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landscape gardening and horticulture for two yeai's. In 1840 he removed to Cincinnati and en- gaged in landscape gardening until 1848 when he returned to New York city and entered into part- nei'ship with his brotlier Henry in the iron busi- ness. In 1853 he helped to found the Children's aid society, of which he was elected a trustee, and in 1857 was a member of the commission ap- pointed to lay out Central Park, New York city. He afterward removed to Cambridge, Mass., and later retui-ned to Guilford, Conn., where he re- mained imtil his death. His published works in- clude: Cottages and Cottage Life (1848); Mysteries; or Glimpses of the Supernatural (1852) ; St. Domingo, Its Bevolution and Its Hero, Toussaint VOuvertxire (1855) ; The New England History (1857) ; BemarJc- able Characters and Places in the Holy Land (1867) ; Wind and Whirlwind (1868) ; The Book of American Interiors (1876) ; and Pottery and Porcelain, from Early Times to the Philadelphia Exhibition (1877). He died in Guilford, Conn., Aug. 23, 1883.

ELLIOTT, David, educator, was born in Sher- man's Valley, Pa., Feb. 6, 1787. He was gradu- ated from Dickinson college in 1808 and was ordained a Presbyterian clergyman in 1811. He was pastor at Mercersburg, Pa., 1812-30, and pas- tor, professor of moral philosophy and principal pro tempore of Washington college. Pa., 1830-31. He declined the presidency of the college, and also in 1835 the chair of ecclesiastical history and church government in the Western theologi- cal seminary, Allegheny, Pa., but held that of polemic and historic theology, 1836-70, and was elected professor emeritus in 1870. He died in Allegheny. Pa., March 18, 1874.

ELLIOTT, Ezekiel Brown, statistician, was born in Sweden, N.Y., July 16, 1823; son of Dr. John B. Elliott. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1844 with special honors in mathematics, physics and astronomy. He was a school teacher in Michigan, New York and Maine and a telegra- pher in New York, becoming in 1849 superintend- ent and part owner of lines between New York, Albany and Boston, and the inventor of insulators, for which he received a medal. In 1855 he became a life insurance actuary in Boston, Mass. When the U.S. sanitaiy commission was organized in 1861 he connected himself with it as statistician and in 1862 as actuary, and when the organization was discontinued in 1865 he was employed by the United States government as secretary of the revenue commission. In 1871 he was made chief clerk of the bureau of statistics, treasury depart- ment, and in 1879 secretary of the U.S. civil service commission. In 1881 he was appointed govern- ment actuary of the treasuiy department, continu- ing in office till his death. In 1862 he was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences; in 1863 was a delegate to the Interna-

tional statistical congress at Berlin, and in 1882 was a vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science, presiding over the section of economic science and statistics. He published papers on mathematical physics, and statistical reports on coinage weights and meas- ures in the reports published in the volumes on Vital Statistics, U.S. census report. He died in Washington, D.C., May 24, 1888.

ELLIOTT, Henry Wood, artist and author, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1841; son of Reuben Franklin and Sophia A. (Hopkins) Elli- ott : and a direct descendant in the ninth genera- tion from John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians. His father (born in 1817, died in 1878) was the author of "American Fruit-Growers' Guide" (1854-76) ; " Popular Deciduous and Evergreen Trees " (1868) ; " Hand-Book for Fruit Growers " (1876) and "Practical Landscape Gardening" (1877). Henry was educated in the private and public schools of Cleveland ; was private secretary to Prof. Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithson- ian institution, 1862-78; artist to the U.S. geologi- cal survey, 1869-71 ; and special conunissioner im- der special act of congress to investigate the seal industry of Alaska, 1872-74, and again in 1890. He was married at St. Paul's Island, Alaska, July 22, 1872, to Alexandria Melovidov, daughter of the Russian agent in charge of Seal Islands, 1820- 68. He is the author of Monograph of the Seal Isl- ands of Alaska (1881) ; Our Arctic Province (1886) ; besides pajjers on seal and bird life, and scientific articles for current periodicals, together with "many treatises on the growing of small fruits and the planting of vinej'ards.

ELLIOTT, James, representative, was born in Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 18, 1775. He removed to Guilford, Vt., in 1790 and became a clerk in a store. In 1793 he enlisted at Springfield, Mass., as the first non-commissioned ofiicer in the sec- ond U.S. sub-legion, and was in the service against the insui'gents in Pennsylvania and the Indians in Ohio, 1793-96. Ha was admitted to the bar in 1803 and in the same year took his seat as a representative in the 8th congress. He was I'e- elected to the 9th and 10th congresses, serving 1803-09. On his retirement from congi-ess he published a paper in Philadelphia, Pa., and in the war of 1812 he served in the army for a brief pe- riod. He then jjractised law in Brattleboro, Vt. , and was a representative in the state legislature, 1818-19, He later removed to Newfane, Vt., and again served in the state legislature, 1837-38. He held several minor political offices, and died at Newfane, Vt., Nov. 10, 1839.

ELLIOTT, James Habersham, clergyman, was born in Beaufort, S.C, Nov. 11, 1819; son of Prof. Stephen and Esther (Habersham) Elliott. He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1839;