and a delegate to the state convention which framed and established the constitution of South Carolina, 1790, that instrument not having been submitted to the people. He refused a brigadier- generalship of militia in 1794. He was a repre- sentative in the 4th congress, 1795-07. He was married March 12, 1793, to Harriet, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hampton) Harrison, and had eight sons and five daughters. He died in Pendleton district, S.C, Nov. 24, 1833.

EARLY, John, M.E. bishop, was born in Bed- ford county, Va., Jan. 1, 1786. He became a Methodist minister in 1807 and preached with success throughout Virginia. He aided in found- ing the Randolph-Macon college at Boydton. Va., in 1830, and repeatedly held the positions of pre- siding elder, secretary of the conference and delegate to the general conference. In 1844, when the church divided north and south, he was elected first book agent of the church south, and in 1854 was ordained a bishop in the Method- ist Episcopal church, south. lie received the degree of D.D. from Randolph -3Iacon college. He died in Lynchburg. Va., Nov. .5, 1S73.

EARLY, John, educator, was born in County Fermanagh. Ireland, in 1814. He immigrated to the United States in 1832 and settled in Emmitts- burg, Md., where lie attended Mount St. Mary's college for a brief ))eriod. He was graduated