726 SAUNDERS, EPHRAIM D. 



SEABURY, SAMUEL. 



of Guatemala and San Salvador for their ser- 

 vices in behalf of Honduras. 



Don Francisco Bogen had begun the forma- 

 tion of a German colony in San Benito, situ- 

 ated at the foot of the volcano San Salvador. 

 The Government gives its protection to the 

 enterprise, and contributes $75 toward the 

 passage of each family from San Francisco to 

 the port of Libertad. The colonists will be 

 exempted from military service for ten years. 

 The colony is to consist of 200 families. The 

 principal pursuit will be the cultivation of the 

 sugar-cane. 



SAUNDERS, Rev. EPHEAIM DOD, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, teacher, and philan- 

 thropist, born October 31, 1809, in Morris 

 County, New Jersey ; died in "West Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., September 13, 1872. He was edu- 

 cated at Yale College, graduating thence with 

 the second honors of his class, in 1831, studied 

 theology (we believe at Princeton), was or- 

 dained to the ministry in the Presbyterian 

 Church, and settled at Goochland C. H., Va., 

 about 1835. He remained in Goochland Coun- 

 ty, where he founded several churches, and 

 was active in educational efforts, for sixteen or 

 seventeen years, when, in consequence of ill- 

 health, he resigned the pastorate, and visited 

 Europe, where he travelled extensively. On 

 his return he was settled for a year or two at 

 Pottstown, Pa. His voice failing him a second 

 time, he gave up the pastoral office, and estab- 

 lished, in 1857 or 1858, at West Philadelphia, 

 a boys' school of the highest grade, under the 

 name of the Saunders Institute. This school 

 was very successful, and he employed in it the 

 ablest teachers he could find, two college pres- 

 idents having been among his instructors. 

 Among others who taught there was his son, 

 Courtland Saunders, a young man of rare ge- 

 nius and remarkable scholarship, whose little 

 work on the "Paradigms of Latin Verbs," 

 written before he was twenty years of age, 

 was a monument of careful and extended re- 

 search. He was the only child of Dr. Saun- 

 ders, most dearly cherished ; yet, in his ardent 

 patriotism, he said, at the commencement of 

 the late civil war, to this beloved son, " One 

 of us must give himself and, if need be, his life 

 to our country's service." The father earnest- 

 ly desired to go ; but the son claimed the 

 privilege, enlisted as a captain in the Corn Ex- 

 change Regiment, fought bravely, and fell at 

 Antietam. Meantime, the father was indefati- 

 gable in his efforts to raise volunteers and 

 money for bounties, and received the thanks 

 of the city for his patriotic labors. He also 

 established a drill-class in his institute, and 

 trained many young men who went out as 

 officers in the Union service. He was active 

 in all educational enterprises, being a trustee 

 of Lincoln University, and connected with 

 other colleges and seminaries in the region 

 around Philadelphia. But from the time of 

 the death of his gallant son he had felt it his 

 duty to rear some memorial of him, which 



should be a lasting honor to him and blessing 

 to the community. In 18fO he gave up his 

 school, and soon after, with the full and cor- 

 dial consent of his wife, gave the large build- 

 ing and extensive grounds of the institute to 

 found a memorial hospital, to be called the 

 Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia. He 

 further offered to raise by personal effort and 

 solicitation $100,000 toward the erection of 

 hospital buildings, and had accomplished this 

 before his death. The late John A. Brown, a 

 retired banker of Philadelphia, gave $300,000 

 toward its endowment, so that the hospital 

 will start with about half a million dollars, Dr. 

 Saunders's own gift being about $100,000. His 

 learning, his skill and success as a teacher, and 

 his philanthropic spirit, caused his loss to be 

 deeply felt in Philadelphia. 



SCRANTON, JOSEPH H., an eminent citi- 

 zen, and one of the founders of the city of 

 Scranton, Pa. ; born at Madison, New Haven 

 County, Conn., June 27, 1813 ; died at Baden- 

 Baden, Germany, June 6, 1872. He began 

 his business-life as a clerk for a house in New 

 Haven, but subsequently removed to Augusta, 

 Ga., and entered into business for himself. In 

 1847 he made the Lackawanna Valley his per- 

 manent home, and in connection with some 

 family relatives, and a few other energetic 

 men, began to develop the resources of that 



ortion of Luzerne County, then almost a wil- 

 erness, consisting of one or two farm-houses, 

 and a country tavern by the border of a 

 stream, while surrounding these were the 

 bleak and sterile mountains. After unremit- 

 ting effort in spite of delays and repeated fail- 

 ures, he succeeded in enlisting the cooperation 

 of some capitalists, through whom he raised 

 the sum of thirty thousand dollars and formed 

 a partnership in the enterprise 6*f bringing out 

 the wealth that lay latent beneath the sur- 

 rounding hills. In June, 1853, this firm was 

 merged into the LackawannaiJron and Coal 

 Company, with which he was identified until 

 the time of his death. Iron-works were con- 

 structed, railroads built, and difficulties sur- 

 mounted, which would have intimidated a man 

 with less perseverance and executive ability, 

 and, as a result, we find, in the short period of 

 twenty-five years, a city of nearly fifty thou- 

 sand inhabitants, and which is the focus of 

 one hundred and fifty millions of capital in- 

 vested in railroads and other improvements. 

 For twenty years he was successively manager, 

 superintendent, and president of the above 

 company, and was also president and director 

 of several railroads and banking corporations. 

 For some months previous to his death, Mr. 

 Scranton had been travelling in Europe, in the 

 vain hope of recovering his health. 



SEABURY, Rev. SAMUEL, D.D., an Episco- 

 pal clergyman, professor, and author, born in 

 Hartford, Conn., in 1801 ; died at the General 

 Theological Seminary of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, in New York City, October 10, 

 1872. He was a grandson of Samuel Seabury, 



