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ELLIOTT, Charles, clergyman, b. in Greencon- -way. County Donegal, Ireland, 16 May, 1793; d. in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 6 Jan., 1869. He united with the Wesleyan church and applied for admis- sion to the University of Dublin, but was refused because he could not take the prescribed test oath. By the aid of some eminent scholars, he succeeded in following a course of study equivalent to that of the university. He emigrated to the United States about 1815, and was received into the trav- elling connection of the Ohio conference in 1818. In 1822 he was appointed superintendent of the mission among the Wyandotte Indians at LTpper Sandusky, Ohio. He was presiding elder of the Ohio district for four years, and professor of lan- guages in Madison college, Uniontown, Pa., for four years. In 1831 he was stationed in Pittsburg, and was subsequently presiding elder of that district, editor of the " Pittsburg Conference Journal," and afterwai'd of the " Western Christian Advocate," which he conducted until 1848, and again from 1852 till 1856. He then became professor of bibli- cal literature in Iowa Wesleyan university and its president, but resigned in 1860. He was after- ward appointed editor of the "Central Christian Advocate" at St. Louis, Mo., and during the civil war strongly supported the Union cause. After the close of the war he was again connected with Iowa Wesleyan university until 1866. His chief works are a " Treatise on Babtism " (1834) ; " De- lineation of Roman Catholicism " (2 vols., New York, 1851); "Life of Bishop Roberts" (1853); " History of the Great Secession from the Method- ist Episcopal Church" (1855); "Political Roman- ism " (1859) ; " Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission " ; " Southwestern Methodism " ; and two works against slavery.

ELLIOTT, Charles Lorin, artist, b. in Seipio, N. Y., in December, 1812 ; d. in Albanv, N. Y., 25 Sept.,' 1868. In early life he was a clerk in a store in Syracuse, but devoted his leis- ure to drawing and painting. He came to New York about 1834, and became a pupil of Trumbull and af- terward of Quidor. At first his por- traits were un- successful, but he executed some oil - paintings illustrating scenes Irving's and Paulding's works, which attracted

attention. After painting portraits for several years in the western part of the state, he returned to New York city, where he opened a studio. He was elected associate of the National academy in 1845, and academician in 1846. He is said to have painted more than 700 portraits of eminent men, among them likenesses of Pitz-Greene Hal- leck, in the office of the publishers of this work ; James E. Freeman, belonging to the National academy; Matthew Vassar, in Vassar college; Louis (laylord Clark ; W. W. Corcoran ; Fletcher Harper ; Penimore Cooper (see engraving in vol. i.) ; Govs. Seymour and Hunt, in the New York city hall ; and Erastus Corning, in the state library, Albany. Several of his works were at the National academy in 1868, including " Don Quixote," " Falstaff," " Andrew Van Corlear, the Trumpeter," his own portrait, and " The Head of Skaneateles Lake," said to be the onlv landscape that he painted.

ELLIOTT, Charles Wyllys, author, b. in Guil- ford, Conn., 27 May, 1817; d. 23 Aug., 1883. He was a lineal descendant in the fifth genei'ation of Eliot, the " Indian Apostle." After some years spent in mercantile life in the city of New York, he studied horticulture and landscape gardening with A. J. Downing, at Newburg, in 1838-'9, and from 1840 till 1848 practised those pursuits at Cin- cinnati. He then returned to New York and en- gaged with his brother Henry in the iron business, devoting his attention also to literary and philan- thropic labors. He was one of the founders and trustees of the Children's aid society in 1853. In 1857 he was appointed one of the commissioners for laying out Central park in the city of New York. He resided for some time in Cambridge, Mass., and became manager of the Household art company of Boston, and afterward in his native place. He has published " Cottages and Cottage Life " (New York, 1848) ; " Mysteries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural" (1852); "St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint I'Ouverture" (1855) ; " The New England History, from the Dis- covery of the Continent by the Northmen, A. D. 986 to 1776" (1857); "Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land " (Hartford, 1867) ; " Wind and Whirlwind," a novel, by " Mr. Thom Whyte " (New York, 1868) ; " The Book of Ameri- can Interioi's, prepared from existing Houses," with heliotype illustrations (Boston, 1876) ; and " Pottery and Porcelain, from Early Times to the Philadelphia Exhibition," giving the marks and monograms (New York, 1877). He was also a fre- quent contriijutor to jieriodicals, and was the au- thor of several novels published anonymously.

ELLIOTT, David, educator, b. in Sherman's Valley, Perry co.. Pa., 6 Feb., 1787 ; d. in Allegheny City, Pa., 18 March, 1874. He was of Scotch-Irish parentage. He entered Dickinson college in the junior class, and was graduated in 1808, studied theology for three years, was a home missionary for one year, and was then settled as pastor of the Presbyterian church at what is now Mercersburg, Pa., where he remained for eighteen years. Then he was called to Washington, Pa., as pastor, and was also for nearly two years acting president of Washington college and professor of moral philoso- phy. He did more than any one else to revive the college when threatened with extinction, but de- clined the presidency of the institution, consenting, however, to act in that capacity in connection with his pastoral duties until in 1832 a permanent presi- dent was secured. In 1835 he was called to the professorship of ecclesiastical history and church government in the Western theological seminary, at Allegheny, Pa. He declined, but the following yeai", at the solicitation of the directors, he accepted the chair of polemic and historic theology. He held this for nearly thirty-five years, and retired in 1870 as professor emeritus. In 1837 he was mod- erator of the Presbyterian general assembly, which divided that year; but he lived to see the reunion of 1870-'l. and took part in its exercises.

ELLIOTT, Ezekiel Brown, statistician, b. in Sweden, Monroe co., N. Y., 16 July, 1823; d. in Washington, D. C, 24 May, 1888. He was graduated at Hamilton in 1844, and was connected with the development of telegraphy. He became actuary of a life-insurance company in Boston, and in 1861 was called to fill a similar office to the U. S. sanitary commission. He became secretary of the