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Schaeffer, Charles William. Md., 1813-1896. Nephew of C. F. Schaeffer, supra. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of eminence, professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary from 1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Family Prayers.

Schaeffer, Frederick David. G., 1760-1836. A once prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine Vertheidigung der Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.

Schaff [shäf], Philip. Sd., 1819-1893. A distinguished German Reformed divine who came to the United States in 1844, and was professor of church history in the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, 1844-63. In 1873 he became professor of sacred literature in Union Seminary in New York city. Principles of Protestantism; History of the Christian Church; Creeds of Christendom; Theological Propædeutics; Christ and Christianity; Critical Edition of the Heidelberg Catechism; Bible Revision; Through Bible Lands; Progress of Religious Freedom; Church and State in the United States; The Person of Christ; Literature and Poetry; A Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version, include his principal original works. He has edited the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge; Lange’s Commentary, and other important works. Fu. Har. Ran. Scr. Wh.

Scharf, John Thomas. Md., 1843-1898. An historical writer of Baltimore. Chronicles of Baltimore; History of Maryland; History of Baltimore; History of Western Maryland; History of the City of St. Louis; History of Philadelphia; History of the Confederate Navy; History of Delaware.

Schauffler [show´fler], William Gottlieb. G., 1798-1883. A Congregational missionary in Turkey well known as a linguist. He translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and also wrote Essay on the Right Use of Property; Meditations on the Last Days of Christ. See Autobiography, 1887. Ran.

Schayer, Mrs. Julia [Thompson] [von Storch]. Me., 1840- ——. A Washington writer. The Tiger Lily, and Other Stories.

Schem [shem], Alexander Jacob. G., 1826-1881. A statistician of note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city, 1874-81. Latin-English Dictionary (with G. Crooks, supra); Statistics of the World; Cyclopædia of Education (with H. Kiddle, supra).

Schenck, William Edward. N. J., 1819-1903. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; The Fountain for Sin; Church Extension in Cities.

Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph. R., 1831- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the China Mission. He was consecrated in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some years in Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a translation of the Bible into Chinese.

Schiefflin [shĕf´lin], Samuel Bradhurst. N. Y., 1811-1900. A business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics. Message to the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers; The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.

Schindler, Solomon. Sil., 1842- ——. A Hebrew clergyman now (1897) living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath Israel, Boston. Young West, a sequel to “Looking Backward;” Messianic Exhortations and Modern Judaism; Dissolving Views on the History of Judaism. Ar. Le.

Schley, Winfield Scott. Md., 1839- ——. A naval officer and explorer who published (with J. R. Soley, infra) The Rescue of Greeley. Scr.

Schmauk [shmowk], Theodore Emmanuel. Pa., 1860- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, editor of The Lutheran from 1889, and author of The Negative Criticism.

Schmidt, Henry Immanuel. Pa., 1806-1889. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of German in Columbia College, 1848-80. History of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper; Course of American Geography.

Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon. Pa., 1827-1888. Son of S. S. Schmucker, infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Pittsville, Pennsylvania, 1881-88. A liturgical scholar of note, editor of The Church Book of the General Council, and of The Church Service, 1888.

Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim. Va., 1823-1863. Son of S. S. Schmucker, infra. A Philadelphia author who was in the early part of his career a Lutheran minister. His various writings, which display industry rather than original talent, comprise for the most part Errors of Modern Infidelity; The Spanish Wife, a play; History of the Four Georges; History of All Religions; Court and Reign of Catharine II.; Lives of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Clay, Dr. Kane, Frémont; Memorable Scenes in French History; History of the Modern Jews; History of Napoleon Third; Arctic Explorations; History of the Civil War in the United States (1863). Co.

Schmucker, Samuel Simon. Md., 1799-1873. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 1826-64. He was an advocate of American Lutheranism as characterized by indifference to the distinctive doctrines of Lutheranism. Elements of Popular Theology; Psychology; Lutheran Manual; Lutheran Symbols, or American Lutheranism Vindicated; Church of the Redeemer; The Unity of Christ’s Church, are his chief works. Ran.

Schneck, Benjamin Shroder. Pa., 1806-1874. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Chambersburg from 1855. Die deutsche Kanzel; The Burning of Chambersburg; Mercersburg Theology.

Schodde, George Henry. Pa., 1854- ——. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor at Capitol University from 1880. The Book of Enoch translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; A Day in Capernaum, from the German of Delitzsch.

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. N. Y., 1793-1864. An eminent ethnologist and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent among the Indians, chiefly at Mackinaw. His later life was passed in Washington. He discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his many works are included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic Discoveries; Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes; Narrative of an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian and His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty Years’ Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse. His talents lay rather in accumulating facts than in perceiving their relations to each other. Lip.

Schoolcraft, Mrs. Mary [Howard]. S. C., ————-. Wife of H. R. Schoolcraft, supra. The Black Gauntlet, a Tale of Plantation Life. Lip.

Schouler [skool´er], James. Ms., 1839- ——. Son of W. Schouler, infra. A lawyer and historian of Boston, professor in the law school of Boston University. The Law of Bailments; The Law of Personal Property; The Law of Husband and Wife; Law of Executors and Administrators; Law of Wills; A History of the United States under the Constitution; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Historical Briefs. Do. Lit.

Schouler, William. S., 1814-1872. A journalist of Boston who published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War.

Schroeder, John Frederick. Md., 1800-1857. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Flushing, Long Island. Life of Washington; Maxims of Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; Sunday Addresses. Ap.

Schuette, Conrad Herman Louis. G., 1843- ——. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor in Capitol University from 1872. Church Member’s Manual; The State, the Church, and the School.

Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima [McColl]. E., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of Jersey City. Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.

Schurman, Jacob Gould. P. E. I., 1854- ——. A Canadian educator, since 1892 president of Cornell University. Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God; Agnosticism and Religion. Scr.

Schurz [shoorts], Carl. P., 1829- ——. A statesman of eminence, active in the support of civil service reform. He came to America in 1852; settled in Missouri, from which he went to Congress as senator; served as general in the Union army during the Civil War; removed to New York city in 1875, and was editor of The Evening Post, 1881-84. Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Abraham Lincoln: an Essay. Hou. Le. Lip.

Schuyler [sky´le̯r], Aaron. N. Y., 1828- ——. A mathematician who was professor in Baldwin University and president of that institution, 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan University. The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic; Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; Empirical and Rational Psychology.

Schuyler, Anthony. N. Y., 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace Church at Orange, New Jersey, from 1868, and author of Household Religion.

Schuyler, Eugene. N. Y., 1840-1890. Son of G. W. Schuyler, infra. A diplomatist who was United States secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, 1870-76, secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople, 1876-78, and minister to Greece, 1882-84. Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer; Turkistan; American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce. Scr.

Schuyler, George Washington. N. Y., 1810-1888. A prominent State official of New York for many years. Colonial New York; Philip Schuyler and his Family. Scr.

Schuyler, Montgomery. N. Y., 1814-1896. Cousin of Anthony Schuyler, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ Church from 1854. The Church: its Ministry and Worship; The Pioneer Church.

Schuyler, Montgomery. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of Anthony Schuyler, supra. A journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times. Studies in American Architecture. Har.

Schwatka, Frederick. Ill., 1849-1892. A naval officer and explorer. In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along Alaska’s Great River; The Children of the Cold. See Schwatka’s Search, by W. H. Gilder, supra. Cas.

Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de. Pa., 1825-1887. Son of L. D. de Schweinitz, infra. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president of the Moravian College, 1867-84. The Moravian Manual; The Moravian Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle to the Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian Church; History of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; Systematic Benevolence.

Schweinitz, George Edmund de. Pa., 1858- ——. Son of E. A. de Schweinitz, supra. A Philadelphia physician of note as an ophthalmologist who has written Diseases of the Eye, and professional monographs and papers.

Schweinitz, Lewis David de. Pa., 1780-1834. A Moravian clergyman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, famous in his day as a botanist. Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Carolinæ Superioris; Synopsis Fungorum in America; Boreali Media Digentium. See Memoir of, by W. R. Johnson, supra.

