EWING, Arthur Henry. near Saltsburg, Pa. 18.10.1864 — Allahabad 13.9.1912. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of farmer James Henry Ewing (1825–1905) and Eleanor Jane Rhea, educated in Saltsburg and Elder’s Ridge. Graduated from Washington and Jefferson College (B.A. 1887) and Western Theological Seminary in Pa. (1890). In…
EVERETT, Charles Carroll. Brunswick, Maine 19.6.1829 — Cambridge, MA 16.10.1900. Rev. U.S. Unitary Theologian interested in Indian Philosophy. Professor in Harvard. Son of Ebenezer Everett (1788–1869), a lawyer and banker, and Joanna Batchelder. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 (A.M., then LL.D. 1894), further studies in Berlin. Worked two years…
EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (born Wentz, added his mother’s surname c. 1910). Trento, N.J. 2.2.1878 — Encinitas, Calif. 17.7.1966. U.S. Traveller, Anthropologist and Tibetologist. Son of Christopher Wentz (1836–1921), a wealthy estate owner from New Jersey, of German origin, and Mary Evans Cook (d. 1898), of Irish descent. Originally Baptist, but…
ELWELL, Levi Henry. Northampton, Mass. 22.3.1854 — Amherst, Mass. 27.12.1916. U.S. Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of the elder Levi Henry Elwell (1820–1862/66) and Harriet Adeline Ross (1823–1898). Educated at Amherst College (B.A. 1875; M.A. 1878), and 1876-77 at Yale. In 1875-76 schoolteacher in New York state, then at Amherst…
ELMORE, Wilber Theodore. Saint Charles, Kane county, Illinois 29.7.1871 — Wayne, Delaware 27.11.1935. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in South India. Son of Jerome Humphrey Elmore (1841–1933) and Emeline Sarah Hall. Ph.D. 1915 University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Worked in Rampatnam, Nellore dt. (1909 there) until 1918. Then in Lincoln, Nebraska, in…
ELIADE, Mircea. Bucharest 9.3.1907 (his own, others say rather 13.3., Old Era 28.2.) — Chicago 22.4.1986. Romanian Scholar of Comparative Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Gheorghe Eliade (1868–1951), a captain in the Romanian army, and Jeana Vasilescu (Ioana Stoenescu?). The father had changed his original family name, Ieremia, in…
EKVALL, Robert Brainerd. Minion (Min), Kansu 18.2.1898 — King county, Wash. ?.5.1978. U.S. Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Born in China as a son of a Scottish missionary family, David Paul Ekvall and Helen Galbraith. After his father’s death in 1912 came with his mother to the U.S.A. and graduated from…
EDGERTON, Franklin. Lemars, Iowa 24.7.1885 — Laramie, Wyoming 7.12.1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Son of a civil servant, Charles Eugene Edgerton (1861–1932), and Annie Benedict White, his younger brothers were the lawyer Henry White Edgerton (1888–1970) and the Egyptologist William Franklin Edgerton (1893–1970). Though born in the West,…
EDGERTON, Eleanor Hill (née Eleanor Anna Hill). Scranton, PA 23.11.1905 — Brick Township, NJ 21.5.1995. Second wife (from 1952) of —> Franklin Edgerton (1885–1963). Earlier worked as secretary of L. Bloomfield at Yale. Collaborated with his husband in the Meghadūta translation. Survived her husband. Publications: Translated with Franklin Edgerton: Kalidasa, The…
EASTON, Morton William. Hartford, Conn. 18.8.1841 — Mount Gretna, Pa. 21.8.1917. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Oliver Hastings Easton and Emeline Maria Brace, a Puritan family. Educated at Hartford High School, studies at Yale (A.B. 1863). From 1867 studied medicine at Columbia University (Med.dr. 1866), then further studies…