Charles Elliott, 1792-1869
Charles Elliott was a famous educator and theologian, well-known for several books that clearly make the case that there is no Scriptural basis for slavery, and another that was a detailed itemization of the distortions of Roman Catholicism. He emigrated to the U.S. in the early 19th century and taught at Ohio Wesleyan University and Iowa Wesleyan University.
According to family history, primarily a written history of Maxine Elliott Mottice (daughter of Bernard), Charles Elliott was the son of Henry Elliott, the most distant known ancestor of Bernard Elliott. Charles was born in Ireland, and his brother was Jabez Elliott, Sr., Bernard's great-grandfather.
I cannot verify this relationship, however. According to other web-based genealogies, Henry did not have a son named Charles, nor did Jabez, Sr. have a brother of that name.
But Nina Elliott Nicholas had several documents in her possession regarding Charles Elliott. These documents were the result of Bernard Elliott's inquiries about his great-great uncle.
The first document is an 1936 inquiry to Iowa Wesleyan here. It is not clear whether any of the documents we have were a response to this inquiry. But there was evidently another inquiry made a number of years later to Ohio Wesleyan University. OWU's response is here.
Iowa Wesleyan and Ohio Wesleyan supplied Bernard with a total 5 documents, all of which can be described as tributes to or biographies of Charles Elliott after his death. The first is an excerpt from the Annual Register of the Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, (p.1, p.2) dated 1869. Second is an excerpt from the Iowa Wesleyan History and Alumni Record. (p.1, p.2, p.3) No date is given for this.
Third is a story from the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate (p.1, p.2), evidently written shortly after his death. Fourth is report from the Western Christian Advocate of Cincinnati, also written shortly after his death and dated January 13, 1869 and written by a Bishop Clark (p.1, p.2, p.3). This one is particularly glowing in its description of Charles.
Last of the formal documents is an entry in the 1931 Cyclopedia of Methodism (p.1, p.2). One other document was included in Nina Elliott's papers. This was a poem, entitled "Flowers for the Living" -- but no date, no author, no identifying marks. Might it be Charles Elliott's?
Charles was a prolific writer, as mentioned above. Several of his anti-slavery writings are mentioned in the obituaries. His refutation of Roman Catholicism is available online here.