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 ELLIOTT

ELLIOTT

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, in Boston. Her first pvib- lislied writing was a biographical sketch of her mother in Our Famcms Women. Her first story- was A Newport Aquarelle (1883). Her otlier books include: The San Bosario lianche (1884); Atalanta in the South (1886); Ilammon (1888); PhilUda (1891) : and Honor (1893).

ELLIOTT, Mortimer F., representative, was born near "Wellsboro. Pa., Sept. 24, 1841; son of Nathaniel A. and Elmira (Hart) Elliott; and grandson of Levi Elliott. His great-grandfather migrated from Maine to the wilderness of Tioga county, Pa., about the oeginning of the nine- teenth centur}'. Mortimer was prepared for col- lege at the Wellsboro academy and entered Alfred viniversity, Alleghany county, N.Y., but left a year before the completion of his course. He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and practised in the courts of nearly all of the northern counties of Pennsylvania. He was a Democratic representa- tive-at-large in the 48th congress, 1883-85, retiring at the close of his term to the practice of his pro- fession at Wellsboro, Pa.

ELLIOTT, Robert Brown, representative, was born in Boston, IMass., Aug. 11, 1843, of African descent. He was prepared for college at High Holborn academy, London, England, and was graduated from Eton in 1859. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, afterward returning to the United States and practising in Columbia, S.C. He was elected a member of the state constitutional convention of 1868. He served in the state legislature, 1868-7C, and was assistant adjutant-general, 1869-71. He was a Republican representative in the 42d and 43d congresses, 1871-75. In 1874 he was elected sheriff and in 1875 was a representative in the state leg- islature, being speaker of the house. He removed to New Orleans, La. , in 1877, and practised law un- til his deatli. which occurred in that city in 1884.

ELLIOTT, Robert Woodward Barnwell, first bishop of western Texas and 106th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Beaufort, S.C, Aug. 16, 1840; son of the Rt. Rev. Stephen and Charlotte Bull (Barnwell) Elliott ; and grand- son of Stephen and Esther (Habersham) Elliott. He was graduated at the College of South Caro- lina in 1861, joined the Confederate army and gained the rank of major. After the war he set- tled in Rome, Ga., where he took deacon's orders in 1868 and preached at various missions through middle Georgia. He entered the General theo- logical seminary of the P.E. church. New York city, in the class of 1873, officiating as assistant minister during his studies. He did not gradu- ate, being ordained a priest in 1871 at Savannah, Ga., and becoming rector of St. Philip's church. He was elected missionary bishop of western Texas and was consecrated, Nov. 15, 1874. He

made San Antonio his see city and labored in his extensive and sparsely peopled field for thirteen j'ears. He received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of the South in 1873. He died at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., Aug. 26, 1887.

ELLIOTT, Stephen, naturalist, was born in Beaufort, S.C. ,Nov. 11, 1771; son of William and Mary Gibbes (Barnwell) Elliott ; and grandson of William Elliott (1695-1731) and of Nathaniel and Mary (Gibbes) Barnwell. He was graduated at Yale in 1791 and upon leaving college settled upon his estate where he engaged in planting and in prosecuting his scientific studies. He was a mem- ber of the lower house of the South Carolina legis- lature, 1793-1812. When the state bank was organized in 1812 he was elected its president and held the office during the remainder of his life. His researches in botany extended through the states of South Carolina and Georgia and he gave numerous gratuitous lectures on the subject. He founded and was for a time editor of the Southern lieview and in 1825 was largely instrumental in the founding of the Literary and philosophical society and the Medical society of South Carolina, both in 1813. He was elected president of the Literary and philosophical society, a fellow of the Ameri- can academy of sciences, and was professor of natural histoiy and botany in the Medical college 182.5-30. He received the degree of LL.D., from Yale in 1819, from Harvard in 1822, and from Columbia in 1825. He accumulated a large natu- ral histoiy collection, and published The Botany of South Carolina and Georgia (2 vols., 1821-24) which he prepared in collaboration with Dr. James McBride. He was married in 1795 to Esther, daughter of the Hon. James Habersham, Jr., of Savannah, Ga. He died in Charleston, S.C, March 28, 1830.

ELLIOTT, Stephen, clergyman, was born in Beaufort, S.C, Nov. 13, 1804; son of William and Phoebe (Waight) Elliott; and grandson of William and Mary Gibbes (Barnwell) Elliott, and of Wil- liam Waight. He was graduated at Harvard in 1824 ; engaged in planting ; studied for the minis- try in the Protestant Episcopal church; was ordained deacon Feb. 15, 1835, and priest. May 25, 1836, at Charleston, S.C; and was rector of St. Peter's parish, of Prince William's parish and of St. Bartholomew's parish, S. C He was mar- ried to Ann Hutson, daughter of John and Ann (Barnwell) Habersham. In 1846, although a wealthy planter, he determined to devote himself to missionary work among the negroes, and built for them near the Combahee river a commodious chiu-ch called Christ chapel. Supporting his family from his private means, he ministered to these people gratuitously imtil the outbreak of the civil war, training many of them to take part in.