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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (DURRIE ELMORE.) 



Aug. 25, 1898. She was left motherless at the age 

 of seven years, and was placed in the keeping of a 

 Shaker family at Canterbury, and remained a mem- 

 ber of the household for sixty-five years. She was 

 eldress, or first sister in authority, for forty-six 

 years. She was an able writer, contributed many 

 articles to Shaker and other magazines, and had 

 visited every community of her sect in the United 

 States, except one in Ohio. 



Durrie, John, artist, born in Hartford, Conn., 

 March 21, 1818; died in East Orange, N. J., Aug. 1, 

 1898. He studied painting with Nathaniel Jocelyn, 

 of New Haven, where he resided nearly all his life. 

 His specialty was portraiture and fruit pieces. 

 Many of his small canvases, fruit and fish, are 

 owned in Boston. A younger brother, George H. 

 Durrie, who died many years ago in New Haven, 

 was a painter of landscapes and snow scenes. 



Dnryea, Joseph Tuthill, clergyman, born in 

 Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y., Dec. 9', 1832 ; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., May 17, 1898. He was of Hugue- 

 not and Dutch stock ; was graduated at Princeton 

 in 1856, and at its theological seminary in 1859 ; 

 and was first called to the Second Presbyterian 

 Church in Troy, N. Y., immediately after leaving 

 the seminary. In 1862 he went to the Collegiate 

 Reformed Dutch Church in New York city, and in 

 1867 to the newly established Classon Avenue Pres- 

 byterian Church in Brooklyn. He held the last 

 pastorate for twelve years, and in that time his con- 

 gregation erected a handsome new church edifice, 

 and established a mission school on Atlantic 

 Avenue which became the Duryea Presbyterian 

 Church. From Brooklyn he went to the Central 

 Congregational Church in Boston, where he re- 

 mained ten years, and during the whole of this 

 pastorate he also taught the senior class in philos- 

 ophy in Wellesley College. In 1888 he accepted a 

 cajl to the First Congregational Church in Omaha, 

 Ncl)., where he became one of the foremost in mis- 

 sionai'y, charitable, and educational work. He had 

 charge of the general work of relief in that city 

 during the distressing winter of 1893. In 1895 he 

 resigned, and accepted the pastorate of the First 

 Reformed Church in Brooklyn, with which he re- 

 mained until his death. 



Eaton. William Wallace, statesman, born in 

 Tolland, Conn., Oct. 11, 1816; died in Hartford, 

 Conn., Sept. 19, 1898. He was educated in the 

 public schools of Tolland. From 1837 to 1841 he 

 was in business in Columbia, S. C. Returning to 

 Tolland, he studied law and was admitted to the 

 bar. He was elected to the State House of Repre- 

 sentatives in 1847-'48, and to the State Senate in 

 1850. He then removed to Hartford, where he lived 

 till his death. He was clerk of the Superior and 

 Supreme Court, and city judge and recorder of 

 Hartford. For several terms, between 1853 and 

 1875, lie represented Hartford in the Legislature, 

 and he was Speaker of the House in 1N54 and 1873. 

 He was known as a " Peace Democrat " during the 

 civil war, and he advised resistance if the troops 

 from Massachusetts attempted to pass through his 

 State. He served one term. ls7."> to 1881, in the 

 Senate of the United States, and previous to that 

 a few weeks as the successor of Senator Bucking- 

 ham, who died while in office. For a part of his 

 term he was chairman of the Committee on Foreign 

 Relations. He framed a bill for the appointment 

 of a tariff commission. The bill failed, but a 

 similar measure was adopted by the next Congress. 

 He opposed the appointment of the Electoral Com- 

 mission to settle the controversy over the presidency 

 in 1876-77. In 1883-'85 he represented the 1st 

 District of Connecticut in the United States House 

 of Representatives, and while holding this office he 

 maintained the right of the House, independently 



of the Senate, to determine all questions relating 

 to any presidential election. 



