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 ELLET

ELLICOTT

Scenes in the Life of Joanne of Sicily (1840) ; Char- acters of Schiller (1842): Family Pictures from the Bible (1849); Evenings at Woodlawn (1850); Do- mestic History of the American Revolution (1850) ; Watching Spirits (1851) ; Women of the American Revolution (1851) ; Pioneer Women of the West (1853); Novelettes of the Musicians {ISbT) ; Summer Rambles in the West (1853); The Practical House- keeper; a Cyclopceclia of Domestic Economy (1857); Women Artists in all Ages and Countries (1861); Queens of American Society (1867) ; and Court Cir- cles of the Rppxihlic (with Mrs. R. E. Mack, 1869). She died in New York city, June 3, 1877.

ELLET, William Henry, chemist, was born in New York city, Nov. 1, 1806. He was gradu- ated from Colmnbia college in 1824, and later re- ceived the degree of M.D. He was lecturer on elemental chemistry in Columbia, 1830-32, and professor of elemental chemistry, 1832-33. In 1835 he accepted the professorship of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in South Carolina col- lege, which he held until 1848, when he returned to his native city and became consulting chemist of the Manhattan gas company. He was married in 1835, to Elizabeth Fries Lummis. He died in New York city, Jan. 26, 1859.

ELLICOTT, Andrew, engineer, was born in Bucks county. Pa., Jan. 24, 1754. His father and uncle were the founders of Ellicott's Mills, Md., in 1774, and owned large tracts of land on the Patapsco river. He was brought up on this place and devoted his leisure time to the study of me- chanics and the natural sciences. As a civil engineer he was commissioner for marking the boundaries of the states of Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia, and enjoyed the friendship of Washington, Franklin and Rittenhoiise. He removed to Baltimore in 1785, and was a repre- sentative in the state legislature. In 1789 he was selected by President Washington to make the survey of Niagara river, and he determined the height of the falls and the descent of the rapids. He surveyed and laid out the city of Washington in 1790, and in 1792 President Washington ap- pointed him surveyor-general of the United States. He built Fort Erie at Presque Isle in 1795 and laid out the towns of Erie, Warren and Franklin, Pa. In 1796 he was appointed to deter- mine the bovmdary between the United States and the Spanish possessions, and completed this service in 1802. He was then appointed secretary of the state land office of Pennsj'lvania by Gov- ernor McKean and he resigned the office in 1808. He was professor of mathematics and engineering at the U.S. military academy, 1812-20, by ap- pointment of President Madison. He was a mem- ber of the American philosophical society. He published his Journal (1803). He died at West Point, N.Y., Aug. 29, 1820.

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ELLICOTT, Henry Jackson, sculptor, was born at Wliite Hall, Anne Arundel county, Md., June 23, 1847; son of James P. and Fanny A. (Ince) Ellicott, and grandson of Andrew Ellicott and of George Ince. His great-grandfather, Maj. Andrew Ellicott, was engineer with L" Enfant, the engineer who laid out the city of Washington, B.C., and became his successor in that work when L" Enfant and the commissionei's disagreed. Henry was edu- cated at Rock Hill college, El- licott city, Md. ; at Gonzaga col- lege, Washing- ton ; at George- town medical college and at the New York academy of de- sign, 1867-70. His first com- mission was a monument in Calvary ceme- tery in 1870, followed by one in Greenwood ceme« tery. In 1876 he was employed in modelling decc rations for the centennial building at Philadelpliia/ and removed to that citj- where he became iden- tified with the academy of fine arts. Among his more notable works are the Soldier's mommient at Holyoke, Mass., 1874; the group " Commerce, Protection and Mechanism " on the New England life insurance building at Boston, 1875 ; the por- trait statue of Colonel Cameron at Sunbury, Pa. , 1879; the statue of the recording angel surmoimt- ing the Duncan monument at Pittsburg, Pa., 1880 ; the bronze statues erected bj' the 1st and 2d Pennsylvania cavalry on the battlefield of Gettys- burg, one in 1887, the other in 1889 ; the eques- trian statue of Gen. George B. McClellan erected on the city liall plaza, Philadelphia, Pa., 1894, and the equestrian statue of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, erected by the U.S. government at Washington, B.C., and unveiled May 12, 1890. He was chief modeler and sculptor for the govern- ment under President Harrison's administration. He died in Washington, B.C., Feb. 11, 1901.

ELLICOTT, Joseph, engineer, was born in Bucks county. Pa., Nov. 1, 1760. . He removed with his father and uncle to Ellicott's Mills, Md. , in 1774, and became a surveyor. He assisted his- brother Andrew in plotting the city of Washing- ton, B.C., and in the survey of the boundary line between New York and Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Holland land company of New York in surveying the " Holland purchase," 1797- 1800, and laid out Buffalo, N. Y. He joined Gov- ernor Clinton in urging the projected Erie canal