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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DUNBAR ELLIOT.) 



able part of the equipment of every branch of 

 business conducting credit accounts, and its sys- 

 tem of reporting credits is one of the most in- 

 teresting mechanisms of trade. During the past 

 ten years Mr. Dun had not been actively con- 

 nected with the agency, except in the way of 

 giving advice and in correspondence. He was a 

 constant buyer of paintings, and the walls of his 

 home were covered with pictures. Notable among 

 his collection were The Marsh, by Daubigny; 

 The Admiration of Cupid, by Bouguereau; and 

 Pasture bordered by Trees, by Rousseau. 



Dunbar, Charles Franklin, educator, born in 

 Abingddn, Mass., July 28, 1830; died in Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., Jan. 29, 1900. He was graduated 

 at Harvard in 1851. After leaving college he en- 

 gaged in business in New Orleans, and afterward 

 in New York and Boston. He was compelled by 

 failing health to retire from active employment, 

 and became a farmer at Lexington, Mass. When 

 he had recovered his health he studied at the 

 Harvard Law School, and in 1858 was admitted 

 to the bar. For several years he had been a regu- 

 lar contributor to the Boston Daily Advertiser, 

 and in 1859 he became part owner and editor of 

 that paper in connection with Charles Hale. 

 From 1804 to 1869 he was its sole editor. In the 

 latter year he sold his interest in the paper, and 

 for two years he traveled abroad, returning to 

 Cambridge in 1871, where he was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Political Economy in Harvard Univer- 

 sity. He held this professorship till the time of 

 his death, serving as dean of the faculty from 

 1876 till 1882, and on the reorganization of that 

 body as the first dean of the faculty of arts and 

 sciences from 1890 till 1895. He wrote many 

 articles in the discussion of public questions, and 

 was president of the American Economic Asso- 

 ciation in 1893, and the first editor of the Quar- 

 terly Journal of Economics from 1886 to 1896. 

 His published works are The Theory and Prac- 

 tice of Banking and Currency, Finance, and 

 Banking. 



Button, Everell Fletcher, soldier, born in 

 Sullivan County, New Hampshire., Jan. 4, 1838; 

 died in Sycamore, 111., June 8, 1900. His parents 

 settled in Sycamore in 1846, and for eleven years 

 he assisted in his father's store. He studied in 

 Mount Morris, 111., and in Beloit, Wis., worked 

 on a farm in Kansas for a year, and then returned 

 to Sycamore and served as a deputy clerk till 

 April, 1861. At the outbreak of the civil war he 

 enlisted as first lieutenant in the 13th Illinois 

 Regiment. He was promoted captain, then major, 

 and later to lieutenant colonel, 105th Illinois Vol- 

 unteers. He was made brigadier general by brevet 

 for gallantry and meritorious service in the cam- 

 paign in Georgia and the Carolinas, and for dis- 

 tinguished service at the battle of Smith's Farm, 

 North Carolina. He was mustered out June 7, 

 1865, returned to Sycamore, and in 1868 was 

 elected clerk of the circuit court of De Kalb Coun- 

 ty, serving eight years. In 1877-78 he was clerk 

 of the Illinois House of Representatives. In 1878 

 he was elected clerk of the Supreme Court of the 

 Northern Grand Division of Illinois, which place 

 he held till 1884. In 1883 he became associated 

 with the Sycamore National Bank, and in a short 

 time became its president, which office he held at 

 his death. 



Eddy, William Woodbridge, missionary, born 

 in Penn Yan, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1825; died in Bey- 

 root, Syria, Jan. 29, 1900. He was graduated at 

 Williams College in 1845, and taught school in 

 Jacksonville, 111., two years. He was graduated 

 at Union Theological Seminary in 1850, and in 

 November, 1851, was sent as a missionary to Syria 



by the American Board. He spent his earlier 

 years in that country in Aleppo, and later labored 

 at Sidon. In 1878 he settled in Beyroot and 

 became an instructor in the theological seminary 

 in that place. From 1892 he taught in the Suk-el- 

 Ghurb school for boys. He had just finished a 

 complete commentary on the New Testament in 

 Arabic. 



Egbert, Henry, artist, born in 1826; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., March 12, 1900. He learned the 

 printing trade, and at the age of eighteen he com- 

 piled a set of drawing books, which had a great 

 sale. He was the author of several character 

 sketches Moze, Lize, Apple Mary, and the 

 Limekiln Man which attracted attention, and 

 were afterward elaborated by Thomas Worth. 

 During the regime of " Boss " Tweed he was the 

 cartoonist for the newspaper known as The Day's 

 Doings. He printed in this a cartoon entitled 

 The Three Disgraces, w r hich represented Oakey 

 Hall and Peter B. Sweeney supporting " Boss " 

 Tweed. Oakey Hall, who was then mayor of the 

 city, was so enraged that he issued a manifesto 

 and suppressed the paper. 



Egleston, Thomas, mineralogist, born in New 

 York city, Dec. 9, 1832; died there, Jan. 15, 1900. 

 He was graduated at Yale in 1854, and was as- 

 sistant to Prof. Silliman till March, 1855. The 

 next two years he spent in European travel, and 

 then entered the School of Mines in Paris, where 

 he was graduated in 1860. He returned to the 

 United States in 1861, and soon afterward he was 

 appointed curator of the mineralogical collections 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1863 he pre- 

 pared the plans that were used in establishing a 

 school of mines as a department of Columbia 

 College, and in January, 1864, was chosen Pro- 

 fessor of Mineralogy and Metallurgy. He held 

 this chair till 1897, when he resigned on account 

 of failing health, and was made professor emer- 

 itus. Prof. Egleston was one of the founders of 

 the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and 

 he was its president in 1886. He was also one 

 of the founders of the American Meteorological 

 Society, and of the Societies of Mechanical En- 

 gineers and Electrical Engineers. He was associ- 

 ated with the agricultural and geological sur- 

 vey of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1866, a 

 United States commissioner to examine the for- 

 tifications of the Atlantic coast in 1868, and one 

 of the jurors of the International Exposition at 

 Vienna in 1873. He was at the head of several 

 religious and charitable organizations, and ren- 

 dered New York city a notable service by his 

 efforts for saving Washington Square when it 

 was threatened with obliteration during tin 

 Tweed rtgime. Prof. Egleston published Tlx 

 Metallurgy of Gold and Silver in the United 

 States (2 vols.) ; A Catalogue of Minerals and 

 their Synonyms; Life of Major-Gen. Patcrson. d 

 the Revolutionary Army; and many pamphlets., 



Eldridge, George, hydrographer, born in Chat 

 ham, Mass., Nov. 27, 1821; died there. Aug. -''< 

 1900. As a youth he was engaged in fishing 

 Later he began surveying the shoals near hi* 

 home, to prepare a chart that would assist in 

 navigating that part of the coast with more sai'et \ 

 He completed valuable charts of the coast hum 

 Chesapeake Bay to Belle Isle, and was regard f< 

 as an authority on coast navigation: wrote article- 

 on the remarkable tides in the l!ay of Fvmdy 

 and was the author of a tide book. 



Elliot. George H., soldier, born in Massachu- 

 setts; died in Marmion. Va.. March 2:5. I!<MI. 1 1'' 

 was graduated at West Point. July ]. 1S.V>. and 

 commissioned second lieutenant, 1st Artillery : \\;H 

 transferred to the engineer corps, Jan. L!!!. 1S.17, 



