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EGLINTON AND WINTON. 



ELLSWORTH, EPHRAIM E. 



terval between the shocks was perhaps five 

 seconds. They were accompanied by the usual 

 rumbling noise, and were sufficient to jar the 

 furniture in the building. The sound of the 

 earth wave in the air continued audible some 

 seconds after the tremor had ceased. 



EGLINTON ANd WINTON, ARCHIBALD WIL- 

 LIAM MONTGOMERIE, Earl of, an English and 

 Scottish peer, born at Palermo, Sicily, Sept. 

 29, 1812, died at Eglinton Castle, Ardrossan, in 

 Ayrshire, Oct. 14, 1861. He was educated at 

 Oxford, where he attained a high rank as a 

 classical scholar, and received the degree of 

 D. 0. L. He held for many years the office 

 of lord-lieutenant and sheriff-principal of Ayr- 

 shire. He became 13th earl of Eglinton on the 

 death'of his father in 1819, Earl of Winton, in 

 Scotland, in 1840, and Earl of Wintoii in the 

 peerage of the United Kingdom in 1859. In 

 1852 he was elected lord-rector of Glasgow 

 University, and in Feb. 1852, lord-lieutenant 

 of Ireland, but resigned in December of the 

 same year. In 1858 he was again appointed to 

 the same office, but retired in 1859. He was 

 passionately fond of the sports of the turf, and 

 had done much to improve the qualities of the 

 English blood horse. He also made improve- 

 ments in agriculture. In 1839 he revived on 

 his own estate the tournament of the middle 

 ages, with more than its original splendor. The 

 preparations which had been made for this fes- 

 tivity were vast, and the scene was one long 

 to be remembered. Lady Seymour, now the 

 Duchess of Somerset, was the Queen of Beauty 

 for this occasion, and the present emperor of 

 France one of the knights. The earl was great- 

 ly beloved by his tenants for his efforts for 

 their improvement and welfare. 



ELLIS, JOHN WILLIS, late Governor of North 

 Carolina, born in Rowan near Davidson Coun- 

 ty, Nov. 25, 1820, died at Raleigh, 1861. His 

 early education was conducted under Robert 

 Allian, Esq., at Beattie's Ford, and was con- 

 tinued at Randolph, Macon College, Va., from 

 which he transferred his college relation to the 

 University of North Carolina, where he gradu- 

 ated in 1841. He there studied law with Hon. 

 R. M. Pearson, of Rowan, since Judge of the Su- 

 preme Court of North Carolina. In 1844 he was 

 elected a member of the House of Commons 

 of the State Legislature, and reflected till 1848, 

 when he was chosen a Judge of the Superior 

 Courts of Law and Equity, which position he 

 held till 1858, when he was elected Governor of 

 the State, and in 1860 reflected. On the 2d of 

 January Governor Ellis took possession of Fort 

 Macon, at Beaufort, the works at Wilmington, 

 and the United States arsenal at Fayetteville, 

 professedly on behalf of the State. On the 20th 

 of April he ordered the seizure of the United 

 States mint at Charlotte. He was active also in 

 promoting the passage of the secession ordi- 

 nance in North Carolina. 



ELLSWORTH, EPHRAIM ELMER, a colonel 

 of volunteers and the introducer of the Zouave 

 drill and organization into the United States, 



born at Mechanicsville, Saratoga Co., New 

 York, April 23, 1837, killed at Alexandria, 

 Virginia, May 24, 1861. The financial misfor- 

 tunes which overtook his father during Elmer's 

 early childhood, prevented him from attaining 

 the object of his boyish ambition, a cadetship 

 at West Point ; but, passionately fond of study, 

 he acquired a good English education. After 

 brief engagements in mercantile employment 

 in Troy and New York, he went to Chicago, 

 and though not yet of age, commenced business 

 for himself as a patent solicitor, and soon at- 

 tained success and a handsome income ; but 

 through the fraud of one whom he had trusted 

 was despoiled of his hard earnings. Instead 

 of giving way to despondency, he turned his 

 attention to the study of law, supporting 

 himself meanwhile by copying law papers at 

 night. But while thus rapidly familiarizing 

 himself with the science of law, his predilection 

 for the military profession was very strong ; 

 and having attained a thorough familiarity 

 with the French chasseur cVAfrique or Zouave 

 drill and organization, he resolved to form a 

 Zouave corps in Chicago, with such modifica- 

 tions as he deemed desirable to better adapt it 

 to this country and the genius of the people. 

 The corps which he organized and of which he 

 became the commander, was a remarkable one ; 

 the strictest abstinence from spirituous liquors 

 and tobacco was enforced, and the drill was 

 exceedingly severe in its gymnastic require- 

 ments. They had been organized less than a 

 year when their extraordinary performances 

 won them at the State Agricultural Fair a stand 

 of .colors, and in July, 1860, with their gallant 

 commander at their head and bearing their 

 prize colors, they visited the Eastern cities, 

 and challenged competition in their military 

 discipline and practice, and won golden opin- 

 ions everywhere. On his return to Chicago he 

 organized a Zouave regiment, which he offered 

 to the governor for the defence of the State, as 

 if in premonition of the coming struggle. Dur- 

 ing the autumn Ellsworth entered heartily into 

 the political campaign, advocating the election 

 of Mr. Lincoln. After the election he accom- 

 panied the President elect to Washington, 

 where he received a lieutenant's commission 

 preparatory to his entrance into the War De- 

 partment, and had already matured in his own 

 mind a reorganization of the militia of the 

 country. The breaking out of the war changed 

 his plans. At the proclamation of the Presi- 

 dent on the 15th of April, he hastened to New 

 York, organized a Zouave regiment of 1,200 

 men, from the Fire Department, and in three 

 weeks marched at their head through Pennsyl- 

 vania Avenue, Washington. He drilled his reg- 

 iment assiduously, and more than any other 

 man could have done, tamed and controlled 

 those restless and ungovernable spirits. On 

 the 23d of May his regiment was ordered to 

 Alexandria, which they reached early in the 

 morning of the 24th. Seeing a secession flag 

 flying over a hotel, (the Marshall House,) he 



