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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SCHOFIELD SHATTUCK.) 



SchaflTs co-operation, and on the organization of the 

 American committee in 1871 he was chosen its presi- 

 dent. To this great work lie applied himself with 

 unflagging zeal, and when the actual revision was 

 finished he was sent to England to arrange for its 

 publication. While on this mission, in 1875, he at- 

 tended a conference of tlie Old Catholics, Greeks, 

 and Protestants, in Bonn, called with a view to pro- 

 mote Christian unity among those Churches, iwo 

 years previously he had sought to arouse interest in 

 plans for Church unity by establishing the " Kirchen- 

 freund," a German monthly periodical. In 1888 he 

 founded the American Society of Church History, 

 and became its first president. He also was engaged 

 with Prof. Henry B. Smith in editing the " Philo- 

 sophical and Theological Library." His last public 

 appearance was at the Parliament of Keligions in 

 Chicago, in September, 1893, where, though suffering 

 from a paralytic stroke, he was anxious to raise his 

 voice in behalf of religious liberty. With all his ex- 

 acting duties Dr. Schatf was an indefatigable editor 

 and writer. He edited the Anglo-American adapta- 

 tion of Lange's " Critical, Theological, and Homilet- 

 ical Commentary on the Bible," in 25 vols. (New York 

 and Edinburgh, 1864-'80 ; new edition, 1886) ; the 

 ' Popular Illustrated Commentary on the New Testa- 

 ment," in 4 vols. (New York and Edinburgh, 1878- 

 '83 ; reissued as " International Revision Commentary 

 on the New Testament," New York, 1882 sqq.) ; with 

 Arthur Gilman, " Library of Religious Poetry " (New 

 York, 1881 ; new edition, 1866) ; " The Schatf-Herzog 

 Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge," 3 vols. (New 

 York and Edinburgh, 1884) ; and other works. His 

 best-known individual writings are: " History of the 

 Apostolic Church*' (Mercersburg, 1851); "History 

 of the Christian Church" (New York, 1858 sqq.); 

 " The Creeds of Christendom " (New York and Lon- 

 don, 1877; 4th ed., 1884); "A Companion to the 

 Greek Testament and the English Version" (New 

 York and London, 1883 ; revised edition, 1885) ; 

 " Bible Dictionary " (Philadelphia, 1880; 3d ed., re- 

 vised, 1885) ; " Historical Account of the Work of the 

 American Committee of Revision of the English Ver- 

 sion " (1885); "Church and State in the United 

 States " (1888) ; " The Renaissance " (1891) ; and "A 

 General Introduction to the Study of Theology, Exe- 

 getical. Historical, Systematic, and Practical"' (1893). 

 Schofield, John, jurist, born in Clark County, 111., in 

 1834; died in Marshall, 111., Feb. 13, 1893. He was 

 brought up on a farm ; studied law and taught a dis- 

 trict school in 1851-'54; and was graduated at the 

 Louisville Law School, admitted to the bar, and elect- 

 ed State attorney for the 4th Judicial Circuit in 1856. 

 In the latter year also he became active in politics 

 and made speeches for James Buchanan. He was 

 elected to the Legislature in 1860, and to the State 

 Constitutional Convention in 1869 ; was general solici- 

 tor for Illinois for the Vandalia Railroad Company 

 in 1870-'73 ; was elected judge of the Supreme Court 

 of Illinois in 1873, and re-elected in 1879 and 1888. 



Soudder, Edward W., jurist, born in Scudder's Falls, 

 Mercer County, N. J., Aug. 12,1822; died in Trenton, 

 N. J., Feb. 3, 1893. He was graduated at the College 

 of New Jersey in 1841; studied law with William L. 

 Dayton, and was admitted to the bar in 1844 ; was a 

 State Senator in 1863-'65, and president part of that 

 time ; was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of 

 New Jersey in 1869. and was re-appointed in 1876, 

 1883, and 1890. 



