Ellis, George Edward

D.D. (Harvard University, 1857), LL.D. (the same, 1883); b. in Boston, Ma ., Aug. 8, 1814; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1833, and at the Harvard Divinity School 1836; pastor of the Harvard Church, Charles town, Ma ., 1840-69; profe or of doctrinal theology in Harvard Divinity School, 1857-63. He is the president of the Ma achusetts Historical Society. He edited for many years the Christian Register and Christian Examiner. He has delivered several courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute. He has published The Half- Century of the Unitarian Controversy, Boston, 1857 Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Ma achusetts, 1869; Memoir of Jared Sparks (1869), of Count Rumford (1871), of Jacob Bigelow, M.D. (1881), and of Nathaniel Thayer; History of the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 1875; Introduction to the History of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1880, 1882; The Red Man and the White Man in North America, 1882; Lives of Anne Hutch in son, John Mason, and William Perm, in Sparks's American Biographies; Addre at the Consecration of Wood lawn Cemetery, 1851; Oration before the City Government, on the Centennial, of the Evacuation of Boston by the British Army, 1876; Addre at the Unveiling of the Statue of John Harvard, Cambridge, 1884; Addre on a Memorial of Chief Justice Sewall, in Old South Church, Boston, 1884; and several chapters in the