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under William Mason, Kullak, and Liszt. He was an organist in Stuttgart and Berlin, and 

 became well-known as a piano soloist in Europe and America, being perhaps the first American 

 who could be ranked as a first-class pianist. His merits as a composer for the piano were 

 recognised in professional circles, and he wrote Music Study and the Mutual Relation oj 

 Interpretation and Technic. For many years he directed the Sherwood Music School in 

 Chicago, where he settled in 1889 as head piano teacher in the Conservatory, and his Uni- 

 versity Extension Course of Music Study and Piano Playing was in many respects a new 

 departure. He gave summer normal courses at Chautauqua. 



James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice-president of the United States after 1909, died at Utica, 

 N. Y., October 30, 1912. He was born on his father's farm near Utica, October 24, 1855, and 

 graduated from Hamilton College in 1878. Admitted to the bar, in 1880, he established a 

 law firm in Utica which continued until 1907. His savings were first invested in a canning 

 factory founded by his father, and the enterprise prospered greatly under his guidance. 

 Although at first he followed his family in its allegiance to the Democratic party, he soon 

 became a Republican. He was mayor of Utica in 1884-85. In the winter of 1887, when 

 only thirty-two years of age, he began a career in the House of Representatives which was 

 uninterrupted until 1908 except during the term of the 52nd Congress (1891-93) to which he 

 failed, by a small number of votes, to be elected. In the political campaigns of 1895, 1900, 

 and 1908, he was chairman of the New York Republican State Convention, and in 1906 was 

 chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee. It was in the latter 

 capacity that he appealed to Republicans throughout the country for one-dollar subscrip- 

 tions, and obtained a large sum of money. For many years he was chairman of the Con- 

 gressional committee on Indian affairs he was related to Henry Schoolcraft, the well-known 

 writer on American Indians and it was on this committee that his most important legislative 

 work was done; he also was a member of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. 

 In 1908 he was elected Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Mr. Taft, and 

 he was re-nominated at the Republican National Convention of 1912. He was one of the 

 most expert parliamentarians in Congress in his time. His sympathies were with the con- 

 servative or "stand-pat" wing of the Republican party. 



Albert Keith Smiley, philanthropist, died at Redlands, Cal., December 2, 1912. He was 

 born of Quaker parentage at Vassalboro, Me., March 17, 1828, and graduated at Haverford 

 College, in 1849. Until 1879 he was a teacher, but then began to develop a large tract of 

 land in Ulster Co., N. Y., including the beautiful Lake Mohonk, which he had pur- 

 chased ten years previously. It became a popular summer resort, and Smiley, who was 

 now a member of the board of U.S. Indian Commissioners, arranged at his own expense for 

 a conference each autumn for the discussion of the problems of the Indians and later of other 

 dependent peoples, the Filipinos, Hawaiians, and Porto Ricans. The first of these was held 

 in 1882. Likewise, after 1894, he called an annual spring conference in the interest of inter- 

 national arbitration. In 1889, he and his brother Alfred H. (d. 1903) purchased a large 

 property at Redlands, Cal. In 1898, he presented a public library to Redlands, and he 

 served as trustee for Brown University and Bryn Mawr College. 



Gerrit Smith, composer, professor of music in Union Theological Seminary, New York; 

 City, died July 21, 1912, in Darien, Connecticut. He was a grand-nephew of the abolitionist 

 of the same name, was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, December n, 1859, was educated at 

 Hobart College, where he was chapel organist, studied music in Stuttgart and under Haupt 

 and Rohde, in Berlin, and was successively organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, St. 

 Peter's, Albany, and (1885) Old South Church, New York City, where he gave many organ 

 recitals. He composed songs, notably "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and a cycle 

 Thistledown, and ecclesiastical music, including a cantata King David. 



John Bernhardt Smith, entomologist, died on March 12, 1912. He was born in New 

 York City, November 21, 1858, had a common school education, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1879. In 1884 he became a special agent of the Entomological Division of the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture and in 1889 professor of entomology in Rutgers College and 

 entomologist of the New Jersey Agricultural College experiment station. As state entomolo- 

 gist, after 1898, he was in charge of the extermination of mosquitos in New Jersey. He wrote 

 Economic Entomology (1896) and Our Insect Friends and Enemies (1909). 



Paul Smith, guide and hunter, died in Montreal, December 15, 1912. He was born in 

 Milton, Vermont, August 20, 1825, and in 1852 built a Hunters' Home at Loon Lake in the 

 Adirondacks of New York, whence about 1858 he removed to St. Regis Lake, where he built 

 a hotel and where the whole region came to be known by his name. The development of the 

 Adirondack country was largely due to him. 



John Russell Soley, lawyer and naval historian, died September 10, 1911. He was born 

 in Boston, Mass., October I, 1850 and graduated at Harvard in 1870. He made a specialty 

 of international law, taught at the Naval Academy, was assistant secretary of the navy in 

 1890-93, and wrote a number of books on naval and maritime subjects. Among them are 

 The Blockade of the Cruisers (1883), in a series on the American Civil War, Foreign Systems 

 of Naval Education (1879) and Life of Admiral Porter (1903). 



Julius Stahel, American soldier, died in New York City, December 4, 1912. He was born, 

 November 5, 1825, in Hungary, and was educated in Budapest. After fighting for Hunga- 