Seatoii, Henry E., botanist, born in Indianapolis, Ind., 

 April 15, 18(31) ; died in Cambridge, Mass., April 30, 

 1893. He was graduated at Wabash College in 1890; 

 immediately appointed first assistant to his teacher, 

 Prof. John M. Coulter, the botanist, went to the Uni- 

 versity of Indiana as instructor in botany and curator 

 of the herbarium when Prof. Coulter was elected 

 president of the institution in 1891 ; and accompanied 

 a scientific expedition to Mexico, where he made a 

 collection of plants on Mount Orizaba, in the summer 

 of that year. On his return, and while preparing his 

 report for publication, he spent some time in the Har- 



vard herbarium, comparing some of its specimens 

 with his collections. While so engaged his methods 

 of work attracted much attention, and led to his being 

 offered the post of assistant curator of the Gray Her- 

 barium, which he accepted in September, 1892. The 

 results of his botanical researches were embodied in 

 two papers published in the ' ; Proceedings " of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Seney, George Ingraham, financier, born in Astoria. 

 Long Island, i\'. Y., May 12, 182(5 ; died in New York 

 city, April 7, 1893. He was graduated at the Uni- 

 versity of the City of New York in 1847. After 

 being employed in several banks in New York city 

 and Brooklyn, he was appointed paying teller in the 

 Metropolitan Bank of New York in 1853. He was 

 made cashier in 1857, and president in 1877, and held 

 the latter office till the suspension of the bank in 

 1884. At this time he had acquired a large fortune 

 and a wide reputation for benevolence. As the sus- 

 pension of the bank was caused by the failure of a 

 brokerage firm in which members of his family were 

 interested, he immediately resigned the office of 

 president and conveyed to the bank his costly resi- 

 dence in Brooklyn, and other property, including 

 many paintings. Subsequently he aided largely in 

 bringing about the resumption of the bank, and re- 

 sided in New York city. A few years before the failure 

 he had become interested in railway operations, prin- 

 cipally in the South and West, and in l883-'84 he 

 managed the construction of the New York, Chicago 

 and St. Louis Railroad, popularly known as the " Nick- 

 el-plate " road, which was sold and became a part 

 of the Vanderbilt system. His early railway oper- 

 ations were not successful, but he was credited with 

 having made a large fortune with the Nickel-plate 

 venture. In his most prosperous days, or between 

 1879 and 1884, he gave away about $2,000,000, his 

 principal gifts being $500,000 for the establishment 

 of the Seney Hospital in Brooklyn ; $500,000 to Wes- 

 leyan University ; $500,000 for the establishment of 

 the Methodist Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn ; $250,- 

 000 to Emory College and Wesleyan Feaiale College 

 in Macon, Ga. ; $100,000 to the Long Island Histor- 

 ical Society ; $60,000 to the Brooklyn Library ; $50,- 

 000 to the Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, 

 N. J. ; $25,000 to the Industrial School for Homeless 

 Children in Brooklyn ; and $25,000 to the Brooklyn 

 Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 1885 he sold at auction 

 285 paintings, for which he received $406,910; and in 

 1887, after he had again begun collecting, he present- 

 ed twenty valuable paintings to the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art. 



Seymour, Mary P., journalist, born in Aurora, 111., in 

 1847 ; died in New York city, March 21, 1893. She 

 was educated in Wilbraham, Mass., and in Somerville, 

 N. J. ; became a public-school teacher in Jersey City, 

 N. J. ; resigned on account of ill health, and studied 

 law and stenography ; was the first woman ever ap- 

 pointed a commissioner of deeds in New Jersey ; and 

 was one of the first to obtain employment in a busi- 

 ness office as a stenographer and typewriter. She re- 

 moved to New York city and opened a training 

 school for young women in 1881, and established " The 

 Business Woman's Journal" in 1888, subsequently 

 changing its name to " The American Woman's Jour- 

 nal," which she edited very successfully till her death. 

 She was an expert stenographer and typewriter, a suc- 

 cessful teacher of those branches, and a member of the 

 Women's Press Club and the Association of American 

 Authors. 



Shattuck, George Oheyne, physician, born in Boston, 

 Mass., in 1813 ; died there, March 22, 1893. He was 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1831, and at Har- 

 vard Medical School in 1835, and spent three years 

 in study in Paris and London. On his return he 

 began practicing in Boston in partnership with his 

 father. In 1849 he succeeded Dr. Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes as visiting physician at the Massachusetts 

 General Hospital, and he held the office for thirty-six 

 years ; in 1857 was chosen Professor of Chemical Medi- 

 cine in the Harvard Medical School, and was after- 



