OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



to the entire satisfaction of the people and Gov- 

 ernment. In 1853 President Pierce appointed 

 him Surveyor-General of New Mexico. It is 

 worthy of note that this appointment was urged 

 by all the Senators, Whig and Democratic, from 

 the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, 

 and Texas. New Mexico had then been re- 

 cently acquired by the Government. To the 

 ordinary duties of the surveyorship was added 

 the delicate task of adjudicating private land- 

 claims. Their adjustment in a manner just at 

 once to the Government and the claimants was 

 a severe test of character. Distrustful as the 

 Mexicans were of American tribunals, they 

 never once impugned his integrity. He was re- 

 appointed to his office by President Buchanan. 

 Shortly before the outbreak of the war he re- 

 signed it, and returned to his home in one of the 

 loveliest valleys of Texas. His only son was 

 killed on the field of battle. 



PIERCE, Dr. LOVICK, born in Halifax County, 

 North Carolina, March 17, 1785, died at Sparta, 

 Georgia, November 9th. In 1804 he entered 

 the Methodist ministry. He afterward stud- 

 ied medicine in Philadelphia and practiced for 

 a time, but soon returned to the pulpit. Dr. 

 Pierce was chaplain in the army in the war of 

 1812. He was a delegate to the General Con- 

 ference of 1836, 1840, and 1844, and after the or- 

 ganization of the Southern Church, in 1846, sat 

 regularly in its highest court. He took part in 

 the proceedings of the Louisville Conference of 

 May, 1874, where he had a son and a grandson, 

 three generations being thus represented in the 

 same body. The son referred to, George Foster 

 Pierce, had then been a bishop twenty years. 

 Dr. Pierce, notwithstanding his advanced age, 

 continued to preach occasionally up to within 

 a few months of his death. In the previous 

 year he published a series of theological essays 

 in one of the Methodist periodicals, showing 

 that his intellectual vigor and his interest in the 

 Church were undiminished. On the occasion 

 of his ninety-third birthday, in 1877, he held 

 a family reunion, when it was made known 

 that he had seventy-two descendants. 



SOHLEICHER, Hon. GUSTAVE, born in Darm- 

 stadt, Germany, November 19, 1823, died in 

 Washington, D. C., January llth. He was 

 educated in the University of Giesson, became 

 a civil engineer, and was employed in the con- 

 struction of various European railroads. In 

 1847 he emigrated to Texas, and in 1850 settled 

 in San Antonio. He was elected to the State 

 Legislature in 1853, and was State Senator in 

 1855 and 1856. He was elected to Congress in 

 1874, and reelected by large majorities in 1876 

 and 1878. Ho was a man of splendid physique, 

 weighing 425 pounds. The doors of the House 

 of Representatives had to be taken from the 

 hinges to permit his coffin to be carried into the 

 hall. He was one of the ablest opponents of 

 paper money. 



SORIBNER, JOHN BLAIR, died in New York, 

 January 22d. He was the eldest son of the 

 iate Charles Scribner, and was named after his 



grandfather, John I. Blair, a wealthy contrac- 

 tor in New Jersey. He entered Princeton Col- 

 lege, but was not graduated, as he preferred to 

 leave college to assist his father in business. 

 When the latter died, Mr. Scribner became a 

 partner in the new publishing house of Scrib- 

 ner, Armstrong & Co., which was merged in 

 the firm of Charles Scribner's Sons on the death 

 of Edward Seymour and the withdrawal of Mr. 

 Armstrong. He was thoroughly familiar with 

 his business, ambitious and industrious, and was 

 highly esteemed by his associates. 



SEVIER, ROBERT, born in Greenville, Tennes- 

 see, October 30, 1807, died in Richmond, Missou- 

 ri, May 16th. He entered West Point Military 

 Academy in 1824, was a classmate of Jefferson 

 Davis and a schoolmate of Robert E. Lee and 

 Albert Sidney Johnston, and graduated with the 

 highest honors of the institution. During the 

 Florida Indian war he was in active service, and 

 afterward on the Texas frontier. He resigned 

 his commission in October, 1837, removed to 

 Ray County, Missouri, in 1840, and was ap- 

 pointed Clerk of the Circuit Court in 1845. 

 This position he continued to hold by election 

 for twenty years, but was removed by the oust- 

 ing ordinance at the commencement of the late 

 war, although a strong Union man. He was a 

 strict Presbyterian. His first wife was a sister 

 of General Sibley, and his second a sister of 

 the late Austin A. King, ex-Governor of Mis- 

 souri. 



SHERMAN, General THOMAS W., died in New- 

 port, Rhode Island, March 16th. He entered 

 the Military Academy in 1832, distinguished 

 himself in the Creek, Florida, and Mexican 

 wars, and was commissioned captain May 28, 

 1846. He also did good service in the Indian 

 troubles in Minnesota and in the Lecompton 

 troubles in Kansas. He was made lieutenant- 

 colonel of the 5th Artillery May 14, 1861; 

 brigadier-general of volunteers May 17, 1861 ; 

 and colonel of the 3d Artillery June 1, 1863. In 

 October, 1861, he commanded an expedition to 

 the Southern coast. He lost a leg at Port 

 Hudson in 1863, being at that time commander 

 of a division under Banks. He was made 

 brevet major-general of the army in 1870, when 

 he retired. 



SHERMAN, Mrs., the wife of General Thomas 

 W. Sherman, died in Newport, Rhode Island, 

 March 12th. She was the daughter of the late 

 Wilson Shannon, formerly Governor of Ohio, 

 and about forty-five years of age. She went 

 with her father to Kansas when he was ap- 

 pointed Governor of that Territory. She there 

 met General Sherman, and was married at 

 Lawrence. A few months previous to her 

 death she had submitted to a painful surgical 

 operation, from which she failed to rally, dying 

 four days before her husband. They leave one 

 son, a youth of sixteen years. She was a very 

 estimable lady. 



SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM B., born in Culpepper 

 County, Virginia, April 10, 1798, died in Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin, July 21st. He was educated 



