Elisha L Magoon, an American clergyman, born at Lebanon, N. II., Oct. 20, 1810. He was the son of an architect who was impoverished by sickness, and obtained a good education by his earnings as a bricklayer. He was ordained in 1840, and immediately settled at Richmond, Va., as pastor of the second Baptist church, where he remained six years, and then made the tour of Europe. On his return he became pastor of a church in Cincinnati. Here he remained till 1849, when he became pastor of the Oliver street Baptist church, New York. In 1857 he was called to the pastorate in Albany, and about 1860 re-moved to Philadelphia, where he now resides (1874). He formed a valuable collection of pictures, especially in water colors, which he sold to V'assar college, Poughkeepsie. In 1853 Rochester university conferred upon him the degree of I). I). IIis published works are: "Orators of the American Revolution1'(New York, 1848); "Living Orators in America" (New York, 1849); "Proverbs for the People" (Boston, 1848); "Republican Christianity" (Boston, I849); and " Westward Empire" (New York, 1850).