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EWINQ, Charles, soUlier, was born in Lancas- ter, (Jhin. March (1, 1N35; son of the Hon. Tliomas and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing; and grandson of George and Rachel (.Harris) Ewing. His grandfather was a soldier in the American Revo- lution, who settled in Ohio on the Muskingum ri ver in 1 792, Charles was educated at the Domin- ican college and at the University of Virginia. He studied law, was admitted to practice and was so engaged at St. Louis. Mo., when the civil war occurred. He then joined the U.S. army and was commissioned in 1861 captain in the 13th infantr}-, of which W. T. Slierman. his brother-in-law, was colonel, and was appointed inspector-general on the staflf of General Sherman, when in command of the western army. At Vicksburg he planted the flag of his battalion on the parapet of the Confederate fort, and received in the accomplish- ment a severe wound. For this action he was brevetted major in 1863; for his action at Jack- son, Colliersville and Missionary Ridge and in the Atlanta campaign he was made lieutenant-colo- nel by brevet in 1864, and for gallant conduct in the march to the sea and thence through the Carolinas to Washington he was brevetted colo- nel in 186,">. He was made brigadier -general of volunteei's, March 8, 1865. In 1867 he resigned his commission in the army, and ojjened a success- ful law practice in Washington, D.C., where he died .June 00. 1883.

EWINQ, Emma Pike, educator, was born in Broome county, N.Y., in July, 1838; daughter of Robert and PhiKbe (Trivette) Pike. She re- ceived her education in the district schools of her native county and from her father, who was a teaclier. In 1863 she was married to W. P. Ewing, at that time and for several years navy agent of the port of Baltimore. She began teaching cook- ery in 1880 ; conducted a cooking school in Cliicago, 1880-83; was dean of tlie Chautauqua assembly cooking .school, and had charge of it, 1882-99; was professor of domestic economy at the Iowa agricultural college, 1883-87, and at Purdue university, Indiana, 1887-89 ; conducted a school of household science in Kansas City, Mo., 1889- 90 ; and taught and lectured throughout the United States and Canada. She became director of the model school of household economics con- nected with Marietta college, Ohio, in 1898. She is the author of; Cookin;/ and Castle Building (1880) ; Cook-fry .Vanuals (1884) ; The Art of Cook- ery (1897) ; and Tf-rt Book of Cookery (1898).

EWINQ, Finis, religious leader, was born in Bedford county. Va,, June 10, 1773. His parents were Scotch PresViyterians and both died before the boy had reached his majority. He acquired a good elementary education, and after the death of his parents removed to Tennessee where he was married to a daughter of Gen. William Da-

vidson of Nashville, an officer in the American army during the Revolutionary war. He then settled in Logan county, Ky., and in 1803 was ordained as a minister by the Cumberland pres- bytery. The Kentucky- synod refused to recog- nize the candidates ordained by the Cumberland presbyterj' at this time, prLncipallj' because the candidates were not college men, and in 1806 the synod dissolved the Cumberland piesbytery. This action was sustained by the general assembly, but the proscribed members organized a council which was continued from December, 180/5, to February, 1810, when Mr. Ewing, with Samuel King, as- sisted by Samuel McAdam, also proscribed minis- ters, reorganized the Cumberland presbytery, Feb. 4, 1810, as an independent presbyteiy, and thus was founded the Cumberland Presbyterian church. There were present at its first adjourned meeting in March, 1810, four ordained ministers, six licentiates and seven candidates for the min- istry. In 1818 the Cumberland synod was founded. Mr. Ewing removed to Todd county, Ky., to take charge of the Lebanon congregation, and in 1820 he organized a congregation in New Lebanon, Mo. He removed to Lexington, Mo., in 1836 and preached there during the remainder of his life. He published Lectures on Divinity, which volume was the key to the creed of the church as founded by him and his associates who had been pro- scril)ed. He died in Lexington. Mo., July 4, 1841. EWINQ, Hugh Boyle, soldier, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1826; son of the Hon. Thomas and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing. His ancestor, Finley Ewing, the first progenitor of the family of whom there is record, achieved dis- tinction as an officer of dragoons in the battle of the Boyne. His son, Thomas, emigrated to the American colo- nies in 1718. settling in Greenwich, N.J., where he married Mary MaskeU,an heir- ess of great wit and beauty. Their son, Thomas, was the father of George Ewing, who fought under Washington, passing through the winter of Valley Forge, and command- ing a battery of artil- lerv at the battle of Brandywine, where the excellent service of liis guns materially contributed to the first repulse of the British. After the Revolution George Ewing joined the movement to the Northwest territory, and settled in Athens county, Ohio,

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