Scollard, Clinton. N. Y., 1860- ——. An educator of Clinton, New York, professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton College, 1888-1896, and a well-known poet of the day. His writings in verse include, Pictures in Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old and New World Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills of Song; Skenandoa; A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. In prose he has published, Under Summer Skies; On Sunny Shores; A Man-at-Arms. Hou. Lo. Sto.

Scott, Charles. Tn., 1811-1861. Son of E. Scott, infra. A lawyer of Jackson, Mississippi. Analogy of Ancient Craft Masonry to Natural and Revealed Religion; The Keystone of the Masonic Arch.

Scott, Eben[ezer] Greenough. Pa., 1836- ——. A writer of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Intestate System of Pennsylvania; Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America. Hou. Put.

Scott, Edward. Va., 1774-1852. A Tennessee lawyer, prominent in the State’s early history, who published Laws of the State of Tennessee, in 1822.

Scott, Henry Lee. N. C., 1814-1886. Son-in-law of Winfield Scott, infra. An army officer who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and was the author of A Military Dictionary.

Scott, John. Pa., 1820- ——. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of Cincinnati. Pulpit Echoes; The Land of Sojourn.

Scott, Mrs. Julia H—— [Kinney]. Pa., 1809-1842. A verse-writer of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whose Poems, with Memoir, were posthumously published.

Scott, Robert Nicholson. Tn., 1838-1887. Son of W. A. Scott, infra. An army officer, in charge of the publication of war records at Washington, 1877-87, who published a Digest of the Military Laws of the United States.

Scott, William Anderson. Tn., 1813-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman of San Francisco, professor in the Theological Seminary there from 1871. The Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; Daniel: a Model for Young Men; Achan in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The Church in the Army; The Christ of the Apostles’ Creed; Trade and Letters, include his chief work.

Scott, Winfield. Va., 1786-1866. A famous general who served in the War of 1812, and was commander-in-chief of the American army during the war with Mexico. General Regulations of the Army; System of Infantry and Rifle Tactics; Autobiography (1864). See Lives by Mansfield, 1846, Headley, 1852, Victor, 1861; and United States histories.

Scouller, James Brown. Pa., 1820-1899. A prominent United Presbyterian clergyman. Manual of the United Presbyterian Church; History of the United Presbyterian Church; Calvinism: its History and Influence.

Scoville, Joseph A——. “Walter Barrett.” Ct., 1811-1864. A journalist of New York city, clerk of the Common Council, and at one period private secretary to Calhoun. Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; Marion.

Scripture, Edward Wheeler. N. H., 1864- ——. A scientist, director of the physical laboratory of Yale University. Thinking, Feeling, Doing, a popular psychology; The New Psychology; Studies from the Yale Physical Laboratory. Among his various monographs the more important are those on the association of ideas and the measurement of hallucinations. Fl.

Scudder, Eliza. Ms., 1821-1896. Cousin of H. E. Scudder, infra. A hymn-writer of Massachusetts. Hymns and Sonnets. Hou.

Scudder, Henry Martyn. Cy., 1822-1895. Son of J. Scudder, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, pastor in Chicago, 1883-87, and from 1887 a missionary in Japan. He published, in the Tamil language, Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed Church; The Bazaar Book; Sweet Savors of Divine Truth; Spiritual Teaching.

Scudder, Horace Elisha. Ms., 1838-1902. A Boston littérateur, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1890-1898. Seven Little People and their Friends; Dream Children; Stories from my Attic; The Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court; Stories and Romances; Boston Town; Life of Noah Webster; A History of the United States; A Short History of the United States; Book of Fables; Book of Folk Stories; George Washington: an Historical Biography; Men and Letters, essays; Childhood in Literature and Art; Recollections of Samuel Breck; The Bodley Books, a series of popular juveniles; James Russell Lowell: a Biography. Co. Hou. Scr. Sh.

Scudder, John. N. J., 1793-1855. A Dutch Reformed missionary and physician in Ceylon, 1820-39. Letters from the East; Letters to Pious Young Men; Promises for Passing Over Jordan. See Memoir by J. B. Waterbury, 1856.

Scudder, John Milton. O., 1829-1894. A Cincinnati physician and educator, long a professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute. Diseases of Women; Principles of Medicine; Specific Medication; The Reproductive Organs; Specific Diagnosis.

Scudder, Moses Lewis. Ms., 1843- ——. A broker of Chicago. Brief Honors, a romance; Almost an Englishman; National Banking; Congested Prices; The Labor Value Prophecy.

Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. Ms., 1837- ——. Brother of H. E. Scudder, supra. A naturalist of Cambridge. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada; Butterflies, their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies; The Life of a Butterfly; Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies; A Century of Orthoptera; The Fossil Insects of North America. Ho. Hou. Mac.

Scudder, Vida Dutton. E. I., 1861- ——. Niece of H. E. Scudder, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, professor in Wellesley College. How the Rain Sprites were Freed; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets; The Witness of Denial; The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley. Dut. He. Hou.

Seabury, Samuel. Ct., 1729-1796. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. He was the first American bishop and the first presiding bishop. Being refused consecration by the Anglican Church, he was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and through him the Episcopal Church in the United States derives its succession from the Church in Scotland. During the early days of the American Revolution he attracted much attention by his pamphlets signed A. W. Farmer, which sharply criticised the actions of the patriots. They include, Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress; The Continental Congress Canvassed; View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her English Colonies. His Sermons have been issued in three volumes. See Life by E. E. Beardsley, 1881; Seabury Centennial Commemoration.

Seabury, Samuel. Ct., 1801-1872. Grandson of S. Seabury, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological Seminary. Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; Discourses on the Holy Calendar.

Seabury, William Jones. N. Y., 1837- ——. Son of Samuel Seabury, 2d. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General Seminary from 1873. Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity. See American Church Review, July, 1885.

Seaman, Ezra Champion. N. Y., 1805-1880. The comptroller of the treasury, 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State prisons. Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The American System of Government; Views of Nature.

Seaman, Valentine. L. I., 1770-1817. A once prominent physician of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination. Waters of Saratoga; Midwife’s Monitor; On Vaccination.

Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine [Redden]. “Howard Glyndon.” Md., 1840- ——. A verse-writer and journalist now living in California, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. Sounds from Secret Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; Brother and Sister. Hou.

Searle, Arthur. E., 1837- ——. A professor of astronomy at Harvard University from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.

Searle, January. See Phillips, E. S.

Searles, William Henry. O., 1837- ——. A civil engineer. Field Engineering; The Railroad Spiral. Wil.

Sears, Barnas. Ms., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman and educator of prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological Seminary, 1836-48, and president of Brown University, 1855-67. Life of Luther; The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; Essays on Classical Literature (with B. B. Edwards, supra, and C. C. Felton, supra).

Sears, Edmund Hamilton. Ms., 1810-1876. A Unitarian clergyman and religious poet, pastor at Weston, Massachusetts, 1865-76. He wrote the familiar Christmas hymn, “Calm on the listening ear of night.” Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality, originally published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; Christ in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life; Pictures of the Olden Time; That Glorious Song of Old. A. U. A. Le.

Sears, George W——. Ms., 1821- ——. A writer of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. Woodcraft; Forest Runes (verse).

Sears, [Joseph] Hamblen. Ms., 1865- ——. A writer of New York city. The Governments of the World To-Day. Fl.

Seawell, Molly Elliot. Va., 1860- ——. A Washington writer and newspaper correspondent. The Sprightly Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston, a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian, and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis; Midshipman Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and Thin; A Strange, Sad Comedy; Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. Ap. Lo. We.

Seccomb, John. Ms., 1708-1792. A Congregational minister at Harvard, Massachusetts, 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the Widow Abbey, a work as destitute of genuine wit and worth as its predecessor. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American Literature.

Seccomb, Joseph. Ms., 1706-1760. Brother of J. Seccomb, supra. A Congregational minister at Kingston, New Hampshire, from 1737, and author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as God.

Sedgwick, Arthur George. N. Y., 1844- ——. Son of T. Sedgwick, 2d, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Principles and Practices Governing the Trial of Title to Land (with F. S. Wait); Elements of Damages. Lit.

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Ms., 1789-1867. A once famous novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were hardly of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the writings of others who have cultivated the same field with even more skill. Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. See Life and Letters, 1871. Har.

Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckminster [Dwight]. Ms., 1791-1864. Sister-in-law of C. M. Sedgwick, supra, and a teacher for many years. Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My Pupils; Stories of the Spanish Conquest.

