Semple, Eugene – Settle, Evan E
Semple, Eugene
lawyer, governor, was born June 12, 1840, in Bogota, New Granada, South America. He graduated from the law school of the Cincinnati university in 1863; was a practicing lawyer in Portland, Ore., in 1864; editor of the Daily Oregon Herald in 1869; and state printer of Oregon in 1872. He was governor of Washington territory in 1888; candidate of the democratic party for governor of Washington in 1889; and harbor line commissioner of the state in 1891.
In 1897 he became president of the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Co.
Semple, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1798, in Greene county, Ky. He was colonel of an Illinois regiment in the Black Hawk war; brigadier-general of the militia; speaker of the house of representatives; attorney general; chief justice of the supreme court and senator in congress from Illinois; and minister to New Grenada from the United States. He took a prominent part in the agitation for settling and holding the Oregon country, making speeches in that behalf in the Mississippi valley in 1842, and introducing, Jan. 8, 1844, in the United States senate, a resolution directing the president of the United States to give notice to his Britannic majesty of the desire of this country to abrogate the treaty by which the two countries jointly occupied the Pacific coast of America, from the Mexican province of California to the Russian province of Alaska. He died Dec. 20, 1866, in Elsah Landing, III.
Semple, Robert
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 12, 1851, in Wilkinson county, Miss. In 1869 he graduated from the Virginia Military institute of Lexington, and received the degree of bachelor of law from Washington college in 1870.
The following year he was admitted to the bar; moved to Louisiana, and began practice at New Rhodes, which has since been his home.
He has been district attorney and district judge; and has filled. various other public offices of trust and honor. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press; and while at college was assistant professor of languages at the Virginia Military institute during 1869-70.
Semple, Robert Baylor
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1769, in Virginia. He was a noted baptist clergyman of Virginia; and the author of A History of the Virginia Baptists; and other works. He died Dec. 25, 1831, in Fredericksburg, Va.
Seneff, Michael Burns Loor
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 27, 1862, in Fayette county, Pa. Since 1895 this eminent clergyman has been president of Westfield college, Ill.
Sener, James Beverly
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 18, 1837, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was sergeant of the city of Fredericksburg in 1863; was army correspondent of the southern associated press with General Lee's army during the civil war; and from 1865 was editor of the Fredericksburg Ledger. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-third congress.
He was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Wyoming in 1879.
Seney, George Ebbert
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born May 29, 1832, in Uniontown, Pa. In 1857 he was elected judge of the common pleas court, and served five years. He served as a commissioned officer in the union army during the civil war. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1876. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. In 1887 he was chairman of the democratic state convention of Ohio. He was the author of Seney's Code of Procedure.
Seney, George Ingraham
philanthropist, banker, was born May 12, 1826, in Astoria, L. I. He rose from the post of paying teller in the Metropolitan bank, New York city, to the presidency of that institution, holding the latter office in 1877-84. He founded the Seney scholarships and largely endowed Wesleyan university, and has contributed to miscellaneous charities more than $400,000.
Seney, Joshua
congressman, was born in 1750, on eastern shore of Maryland. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1789 to 1792. He was presidential elector in 1792. He died in 1799, in Maryland.
Senn, Nicholas
physician, author, was born Oct. 31, 1844, in Switzerland.
In 1890 he was appointed surgeon-general of Wisconsin; and now holds the same position in Illinois. He is the author of The Surgical Bacteriology; Intestinal Surgery; Principles of Surgery; and Syllabus of Surgery.
Senter, Dewitt C
governor. He was governor of Tennessee in 1869-71.
Senter, Isaac
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1755, in New Hampshire. He was a surgeon in the revolutionary army, and accompanied Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec, an interesting account of which he published in the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He died Dec. 20, 1799, in Newport, R. I.
Senter, William T
congressman, was born in 1802, in Granger county, Tenn. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1843 to 1845. He died Aug. 28, 1849.
Serfass, Tilghman H
educator, was born Aug. 17, 1855, in Gilbert, Pa.
He attended Weaversville academy, Shippensburg State Normal school, and the Muhlenburg college. For eight years he taught in the public schools of his native city, and for four years was vice-principal of Fairview academy. Then for seven years he was principal of Fairview academy; was elected superintendent of schools in 1893, and received the re-election in 1896.
Sergeant, John
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1779, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was elected from Pennsylvania a representative to congress, and served from 1815 to 1823, from 1827 to 1829, and from 1837 to 1842. He was especially famous for his part in the great Missouri compromise in 1820. In 1832 he was the whig candidate for vice-president, being upon the same ticket with Henry Clay. He died Nov. 25, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sergeant, Jonathan Dickinson
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1746, in Newark, N. J. He was a member of the continental congress in 1776 and 1777; and took his seat a few days after the declaration of independence. In 1777 he became attorney-general of Pennsylvania.
He died Oct. 8, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sergeant, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1782, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia jurist, and the author of Treatise on the Law of Pennsylvania Relating to Proceedings by Foreign Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania; and Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers. He died May 8, 1860, in Philadelphia.
Service, Francis G
lawyer, jurist, was born in New Jersey. He removed to Ohio, from which state he was appointed an associate justice for the territory of Montana, residing at Virginia City.
Session, Walter L
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Brandon, Vt. He was commissioner of schools for several years; was a member of the New York assembly in 1853 and 1854; and was a member of the state senate in 1859 and 1865. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and in 1884 was elected a representative to the fortyninth congress as a republican.
Sessums, Davis
bishop of Louisiana, was born July 7, 1858, in Houston, Texas.
He is an eloquent orator, and a metaphysician of some note. He has published various metaphysical theses, together with some episcopal addresses, lectures and sermons.
Seth, James
educator, author, was born in 1860, in Scotland. He is a professor of moral philosophy in Cornell university from 1896, and the author of A Study of Ethical Principles.
Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann
[BAYLEY], author, was born Aug. 28, 1774, in New York city. She was the founder and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United States.
After the death of her husband she became a Roman catholic, took the veil as a sister of charity in 1809, and in 1812 fcunded at Emmettsburg, Md., the first American house of the order. She was the author of a volume entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: A Fragment of Real History, which was published in 1817. She died Jan. 4, 1821, in Emmettsburg, Md.
Seton, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 28, 1839, in Italy. He is a Roman catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in the United States, and the author of Memoirs, Letters and Journal of E. Seton; and Essays on Various Subjects, principally Roman.
Seton, William
naval officer, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1835, in New York city. He is a naval officer of the United States, and the author of Romance of the Charter Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel's Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; and The Pioneer, a poem.
Settle, Evan E
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1848, in Frankfort, Ky. He was elected county attorney from Owenton, Ky., in 1878, reelected in 1882, and again in 1886. He resigned in 1887, and was twice elected to the Kentucky legislature, and served in that body in sessions of 1887-88 and 1889- 90. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.