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Ebenezer Bancroft Williston

WILLISTON, Ebenezer Bancroft, educator, born in Tunbridge, Vermont. in 1801; died in Norwich, Vermont, 27 December, 1837. He was a second cousin of George Bancroft. He spent three years at Dartmouth, and was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1823. He had already begun to teach in Captain Alden Partridge's military academy in Norwich, Vermont, where he was subsequently a professor. Feeble health forced him to spend most of the last nine years of his life at the south, where he was for some time president of Jefferson college, Mississippi He published an edition of Tacitus (Hartford, Connecticut. 1826) and " The Eloquence of the United States" (5 vols., Middletown, Connecticut, 1827).--His son, EDWARD BANCROFT, a major in the 3d United States artillery, received four brevets for gallantry in the civil war.

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