Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist; Delilah of
Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas; The Masked
Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita; After Many
Years, and Other Poems. _Ne._
=Sawtelle, Henry Allen.= _Me._, 1832-1885. A Baptist clergyman of San
Francisco and elsewhere. Open Communion; Things to Think Of. _Ne._
=Sawyer, Mrs. Caroline Mehetabel [Fisher].= _Ms._, 1812-1894. Wife of
T. J. Sawyer, _infra_. The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition.
=Sawyer, Frederick William.= _Me._, 1810-1875. A Boston lawyer.
Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; Hits at
American Whims.
=Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose.= _N. Y._, 1807-1898. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of Whitesboro, New York,
prominent as a biblical scholar. Elements of Biblical Interpretation;
Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A Critical Exposition of Baptism;
Organic Christianity; Reconstruction of Bible Theories. He made a
translation of the Scriptures, of which the New Testament was published.
=Sawyer, Lemuel.= _N. C._, 1777-1852. A North Carolina lawyer. Life of
John Randolph; Autobiography.
=Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson.= _Vt._, 1804-1899. A Universalist clergyman
and educator, after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts College.
Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,--the Son or the Father?;
Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates.
=Saxe, John Godfrey.= _Vt._, 1816-1887. A lawyer and littérateur of
Vermont and subsequently of New York, widely known as a humourous poet.
Progress; A New Rape of the Lock; The Proud Miss McBride; The Money
King; Clever Songs of Many Nations; The Masquerade; Leisure Day Rhymes;
Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. _Hou._
=Say, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1787-1834. A zoölogist who was the first curator
of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1825 he removed to
New Harmony, Indiana, and was the agent of the Owen socialist colony
there. Vocabularies of Indian Languages; American Conchology; American
Entomology. His Complete Writings on Conchology have been edited by
Binney, and those on Entomology by Le Conte. _See Memoir by Ord._
=Sayles, John.= _N. Y._, 1825-1897. A Texas jurist, professor in Baylor
University from 1880. Practice in the District and Supreme Courts
of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State
of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of
Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of Texas,
with Notes; Notes on Texan Reports, include the larger number of his
professional writings. _See Bibliography of Texas._
=Sayre, Lewis Albert.= _N. J._, 1820-1900. A distinguished surgeon of
New York city, professor of orthopædic surgery in Bellevue Hospital
College. Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on
Orthopædic Surgery; Spinal Curvature and its Treatment. _Ap._
=Scarborough, William Saunders.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. An educator
of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce
University, Ohio, from 1877. First Lessons in Greek; Theory and
Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.
=Schaeffer= [shā´fe̯r], =Charles Frederick.= _Pa._, 1807-1879. Son of
F. D. Shaeffer, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor
of systematic theology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia, 1864-76. A System of Lutheran Theology is one of several
important works which he translated from the German. _See American
Lutheran Biographies._
=Schaeffer, Charles William.= _Md._, 1813-1896. Nephew of C. F.
Schaeffer, _supra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of eminence,
professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary from
1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Family
Prayers.
=Schaeffer, Frederick David.= _G._, 1760-1836. A once prominent
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine Vertheidigung der
Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.
=Schaff= [shäf], =Philip.= _Sd._, 1819-1893. A distinguished
German Reformed divine who came to the United States in 1844, and
was professor of church history in the seminary at Mercersburg,
Pennsylvania, 1844-63. In 1873 he became professor of sacred literature
in Union Seminary in New York city. Principles of Protestantism;
History of the Christian Church; Creeds of Christendom; Theological
Propædeutics; Christ and Christianity; Critical Edition of the
Heidelberg Catechism; Bible Revision; Through Bible Lands; Progress of
Religious Freedom; Church and State in the United States; The Person
of Christ; Literature and Poetry; A Companion to the Greek Testament
and the English Version, include his principal original works. He has
edited the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge; Lange’s
Commentary, and other important works. _Fu. Har. Ran. Scr. Wh._
=Scharf, John Thomas.= _Md._, 1843-1898. An historical writer of
Baltimore. Chronicles of Baltimore; History of Maryland; History of
Baltimore; History of Western Maryland; History of the City of St.
Louis; History of Philadelphia; History of the Confederate Navy;
History of Delaware.
=Schauffler= [show´fler], =William Gottlieb.= _G._, 1798-1883. A
Congregational missionary in Turkey well known as a linguist. He
translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and also wrote
Essay on the Right Use of Property; Meditations on the Last Days of
Christ. _See Autobiography, 1887._ _Ran._
=Schayer, Mrs. Julia [Thompson] [von Storch].= _Me._, 1840- ----. A
Washington writer. The Tiger Lily, and Other Stories.
=Schem= [shem], =Alexander Jacob.= _G._, 1826-1881. A statistician of
note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city,
1874-81. Latin-English Dictionary (with G. Crooks, _supra_); Statistics
of the World; Cyclopædia of Education (with H. Kiddle, _supra_).
=Schenck, William Edward.= _N. J._, 1819-1903. A Presbyterian minister
of Philadelphia. Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; The Fountain for
Sin; Church Extension in Cities.
=Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph.= _R._, 1831- ----. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of the China Mission. He was consecrated
in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some years in
Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a
translation of the Bible into Chinese.
=Schiefflin= [shĕf´lin], =Samuel Bradhurst.= _N. Y._, 1811-1900. A
business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics. Message to
the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers;
The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.
=Schindler, Solomon.= _Sil._, 1842- ----. A Hebrew clergyman now
(1897) living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath
Israel, Boston. Young West, a sequel to “Looking Backward;” Messianic
Exhortations and Modern Judaism; Dissolving Views on the History of
Judaism. _Ar. Le._
=Schley, Winfield Scott.= _Md._, 1839- ----. A naval officer and
explorer who published (with J. R. Soley, _infra_) The Rescue of
Greeley. _Scr._
=Schmauk= [shmowk], =Theodore Emmanuel.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. A Lutheran
clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, editor of The Lutheran from 1889,
and author of The Negative Criticism.
=Schmidt, Henry Immanuel.= _Pa._, 1806-1889. A Lutheran clergyman and
educator of New York city, professor of German in Columbia College,
1848-80. History of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s
Supper; Course of American Geography.
=Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon.= _Pa._, 1827-1888. Son of S. S.
Schmucker, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman of Pittsville, Pennsylvania,
1881-88. A liturgical scholar of note, editor of The Church Book of the
General Council, and of The Church Service, 1888.
=Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim.= _Va._, 1823-1863. Son of S. S. Schmucker,
_infra_. A Philadelphia author who was in the early part of his career
a Lutheran minister. His various writings, which display industry
rather than original talent, comprise for the most part Errors of
Modern Infidelity; The Spanish Wife, a play; History of the Four
Georges; History of All Religions; Court and Reign of Catharine II.;
Lives of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Clay, Dr. Kane,
Frémont; Memorable Scenes in French History; History of the Modern
Jews; History of Napoleon Third; Arctic Explorations; History of the
Civil War in the United States (1863). _Co._
=Schmucker, Samuel Simon.= _Md._, 1799-1873. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg,
1826-64. He was an advocate of American Lutheranism as characterized
by indifference to the distinctive doctrines of Lutheranism. Elements
of Popular Theology; Psychology; Lutheran Manual; Lutheran Symbols, or
American Lutheranism Vindicated; Church of the Redeemer; The Unity of
Christ’s Church, are his chief works. _Ran._
=Schneck, Benjamin Shroder.= _Pa._, 1806-1874. A Lutheran clergyman,
pastor at Chambersburg from 1855. Die deutsche Kanzel; The Burning of
Chambersburg; Mercersburg Theology.
=Schodde, George Henry.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A Lutheran clergyman and
educator of Ohio, professor at Capitol University from 1880. The Book
of Enoch translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; A Day in Capernaum,
from the German of Delitzsch.
=Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.= _N. Y._, 1793-1864. An eminent ethnologist
and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent among the Indians,
chiefly at Mackinaw. His later life was passed in Washington. He
discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his many works are
included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic Discoveries;
Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes; Narrative of
an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian and
His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty Years’
Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark
Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse. His
talents lay rather in accumulating facts than in perceiving their
relations to each other. _Lip._
=Schoolcraft, Mrs. Mary [Howard].= _S. C._, ---------. Wife of H. R.
Schoolcraft, _supra_. The Black Gauntlet, a Tale of Plantation Life.
_Lip._
=Schouler= [skool´er], =James.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. Son of W.
Schouler, _infra_. A lawyer and historian of Boston, professor in the
law school of Boston University. The Law of Bailments; The Law of
Personal Property; The Law of Husband and Wife; Law of Executors and
Administrators; Law of Wills; A History of the United States under the
Constitution; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Historical Briefs. _Do. Lit._
=Schouler, William.= _S._, 1814-1872. A journalist of Boston who
published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War.
=Schroeder, John Frederick.= _Md._, 1800-1857. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator of Flushing, Long Island. Life of Washington; Maxims of
Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; Sunday Addresses. _Ap._
=Schuette, Conrad Herman Louis.= _G._, 1843- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator of Ohio, professor in Capitol University from 1872. Church
Member’s Manual; The State, the Church, and the School.
=Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima [McColl].= _E._, 1847- ----. A verse-writer
of Jersey City. Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.
=Schurman, Jacob Gould.= _P. E. I._, 1854- ----. A Canadian educator,
since 1892 president of Cornell University. Kantian Ethics and the
Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God;
Agnosticism and Religion. _Scr._
=Schurz= [shoorts], =Carl.= _P._, 1829- ----. A statesman of eminence,
active in the support of civil service reform. He came to America in
1852; settled in Missouri, from which he went to Congress as senator;
served as general in the Union army during the Civil War; removed to
New York city in 1875, and was editor of The Evening Post, 1881-84.
Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Abraham Lincoln: an Essay. _Hou. Le. Lip._
=Schuyler= [sky´le̯r], =Aaron.= _N. Y._, 1828- ----. A mathematician
who was professor in Baldwin University and president of that
institution, 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan
University. The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic;
Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; Empirical and Rational
Psychology.
=Schuyler, Anthony.= _N. Y._, 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman,
rector of Grace Church at Orange, New Jersey, from 1868, and author of
Household Religion.
=Schuyler, Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1840-1890. Son of G. W. Schuyler,
_infra_. A diplomatist who was United States secretary of legation at
St. Petersburg, 1870-76, secretary of legation and consul-general at
Constantinople, 1876-78, and minister to Greece, 1882-84. Peter the
Great as Ruler and Reformer; Turkistan; American Diplomacy and the
Furtherance of Commerce. _Scr._
=Schuyler, George Washington.= _N. Y._, 1810-1888. A prominent State
official of New York for many years. Colonial New York; Philip Schuyler
and his Family. _Scr._
=Schuyler, Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1814-1896. Cousin of Anthony Schuyler,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ Church
from 1854. The Church: its Ministry and Worship; The Pioneer Church.
=Schuyler, Montgomery.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. Son of Anthony Schuyler,
_supra_. A journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times.
Studies in American Architecture. _Har._
=Schwatka, Frederick.= _Ill._, 1849-1892. A naval officer and explorer.
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along
Alaska’s Great River; The Children of the Cold. _See Schwatka’s Search,
by W. H. Gilder, supra._ _Cas._
=Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de.= _Pa._, 1825-1887. Son of L. D. de
Schweinitz, _infra_. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president
of the Moravian College, 1867-84. The Moravian Manual; The Moravian
Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle to the
Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian Church; History
of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; Systematic Benevolence.
=Schweinitz, George Edmund de.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. Son of E. A.
de Schweinitz, _supra_. A Philadelphia physician of note as an
ophthalmologist who has written Diseases of the Eye, and professional
monographs and papers.
