religious poet, pastor at Weston, Massachusetts, 1865-76. He wrote
the familiar Christmas hymn, “Calm on the listening ear of night.”
Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality, originally
published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; Christ
in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life; Pictures of the
Olden Time; That Glorious Song of Old. _A. U. A. Le._
=Sears, George W----.= _Ms._, 1821- ----. A writer of Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania, who served in the Federal army during the Civil War.
Woodcraft; Forest Runes (verse).
=Sears, [Joseph] Hamblen.= _Ms._, 1865- ----. A writer of New York
city. The Governments of the World To-Day. _Fl._
=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= _Va._, 1860- ----. A Washington writer and
newspaper correspondent. The Sprightly Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston,
a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian,
and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis; Midshipman
Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and Thin; A
Strange, Sad Comedy; Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. _Ap. Lo. We._
=Seccomb, John.= _Ms._, 1708-1792. A Congregational minister at
Harvard, Massachusetts, 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova
Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely
popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the
Widow Abbey, a work as destitute of genuine wit and worth as its
predecessor. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American
Literature._
=Seccomb, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1706-1760. Brother of J. Seccomb, _supra_.
A Congregational minister at Kingston, New Hampshire, from 1737, and
author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as
God.
=Sedgwick, Arthur George.= _N. Y._, 1844- ----. Son of T. Sedgwick, 2d,
_infra_. A lawyer of New York city. Principles and Practices Governing
the Trial of Title to Land (with F. S. Wait); Elements of Damages.
_Lit._
=Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.= _Ms._, 1789-1867. A once famous novelist
whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary
women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were hardly
of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the writings
of others who have cultivated the same field with even more skill.
Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence;
Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels.
Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical
Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live
and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals
and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were
popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. _See Life and Letters,
1871._ _Har._
=Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckminster [Dwight].= _Ms._, 1791-1864.
Sister-in-law of C. M. Sedgwick, _supra_, and a teacher for many years.
Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My
Pupils; Stories of the Spanish Conquest.
=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.= _Ms._, 1785-1831. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick,
_supra_. An eminent lawyer of New York city who was a noted opponent of
slavery, and author of English Practice of the Common Law.
=Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Livingston [Ridley].= 1789-1867. Wife of T.
Sedgwick, 1st, _infra_. A writer for young people. Walter Thornley; The
Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott; Alida, or Town
and Country. _Har._
=Sedgwick, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1780-1839. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick,
_supra_. A lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge,
Massachusetts. Public and Private Economy; Hints to my Countrymen.
=Sedgwick, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1811-1859. Son of T. Sedgwick, _supra_.
A lawyer of New York city. Rules which Govern the Interpretation and
Application of Statutory and Court Law; Treatise on the Measure of
Damages, a work of much importance.
=Seeley, Charles Sumner.= _See Munday, J. W._
=Seely, [Edward] Howard.= _N. Y._, 1856-1894. A littérateur of New
York city. A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life; A
Ranchman’s Stories; A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of Lucky Valley, and
Other Stories; A Border Leander. _Ap. Do. Har._
=Seelye= [see´le], =Mrs. Elizabeth [Eggleston].= _Min._, 1858- ----.
Daughter of E. Eggleston, _supra_. A writer living at Lake George,
New York. The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and Red Jacket;
Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); The Story of Washington. _Ap.
Do._
=Seelye, Julius Hawley.= _Ct._, 1824-1895. A Congregational clergyman
long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst College
from 1850, and its president, 1876-90. Natural Religion; The Way, the
Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; Duty. _Do._
=Seemuller, Mrs. Annie Moncure [Crane].= _Md._, 1838-1872. A novelist
of New York city whose somewhat striking fictions were popular for a
brief period. Emily Chester; Reginald Archer; Opportunity. _See Boyle’s
Distinguished Marylanders._
=Seguin= [sā-gwin´], =Edouard= _F._, 1812-1880. A French physician
who came to the United States in 1848 and whose specialty was the
training of idiots. Among his many works on this and other professional
topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical
Thermometry; Théorie et practique de l’éducation des idiots; Traitement
moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots et des autre enfants arrièrés;
Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Methods.
