=Eggleston, Edward.= _Ind._, 1837-1902. A novelist long resident near Lake George, New York, who, in the early part of his career, was a Methodist minister. He was especially successful in depicting life in southern Indiana in pioneer days, his first important work, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, attracting widespread notice. Other fictions by him include The End of the World; The Circuit Rider; Roxy; The Graysons, a story of Illinois; The Faith Doctor; The Hoosier Schoolboy; Queer Stories; Schoolmasters’ Stories for Boys and Girls; Mr. Blake’s Walking-Stick; Duffels. Still other works are Sunday-School Manual; Counsel for Teachers; School History of the United States; Household History of the United States; First Book in American History; Stories of Great Americans; The Beginners of a Nation, the first volume in a History of Life in the United States. In collaboration with his daughter, Mrs. Seelye, _infra_, he wrote Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet; Pocahontas; Brandt and Red Jacket; Montezuma. _See Vedder’s American Writers. Am. Ap. Cent. Do. Scr._ =Eggleston, George Cary.= _Ind._, 1839- ----. Brother of E. Eggleston, supra. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and afterwards filled several journalistic positions in New York city, becoming editor of the Commercial Advertiser in 1886. His writings are mainly for young people. How to Educate Yourself; A Man of Honor; A Rebel’s Recollections; How to Make a Living; How to Make Money; The Big Brother, or a Story of the Indian War; Captain Sam; Signal Boys; The Wreck of the Red Bird; Strange Stories from History for Young People; Red Eagle; Juggernaut: a Veiled Record (with Dolores Marbourg). _Do. Fo. Har. Put._ =Egle, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1830-1901. A physician and local historian of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History of Pennsylvania; History of Dauphin County; History of Lebanon County; Historical Register; Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch-Irish and German; Pennsylvania in the Revolution; Notes and Queries relative to Interior Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Archives (edited with J. B. Linn, _infra_), in 12 volumes. =Egleston, Thomas.= _N. Y._, 1832-1900. A metallurgist of note, professor of mineralogy at Columbia College from 1864. Metallurgy of Silver; Catalogue of Minerals; Lectures on Mineralogy; Life of John Patterson, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution. _Wil._ =Eidlitz, Leopold.= _Bo._, 1823-1896. An architect of New York city. The Nature and Function of Art. =Elder, Cyrus.= _Pa._, 1833- ----. Nephew of W. Elder, _infra_. A revenue commissioner of Pennsylvania. Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise; Man and Labor; Short Studies; May Gift, in verse. =Elder, George A. M.= _Ky._, 1794-1838. A Roman Catholic priest who founded the College of St. Joseph, at Bardstown, Kentucky, and was its first president. He wrote Letters to Brother Jonathan.