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 ELLMAKER

ELLSWORTH

He received the degree of D.D. from South Carolina college. He died in Clayton, Ala., Dec. 26, 1884.

ELLMAKER, Amos, jurist, was born in New Holland, Pa., Feb. 2, 1787. He was educated at Yale college, but left before graduating to study in the Litchfield, Conn., law school. He continued his course in law in Han-isbm-g, Pa., and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1808. He was deputy attor- ney-general of Dauphin county, 1809-12, and representative in the state legislature, 1812-14. He was a volunteer aid to General Forster in 1814, president judge of his district, 1815-16, and attorney-general of the state, 1816-19. He prac- tised law in Lancaster, Pa., 1821-51, and was the anti-masonic candidate for vice-president of the United States m 1832, with William Wirt for President, receiving seven electoral votes He died in Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 28, 1851.

ELLSWORTH, Charles Clinton, representa- tive, was born in Berkshire, Vt., Jan. 29, 1824; son of Dr. William C. and Bethania (Johnson) Ellsworth. He was admitted to the bar and pi'actised law in Michigan. He was appointed by Governor Barry prosecuting attorney of Livings- ton county, Mich., in 1850, and in 1851 removed to Greenville, Montcahn county. He was a mem- ber of the state legislature in 1852 and 1854 and was prosecuting attorney of Montcalm county, 1854-56. In 1862 he was appointed by President Lincoln a paymaster in the Union army, and sei'ved imtil the close of the war. In 1876 he was elected a Republican representative in the 45th congress.

ELLSWORTH, Ephraim Elmer, soldier, was born in Saratoga coimty, N.Y., April 23, 1837.. He attended the public schools of MechanicsviUe, N.Y., and when a mere lad went to New York city and thence to Chicago, where in 1859, he was a lawyer's clerk and student, receiving a salary hardly suffi- cient to supply him with food, while sleeping on the floor of the office. At this time he took com- mand of a company of cadets which was about to fall to pieces from neglect and inattention, and brought it to a high standard of discipline. He soon attracted the attention of the citizens of Chicago to the cadet zouaves and had immense crowds at every public drill. He made a tour of the United States with the com-

pany and gave competitive drills with both regular and militia companies in several cities. On his return to Illinois in 1860 he met Abraham Ltu- cohi and entered his law office at Springfield as a law student, but devoted his time principally to the Pres:dential campaign of that year. After the election of Mr. Lincoln he accompanied the President to Washington and was commissioned a lieutenant in the regular army. He resigned from the army in April, 1861, Avent to New York city and recruited a regiment from the volvmteer firemen, imiformed them after the French zouaves and persistently drilled them in the manual pe- culiar to his cadet company. He transported his regiment to the national capital earlj' in ^lay, 1861, and effectively used them in putting otit a fire in Willard's hotel. On May 23 he was as- signed to the occupation of Alexandria, on the extreme left of the Union lines advancing into Virginia. He took possession of the telegraph office, and seeing a Confederate flag floating from the flagstaff of the Marshall house, he, accom- panied by four soldiers and several civilians, moimted the stairs, gained the roof and with his own hands tore down the flag. Bearing it in his arms he descended from the roof. On the stairs he was met by the proprietor of the hotel, who shot him dead. A private of his command, Frank E. Brownell, at the same moment killed the assassin. Colonel Ellsworth was buried from the East room of the Wliite House by special order of the President who mourned him as a son. He die.d at Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861.

ELLSWORTH, Henry Leavitt, lawyer, was born in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 10, 1791; son of OKverand Abigail (Wolcott) Ellsworth. He was graduated at Yale A.B., 1810, A.M., 1813. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and settled in "Windsor as a lawyer, removing to H^irtford, where he practised for several j-ears. He was Indian agent in the southwest by appoint' ment of President Jackson, serving 1828-36, and U.S. commissioner of patents by appointment of President Van Buren, 1836^8. He was land agent in Lafayette, Ind., till 1857, when he returned to Connecticut. He published : Digests of Patents, 1770-1S39 (1840). He died at Fair Haven, Conn.. Dec. 27. 1858.

ELLSWORTH, Oliver, chief- justice, was born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1745; son of David and Jemimah (Leavitt) Ellsworth; grandson of John Ellsworth of Ellington, Conn., and great- gi-andson of JosiahE'lsworth, who came probably from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Wind- sor, Conn., about the year 1650, and died there in 1689. Oliver was brought up on his father's farm, was prepared for college by Dr. Bellamy, attended Yale, 1762-63, and was graduated from the CoUege of New Jersey in 1766 with honors