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teers, under command of Col. Daniel E. Sickles. lie 

 participated in the early movements in Virgin 

 at the battle of Williamsborg was wounded three 

 times and let'c on the Meld as dead. After a brief con- 

 finement he i. and. on rejoining the army, 

 was promoted brigadier-general for his irallantry in 

 that l.<: 2. In the final attack on Fort 

 Hudson, he led the advance troops, and so distin- 

 guished himself that lie was appointed a member of 

 tne commission to arrange the terms of surrender. 

 In May, 1:04, when Gen. Banka set <>ut on his 

 river expedition, he was appointed chief of stall' to 

 that officer: in July he became commander of the 

 First Divi.-ion, Nineteenth Army Corps, and ren- 

 dered efficient services in the campaign in the Shen- 

 andoah valley ; and on Jan. 15, 1866, he resigned 

 from the army. 



Eckles, Delane R,, lawyer, born in Kentucky in 1806 ; 

 died in Greeiieastie. Ind., <>ct. -2:>. 1888. He removed 

 to Greencastie in 1S3S. studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar; was the first mayor of the city, served^ 

 tbrouirh the Mexican War. and reached the rank of 

 captain ; was a circuit court judge sixteen years, and 

 was chief-justice of the Unit >urts in the 



Territory of Utah during the administration of Presi- 

 dent Buchanan, 1857-' 01. 



Eggleston, Benjamin, merchant, born in Corinth, 

 X. Y.. Jan. o. 1M6 ; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 9, 

 He removed to Cincinnati when quite young. 

 engaged in mercantile business, and became inter- 

 ested in public affairs. He was a member and presi- 

 dent of the city council for several years, member of 

 the State Senate from 1862 till 1866, and member of 

 Couk p re-s from the First Congressional District from 

 .'. Subsequently he was president of the 

 Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and proprietor of 

 the 'Cincinnati Times" for several years. 



Elliott, Ezekiel Brown, statistician, born in Sweden. 

 Monroe County, X. Y.. July 16. 1823 ; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. (.'..'May -21. 18S8, He was graduated at 

 Hamilton in 1844, and then taught for some years. 

 On the development of telegraphy in New York State, 

 he was called to its service, but 'soon resigned to be- 

 come actuary of a life-insurance company hi Boston. 

 In 1S01 he was invited to a similar office on the United 

 Sanitary Commission, which he held until the 

 completion of'its labors. He then entered the Gov- 

 ernment service, and in 18(55 was secretary of the 

 commission for revising the United States revenue 

 laws. In 1871 he was associated with the civil-service 

 reform commission, and later became Government 

 actuary in the United States Treasury Department, 

 which'office he held until his death. Mr. Elliott was 

 a member of the International Statistical Congress 

 that met in Berlin in 1863, and 1882 was vice-presi- 

 dent of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, presiding over the section of eco- 

 nomic science and statistics. He was also a member 

 of other scientirL lie published papers on 



mathematical physics, but attained his highest reputa- 

 tion in connection with the many valuable statistical 

 reports on coinage, weights and measures^ and simi- 

 lar topics that he prepared for the United Star 

 ernment. Several of these have appeared in the re- 

 ports of United States census, especially in the volume 

 on ' Vital Statistics." 



Elliott, Washington Lafayette, soldier, born in Car- 

 lisle. Cumberland Countv, Pa.. March 31. 18:.'l ; died 

 in San Francisco. Cal., June 



of Capt. Jesse Duncan Elliott, United States Navy, 

 accompanied his father on several long crui- 

 educated at Dickinson Academy and the United States 

 Military Academy, and became second lieutenant of 

 United' States mounted rifles in 1846. At the out- 

 break of the Mexican War he accompanied his regi- 

 ment to the field, and served until the surrender of 

 Vera Cruz, training a first lieutenancy in Jul; 

