ines of the Missionary Enterprise " (1854) ; " Angel Whispers" (Lowell, 1858); "City Side" (1854); " Young Woman's Friend " (1855) ; and " Waiting at the Cross " (Boston, 1859).
EDDY, Edward, actor, b. in Troy, N. Y"., in
1821 ; d. in Kingston, Jamaica, 19 Dec, 1875. His
real name was Overocker, and he was at first a
carpenter in Troy. He made his first appearance
in that city, then played in Baltimore, and in
1847-8 in Boston. He "came to New York in 1851,
and was successively manager of the Metropoli-
tan theatre, Burton's Chambers street theatre, the
Old Bowery, and the old Broadway theatre. Al-
though he aspired to personate leading charac-
ters, Mr. Eddy did not succeed in impressing his
audiences favorably. His best efforts were in melo-
drama, and in such Shakespearean parts as Laertes,
Edgar, and Macduff.— His wife, Mary Mathews,
b. in England ; d. in New Orleans, La.,' in 1865, was
also on the stage, but retired after her marriage.
EDDY, Ezra Butler, Canadian capitalist, b.
near Bristol, Vt., 22 Aug., 1827. He was educated
at the public school, and when fifteen years of age
went to New York, where he secured employment
with a merchant. After a year he returned to Ver-
mont, and in 1851 engaged in the manufacture of
friction matches at Burlington. In 1854 he -re-
moved to Hull, opposite Ottawa, Canada, and tiiere
began the manufacture of matches, adding thereto,
in 1856, the manufacture of articles of wooden
ware. In 1858 he added lumbering to his other
enterprises, and the yearly amount of this business
is now (1887) neariy $2,000,000. Mr. Eddy was
elected to the Quebec legislature in 1861, and was
a representative for four years. When the Otta-
wa ladies' college was established he was made its
president, and held that office for sevei'al years.
EDDY, Henry Turner, mathematician, b. in
Stoughton, Mass., 9 June, 1844. He was graduated
at Yale in 1867, receiving the mathematical medal
in his senior year, and then followed the engineer-
ing course in Sheffield scientific school, where he
held the office of instructor in field-work in en-
gineering. In 1868 he received the appointment
of instructor in mathematics and Latin in the
University of East Tennessee, at Knoxville, and in
1869 he became assistant professor of mathematics
and civil engineering in Cornell, where he received
the degrees of C. E. and Ph. D. for advanced studies
in pure and applied mathematics. After holding
the office of associate professor in mathematics in
Princeton for a year, he was called in 1874 to fill
a similar chair in the University of Cincinnati,
and was appointed dean of the faculty in 1874-'7
and 1884-'5. The year 1879-'80 he spent in study
abroad. Dr. Eddy is a member of scientific so-
cieties, and was vice-president of the American
association for the advancement of science, of the
section on mathematics and astronomy in 1884.
He has contributed numerous papers to scientific
and technical journals, and has published •' Ana-
lytical Geometry " (Philadelphia, 1874) ; '• Re-
searches in Oraphic Statics" (New York, 1878);
" Thermodynamics " (1879) ; and " Neue Construc-
tionenausder graphischen Statik " (Leipsic, 1880).
EDDY. Henry Clarence, musician, b. in Green-
field. Mass.. 21 June, 1S51 At the age of seven
he began his musical education, and at fourteen
filled a place as organist. He has legally dropped
his first name. When sixteen he went to Hartford,
Conn., wiiere he studied with Dudley Buck, and at
the age of seventeen became organist of Bethany
church, Montpeiier, Vt. Here he remained about
two years and a half, teaching and devoting all his
leisure time to his studies. In 1871 he wont to
Berlin, where he studied tlie piano under Loesch-
horn and the organ under Haupt. Alter making
a concert tour through Saxony, Austria, and Switz-
erland, playing in all the principal churches, he
was invited in Berlin to play before the emperor
and many of the nobility. Passing through Eng-
land on his way home, he stopped in London,
playing in the Royal Albert hall and in St. Paul's
cathedral. On his return from Europe, Mr. Eddy
became organist of the 1st Congregational church
in Chicago. In 1876 Mr. Eddy became general
director of the Hershey school of musical art in
Chicago. In the spring of 1877 the music-hall
connected with the school was finished, capable of
seating 1,000 persons, and here, upon a fine three-
manual concert organ, Mr. Eddy began a series of
recitals unique in the history of organ music.
They numbered 100 when completed in 1879, and
embraced all the greatest works for the organ, of
both ancient and modern authors. Mr. Eddy
played at tiie Centennial exposition at Philadel-
phia, and in different parts of the country, giving
concerts and exhibiting many new organs. Among
his publications are a prelude and fugue in A
minor ; collections of organ compositions entitled
" The Church and Concert Organist " (2 vols.. New
York, 1882-'5), and " The Organ in Church " (1887) ;
and a translation of Haupt's " Theory of Counter-
point and Fugue" (1876).
EDDY, John H., geographer, b. in New York
in 1782 ; d. 22 Dec, lbl7. He published a circular
map of the country for thirty miles around New
York (1814) ; a map of the western part of New
York ; a map to illustrate the communication be-
tween lake Erie and the Hudson ; and a map of the
state of New York ; and was engaged on a general
atlas of America at the time of his death.
EDDY, Norman, congressman, b. in Scipio,
Cayuga CO., N. Y., 10 Dec, 1810; d. in Indianapo-
lis, Ind., 28 Jan., 1872. He was graduated in
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in
1835, and removed in 1886 to Mishawaka, Ind.,
where he practised for several years, but finally
gave up his profession for that of the law, and was
admitted to the bar in April, 1847, removing to
South Bend, Ind., in the same year. He was
elected state senator on the Democratic ticket in
1850, and in 1852 was elected to congress over
Schuyler Colfax, but was defeated by him in 1854.
President Pierce appointed Mr. Eddy district at-
torney for Minnesota in 1855, and in 1856-'7 he
was commissioner of the Indian trust lands in
Kansas. In the autumn of 1861 he organized the
48th Indiana regiment, was commissioned its colo-
nel, and continued in command till July, 1868,
when he resigned because of disability resulting
from wounds received in the battle of luka, Miss.
In that engagement the 48th lost 119 killed or
wounded out of 420 that entered the fight. Col.
Eddy was appointed collector of internal revenue
by President Johnson in 1865, and in 1870 was
elected secretary of state of Indiana, which office
he held till his sudden death from heart disease.
EDDY, Richard, author, b. in Providence, R. I., 21 June, 1828. He was apprenticed to a book- binder at the age of fifteen, but in 1848 went to Clinton. N. Y., where he studied theology and became a Universalist minister. He had pastorates in Rome and Buffalo, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and Canton, N. Y., and in 1861-'8 was chaplain of the
60th New York regiment. He was librarian of the Pennsylvania historical society in 1864-'8, and then held pastorates in Franklin and Gloucester, Mass., Akron. Ohio, and Melrose, Mass., where he went in 1881. Since 1878 he has been president of the
