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versity of Pennsylvania from IS")!) until his death. 

 He received from this institution in 1879 the hon- 

 orary degree of I). !>.. and that of LL. D. from 

 Thiel College, Greenville. Pa., in 1887. lie wa- 

 of the leaders of the conservative and confessional 

 party in the Church. He was an authority on 

 American Lutheran history, and was a frequent 

 contributor to the Church papers and theological 

 reviews. He \va> for several years co-editor of the 

 "Lutheran Home Journal" and the "Lutheran 

 and Mi>sionary." Philadelphia: editor in chief of 

 "The Foreign Missionary" from 1879 until his 

 death: and one of the editors of the "Lutheran 

 Church Review," 1886-'96. He published "Mann's 

 Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism.'' trans- 

 lated from the German (Philadelphia, 1855) ; "Early 

 History of the Lutheran Church in America" (Phil- 

 adelphia. 1857) ; " Golden Treasury for the Children 

 of God," translated from the German (1860) ; " Fam- 

 ily Prayer for Morning and Evening and the Festi- 

 vals of the Church Year " ; " Halle Reports.'' trans- 

 lated from the German (Reading, 1882) ; and 

 " Church Book for the Use of Evangelical Luther- 

 an Congregations " (Philadelphia, 1891). He trans- 

 lated numerous hymns, and wrote several original 

 ones. 



Sfhiiyler, Montgomery, clergyman, born in 

 New York city, Jan. 9, 1814; died in St. Louis, 

 Me.. March 19, 1896. He was graduated at Union 

 College in 1834, and began studying law. This he 

 soon gave up for mercantile business, and after 

 spending four years in that line he entered the 

 ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 

 1841-'44 he was rector of Trinity Church, Marshall, 

 Mich.; in 1845-'54. of St. John's Church, Buffalo, 

 X. Y. : and since 1854 had been at Christ Church, 

 St. Louis, Mo., first as rector and, after it was made 

 the cathedral, as dean, lie received the degree of 

 D. D. from Hobart College in 1856. Dr. Schuyler 

 President of the Standing Committee of the 

 Diocese of Missouri from 1858, president of the 

 conventions that elected the second and third bishops 

 of Missouri, and a frequent delegate to the General 

 Conventions of his Church. In 1891 the jubilee of 

 his ordination was celebrated by the Episcopalians 

 of St. Louis, and the Schnyler Memorial House, an 

 adjunct of the cathedral, was founded. Among his 

 publications are: "The Church: Its Ministry ami 

 Worship " (Buffalo. 1853) : " The Pioneer Church " 

 (Boston, 1867): and ' Historical Discourse of Christ 

 Church. St. Louis" (St. Louis. 1870). 



Scott. John, lawyer. born in Alexandria. Hunting- 

 don County. Pa.. July 14. 1824 : died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa.. Nov. 2!>. 1896. 'He received a common-school 

 education ; was admitted to the bar in 1840 : was 

 prosecuting attorney of the county in 1846-'4!l : 

 was elected to the State Legislature in 1862 : and 

 was elected to the United States Senate as a Repub- 

 lican, serving from March 4, 1869, till March 4, 

 l v ?.~>. Early in his legal career he became resident 

 counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in 

 Cambria County. Pennsylvania, and having won a 

 most important case for the company he was en- 

 gaged as special counsel for a much wider district. 

 In 1877 he took charge of the legal department of 

 the company, and from that time till his resigna- 

 tion, about a year before his death, he was its gen- 

 eral solicitor. 



