Schaeffer, Charles Frede- Rick – Schley, William
Schaeffer, Charles Frede- Rick
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 3, 1807, in Germantown, Pa.
He was professor of systematic theology in the Lutheran Theological seminary at Philadelphia in 1864-76. He was the author of A System of Lutheran Theology, one of several important works, which he translated from the German. He died Nov. 23, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Schaeffer, Charles William
educator, clergyman, author, was born May 5, 1813, in Hagerstown, Md. He was professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran seminary from 1864; and the author of History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; and Family Prayers.
Schaeffer, David Frederick
clergyman, author, was born July 22, 1787, in Carlisle, Pa. From 1808 until his death he was pastor of the Lutheran church in Frederick, Md. He was the author of Historical Address on the Reformation.
He died in May, 1837, in Frederick, Md.
Schaeffer, Frederick Chris- Tian
educator, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 12, 1792, in Germantown, Pa.
He filled pastorates in Harrisburg and New York city; and published Parables and Parabolic Sayings. He died in March, 1831, in New York city.
Schaff, David T
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1852, in Mercersburg, Pa. He is now a pastor of the presbyterian church in Jacksonville, Ill. He was the co-editor of the Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, a work of four volumes.
Schaller, Albert
lawyer, legislator, was born May 20, 1856, in Chicago, Ill. He received a thorough education in St.
Vincent's college of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; in France; and at the St. Louis Law school. During 1880-91 he was county attorney of Duluth county, Minn.; during 1891-96 was city attorney of Hastings, Minn.; and also in 1895-96 was city attorney of South St. Paul. During 1895- 98 he served with distinction as a state senator in the Minnesota legislature, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the northwest, and has a large practice in Hastings, Minn.
Schanck, John Stilwell
physician, educator, was born Feb. 24, 1817. He received his education in the schools of Middletown a n d Freehold, N. J.; then at the celebrated academy at Lenox, Mass.; and in 1840 graduated at the Princeton college of New Jersey. In 1843 he received his medical degree from the university of Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine from that time in Princeton, N. J. For nearly fifty years he has delivered a course of lectures on anatomy, physiology and zoölogy in the Princeton college; and from 1856-93 he also filled the chair of chemistry in the same institution. He has served that noted college under four presidents with great distinction.
Scharf, John Thomas
author, was born May 1, 1843, in Baltimore, Md. He is an historical writer of Baltimore; and the author of 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; and History of Delaware.
Schauffler, William Gottlieb
missionary, author, was born Aug. 22, 1798, in Germany. He was 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; and Meditations on the Last Day of Christ. He died Jan. 27, 1883, in New York city.
SCHAYER, MRS. JULIA [THOMP- SON] [VON STORCH], author, was born in 1840 in Maine. She is a Washington writer; and the author of The Tiger Lily and Other Stories.
Schell, Richard
congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress, to fill a vacancy.
Schem, Alexander Jacob
statistician, author, was born March 16, 1826, in Prussia. He was a statistician of note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city in 1874-81. He was the author of Latin English Dictionary; Statistics of the World; and Cyclopædia of Education. He died May 21, 1881, in Hoboken, N. J.
Schenck, Abraham H
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1777.
He was a member of the New York assembly in 1804-06; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1831.
Schenck, Ferdinand S
physician, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1790, in Middlesex county, N. J. In 1829 he was elected to the state legislature, and was re-elected in 1830 and 1831. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1833 to 1837. He was soon afterward elected a justice of the court of errors and appeals, which he held for eight years. He died May 17, 1860, in Camden, N. J.
Schenck, Noah Hunt
clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 30, 1805, in Pennington, N. J. He founded and edited The Western Churchman during his pastorate in Chicago, and in 1867 became co-editor of The Protestant Churchman in New York. He was the author of numerous published sermons and addresses, of which a collection has appeared in book form. He died Jan. 4, 1885, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Schenck, Robert Cumming
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1809, in Franklin, Ohio. In 1840 he was elected a representative to the Ohio legislature; was reelected in 1842; and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1843 to 1851. In 1861 he served as brigadier and major-general in the union army; and in 1862 was elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was reelected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1870 he was appointed minister to England; and on his return to the United States, settled in Washington city in the practice of his profession. He died March 23, 1890, in Washington, D. C.
Schenck, William Edward
clergyman, author, was born March 29, 1819, in Princeton, N. J. He is a presbyterian minister of Philadelphia; and the author of Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; and The Fountain for Sin; Church Extension in Cities.
Scherer, John Jacob
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Feb. 7, 1830, in Wythe county, Va. He was president of Colorado college, Texas, for twenty years; president of Marion Female college, Virginia; and president of the general synod south of the Lutheran church.
Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph
clergyman, author, was born May 6, 1831, in Russia. He is 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.
Schermerhorn, Abraham M
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1853. He died Aug. 22, 1855, in Rochester, N. Y.
Schermerhorn, Simon J
farmer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1827, in Rotterland, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected without opposition to the New York state legislature. He is interested in banking, being a director and trustee of local banks. He was on the Cleveland electoral ticket in 1888, representing the old twentieth district of the state of New York; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Schiefflin, Samuel Bradhurst
author, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in New York city. He is a business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics.
He is the author of Message to the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers; and The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.
Schieren, Charles A
manufacturer, inventor, was born Feb. 28, 1842, in Germany. In 1882 he established the present firm of Chas. A. Schieren and Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y., manufacturers of leather belting. He was the inventor of the electric belt, consisting of a coating of composition spread over the belt to preserve the leather.
Schindler, Solomon
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Silesia. He is a Hebrew clergyman now living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath Israel, Boston. He is the author of Young West, a sequel to Looking Backward; Messianic Exhortations and Modern Judaism; and Dissolving Views on the History of Judaism. en-
Schleicher, Gustave
civil gineer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 19, 1823, in Germany. He moved to Texas in 1847; served in the state legislature in 1853 and 1854; and from 1859 to 1861 served in the state senate. In 1874 he was elected a representative Texas to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth and fortysixth congresses as a democrat. He died Jan. 10, 1879, in Washington City, Pa. from
Schley, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, governor, author, was born Dec. 15, 1786, in Frederick, Md. In 1825 he was elected a judge of the superior court of the middle district of Georgia, and was elected to the state legislature in 1830. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1833 to 1835; and during the two succeeding years was governor of Georgia. He published a Digest of the English Statutes. At the time of his death he was president of the Medical college of Georgia. He died Nov. 20, 1858, in Augusta, Ga.