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Schuyler, Eugene, diplomat, born in Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Feb. 26, 1840 ; died in Cairo, Egypt, July 18, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Yale College in 1859 and at the 

 Law School of Columbia College in 1863, and was en- 

 gaged in practice till 1866. He was United States con- 

 sul at Moscow in 1866-'69, and at Reval, on the Gulf 

 of Finland, in!869-'70; secretary of the United States 

 legation at St. Petersburg in 1870-' 73 ; consul-general 

 at Constantinople, 1876-'78: consul at Birmingham 

 England, in 1878-'79 ; consul-general at Rome, Italy 

 1879-'80 ; charge d'affaires and consul-general at 

 Bucharest in 1880-'82; minister-resident and consul- 

 general to Greece, Servia, and Roumania in 1882-'84; 

 and consul-general at Cairo from 1889 till his death. 

 He made a remarkable tour through Turkestan, Kho- 

 kan. and Bokhara, officially investigated the Turkish 

 massacres in Bulgaria, and was authorized to conclude 

 and sign the commercial treaties with Servia and Rou- 

 mania. On his return to the United States in 1884, 

 he engaged in literary work, and published numerous 

 magazine articles, edited several translations, and 

 wrote " Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia " (2 vols:, 

 1884). Other notable publications were " Turkestan : 

 Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkestan, Khokand, 

 Bokhara, and Kuldja," and " American Diplomacy 

 and the Futherance of Commerce." President Har- 

 rison nominated him for Assistant Secretary of State, 

 Marches, 1889, but the nomination was withdrawn 

 for political reasons. 



Schuyler, George Lee, yachtsman, born in Rhinebeck, 

 N. Y., June 9, 1811; died off New London, Conn. 

 July 31, 1890. He was educated at Columbia College, 

 became interested with John C. and Edwin A. Ste- 

 vens, the Astors, and other capitalists in the original 

 transportation movements by land and water about 

 New York city, and aided in developing the water 

 traffic of Hudson rivers and Long Island sound, be- 

 sides several railroad systems. But he was most 

 widely known because of his promotion of yachting 

 interests. He was a founder of the New York Yacht 

 Club in 1844, and remained a member till his death. 

 In 1851, in association Avith John C. Stevens, EdAvin 

 A. Stevens, Hamilton Wilkes, and J. Beekman Fin- 

 ley, he bought an elegant silver trophy cup, which 

 was offered as a prize for a contest between a yacht of 

 the New York Club and one of the Royal Yacht Club 

 of Great Britain, and was a part owner of the schooner- 

 yacht " America " that won the cup that year. After 

 this race the owners of the " America's " cup, present- 

 ed it to the New York Yacht Club, to be held forever 

 by that club, subject to the challenge of any organ- 

 ized yacht club 'of any foreign country. After de- 

 fending it in several remarkable contests, the club 

 still holds the cup. He was referee in the contest 

 between the English "Thistle" and the American 

 "Volunteer" in 1887. He was found dead in the 

 cabin of the flagship " Electra " during the annual 

 cruise of the Yacht Club. Mr. Schuyler published 

 " Correspondence and Remarks upon Bancroft's His- 

 tory of the Northern Campaign in 1777," and " The 

 Character of Maj.-Gen. Philip Schuyler." 



Scotti, John, inventor, born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 

 1819 ; died in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 2, 1890. He re- 

 moved to Baltimore when a child, learned the ma- 

 chinist's trade in the machine shops of the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad Company, and remained in the 

 service of the company till 1886, when it retired him, 

 He was one of the oldest locomotive engineers in the 

 country, the inventor of the locomotive cab and the 

 locomotive copper-wire joint, and the first engineer to 

 blow the locomotive steam whistle in 1838. Mr. Scotti 

 also gave valuable aid to Prof. Morse in the erection 

 and operation of the trial telegraph line, and distrib- 

 uted for him all the apparatus'uscd in that work. 



