UBITUAK1KS, AMERICAN. (Scorr SEYMOUB.) 



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:i- army in onlcr to command an expedition to 



i'iir traces of Sir John Franklin. This cxpedi- 



.:lcd in tin- " Kothen " Irmii New York, ou Juno 



r8, and returned Sept. -j-j, lh*o. The party 



t'liiiiid and luirie.l many skeletons of tho Franklin 



lUeoveri-d various relies <>(' Sir John's rxpcdi 

 .id otherwise cleared up much of tin- mystery 

 that tor many years had surrounded the fate of that 

 tion. Hi- them returned to army duty on the 

 ir till l 1 ^-"., when hi! made an exploring expedi- 

 \laska for thr special purpose of tracing the 

 'HirM- of tho Yukon river. He again returned to 

 frontier duty, and resigned his i-onmiission in tin; 

 army Jan. 31, 1885. In the following year he oom- 

 nian<li-d a spocial expedition to Alaska under tho aus- 

 >!' tho New York " Times," and subsequently 

 inade another voyage to that region tor the purpose of 

 i- x|>l oration, and to attempt the establishment of a 

 luge commercial enterprise among the Aleutian I>- 

 In 1889 ho conducted an expedition to the 

 northern part of Mexico, of which little was known 

 on account of the danger of exploring there in cpnse- 

 |ucn.v of the raids of Apache Indians. He found 

 many interesting relics of Aztec civilization, and 

 made numerous studies and drawings of the cliff and 

 cave dwellers. He received the Roquette Arctic 

 Medal from the Geographical Society or Paris, and a 

 medal from the Imperial Geographical Society of 

 Russia. He published "Along Alaska's Groat River," 

 " The Franklin Search under Lieut. Schwatka," 

 " Nimrod of the North," and "Children of the Cold," 

 and wrote many short stories and sketches, and con- 

 tributed to geographical publications. 



Soott, John Witnerepooi educator, born in Hooks- 

 town, Beaver County, Pa., Jan. 22, 1800 ; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Nov. 29, 1892. He was a son of the 

 Rev. George McElroy Scott, a well-known Presbyte- 

 rian clergyman of his day ; was graduated at Washing- 

 ton University, Washington, Pa., in 1823, took a post- 

 graduate course at Yale, and afterward completed his 

 theological studies privately. In 1825 he was ap- 

 pointed Professor or Mathematics and Natural Sci- 

 ences in Washington College, where he remained 

 four years, resigning to take the similar chair in Mi- 

 ami University, which he occupied for seventeen 

 years. He then removed to College Hill, near Cin- 

 cinnati, where he founded Belmont College, and soon 

 after its establishment he returned to Oxford, Ohio, 

 where he founded Oxford Female College, of which 

 he was president for ten years. While ne was con- 

 nected with Miami University, Benjamin Harrison, 

 then a student there, became acquainted with his 

 daughter, Caroline, whom he subsequently married 

 (see HARBISON, CAROLINE SCOTT). After leaving 

 Oxford he became a professor in Hanover College, 

 near Madison, Ind., and on retiring from educational 

 labor, after an almost uninterrupted career of tifty- 

 aeven years, he applied himself to private teaching 

 and preaching till 1881, when he was appointed to a 

 clerkship in the Pension Omee in Washington. After 

 the election of Benjamin Harrison to the presidency 

 Dr. Scott gave up his clerkship and made his resi- 

 dence in the White House, at the request of his 

 daughter. Dr. Scott was ordained a minister of the 

 Presbyterian Church in 1830, and during the whole 

 period of his educational work made it a custom to 

 preach every Sunday. 



Searle, Henry, architect, born in S_pringfleld, Mass., in 

 1809 ; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1892. When 

 seventeen years old he was apprenticed to tho cabinet- 

 maker's trade, and after serving his time he became 

 an architect His first professional work was in con- 

 nection with the Vermont State Capitol, and afterward 

 he designed and erected several buildings in Burling- 

 ton, the principal one being a classic Ionic structure 

 for the Congregational church. In 1844 he removed 

 to Rochester, N. Y., where he remodeled the Reynolds 

 Arcade, and planned the post office in that building. 

 His arrangement of this office was so satisfactory to 

 the postmaster-general, that he contracted with Mr. 