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight. Ms., 1785-1831. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city who was a noted opponent of slavery, and author of English Practice of the Common Law.

Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Livingston [Ridley]. 1789-1867. Wife of T. Sedgwick, 1st, infra. A writer for young people. Walter Thornley; The Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott; Alida, or Town and Country. Har.

Sedgwick, Theodore. Ms., 1780-1839. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick, supra. A lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Public and Private Economy; Hints to my Countrymen.

Sedgwick, Theodore. N. Y., 1811-1859. Son of T. Sedgwick, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Court Law; Treatise on the Measure of Damages, a work of much importance.

Seeley, Charles Sumner. See Munday, J. W.

Seely, [Edward] Howard. N. Y., 1856-1894. A littérateur of New York city. A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life; A Ranchman’s Stories; A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of Lucky Valley, and Other Stories; A Border Leander. Ap. Do. Har.

Seelye [see´le], Mrs. Elizabeth [Eggleston]. Min., 1858- ——. Daughter of E. Eggleston, supra. A writer living at Lake George, New York. The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and Red Jacket; Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); The Story of Washington. Ap. Do.

Seelye, Julius Hawley. Ct., 1824-1895. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst College from 1850, and its president, 1876-90. Natural Religion; The Way, the Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; Duty. Do.

Seemuller, Mrs. Annie Moncure [Crane]. Md., 1838-1872. A novelist of New York city whose somewhat striking fictions were popular for a brief period. Emily Chester; Reginald Archer; Opportunity. See Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders.

Seguin [sā-gwin´], Edouard F., 1812-1880. A French physician who came to the United States in 1848 and whose specialty was the training of idiots. Among his many works on this and other professional topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical Thermometry; Théorie et practique de l’éducation des idiots; Traitement moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots et des autre enfants arrièrés; Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Methods.

Segur, Seth Willard. Vt., 1831-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Ohio and subsequently of Massachusetts. Relation and Responsibilities of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation’s Hope; National Blessings and Duties.

Seiss [seess], Joseph Augustus. Md., 1823-1904. An eminent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of the Holy Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. Among his many works are, The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a re-statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf; Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last Times; Voices from Babylon. See American Lutheran Biographies. Co. Lip.

Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. N. Y., 1861- ——. A professor of political economy and finance in Columbia College. Chapters on Mediæval Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs; Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice; Essays on Taxation. Mac.

Selyns, Henricus. H., 1636-1701. A Dutch clergyman who came to New York in 1600, remaining four years as pastor in Brooklyn before returning to Holland. Settling permanently in New York in 1682, he was pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church for the rest of his life. His Poems, written in Dutch, have been translated by H. C. Murphy, supra.

Semmes, Alexander Jenkins. D. C., 1828- ——. Cousin of R. Semmes, infra. A surgeon in the Confederate navy who became a Roman Catholic clergyman, president of Pio Nono College, Macon, Georgia, from 1886. Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; Notes from a Surgical Diary, are among his writings.

Semmes, Raphael. Md., 1809-1877. A celebrated naval officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War as commander of the Alabama. Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War; Campaign of General Scott in the Valley of Mexico; The Cruise of the Alabama; Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States. See Sinclair’s Two Years in the Alabama, 1895.

Sergeant, Thomas. Pa., 1782-1860. A Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on the Law of Pennsylvania relating to Proceedings by Foreign Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.

Seth, James. S., 1860- ——. A professor of moral philosophy in Cornell University from 1896. A Study of Ethical Principles. Scr.

Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Bayley]. N. Y., 1774-1821. The founder and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United States. After the death of her husband she became a Roman Catholic, took the veil as a Sister of Charity in 1809, and in 1812 founded at Emmettsburg, Maryland, the first American house of the order. A volume entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: a Fragment of Real History, was published in 1817. See Life by White; Vie de Madame Seton by Madame de Barbary.

Seton, Robert. I., 1839- ——. A grandson of Mrs. Seton, supra. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in the United States. Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of E. Seton; Essays on Various Subjects, principally Roman.

Seton, William. N. Y., 1835- ——. A grandson of Mrs. E. Seton, supra. A naval officer of the United States. Romance of the Charter Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; The Pioneer, a poem.

Severance, Mark Sibley. O., 1846- ——. Hammersmith: his Harvard Days, a novel. Hou.

Sewall, Frank. Me., 1837- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Washington. Moody Mike, or the Power of Love; The Hem of his Garment; The Pillow of Stones; The New Ethics; The New Metaphysics; Angelo and Ariel, are among his writings. Lip. Ran.

Sewall, Mrs. Harriet [Winslow]. Me., 1819-1889. A religious verse-writer of Boston, some of whose lyrics are found in the anthologies. A collection of her Poems, with Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney, supra, appeared in 1889.

Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell. Ms., 1748-1808. A lawyer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer. His verse is for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and Washington, is yet remembered, and in his Epilogue to Cato occurs the famous couplet:— “No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours.” Miscellaneous Poems (1801).

Sewall, Rufus King. Me., 1814-1903. A lawyer of Wiscasset, Maine. Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; Ancient Dominions of Maine.

Sewall, Samuel. E., 1652-1730. A noted jurist of Boston, best remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft trials. The Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America; Accomplishment of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec Indians; Description of the New Heaven. See Diary of, Tyler’s American Literature; Whittier’s Prophecy of Samuel Sewall.

Sewall, Stephen. Me., 1734-1804. A grand-nephew of S. Sewall, supra. A Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard College, 1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture Account of the Shechinah; Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit America.

Sewall, Thomas. Me., 1786-1845. A Washington physician, professor of anatomy in Columbian University from 1821, who is chiefly remembered for his work, The Pathology of Drunkenness, which had a wide circulation.

Seward, George Frederick. N. Y., 1840- ——. A nephew of W. H. Seward, infra, and minister to China, 1876-80. Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects.

Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen. N. Y., 1835-1902. Cousin of W. H. Seward, infra. A musical educator of note. Hadrian Theology; The School of Life; A Plea for the Christian Year.

Seward, William Henry. N. Y., 1801-1872. A statesman of distinction, secretary of state during the Civil War period. Diplomatic History of the Civil War; Orations and Speeches; Life of J. Q. Adams, supra; Travels Round the World. His complete works in five volumes have been edited by G. E. Baker. See Autobiography; North American Review, October, 1866; Bartlett’s Modern Agitators; Life by Lothrop; and Histories of the Civil War. Ap. Co. Hou.

Seybert, Adam. Pa., 1773-1825. A Philadelphia chemist who published The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was in a notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith made the famous query, “Who reads an American book?”

Seyffarth [zif´fa͝art], Gustav. Sxy., 1796-1885. A German scientist who was professor of Oriental archæology at Leipzig University, 1825-55, and, coming to America in the latter year, was professor at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, 1855-71. The remainder of his life was passed in New York city. He was distinguished for the extremely literal nature of his biblical interpretations. Among his voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca; Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. See Literary Life of, an autobiography, 1886.

Seymour, George Franklin. R. I., 1829- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Springfield, and prominent among extreme High Churchmen. Modern Romanism not Catholicism.

Seymour, Mrs. Mary Harrison [Browne]. Ct., 1835- ——. A writer of Hartford whose writings are mainly juvenile. Among them are, Mollie’s Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense; Through the Darkness; Ned, Nellie, and Amy. Dut. Ran. Wh.

Seymour, Thomas Day. O., 1840- ——. A professor of Greek at Yale University from 1880. Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad; Selected Odes of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer; Homer’s Iliad, books i.-vi. Gi.

Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston. Va., 1818-1881. An inventor of note. The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession War in America; History of America; Odd Fellowship.

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Ky., 1841- ——. An eminent geologist, professor of paleontology at Harvard University, 1868-87, and of geology from 1887. Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and its Importance to the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent; Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the Ohio Valley; American Highways; Domesticated Animals: their Relation to Man. Am. Ap. Clke. Gi. Hou. Scr.

Shanks, William Franklin Gore. Ky., 1837- ——. A journalist of New York city. Recollections of Distinguished Generals; A Noble Treason, a tragedy. Har.

Shanly, Charles Dawson. I., 1811-1875. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known poem. A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; The Truant Chicken.

