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Byers, Isaac Wingerd

educator, lawyer, was born Dec. 16, 1868, in Chambersburg, Pa. He graduated with honors from the Princeton university, N. J.; and during 1893-94 was professor of mathematics in the Princeton college, Ky. He has served as city attorney of Iron River, Mich.; and as circuit court commissioner of Iron county.

BYERS, SAMUEL HAWKINS MAR- SHALL, diplomat, author, poet, was born July 23, 1838, in Pulaski, Pa. He was a United States consul at Zurich, subsequently a consulgeneral to Italy, and now a resident of Des Moines. He was the author of Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss: Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; and The Happy Isles, and Other Poems. He is the author of the popular poem entitled Sherman's March to the Sea.