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Btatue to be erected in Europe, the work of an American-born sculptor. In 1891 he l)egan the statue of '■ Dickfiis and Little Nell,"' owned by the Fairniount Park art association of Philadel- phia. This statue was given the gold medal of the Art club of Philadelphia, and the place of Jionor and medal at the Chicago exposition in 1893. Among his other achievements to be noted lire: the eipicstrian statue of Gen. AV. S. Hancock ttt CJettysburg (IsyO) ; the bust of Vice-President Levi P. Morton in the senate chamber at Wash- ington (1S9U): "Diana and Lion " (1893), "Me- morial to Edwin Booth.'" Mount Auburn, Cam- bridge (1890) ; gallery of modern masters, Chicago art institute; "Aqua Viva,"* Metrojwlitan mu- seum of art, New York city; bust of Mr. S. B. Chittenden, for the Chittenden memorial library ntYale; bust of Louisa M. Alcott. Concord li- brary; memorial to Andrew McMillan, library, Utica. New York: bas-relief of "Song," for the liouse of George Alfred Townsend ; bust of ex-Lord Provost, Peter Es.selmont, Esq., for Aberdeen, Scotland; statue of "Orchid"; statue of "Im- mortality," and statue of " Egj'pt Awaking," t)wned by Gabriel Goupillat, Paris, France, bought out of the salon of 189G. He was made a member of the Art"s club of Hanover square, and the St. James of Piccadilly, London, in 1892; of the So- ciety of American artists, 188G ; and was one of the tiriginal members of the Sculptors" society, of New York city. He received the gold medal from the Art club of Philadelphia the second time for his "Awaking of Egypt"' (1897). He was art ed- itor of Kosmo:i, from May, 1898.

ELWYN, Alfred William Langdon, philan thropist, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., July 9, 1804. He was a grandson of Gov. John Langdon of Portsmouth. He was graduated at Harvard in 1823, receiving his A.M. degree in course and receiving his M.D. degree from the Univei-sitj' of Penn.sylvania in 1831, after studying in Europe, 1824-29. He was the founder of the first fam\ school organized by the Pennsylvania agricultural society in 1853, which resulted in the Pennsylva- nia state college. He was also interested in the i^tate institution for the in.struction of the blind; for training the feeble-minded; and for the pre- vention of cruelty to animals. He was a member of the American philosophical .society and corre- sponding meml>er of the Mas.sachu.setts historical society. He was married to Mary Middleton Mea.se, and their son, Alfred Langdon Elwyn (born Dec. 24, 1832; University of Pennsylvania, 1852) was a clergyman of the Prf)testant Episcopal church, secretary of various churcli organiza- tions and member of the Hi.storical .society of Pennsylvania. Alfred William Langdon Elwyn is the author of: Bonaparte, a poem (1848) ; Ulos- eary of Supposed Ameritymisms (1860) ; Letters to

the Hon. John Langdon during and after the Bevclu- ti»n (1880): Melancholy and Us Musings (1881). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 15, 1884.

ELY, Alfred, representative, was born in Lyme. Conn., Feb. 18, 1815. He removed to Rochester, N.Y., in 1835, was appointed clerk of the record er's court in 1840, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was a Republican representative in the 36th and 37th congresses, 1859-63. As a civilian he was present at the tirst battle of Bull Run, and was captured on July 21, 1861, during the confu- sion of the retreat. He was confined in Libby prison for six months and was exchanged for the Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, former United States minister to France, then confined in Fort Warren, Boston harbor. His diary, kept while in prison, was edited by Charles Lauman and entitled. Journal of Alfred El >j, a Prisoner of War in Bich- mond (1862). After the war he resumed practice in Rochester, N.Y., where he died, May 18, 1892.

ELY, Ezra Stiles, clergyman, was born in Lebanon, Conn., June 13, 1786; son of the Rev. Zebulon Ely. He was graduated from Yale in 1804 and was ordained a Presb}i;erian clergyman in 1806, his first pastorate being in Colchester, Coim. He afterward removed to New Y'ork city and became chaplain of the City hcspital. He then accepted a call to the Pine street churcli, Philadelphia, Pa., and remained its pastor until 1844. He was pastor of the Northern Liberties church, Philadelphia, 1844-51, when illness com- pelled him to resign. He was one of the founders of Jefferson medical college, upon which he be stowed large sums of money. Marion college. Mo. , was also the object of his generosity. Wash- ington college, Tenn., conferred upon him the degree of D. D. His published writings include • a memoir of his father; Ely's Journal ; The Science of the Human Mind (1819); Contrast between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism (1811); Endless Punishment (1835) ; and, with William McCorkle and the Rev. Gregory Bedell, A Collateral Bible, or Key to the Holy Scriptures (edited; 3 vols., 1826-81). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1861.

ELY, John, philanthropi.st, was born at Lyme, Conn., in 1737. Ilis first American ancestor emi- grated frf)m England to Connecticut about 1650. He devoted him.seif to the practice of medicine, was particularly successful in the treatment of small pox, which at that time was considered gen- erally fatal, and he erected several small ho.spitals on an island near Lyme, for its treatment. Early in 1775 he mustered a company of militia and marched at its head to Roxburj-. ]\Iass. . and in 1776 he was detailed for duty at Fort Trumbull. New London, as major, also officiating as j)hysician and .surgeon. In July of that year he visited the Northern army and emi)loye(l his skill in arresting the smallpox epidemic, which was then raging in