In 1778 he was at the battle of Monmouth and the siege of Newport. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1780 and made deputy quartermaster of the 1st Massachusetts regiment, with the rank of major, and long after the war he served his native state in that capacity. He was one of the founders of the society of the Cincinnati, and married a daughter of Gen. John Paterson. After the war he was elected a representative and afterward state senator. In 1808 he was appointed associate justice of the court of sessions. — His grandson. Thomas, b. in New York city, 9 Dec, 1832. He was graduated at Yale in 1854. and at the Ecole des mines, in Paris, in 1860, and in 1861-'4 had charge of the collections of mineral and metallurgical products in the Smithsonian institution. In 1863 he published a plan for a school of mines, which was adopted by Columbia college. He became professor of mineralogy and metallurgy there in 1864, and has since continued to hold that chair. He made the geological survey of the Union Pacific railroad in 1866, was commissioner to examine fortifications of the United States in 1868, and mint commissioner in 1870, 1878, and 1885. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Princeton and LL. D. from Trinity. Prof. Egleston was vice-president of the New York academy of sciences from 1869-'81, and president of the American institute of mining engineers in 1886. He has taken out various metallurgical patents, and has written many papers, and published ten volumes on subjects connected with his specialties. Two of these are "Lectures on Mineralogy" (New York, 1871) and "The Metallurgy of Gold, Silver, and Mercury in the United States" (1887). In 1890 he received the Legion of Honor decoration of France, and in 1895 was promoted to the grade ot officer.
EGUIARA Y EGUREN, Juan Jose (ay-ghee-ah'-rah), Mexican clergyman and author, b. in the city of Mexico in the latter part of the 17th century ; d. there, 29 Jan., 1768. He studied at the college of San Ildefonso, and was afterward canon, professor of theology, and rector of the University of Mexico. His desire to give up his time to his literary tasks made him decline the bishopric of Yucatan, for which he was nominated. He was the
author of the first dictionary of biography in South America, which he called "Biblioteca Mexicana," containing the results of much curious research (Mexico, 1765). He printed the first volume of
this work, containing the letters A, B, and C, in his own press, and left in manuscript other volumes, which are in the library of the cathedral of Mexico. Among his other works are "Pnelectiones" (1726-47); "Selectae disertationes Mexicanse ad Scholasticam speciantes Theologiam" (3 vols., 1746); "La Nada contrapuesta en las balanzas de Dios al aparente peso de los hombres" (1727); and " Vida del V. P. Pedro Arellano Sosa, primer Prepdsito de San Felipe Neri" (1735).
EHNINGER, John Whetton, artist, b. in NewYork city, 22 July, 1827; d. at Saratoga, N. Y., 22 Jan., 1889. He was graduated at Columbia in 1847, and in 1848-'9 studied art in Paris. The subject
of his first painting, “Peter Stuyvesant” (1850),
was taken from Irving's “Knickerbocker's History of New York,” and was engraved by the American art union. He went abroad again in 1851-'2, and visited Dusseldorf and other art centres. Besides drawings in outline, pencil, and India ink, he
produced a series of etchings illustrating Hood's “Bridge of Sighs” (1849); a series on Irving's story of “Dolph Heyliger” (1850); and a set of eight illustrations for Longfellow's “Miles Standish” (1858). His best known paintings are “New England Farmyard”; “Yankee Peddler”; “Love me, Love
my Horse”; “The Foray”; “The Sword”; “Lady Jane Grey”; “Christ Healing the Sick”; “Death and the Gambler”; “Autumnal Landscape” (1867); “Monk” (1871); “Vintage in the Valtella” (1877); and “Twilight from the Bridge of Pau” (1878).
EICHBERG, Julius, musician, b. in Düsseldorf,
Germany, in 1824; d. in Boston, Mass., 19 Jan.,
1893. He entered the conservatory at Brussels as a
pupil of De Beriot, and studied composition under
Fetis. He was afterward professor of the violin
at the conservatory of Geneva. Being advised to
take a sea-voyage for his health he came to the
United States, and settled in Boston, Mass. While
director of the Boston museum, from 1859 till 1866,
he became known as the first composer of
English-American operas. “The Doctor of Alcantara”
was written in 1862, followed by “The Rose of
Tyrol,” “A Night in Rome,” and “The Two
Cadis.” In 1867 he became director of the Boston
conservatory of music, and in the same year was
elected superintendent of music in the public
schools of Boston, which position he long held.
EIDLITZ, Leopold, architect, b. in Prague,
Bohemia, 29 March, 1823. He was educated at the
Polytechnic school in Prague, and in Vienna,
emigrated to this country, and became an architect in
New York city. Among the buildings designed
by him are Christ church. St. Louis; St. George's
church, New York city; the Brooklyn academy of
music; the Dry-dock bank building, on the
Bowery, New York; and the Continental bank building
in that city. In 1875, with Frederick Law
Olmsted and Henry H. Richardson, he was appointed
on a commission to consider the work already
accomplished in the building of the capitol at Albany.
An elaborate report was made, and preliminary
studies for the completion of the building were
undertaken by Mr. Eidlitz. Subsequently its
continuation was confided to Mr. Richardson, but
much of the dignity of the work in its present
condition is due to the designs of Mr. Eidlitz. He
has published “The Nature and Function of Art”
(New York, 1881). — His son, Cyrus Lazelle
Warner, architect, b. in New York city, 27 July,
1853, was educated in New York, Geneva, Switzerland,
and at the Polytechnic institute in Stuttgart.
Among the buildings that he has designed are the
Michigan central railway station in Detroit (1880),
the Dearborn station in Chicago (1883), and the
Buffalo library, which is represented in the
annexed picture (1886).
EIGENBRODT, Lewis Ernest Andrew, educator, b. in Lauterbach, Hesse Darmstadt, 22 Sept., 1773; d. 30 Aug., 1828. He was graduated
at the University of Giesen in 1793, was master of seven languages, skilled in mathematics, astronomy, and engineering, and had taken a full
