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 ELLIXWOOD

ELLIOT

but opposed him wlien he proposed to send to EuroiH? for engineers, and finally converted the gt)vernor to his view. He was stJite ciinal com- missioner for some time and remained with the Holland land comptiny for twenty years, during which time he succeeded in selling most of the vast tract held liy the company to actual settlers. Iledic.l in Hatavia. N.Y., Au- 19, l^-^Y..

ELLINWOOD, Frank Fields, educator, was born m Clinton, Oneida county, N.Y., June 20, 18-20. He was gnuluated from Hamilton college in 1849 and studied theology at Auburn, 1851-52, and at Princeton, 1852-53. He was ordained a Presby- terian clergyman at Belvidere, N.J., Jime 21, 1853; was pastor at Belvidere, 1853-54, and at Rochester, N.Y., 1854-65. He was secretary of the Presbyterian committee of church erection, 1S6G-70; of the memorial fund committee, 18T0- 71; corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions, 1871-87, and professor of com- parative religion in the University of the city of New York from 1887. He was married June 26, 1853, to Rowana Hurd of New Y^ork city, and again on April 15, 1867, to Laura Hurd of Fair Haven, Vt. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of the city of New Y^ork in 1865. He published: The Great Congttest (ISIQ) ; Orien- tal lieligions and Christianittj (1892), and contrib- uted to periodicals.

ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud, naturalist, was born in New York city, ]Marcli 7, 1835; son of George T. and Rebecca Giraud (Foster) Elliot; and grandson of Clarke and Nancy (Thompson) Eliot and of Andrew and Ann (Giraud) Foster. He was descended on his father's side from Richard Treat, a colonist of Wethersfield, Conn., early in the 17th century; and on his mother's side from tiie Girauds who emigrated from France with the Huguenots and settled first in New Rochelle and later in New York. He was prepared for Colum- bia college, but ill-health compelled him to go to warmer climates, where he continued his studies in zoology in which he had always been deeply interested. He spent the years 1856-57 in travel and study in Europe and the east, and in 1858 was married to Anna Eliza Henderson of New Y'ork city. He afterward confined his study to mammals and birds, and in 1859 published his first scientific paper in The Ibis. He continued to \\Tite for periodicals, and the value of his con- tributions to science was repeatedly acknowl- edged by varioas European governments and by the leading scientists of the world. He was decorated commander of the royal orders of the crowns of Italy, Spain and Wurtemburg; was made knight of the imperial and royal orders of Francis Joseph of Austria, and of six other royal orders, and received many other equally import- ant honors. He was made a feUow of the royal

society of Edinburgh and of the " Zoological so- ciety of London."' He was a founder and became president of the American ornithological union, and was also a founder and vice-president of the Zoological society of France, and was elected to numerous offices in the principal scientific socie- ties of America. In 1887 lie presented to the American museum of natural history, New York city, a valuable library and a unique collection of humming birds. In 1894 he was appointed cura- tor of zoology in the Field Columbian museum of Chicago, 111., and in March, 1896, commanded an expedition into Central Africa to collect speci- mens for the maseum, securing a large number of very rare animals. During the sunnner of 1898 he led a scientific expedition for tlie Field museum into the Olympic moimtains, northwest Washington, and was the first naturalist to pene- trate into this unknown range, where he obtained over five hvuidred specimens of the mammals in- habiting it. His published writings include more than one hundred and fifty scientific papers and the following volumes: A Monor/raph of the Pitti- dae or Family of Ant Thrushes (1863, new ed., 1885) ; Monograph of the Grouse (1865) ; Monograph of the Pheasants (2 vols., 1872); Monograph of the Birds of Paradise (1874) ; Synopsis and Classifica- tion of the Trochididae (1878) ; Monograph of the Hornhills (1881) ; Monograph of the Cats (1881) ; Neio and Heretofore Unfigured Birds of Xorth America (2 vols., 1869) ; North American Shore Birds (1895) ; Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America (1897): Wild Foiol of the United States and British Posses- sions (1898) ; Wild Animals (Wolfs).

ELLIOT, George Henry, military engineer, was born in Lowell, Mass., March 31, 1831; son of George Perkins and Elizabeth (Tidd) Elliot, and a descendant of John Tidd, a member of Cap- tain Parker's company of " minute men " at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, and of John Elliot, a soldier of Colonel Stark's reg- iment at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, He was grad- uated from the U.S. military academy, July 1, 1855, and was assigned to the 1st artillery with the rank of 2d lieuten- ant. He served ia garrison at Fort Co- lumbus, N.Y., 1855, on frontier duty at Fort Mcintosh, Texas, 1856-57, and in the former year was engaged in scouting against the Lipan Indians. He was transfeiTed to the corps of en- gineers, Jan, 26, 1857 j was in garrison at Fori.

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