=Segur, Seth Willard.= _Vt._, 1831-1875. A Congregational clergyman of
Ohio and subsequently of Massachusetts. Relation and Responsibilities
of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation’s Hope; National
Blessings and Duties.
=Seiss= [seess], =Joseph Augustus.= _Md._, 1823-1904. An eminent
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of the Holy
Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. Among his
many works are, The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a
re-statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures
on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and
the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After
Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf;
Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last Times; Voices from Babylon. _See
American Lutheran Biographies._ _Co. Lip._
=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A professor of
political economy and finance in Columbia College. Chapters on Mediæval
Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs;
Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Progressive Taxation in Theory and
Practice; Essays on Taxation. _Mac._
=Selyns, Henricus.= _H._, 1636-1701. A Dutch clergyman who came to
New York in 1600, remaining four years as pastor in Brooklyn before
returning to Holland. Settling permanently in New York in 1682, he was
pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church for the rest of his life. His
Poems, written in Dutch, have been translated by H. C. Murphy, _supra_.
=Semmes, Alexander Jenkins.= _D. C._, 1828- ----. Cousin of R. Semmes,
_infra_. A surgeon in the Confederate navy who became a Roman Catholic
clergyman, president of Pio Nono College, Macon, Georgia, from 1886.
Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; Notes from a Surgical Diary,
are among his writings.
=Semmes, Raphael.= _Md._, 1809-1877. A celebrated naval officer in the
Confederate service during the Civil War as commander of the Alabama.
Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War; Campaign of General
Scott in the Valley of Mexico; The Cruise of the Alabama; Memoirs of
Service Afloat during the War between the States. _See Sinclair’s Two
Years in the Alabama, 1895._
=Sergeant, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1782-1860. A Philadelphia jurist. Treatise
on the Law of Pennsylvania relating to Proceedings by Foreign
Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania;
Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.
=Seth, James.= _S._, 1860- ----. A professor of moral philosophy in
Cornell University from 1896. A Study of Ethical Principles. _Scr._
=Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Bayley].= _N. Y._, 1774-1821. The founder
and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United
States. After the death of her husband she became a Roman Catholic,
took the veil as a Sister of Charity in 1809, and in 1812 founded at
Emmettsburg, Maryland, the first American house of the order. A volume
entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: a Fragment of Real
History, was published in 1817. _See Life by White; Vie de Madame Seton
by Madame de Barbary._
=Seton, Robert.= _I._, 1839- ----. A grandson of Mrs. Seton, _supra_.
A Roman Catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in
the United States. Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of E. Seton; Essays on
Various Subjects, principally Roman.
=Seton, William.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A grandson of Mrs. E. Seton,
_supra_. A naval officer of the United States. Romance of the Charter
Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor
Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; The
Pioneer, a poem.
=Severance, Mark Sibley.= _O._, 1846- ----. Hammersmith: his Harvard
Days, a novel. _Hou._
=Sewall, Frank.= _Me._, 1837- ----. A Swedenborgian clergyman of
Washington. Moody Mike, or the Power of Love; The Hem of his Garment;
The Pillow of Stones; The New Ethics; The New Metaphysics; Angelo and
Ariel, are among his writings. _Lip. Ran._
=Sewall, Mrs. Harriet [Winslow].= _Me._, 1819-1889. A religious
verse-writer of Boston, some of whose lyrics are found in the
anthologies. A collection of her Poems, with Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney,
_supra_, appeared in 1889.
=Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell.= _Ms._, 1748-1808. A lawyer of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer. His verse is
for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and Washington, is yet
remembered, and in his Epilogue to Cato occurs the famous couplet:--
“No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.”
