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EWINQ, Charles, soUlier, was born in Lancas-
ter, (Jhin. March (1, 1N35; son of the Hon. Tliomas
and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing; and grandson
of George and Rachel (.Harris) Ewing. His
grandfather was a soldier in the American Revo-
lution, who settled in Ohio on the Muskingum
ri ver in 1 792, Charles was educated at the Domin-
ican college and at the University of Virginia.
He studied law, was admitted to practice and was
so engaged at St. Louis. Mo., when the civil war
occurred. He then joined the U.S. army and was
commissioned in 1861 captain in the 13th infantr}-,
of which W. T. Slierman. his brother-in-law, was
colonel, and was appointed inspector-general on
the staflf of General Sherman, when in command
of the western army. At Vicksburg he planted
the flag of his battalion on the parapet of the
Confederate fort, and received in the accomplish-
ment a severe wound. For this action he was
brevetted major in 1863; for his action at Jack-
son, Colliersville and Missionary Ridge and in the
Atlanta campaign he was made lieutenant-colo-
nel by brevet in 1864, and for gallant conduct in
the march to the sea and thence through the
Carolinas to Washington he was brevetted colo-
nel in 186,">. He was made brigadier -general of
volunteei's, March 8, 1865. In 1867 he resigned
his commission in the army, and ojjened a success-
ful law practice in Washington, D.C., where he
died .June 00. 1883.
EWINQ, Emma Pike, educator, was born in Broome county, N.Y., in July, 1838; daughter of Robert and PhiKbe (Trivette) Pike. She re- ceived her education in the district schools of her native county and from her father, who was a teaclier. In 1863 she was married to W . P. Ewing, at that time and for several years navy agent of the port of Baltimore. She began teaching cook- ery in 1880 ; conducted a cooking school in Cliicago, 1880-83; was dean of tlie Chautauqua assembly cooking .school, and had charge of it, 1882-99; was professor of domestic economy at the Iowa agricultural college, 1883-87, and at Purdue university, Indiana, 1887-89 ; conducted a school of household science in Kansas City, Mo., 1889- 90 ; and taught and lectured throughout the United States and Canada. She became director of the model school of household economics con- nected with Marietta college, Ohio, in 1898. She is the author of; Cookin;/ and Castle Building (1880) ; Cook-fry .Vanuals (1884) ; The Art of Cook- ery (1897) ; and Tf-rt Book of Cookery (1898).
EWINQ, Finis, religious leader, was born in Bedford county. Va,, June 10, 1773. His parents were Scotch PresViyterians and both died before the boy had reached his majority. He acquired a good elementary education, and after the death of his parents removed to Tennessee where he was married to a daughter of Gen. William Da-
vidson of Nashville, an officer in the American
army during the Revolutionary war. He then
settled in Logan county, Ky., and in 1803 was
ordained as a minister by the Cumberland pres-
bytery. The Kentucky- synod refused to recog-
nize the candidates ordained by the Cumberland
presbyterj' at this time, prLncipallj' because the
candidates were not college men, and in 1806 the
synod dissolved the Cumberland piesbytery. This
action was sustained by the general assembly, but
the proscribed members organized a council which
was continued from December, 180/5, to February,
1810, when Mr. Ewing, with Samuel King, as-
sisted by Samuel McAdam, also proscribed minis-
ters, reorganized the Cumberland presbytery, Feb.
4, 1810, as an independent presbyteiy, and thus
was founded the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. There were present at its first adjourned
meeting in March, 1810, four ordained ministers,
six licentiates and seven candidates for the min-
istry. In 1818 the Cumberland synod was founded.
Mr. Ewing removed to Todd county, Ky., to take
charge of the Lebanon congregation, and in 1820
he organized a congregation in New Lebanon,
Mo. He removed to Lexington, Mo., in 1836 and
preached there during the remainder of his life.
He published Lectures on Divinity, which volume
was the key to the creed of the church as founded
by him and his associates who had been pro-
scril)ed. He died in Lexington. Mo., July 4, 1841.
EWINQ, Hugh Boyle, soldier, was born in
Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1826; son of the Hon.
Thomas and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing. His
ancestor, Finley Ewing, the first progenitor of
the family of whom there is record, achieved dis-
tinction as an officer of dragoons in the battle of
the Boyne. His son,
Thomas, emigrated to
the American colo-
nies in 1718. settling
in Greenwich, N.J.,
where he married
Mary MaskeU,an heir-
ess of great wit and
beauty. Their son,
Thomas, was the
father of George
Ewing, who fought
under Washington,
passing through the
winter of Valley
Forge, and command-
ing a battery of artil-
lerv at the battle of
Brandywine, where the excellent service of liis
guns materially contributed to the first repulse
of the British. After the Revolution George
Ewing joined the movement to the Northwest
territory, and settled in Athens county, Ohio,
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