Shapley, Rufus Edmond. Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of Solid for Mulhooly, a political satire.

Sharswood, George. Pa., 1810-1883. An eminent Philadelphia jurist. Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common Law; Lectures on Commercial Law; Sharswood’s Blackstone. Lip.

Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette [Robinson]. Ms., 1850- ——. Daughter of W. S. Robinson, supra. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, who has published The Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and West; Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law.

Shaw, Albert. O., 1857- ——. A journalist of New York city, the American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891, and a recognized authority on such themes as municipal government and municipal reforms. Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism; Local Government in Illinois; Coöperation in a Western City; Municipal Government in Great Britain; Municipal Government in Continental Europe. Cent.

Shaw, Charles. Me., 1782-1828. A lawyer of Montgomery, Alabama, who published A Topographical Description of Boston from its First Settlement (1817).

Shaw, Henry Wheeler. “Josh Billings.” Ms., 1818-1885. A noted humourist whose shrewd, sensible sayings have been hardly appraised at their full value owing to the laboriously bad spelling in which they have been given to the world. Josh Billings’s Sayings; Everybody’s Friend; Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; Josh Billings’s Spice Box. See Life by F. S. Smith, 1883.

Shaw, Thomas. Ont., 1843- ——. A Canadian educator, since 1893 professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. The First Principles of Agriculture; Weeds and How to Eradicate Them.

Shea [shā], George. I., 1827-1895. Son of J. A. Shea, infra. A jurist who was chief justice of the City Court of New York. Alexander Hamilton: a Historical Study; Nature and Form of the American Government. Hou.

Shea, John Augustus. I., 1802-1845. An Irish verse-writer who came to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His writings include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern Romance, in verse; Clontarf, a Poem.

Shea, John Dawson Gilmary. N. Y., 1824-1892. An historical writer of note, for a number of years editor of Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, in New York city. The Catholic Church in the United States; Legendary History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New Netherlands, 1633-44; The Operations of the French under De Grasse; Life of Pius Ninth; The Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the United States; Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll, include his principal original works.

Shearman [sher´man], Thomas Gaskell. E., 1834-1900. A lawyer and political economist of New York city. Law of Practice and Pleadings; Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect?; Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; Natural Taxation; Henry George’s Mistake; Crooked Taxation.

Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge. S. C., 1770-1836. A once eminent physician and scientist of Charleston. Flora Carolinensis; Medical and Philosophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; A New Theory of the Earth, comprise his chief works.

Shedd, Joel Herbert. Ms., 1834- ——. An eminent civil engineer of Providence whose most important professional labour is the Providence Water Works. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening (with Follen), and many important professional papers.

Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann [Clark]. Me., 1834-1897. Wife of J. H. Shedd, supra. Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; Raphael: his Madonnas and Holy Families. Hou.

Shedd, William Greenough Thayer. Ms., 1820-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary, 1863-90, and a theologian of a very conservative type. History of Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards; Calvinism Pure and Mixed; Literary Essays. Ran. Scr.

Sheeleigh, Matthias. Pa., 1820-1900. A Lutheran minister at Fort Washington, near Philadelphia, from 1869. American Ecclesiad; A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther; Outlines of Old and New Testament History.

Sheldon, David Newton. Ct., 1807-1889. A Baptist clergyman who became a Unitarian in 1856. He was president of Colby University, 1843-1853. Sin and Redemption.

Sheldon, Edward Austin. N. Y., 1823-1897. A noted educator of Oswego, principal of the Normal School there from 1862. Manual of Elementary Training; Lessons on Objects, are his principal works.

Sheldon, Edward Stevens. Me., 1851- ——. A professor of Romance philology at Harvard University from 1883. Short German Grammar and monographs.

Sheldon, George William. S. C., 1843- ——. A journalist and art critic of New York city, now (1897) in charge of the London office of D. Appleton and Company, publishers. American Painters; The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of New York City; Hours with Art and Artists; Artistic Homes; Artistic Country Seats; Selections in Modern Art; Recent Ideals of American Art. Har.

Sheldon, Henry Clay. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Methodist clergyman, professor of historic theology in Boston University from 1882. History of Christian Doctrine; History of the Christian Church. Cr. Har.

Sheldon, Mary Downing. Daughter of E. A. Sheldon, supra. See Barnes, Mrs.

Shelton, Frederick William. L. I., 1814-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Carthage Landing, New York, who wrote in both prose and verse a number of humourous and satirical books. The Trollopiad, or the Travelling Gentleman in America; The Rector of St. Bardolph’s; Peeps from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book; Salander and the Dragon, a romance; Up the River, a collection of rural sketches; Chrystalline, a romance; The Gold Mania; Use and Abuse of Reason.

Shepard, Charles Upham. R. I., 1804-1886. A geologist, professor of geology at Amherst College, who published a valuable Report on the Geology of Connecticut.

Shepard, Edward Morse. N. Y., 1850- ——. A lawyer of Brooklyn, author of a Life of Martin Van Buren. Hou.

Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss. Vt., 1795-1876. An educator of St. Louis. Autobiography (1869); Early History of St. Louis and Missouri.

Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald. Ms., 1816-1889. A Federal officer in the Civil War who was consul at Swatow and Hankow, 1874-80. Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; Household Tales.

Shepard, Thomas. E., 1605-1649. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister of what is now the Shepard Church in Cambridge. He won great renown as a preacher, and as a theologian was a Calvinist of the extremest type. New Englands Lamentations for Old Englands present Errours; The Sound Beleever; The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ; Subjection to Christ; The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied; Autobiography. His Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 1853. See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by S. Mather and Greenhill, 1652; Life by Cotton Mather in the Magnalia.

Shepard, William. See Walsh, W. S.

Shepherd, William Robert. S. C., 1871- ——. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania. Mac.

Sheppard, Furman. N. J., 1823-1893. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Constitutional Text-Book.

Sheppard, Nathan. Md., 1834-1888. A journalist and educator who was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette during the Franco-German war. Shut up in Paris during the Siege; Darwinism Stated by Himself; Before an Audience; Saratoga Chips. Ap. Fu.

Sherburne, John Henry. N. H., 1794-c. 1850. A register of the navy in Washington. Osceola, a tragedy; Erratic Poems; Life of John Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in Europe; A Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams.

Sheridan, Philip Henry. N. Y., 1831-1888. A famous soldier, lieutenant-general of the United States army, 1869-88, and general for the two months preceding his death. Personal Memoirs (1888). See Appletons’ American Biography; Life by H. E. Davies; histories of the Civil War.

Sherman, Frank Dempster. N. Y., 1860- ——. A lyrist of New York city, adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia College, who has written much pleasing vers de société as well as other verse. Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics; New Waggings of Old Tales (with J. K. Bangs, supra). Hou. Sto.

Sherman, Henry. N. Y., 1808-1879. A Hartford lawyer, author of An Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the Present Time (1841); The Governmental History of the United States; Slavery in the United States.

Sherman, John. Ct., 1772-1828. A Unitarian clergyman of Trenton Falls, New York, where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to 1805 he was a Congregational minister at Mansfield, Connecticut, but resigned his charge on account of his becoming a Unitarian. One God in One Person Only, the first noteworthy defence of Unitarianism in America; Philosophy of Language Illustrated; A Description of Trenton Falls. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Sherman, John. O., 1823-1900. Brother of W. T. Sherman, infra. A noted statesman of Ohio; United States senator, 1861-77 and 1881-97; secretary of the treasury, 1877-1881; and secretary of state, 1897-1898. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet; Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. See Life by Bronson, 1880.

Sherman, William Tecumseh. O., 1820-1891. A distinguished soldier who was general of the United States army, 1869-84. The Military Lessons of the War; Memoirs by Himself. See Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia; The Sherman Letters; and histories of the Civil War. Ap.

Sherwin, Thomas. N. H., 1799-1869. A noted educator of Boston, master of the High School, 1838-69, and author of treatises on algebra.

Sherwood, Adiel. N. Y., 1791-1879. A Baptist minister and educator of Georgia. Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish Churches; Notes on the New Testament. See Memoir by his daughter, 1884.

Sherwood, Mrs. Emily [Lee]. Ind., 1843- ——. A Washington journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.

Sherwood, James Manning. N. Y., 1814-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman and editor of religious journals. A Plea for the Old Foundations; The History of the Cross; Books and Authors. Fu.

