Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . supported the Union cause. Afterthe close of the war he was again connected withIowa Wesleyan university until 1866. His chiefworks are a Treatise on Baptism (1834): De-lineation of Roman Catholicism (2 vols., NewYork, 1851); Life of Bishop Roberts (1853); History of the Great Secession from the Method-ist Episcopal Church (1855); Political Roman-ism (1859); Reminiscences of the WyandotteMission ; Southwestern Methodism ; and twoworks against slavery. ELLIOTT, Charles Loring, artist, b. in Scipio,N. Y., in December, 1812; d. in Albany, N. Y., 25 Se
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . supported the Union cause. Afterthe close of the war he was again connected withIowa Wesleyan university until 1866. His chiefworks are a Treatise on Baptism (1834): De-lineation of Roman Catholicism (2 vols., NewYork, 1851); Life of Bishop Roberts (1853); History of the Great Secession from the Method-ist Episcopal Church (1855); Political Roman-ism (1859); Reminiscences of the WyandotteMission ; Southwestern Methodism ; and twoworks against slavery. ELLIOTT, Charles Loring, artist, b. in Scipio,N. Y., in December, 1812; d. in Albany, N. Y., 25 Sept., 1868. Inearly life he wasa clerk in a storein Syracuse, butdevoted his leis-ure to drawingand painting. Hecame to New Yorkabout 1834, andbecame a pupil ofTrumbull and af-terward of first his por-traits were un-successful, but heexecuted someoil - paintings il-lustrating scenesfrom Irvings andPauldings works,which attractedattention. After painting portraits for several yearsin the western part of the state, he returned to New. ^^^A<^r Fork city, where he opened a studio. Be •?•,, elect-ed associate of the National academy in 1845, andacademician in 1846. lie is said to have paintedmore than 700 portraits of eminent men, among them likenesses of Fitz-Greene Halleck, in theoffice of the publishers of this work ; James , belonging to the National academy;Matthew Vass;ir, in Vassal- college; Louis Qilord Clark; W. W. Corcoran; Fletcher Harper;Fenimore Cooper (see engraving in vol. ; and Hunt, in the New York city hall;and Erastus Corning, in the state library, of his works were at the National academyin 1808, including Don Quixote, Falstaff/Andrew Van Corlear, the Trumpeter, his ownportrait, and The Bead of Skaneateles Lake,said to be the only landscape that he painted. ELLIOTT, Charles Wyllys,author, b. in Guil-ford, Conn., 27 May, 1817; d. 33 Aug., 188:3. lb-was a lineal descendant in the fifth generation ofEliot the
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