 He afterward served on the frontier and in Texas and 

 New Mexico, and took part in the campaign against 

 the Navajo Indians in 1853. He was promoted" cap- 



tain in July, 1854. His first service in the civil war 

 was in the engagements at Springfield and \N ilson's 

 Creek, Mo., ami from that time till the close of the 

 war he :i duty, lie became colonel 



of the Second Iowa Cavalry in 6 istil ; 



major in the regular army in fl 



Unite Jr.- in Jui.< 



cavalry in the Army of Virginia in August. 

 commander of the Department of the Northwest and 

 of a division in the Array of the Potomac iii 

 commander of the Army of the Cumberland, chief 

 of cavalry in the Army of the Cumberland, com- 

 mander o'f a division in" the Fourth Army Corps in 

 1805: brevet major-general of volunteers and brevet 

 brigadier-general in the regular army ; lieutenant- 

 colonel in "Augu.-t, 1866 ; and coionel in April. 

 He took part in the capture of Madrid and Islai d 

 Jso. 10, tne siege of Corinth, second battle of Bull 

 Kun, the Atlanta campaign, pursuit of Gen. Hood, 

 and th uncl Na.-bvil!r. and was retired at 



his own request on Mar> 



FairbankE, Horace, manufacturer, born in Barnet. Yt., 

 March .Jed in New Y'ork city. March 17, 



He was the second son of Erastus Fairbanks, 

 war Governor of Vermont, and the sixth in descent 

 from Jonathan Fairbanks, who came from England 

 and settled in Dedham, Mass., in 1033. His father 

 was the senior member of the firm of E. <t T. Fair- 

 banks, of St. Jobnsburv, Yt., scale manufacturers. 

 Shortly after attaining his majority Horace and his 

 brother Franklin were admitted to the firm, which 

 became E. A: T. Fairbanks fc Co. In 1874 it was in- 

 corporated under the same name and Horace became 



-ident, and held that office till his death. In 

 1876 he was elected Governor. In early life he built 

 the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, and provided it with a 

 library of 10,000* volumes and an art gallery, which 

 contains among other treasures Bieistadt's painting 

 of the Yosemite valley, and presented the whole to 

 the city. Afterward, in connection with his brother 

 Franklin, he built the North ' <nal Church 



and gave it to the congregation. He was president of 

 the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad and of the St. 

 Jobnsburv and Lake Chainplain Railroad till it be- 

 came a pa'rt of the Boston and Lowell system, 

 director of the American Board of Commissioners for 

 Foreign Missions, a trustee of the Fairbanks Educa- 

 tional" Board, founded by his lather and himself lor 

 educating young men fr the ministry. 'and of the St. 

 Johnsburv" Academy and the University of Vermont. 



Ferrer, Ifartha W,, philanthropist, born in 

 Britain, Conn., in 1824 ; died in New York city. May 

 :; sister of the late Ann S. Stephens, 

 the author, and married Don Fermin Ferrer, ex- 

 President of Nicaragua, in 1858. On the organiza- 

 tion of the Workingwomen's Protective Union of New 

 York, for the primary purpose of aiding and pn tec-t- 

 in.' women and girls who had been thrown upon their 

 own exertions for support during the civil war. she 

 was appointed its superintendent. She held this office 

 continuously till her death, and proved an admirable 

 executive and a sympathetic friend to all who came 

 under her c' 



Fisher, Charles Henry, engineer, born in Lansing- 

 burg. N. Y., in 1835; died in New York city, Jan. 

 18, 1888. He was educated for the protession "of civil 

 engineering, and began railroad work when seven- 

 teen years old on the Kacine and Janesville road, in 



nsin. Afterward he was eniraged for several 

 years in repairing the Erie Canal. In 1800 he was at- 

 tached to the engineering staff of the New York Cen- 

 tral and Hudson" River Railroad, and during the ensu- 

 ing eight years rose through the various grades to the 

 office "of first assistant engineer. He resigned this 

 office in 180> to accept that of chief engineer of the 

 projected Lake Ontario Shore road, and made the sur- 



nd laid the lines on which it was built. On 

 Jan. 1, 1>09. he \vas appointed chief engineer of the 

 New York Central and Hudson River road, and held 

 the office till within three years, when he resigned. 