Sherwood, Mrs. John. See Sherwood, Mrs. Mary.

Sherwood, John D[7] N. Y., 1818-1891. Cousin of J. M. Sherwood, supra. A writer whose home was at Englewood, New Jersey. Comic History of the United States; The Case of Cuba.

Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret [Brownlee]. Pa., 1841- ——. A verse-writer and journalist of Canton, Ohio, who has been especially successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military occasions. Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; Columbia.

Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wilson]. N. H., 1830-1903. A Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer, prominent as a social leader. The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home; Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; The Art of Entertaining. Ap. Do. Har. Lo.

Shew, Joel. N. Y., 1816-1855. A hydropathic physician of New York State among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera Treated by Water; The Hydropathic Family Physician.

Shields, Charles Woodruff. Ind., 1825-1904. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion at Princeton College from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity. The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer according to the Revision of the Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences; The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in their Relations to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The Question of Unity; The United Church of the United States. Scr.

Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie [Frost]. 18— - ——. Parlor Charades and Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing Well; Almost a Woman; Sunshine for Rainy Days, are among her works.

Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow. “Mrs. Partington.” N. H., 1814-1890. A journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humourist, whose latest years were spent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington’s Mother Goose; Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; The Double-Runner Club. See New England Magazine, June, 1891. Le.

Shimeall [shim´e-all], Richard Cunningham. N. Y., 1803-1874. An Episcopal clergyman who adopted Reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and subsequently became a Presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar of millenarian views. The End of Prelacy; Christ’s Second Coming; Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III.; Unseen World; Political Economy of Prophecy, are his principal works.

Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana]. S. C., 1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom; A Southerner Among the Spirits. See Bibliography of Texas.

Shinn, Asa. N. J., 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant minister in Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being.

Shinn, Charles Howard. Ts., 1852- ——. A California writer who has published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; The Story of the Mine. Ap. Scr.

Shinn, Earl. “Edward Strahan.” Pa., 1837-1886. A New York journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion: from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art. Lip.

Shinn, George Wolfe. Pa., 1839- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875. Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern Substitutes for Christianity. Kt. Wh.

Shipp, Albert Micajah. N. C., 1819-1887. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University from 1874, and author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.

Shipp, Barnard. Mi., 1813- ——. A verse-writer of Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems; Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.

Shippen, Edward. N. J., 1827- ——. An eminent naval surgeon of Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.

Shirley, John Milton. N. H., 1831-1887. A lawyer of Andover, New Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial Court.

Shirley, William. E., 1693-1771. A noted colonial soldier who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.

Shock, William Henry. Md., 1821- ——. A United States naval officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and Management, is a standard authority.

Shoemaker, Michael Myers. Ky., 1853- ——. A writer of travels. Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the Czar. Clke.

Shoup, Francis Asbury. Ind., 1834-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics in the University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil War. Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.

Shreve, Samuel Henry. N. J., 1829-1884. A civil engineer of New York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.

Shreve, Thomas H——. D. C., 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H. Shreve, supra. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American tale; Poems.

Shuck [shook], Mrs. Henrietta [Hall]. Va., 1817-1844. The wife of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852). See Life by Jeter, 1848.

Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton. Ms., 1862- ——. A Congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s Peace.

Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Ms., 1810-1874. An antiquarian of Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve volumes.

Sibler, Wilhelm. P., 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Missouri. Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year. See Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880.

Sibley, John Langdon. Me., 1804-1885. The librarian of Harvard University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine; Biographical Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.

Sidney, Margaret. See Lothrop, Mrs.

Sigourney [sĭg´or-nĭ], Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly]. Ct., 1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never strays far beyond the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her life a resident of Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Allibone’s Dictionary; Stone’s First Editions of American Authors. Har.

Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan]. N. Y., 1841- ——. Wife of W. W. Sikes, infra. An actress and author, popular at one period as a lecturer. Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes in France; John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women and Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic World; Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.

Sikes, William Wirt. N. Y., 1836-1883. A journalist of New York city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales; Studies of Assassination.

Sill, Edward Rowland. Ct., 1841-1887. A poet and educator of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California, 1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems (containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). See Mrs. E. Ward’s Chapters from a Life. Ho. Hou.

Sill, John Mahelon Berry. N. Y., 1831-1901. A Michigan educator of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis of the English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.

Silliman, Augustus Ely. R. I., 1807-1884. Cousin of B. Silliman, 2d, infra. A banker of New York city who published A Gallop Among American Scenery.

Silliman, Benjamin. Ct., 1779-1864. A chemist of distinction, professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and the founder in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal of Travels in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853); Elements of Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred History. See Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May, 1865; Popular Science Monthly, June, 1883.

Silliman, Benjamin. Ct., 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman, supra. A professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846 until his death, and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of Chemistry; American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.

Silloway, Thomas William. Ms., 1828- ——. A Boston architect who became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns of England (with L. Powers).

Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux]. 1812-1889. A Boston writer who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of poems. Hou.

Silver, Thomas. N. J., 1813-1888. A civil engineer well known as an inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs.

Simmons, William Johnson. S. C., 1849- ——. A Baptist minister of African birth who has published Men of Mark.

Simms, Jeptha Root. Ct., 1807-1883. A once popular writer of Fort Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy: Nathan Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.

Simms, Joseph. N. Y., 1833- ——. Nephew of J. R. Simms, supra. A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of Character; Book of Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.

Simms, William Gilmore. S. C., 1806-1870. A voluminous romancer and verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little read. Among his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known as any; and of some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of the Palmetto; Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the most characteristic. Other works of his include, A History of South Carolina; Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith, Chevalier Bayard. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s First Editions of American Authors. Lov.

Simonds, William. “Walter Aimwell.” Ms., 1822-1859. A Boston journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The Aimwell Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.

Simpson, Edward. N. Y., 1824-1888. A naval officer of prominence, rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.

Simpson, Henry. Pa., 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who published Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.

Simpson, James Hervey. N. J., 1813-1883. A colonel of engineers and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A Military Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849. The Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. Lip.

Simpson, Matthew. O., 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop famous as a pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism; Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. See Life of, by G. R. Crooks, supra. Har. Meth.

Sims, Clifford Stanley. Pa., 1839-1896. A lawyer of Arkansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames.

Sims, James Marion. S. C., 1813-1883. A celebrated surgeon of New York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery; Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. See Life of, by T. A. Emmet, supra. Ap.

Sinclair, Carrie Bell. Ga., 1837- ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.

Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers. S., 1837-1900. A Brooklyn physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College Hospital from 1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women from the Standpoint of the Physician. Ap.

Skinner, Charles Montgomery. N. Y., 1852- ——. A journalist and littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle. Villon the Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; Nature in a City Yard. Cent. Lip.

Skinner, Otis Ainsworth. Ms., 1807-1861. A Universalist minister of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on Doctrinal Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral Duties of Parents, are his principal works. See Life of, by T. B. Thayer, infra.

Skinner, Thomas Harvey. N. C., 1791-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Seminary, 1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and Hearing; Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. Ran.

Slade, Daniel Denison. Ms., 1823-1896. A physician and scientist, professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871. Diphtheria: its Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New England. Put.

Slaughter, Philip. Va., 1808-1890. Cousin of W. B. Slaughter, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man and Woman, are his most important writings.

Slaughter, William Bank. Va., 1798-1879. A Wisconsin lawyer of note who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met.

Sleeper, John Sherburne. Ms., 1794-1878. A shipmaster and subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54. Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.

Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake]. N. Y., 1827- ——. A writer living at Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; Mary Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.

Slicer, Henry. Md., 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman, eight times chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian Baptism; Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the passage of the anti-duelling law in Congress.

Sloan, Samuel. N. C., 1815-1884. An architect of Philadelphia. City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive Architecture; The Model Architect; Homestead Architecture. Bai. Lip.

Sloane, Thomas O’Conor. N. Y., 1851- ——. A chemist of New York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.

Sloane, William Milligan. O., 1850- ——. A professor of history at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life of James M’Cosh, supra; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Cent. Scr.

Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull]. Ct., 184- - ——. An author of New York city noted for the excellence of her short stories, and also known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. Aunt Liefy; Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. Har. Ran.

Sluter, George Ludewig. G., 1837- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our Beloved Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his principal writings.

