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in 1869 to devote his entire attention to literary work and to historical research. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society, Oct. 28, 1841 ; was its vice-president, 1877-85, and its president, 1885-94. He was a member of the American antiquarian society. Harvard con- ferred upon him the degree of S.T.D. m 1857 and LL.D. in 1883. His published works include : contributions to Sparks 's American Biography;

Half Century of the Uni- tarian Controversy (1857) ; Memoir of Dr. Luther V. Bell (1863); The Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachu- setts (1869); Memoir of Jared Sparks (1869) ; Life of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count Bumford (1871) ; History of the Mas- sachusetts General Hospital (1872) ; History of the Battle of Bunker Hill (1875); Memoir of Charles W. Upham (1817) ; 3Iemoir of Jacob Birjelow {1S80) ; Memoir of Xathaniel Thayer (1885); Tlie Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685 (1888) ; and many contributions to periodicals and historical compilations. He died in Boston. Mass., Dec. 20, 1894.

ELLIS, Job Bicknell, botanist, was born at Potsdam. N.Y., Jan. 21, 1829; son of Freeman and Sarah (Bicknell) Ellis; and grandson of Isaac and Elizabeth (Chase) Ellis. He was graduated from Union in 1851 and devoted himself to the study of botany. He was an associate editor of the Journal of 3Iycology, 1885-88, and published many articles on North American fimgi. He became editor and publisher of: North American Fungi, Centuries L- XV. (1878-85); and associated with Mr. Ben- jamin M. Everhart of West Chester, Pa., of North American Fungi, Second Series, Centuries XVI.-XXXVI. (1886-98); and of Fungi Colnm- biani, Centuries I.-XIII. (1893-98); also joint author with Mr. Everhart, of The North American Pyrenomycetefi.

ELLIS, John Millot, educator, was born in Keene, N.H., July 14, 1793; son of Millot and Re- bekah (Ransted) Ellis; and grandson of Col. Tim- othy Ellis. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1822 ; and at Andover theological seminaiy in 1825. He was ordained at Boston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1825, and was pastor at Kankakee, 111., 1825-28; and at Jacksonville. 111., 1828-31. He was agent of the American educational society, 1831-35 ; pastor at Grass Lake, Mich., 1836-40 ; at East Hanover, X.H., 1840-42 ; and agent for Dartmouth college, 1843- 44 ; and for Western college society, 1844-55. He established a seminai"v for voung women at Kan-

kakee, 111., and while secretary of the Indiana educational society, 1832-35, helped to found Wabash college, Crawfordville, lud. He died at Nashua, N.H., Aug. 6, 1855.

ELLIS, John Millott, educator, was born in Jalfrey, N.H., March 27, 1831; son of Seth Brit- tian and Lucy (Jocelyn) Ellis; grandson of Millot and Rebekah (Ransted) Ellis; and a descendant of Col. Timothy Ellis of Keene, N.H. In 1840 he removed with his parents to Oberlin, Ohio, where he worked in his father's planing mill and earned the money for a college course. He was gradu- ated from Oberlin in 1851, was professor of lan- guages in Mississippi college, Clinton, Miss., 1852- 55, and was graduated from the Oberlin theologi- cal seminary in 1857. He was professor of Greek language and literature in Oberlin, 1858-66 ; intel- lectual and moral philosoi^hj', 1866-82 ; of rhetoric, 1866-94; and of intellectual philosophy, 1882-94. He was mayor of Oberlin, 1861-62, and after his ordination in 1865, acted as associate pastor of the Second Congregational church there from 1867 to 1874. In 1891 he was sent abroad as a com- missioner for the World's Columbian exposition and visited the capitals of all the greater European powers, securing valuable exhibits of art and man- ufacture. In 1893 he received from Oberlin the first honorary degree of D.D. conferred by that college. He died in Chicago, 111., March 29, 1894.

ELLIS, John William, educator, was born at Carthage, 111., Dec 29, 1839; son of Timothy and Olivia (Evans) Ellis; grandson of John and Mary •Ellis; great-grandson of John and Sarah (Parish) Ellis ; and a lineal descendant from David Ellis, who came from England in the 17th century and settled on Peters Creek, Va. He attended the vil- lage school at Ghent, Ky., and was graduated, from Georgetown college, Ky., A.B., 1860, A.M. 1863. He founded Warsaw college, Ky., in 1863. He was admitted to the Kentucky bar, practised law in St. Louis, Mo., 1869-80, and was elected president of Plattsburg (Mo.) college in 1880. He was maiTied Dec. 29, 1863, to Sarah, daughter of Oliver Hazard Pei'iy Breckinridge of Kentucky ; their son, Perry Canby, became a joui-nalist in St. Louis, Mo., and another son, John Breckinridge, was an author and teacher. President EUis re- ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Chautauqua imi versify in 1888 and that of LL.D. from Chicago university in 1889.

ELLIS, John Willis, governor of North Caro- lina, was born in Rowan (afterward Davidson) coimty, N.C., Nov. 23, 1820; son of Anderson and Judith (Bailey) Ellis. He attended the schools of Salisbury, N.C. ; an academy at Beattie's Ford, N.C., and Randolph-Macon college for one term; and was graduated fi-om the University of North Carolina in 1841. He studied law under Chief Justice Richmond Pearson of North Carolina and