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 ELDRIDGE

ELIOT

ceed the Rt. Rev. J. O. Van de Velde, who had been transferred from Chicago in 1853, and he was consecrated at Baltimore by Archbishop Kenrick, May 3, 1857. During the civil war he sympathized with the Confederate government, and when the Federal troops occupied his see city he was banished for refusing to make anj- change in praj'ers by military authority, whether Fed- eral or Confederate. He appealed to the United States government, claiming that the state had no right to direct the services of religion, and he was reinstated. He passed through several yel- low-fever epidemics and was a faithful bishop, pastor and nurse. In 1878 he was named for coadjutor to the Most Rev. J. C. Alemany, arch- bishop of San Francisco, Cal., but his removal to that see was delayed by the yellow fever and he tarried to reorganize the diocese of Natchez, ren- dered necessary by the loss of six of the twenty- five priests by the scourge of that year. On Jan. 30, 1880, he was appointed titular bishop of Avara and coadjutor to the archbishop of Cincinnati, with right of succession, and after administrating the affairs of the archdiocese three years, on the death of Archbishop Purcell, July 4, 1883, he succeeded to the see of Cincinnati and was in- vested with the pallium, Dec. 13, 1883.

ELDRIDGE, Charles A., representative, was born in Bridgeport, Vt., Feb. 27, 1821. He re- moved to New York city at an early age and was admitted to the bar in 1846. In 1848 he removed to Fond du Lac, "Wis., and practised his profes- sion, serving in the state senate in 1854-55. He was a Democratic representative from Wiscon: sin, in 38th-43d congresses, 1863-75. He died at Fond du Lac, Wis., Oct. 26, 1896.

ELIOT, Andrew, clergj-man, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., Dec. 28, 1718; son of Andrew and Ruth (Symonds) Eliot and great-grandson of An- drew Eliot, who emigrated from Wales with his father Andrew, about 1663 and settled in Beverly, Mass. He was graduated from Harvard in 1737, and was ordained associate pastor of the new North church, Boston, Mass. , April 14. 1742, being made sole pastor in 1750. He was a member of the London society for propagating the gospel among the Indians, and labored to convert the savages to Christianity. He was secretary of the board of overseers of Harvard college, 1758-78, a fellow of the corporation, 1765-78, and in 1773 declined the presidency of that institution. He was married in October, 1742, to Elizabeth Lang- don, and had eleven children. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1767. He published a volume of sermons (1774). He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 13, 1778.

ELIOT, Charles William, educator, was born in Boston, Mass. , March 20, 1834 ; son of Samuel Atkins and Mary (Lyman) Eliot; grandson of

Samuel and Catherine (Atkins), great-grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Marshall), great^ grandson of Andrew and Marj' (Herrick), great^ grandson of Andrew and Mercy (Shattuck), and great* grandson of Andrew and Grace (Woodier) Eliot, who came from England in 1668-70. His preparatory educa- tion was acquired at the Boston Latin school, and he was graduated at Har- vard college in 1853. He was em- ployed as tutor in mathematics in Harvard from 1854 to 1858, and at the same time pursued the study of chem- istry. He was as- sistant professor of mathematics and chemistry, 1858-63. ■_.,... -

He visited the uni- versities of Europe and investigated their educa- tional methods while pursuing his scientific stud- ies, 1863-65. He was appointed to the chair of analytical chemistry at the Massachusetts insti- tute of technology, which he occupied, 1865-69. He made a second visit to Europe in 1867-68. In 1869 he succeeded Dr. Thomas Hill as president of Harvard college, after an interregnum of about twelve months, during which time Andrew Preston Peabody had been acting president. He began his official life as head of the university, May 19, 1869. The election of overseers had been taken from the two houses of the state legislature in 1865, and placed in the hands of alumni of the college, and the state officers ceased -to form a part of the board. Extensive reforms were intro- duced, the elective system supplanting the pre- scribed curriculum. This called for an enlarged list of professors, tutors and instructors, and with this came increase in patronage and in gifts and endowments. On June 27, 1894, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his presidency was commemorated by the alumni, at which time they presented him with a gold medal. In 1896 he reported 366 teachers and 3600 students. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1868-69 ; was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences, a mem- ber of the American philosophical society, and of the Massachusetts historical society. He received his master's degree from Harvard in 1856; the honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams and from the College of New Jersey in 1869, and from Yale in 1870. With Prof. Francis H. Storer he published: Mamial of Inorganic Chemistry (1868); and Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (1869)