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Sargent, Aaron Augustus

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 28, 1827, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1861 he was elected a representative from California to the thirtyseventh congress, serving as a member of the select committee on the Pacific railroad, to which enterprise he was particularly devoted, and was re-elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses. He was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879, serving on the committees on naval affairs, mines and mining, and appropriations; and in 1882 was appointed United States minister to Germany. He died Aug. 14, 1887, in San Francisco, Cal.

SARGENT, CHARLES SPRAGUE, journalist, botanist, educator, author, was born April 24, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He is a botanist of eminence, Arnold professor of arboriculture at Harvard university from 1879, and editor of Garden and Forest from 1888. He is the author of The Silva of North America; Report on the Forests of North America: The Woods of the United States; and Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan.