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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SCHEIFFELIN SHARPE.) 



Schieffelin, Samuel Bradhurst, druggist, born 

 in New York city, Feb. 24, 1811; died there, Sept. 

 13, 1900. He succeeded his father, Henry Hamil- 

 ton Schieffelin, as head of the wholesale drug 

 business in 1849, and retired in 1865. He devoted 

 much of his time to the writing of religious litera- 

 ture. His published works include Message to 

 Ruling Elders, Music for our Churches, The Church 

 in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed 

 (lunches, The People's Hymn Book, Children's 

 Bread, Milk for Babes, The Foundations of His- 

 tory, and a Word to Christian Teachers and Stu- 

 dents for the Ministry. 



Scott, Robert Kingston, ex-Governor of South 

 Carolina, born in Armstrong County, Pennsylva- 

 nia, July 8, 1826; died in Napoleon, Ohio, Aug. 13, 

 llHiO. He studied medicine in Navarre, Ohio, and 

 later attended lectures at Starling Medical Col- 

 lege, Columbus. He practiced medicine in Henry 

 County, Ohio, from 1851 till 1857, and was then en- 

 gaged in mercantile business till 1861. In October, 

 1861, he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 

 68th Ohio Regiment, and in 1862 was promoted 

 colonel. He served at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and 

 Corinth, led a brigade at Hatchie river, Tenn., and 

 was engaged at Port Gibson, Raymond, and Cham- 

 pion Hills, Miss. He was commissioned brigadier 

 general of volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, and brevetted 

 brigadier and major general. From 1865 till 1868 

 he was assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's 

 Bureau in South Carolina. In 1868 he was elected, 

 as a Republican, the first Governor of reconstructed 

 South Carolina, and in 1870 was re-elected. In the 

 autumn of 1871, with other State officers, he was 

 charged with a fraudulent overissue of State 

 bonds, but he justified his course, and a resolution 

 for his impeachment was defeated. Dec. 25, 1880, 

 he shot and killed Warren G. Drury; on trial he 

 was acquitted, the defense being that the pistol 

 was discharged accidentally. For several years 

 he \vas engaged in the real-estate business in Co- 

 lumbia, S. C., and Napoleon, Ohio. 



Scoville, John F., educator, born in Sandy Hill, 

 X. Y., May 9, 1812: died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 March 25, 1900. - He was graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1832, and in 1833 was appointed the first 

 president of Oberlin College. In 1849 he gave up 

 teaching and removed to Brooklyn, where he en- 

 gaged in the publishing business. He retired from 

 active business in 1865. 



Sewall, Arthur, shipbuilder, born in Bath, 

 Me., Nov. 25, 1835; died in Small Point, Me., Sept. 

 5, 1900. He was educated in the public schools 

 of his native city, and then entered his father's 

 shipyards as an apprentice. In 1854 he formed a 

 partnership with his brother Edward, under the 

 name of E. & A. Sewall, taking over the busi- 

 ness of his father's firm. In January, 1855, the 

 two brothers launched their first ship, the Holy- 

 head, and from that time till 1879 they built 46 

 wooden vessels. In 1879, at the death of his 

 brother, he became the head of the business, and 

 as such continued till his death. In 1890 he began 

 the equipment of the firm's shipyards for the com- 

 plete construction of steel sailing vessels, and in 

 1894 the iron ship Dirigo, of 3,000 tons, was 

 launched, the first of its class ever constructed in 

 \ew England. He was a member of the Bath 

 Board of Aldermen in 1876 and 1877. In 1880 

 lie was a delegate at large from Maine to the 

 National Democratic Convention, and again in 

 1896. He was the Democratic candidate for United 

 States Senator in 1893. He was a member of the 

 National Democratic Committee from 1888 till 

 1896; in June, 1895, he declared in favor of free 

 coinage of silver, and in consequence was not con- 

 tinued bn the national committee by his colleagues. 



At the national convention held July 11. 1896, 

 to which he was a delegate, he was nominated as 

 the candidate for Vice-President, with William J. 

 Bryan as the candidate for President. He became 

 a director of the Maine Central Railroad Company 

 in 1875, and in 1884 its president, serving till 1893. 

 During this time he was also president of the 

 Portland, Mount Desert and Machias Steamboat 

 Company, and of the Eastern Railroad, as well 

 as a director in the Mexican Central Railway, the 

 Boston and Maine Railroad, the New York and 

 New England Railroad, the Portland and Roches- 

 ter Railroad, and some of the lines of the Atchi- 

 son, Topeka and Santa Fe system. He was presi- 

 dent of the Bath National Bank, and until 1893 

 of the Poland Paper Company. 



Seymour, Louis Irving, civil engineer, born 

 in Whitney's Point, N. Y., in 1860; died near 

 Bloemfontein, South Africa, June 14, 1900. He 

 was reared on a farm, and studied mathematics 

 and civil engineering at night. His first regular 

 work was with the Lackawanna Steel and Iron 

 Company, in Scranton, Pa., and there he contin- 

 ued his studies. In 1882 he was sent by the Dick- 

 son Manufacturing Company to set up machinery 

 in a Venezuela gold mine. There he remaine.l 

 three years, becoming superintendent. In 1888 he 

 Avent to Kimberley for the De Beers Mining Com- 

 pany, and later he spent three years in London 

 as consulting engineer for the Kimberley mine 

 owners. He then went to Johannesburg as super- 

 intendent of the Rand mines. At the outbreak of 

 tne war in the Transvaal he organized a regiment 

 in Cape Town, and was made its major. He de- 

 signed and constructed aerial bridges for Gens. 

 Roberts and Kitchener as they advanced north- 

 ward toward the Transvaal. In the battle at the 

 Zand river, June 14, while leading a charge 

 through an open veldt, he was mortally wounded. 



Shakespeare, Edward Oram, surgeon, born in 

 Dover, Del., May 19, 1846; died in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., June 1, 1900. He was descended from Kd- 

 mund Shakespeare, a brother of the poet. He was 

 graduated at Dickinson College in 1867, and at 

 the University of Pennsylvania in 1869. He be- 

 gan the practice of medicine in his native town, 

 but in 1875 removed to Philadelphia, where later 

 he was appointed lecturer on ophthalmic surgery 

 in the University of Pennsylvania. He soon be- 

 came an authority on diseases of the eye. and \\a-. 

 elected president of the Pathological Society of 

 Pennsylvania, and pathological and ophthalmic 

 surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital. In 1885 " 

 was the representative of the United States 

 eminent to investigate the causes and conditic 

 under which cholera thrived in Europe and Indi; 

 his report was exhaustive, and was published 

 1889. In the war with Spain he was appoint 

 brigade surgeon with the rank of major of voh 

 teers, and at the time of his death he was 

 of a commission attached to the office of the 

 geon general at Washington to investiu.it e t! 

 causes of typhoid fever in the army. He \vas 

 frequent contributor to medical periodicals, ai 

 with J. H. C. Sinies translated Manual of I'ath- 

 ogical Histology (Philadelphia, 1880). 



Sharpe, George Henry, lawyer, born in King- 

 ston, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1828; died in New York city, 

 Jan. 13, 1900. He was graduated at Rutgers Col- 

 lege in 1847, studied at Yale Law School, and 

 was admitted to the bar in New York city. I" 

 1851-'52 he was attached to the American lega- 

 tion in Vienna. In 1854 ho returned to the I'nited 

 States and began practice in Kingston. At the 

 outbreak of the civil war he entered the National 

 army as a captain in the -20th New York Kegi- 

 ment; in 1862 he was promoted to the colonelcy 