=Schweinitz, Lewis David de.= _Pa._, 1780-1834. A Moravian clergyman of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, famous in his day as a botanist. Conspectus
Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Carolinæ Superioris; Synopsis
Fungorum in America; Boreali Media Digentium. _See Memoir of, by W. R.
Johnson, supra._
=Scollard, Clinton.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. An educator of Clinton, New
York, professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton
College, 1888-1896, and a well-known poet of the day. His writings in
verse include, Pictures in Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old and New World
Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills of Song;
Skenandoa; A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. In prose he has published, Under
Summer Skies; On Sunny Shores; A Man-at-Arms. _Hou. Lo. Sto._
=Scott, Charles.= _Tn._, 1811-1861. Son of E. Scott, _infra_. A lawyer
of Jackson, Mississippi. Analogy of Ancient Craft Masonry to Natural
and Revealed Religion; The Keystone of the Masonic Arch.
=Scott, Eben[ezer] Greenough.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. A writer of
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Development of Constitutional Liberty in
the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Intestate System
of Pennsylvania; Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United
States of America. _Hou. Put._
=Scott, Edward.= _Va._, 1774-1852. A Tennessee lawyer, prominent in the
State’s early history, who published Laws of the State of Tennessee, in
1822.
=Scott, Henry Lee.= _N. C._, 1814-1886. Son-in-law of Winfield Scott,
_infra_. An army officer who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and
was the author of A Military Dictionary.
=Scott, John.= _Pa._, 1820- ----. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of
Cincinnati. Pulpit Echoes; The Land of Sojourn.
=Scott, Mrs. Julia H---- [Kinney].= _Pa._, 1809-1842. A verse-writer
of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whose Poems, with Memoir, were posthumously
published.
=Scott, Robert Nicholson.= _Tn._, 1838-1887. Son of W. A. Scott,
_infra_. An army officer, in charge of the publication of war records
at Washington, 1877-87, who published a Digest of the Military Laws of
the United States.
=Scott, William Anderson.= _Tn._, 1813-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman
of San Francisco, professor in the Theological Seminary there from
1871. The Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; Daniel: a Model for
Young Men; Achan in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The Church in the Army;
The Christ of the Apostles’ Creed; Trade and Letters, include his chief
work.
=Scott, Winfield.= _Va._, 1786-1866. A famous general who served in the
War of 1812, and was commander-in-chief of the American army during the
war with Mexico. General Regulations of the Army; System of Infantry
and Rifle Tactics; Autobiography (1864). _See Lives by Mansfield, 1846,
Headley, 1852, Victor, 1861; and United States histories._
=Scouller, James Brown.= _Pa._, 1820-1899. A prominent United
Presbyterian clergyman. Manual of the United Presbyterian Church;
History of the United Presbyterian Church; Calvinism: its History and
Influence.
=Scoville, Joseph A----.= “Walter Barrett.” _Ct._, 1811-1864. A
journalist of New York city, clerk of the Common Council, and at one
period private secretary to Calhoun. Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or
Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; Marion.
=Scripture, Edward Wheeler.= _N. H._, 1864- ----. A scientist,
director of the physical laboratory of Yale University. Thinking,
Feeling, Doing, a popular psychology; The New Psychology; Studies from
the Yale Physical Laboratory. Among his various monographs the more
important are those on the association of ideas and the measurement of
hallucinations. _Fl._
=Scudder, Eliza.= _Ms._, 1821-1896. Cousin of H. E. Scudder, _infra_. A
hymn-writer of Massachusetts. Hymns and Sonnets. _Hou._
=Scudder, Henry Martyn.= _Cy._, 1822-1895. Son of J. Scudder, _infra_.
A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, pastor in Chicago, 1883-87,
and from 1887 a missionary in Japan. He published, in the Tamil
language, Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed Church; The Bazaar Book; Sweet
Savors of Divine Truth; Spiritual Teaching.
