ELLSWORTH, Erastus Wolcott, poet, born in East Windsor, Connecticut, 27 November 1822. He was graduated at Amherst College in 1844, and studied law, but was diverted from the profession by a taste for mechanics, and has occupied himself chiefly as an inventor. In 1845 he took out patents for a drawing or copying instrument, and for a device for making a siphon discharge a portion of its contents at the highest point. He then entered an extensive foundry. His first published poem, entitled "The Yankee," appeared in 1849; his best and longest is "Ariadne," originally printed in the "International Magazine" (1852); his most popular is "Tuloom." Some of his fugitive pieces were collected and published (Hartford, 1855).