Eddy, Wilson, inventor, born in Chelsea. \'t., 

 Feb. 24, 1813; died in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 2. 

 1898. At the age of nineteen he went to Lowell 

 with the Locks and Canal Company, and in 1840 

 began to work for Major Whistler as a mechanic on 

 the Boston and Albany Railroad. When Mr. Eddy 

 began working on locomotives there were fewer 

 than a dozen in the United States, and when his 

 manager made a failure of several locomotives 

 which had been built to overcome the steep grades 

 between Springfield and Albany Mr. Eddy's op- 

 portunity came. He was promoted from foreman 

 to master mechanic in 1850, and then began build- 

 ing his own locomotives. He went to Russia in 

 1856, but as the capitalists' plans failed he returned 

 to New England. He retired from active work in 

 1880. Mr. Eddy never cared to secure patents on 

 his many inventions, and took out only one, on a 

 car brake. He kept pace with the development of 

 locomotives, so that the last one of the 135 which 

 he built was as complete and able to meet the de- 

 mands of the period as the first. He served both 

 as an alderman and councilman in Springfield, and 

 in 1882 represented his district in the Legislature. 



Eliot, Samuel, historian, born in Boston. Mass., 

 Dec. 22, 1821; died in Beverly, Mass., Sept. 14, 

 1898. He was graduated at Harvard in 1839 and 

 was long prominent in educational work. From 

 1856 to 1864 he was Professor of History and Polit- 

 ical Science in Trinity College, Hartford, and he 

 was president of that institution in 1860-'64; from 

 1872 to 1876 he was head master of the Girls' High 

 School, Boston, Superintendent of the Boston Pub- 

 lic Schools, 1878-'80, and after that date he served 

 on the school committee. He was an accomplished 

 historical scholar. His principal work, "The His- 

 tory of Liberty " (Boston, 1853), was a revision of 

 two earlier works "Passages from the History of 

 Liberty" (Boston, 1847) and "The Liberty' of 

 Rome " (Boston, 1849). In its new form it was 

 divided into two parts, the first entitled " The 

 Ancient Romans," the second called "The Early 

 Christians." His other writings include " The 

 and Times of Savonarola" and " Manual of United 

 States History, 1492-1850" (Boston, 1856). 



Elmer, Horace, naval officer, born in Bridgeton, , 

 N. J., in 1847; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 27, 

 1898. He was appointed an acting midshipman in 

 the United States navy, Sept. 27, 18G1 : and 

 promoted midshipman, July 16, 1862; ensign. Nov. 

 1, 1866; master, Dec. 1. 1866; lieutenant. 31 arch 

 12, 1868; lieutenant commander, April 'J7. L) 

 and commander. March 2, 1885. He was on 

 duty thirteen years and eleven months, and on 

 shore or other duty eighteen years and one month, 

 at various times he served on the " Hartford." Hag- 

 ship of the East India squadron ; the ironclad 

 "Terror," on the North Atlantic station: tli' 

 "Colorado " during the excitement over the ' Vir- 

 ginius" capture in 1873; the " Kearsarge " ; and 

 the practice ship "Jamestown." On Oct. 26, 1896. 

 he was appointed commandant of the naval station 

 at New London, Conn., and during the win!' 

 1897-'98 he was on duty at Cramp's shipyard i' 

 Philadelphia, superintending the construction of 

 vessels for the navy. In March, INKS, when war 

 with Spain seemed inevitable, he was detailed t< 

 take charge of the organization of a special nava 

 force for patrol duty dong the coasts. This foiv. 

 was afterward known as the "mosquito tleet." Il 

 was (he intention of t lie Navy Department to givi 

 him command of the fleet when organized, but In- 

 died from overwork before his task was completed. 



Elmore, Alfred Frank, vocalist, born in Can 

 terbury," England, May 23, 1839; died in New York 



