appointed Surveyor-General of the United States in 1792 and in 1700 was one of the commission- ers on the part of the United States to determine the boundary between this country and the Span- ish territory. From 1S01 to 1808 he was secre- of the' Pennsylvania State Land Office, and from 1812 until 'his death held the chair of mathematics at the West Point Military Acad- emy, lie published a Journal in 1814.
ELLICOTT, Charles John (1819 — ). An
English clergyman and educator. He was born
at Whitewell, England; graduated at Cambridge
in ls-11. and for "ten years was rector of Pilton,
Rutlandshire, but in' 1S5S became professor of
divinity in King's College, London, and in 1860
Hulsean professor of divinity at Cambridge. In
1861 lie was made a dean of' Exeter, and in 1863
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. When this
see was divided, he became Bishop of Gloucester.
He became chairman of the New Testament Re-
vision i ommittee in 1S81. His most important
work is his Critical and Grammatical Commen-
taries on many of the Epistles ( 1854-58) . Among
his other publications are: Treatise on Analytical
Statics (1851) and Lectures on the Life of Our
Lord Jesus Christ (1860).
EL’LICOTT CITY. A city and county-seat
of Howard County, Md., 10 miles west of Balti-
more, on the Patapsco River, and on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad (Map: Maryland, K 3).
It has manufactures of flour, cotton, silk, and
woolen goods. Rock Hill College (Roman
Catholic) was opened here in 1S57. Founded in
1772. Ellicott City was incorporated in 1867.
Population, in 1890, 14SS; in 11(00, 1331.
ELTLLOT, Abthtjb Ralph Douglas (1846 — ).
An English Lawyer and author. He is a son of
the third Ear] of Minto, and received his edu-
cation at Edinburgh University and at Trinity
College, Cambridge, lie was member of Parlia-
ment from 18S0 to 1892, and from 1889 to 1900.
In 1895 be beci editor of the Edinburgh Re-
His publications include: Criminal Pro-
eedure in England and Scotland (1878); and
The State and the church (1881).
ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835—). An
American ornithologist. He was born in New
York, and received an academic education. From
1 s ."> t ; to |s7s he traveled extensively in Europe,
Africa, and Asia Minor, but afterwards con-
lined his travels and investigations principally
to Vmerica. In 1896 he led an expedition into
Ka-t
ie;i in the interesl of the Field Colum-
bian Museum, and on his return became curator
of , that institution al Chicago, tn 1898
be bad charge of an expedition sent under the
.. auspices to explore the Olympic Mountains
in the State of Washington. He was the founder
mi of the American Ornithological
Union, i em of t he Zoological So-
ciety of France. His i enl iflc writ-
ude treat i raphs on 1 am-
ily of II isi.., i | Family o/ tht t'
Parad 1873) j
is77 82) : The Oats
1869) : Wild
I British /'•
Vorth
of and the A djaci ni Seat I 1901 I.
EL’LIOTSON, John An English physician, born in London and educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge. In 1829 he delivered before the Royal College of Physicians his valuable Lumley lectures on diseases of the heart ( published in 1830), and in 1831 he was called to the chair of clinical medicine of London University. The establishment of the University College Hospital was due chiefly to his influence, and in his practice there he may be said to have been the first to demonstrate the importance of
clinical teaching. Auscultation and the use of
the stethoscope were also introduced by him.
Deeply interested in the study of mesmerism, he
established, in 1849, a mesmeric hospital where
hypnotic treatment is said to have been success-
fully applied. He was the founder and first
president of the Phrenological Society and presi-
dent of the Royal Medical Society of London.
Besides numerous contributions to periodicals,
he published a translation of Blumenbaeh's Ele-
ments of Physiology (2d ed. 1828).
EL'LIOTT, Charles (1792-1869). An Ameri-
can clergyman. He was born in Ireland, and
preached there for two years before emigrating
to America in 1815. He was superintendent of
missions among the Wyandot Indians; presiding
elder of the Ohio district; professor of languages
in Madison College (Uniontown, Pa.) ; presiding
elder of the Pittsburg District, and editor of
various Methodist periodicals. From 1857 to
1860, and again from 1864 to 1867, he was pro-
fessor of biblical literature in and president of
the Iowa Wesleyan L T niversity. His reputation
as a scholar rests chiefly upon his Delineation of
Roman Catholicism (2 vols., 1841). Among his
further publications are: The Great Secession
( 1852) , a history of the division of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1844 on account of slavery;
and Southwestern Methodism (1868).
ELLIOTT, Charles Loring (1812-68). An
American painter, born at Scipio, N. Y. He
studied in New York City under Trumbull and
Quidor, and afterwards made that city his home,
and became a member of the National Academy
of Design (1846). He made portraits of Feni-
more Cooper, Fit z Green Halleck. Fletcher Har-
per, and A. B. Dtirand (the Corcoran Gallery,
Washington), and other noted persons. There
are also portraits by him in the New York City
Hall, and the State Library, at Albany.
ELLIOTT, Ebenezer (1781-1849), An Eng-
lish poet, known as the 'Corn-Law Rhymer.'
He was born at Masborough, Yorkshire, England.
In his seventeenth year he composed a poem
called "The Vernal Walk." which was followed
by other descriptive pieces, tales of horror, and
m epic. He married early, and sank in his
father's business a small fortune that liis wife
had brought him. Bui in 1S21 he managed to
start ill (lie iron trade at Sheffield ami was very
Successful, and in 1SI1 retired to an estate which
he had purchased at Great Houghton, near Barns-
ley. His best productions are The Village Patri-
arch (1829) : The Splendid Village; and the fa
mous Corn Latt Rhymes (1831). Elliot! followed
Crabbe, bui wth more fire and depth of feeling,
m depicting the condition of the i i a miser-
able and oppressed, tracing most of the evils
he deplores to the social and political institu
lion- of the country, especially to the Corn
Laws, A new edition of his work revi ed and
edited by his son, Edwin Elliott, was published
in London I 1876) . I 'onsull Watkins, I