Miscellaneous Poems (1801).
=Sewall, Rufus King.= _Me._, 1814-1903. A lawyer of Wiscasset, Maine.
Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; Ancient
Dominions of Maine.
=Sewall, Samuel.= _E._, 1652-1730. A noted jurist of Boston, best
remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft trials. The
Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America; Accomplishment
of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec Indians; Description
of the New Heaven. _See Diary of, Tyler’s American Literature;
Whittier’s Prophecy of Samuel Sewall._
=Sewall, Stephen.= _Me._, 1734-1804. A grand-nephew of S. Sewall,
_supra_. A Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard College,
1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture Account of
the Shechinah; Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit America.
=Sewall, Thomas.= _Me._, 1786-1845. A Washington physician, professor
of anatomy in Columbian University from 1821, who is chiefly remembered
for his work, The Pathology of Drunkenness, which had a wide
circulation.
=Seward, George Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A nephew of W. H.
Seward, _infra_, and minister to China, 1876-80. Chinese Immigration in
its Social and Economical Aspects.
=Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen.= _N. Y._, 1835-1902. Cousin of W. H.
Seward, _infra_. A musical educator of note. Hadrian Theology; The
School of Life; A Plea for the Christian Year.
=Seward, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1801-1872. A statesman of
distinction, secretary of state during the Civil War period. Diplomatic
History of the Civil War; Orations and Speeches; Life of J. Q. Adams,
_supra_; Travels Round the World. His complete works in five volumes
have been edited by G. E. Baker. _See Autobiography; North American
Review, October, 1866; Bartlett’s Modern Agitators; Life by Lothrop;
and Histories of the Civil War._ _Ap. Co. Hou._
=Seybert, Adam.= _Pa._, 1773-1825. A Philadelphia chemist who published
The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was in a
notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith made the
famous query, “Who reads an American book?”
=Seyffarth= [zif´fa͝art], =Gustav.= _Sxy._, 1796-1885. A German
scientist who was professor of Oriental archæology at Leipzig
University, 1825-55, and, coming to America in the latter year, was
professor at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, 1855-71. The remainder
of his life was passed in New York city. He was distinguished for the
extremely literal nature of his biblical interpretations. Among his
voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca;
Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. _See Literary Life
of, an autobiography, 1886._
=Seymour, George Franklin.= _R. I._, 1829- ----. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Springfield, and prominent among extreme High
Churchmen. Modern Romanism not Catholicism.
=Seymour, Mrs. Mary Harrison [Browne].= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A writer of
Hartford whose writings are mainly juvenile. Among them are, Mollie’s
Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense; Through the
Darkness; Ned, Nellie, and Amy. _Dut. Ran. Wh._
=Seymour, Thomas Day.= _O._, 1840- ----. A professor of Greek at Yale
University from 1880. Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad; Selected Odes
of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and Verse of
Homer; Homer’s Iliad, books i.-vi. _Gi._
=Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston.= _Va._, 1818-1881. An inventor of note.
The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession War in
America; History of America; Odd Fellowship.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= _Ky._, 1841- ----. An eminent geologist,
professor of paleontology at Harvard University, 1868-87, and of
geology from 1887. Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer
Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and its Importance to
the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent;
Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The
United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First
Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of
Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the
Ohio Valley; American Highways; Domesticated Animals: their Relation to
Man. _Am. Ap. Clke. Gi. Hou. Scr._
=Shanks, William Franklin Gore.= _Ky._, 1837- ----. A journalist of New
York city. Recollections of Distinguished Generals; A Noble Treason, a
tragedy. _Har._
=Shanly, Charles Dawson.= _I._, 1811-1875. A journalist and
verse-writer of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known
poem. A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; The
Truant Chicken.
=Shapley, Rufus Edmond.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Philadelphia lawyer,
author of Solid for Mulhooly, a political satire.
=Sharswood, George.= _Pa._, 1810-1883. An eminent Philadelphia jurist.
Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common Law; Lectures on
Commercial Law; Sharswood’s Blackstone. _Lip._
=Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette [Robinson].= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Daughter of
W. S. Robinson, _supra_. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, who has
published The Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and
West; Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law.
=Shaw, Albert.= _O._, 1857- ----. A journalist of New York city, the
American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891, and a recognized
authority on such themes as municipal government and municipal reforms.
Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism; Local Government in
Illinois; Coöperation in a Western City; Municipal Government in Great
Britain; Municipal Government in Continental Europe. _Cent._
=Shaw, Charles.= _Me._, 1782-1828. A lawyer of Montgomery, Alabama,
who published A Topographical Description of Boston from its First
Settlement (1817).
=Shaw, Henry Wheeler.= “Josh Billings.” _Ms._, 1818-1885. A noted
humourist whose shrewd, sensible sayings have been hardly appraised at
their full value owing to the laboriously bad spelling in which they
have been given to the world. Josh Billings’s Sayings; Everybody’s
Friend; Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; Josh Billings’s Spice Box. _See
Life by F. S. Smith, 1883._
=Shaw, Thomas.= _Ont._, 1843- ----. A Canadian educator, since 1893
professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment
Station. The First Principles of Agriculture; Weeds and How to
Eradicate Them.
=Shea= [shā], =George.= _I._, 1827-1895. Son of J. A. Shea, _infra_. A
jurist who was chief justice of the City Court of New York. Alexander
Hamilton: a Historical Study; Nature and Form of the American
Government. _Hou._
=Shea, John Augustus.= _I._, 1802-1845. An Irish verse-writer who came
to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His writings
include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern Romance,
in verse; Clontarf, a Poem.
=Shea, John Dawson Gilmary.= _N. Y._, 1824-1892. An historical writer
of note, for a number of years editor of Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner,
in New York city. The Catholic Church in the United States; Legendary
History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and
Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early Voyages Up and Down the
Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New Netherlands, 1633-44;
The Operations of the French under De Grasse; Life of Pius Ninth; The
Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the United
States; Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll, include his principal
original works.
=Shearman= [sher´man], =Thomas Gaskell.= _E._, 1834-1900. A lawyer and
political economist of New York city. Law of Practice and Pleadings;
Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect?;
Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; Natural Taxation; Henry
George’s Mistake; Crooked Taxation.
=Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge.= _S. C._, 1770-1836. A once
eminent physician and scientist of Charleston. Flora Carolinensis;
Medical and Philosophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; A New
Theory of the Earth, comprise his chief works.
=Shedd, Joel Herbert.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. An eminent civil engineer of
Providence whose most important professional labour is the Providence
Water Works. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening (with
Follen), and many important professional papers.
=Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann [Clark].= _Me._, 1834-1897. Wife of J. H. Shedd,
_supra_. Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture;
The Ghiberti Gates; Raphael: his Madonnas and Holy Families. _Hou._
=Shedd, William Greenough Thayer.= _Ms._, 1820-1894. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary, 1863-90,
and a theologian of a very conservative type. History of Christian
Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology;
Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment;
Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards;
Calvinism Pure and Mixed; Literary Essays. _Ran. Scr._
=Sheeleigh, Matthias.= _Pa._, 1820-1900. A Lutheran minister at
Fort Washington, near Philadelphia, from 1869. American Ecclesiad;
A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther;
Outlines of Old and New Testament History.
=Sheldon, David Newton.= _Ct._, 1807-1889. A Baptist clergyman who
became a Unitarian in 1856. He was president of Colby University,
1843-1853. Sin and Redemption.
=Sheldon, Edward Austin.= _N. Y._, 1823-1897. A noted educator of
Oswego, principal of the Normal School there from 1862. Manual of
Elementary Training; Lessons on Objects, are his principal works.