Smalley, Eugene Virgil. O., 1841-1899. A journalist of St. Paul. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the Republican Party.

Smalley, George Washburn. Ms., 1833- ——. A noted journalist who was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1867-95, and from 1895 American correspondent of The London Times. London Letters, and Some Others; Studies of Men. Har.

Smalley, John. Ct., 1734-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and Moral Inability; Universal Salvation.

Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener]. Va., 1853- ——. A Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret Weld. Ar.

Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney]. Mi., 1840- ——. A Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.

Smith, Arthur Donaldson. Pa., 1864- ——. An African explorer. Through Unknown African Countries.

Smith, Ashbel. Ct., 1805-1886. A Texas politician and physician. Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the Human Race.

Smith, Augustus William. N. Y., 1802-1866. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51, and president of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.

Smith, Buckingham. Ga., 1810-1871. A Spanish-American scholar and antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States legation at Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida; Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida.

Smith, Charles. Pa., 1765-1836. Son of William Smith, 1st, infra. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on the Land Laws of Philadelphia.

Smith, Charles Adam. N. Y., 1809-1879. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The Catechumen’s Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; Popular Exposition of the Gospels (with J. Morris). Lip.

Smith, Charles Henry. “Bill Arp.” Ga., 1826-1903. A lawyer and journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book: The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War; Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. Gi.

Smith, Daniel. Ct., 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman of New York State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in Miniature; Gems of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’ Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the Christian Ministry. Meth.

Smith, Edward Delafield. N. Y., 1826-1878. A lawyer of New York city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in Slave Trade Trials.

Smith, Eli. Ct., 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary at Beirut. Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic translation of the Bible.

Smith, Elias. Ct., 1769-1846. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti-Christ; Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.

Smith, Elihu Hubbard. Ct., 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems, Original and Selected.

Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince]. Me., 1806-1893. Wife of Seba Smith, infra. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The Western Captive.

Smith, Erasmus Peshine. N. Y., 1814-1882. A jurist and political economist. Manual of Political Economy.

Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt]. N. Y., 1837-1886. An ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. See Memorial, 1890.

Smith, Ethan. Ms., 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce]. Vt., 1852- ——. A fiction-writer of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a poultry book.

Smith, Florence. N. Y., 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.

Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge]. See Griswold, Mrs. Frances.

Smith, Francis Henney. Va., 1812-1890. A Confederate officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1839-61 and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras.

Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Md., 1838- ——. An artist, civil engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West. Hou. Scr.

Smith, Gerrit. N. Y., 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist of Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. See Life of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra.

Smith, Gertrude. Cal., 1860- ——. Sister of M. C. Smith, infra. A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the West. The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and Araminta Stories; Dedora Heywood. Cop. Do. Hou.

Smith, Gustavus Woodson. Ky., 1822-1896. A Confederate general who lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance; Confederate War Papers.

Smith, Hamilton Lanphere. Ct., 1819-1903. An educator who was professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868. Natural Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.

Smith, Henry Boynton. Me., 1815-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic theology in Union Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and Philosophy; Apologetics; Chronological History of the Church of Christ; Introduction to Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology. See Life and Work of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892. Scr.

Smith, Henry Hollingsworth. Pa., 1815-1890. A surgeon of Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.

Smith, Herbert Huntington. N. Y., 1851- ——. A scientist who has been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and Brazil. Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. Scr.

Smith, Horace Wemyss. Pa., 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith, infra. A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include, Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of Reverend William Smith, infra.

Smith, James. I., c. 1720-1806. A lawyer of York, Pennsylvania, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote The Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America, which materially aided the cause of the patriots.

Smith, James. Pa., 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky pioneer. Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War. See Bibliography of Ohio.

Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield. N. H., 1800-1879. A physician of Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New York city. Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey and the Turks; The Ways of Women.

Smith, Job Lewis. N. Y., 1827-1897. A physician of New York city who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.

Smith, John. E., 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain and adventurer who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the company who settled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous writer, much given to magnifying his own exploits, and not always to be trusted in the absence of other testimony. A True Relation of Virginia; The Generall Historie of Virginia, which is partly original and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country; A Description of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a work in which his imagination is under very little restraint as regards facts. See Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs. Robinson, 1845, Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882; Tyler’s American Literature; North American Review, January, 1867; Appletons’ American Biography.

Smith, John. N. H., 1752-1809. A Congregational minister and educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the college for some thirty years. He was the author of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Grammars, as well as some minor publications. See Memoir by his Wife, 1815.

Smith, John Augustine. Va., 1782-1865. A physician of New York city, previously president of William and Mary College, 1814-26. Mutations of the Earth; Moral and Physical Science; Functions of the Nervous System.

Smith, John Cotton. Ms., 1826-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Ascension, 1860-82. The Church’s Law of Development; Certain Aspects of the Church; Miscellanies; Old and New; The Liturgy as a Basis of Union.

Smith, John Hyatt. N. Y., 1824-1886. A prominent Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, a member of Congress, 1880-82. Gilead; The Open Door.

Smith, John Jay. N. J., 1798-1881. A librarian of Philadelphia who edited many works, and was author of Notes for a History of the Library Company of Philadelphia; A Summer’s Jaunt Across the Water; Historical and Literary Curiosities (with J. F. Watson).

Smith, John Lawrence. S. C., 1818-1883. A chemist of note who was professor of chemistry in the University of Louisville. Mineralogy and Chemistry: Original Researches.

Smith, John Talbot. N. Y., 1855- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg. History of Ogdensburg Diocese; A Woman of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juvenile tale; Our Seminaries: an essay on Clerical Training.

Smith, Joseph. Pa., 1796-1868. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in western Pennsylvania. History of Jefferson College; Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.

Smith, Joseph Edward Adams. “Godfrey Greylock.” 1822-1896. A writer of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taghconic: the Romance and Beauty of the Hills; A History of Paper.

Smith, Joseph Mather. N. Y., 1789-1866. A physician of New York city. Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics; Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life.

Smith, Judson. Ms., 1837- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884. Lectures in Church History; Lectures on Modern History.

Smith, Justin Almerin. N. Y., 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853. The Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern Church History; Patmos.

Smith, Mrs. Luella [Dowd]. Ms., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of Hudson, New York. Wayside Leaves; Wind Flowers.

Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie [Brown]. N. Y., 1864- ——. A journalist of Little Rock. On the Track and Off the Train.

Smith, Mrs. Margaret [Bayard]. Pa., 1778-1844. Wife of S. H. Smith, infra, and once a social leader in Washington. A Winter in Washington; What is Gentility?

Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise [Riley]. N. Y., 1842- ——. A popular verse-writer of New York city. Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; Cradle and Armchair. Ran.

Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence [Wells]. “P. Thorne.” N. Y., 1840- ——. A Cincinnati writer for young people. The Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; Miss Ellis’s Mission. A. U. A. Rob.

Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison]. Pa., 1834- ——. The wife of a professor at the University of Virginia. She has made many translations from the German and French, and has also published, Heirs of the Kingdom; Virginia Cookery Book. Har.

Smith, Matthew Hale. Me., 1810-1879. Son of Elias Smith, supra. A clergyman of the Universalist and subsequently of the Presbyterian and other faiths, who was also a lawyer and a brilliant journalist, known as “Burleigh.” Universalism Examined, Renounced, and Exposed; Universalism not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary; Sunshine and Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, include his chief works.

Smith, Minna Caroline. Cal., 1860- ——. A journalist of Boston. The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle, from the French of Nodier. Lam. Lo.

Smith, Nathan. N. H., 1762-1828. A physician who was a medical professor in Dartmouth College, 1798-1813. Practical Essays on Typhus Fever; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.

Smith, Nathan Ryno. N. H., 1797-1877. Son of N. Smith, supra. A professor of surgery in the University of Maryland, 1840-70. Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries; Legends of the South, are among his works.

Smith, Oliver Hampton. N. J., 1794-1859. A once prominent United States senator from Indiana. Recollections of a Congressional Life; Early Indian Trials.

Smith, Persifor Frazer. Pa., 1808-1882. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, 1865-82.

Smith, Richard Penn. Pa., 1790-1854. Grandson of William Smith, 1st, infra. A lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888.