Shaw, Benjamin Franklin, inventor, born in Mon- 

 mouth, Me., in 1832; died in Lowell, Mass.. Dec. 11, 

 1890. From 1853 till 1865 he was engaged in literary 

 work in Philadelphia. He then sought restoration of 

 health in the cattle business in Leavenworth, Kan., 

 and, after removing to Lowell, invented and made the 

 first loom for the manufacture of seamless stockings 



similar one, and built a factory in Leicester, England 

 and in the latter year invented a woveu-hose machine' 

 He had a large estate on the Ossipee range in New 

 Hampshire, and because of his costly improvements 

 there the people named Shaw mountain for him 



Shaw, James Boylan, clergyman, born in New York 

 city, Aug. 25, 1808; died in Rochester. N. Y., May 

 8, 1890. He was prepared for Yale College, but did 

 not enter, began studying medicine, arid soon after- 

 ward abandoned it for law, which he studied with 

 ihomas Addis Emmet. But as he was about being 

 admitted to the bar he determined to fit himself for 

 the ministry. He was licensed to preach in 1832, and 

 was ordained by the Presbytery of Genesee, and in- 

 stalled pastor of the church in Utica, N. Y., in 1834 

 On Feb. 16, 1841, he was installed pastor of the Brick 

 Church in Rochester, N. Y., and served as such with 

 great success for more than forty years, when he was 

 made pastor emeritus. He was a member of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly in 1837, and of the famous joint com- 

 mittee on the reunion of the two branches of the Pres- 

 byterian Church ; was moderator of the General As- 

 sembly in 1865, and was again a member of it in 1883. 

 In 1852 he received the degree of S. T. D. from the 

 University of Rochester, in 1862 he was elected a cor- 

 porate member of the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, in 1873 he was chairman 

 of the first committee sent by the Presbyterian Church 

 of the United States to the Established Church of 

 Scotland ; and at various times he was a trustee of 

 Genesee and Hamilton colleges and of Auburn Theo- 

 logical Seminary. Dr. Shaw had the highest personal 

 qualities of a pastor, and was held in affectionate esteem 

 far beyond the limits of his own denomination. 



Sherwood, James Manning, clergyman, born in Fish- 

 kill, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1814; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 Oct. 22, 1890. He was brought up on a farm, was ed- 

 ucated by private tutors, studied theology, and was 

 ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church at New 

 Windsor, N. Y., in 1835. He held this charge till 

 1840 ; was-made pastor at Mendon in 1840-'45, and at 

 Bloomfield, N. J., in 1852-'58; and then removed to 

 New York city and engaged in religious journalism. 

 He was for more than forty years a voluminous writer 

 as editor of the "National Preacher" and "Biblical 

 Repository," (New York, 1846-'51); " Eclectic Mag- 

 azine" (1864-'71); "Hours at Home" (1865-'69); 

 "Presbyterian Review " (1863-'71) ; "Presbyterian 

 Quarterly and Princeton Review" (1877-'78); and 

 the " Homiletic Review " (from 1863 till his death). 

 He published " Plea for the Old Foundations " (New 

 York 1856), " The Lamb in the Midst of the Throne, 

 or, the History of the Cross" (1883), and " Books 

 and Authors, and how to use them" (1886); and 

 edited the " Memoirs " and "Sermons "of Ichabod 

 Spencer, D. D. (1885), and Brainard's " Memoirs " 

 with notes (1884). 



Shillaber, Benjamim Penhallow, author, born in Ports- 

 mouth, N. H., July 12, 1814; died in Chelsea, Mass., 

 Nov. 25, 1890. He was educated at Exeter Academy, 

 learned the printer's t/ade in Dover, N. H., followed 

 it in Boston for five years, and in Demerara, Guiana, 

 for three, and in 1840 returned to Boston and became 

 connected editorially with the " Post." About 1847 he 

 began writing a series of humorous articles concerning 

 the sayings and doings of Mrs. Partington, and sub- 

 sequently he portrayed the fancies and tribulations of 

 her nephew, Ike Partington. The sound and philo- 

 sophic thought, the purity of intent, and the whole- 

 some, elevating tone that underlay his quaint and 

 witty expressions gave the " Partington" papers Avide 

 fame. In 1850 he left the Boston "Post," and, with 

 Charles G. Halpine ("Miles O'Reilley"), edited 

 " The Carpet- Bag," a humorous publication, which 

 at the close of two years " survived all th means for 

 its support." He then resumed his place on the 

 " Post" till 1856, when he became editor of the " Sat- 

 urday Evening Gazette," with which he remained ten 

 years. In 1866 he retired to his home in Chelsea, 



