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 church, Oakland, Cal., 1874-79, and at Cincin- nati, Ohio, 1879-86. He was a professor in the San Francisco theological seminary, 1877-79, and professor of homiletics and pastoral theology in Lane theological seminary, 1879-86. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the city of New York in 1861, and that of LL. D. from Marietta college in 1881. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 9, 1886.

EELLS, Myron, clergyman, was born at Tshinakain, Walker's Prairie, Spokane county, Oregon, Oct. 7, 1843; son of the Rev. Cushing and Myra (Fairbank) Eells, missionaries. He was graduated from Pacific university, Oregon, in 1866, and from the Hartford theological semi- nary in 1871. He was ordained as a Congrega- tional minister at the Fourth church, Hartford, Conn., June 15, 1871, and was pastor at Bois6 City, Idaho, 1871-74, under the American home missionary society. He was assistant pastor at Snohomish, W.T., 1874-76, and became pastor under the American missionary association in 1876. In this capacity he organized churches at the following places in Washington Territory and state: Seabeck, 1880, Dungeness, 1882, Holly, 1891, Riverside, 1897, and Brinnon, 1897, and had pastoral charge of all these churches in 1899. He was elected a trustee of Pacific university in 1878 and of Whitman college in 1888, and received from the latter the degree of D.D. in 1890. He was made a member of many scientific societies and a corresponding member of the Anthropolog- ical society, Washington, D.C., and of the Victoria institute, London, England. He super- intended the ethnological exhibit of Washington at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893. He is the author of: Chinook Jargon IIymns.(1878); Life of S. H. Marsh, D.D. (1881); History of the Congregational Association of Oregon and Washing- ton (1881); Indian 3Iissions (1883); Ten Years at Snohomish (1886); Tirana, Chamaknm and Clallam Indians (1889); Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon Language (1893); Indians of Puget Sound (1894); Father Eells (1894); and several pamphlets. ————————————- NAME: EGAN, Maurice Francis, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1852; son of Maurice Florent and Margaret (MacMullen) Egan; great- grandson of Niall Gerald Maurice Egan, Chevalier de Florent; and descendant of the Chevalier McEghan, of the regiment of Lally,in the Irish brigade, under Louis XV. Maurice Francis Eagan’s father came from Dublin by way of Tipperary Ireland to Philadelphia; his maternal grandfather in 1765. Mavmce Francis Egan was graduated at La Salle college, Philadelphia, in 1873. He studied law in the office of John I. Rogers of Philadelphia, became a contributor to Appleton’s Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, and adopting literature as a vocation became sub- editor of McGee's Plustrated Weekly, 1878, associate editor of The Catholic Peview, 1871 editor of the New York Freeman's Journal, 1880, and editor of the same paper, 1885. In 1889 he became professor of English literature at the University of Notre Dame, Ind.,and in 1895 he accepted the chair of English language and litera- ture at the Catholic university in Washington,D.C.. Doctor Egan was elected to membership in the Cosmos and Authors clubs and the New York Shakespearian Society. He was made LL.D. of Georgetown University in 1889 and of Ottawa University in 1892. He is the author of: •That Girl of Mine (1874); •The Sea of Fire (1875); • Preludes (1879); • A Garden of Poses,  Stories of Duty (1885); •The Flower of the Flock and The Badgers of Belmont (1891); •A Gentleman (1893); Jack Clutleigh (1895); •The Leopard of Lancianus (1899); •In a Brazilian Forest (1899), — all stories for boys; Songs and Sonnets (1881, 1884, 1893, 1894, 1897); The Theatre and Christian Parents (1887); Modern Novels and Novelists (1888); Lectures on English Literature (1889); •The Disappearance of John Longworthy (1890); • The Life Around Us (1891); • A Primer of English Literature (1893); •A Marriage of Peason (1893); •Translation of Francois Coppee's Pater(1894); •The Success of Patrick Desmond (1894); •The Vacation of Ed- icard Conway (1896); •From the Land of St. Lawrence (1898). He also contributed to The Century, the North American Review, and other leading peri- odicals. —————————————- EQAN, Michael, R.C. bishop, was born in Ire- land, probably in County King's, about 1761. He was educated for the jiriesthood, joined the Franciscan order, and was ordained probably in Belgiiun in 1787. He was prior and lector of theology at St. Isidore's convent in Rome, 1787- 90, and a missionary in Ireland, 1790-93. In 1801 he .sailed from Dublin for America spcid became assistant at St. Maiy's of the Assiunption, Lan- caster, Pa. In 1803 he applied for the erection of

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a province of the order of Franciscan fathers, O.S.F., in America. Bishop Carroll gave him the encouragement of his support and in 1804 a decree to that effect was made by Archbishop