=Scudder, Horace Elisha.= _Ms._, 1838-1902. A Boston littérateur,
editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1890-1898. Seven Little People and
their Friends; Dream Children; Stories from my Attic; The Dwellers in
Five-Sisters Court; Stories and Romances; Boston Town; Life of Noah
Webster; A History of the United States; A Short History of the United
States; Book of Fables; Book of Folk Stories; George Washington: an
Historical Biography; Men and Letters, essays; Childhood in Literature
and Art; Recollections of Samuel Breck; The Bodley Books, a series of
popular juveniles; James Russell Lowell: a Biography. _Co. Hou. Scr.
Sh._
=Scudder, John.= _N. J._, 1793-1855. A Dutch Reformed missionary and
physician in Ceylon, 1820-39. Letters from the East; Letters to Pious
Young Men; Promises for Passing Over Jordan. _See Memoir by J. B.
Waterbury, 1856._
=Scudder, John Milton.= _O._, 1829-1894. A Cincinnati physician and
educator, long a professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute. Diseases
of Women; Principles of Medicine; Specific Medication; The Reproductive
Organs; Specific Diagnosis.
=Scudder, Moses Lewis.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A broker of Chicago. Brief
Honors, a romance; Almost an Englishman; National Banking; Congested
Prices; The Labor Value Prophecy.
=Scudder, Samuel Hubbard.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. Brother of H. E. Scudder,
_supra_. A naturalist of Cambridge. The Butterflies of the Eastern
United States and Canada; Butterflies, their Structure, Changes, and
Life Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies; The Life of
a Butterfly; Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of
Butterflies; A Century of Orthoptera; The Fossil Insects of North
America. _Ho. Hou. Mac._
=Scudder, Vida Dutton.= _E. I._, 1861- ----. Niece of H. E. Scudder,
_supra_. An educator of Massachusetts, professor in Wellesley College.
How the Rain Sprites were Freed; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern
English Poets; The Witness of Denial; The Prometheus Unbound of
Shelley. _Dut. He. Hou._
=Seabury, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1729-1796. The first Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Connecticut. He was the first American bishop and the first
presiding bishop. Being refused consecration by the Anglican Church, he
was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and through him the Episcopal
Church in the United States derives its succession from the Church in
Scotland. During the early days of the American Revolution he attracted
much attention by his pamphlets signed A. W. Farmer, which sharply
criticised the actions of the patriots. They include, Free Thoughts on
the Proceedings of the Continental Congress; The Continental Congress
Canvassed; View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her
English Colonies. His Sermons have been issued in three volumes. _See
Life by E. E. Beardsley, 1881; Seabury Centennial Commemoration._
=Seabury, Samuel.= _Ct._, 1801-1872. Grandson of S. Seabury,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among
High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological Seminary.
Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch
of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery
Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; Discourses on the Holy
Calendar.
=Seabury, William Jones.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. Son of Samuel Seabury,
2d. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of
the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General Seminary from
1873. Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; Introduction to the Study of
Ecclesiastical Polity. _See American Church Review, July, 1885._
=Seaman, Ezra Champion.= _N. Y._, 1805-1880. The comptroller of the
treasury, 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State
prisons. Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the
Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The
American System of Government; Views of Nature.
=Seaman, Valentine.= _L. I._, 1770-1817. A once prominent physician
of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination.
Waters of Saratoga; Midwife’s Monitor; On Vaccination.
=Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine [Redden].= “Howard Glyndon.” _Md._,
1840- ----. A verse-writer and journalist now living in California,
but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. Sounds from Secret
Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; Brother and Sister. _Hou._
=Searle, Arthur.= _E._, 1837- ----. A professor of astronomy at Harvard
University from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.
=Searle, January.= _See Phillips, E. S._
=Searles, William Henry.= _O._, 1837- ----. A civil engineer. Field
Engineering; The Railroad Spiral. _Wil._
=Sears, Barnas.= _Ms._, 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman and educator of
prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological Seminary,
1836-48, and president of Brown University, 1855-67. Life of Luther;
The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; Essays on
Classical Literature (with B. B. Edwards, _supra_, and C. C. Felton,
_supra_).