After a year, he was succeeded by Phineas T. Barnum who put together a reinauguration in May 1854 when Henry Ward Beecher and Elihu Burritt were the featured orators.
-- Everything matches except age reported as 27 not 25, travelling with "single women" (though that may simply mean "solo"), and why was she not in a cabin (OK, to save money; Thomas worked his passage as tutor to children on board)? None of these problems insurmountable but not watertight--> She was an educated and accomplished woman who had been secretary to Elihu Burritt for some years.
Elihu Yale | Elihu Vedder | Elihu Root | Elihu Thomson | Elihu Burritt | Elihu Harris | Richard Elihu Sloan | Ralph Elihu Becker | Elihu Lauterpacht | Elihu Katz | Elihu B. Washburne |
Early international influences in Birmingham include Elihu Burritt, a US Consul sent by Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Harborne just north of the present Birmingham University campus.