=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= _O._, 1840- ----. A popular writer of school text-books and juvenile tales, who was for a number of years an instructor in Trenton, New Jersey. Among his numerous writings are included The People’s Standard History of the United States; several school histories of the United States; From the Throttle to the President’s Chair; Lost in Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; The Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the Tapajos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Daniel Boone; Storm Mountain. _Am. Cas. Co. Mer._ =Ellis, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1814-1894. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston who was pastor of the Harvard Church in Charlestown, 1840-69, and for many years president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was an enthusiastic historical student with positive convictions. They were, however, held without bitterness or prejudice. A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts; Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in Sparks’s American Biography; History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most important work. _Hou. Lit._ =Ellis, Sumner.= _Ms._, 1828-1886. A Universalist clergyman of Boston and Chicago. At Our Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H. Chapin, _supra_; Hints on Preaching. _See Memorial by C. R. Moor, 1887._ _Meth._ =Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott.= _Ct._, 1822- ----. An inventor of Connecticut who published in 1855 a volume of poems of very uneven excellence, some of which were popular for a time. =Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt.= _Ct._, 1791-1858. A commissioner of patents who was a son of the noted jurist, Oliver Ellsworth. Digest of Patents from 1770 to 1859. =Ellsworth, Henry William.= _Ct._, 1814-1864. Son of H. L. Ellsworth. A lawyer of Indiana. Sketch of the Upper Mississippi Valley; American Swine-Breeder. =Ellsworth, Mrs. Mary Wolcott [Janvrin].= _N. H._, 1830-1870. A writer for periodicals. Peace, or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the Children; Smith’s Saloon. =Ellwanger, George Herman.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. Brother of H. B. Ellwanger, _infra_. A writer of Rochester, New York. The Garden’s Story; The Story of My House; In Gold and Silver; Idyllists of the Country-Side. Love’s Demesne, a Garland of Contemporary Love Poems. _Ap. Do._ =Ellwanger, Henry Brooks.= _N. Y._, 1851-1883. A horticulturist of Rochester, New York. The Rose, a Treatise on Cultivation, History, etc., of Roses. _Do._