Schouler, William – Schuyler, Philip J
Schouler, William
journalist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1814, in Scotland. He was a journalist of Boston who published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War. He died Oct. 24, 1872, in West Roxbury, Mass.
Schriver, Edmund
soldier, was born Sept. 16, 1812, in York, Pa. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and was brevetted major-general of the United States army in 1865.
Schroebach, James
clergyman, bishop, was born Aug. 15, 1847, in Germany. He came to America in 1864.
In 1892 he was consecrated bishop of the diocese of La Crosse, having for ten years previous been its vicar-general.
Schroeder, Charles H
educator, poet, was born March 16, 1858, in Boeuf Creek, Mo. After studying the normal course at the university of Missouri for three years, he first taught school at New Haven in 1884 as principal; then at Augusta, Mo., for four years, and has since been principal of various schools. He is the author of a pastoral story entitled Enos and Aurelia; and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Schroeder, Frederick A
state senator, was born March 9, 1833, in Germany. In 1871 he was elected mayor of Brooklyn; and in 1879 was a member of the state senate from New York.
Schroeder, John Frederick
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 8, 1800, in Baltimore, Md. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator of Flushing, L. I., and the author of Life of Washington; Maxims of Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; and Sunday Addresses. He died Feb. 26, 1857, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
SCHUETTE, CONRAD HERMAN HERMAN LOUIS, educator, clergyman, author, was born June 17, 1843, in Germany. He was pastor at Delaware, Ohio, in 1865-72, has been professor of mathematics and natural science in Capitol university since 1872, and since 1881 also professor of ethics, symbolics, and homiletics in the theological department. He has been editorin-chief of the Columbus Theological Magazine since 1886, and has published The Church Member's Manual; and The State, the Church, and the School.
Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima
(McCOLL), poet, was born in 1847 in England. She is a verse-writer of Jersey City, and the author of Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.
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Schultz, Emanuel
manufacturer, congressman, was born July 25, 1819, in Berks county, Pa. In 1875 he was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives; and was elected to the fortyseventh congress.
Schultz, Irwin William
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 6, 1855, in Phillipsburg, N. J. He has served his native city as mayor, and is the presiding judge of the court of common pleas of his county.
Schultze, Augustus
educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1840, in Germany. For fifteen years this eminent theologian and philologist was professor of exegesis and dogmatics at the Moravian college and Theological seminary of Bethlehem, Pa., and since 1885 has been its president. He is the author of The Mission Fields of the Moravian Church; Grammar and Vocabulary of the Alaskan Eskimo Language; The Theology of Peter and Paul, and other works.
Schultze, John S
railroad president, was born Sept. 30, 1837, in Centre county, Pa. Since 1878 he has been president of the Newburg, Dutchess and Connecticut railroad.
Schulze, John Andrew
governor, was born July 19, 1775, in Tulpehocken, Pa. In 1823 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania, serving until 1829. He died Nov. 18, 1852, in Lancaster, Pa.
Schumacher, James Madison
banker, state senator, was born Nov. 18, 1843, in Mohawk, N. Y. For one term he was a member of the Florida state senate. In 1890-93 he was president of the State Bankers' association; was president of the Jacksonville and Atlantic railroad; and was vice-president of the Maine Street Electric railroad.
Schumaker, John G
lawyer, congressman, was born June 27, 1826, in Claverack, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected district attorney for Kings county; and in 1862 and 1864 was elected corporation counsel for the city of Brooklyn. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress; and was also elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Schuneman, Martin G
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807.
Schureman, James
merchant, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 12, 1756, in New Brunswick, N.
J. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1786 and 1787; was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1789 to 1791, and from 1797 to 1799; and was a senator in congress from 1799 to 1801. He was again a representative from 1813 to 1815; and was at one time mayor of New Brunswick. He died Jan. 23, 1824, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Schurman, Jacob Gould
educator, college president, author, was born May 22, 1854, in Prince Edward Island.
For many years he was a successful Canadian educator; and since 1892 has been president of Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the president of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the United States and Maryland. He is the author of Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God; and Agnosticism and Religion.
Schurz, Carl
soldier, journalist, United States senator, author, was born March 2, 1829, near Cologne, Germany.
He emigrated to the United States in 1852.
In 1861 he was selected by President Lincoln as minister to Spain; and was then appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1865 and 1866 he was a Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune, and subsequently was connected with the press of Detroit and St. Louis. He was elected a senator in congress from Missouri for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875. In 1876 he became secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Hayes. He afterwards became editor of the New York Evening Post, in which position he continued until 1884. He is the author of Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; and Abraham Lincoln, an essay.
Schussele, Christian
artist, was born April 16, 1824, in Alsace. He worked at chromo-lithography, which he had also followed in France, but later he devoted himself almost entirely to painting. His best-known works are Clear the Track; Franklin before the Lords in Council; Men of Progress, in Cooper institute, New York; Zeisberger Preaching to the Indians; The Iron-Worker and King Solomon; Washington at Valley Forge (1862); and Home on Furlough, and McClellan at Antietam. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in Merchantville, N. J.
Schuwerk, William Martin
lawyer, legislator, was born April 12, 1856, in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years this able lawyer was the prosecuting attorney for Evansville, Ill. He served as a member of the thirty-sixth general assembly of the Illinois legislature.
Schuyler, Aaron
educator, mathematician, author, was born Feb. 7, 1828, in New York. He is a mathematician who was professor in Baldwin university and president of that institution in 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan university. He is the author of The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic; Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; and Empirical and Rational Psychology.
Schuyler, Anthony
clergyman, author, was born July 8, 1816, in Geneva, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace church at Orange, N. J., from 1868, and author of Household Religion.
Schuyler, George Lee
author, was born June 9, 1811, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.;' has been active in yachting matters, and in 1882 the America's cup was returned to him, as its sole surviving donor, by the New York Yacht club. He has published Correspondence and Remarks upon Bancroft's History of the Northern Campaigns in 1877; and the Character of Major-General Philip Schuyler.
Schuyler, George Washington
state official, author, was born Feb. 2, 1810, in Stillwater, N. Y. He was a prominent state official of New York for many years; and the author of Colonial New York; and Philip Schuyler and His Family. He died Feb. 1, 1888, in Ithaca, N. Y.
Schuyler, Montgomery
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1814, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ church from 1854; and the author of The Church: its Ministry and Worship; and The Pioneer Church. He died in 1896.
Schuyler, Montgomery
journalist, author, was born Aug. 19, 1843, in Ithaca, N. Y. He is a journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times; and the author of Studies in American Architecture.
Schuyler, Peter
soldier, merchant, was born Sept. 17, 1657, in Albany, N. Y. He was a successful merchant of Albany, and its first mayor. He died Feb. 19, 1724, in Albany, N. Y.
Schuyler, Philip
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 22, 1733, in Albany, N. Y. He was appointed major - general in the army of the revolution in 1775, and dispatched to the fortifications of the north of New York, to prepare for the invasion of Canada. He was a delegate to congress previous to the present constitution; and was a senator of the United States by appointment from 1789 to 1791, and again in 1797. He died Nov. 18, 1804, in Albany, N. Y.
Schuyler, Philip J
congressman, was born in 1768. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819. He died Feb. 21, 1835, in New York city.