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wliich lived but one year. In 1847 he spent six months in Wasliiugtou, D.C., and then returned to Pliihvdelphia, where he continued his Literary work. In 18.52 he removed to western Virginia, where he took a prominent part in state politics. He removed to New York city in 1857, and in 18.")8 made his home in Newark, N.J., where he practised meelicine and wrote poems, essays, dramas, magazine articles and tales. He served in the New Jersey assembly, 18G3-64; was a rep- resentative in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-95, and was defeateil for the 54tli congress in 1894. He received the degree of LL.D. from William and Mary college, Virginia, in 1876. His pub- lislied volumes include: Walter Woolfe (1842); MDCCCXLIV., or. (he rov-er of the S.F. (1845); Poinis (1855); Ambrofie Fecit; or the Peer and the Painter (im^); American Ballads (1882); Book of Battle Lyrics (1886); Jacob Schuyler's Millions (1886), and The Ballad of Brave Bill Anthony (1898). He died in Newark, N.J., April 1, 1902,

ENGLISH, William Hayden, representative, was born at Lexington. Scott county, Ind., Aug. 27, 1822; son of Elisha G. English His father was a pioneer of the state, and his maternal|grand- fatlier, Philip Eastin, was an officer in the Revo- lutionary war. He was descended, also on his mother's side, from Jost Hite, who was the head of the German colony which first settled the val- ley of Virginia in 1732. William entered Hanover college in the class of 1839, but was not gi-aduated. He was a delegate from his county to the Demo- cratic state convention of 1840, and was secretary of the state convention of 1843, which nominated James Whitcomb, the successful candidate for governor. He was licensed to practice law before he was twenty-one years old, and three years later he was admitted to practice in the Indiana and United States supreme courts. He served as deputy clerk of Scott county and as postmaster of Lexington before reaching his majority. In 1843-44 he was clerk of the Indiana house of rep- resentatives. He was .secretary of the convention of 1850 that framed the constitution of Indiana, and was a state representative and speaker of the hou.se in 1851. He was clerk in the U.S. treasury department, Washington, 1845-49, and was a clerk in the U.S. senate in 1850. He was a representa- tive from Indiana in the 33d, 34th, 35th and 36th congresses, 1853-61. In congress he was the author of the compromi.se measure known as the " Eng- lish bill," relating to the admis.sion of Kansas as a'state, which became a law. He was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian institution in 1853. He declined re-election to congress in 1860 and engaged in banking in Indianapolis. In 1863 he established the First national bank of Indianapolis and was its president, 1863-77. He was also presi- dent of the Indianapolis clearing house from its

organization until 1877. In 1880 he was unani- mously nominated by the Democratic national convention at Cinciimati, for vice-president of the United States, with Wintield S. Hancock for President. He was president of the Indiana his- torical society, devoted the last ten years of his lif3 to a study of the history of his native state, expending $50,000 in reference documents, and bequeathed $2500 to the society, besides §1000 to be used in completing and publishing his His- tory of Indiana. He is also the author of The Constitution and Law-Makers of Lidiana (1887). He died in Indianapolis, Ind. , Feb. 7, 1896.

ENLOE, Benjamin Augustine, representa- tive, was born near Clarksburg. Carroll county, Term., Jan. i8, 1848. He attended the public schools, entered Bethel college, McKenzie, Tenn., in 1867, and afterward became a student in the Cumberland university, Lebanon, Tenn. While attending the latter institution he was elected a member of the general assembly of Tennessee in 1869, and was re-elected under the new consti- tution in 1870. He was graduated from the law school of Cumberland university in 1873. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Baltimore, Md., in 1872; was a presidential elector in 1876; w^as appointed a commissioner by Governor Marks in 1878 to negotiate a settlement of the state debt; served on the executive com- mittee for the state at large, 1878-80; was presi- dent of the Democratic state convention in 1880; and a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880. He also edited the Jackson Tribune and Sun, 1874^86, and was president of the Tennessee press association, 1883-84. He was a representative from the 8th Tennessee district in the 50th, 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1887-95.

ENNEKINQ, John Joseph, painter, was born in Minster, O., Oct. 4, 1841; son of Joseph and Margereth (Bramlage) Enneking, and a descend- ant of Joseph Enneking, who came to America from Germany in 1811. He attended Mount St. Mary's college, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858-60. and at the breaking out of the civil war he served a year in the Union army. He then studied art in New York and Boston, and in 1865 bought an interest in a firm engaged in the manufacture of tin ware and hardware. He again took up the study of art in 1873, and spent three years in Munich under the in.struction of Schleich and Lier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat. In 1876 he opened a studio in Boston, Mass. In 1893 he was chairman of the advisory committee and chairman of the jury for the state of Mas.sachusetts for the selec- tion of pictures for the World's Columbian expo- sition. He also became much interested in parks, being a park commissioner and chairman of the Hyde Park commission for several years. He