Elizabeth f ellet biography of abraham lincoln

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Daughter of Dr. William A. Lummis, a man honourably distinguished in his profession, was born at Sodus, a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario, in the state of New York.

Her mother was the daughter of General Maxwell, an officer in the American Revolutionary war; and thus the subject of this memoir war in childhood imbued with patriotic feelings, which, next to the religious, are sure to nourish in the female mind the seeds of genius.

Miss Lummis was early distinguished for vivacity of intellect and a thirst for learning, which her subsequent life has shewn was no evanescent fancy, but the natural stamp of her earnest mind. She was married, before she was seventeen, to Dr.

William H. Ellet, an ​accomplished scholar, and then Professor of Chemistry in Columbia College, New York city, whither he removed his youthful bride There she had such advantages of study as she had never before enjoyed, and her profici