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ELDER, William, physician, born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, 23 Jury, 1806; died in Washington, D. C., 5 April 1885. He practiced his profession in Philadelphia, and was well known as an abolitionist and as an editorial writer and public speaker in the period preceding the civil war. He is the author of " Periscopics," a volume of miscellanies (New York, 1854); "The Enchanted Beauty" (1855); " Life of Dr. E. K. Kane'" (Philadelphia, 1857);" The Debt and Resources of the United States" (1863); " Questions of the Day" (1871); and "Conversations on Political Economy" (1882). His nephew, Cyrus, author, born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, 16 June 1833, was educated in the common schools, and served during the civil war as 1st lieutenant and quartermaster of the 10th Pennsylvania reserves. He edited the "Industrial Bulletin" in 1870'5, and was appointed in 1881 a commissioner to revise the revenue system of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "My Gift," a volume of poems (New York, 1867); "'Dream of Free-Trade Paradise" (Philadelphia, 1872); and "Man and Labor" (Chicago, 1886).
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