Smith, Richard Somers. Pa., 1813-1877. A soldier and educator, president of Girard College, 1863-68, and for the last seven years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States Naval Academy. Manual of Topographical Drawing; Manual of Linear Perspective.

Smith, Richmond Mayo. O., 1854-1901. A professor of political economy at Columbia College from 1883. Statistics and Economics; Emigration and Immigration; Statistics and Sociology. Mac. Scr.

Smith, Samuel. N. J., 1720-1766. A colonial treasurer of the province of West Jersey, who published a History of Nova Cæsarea, or New Jersey, from its Settlement to 1721.

Smith, Samuel Francis. Ms., 1808-1895. A Baptist clergyman near Boston, who wrote much religious verse, but will probably be longest remembered for the familiar “My Country, ’tis of thee.” He published, for juvenile readers and others, Knights and Sea Kings; Mythology and Early Greek History; Noble Workers; Poor Boys who Became Great; Rambles in Mission Fields. Lo.

Smith, Samuel Stanhope. Pa., 1750-1819. A Presbyterian divine, president of Princeton College, 1794-1812. Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion; Moral and Political Philosophy; Sermons; Comprehensive View of Natural and Revealed Religion; On the Variety of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species, which was much noticed in its day.

Smith, Mrs. Sarah Louisa [Hickman]. Mch., 1811-1832. A Cincinnati verse-writer whose Poems appeared in 1829.

Smith, Seba. “Jack Downing.” Me., 1792-1868. A journalist of Portland, Maine, and, after 1842, of New York city, very popular as a humourist in the earlier part of his career. The Letters of Major Jack Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry; Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of the Senate; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century.

Smith, Sebastian Bach. G., 1845-1895. A Roman Catholic clergyman at Paterson, New Jersey. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law; New Procedure in Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of Ecclesiastics in the United States.

Smith, Solomon Franklin. N. Y., 1801-1869. A once popular low comedian who left the stage in 1853, and was afterward a noted lawyer of St. Louis. Theatrical Apprenticeship; Theatrical Journey Work; Autobiography (1868). Har.

Smith, Stephen. N. Y., 1823- ——. A New York surgeon, professor of clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York from 1874. Handbook of Surgical Operations; Principles of Operative Surgery.

Smith, Uriah. N. H., 1832-1903. A Seventh Day Adventist writer of Battle Creek, Michigan. Looking Unto Jesus; Here and Hereafter; The Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Destiny of Man; A Word for the Sabbath (verse); The United States in the Light of Prophecy; Daniel and the Revelation, a very popular work, the sale of which has reached 72,000 copies; The Sure Foundation; Scripture Pathways Cleared of Stumbling-Stones.

Smith, William. S., 1721-1803. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who came to America from Scotland in 1751, and in 1754 was made first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. A General Idea of the College of Mirania first brought him to the knowledge of Franklin, who was then laying plans for the university. He was author, also, of Brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; Sermons; Discourses on Public Occasions. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life and Correspondence of H. W. Smith, supra; Fisher’s Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth.

Smith, William. N. Y., 1728-1793. A jurist of New York city who was a loyalist during the Revolution, and in 1786 was appointed chief justice of Canada. History of the Province of New York from its Discovery to 1732. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Smith, William. S., 1754-1821. Nephew of W. Smith, 1st, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, and elsewhere, of some note as an educator in his day. Essays on the Christian Ministry. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Smith, William Andrew. Va., 1802-1870. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia whose Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery are considered the ablest presentation of the pro-slavery side of the question.

Smith, William Farrar. Vt., 1824-1903. A brevet major-general in the United States army who resigned in 1867. From Chattanooga to Petersburg under Generals Grant and Butler. Hou.

Smith, William Henry. O., 1833-1896. A journalist of Cincinnati, subsequently collector of Chicago. The St. Clair Papers; Political History of the United States.

Smith, William Loughton. S. C., 1758-1812. A diplomatist who was minister to Portugal (1797-1800) and to Spain (1800-01), and an active Federalist politician. Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions of the States; American Arguments for British Rights.

Smith, William L—— G——. Vt., 1814- ——. Uncle Tom’s Cabin as It Is.

Smith, William Rudolph. Pa., 1787-1868. A Wisconsin lawyer, author of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; History of Wisconsin.

Smith, William Russell. Al., 1813-1896. A lawyer of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who was a congressman prior to the Civil War, and during that period sat in the Confederate congress. The Alabama Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; Condensed Alabama Reports.

Smith, Worthington. Ms., 1795-1856. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans, 1823-1849, and president of the University of Vermont, 1849-56. His Select Sermons were much read. See Memoir by Torrey, 1861.

Smith, Zachariah Frederick. Ky., 1827- ——. An educator who was superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years and author of a History of Kentucky.

Smock, John Conover. N. J., 1842- ——. A geologist, assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885. Report on Clay Deposits; On Building-Stones in New York.

Smyth, Albert Henry. Pa., 1863- ——. An educator of Philadelphia, professor of English at the Central High School from 1886. Life of Bayard Taylor. Hou.

Smyth, Egbert Coffin. Me., 1829-1904. Son of W. Smyth, infra. A Congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover Seminary from 1863. The Value of the Study of Church History in Ministerial Education; translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism (with W. Ropes).

Smyth, Herbert Weir. Del., 1857- ——. A professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr College from 1888. Der Diphthong EI in Griech; Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects. Mac.

Smyth, Julian Kennedy. N. Y., 1856- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston. Footprints of the Saviour; Holy Names as Interpretations of the Story of the Manger and the Cross. Rob.

Smyth, [Samuel] Newman [Phillips]. Me., 1843- ——. Son of W. Smyth, infra. A Congregational clergyman of prominence and of liberal theology, pastor of the First Church at New Haven from 1882. Old Faiths in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious Feeling; The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; the Reality of Faith. Cas. Scr.

Smyth, Thomas. I., 1808-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston, pastor of the Second Church, 1832-73, and very active as a controversialist, among whose many writings are, Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?; Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and his Enemies; Ecclesiastical Republicanism.

Smyth, William. Me., 1797-1868. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College from 1825. Elements of Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus; Lectures on Modern History.

Snead, Thomas Lowndes. Va., 1828-1890. A St. Louis lawyer who served in the Confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his profession in New York city. The Fight for Missouri in 1861. Scr.

Snelling, Henry Hunt. N. Y., 1817- ——. Brother of W. J. Snelling, infra. A writer living at Cornwall, New York, from 1871. History and Practice of Photography; Dictionary of the Photographic Art.

Snelling, William Joseph. Ms., 1804-1848. A journalist of Boston. The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical Poem; Six Months in a House of Correction.

Snethen, Nicholas. L. I., 1769-1845. A Methodist itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the Methodist Protestant denomination. Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; Lectures on Biblical Subjects. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Snider, Denton Jaques. O., 1841- ——. A literary lecturer of St. Louis. System of Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in Hellas; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon’s Daughter, a classic romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe’s Faust: a Commentary; The Shakespearean Drama.

Snively, William Andrew. Pa., 1833-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville. Family Prayers for the Christian Year; Testimonies to the Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book; Æsthetics in Worship; The Oberammergau Passion Play. Wh.

Snow, Caleb Hopkins. Ms., 1796-1835. A Boston physician who published A History of Boston; Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns.

Snow, Marshall Solomon. Ms., 1842- ——. A professor of history in Washington University, author of The City Government of St. Louis. J. H. U.

Snowden, James Ross. Pa., 1810-1878. A numismatist who was director of the mint, 1856-61. The Mint at Philadelphia; The Mint Manual of Coins; The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms; Medals; The Cornplanter Memorial. Lip.

Soley, James Russell. Ms., 1850- ——. An educator, professor at the Naval Academy, 1871-82, and lecturer on international law at Newport Naval College from 1885. The Rescue of Greeley (with W. Schley, supra); Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and the Cruisers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the Naval Academy; The Sailor Boys of ’61. Est. Scr.

Somerville, William Clarke. Md., 1790-1826. A writer who was appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and was buried at the Marquis Lafayette’s home at Lagrange. Letters from Paris on the Causes of the French Revolution.

Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides. Gr., 1807-1883. A Greek scholar of distinction, professor at Harvard University, 1849-83. His chief work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods; and among his other publications are, Greek Grammar for Learners; History of the Greek Alphabet. Scr.

