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EZEKIEL BROWN ELLIOTT. 
of uniform kindness of heart, and of a generous and hos¬ 
pitable nature, always assuming that others were guided by 
motives as unselfish as his own. 
He combated manfully the advances of age and the in¬ 
roads of disease, and it was not until the approach of his 
seventy-eighth year that, yielding to the solicitations of his 
.family and friends, he sought relief from active duty. He 
died on the 22d of June, 1890, at the home of his son, Dr. 
Boutelle, in Hampton, Virginia. 
Edward Goodfellow. 
EZEKIEL BROWN ELLIOTT. 
Ezekiel Brown Elliott was born on July 16, 1823, in 
the village of Sweden, Monroe county, New York, and died 
of heart failure, on May 24,1888, at Washington, D. C., after 
only a few hours’ illness. 
He was the second child of John Brown Elliott, M. D., 
and Joanna Batch. In his boyhood he attended the high 
school at Waterloo, N. Y., and the academy at Geneva? 
N. Y., and subsequently entered Hamilton College, whence 
he was graduated in 1844. Immediately upon graduation 
he engaged in teaching, first at Grand Rapids, Mich., and 
subsequently at Macedon, N. Y.; Lyons, N. Y.; Lubec, Me., 
and Eastport, Me. From the latter place he removed to 
Boston, Mass., in 1849, and there became an actuary and 
electrician. Late in the last-mentioned year he aided in open¬ 
ing the House printing telegraph line between New York 
and Boston and took charge of the Boston office, having pre¬ 
viously spent a few weeks in Providence, R. I., where he 
made himself familiar with the necessary routine. Subse¬ 
quently he and Mr. W. 0. Lewis, of Hartford, Conn., became 
for a short time joint proprietors of the line, and still later they 
were joint superintendents. Finally he became superin¬ 
tendent of the Boston, Troy and Albany (Llouse) printing 
