Erastus W. Ellsworth

Erastus W. Ellsworth (1822–1902) was a poet and inventor, born in East Windsor, Connecticut, and a graduate of Amherst College (1844).

Griswold included 1 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.