course in divinity. He came to the United States in 1793; and, after spending four years in private tuition and further studies, he was made in 1797 principal of Union Hall academy at Jamaica, N. Y., which his genius, energy, and ability soon made celebrated. Pupils flocked to it from all parts of the United States and from the West India islands, and many men received their early training there who have since been distinguished. Mr. Eigenbrodt received the degree of LL. D. from Union in 1825. He delivered an oration in honor of George Washington on the day of the latter's funeral, 18 Dec., 1799. — His son, David Lamberson, physician, b. in Jamaica, N. Y., 5 Sept., 1810; d. in New York, 3 Jan., 1880, was graduated at Washington (now Trinity) college in 1831, and at the College of physicians and surgeons, New York, in 1835. After useful services in the New York hospital and at Bellevue, where he was in charge of the cholera hospital, he removed to St. Jago de Cuba, where he practised medicine for fifteen years. On his return to New York, he organized in 1858, at the request of Dr. Muhlenberg, both the surgical and medical departments of St. Luke's hospital, then just established, and took charge of that institution as its first resident physician, giving his services gratuitously for a year, at the end of which time he retired to private life. — Another son, William Ernest, clergyman, b. in Jamaica, N. Y., 10 June, 1813, was educated at Union Hall academy, and at Columbia, where he was graduated in 1831. He then studied in the General Protestant Episcopal theological seminary, New York, and entered the ministry of that church. He was engaged in professional duties in Bainbridge and Rochester from 1838 till 1846, in which year he was chosen rector of All Saints' church, New York city. He became associate minister of Calvary church, New York, in 1858, and in 1862 was made professor of pastoral theology in the General theological seminary, where he has since remained. He was secretary of the convention of the diocese of New York from 1854 till 1883. Columbia gave him the degree of D. D. in 1855. — Another son, Charles S., soldier, b. in Jamaica, N. Y., 20 March, 1825; d. in Virginia, 25 Aug., 1864, was one of the pioneers who went to California in 1849. He settled at Alameda, and remained there till 1863, when he raised in California a battalion of cavalry, afterward enrolled in the second Massachusetts cavalry. Capt. Eigenbrodt continued at the head of his troops for more than a year, and fell, at their head, in a charge in the Shenandoah valley. An address on the Eigenbrodt family was delivered by the Rev. Beverley R. Betts before the New York genealogical and biographical society, 11 March, 1887.
EILERS, Frederic Anton, metallurgist, b. in
Laufenselten, Nassau, Germany, 14 Jan., 1839. He
was educated at the mining-school in Clausthal
and in the University of Göttingen. Soon after
the completion of his studies he came to the United
States, and from 1869 till 1876 held the office of
deputy U. S. commissioner of mining statistics.
Subsequently he was occupied in building and
managing smelting-works for lead and silver in
Utah and Colorado. He is at present (1887)
general manager of the Colorado smelting company's
works at South Pueblo, Col. Mr. Eilers is considered
one of the foremost experts in the United
States in his branch of metallurgy, and, while he
has never patented any of his own inventions, he
has done more than any other person to improve
American methods in the treatment of lead and
silver. This he has accomplished by making
possible
the long, continuous running of large shaft
furnaces in the smelting of argentiferous lead-ores.
The most important elements of this improvement
are the use of water-jackets and the scientific and
precise adjustment of charges with reference to
their chemical composition and the fusion-point of
slags. The “chills” or “salamanders,” formerly
so frequent in furnaces of this type, and not only
necessitating stoppages but compelling the use of
small furnaces, have thus been obviated. Some of
his improvements are adopted in Europe. He is
the author of various professional papers.
EINHORN, David, b. in Dispeck, Bavaria, 10
Nov., 1809; d. in New York city, 2 Nov., 1879. He
was educated at the rabbinical school of Fuerth,
and subsequently at the universities of Munich and
Wurzburg. Espousing the cause of radical reform
in Judaism, he was chosen rabbi at Hopstadter, and
afterward chief rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
He was called to Pesth in 1851, where his advanced
views met with such opposition that his temple
was closed by the Austrian government. In 1855
Dr. Einhorn was invited to assume charge of a
Hebrew congregation in Baltimore, Md., and during
his incumbency published a prayer-book, which
has a wide circulation in the United States, and
also a German magazine, “Sinai,” devoted to interests
of radical reform. In 1861 he was such a
staunch Unionist that his Baltimore pastorate was
exchanged for one in Philadelphia. In 1866 Dr.
Einhorn removed to New York, where he held a
rabbinical position till his death. A collection of
his addresses has been issued in German.
EISFELD, Theodore, musician, b. in Wolfenbüttel,
Brunswick, Germany, in 1816; d. in
Wiesbaden, 16 Sept., 1882. His chief instructor in
musical composition was C. G. Reissiger, of Dresden.
He came to New York in 1848, and in 1849 was
chosen conductor of the Philharmonic society in
that city. From 1855 till the season of 1865-'6,
when he resigned, he conducted the society
alternately with Carl Bergmann. On 18 Feb., 1851, he
began a series of quartet concerts, the first being
given on the date mentioned at Hope chapel. On
his return trip from a visit to Europe in 1858, he
was one of the few survivors of the burning of the
steamer “Austria.” He was lashed to a platform
and so drifted on the ocean, without food, for nearly
two days and nights. Eisfeld never recovered from
this extraordinary prostration. He returned to
Germany in 1866, and remained there till his death.
He was also the first conductor of the New York
harmonic society, which began the custom of giving
an annual Christmas performance of the “Messiah.”
EKIN, James Adams, soldier, b. in Pittsburg, Pa., 31 Aug., 1819 : d. in Louisville. Ky.. 27 March, 1891. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the 12th Pennsylvania infantry as 1st lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, and at the expiration of three months was made captain and assistant quartermaster in the volunteer army, being stationed in Pittsburg as acting assistant commissary of subsistence. In October, 1861, he was made assistant quartermaster and stationed in Indianapolis until December, 1863, when he was admitted to the regular army with similar rank, to date from March, 1863, and assigned to duty as quartermaster of the cavalry bureau in Washington till February, 1864. He was then promoted to lieutenant-colonel and made chief quartermaster of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac, remaining as such until August, when he was advanced to colonel and given charge of the 1st division of the quartermaster-general's office in Washington, where he continued till 1870, holding various appointments in
