Seaman, Ezra Champion – Seawell, Washington
Seaman, Ezra Champion
comptroller, author, was born Oct. 14, 1805, in Chatham, N. Y. He was the comptroller of the treasury in 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State prisons. He was the author of Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The American System of Government; and Views of Nature. He died July 1, 1880, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Seaman, Henry J
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
Seaman, Valentine
physician, author, was born April 2, 1770, in Hempstead, L. I. He was a once prominent physician of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination. He was the author of Waters of Saratoga; Midwife's Monitor; and On Vaccination.
He died July 3, 1817, in New York city.
Search, Preston Willis
educator, lecturer, was born April 10, 1853, in Marion, Ohio. He received his education at the university of Wooster, Ohio. In 1873-74 he was principal of Millersburg academy of Ohio; and has since been superintendent of public schools in West Liberty and Sidney, Ohio; in Pueblo, Colo.; in Los Angeles, Cal.; and since 1896 in Holyoke, Mass. He is a noted writer and lecturer on Individualism in Education, of which doctrine he is the leading exponent. He was the originator of the Pueblo plan of individual instruction; and is the editor of The Advance in Education.
Searight, Thomas B
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in Fayette county, Pa. In 1848 he graduated from the Washington college, and was intimately associated with James G. Blaine while at college. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the east; has a large practice in Uniontown, Pa.; has served as a representative in both houses of the Pennsylvania state legislature; and is the author of The History of the National Road; Letters on States' Rights; and various other valuable contributions to historical literature.
Searing, John A
agriculturist, congressman, was born May 14, 1814, in Queens county, N. Y. He was chosen a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress.
Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine
[REDDEN], author, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1840, in Somerset county, Md. She is a poet and journalist now living in California, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. She is the author of Sounds from Secret Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; and Brother and Sister.
Searl, Fernando C
lawyer, poet, was born July 18, 1825, in Scioto county, Ohio. He is a prominent attorney of Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession for many years, and has filled various public positions of trust. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press, and his poems have appeared in the leading magazines of America, and in Poets of America and other standard works. He is the author of a volume of Collected Poems.
Searle, Arthur
astronomer, educator, author, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in England. He is a professor of astronomy at Harvard university from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.
Searle, George Mary
astronomer, educator, author, was born June 27, 1839, in England. He went to Harvard as assistant in the observatory in 1866, and remained there until 1868, when he joined the Paulists, and was ordained as a priest in that community in March, 1871, having been converted to the Roman catholic faith in 1862. He has had charge of the science teaching of the seminary that forms part of the home in New York.
Searle, James
merchant, congressman, was born about 1730 in New York city. He settled in Philadelphia about 1763. He signed the non-importation agreement of 1765; was one of the managers of the United States lottery from 1776 to 1778. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.
He died Aug. 7, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Searles, William Henry
civil engineer, author, was born in 1837 in Ohio.
He is a civil engineer; and the author of Field Engineering; and The Railroad Spiral.
Sears, Barnas
clergyman, educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1802, in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological seminary in 1836-48, and president of Brown university in 1855-67. He is the author of Life of Luther; The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; and Essays on Classical Literature. He died July 6, 1880, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Sears, Clinton Brooks
civil and military engineer, was born June 2, 1844, in Penn Yan, N. Y. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan university, and graduated from the United States Military academy in 1867. During the civil war he served as a volunteer, and was in the battles of Richmond and Perryville, Ky.; and Stone River, Tenn.
He was color sergeant of the ninetyfifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in the Vicksburg campaign. Since his graduation in 1867 he has been in charge of various public works, civil and military, on the Atlantic and Pacific coast, and in the Mississippi valley. He is now major in the corps of engineers of the United States army in charge of river and harbor works, with head-quarters at Duluth, Minn.
Sears, Edmund Hamilton
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1810 in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman and religious poet, and pastor at Weston, Mass., in 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; and That Glorious Song of Old.
He died Jan. 14, 1876, in Weston, Mass.
Sears, Edward I
journalist, educator, author, was born in 1819 in Ireland. He was professor of languages in Manhattan college. He became editor and proprietor of the National Quarterly, a literary magazine, in 1860, and conducted it until his death. He published, under the pen-name of H. E. Chevalier, Legends of the Sea. He died Dec. 7, 1876, in New York city.
Sears, George W
soldier, author, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of Wellsboro, Pa., who served in the federal army during the civil war. He is the author of Woodcraft; and Forest Runes (verse).
Sears, Isaac
soldier, congressman, patriot, was born in 1729, in Norwalk, Conn. On the passage of the stamp act he ardently engaged in the patriot cause and became an active member of the Sons of Liberty. He was a member of the provincial congress of New York in 1783 and of the assembly in the same year.
He died Oct. 28, 1786, in China.
SEARS [JOSEPH] HAMBLEN, author, was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of New York city; and the author of The Governments of the World To- Day.
Sears, Robert
publisher, was born June 28, 1810, in St. John, N. B. His books were among the first of the now well-known class of books sold exclusively by suscription.
Sears, Schuyler Earl
clergyman, poet, was born April 7, 1868, in Sharon, Ohio. He graduated from the Baldwin university and the Drew Theological seminary, and has received the degree of B. A. He now fills a pastorate in the methodist episcopal church at Perrysville, Ohio; and is the author of more than a hundred poems, which have appeared in the Cleveland Leader, and other current periodicals.
Seat, William J
business man, legislator, was born June 14, 1866, in Polk county, Ore. He is a successful business man of Vollmer, Idaho; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Idaho state legislature.
Seaton, William Winston
journalist, public official, was born Jan. 11, 1785, in King William county, Va. He became connected with the Register, in Raleigh; in 1812 went to Washington city and joined his brother-in-law in the management of the National Intelligencer, with which he was most honorably identified until his death. He was frequently elected mayor; was a regent of the Smithsonian institution; in conjunction with Mr. Gales, was one of the public printers for very many years. He died June 16, 1866, in Washington, D. C.
Seaver, Ebenezer
congressman, was born in 1763. He was a member of the state legislature from 1794 to lou2; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1820; and a representative in congress from Massachusetts in 1803- 13. He died March 1, 1844, in Roxbury, Mass.
Seawell, Molly Elliott
author, was born in 18- in Virginia. She is a Washington writer and newspaper correspondent; and the author of 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; and Quarterdeck and Fok'sle.
Seawell, Washington
soldier, was born in 1802 in Virginia. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1865.