Sotheran, Charles. E., 1847-1902. An English bibliographer who came to America in 1874, and, settling in New York city, engaged in journalism. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor or Martyr; Shelley as Philosopher and Reformer.

Soule [soo´lay], Mrs. Caroline Augusta [White]. N. Y., 1824-1904. The widow of a Universalist minister who entered the ministry herself, was the first foreign missionary of that denomination, and in 1888 was in charge of a congregation in Glasgow, Scotland. House Life; The Pet of the Settlement; Wine or Water.

Soule [sole], Richard. Ms., 1812-1877. A lexicographer of Boston. Manual of English Pronunciation (with W. H. Wheeler, infra); Dictionary of English Synonyms; Pronouncing Handbook (with L. Campbell). Le.

Southgate, Horatio. Me., 1812-1894. The first and only Protestant Episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in 1844, but resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships subsequently, including that of Zion Church, New York city, 1859-72, in which latter year he retired from active duties. The Cross Above the Crescent; Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.; The War in the East; Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent.

Southworth, Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza [Nevitte]. D. C., 1819-1899. A voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of Southern life and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of Washington, but from 1876 of Yonkers, New York. The literary merit of her works is very slender. They were in nearly every case first issued serially in The New York Ledger, and have been very popular amongst uncritical readers. Among them are, Ishmael; The Widow’s Son; Retribution; The Family Doom. See Hart’s American Literature.

Spaeth [spāt], Adolph. Wg., 1839- ——. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John’s Church from 1867. Die Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des Herrn Tische; Saarkörner; Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe the Deaconess; Liederlust; Faith and Life Represented by Luther; Annotations on the Gospel according to St. John.

Spahr, Charles Barzillai. O., 1860-1904. A political economist, associate editor of The Outlook from 1886. The Distribution of American Wealth. Cr.

Spalding, John Franklin. Me., 1828-1902. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Colorado. The Threefold Ministry; Manual of Prayers; The Church and its Apostolic Ministry.

Spalding, John Lancaster. Ky., 1840- ——. Nephew of M. J. Spalding, infra. The Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, and widely known as a thoughtful essayist and educator. Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People and Catholic Colonization; Lectures and Discourses; America, and Other Poems; The Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; Songs, chiefly from the German. Mg.

Spalding, Lyman. N. H., 1775-1821. A physician at Portsmouth, in his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who was one of the early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever; Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods.

Spalding, Martin John. Ky., 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review of D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky; Miscellanea. See Life by J. L. Spalding, supra; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr]. Me., 18— - ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of average verse. The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. Rob.

Sparhawk, Frances Campbell. Me., 1847- ——. A novelist and philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in behalf of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely. Le. Lo.

Sparks, Jared. Ct., 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard University, 1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53. He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part the author. It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes and life of each; and also Correspondence of the American Revolution. His editing has been sometimes criticised because he occasionally toned down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected the spelling of his subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects have been generally recognized. See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G. E. Ellis, supra, 1869; Herbert Adams, supra. Har.

Sparks, William Henry. Ga., 1800-1882. A Mississippi planter, after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories of Fifty Years. He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems being, Somebody’s Darling; The Dying Year.

Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry. N. Y., 1809-1897. A banker of Buffalo, author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great Rebellion.

Spaulding, Henry George. Ms., 1837- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.

Spaulding, Solomon. Ct., 1761-1816. A Congregational clergyman of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was subsequently an iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a romance called The Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes asserted to be the basis of the Mormon Bible. See Patterson’s, Who Wrote the Mormon Bible? 1882.

Spear, Charles. Ms., 1801-1863. A Universalist minister of Boston active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from Prison.

Spear, Samuel Thayer. N. Y., 1812-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871. Family Power; Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; The Bible Heaven. Fu.

Spears, John Randolph. O., 1850- ——. A journalist of New York city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea. Mac. Put.

Speed, John Gilmer. Ky., 1853- ——. A journalist of New York city. Life of Keats.

Speer, William. Pa., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; God’s Rule for Christian Giving.

Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa. E., 1840-1867. A novelist who was the first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.

Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips]. N. Y., 1825- ——. A North Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina; History of North Carolina.

Spencer, Ichabod Smith. Vt., 1798-1854. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.

Spencer, Jesse Ames. N. Y., 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic Truth; Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. Wh.

Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews]. N. Y., 1837- ——. A prominent woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian Business College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the English Language.

Spencer, Thomas. Ms., 1793-1857. A physician who was medical professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital Chemistry; Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. See Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858.

Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez]. Fl., 18— - ——. A writer who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. Cas.

Spitzka, Edward Charles. N. Y., 1852- ——. A physician of New York city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand. N. H., 1825- ——. The librarian of Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts. Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical Characters.

Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott]. Me., 1835- ——. A novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both prose and verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking luxuriance of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark’s, a story for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown, supra, and L. Guiney, supra); The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and Other Poems. See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1882. Cop. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Rob. Scr.

Spooner, Lysander. Ms., 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston prominent as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive Slaves; Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty: Causes and Cure.

Spooner, Shearjashub. Vt., 1809-1859. A dentist of New York city. Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.

Sprague, Alfred White. Sh., 1821- ——. A Boston chemist who published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.

Sprague, Charles. Ms., 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe Bank, Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer, and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841, the latest edition being that of 1876. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Sprague, Charles Ezra. N. Y., 1842- ——. The secretary of the Dime Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical Symbolism; Handbook of Volapük.

Sprague, John Titcomb. Ms., 1810-1888. An officer of the United States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865. Origin, etc., of the Florida War (1848).

Sprague, Mary Aplin. O., 1849- ——. A novelist of Newark, Ohio. An Earnest Trifler. Hou.

Sprague, Peleg. Ms., 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of Boston. Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases.

Sprague, William Buell. Ct., 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr Griffin, supra; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse, supra; Aids to Early Religion.

Sprecher, Samuel. Md., 1810- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.

Spring, Gardiner. Ms., 1785-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick Church, 1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit Ministrations; Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The Mercy Seat, comprise his chief works. See Personal Reminiscences of. C. P. S.

Spring, Leverett Wilson. Vt., 1840- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher. Hou.

Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter]. Ind., 1832- ——. The wife of an Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two novels, Beechwood; Self.

Sproull [sprowl], Thomas. Pa., 1803-1892. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.

Squier [skwīr], Ephraim George. N. Y., 1821-1888. An archæologist and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and consul-general of Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis, supra); Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; Peru. Ho.

Squier, Miles Powell. Vt., 1792-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God; Reason and the Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.

Staley, Cady. N. Y., 1840- ——. A civil engineer, president of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and author of The Separate System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).

Stall, Sylvanus. N. Y., 1847- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. Fu.

Stallo, John Bernhard. G., 1823-1900. A Cincinnati lawyer, minister to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics; General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. Ap.

Stanley, Anthony Dumond. Ct., 1810-1853. An educator who was a professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, originally John Rowlands. W., 1841-1904. A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. See Stanley and Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore, 1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo; Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column. Har.

Stansbury, Howard. N. Y., 1806-1863. An explorer who was a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). Lip.

Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady]. N. Y., 1815-1902. Wife of H. B. Stanton, infra. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer who devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms, and (with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman Suffrage Movement.

Stanton, Frank Lebby. Ga., 1858- ——. A journalist and popular verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. Ap.

Stanton, Henry Brewster. Ct., 1805-1887. A journalist and reformer of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; Random Recollections. Har.

Stanton, Henry Thompson. Va., 1834-1898. Son of R. H. Stanton, infra. An officer in the United States army and an Indian commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. Clke.

Stanton, Richard Henry. Va., 1812-1891. A jurist of Kentucky. Code of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical Treatise for Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.

Stanton, Robert Livingstone. Ct., 1810-1885. Brother of H. B. Stanton, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The Church and the Rebellion.

Stanton, Theodore. N. Y., 1851- ——. Son of H. B. and E. Stanton, supra. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question in Europe. Put.

Stanwood, Edward. Me., 1841- ——. A Boston journalist, managing editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential Elections; History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. Hou.

Starr, Eliza Allen. Ms., 1824-1901. An art lecturer in Chicago. Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.

Starr, Frederic Ratchford. N. S., 1821-1889. A noted dairy farmer of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not?; What Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.