The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^>kâ.^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 237. Ewell, Prince William county, Va., and of ElizabethStoddert, his wife, daughter of Benjamin Stoddert,first secretary of the U. S. navy, and a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^>kâ.^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 237. Ewell, Prince William county, Va., and of ElizabethStoddert, his wife, daughter of Benjamin Stoddert,first secretary of the U. S. navy, and a descendant ofthe Bladens, Taskers and Lowndes of Maryland. Hefirst attended the preparatory department of George-town college. At the age of eighteen he became acadet of the U. S. military acad-emy at West Point, where he wasgraduated in 1833. He was madelieutenant of artillery in the reg-ular army of the United States,and being detailed to serve as as-sistant instructor at the academy,acted as such in the departmentof mathematics, natural philos-ophy and chemistry, until 1836,when he left the army, and be-came an assistant engineer on theCentral railroad leading fromBaltimore. This road was com-pleted in 1889, and Ewell was dur-ing-this year elected professor ofnatural philosophy and chemistryat Hampden-Sidney college, position he filled until 1847,when he was elected professor ofmathematics and military science at Washington col-legeâ
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