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as master of the preparatory nicxlel school, 1839- 41. He was gradiuited from Princeton tlieologi- cal seminary in 1841. He was jirincipal of an academy at Xeuia, Ohio. 184:3—15; treasurer and professor in the Western university of Penn.'^yi- vania, 184o-49; professor of Greek literature and logic at Miami univei-sity, 1849-63; professor of Biblical literature and exegesis at McCormick theological .seminary, Chicago, lU., 1863-82; and professor of Hebrew and cognate languages at Lafayette college. 1882-92. He was a member of the American oriental society; of the Victoria institute. Great Britain, and of the Society of Biblical literature and exegesis. Ohio miiversity conferred uix)n him the degree of D.D. in 1861, and Hamilton the degree of LL.D. in 1891. He published: Treatise on Sabbath; Part of Minor Propht>ts; Treatise on Inspiration (1878); Bible Jlemicnentics (1882) ; Mosaic Authorship of Penta- teuch (1885); Old Testament Prophecy (1889); and occasional contributions in periodicals and re- views. He died at Eastnn. Pa.. Feb. 15. 1892.

ELLIOTT, Charles Burke, jurist, was born near Chester Hill, Morgan county, Ohio, Jan. 6, 1861 ; son of Edward Elliott ; grandson of Resha Elliott, and a descendant of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He attended Marietta college, and the law department of the State tiniver- sity of Iowa, and was graduated Ph.D. from the L'niversity of Minne- sota. He was engaged in tlie practice of law in ^linneapolis, Minn. , from 1885 to January, 1891, when he was appointed judge of the municipal com-t of Minneapolis. He served until January, 1894, Avhen he was appointed judge of the district court of Minnesota. He was afterward presiding judge of the fourth district. In 1889 he be- came a lecturer on constitutional hi.story, and the law of corporation and insurance in the college of law of the University of Minnesota, and in 1898 was lecturer on international law. He was given the honorary degree of LL.D. by Iowa state university in 1895. He is the author of numerous contributions to American and for- eign reviews and magazines, chiefly on questions connected with jurisprudence and public inter- national law. and published: The United States and the Xorthenstern Fisheries. A History of the Fishery QncMion (1887) ; The Lain of Private Cor- porations (1897) ; The Law of Insurance (1898) ; and The Law of Public Corporations (1898). To the

American and Enylish Encyclopaedia of Law he con- tributed the articles on Bonds and Municipal Securities. Among his more important contribu- tions to magazines are : The " Behriug Sea Ques- tion," Atlantic Monthly, (1890) ; " The Legislatures and the Courts," Political Science Qitarterly (1890) ; "The Treaty Making Power Under the Con- stitution,*' Revue Generale de Droit International Public (Paris, 1898) ; "Judicial Control over Legis- lative Power in the United States of America," Journal du Droit International et Public, St. Peters- burg (1897); and Review of Legislation in the United States for 1896, Jahrbuch der Intemationaler vereinigurcf far vergleichende Pechtsicissenscraft und volswirtschafslehre zu Berlin.

ELLIOTT, Charles Loring, painter, was born in Scipio, N.Y., in December, 1812. His father was an architect. He attended the district school and emploj'ed all his leisure in drawing and painting. At the age of ten he decided to become an artist, but was opposed Ijy his father who wished him to enter mercantile business. In 1827 he removed to Syracuse, N.Y., and there be- came a clerk in a dry goods and grocery store. He was discharged for inattention and was sent to an academy in Onondaga Hollow. His father became satisfied that the boy cared for nothing but art, and sent him to a school where he ac- quired some knowledge of drawing, especially as pertaining to architecture. Young Elliott made a profound study of architecture and was soon able to assist his father. In 18;i4 he went to New York and there studied first under Trumbull and later under Quidor. Three pictures painted while studying with Quidor, attracted favorable com- ment: "The Battle of Christina"; "The Bold Dragoon"; and an illustration of Paulding's " Dutcliman's Fireside." He then sjjent ten years in central New York, occupying his time in painting portraits. Returning to New York he opened a studio and in 1845 won his first great success by painting a portrait of Colonel Erics- son. He was elected in that year an associate national academician, and in 184G an academi- cian. Contemporarj' critics declared him to be the greatest American portrait painter of his time. Among his principal works which include over seven hundred portraits of famous persons, are : James E. Freeman ; Lewis Gaylord Clark; J. Fen- imore Cooper; Matthew Vassar; W. W. Corcoran; Fitz-Greene Halleck; Erastus Corning; Horatia Stone; Horatio Seymour; and Washington Hunt. He died in Albany. N.Y., Sept. 25, 1868.

ELLIOTT, Charles Wyllys, author, was born in Guilford, Conn., May 27, 1817- a descendant in the fifth generation from John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. He removed to New York city and for several years was engaged in ))usiness. In 1838 he went to Newburg, N.Y., and studied