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battles of second Manassiis. Sliarpslnir>;, first Fred ericksburtc. Clmmpion's Hill. Vickshur;;, Harri- sonburg, Atlanta, Jonesboro. Franklin, Nashville, Kinston and Bentbn- ville. He returned to South Carolina to find his projierty de- stroyed through the ravages of war, and the slaves freedmen with no just concep- tion of what freedom meant. He set about to recuperate the for- tune of his native state by taking part in the elections and

when so many re- mained inactive. He served in the state legis- lature in 186',>. was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions in 1876 and 18S8, was a pres- idential elector for the state at large in 1880, and a representative in the 50th, 51st, 52d, 54th, ELLIS, Edward Sylvester, author, was born in Geneva, Ohio, April 11, 1840; son of Sylvester and Mary (Alberty) Ellis; grand.son of John and Mary (Gager) Ellis; and great-grandson of John Ellis, born in England in 1730, settled in Catskill, N. Y., ajid was a soldier in the Frencli and Indian war. Edward was graduated at the State normal school, Trenton, X.J., where he was subsequently a member of the fac- ulty for some years. He was principal, trustee and superin- tendent of public schools in Trenton, N. J., 1875-86. He was editor of the daily Public Opinion, Tren- ton, 1874-75, and of the Golden Days, Phil- adelphia, Pa., 1878-81. He was married Dec. 25, 1862, to Anna M. Deane, and their only son, Wilmot Edward Ellis, was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1889, was assigned to the artillery, and was appointed instructor of philosophy at the academy in Sep- tember, 1898. Edward S. Ellis received the liono- rary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1887 for his historical works. He is the author of: Eclectic Primary lhstoi~y of the United States {\9»%) \ Youth's History of the United States (1887) ; Standard, Introductory and Complete Arith-
 * V.tli. .'t!th and ."i7th coll.^^resses, 1887-93, 189o-1903.

metics (18S7) ; School Histoj-y of the United States (1892): Our Country (1898); Peoples' Standard History of the United States {IHdS) ; School History of the State of Xew York (1899) and stories for boys under series titles of Young Pioneer, Log Cabin, Deerfoot and others of which more than thirty volumes were published, 1884-99. He is also the author of regular contributions of stories for boys to newspapers and magazines iu Europe and America. For pen-names he used: "Col. H. R. Gordon.*' "Lieut. R. H. Jayne," and "Capt. R M. Hawthorne."

ELLIS, Ezekiel John, representative, was born in Covington, La., Oct. 15, 1840; son of Judge Ezekiel Park and Tabitha Emily (Warner) Ellis. He attended Centenary college, Jackson, La., 1856-58, and was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1861, the same year entering the Confederate army as captain. At Missionary Ridge, '^enn., he was taken prisoner and confined at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, until the close of the war. He prac- tised law in New Orleans, La., 1869-75; was a rep- resentative in the 44th^Sth congresses, 1875-85; and practised law in Washington, D.C., 1885-89. On Jan. 29, 1867, he was married to Josephine, daughter of Harvey and Juliaette (McKeen) Chamberlin of Natchez, Miss. He died in Wash- ington, D.C., April 25, 1889.

ELLIS, George Edward, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 8. 1814; son of David and Sarah (Rogers) Ellis. His father, a Boston mer- chant and shipowner trading with Sweden, was twice married : by his first wife, Theda Lewis, he had nine children, all but one, Francis George, dying young. His second wife, Sarah, was a daughter of Jeremiah Dummer Rogers, a com- missary in the British army at the time of the siege of Boston : iand a descendant of the Rev. John Rogers of Ipswich, president of Harvard college, 1682-84. George Edward Ellis attended the Boston Latin school. Round Hill of Northampton, Mass., and Well's school, Cambridge. He was gradu- ated from Harvard college in 1833 and from Har- vard divinity school in 1836. He went abroad in 1838 and spent one year in study and travel. He was in London during the coronation of Victoria and visited the pope at Rome. He was ordained and installed pastor of the HaiTard Unitarian church, Charlestown, Mass., March 11, 1840. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1850-54, and secretary of the board of overseers, 1853-54. In 1857 he accepted the chair of systematic theologj' in Harvard, which he conducted in addition to his pastoral duties, and resigned in 1863. He delivered three courses of lectures before the Lowell institute of Boston: "Evidences of Christianity"' (1864). "The Provincial History of Mas.sachusetts " (1871), and " The Red Man and the White Man in North America" (1882). He resigned his pastorate