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was elected a member of the Boston art club, the Paint and Clay club and the Twentieth Century- club. Among his more important paintings are The Drove (1878); November Twilight (1880); Winter Ttoilight (1882) ; Summer's Ticilight (1883) ; Cloudy Day in Summer (1884) ; The Coming Storm; Indian Summer; and November Ticilight (1885) ; Spring time (1887) ; Old [Lady darning Stockings (1887) ; October Ticilight, exhibited at the World's fair, Chicago (1893) ; October Sunset (1895); Afterglow (1896).

ENO, Amos Richards, philanthropist, was born in Simsbury, Conn., Nov. 1, 1810. His ancestors came to America with the Dorchester colony and were among the settlers of Simsbury. He received a common school education, and then went to Hartford, Conn., where he learned the dry goods trade. He established the firm of Eno & Phelps tn New York city in 1833 and was a whole- sale dry goods merchant in that city, 1833-57. He retired in the latter year and gave his whole attention to real estate investments. He built the Fifth Avenue hotel in 1859, at a time when tlie site was so far out of town that people called it " Eno's Folly." He was a stockholder and one of the foimders of the Second national bank, and when in 1884 the announcement was made that the bank was about to fail on account of private speculations made by his son, John C. Eno, its president, Mr. Eno prevented it by the payment of every obligation in full, amounting to over three millions of dollars. He gave to the town of Sims- bury its library, costing §25,000, and also a farm with buildings for the poor of the town. He bequeathed to the New York chamber of com- merce, conditionally, §150,000; to Amherst col- lege, §50,000; to the Congregational church at Simsbury, §7000 ; to the New York Juvenile asy- lum, §3000, and to twelve New York city benevo- lent institutions §5000 each. He died in New York city, Feb. 21, 1898.

ENOS, Roger, soldier, was born at Simsbury, Conn., in 1T29. He served in the colonial army in the French and Indian war, was made ensign in 1760, adjutant in 1761 and captain in Col. Israel Putnam's regiment in 1764. He was in command of Arnold's rear-guard in the expedition against Quebec in 1775, and becoming separated from the main army in the Maine wilderness he returned with his force to avoid starvation. A trial by court -mai'tial resulted in his honorable acquittal. He was made lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Connecticut regiment in 1776, resigned and was promoted colonel in another regiment in 1777, serving till 1779. He removed to Vermont in 1781 and founded the town of Enosburg. He was that year made brigadier-general in command of all the Vermont troops and headed the army sup- posed to be opposing the invasion of the British

from Canada. He was major-general of the 1st division, Vermont militia, 1787-91, and resigned in 1791, after thirty-two years of continuous military service. He was a member of the Ver- mont board of war, 1781-92, was a representative in the state legislature, a member of the commis- sion to adjust the troubles with New Hampshire, and of the state committee to consider the Ver- mont resolutions as passed by congress in 1791. He was married to a daughter of Ira Allen, and their son, Pascal Paoli Enos, became one of the four original proprietors of the land on which Springfield, lU., was built. General Enos died in Colchester, Vt., Oct. 6, 1808.

EPES, James Fletcher, representative, was born in Nottoway county, Va., May 23, 1842 ; son of T. Freeman and Jacqueline S. (Hardaway) Epes; grandson of John and Fanny (Campbell) Epes ; and a descendant of James Fletcher and of John Logan Hardaway. He prepared for college in private schools at Charlotte and Albemarle, Va., and entered the University of Virginia, leav- ing in 1861 to join the Confederate army. He served in the 3d Virginia cavalry throughout the war, had three horses shot under him and was seriously woimded at the battle of Reams's Sta- tion. He was graduated from the law depart- ment of Washington and Lee university in 1867, practised law and served as commonwealth's attorney for Nottoway county, 1870-84. In 1883 he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was a Democratic representative in the 52d and 53d congresses, serving 1891-95, and act- , ing prominently on the committees on immi- gration and coinage. At the close of his second term he retired to the plantation, "The Old- Place, '" in Nottoway countj', Va., wjiere the fathers of three U.S. representatives had resided. He was married to Rebecca M. Poague of Rock- bridge county, Va.

EPES, Sydney Parham, representative, was born at '• Sunnyside " in Nottoway county, Va., Aug. 20, 1865 ; son of Richard and Agnes Atkin- son (Batte) Epes; grandson of Peter and Martha (Oliver) Epes, and of Peter (Poythress) and Eliz- abeth Wilkinson (Poindexter) Batte; great- grandson of Richard and Martha G. (Williams) Epes, and of John and Mary (Poythress) Batte; great- grandson of Peter and Mary (Poythress) Epes and of William and Elizabeth (Horton) Batte ; great' grandson of John and Martha (Mal- lory) Batte ; and a direct descendant from Francis Epes, who came from Wales to Virginia in 1628, and from Henry Batte, who came from OakweU. Yorkshire, England, to Virginia, prior to 1666. He removed with his parents to Kentucky in 1879, returned to Virginia in 1884, and edited a Democratic paper at Blackstone. He was married Jan. 19, 1887, to Lucy Anderson, daughter of