Elliott, Charles. See p. 1042 of this vol.
Elliott, John, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Killingworth, Conn., Aug. 24, 1768, grad- uated at Yale College 1786, entered the ministry 1791, and was installed pastor in East Guilford Nov. 2, 1791, in which place he remained until the close of his life, Dec. 17, 1824. Dr. Elliott was made fellow of Yale College 1812, and one of the prudential committee 1816. He published An Oration on the Death of Thomas Lewis (1804), and a few sermons. — Sprague, yljmafe, ii, 321.
Elliott, Stephen, D.D., Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Georgia, was born in Beaufort, S. C, Aug. 31, 1806. At sixteen he entered the sopho- more class at Harvard Universit}', but returned during the junior year to South Carolina College, Columbia, where he graduated A.B. in 1825. In 1827 he engaged in the practice of law. "In 1832, under the pressure of a newly-awakend devotion to the cause of Christ, he abandoned his profession, and became a candidate for holj' orders. He was ordained by bishop Bo wen in 1835, served as deacon one month in tlie church at Wilton, and was then elected professor of sacred liter- ature and the evidences of Christianity in the South Carolina College. Five years later he was chosen first bishop of Georgia. He was consecrated in February, 1841, removed to Savannah, and became rector of St. John's Ciiurch. In 1844 he became provisional bish- op of Florida. In 1845 he removed to Montpellier, to direct in person the work of female education. Here he spent about seven j'ears of his life, and, like many other bishops, expended his whole fortune in the noble effort. In 1853 he removed to Savannah, and took charge of Christ Church in that city as rector. This office he continued to hold, with the exception of one brief interval, till his death. His numerous home du- ties did not hinder his visitation of his diocese at least once each year, often much more frequently. But two hours before his decease he had returned, in cheer- fulness and apparent health, from one of those long episcopal journej'S. Instantly, not to him ' suddenh',' in the midst of" his labors, and at the height of his power," he died at his home in Savannah Dec. %% 18GG. — Amer. Quart. Church Review, April, 18G7, aatS April, 1868.
Ellis, Reuben, an early Methodist Episcopal min- ister. The dates of his early life are wanting. He was a native of North Carolina, entered the itinerancy in 1777, and died in Baltimore February, 1796. " He
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was a man of very sure ami solid parts, weight}' and powerful in preaching, and full of simplicity and god- ly sincerity." — Minutes of Conferences, i, 67 ; Stevens, History of Methodist Episcopal Church, p. 39 et al.
Ellis, Robert Fulton, a Baptist minister, was born at Topsliam, I\Ie., Oct. 16, 18(I'J; studied at Bow- doin College, and at Newton Theological Institution, where he graduated in 1838. He was pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Springfield, Mass., from 1838 to 1845. He then spent two and a half years in the State of Missouri, preaching, establishing Sun- day-schools, and furnishing them with libraries. In 1847 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Alton, 111., but, becoming associate editor of the Western Watchman, published at St. Louis, Mo., he again took an itinerant agency in that state, and, while thus em- ployed, he died, July 24, 1854.— Sprague, Annals, vi, 827.
Ellys, Anthony, bishop of St. David's, was born in 1(')0;J. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he took his master's degree in 171G. In 1724 lie was presented to the vicarage of St. Olave, Jewry, and to the rectory of St. Martin's, Ironmonger's Lane. In 1725 he obtained a prebend of Gloucester, and in 1728 was created D.D. at Cambridge. He was next )jromoted to the bishopric of St. David's, and died at Gloucester in 1761. His writings are as follows : 1. A Flea for the Sacramental Text: — 2. Remarhs on Hume's Essay concerning Miracles, and sermons ])reaclied on public occasions (4to) : — 3. Tracts on the Liberty, Spiritual and Temporal, of Protestants in En- (jland (1767, 4to): — 4. Tracts on the Liberty, Spiritual and Tempo7-al, of Stihjecfs in England: the two last- mentioned are collections of tracts, and form one great and elaborate work, which was the principal object of the bishop's life. Thej^ were published posthumously. — Hook, Eccles. Biography, vol. iv ; Kippis, Biographia Britannica, v, 581.
Elm stands in the Auth.Vers. as the translation of in^N, elah' , in Hos. iv, 13; elsewhere rendered "oak" (q^ v.).
Elmo'clam (EXuuiSdn ; perhaps for Tii'lbx, Al-
modacT), son of Er and father of Cosam ; one of the an- cestors of Christ, in the private line of David, and great-grandfather of jSIaaseiah, the great-grandfather of Salathiel (Luke iii, 28). B.C. cir. 700. He is not mentioned in the Old Test.
Elna'am [many El'naam'\ (Ileb. Elnaam, tS?33St [in pause S^jbx], God is his deliyht; Sept. 'EXvaufi V. r. 'EXXon'jU, Vulgate Elnaeni) father of Jeril)ai and Joshaviah, two of David's distinguished warriors (1 Chron. xi, 46). B.C. 1044. In the Sept. the second warrior is said to be the son of the first, and Elnaam is given as himself a member of tlie guard.