Capt. A. Baxter Jones, C.S.A., of Nottoway county, Va. He was a member of the house of delegation in the Virginia legislature, 1891-1)2; register of the land-otlice, 1895-97, and a Democratic representative in the 55th and 56th congress 1897-1901. He was unseated March 23. 1898, but was renominated by his constituents and re elected as representative from the 4th Virginia district to the oGth congress by a majority of 2500.
EPPES, John Wayles, senator, was born in
Virginia in 177:1 He attended the public schools
and was admitted to the bar in 1794, practising
in Richmond, Va. He was married to Maria,
daughter of Thomas Jefferson. He was a Democratic
representative in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th
and i:3th congresses, 1803-11 and 1813-15. In
1817 he was elected a United States senator, and
in 1819 resigned that office on account of illness.
He then retired to his plantation in Chesterfield
county, Va., where he died Sept. 20, 1823.
ERBEN, Henry, naval officer, was born in
New York city, Sept. 6, 1832; son of Henrj' and
May (Luff) Erben; grandson of Peter and Eliza-
beth (Kern) Erten; and a descendant of Peter
Erben and of the Rev. John Michael Kern, all of
New York city. He entered the U.S. navy as
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midshipman, June 17, 1848: and was promoted passed midshipman in June, 1855, master in September, 1855, lieutenant in 1856, lieutenant-commander in 1862, commander in 1866, and captain in 1879. At the beginning of the civil war he was stationed at Pensacola, Fla., and was present when the navy yard was surrendered to the state troops of Alabama. In January, 1861, with a small boats crew he succeeded in rendering Fort Mac Ree inoperative by spiking the guns and destroying 20,000 pounds of powder. He commanded the St. Louis at the siege and bombardment of Fort Pillow, and served on the Sumter at the siege of Vicksburg. At Antietam he commanded a naval howitzer battery under General McClellan, and from that time until the end of the war was actively engaged in the naval operations along the Atlantic coast. In 1867 lie was stationed at the Brooklyn, N.Y., navy yard, and in 1S91 succeeded Rear-Admiral Daniel L. Braine as commandant of the yard. He was promoted commodore April 3, 1892, and on June 1, 1893, was appointed commander of the European squadron, with the temporary rank of rear-admiral. He was promoted to the full lineal rank, Aug. 2 and was retired. Sept. 6, 1893, having reached the age of sixty-two years. At the beginning of the war between the United States and Spain, in April, 1898, the administrative force of the navy department was reorganized, and Admiral Erben was again called into active service. On April 25 he was placed in charge of the naval defense system of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. He was also given command of the naval militia organization manning the auxiliary fleet, purchasing and changing over the vessels; and on the illness of Commander Horace Elmer, he relieved that officer from the command of the seven mosquito fleet divisions. In May, June and July, 1898, a large number of these small vessels were employed in guarding the mine fields in the harbors along the coast. In the lower harbor of New York alone there were over four hundred of these mines or torpedoes.
ERDMAN, Constantine Jacob, representative,
was born in Upper Saucon township, Lehigh
county, Pa., Sept. 4, 1846; son of Enos and Anna
(Keck) Erdman; grandson of the Hon. Jacob Erdman;
and descendant of Johannes Erdman, who
immigrated in 1734. He was graduated from
Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1865, was
admitted to the Lehigh bar in 1867, practised at
Allentown and was elected district attorney in
1874. He was a Democratic representative in the
53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97.
ERICH, Augustus Frederick, physician, was
born at Eisleben, Prussia, May 4, 1837; son of
C. Frederick and Christiana C. Erich. He received
his early education in his native place, entered
the Gymnasium of Eisleben in 1849, and prepared
for a university course in medicine. He re-
moved to the United States and was graduated
at the University of Maryland, M.D. in 1861. He
practiced surgery and gynaecology in Baltimore,
Md., and in 1866, on the approach of Asiatic cholera,
patented an automatic apparatus to be used
in draining cellars. He organized the medical
and surgical society of Baltimore in 1871 and was
its first president. He was professor of chemistry
in the College of physicians and surgeons,
1873-74 and of the diseases of women, 1874-86.
He was surgeon-in-chief of the Maryland women's
hospital, 1877-86. He was editor of the
Baltimore Physician and Surgeon, 1873-86; a member
of the Baltimore medical association; of the
Pathological society of Baltimore: of the Medical
and Chirurgical faculty of Maryland: of the Gynaecological
society of Boston; of the Clinical
society of Baltimore; of the Academy of medicine
of Boston; and of the Maryland academy of
science. He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 7, 1886.
