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tlic firm of Sage & Ilinkle, practiced his profession 

 I ill 1883, when he was appointed by President Ar- 

 thur United States Judge for the Southern District 

 of Ohio. He retired from the bench in August, 

 1898. 



Salpointe, Jean Baptiste. clergyman, born in 

 St. Maurice, Puy-du-Dome, France, Feb. 21, 1825: 

 died in Tucson, Arizona, July 16, 1898. He studied 

 the classics in the College of Clermont, and the- 

 ology and philosophy in the Seminary of Clermont- 

 Ferrand, and was ordained a Roman Catholic 

 priest in 1851. After a service of eight years as 

 curate and teacher he was sent to the missionary 

 field in New Mexico. For seven years he was parish 

 priest at Mora, and was then appointed vicar- 

 general of Arizona. In 1869 he was promoted to 

 the vicariate apostolic of Arizona, and consecrated 

 as bishop of Doryla in partibus. The territory un- 

 der his jurisdiction was both sparsely settled and 

 extensive, comprising Arizona, New Mexico, and 

 the contiguous part of Texas, but he undertook its 

 management with much ardor. He organized many 

 new congregations, founded schools and hospitals, 

 and in less than sixteen years increased the number 

 of church buildings from fewer than half a dozen 

 to 23, and he had also built 15 chapels. In 1885 he 

 was appointed coadjutor to Archbishop Lamy. of 

 Santa Fe, whom he succeeded in 1888. 



Sciinlaii, William James, author, actor, and 

 singer, born in Springfield, Mass., Feb. 14, 1856; 

 died in White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1898. In his 

 earliest youth he was noted for a sweet voice and 

 natural musical ability. From his thirteenth year 

 he was known in New England as " the Boy Tem- 

 perance Singer," accompanying and assisting lec- 

 turers on temperance. He began to compose and 

 sing Irish songs when about fifteen years of age. 

 In 1876 he became associated with William Cronin 

 in minstrelsy. The sketches and songs in which 

 this well-remembered ' team " appeared were gen- 

 erally written by Scanlan. He subsequently be- 

 came the leading support of Miss Minnie Palmer in 

 a musical comedy, in the performance of which he 

 remained associated with her for two years. He 

 was then engaged by W. H. Power to head a com- 

 pany in a play called il Friend and Foe," which had 

 been adapted for Scanlan by Bart ley Campbell. 

 In this play Scanlan first sang his famous song 

 "Peekaboo!" He also played "The Irish Min- 

 strel " for the first time while under Power's manage- 

 ment. In 1881 he was engaged by Augustus Pitou 

 to star in Irish comedy in parts that were to be es- 

 pecially adapted to his powers as a singer. " Shane 

 na Lawn," by James Connor Roach, was the first 

 of this series of popular plays to be produced. To 

 this were added in succession " The Irish Minstrel," 

 ' Myles Aroon ! " and " Mavourneen," the last from 

 the pen of George H. Jessop. In these plays he 

 sang for the first time his sweet songs " My Nelly's 

 Blue Eyes," " What's in a Kiss ? " and " Plain Molly, 

 ! " While playing in the hundredth performance 

 of " Mavourneen " at the Fourteenth Street Theater, 

 New York, on Christmas Eve. 1891, he became insane 

 from the effects of paresis and was removed, first to 

 his hotel, and two weeks afterward to Bloomingdale 

 Asylum, where he remained in helpless imbecility 

 until his death. He was not brilliant as an actor, 

 but his rare gift of minstrelsy gave him the af- 

 1'i-ct innate liking of theater goers. It is said that he 

 wrote and composed music for more than 100 songs. 

 Schaeffer, Charles A., educator, born in Penn- 

 sylvania in 1843; died in Iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 

 25, 1898. He was graduated at the University of 

 Pennsylvania in 1861, and afterward studied in 

 | Germany. He was Professor of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy at Cornell University from 1869 till 

 1887, dean of the Cornell Faculty in 1866-'67, 



and had been president of the University of Iowa 

 since 1887. 



Segrnin, Edward Constant, neurologist, born 

 in Paris, France, in 1843; died in New York city, 

 Feb. 19, 1898. He was a son of Dr. Edouard Ones- 

 irnus Seguin, who came to the United States soon 

 after the revolution of 1848. The younger Seguin 

 was graduated at the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, New York, in 1864, and spent two years in 

 the medical department of the National army while 

 a student. A pulmonary trouble contracted in the 

 army unfitted him for professional work in New 

 York city, and, re-entering the army, he spent 

 several years in New Mexico, where his health was 

 completely restored. On the establishment of the 

 Connecticut Hospital for the Insane he was ap- 

 pointed pathologist to it, and he held that post ten 

 years. In 1869-'70 he made a special study of nerv- 

 ous diseases with the best French specialists, and 

 on his return settled in New York for general prac- 

 tice. He became a member of the faculty of the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871 ; was 

 lecturer there on diseases of the spinal cord, and on 

 insanity from 1871 till 1885; and founded a clinic 

 for nervous diseases in 1873. Despite the shock of 

 a terrible domestic tragedy, he continued his pro- 

 fessional work till 1896. Dr. Seguin was one of the 

 founders of the American Neurological Association 

 and of the New York Neurological Society. He 

 bequeathed to the Academy of Medicine his special 

 collection of monographs and pamphlets on the 

 nervous system, which he was thirty years in gather- 

 ing. To the Pathological Laboratory of the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons he gave all his instru- 

 ments and appliances for study of the nervous 

 system : his microscopes, objectives, microtomes, 

 knives, models, and charts, his collection of patho- 

 logical specimens, and all the books in his library 

 relating to the anatomy and physiology of the 

 nervous system. 



Seidl, Anton, composer and musical conductor, 

 born in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, May 6, 1850 ; died 

 in New York city, March 28, l"898. "lie entered the 

 Leipsic Conservatory in 1870, from which he be- 

 came in 1872 a pupil of Hans Richter, director of 

 the Opera House at Buda-Pesth. Wagner at this 

 time was preparing the Nibelung music dramas 

 for production at Baireuth, and asked Richter to 

 recommend a young musician for the post of as- 

 sistant, and Seidl was sent to assume that post. 

 He was a member of Wagner's household, and was 

 the great composer's chief assistant during all the 

 time of the rehearsal and production of the great 

 works that resulted in the musical festival of 1876. 

 In 1878, on the completion of his engagement at 

 Baireuth, Seidl became musical stage manager of the 

 Royal Opera House, Vienna, and in 1879 conductor 

 at Leipsic. In 1882 he was engaged to conduct the 

 performances of Wagner's ring dramas at her 

 Majesty's Theater in London. In 1883 and 1884 he 

 was the conductor of a traveling company that 

 produced the Wagner operas throughout Germany, 

 Austria, Hungary, Italy, Holland, and Belgium. 

 In 1885 he became conductor of the Bremen Opera 

 House. On the death of Dr. Leopold Damrosch 

 Si-idl was invited to the conductor's chair of the 

 Metropolitan Opera House, New York city. Al- 

 though not retained in the place of conductor by 

 Abbey, Schoefel & Gran, he was, under the insist- 

 ence of Jean de Reszke, engaged to conduct the 

 Wagner operas during the seasons of 1895-'96 and 

 1896-'97. When Theodore Thomas went to Chica- 

 go Seidl was selected as the musical conductor of 

 the New York Philharmonic Society, beginning his 

 duties in that place Nov. 20, 1890. He was also 

 chosen leader of the permanent orchestra. The 

 summer concerts conducted by him were a constant 