 Searle to duplicate it for a post office in Mobile. He 



also planned and built Corinthian Hall, which was 

 widely known for ite remarkable acoustic properties. 

 In 1808 Mr. Searle took up his permanent rauid- 

 Washington. D. C., and for many years he was em- 

 ployed in the office of tho supervising architect of 

 the United States Treasury. Among other buildings 

 of note in Rochester which he planned were the 

 Western House of Refuge, the City Hospital, the 

 Third and Central Presbyterian Churches, the Gothic 

 tower of St Luke's Church. Mount Hope Chapel, the 

 Morgan tomb in Mount Hope Cemetery, and the 

 Rochester Savings Bank. He also superintended the 

 building of Howard University arid the Congrega- 

 tional church in Washington. D. C. 



Seeley, Charles A., chemist, born in Ballston, N. Y., 

 Nov. 28, 1825; died in Mount Veriion, N. Y., Nov. 4, 

 1892. He was graduated at Union College in 1847, 

 was Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in New 

 York Medical College in 1859-'C2, and became Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry and Metallurgy in the New York 

 College of Dentistry in 1867. From 1865 till 1886 he 

 was employed as chemical expert in patent litigations, 

 and for many years was a member of the editorial 

 staff of the " Scientific American." Dr. Seeley was 

 one of the pioneers in electric lighting in the United 

 States. He formed an electric-light company in 1861, 

 and in the early days of the dynamo spent much 

 time in endeavoring to obviate the loss of energy in 

 the iron core of the armature. His experiments re- 

 sulted in the construction of an electric-lighting ma- 

 chine with a coreless armature in disk form, which 

 was exhibited at the Paris Exposition, and received 

 high praise and a bronze medal. In 1882, in London, 

 the machine was exhibited in a competitive trial and 

 gained the gold medal. The principal features of 

 this machine were afterward adopted by Sir William 

 Thomson in a generator of his own. Dr. Seeley in- 

 vented numerous devices, for which patents were 

 granted in the United States, Great Britain, France, 

 Germany, and Russia, and many valuable processes, 

 including those for making carbolic soap, for preserv- 

 ing wood, for making grape sugar, and for making 

 hop extract. 



Bewail, Mary A., philanthropist, died in Medfield, 

 Mass., Aug. 26, 1892. She was a daughter of the late 

 Rev. Charles E. Sewall. She entered the national 

 service as an army nurse in March, 1863, and remained 

 there till March, 1865. She was stationed at Point 

 Lookout Hospital, Maryland, till it became a Confed- 

 erate camp, and was then attached to the Chester 

 Hospital, Pennsylvania, where she labored till her re- 

 tirement. 



Seymour, Edward Woodruff, jurist, born in Litchfleld, 

 Conn., Aug. 30, 1832; died there, Oct. 16, 1892. He 

 was graduated at Yale in 1853, was admitted to the 

 bar at Litchfield in 1856, and practiced there till 1875, 

 when he removed to Bridgeport, and was in law 

 partnership with his brother, Morris W. Seymour, till 

 his death. He was elected to the State Legislature 

 in 1859, 1860, 1870, and 1871, and to Congress as a 

 Democrat in 1884 and 1888, being defeated for re- 

 election in 1886. In 1880 he was appointed judge of 

 the Supreme Court of Connecticut. 



Seymour. Norman, historian, born in Rome, N. Y., in 

 1822 ; died in Mount Morris, Livingston county, N. Y., 

 Feb. 21, 1892. He had made a special study of the 

 history of the Genesee valley, of the Indian treaties 

 and warfares in western New York, and of the his- 

 toric places in Livingston and adjacent counties, and 

 had gathered a rare collection of pamphlets, prints, 

 and original manuscripts of the eighteenth century. 

 He wrote numerous papers concerning Mary Jemison, 

 " The White Woman," Red Jacket, ana the Six 

 Nations, and at the time of his death had nearly com- 

 pleted a voluminous history of Livingston County. 

 He was secretary for many years of the Livingston 

 County Historical Society, and for twenty-five years 

 had been in the habit of attending the annual meet- 

 ings of that society and similar ones, and presenting 

 valuable papers on the early history of the towns in 

 which the meetings were held. 