=Sheldon, Edward Stevens.= _Me._, 1851- ----. A professor of Romance
philology at Harvard University from 1883. Short German Grammar and
monographs.
=Sheldon, George William.= _S. C._, 1843- ----. A journalist and art
critic of New York city, now (1897) in charge of the London office of
D. Appleton and Company, publishers. American Painters; The Story of
the Volunteer Fire Department of New York City; Hours with Art and
Artists; Artistic Homes; Artistic Country Seats; Selections in Modern
Art; Recent Ideals of American Art. _Har._
=Sheldon, Henry Clay.= _N. Y._, 1845- ----. A Methodist clergyman,
professor of historic theology in Boston University from 1882. History
of Christian Doctrine; History of the Christian Church. _Cr. Har._
=Sheldon, Mary Downing.= Daughter of E. A. Sheldon, _supra_. _See
Barnes, Mrs._
=Shelton, Frederick William.= _L. I._, 1814-1881. An Episcopal
clergyman of Carthage Landing, New York, who wrote in both prose and
verse a number of humourous and satirical books. The Trollopiad, or the
Travelling Gentleman in America; The Rector of St. Bardolph’s; Peeps
from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book; Salander and the Dragon, a
romance; Up the River, a collection of rural sketches; Chrystalline, a
romance; The Gold Mania; Use and Abuse of Reason.
=Shepard, Charles Upham.= _R. I._, 1804-1886. A geologist, professor
of geology at Amherst College, who published a valuable Report on the
Geology of Connecticut.
=Shepard, Edward Morse.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of Brooklyn,
author of a Life of Martin Van Buren. _Hou._
=Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss.= _Vt._, 1795-1876. An educator of St. Louis.
Autobiography (1869); Early History of St. Louis and Missouri.
=Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald.= _Ms._, 1816-1889. A Federal officer in the
Civil War who was consul at Swatow and Hankow, 1874-80. Pebbles from
Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; Household
Tales.
=Shepard, Thomas.= _E._, 1605-1649. A Puritan clergyman who came to
America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister of what is
now the Shepard Church in Cambridge. He won great renown as a preacher,
and as a theologian was a Calvinist of the extremest type. New Englands
Lamentations for Old Englands present Errours; The Sound Beleever; The
Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ; Subjection to Christ;
The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied; Autobiography. His
Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 1853.
_See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by S. Mather and Greenhill,
1652; Life by Cotton Mather in the Magnalia._
=Shepard, William.= _See Walsh, W. S._
=Shepherd, William Robert.= _S. C._, 1871- ----. History of Proprietary
Government in Pennsylvania. _Mac._
=Sheppard, Furman.= _N. J._, 1823-1893. A Philadelphia lawyer who
published a Constitutional Text-Book.
=Sheppard, Nathan.= _Md._, 1834-1888. A journalist and educator who
was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette during the
Franco-German war. Shut up in Paris during the Siege; Darwinism Stated
by Himself; Before an Audience; Saratoga Chips. _Ap. Fu._
=Sherburne, John Henry.= _N. H._, 1794-_c._ 1850. A register of the
navy in Washington. Osceola, a tragedy; Erratic Poems; Life of John
Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in Europe; A Suppressed History of the
Administration of John Adams.
=Sheridan, Philip Henry.= _N. Y._, 1831-1888. A famous soldier,
lieutenant-general of the United States army, 1869-88, and general
for the two months preceding his death. Personal Memoirs (1888). _See
Appletons’ American Biography; Life by H. E. Davies; histories of the
Civil War._
=Sherman, Frank Dempster.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A lyrist of New York
city, adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia College, who
has written much pleasing _vers de société_ as well as other verse.
Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics; New
Waggings of Old Tales (with J. K. Bangs, _supra_). _Hou. Sto._
=Sherman, Henry.= _N. Y._, 1808-1879. A Hartford lawyer, author of An
Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the Present Time
(1841); The Governmental History of the United States; Slavery in the
United States.