The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

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406 THE EARLE FAMILY [Ninth
son of Robert C. and Sarah (Montgomery) Earll, b.
Aug. 24, 1853, in Waukegan, Lake Co., 111. ; m. Feb.
27, 1883, Louisa A. {b. Sept. 24, 1856), dau. of Henry
H. and Sarah (Buckmaster) Harding, of Clinton, Iowa.
He attended the public schools at Waukegan, and spent a year at
the University of Chicago, leaving on account of illness ;
but after-
ward graduated in the scientific course at the Northwestern Univer-
sity, at Evanston, 111., in 1877, anc^ was appointed assistant to Spen-
cer F. Baird, U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, in 1878.
He was in charge of the Sea Fisheries Investigation of the Atlantic
coast for the tenth census (1880), under the direction of the Commisssioner
of Fisheries ; was Deputy Commissioner for the United
States to the International Fisheries Exhibition at London, in 1883,
and Deputy Representative for the Smithsonian Institution, the U.
S. National Museum and the U. S. Fish Commission to the New
Orleans Exposition in 18S5. He was in charge of the Great Lakes'
Fisheries Investigation in 1885, and has been in charge of the division
of fisheries in the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, from 1886
to the present time.
He is the author of numerous articles on fish culture and the fish-
eries in the U. S. Government Reports, and in various scientific
periodicals. He is an active member of the Biological Society of
Washington, the Philosophical Society of Washington, and the
American Fisheries Society of the United States, as well as cor-
responding member of the National Fisheries Society of England.
Since 1878 Mr. Earll's residence has been in Washington, D. C. ;
but when detailed for duty he has spent one year in Gloucester,
Mass., one year in London, England, and eight months at New
Orleans, La.
The only child of R. Edward and Louisa A. (Harding)
Earll was
3728-1. Ernest Holland Earll, b. Feb. 13, 1886.
sons, when visiting Albany, N. Y., as a boy, saw the name spelled Earll on
he then and there decided to change the
the stern of one of the river vessels ;
spelling of his own name to Earll, and his brothers (my father among the
number) followed his example." This information was received too late for
use in the preceding generations, the names in which were taken from the
chart of i860, on which the original, and present English, orthography, with
the final e, was retained throughout.