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McHenry, Maiylancl, 1856-57, and was assistant engineer in the construction of the defences of San Francisco harbor, Cal., 1857-61. He was pi-omoted 1st lieutenant, Aug. 3, 1861, sviperin- tended tlie construction of fortifications at Fort Point and Alcatraz Island, San Francisco harbor, Cal., in 1861, and was engineer on other defences of the Pacific coast, 1861-70, during which time he constructed the fortifications at the mouth of the Columbia river. He was promoted captain, March 3, 1863, brevetted major for meritorious service during the civil war, March 13, 1865, and promoted major, March 7, 1867. He was engi- neer secretary of the lighthouse board, 1870-74, and from April 28 to Sept. 11, 1873, was engaged in inspecting the ligJithouse systems of Eiu'ope. From May 21, 1874, to Oct. 26, 1882, he was assist- ant to thv. chief of engineers at Washington, D.C., and was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 8, 1882. He was in charge of various works of de- fence on the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and of river and harbor improvements in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, from Nov. 1, 1882, to April 7, 1887. He was a member of the advisory covmcil of Rhode Island state board of harbor commissioners from Feb. 27, 1884, to April 1, 1887. He was on sick-leave of absence in Europe from April 1, 1887, to July 1, 1889. He was a member of the lighthouse board at Washington, D.C., from Feb. 19, 1892, to June 2, 1893. He was in charge of the Washington aqueduct; of increasing the water supplj' of Washington, D.C., and of the erection of fish- ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac from July 17, 1889, to March 31, 1895. He was pro- moted colonel, May 18, 1893, and was retired from active service by operation of law, March 31, 1895. By special authority of congress, however, he con- tinued after his retirement from active service in charge of the improvement of the Dalecaslia reservoir of the Washington aqueduct system which he had planned and commenced, until its completion, Nov. 15, 1895. He became a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution ; of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of the Association of graduates of the U.S. military academy. He is the author of: Lighthouse Systems in EiirojjeilSli): The Presidio of San Francisco, Cat. (1874). He died in Wash- ington, D.C., March 23, 1900.

ELLIOTT, Aaron Marshall, educator, was born in Wilmington, N.C., Jan. 24, 1846; son of Aaron and Rhoda (Mendenhall) Elliott. He was graduated from Haverford college in 1866, and from Harvard in 1868. He then travelled in Eu- rope and entered the College de France, where he pursued a special course of study for two years. From there he went to Florence, Italy, and en - tered the Institute of Superior Studies. In 1872

he entered the University of Madrid, Spain, and during the next year travelled extensively through Spain and Portugal. He visited Greece and the Orient in 1873, spending a winter at the University of Athens. In 1874 he entered the University of Munich, where he remained mi til called to the Jolins Hopkins university as Asso- ciate in Romance languages. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1877; that of M.A. from Haverford in 1878, and that of LL.D. from Wake Forest coUege, North Carolina, in 1891. He was chosen editor- in-chief of Modern Language Notes, secretary of the Modern Language association of America; president of the Harvard club of Baltimore, member of the Dante society of Boston, Mass., the Archaeological society of America, and the American philological association, and honoraiy member of the Elisha Mitchell society of North Carolina. He spent the sumuiers regularly after returning to America in 1876 in the manuscript departments of the British Museum, London, and of the National libi-ary of Paris, engaged in liter- ary work. In the autumn of 1891 he became professor of Romance languages at the Johns Hopkins university.

ELLIOTT, Charles, clergyman, was born in Greenconway, county Donegal, Ireland, May 16, 1792. He acquired a classical education under private teachers and in 1815 removed to the United States where he entered the Methodist ministry in Ohio. In 1822 he became superintend- ent of the Indian mission at Upper Sandusky, Ohio; was presiding elder of the Ohio district, 1823-27, and held the chair of languages in Madi- son college, Uniontown, Pa., 1827-31. He was then placed in charge of a church in Pittsburg, Pa., of which district he was later appointed presiding elder. He was editor of the Pittsburg Conference Journal, 1834-36, and of the Western Christian Advocate, 1836-48 and 1852-56. He held the chair of Biblical literature in Iowa Wesleyan university, 1857-58, and was president of that institution, 1858-60 and 1864-67 ; and during the civil war, 1860-64, was editor of the Central Chris- tian Advocate. He received the degree of D.D. from Wesleyan in 1840 and that of LL.D. from Allegheny in 1858. His published works include: Treatise on Baptism (1834) ; Delineation of Roman Catholicism (2 vols., 1851) ; Life of Bishop Roberts (1853) ; History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church (1855); and Political Romanticism (1859). He died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Jan. 6, 1869.

ELLIOTT, Charles, educator, was born at Roxburghshire, Scotland, March 18, 1815. He removed to the United States at an early age; entered Lafayette college as a preparatory stu- dent in 1834, az.d was graduated in 1840, serving