Schuyler, Richard – Scott, Frederick R
Schuyler, Richard
soldier, legislator, was born in 1733 in Albany, N. Y. He was a captain under Sir William Johnson, and was in active public service until the revolution. He was a general in the patriot army, and was a legislator after the war. He died in 1804.
Schwarts, John
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1793, in Berke county, Pa. He served as lieutenant in the last war with Great Britain. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress. He died in July, 1860.
Schwartz, Jacob
librarian, was born March 13, 1846, in New York city.
In 1863 he entered the Apprentices' library of New York, of which he became chief librarian in 1871. The method of management that is followed there was devised by him. He has contributed to the Library Journal and other periodicals.
Schwatka, Frederick
naval officer, author. He was a naval officer and explorer; and the author of In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along Alaska's Great River; and The Children of the Cold. He died in 1892.
Schweinitz, Edmund Alexan- Der
bishop, college president, author, was born March 20, 1825, in Bethlehem, Pa. He was a Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president of the Moravian college in 1867-84; and the author of 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; and Systematic Benevolence. He died Dec. 18, 1887, in Bethlehem, Pa.
Schweinitz, Lewis David De
clergyman, botanist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1780, in Bethlehem, Pa. He was a Moravian clergyman of Bethlehem, Pa., famous in his day as a botanist; and the author of Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Caroline Superioris; Synopsis Fungorum in America; and Boreali Media Digentium. He died Feb. 8, 1834, in Bethlehem, Pa.
Schwindt, G. E
statesman. He is prominently identified with the educational and business interests of Prentice, Wis.; and has filled numerous public offices of trust in his city, county, and state.
Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson
clergyman, state legislator, was born Aug. 19, 1844, in Clinton, Mich. This eminent clergyman of the congregational church was a pastor for twelve years in Dallas, Tex.
In 1872 he was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Scofield, Edward
soldier, state senator, governor, was born March 28, 1842, in Oconto, Pa. During the civil war he served with distinction in the eleventh Pennsylvania reserved; and received the brevet of major. In 1886 he was elected state senator for four years; and in 1896 was elected governor of Wisconsin.
Scofield, Glenni W
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born March 11, 1817, in Chautauqua county, N.
Y. In 1850 and 1851 he was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, and from 1857 to 1859 was in the state senate. In 1861 he was appointed president judge of the eighteenth judicial district of the state. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtyninth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses as a republican.
He was register of the treasury of the United States from 1878 to 1881, when he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court of claims.
Scollard, Clinton
educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1861, in Clinton, N. Y. He is an educator of Clinton, N. Y., professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton college in 1888-96, 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; and A Boy's Book of Rhyme.
In prose he has published Under Summer Skies; and On Sunny Shores.
Scotford, Henry Clinton
clergyman, was born Oct. 30, 1849, in Saline, Mich. He is the son of Rev. John Scotford, a congregational minister who died in 1881, and was the author of several works. He received his education in the Olivet college, from which institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; the degree of B. D. was conferred by the Yale Theological seminary; and the degree of D. D. by the Philander Smith college. This eminent minister of the congregational church has filled pastorates in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and is now pastor of his church in Nashua, Iowa. While filling a pastorate in Kansas City he was the editor of The Church Builder and The Christian Era.
Scott, Abraham M
governor. He was governor of Mississippi from 1831 to 1833.
Scott, Allen Darling
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in Springville, N. Y. For many years he was a lecturer and instructor of the law school of the Buffalo university. For two years he was surrogate of his county, and for two terms county judge. He served as a state senator of the New York legislature from the thirty-second senatorial district.
Scott, Andrew
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and in 1819 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that territory.
Scott, Austin
educator, college president, was born Aug. 10, 1848, in Maunree, Ohio. In 1883 he was appointed professor of history, political economy and constitutional law of the Rutgers college, holding this position until 1890, when he became president of the same college.
Scott, Charles
soldier, governor, was born in 1733 in Cumberland county, Va. He was appointed colonel of the third Virginia battalion in 1776, and was made brigadier-general in 1777. He was governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812.
He died Oct. 23, 1813.
Scott, Charles
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 12, 1811, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was a lawyer of Jackson, Miss.; and the author of Analogy of Ancient Craft Masonry to Natural and Revealed Religion; and The Keystone of the Masonic Arch.
He died May 30, 1861, in Jackson, Miss.
Scott, Charles
soldier, lawyer, banker, was born Nov. 7, 1847, in Jackson, Miss. At the age of fifteen he joined the confederate army, and served with distinction. He is one of the leading lawyers of the south at Rosedale, Miss.; the president of the bank of Rosedale; prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state; and for many years was president of the Mississippi levee commissioners. He is possessed of a constructive talent which places him in the front rank of lawmakers; and his name has several times been mentioned in connection with the senatorship of his state.
Scott, Charles Frederick
journalist, legislator, was born Sept. 7, 1860, near Iola, Kansas. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native county, and at the Kansas State university. Since 1892 he has been the owner and editor of The Register of Iola, Kan.
In 1891 he was a member of the board of regents of the state university; was president of the Kansas State Editorial association in 1893; president of the Kansas State Republican league in 1895; and a candidate for presidential elector in 1896. During 1892-96 he was a member of the senate of the Kansas state legislature; and on several important committees; and served with distinction in that body.
He
Scott, Charles L
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1827, in Richmond, Va. In 1856 he was elected a representative from California to the thirty-fifth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-sixth congress. left his seat in congress in March, 1861, and went to Alabama, where he enlisted in the confederate army, and was elected major of his regiment. In 1877 he removed to Monroe county, Ala., and engaged in planting. In 1881 he resumed the practice of his profession at Monroeville, Ala.; and in 1885 was appointed United States minister to Venezuela.
Scott, Charles Winfield
physician, author, was born in October, 1849, in Johnson, Vt. For many years he practiced medicine in his native town; moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1876, and was there elected a member of the court of common council in 1881-83. In 1883 he moved to Kansas City, Mo., and was appointed professor of anatomy at the Kansas City Hospital of Medicine; and is now a prominent physician of Boston, Mass. In 1863, when thirteen years of age, he enlisted in the union army; at fourteen years of age he was chief bugler and dispatch carrier in the second brigade of the first division second corps army of the Potomac; was one of the youngest soldiers of the war, and was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va. He is the author of a work entitled Key Notes of Health and a Century of Life; and several medical papers on Hygiene and Health.
SCOTT, EBEN [EZER] GREENOUGH, author, was born in 1836 in Pennsylvania.
He is a writer of Wilkesbarre, Pa.; and the author of Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Interstate System of Pennsylvania; and Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America.
Scott, Edward
lawyer, author, was born in 1774 in Virginia. He was a Tennessee lawyer, prominent in the state's early history, who published Laws of the State of Tennessee in 1822. He died in
Scott, Frederick R
railroad president, was born in 1830 in Ireland. Since 1873 he has been president of Richmond and Petersburg railroad.