HXDICOTT
ENCIELMANN
olics, Episcopalians or Quakers; four of the latter
were executeil iu Boston tluring his adiniiiistra-
tion. He tlieil in Boston. Mass., ^laioli 15, 1G6.')
ENDICOTT, William Crowninshield, tabinet otticer. was lK)ru in Salem, Mass., Nov. 20, \^2(\: son of William Putnam and Mary ((-"rowninshield) Endicott; grandson of the Hon. Jacob Crownin sliiel 1. M.C.anda lineal descendant from Gov. John Eudicott. He prepared for college at the Salem Latin school; was graduated from Harvard in 1847, studied for a time in Harvard law school, and was admitted to the Essex bar iu 1850. He practised in Sa- lem, Mass., and in 1852 was elected a member and presi- dent of the conamon council of the city. In 1853 he formed a partnership with Jairus W. Perry, author of " Perrj' on Trusts.*' He was city solicitor of Salem, 1857-64 and iu 1870 was Democratic candidate for repre- sentative in congress but was defeated. He was also unsuccessful candidate for attorney -general of Massachusetts iu 1871, 1872 anil 1873. In 1873 he di.s.solved his partnership with Mr. Perry to accept the appointment as associate justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts to succeed Hor- ace Gray who was elevated to the chief justice- ship. He re.signed the office in 1882. He was president of the Salem bank, 1857-73, and of the Essex bar association, 1878-83. In 1884 he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for gov- ernor of Massachusetts. He was .secretary of war in President (Cleveland's cabinet. 1885-89; president of the Peabody academy of sciences, Salem, 1867-96; overseer of Harvard corporation, 1884-93 and tnistee of the Peabody education fund. 1889-1900. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1882. and was a mendjerof the M;Ls.sacliusetts historical society and of other learned societies. He was married, Dec. 13, 18.59, to Ellen, daugliter of George Pealjody of Salem, Mass. He died in Boston, Ma.ss.,:May 6, 1900.
ENDRESS, Christian Frederick Lewis, cl'^rgyman, was l)orn in Philadelphia, Pa., ]\Iarch 12. 1775; son of John Zachary and Anna Maria (Henrica) Endres.s. He was graduated from the University of Penn.sylvania in 1790, and became a Lutheran clergj-man. He was tutor in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. 1792-95, and was prin- cipal of the Congregational scliool of Zion at St. Michael Pliiladelphia, 1785-1801. He was pastor
of the Lutheran cnurch at Easton, Pa., 1801-15,
and at Lancaster, Pa., 1815-27. He was married
to Margaretha, daughter of Jacob Fries of Fries-
Inirg, N.J. He received the degree of D.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1819. He was
a contributor to Lutheran journals, and published
in German: The Kingdom of Christ. >int iSitscfptille
of Union with Temporal Monarchy and Aristocracy
(1791); and left in manutcript Comnipntary on
the Epistle to the liomans. He died in Lancaster,
Pa., Sept. 30. 1827.
ENQEL, Peter, abbot, was born at St. Nicho- las. Ozaukee county. Wis., Feb. 2, 1S56. He received ids early education at St. Michael, Minn., and was graduated from St. John's uni- versity, CoUegeville, Wis., in 1874. He joined the order of St. Benedict, professing at St. John's abbey, Stearns county, Minn., July 19, 1875. He was ordained by Bishop Seidenbush at St. Cloud, Minn., Dec. 15, 1878, and was blessed abbot by Bishop Marty, at St. John's abbey, CoUegeville, Minn., on July 11, 1895, of which institution he had been elected abbot.
ENQELHARDT, Francis Ernest, chemist, was born in Gieboldehausen, Hannover, June 23, 1835. His education was acquired chieflj' in the Uni- versity of Gottingen, where he studied, 1854-57, and in 1856-57 he was assistant in the chemical laboratories in Gottingen. In 1857 he removed to the United States and for one year was assistant in chemistry at Amherst college. In 1860 he was an assistant at Columbia and in 1861 accepted the chair of chemistry in the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York city, which he held until 1867. He was professor of materia medica. New York college of pharmacy, 1868-69; chemist to the Onondaga salt reservation and the Onondaga salt companies, 1869-86, and superintendent of the Genesee salt company, 1887-88. He was ap- pointed an expert by the New York state board of health, in 1881 and again in 1885, for liquors, wines and beers. He was married, Sept. 8, 1870, to Anna M. Miller, Syracuse, N.Y. St. Francis Xavier conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 186t. He is the author of numerous contribu- tions to scientific ])eriodicaIs.
ENGELMANN, George, botanist, was born in Frankforton-the-Main, Germany, Feb. 2, 1.S09;
- jon of Julius Bernhardt and Julie Antoinette
(May) Engelnumn. His father was one of the, Engelmanns who for generations had been minis- ters of the Reformed church at Bacharacli-on- the-Rhine, and his mother was the only daughter of Antoifiette Andr6 May, descended from the Andr6s, Huguenot 6migrf^s, from the vicinity of Amiens, who fled from France after the revoca- tion of the edict of Nantes. George was educated at the gymnasimu of Frankfort: at the Univer- sities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Wurzburg, and
