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 ELROD

EL WELL

ELROD, Morton Juhn, educator, was born in Westmoreland Co., Pa.. April 27, 1863; son of John Morton and Mary (Eliot) Elrod, and grandson of Johnson Elrod and of Samuel Eliot. He removed to Iowa with his parents, attended the ljublic schools of Monroe and was graduated from Simpson college, Iowa, in 1887. He was principal of the high school in Corydon, Iowa, 1887-88; assistant teacher in the science depart- ment of Wesleyan miiversity, 111., 1888-80; assistant professor of natural science there, 1889- 91, and professor of biology and physics, 1891-97. He was instructor for eight sessions of the Des Moines summer school of methods, 1890-97, and during the summers of 189-4 and 1895 organized exploring parties, comijosed chiefly of students, into the Rocky mountains and Yellowstone park. He became professor of biology in the University of Montana, 1897. He was an associate member of the American ornithologists' miion and the American geographical society, and a member of the Biological society of Washington and of the American association of conchologists. In 1899 he organized the Montana biological station, and was appointed director, by the state board of education. During the same year he was ap- pointed by the governor a member of the State board of game and fish commissioners, and was chosen chairman of the board. In 1888 he was married to Emma Aurora, daughter of William and Mary Hartshorn, both natives of London. He received the degree M.S. from Simj)- son college in 1898. He was one of the editors of the loica School Journal, 1887-94, and editor of the first volume of the Wesleyan Magazine, 111., 1896.

ELSON, Louis Charles, musical editor, was born in Boston, Mass. , April 17, 1848; son of Julius and Rosalie Elson. He studied music with August Kreissmann, Carl Gloggner, Castelli and other eminent European musicians. He became pro- fessor and lecturer at the New England conserva- tory of music in 1880. and musical editor of the Vox Humana, the Musical Herald and the Boston Daily Advertiser. He was married in 1873 to Bertha Lissner. He published: Curiosities of Music; German Sonrjsand Song Writers; History of German Songs; Tlieonj of Music; Bealm of Music; European Reminiscences; The Great Composers (1898); Our National Music and its Sources (1899); and contributed to the Boston Transcript, Courier, New York Tribune, St. A7c/io?«,s and other periodicals.

ELTON, Romeo, educator, was born in Bur- lington, Conn., in 1790; son of William Elton. He was graduated from Brown in 1813, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry, June 11, 1817- He was pastor at Newport, R.I., 1817-22, and at Windsor, Vt., 1824-25. He then accepted the

chair of Greek and Latin languages at Brown, spending the years 1825-27 in European study. He resigned his professorship in 1 843, resided in Connecticut, 1843-45, and then removed to Exe- ter, England, where he lived until 1867. From 1867 to 1869 he made his home in Bath, England, then returning to his native country. He was a trustee of Brown university, 1820-51, and in his will left §20,000 to that institution to endow a chair of natural philosophy. He also left a gen- erous bequest to the Columbian college, D.C., for a chair of intellectual and moral philosophy. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1820 and that of D.D. from Nashville (Tenn.) in 1843. His published writings include: Life of Soger Williams (1852); Literary liemains of the Bev. Jon- athan Maxcy (edited. 1844); and John Callender's Historical Discourse (edited, 1838). He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 5, 1870.

ELWELL, Frank Edwin, sculptor, was born at Concord, Mass., June 15, 1858; son of John Wes- ley and Clara (Farrar) El well; grandson of David Elwell and of Elisha Jones Farrar: and great- grandson of Ephraim Farrar, who was at the first battle of the Revolution at Concord, Mass. Col. John Farrar, a great - granduncle, fought at Bunker Hill; and an- other was the owner of the "Wright's Tav- ern" at Concord, Mass. , during the Rev- olution. He first studied art with May Alcott at Concord, and was a close friend of Louisa M. Alcott, who, with Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, assisted him to begin the studj^ of sculpture in Paris. Levi P. Morton of New York assisted him to enter the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1881, where he was imder Jean Alexander Fal- guiere, member of the Institute of France. While under M. Falguiere he took the " Con- cours des Places " in a competition with eighty pupils. In the same year he exhibited a bust of Hippolyte Le Roy, the sculptor, in the Salon. In 1882 he exhibited a bronze statue, "The Water Carrier," at the salon, Paris, the Royal academy, and the Royal exhibition at Brussels. In 1884 he was awarded a medal for proficiency in architect- ure at the Royal school of art at Ghent. He returned to America in 1885 and was for a time professor of sculpture in the National academy of design and the New York art league. New York city. In 1886 he executed a statue of " The Death of Strength," for Edam, Holland, the first