Sexton. Samuel, otologist, born in Xenia. Ohio, 

 in 1833 : died in Xew York city. July 11. 1896. He 

 was graduated in medicine at the L'niversity of 

 Louisville (Ivy.) in 1856: served as a surgeon in the 

 National army in the first year of the civil war ; 

 removed to Xew York city in 1869 : and won repu- 

 tation as an authority on diseases of the ear. In 

 1877 he became chief surgeon of the West Side Eye 

 and Ear Infirmary, and subsequently was lecturer 



at the Xew York Eye and Far Infirmary. During 

 his long practice he made careful clinical in.' 

 over 60,000 cases which he had examined or treated, 

 and these formed the basis of his numerous publi- 

 cations. At the annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Otologists, of which lie was then vice- 

 president, in 1886, he called attention to his opera- 

 tion for the permanent cure of catarrh by excision 

 of the drumhead and ossicles. This operation and 

 .report attracted wide attention, and because of it 

 he was invited to read a paper on the operation be- 

 fore the International Medical Congress at Berlin in 

 1890, and to perform the operation before a body of 

 English specialists in London in 1892. Dr. Sexton 

 devised special instruments for his operations, and 

 invented the electric lantern for observations of 

 the ear. His principal publication was "The Far 

 and its Diseases " (Xew York, 1888). A paper on 

 " Causes of Deafness among Public-school Chil- 

 dren " (1882) was widely circulated by the United 

 States Bureau of Education, and an article in the 

 "Medical Record" (Feb. 19, 1887). on "Injury to 

 the Ear caused by the Blast of a Bursting Shell," 

 was exceptionally interesting. 



Seymour, Edward Coe. educator, born in Xew 

 Hartford. N. Y.. May 4. 1828: died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Sept. 17. 1896. He was graduated at the 

 State Normal School in 1849, and subsequently was 

 principal of Hobart Hall Academy. Oneida County, 

 X*. Y., and of a grammar school in Brooklyn. In 

 1*55, on the organization of the Polytechnic In- 

 stitute, of Brooklyn, he was appointed principal of 

 the academic department, and he held the place till 

 his death. He received the degree of Ph. D. in 

 1891. 



Shaw. Elijah, manufacturer, born in Wales, 

 Hampden County. Mass.. May 29,1819: died there 

 Jan. 28, 1896. He received a limited education, 

 and when a mere lad began to work in his fathers 

 blacksmith shop. Subsequently he engaged in the 

 manufacture of shoes till 1848. when he and a 

 brother bought a controlling interest in a small 

 woolen mill in Wales. His success led him to buy 

 another mill, and during his life he built and re- 

 built five mills in that town. He remained in the 

 woolen industry till his death. After the close of 

 the civil war he was instrumental in founding Shaw 

 University in Raleigh. X'. C. now one of the fore- 

 most institutions for the education of the colored 

 race in the United States. In 1*74 he built the 

 Wales Baptist Church at a cost of $20,000. and pre- 

 sented it to the congregation. Mr. Shaw was in 

 other ways a liberal promoter of religious and edu- 

 cational intere- 



Shellabanrer. Samuel, lawyer, born in Clark 

 County, Ohio, Dec. 10. 1817: died in Washington, 

 D. C.. Aug. 6. 1896. He was graduated at Miami 

 University in 1842: was admitted to the bar in 

 1*47; was a member of the first Legislature of 

 Ohio under the present Constitution; and was 

 elected to Congress as a Republican in 1860. 1864, 

 1866, and 1*70. While a member of Congress he 

 attended the special session called by President 

 Lincoln on July 4. 1861. and served on the Com- 

 mittees on Commerce. Civil Service, and several 

 special ones. Between his third and fourth terms 

 he was United States minister to Portugal, and 

 after his last term lie was appointed a civil-service 

 commissioner. He had since practiced law. 



Sheridan. George A., politician, born in Mill- 

 bury. Mn-s.. Feb. 22. 1*40: died in Hampton. Ya., 

 Oct. 8, 1896. He received a public-school educa- 

 tion, and was about to enter Yale College when the 

 civil war broke out, and while visiting" in Chicago 

 he enlisted in the 88th Illinois Infantry as a pri- 

 vate. On the organization of the regiment he was 

 elected a captain. He passed unharmed through 



