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=Everts, William Wallace.= _N. Y._, 1814-1890. A Baptist clergyman of
Chicago, and later of Jersey City, among whose many published works
are included The Pastor’s Hand-Book; Bible Prayer-Book; The Voyage of
Life; Manhood, its Duties and Responsibilities; Promise and Training
of Childhood; Words in Earnest; The Baptist Layman’s Book; The Sabbath;
The Christian Apostolate; Life of John Foster. _Bap. Fu. Rev._
=Ewbank, Thomas.= _E._, 1792-1870. A scientist of New York, at
one period commissioner of patents. Thoughts on Matter and Force;
Hydraulics; The World a Workshop; Life in Brazil; Experiments in Marine
Propulsion; Reminiscences in the Patent Office. _Har. Scr._
=Ewell, Marshall Davis.= _Mch._, 1844- ----. A lawyer of Chicago, and
professor of law in Union College of Law in Chicago. Blackwell on Tax
Titles; Treatise on the Law of Fixtures; Essentials of the Law; Manual
of Medical Jurisprudence.
=Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright.= _Ms._, 1826-1883. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York city of the extreme ritualistic school, whose Sermons on
the Failure of Protestantism attracted much attention at the time of
their delivery. His other writings include The Operation of the Holy
Spirit; Grammar of Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the Fallibility of
Spiritualism Exposed; Sanctity and Other Sermons. _See American Church
Review, December, 1883; Sermons of, with Memoir by C. T. Congdon,
supra._
=Ewing, Finis.= _Va._, 1773-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman who with two
others organized the Cumberland Presbyterian church in 1810. Lectures
on Divinity is an exposition of the doctrines of the sect.
=Ewing, Hugh Boyle.= _O._, 1826- ----. A general in the Federal army
during the Civil War, and minister to the Netherlands, 1866-70. A
Castle in the Air; Ladron, a Tale of Early California.
=Ewing, John.= _Md._, 1732-1802. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1777-1802, and
eminent in his day as a scientific observer. He published an Account
of the Transit of Venus, and his Lectures on Natural Philosophy were
issued after his death.
=Eyster, Mrs. Nellie [Blessing].= _Md._, 1831- ----. A writer for
young people, formerly living in Pennsylvania, now in California.
Sunny Hours; Chincapin Charlie; Tom Harding; Lionel Wintour’s Diary; A
Colonial Boy. _Lo._
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=Fabbri, Cora Randall.= _N. Y._, 1871-1892. A verse-writer of Italian
descent whose volume of Lyrics was published but a few days before her
death. _Har._
=Fabens, Joseph Warren.= _Ms._, 1821-1875. A native of Salem,
Massachusetts, who was an envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the Dominican republic. The Camel Hunt, a Narrative
of Personal Adventure; Story of Life on the Isthmus; Facts about
Santo Domingo; The Last Cigar, and Eight Other Poems; In the Tropics
(probably).
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