ELLIOTT
ELLIOTT
McHenry, Maiylancl, 1856-57, and was assistant
engineer in the construction of the defences of
San Francisco harbor, Cal., 1857-61. He was
pi-omoted 1st lieutenant, Aug. 3, 1861, sviperin-
tended tlie construction of fortifications at Fort
Point and Alcatraz Island, San Francisco harbor,
Cal., in 1861, and was engineer on other defences
of the Pacific coast, 1861-70, during which time
he constructed the fortifications at the mouth of
the Columbia river. He was promoted captain,
March 3, 1863, brevetted major for meritorious
service during the civil war, March 13, 1865, and
promoted major, March 7, 1867. He was engi-
neer secretary of the lighthouse board, 1870-74,
and from April 28 to Sept. 11, 1873, was engaged
in inspecting the ligJithouse systems of Eiu'ope.
From May 21, 1874, to Oct. 26, 1882, he was assist-
ant to thv. chief of engineers at Washington, D.C.,
and was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 8,
1882. He was in charge of various works of de-
fence on the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, and of river and harbor improvements in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut,
from Nov. 1, 1882, to April 7, 1887. He was a
member of the advisory covmcil of Rhode Island
state board of harbor commissioners from Feb.
27, 1884, to April 1, 1887. He was on sick-leave
of absence in Europe from April 1, 1887, to July 1,
1889. He was a member of the lighthouse board
at Washington, D.C., from Feb. 19, 1892, to June
2, 1893. He was in charge of the Washington
aqueduct; of increasing the water supplj' of
Washington, D.C., and of the erection of fish-
ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac from
July 17, 1889, to March 31, 1895. He was pro-
moted colonel, May 18, 1893, and was retired from
active service by operation of law, March 31, 1895.
By special authority of congress, however, he con-
tinued after his retirement from active service in
charge of the improvement of the Dalecaslia
reservoir of the Washington aqueduct system
which he had planned and commenced, until its
completion, Nov. 15, 1895. He became a member
of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution ; of the
military order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, and of the Association of graduates of the
U.S. military academy. He is the author of:
Lighthouse Systems in EiirojjeilSli): The Presidio
of San Francisco, Cat. (1874). He died in Wash-
ington, D.C., March 23, 1900.
ELLIOTT, Aaron Marshall, educator, was born in Wilmington, N.C., Jan. 24, 1846; son of Aaron and Rhoda (Mendenhall) Elliott. He was graduated from Haverford college in 1866, and from Harvard in 1868. He then travelled in Eu- rope and entered the College de France, where he pursued a special course of study for two years. From there he went to Florence, Italy, and en - tered the Institute of Superior Studies. In 1872
he entered the University of Madrid, Spain, and
during the next year travelled extensively
through Spain and Portugal. He visited Greece
and the Orient in 1873, spending a winter at the
University of Athens. In 1874 he entered the
University of Munich, where he remained mi til
called to the Jolins Hopkins university as Asso-
ciate in Romance languages. He received the
degree of Ph.D. from the College of New Jersey
in 1877; that of M.A. from Haverford in 1878,
and that of LL.D. from Wake Forest coUege,
North Carolina, in 1891. He was chosen editor-
in-chief of Modern Language Notes, secretary of
the Modern Language association of America;
president of the Harvard club of Baltimore,
member of the Dante society of Boston, Mass.,
the Archaeological society of America, and the
American philological association, and honoraiy
member of the Elisha Mitchell society of North
Carolina. He spent the sumuiers regularly after
returning to America in 1876 in the manuscript
departments of the British Museum, London, and
of the National libi-ary of Paris, engaged in liter-
ary work. In the autumn of 1891 he became
professor of Romance languages at the Johns
Hopkins university.
ELLIOTT, Charles, clergyman, was born in Greenconway, county Donegal, Ireland, May 16, 1792. He acquired a classical education under private teachers and in 1815 removed to the United States where he entered the Methodist ministry in Ohio. In 1822 he became superintend- ent of the Indian mission at Upper Sandusky, Ohio; was presiding elder of the Ohio district, 1823-27, and held the chair of languages in Madi- son college, Uniontown, Pa., 1827-31. He was then placed in charge of a church in Pittsburg, Pa., of which district he was later appointed presiding elder. He was editor of the Pittsburg Conference Journal, 1834-36, and of the Western Christian Advocate, 1836-48 and 1852-56. He held the chair of Biblical literature in Iowa Wesleyan university, 1857-58, and was president of that institution, 1858-60 and 1864-67 ; and during the civil war, 1860-64, was editor of the Central Chris- tian Advocate. He received the degree of D.D. from Wesleyan in 1840 and that of LL.D. from Allegheny in 1858. His published works include: Treatise on Baptism (1834) ; Delineation of Roman Catholicism (2 vols., 1851) ; Life of Bishop Roberts (1853) ; History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church (1855); and Political Romanticism (1859). He died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Jan. 6, 1869.
ELLIOTT, Charles, educator, was born at Roxburghshire, Scotland, March 18, 1815. He removed to the United States at an early age; entered Lafayette college as a preparatory stu- dent in 1834, az.d was graduated in 1840, serving
