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the United States in 1857 and became a success- ful concert player. In 1861 he became organist of St. Ann's chm'ch, Brooklj-n, N.Y., and in 1866 accepted a similar position at tlie church of St. Paul the Apostle, in New York city. He was also conductor of several prominent musical soci- eties. In 1873 he be- came organist of the Park Avenue Baptist church. In 1874 he founded and became president of the Grand Conservatorj'of music of the city of New York which in 1884 was incorporated and empowered to confer the degi-ees of bache- lor, master, and doc- tor of music. His yoimgest daughter Beatrice, born in 1883, had acquired at the age of sixteen an excellent reputation as a violinist and composer. He received the degree of Mus.D. from the Grand conservatory of music in 1884. He is the author of A Course of Sttidies for the Piano (13 vols., 1888) ; Method of the Piano (2 vols., 1890) ; Course of Technics (3 vols., 1891); Harmony and Counterpoint Simplified (1892), and many piano pieces and songs. He edited Julian Schuberth's Xew Organist (3 vols., 1873).

EBERLE, John, physician, was born in Lan- caster county. Pa., Dec. 10, 1787. He was gradu- ated M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1809, and practised first at Manheim, later at Lancaster, and after 1814 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1832 he helped to establish the Jefferson med- ical college, Philadelphia, in which he was pro- fessor of physic, 1825-30, and professor of materia medica and lecturer on obstetrics, 1830-31. He then resigned to accept the chair of materia medica in the Medical college of Ohio, in Cincin- nati. In 1837 he removed to Lexington, Ky., and Avas professor of the practice of medicine in Transylvania university until his death. He was an editor of several medical journals, including the Medical Recorder of Philadelphia (1818-23). He pubhshed: Botanical Terminology (1818) ; Trecct- ise on the Diseases and Physical Education of Chil- dren (1819) ; Treatise on Therapeutics and Materia Medica (2 vols., 1822); and Xotes of Lectures on the Theoi-y and Practice of Medicine (3 vols., 1844). He died in Lexington, Ky., Feb. 3, 1838.

EBERSOLE, Ezra Christian, lawyer, was born in Mt. Pleasant. Pa, Oct. 18, 1840; son of Jacob and Catharine (Keister) Ebersole. He was graduated from Amherst in 1863, and served in the civil war in the Federal army, 1863-63. He

taught in Western college, then located near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1863-65 ; was its president, 1867-68; and was pi'ofessor of Greek and Latin in the Iowa state university, 1868-70. In 1S70 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1873 began to practise in Toledo, Iowa. He was for ten years county attorney for Tama county, and was the re- porter of the Iowa supreme court, 1882-91. In 1897 by the unanimous vote of the legislature, he be- came editor of the Iowa code. He received the honorar^r degree of LL. D. from Western college, 1895. He is the author of Hie Iowa Peoples' Law ^oo^■(1899).

ECCLES, Robert Qibson, chemist, was born-in Scotland, Jan. 1, 1848; son of David and Isabella (Gibson) Eccles. He was educated in Scotland and Ireland and on his removal to America at- tended schools in Missouri and Kansas. He was graduated from the Long Island hospital college in 1883 and became chemist for the United States department of Indian affairs. He was professor and dean of the Brooklyn pharma- ceutical college, 1891, and also managing editor of the American Medico- Surgical Bulletin. He was appointed in 1890 a member of the committee to revise the United States pharmacopa?ia and discovered the alkaloids calycanthine, glaucusine and calycanthic acid in the fruit of calycanthus glaucus, Willd. He invented the official method of testing pepsin, investigated the effects of drugs on peptic digestion, and exposed the worth- lessness of Scotch oats essence and other fraud- ulent preparations. He was elected a fellow of the American as.sociation for the advancement of science, a member of the American chemical so- ciety, of the American medical association, and of other learned societies. He was the president of the N. Y. state pharmaceutical association and president of the chemical department of the Brooklyn institute. He served two terms as chairman of the section on education of the American pharmaceutical association, four years as first vice-president of the Brooklyn ethical association, and was made the vice-president for New York of the National pure food and drug congress. He is the author of many articles on scientific and philosophic subjects.

ECCLESTON, James Houston, clergyman, was born in Chestertown. Md.. May 10, 1837; son of John Bowen and Augusta (Chambers) Eccles- tou; grandson of Samuel Eccleston. and a de- scendant of John, the fir.st immigrant. He was a nephew of Samuel Eccleston, R.C. archbishop of Baltimore, and brother of the Rev. John C. Ec- cleston, rector of St. John's parish. Staten Island, N.Y. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1856, studied theology at the Protes- tant Episcopal divinity school. West Philadel- phia, Pa., was ordained a deacon, June 13, 1865,