Eastport
a city and port of entry in Washington co., Me., on Moose Island, in Pa Passamaquoddy Bay, into which empties the St. Croix river, the national boundary between the United States and British America; and on the Washington County railroad; 190 miles E. N. E. of Portland. It is the N. E. frontier city of the United States, and has a fine harbor, with daily steamship service with Boston, Calais, and Portland. The city has extensive fishing and shipbuilding interests, a sardine packing establishment with 20 factories, public high school and library, banks and weekly newspapers. Pop. (1910) 4,961; (1920) 4,494.
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Eaton
CHARLES AUBREY, an American Baptist clergyman, born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1868. He graduated from Acadia University in 1890, and the Newton Theological Institution in 1893. In the same year he was ordained to the Baptist ministry and was pastor of the First Church at Natick, .; and Cleveland, O., Mass.; Toronto, Can until 1909, when he became pastor of the Madison Avenue Church of New York. He resigned this position in 1919 of "Leslie's to become associate editor Weekly." At the same time he engaged in the work of an expert in industrial relations. From 1917 to 1919 he was head of the national service department of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. He was the author of "For Troubled Hearts" (1899); and "The Old Evangel" (1900).
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Eaton (II)
CHARLES WARREN, an American artist, born at Albany, N. Y., in 1857. He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students' League. He exhibited in London and Paris in 1900. He received a medal at the Charleston Exposition. He received also prizes at other ex expositions, including the Inness gold medal, from the National Academy of Design in from the Paris 1904, and a gold medal associate Salon in 1906. He was an of the National Academy of Design.
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Eaton (III)
WALTER PRICHARD, an American writer, born in Malden, Mass., from Harvard in 1878. He graduated University in 1900 and in the same year engaged in newspaper work. He served as dramatic critic on several New York to papers, but in 1908 gave up this work engage in general writing. His books Today" include "The American Stage of (1908); "The Man Who Found Christmas" (1913); "Plays and Players" (1916); "In Berkshire Fields" (1919). He also lectured on dramatic subjects. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Eaton (WYATT an American artist born)
WYATT, an American artist; born in Phillipsburg, Quebec, May 6, 1849; studied in New York City and abroad. He returned to the United States in 1876 and settled in New York City. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists and later served as its secretary and president. His works include portraits of Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, etc. He died in Newport, R. I., June 7, 1896.
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Eau Claire
a city and county-seat of Eau Claire co., Wis., at the mouth of the Eau Claire river and the head of navigation of the Chippewa river, and , Chion the Chicago and Northwestern cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and sevrailroads; 85 miles E. of St. eral other Paul. It is the commercial center for northwestern Wisconsin and the outlet of the Chippewa lumber district, with extensive water power. It has a large trade in lumber. There are extensive manufactures of iron and linen goods, furniture, machinery, paper, steel, . The city sashes and doors, and shoes is noted as a summer resort, and has electric railroads and street lights, high water works, public library and Hospital, National school, Sacred Heart and savings banks, and daily and weekly ) newspapers. Pop. (1910) 18,310; (1920 20,880.
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Eaux Bonnes
a fashionable watering-place of France, in the department of Basses-Pyrénées, 20 miles a nar- S. S. E. of Oloron. It stands in row gorge surrounded by rocks. Eaux Bonnes is much frequented for its hot . ngs, used for bathing , sulphurous springs temperature Their does not exceed 91° F. There is also a cold spring here used for drinking. The springs are said to be very valuable for their power of checking incipient consumption, and of of the lungs curing various affections and chest.
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Ebbsfleet
a hamlet in the Isle of Thanet, County Kent, England; memorable as the place where the first Anglo-Saxon invaders landed.
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Ebenezer
a monument raised by Samuel after his victory over the Philistines, was assumed by early Christian hermits to be at a place now called Deiraban, near the W. borreally der of Judah; but the site is not known.
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Eber Don
Chief of the Milesian invaders of Ireland . Many of their ships were lost in a storm which the Danaans (q.v.) raised by magic. Eblis, or Haris as he is also called the "Satan" of the Mohammedans. It is said that he was an inmate of Azazil, the heaven nearest God; and when the angels were commanded to bow down to the first man, Eblis was the chief of those who rebelled. They were cast out of Azazil, and Eblis and his followers were sentenced to suffer in hell for a long time. It is supposed that he was composed of the elements of fire; and that he succeeded the peris in the government of the world. is indeed necessary, but the evidence for this type of phenomena is not abundant. Eddy, Mrs. Mary Baker: (See New Thought .)
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Ebers
RS, GEORG MORITZ (ā'bers), a German Egyptologist and novelist; born in Berlin, March 1, 1837; was edustudied cated at Froebel's school, and law at Göttingen. He afterward devoted himself to the study of Egyptology at Berlin. He established himself in 1865 as a lecturer at Jena, where in 1868 he was made professor. Next year he made a long journey to the East, and in 1870 was called to Leipzig as Professor of Egyptology. His visit to Egypt resulted in the discovery of the celebrated hieratic medical "Papyrus Ebers" which he published in 1875. His series of historical romances comprise in sequence: "An Egyptian Princess" (1864); "Uarda" (1877); "Homo Sum" (1878); "The Sisters" (1879); "The Emperor" (1880); "Serapis" (1885); "The Bride of the Nile" (1886); "Joshua" (1889); "Per Aspera" (1892); "Cleopatra" (1894); and "Eli fên," en," in verse (1888). He wrote several other historical novels; including "The Burgomaster's Wife" (1881). He died near Munich, Bavaria, Aug. 8, 1898.
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