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=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.