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Satterlee, Henry Yates

bishop, author, was born Jan. 11, 1843, in New York city. He is the first protestant episcopal bishop of Washington, and prior to 1896 a prominent clergyman of New York city. He is the author of A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed. SATTERLEE, RICHARD SHERWOOD, soldier, surgeon, was born Dec. 6, 1798, in Fairfield, N. Y. He became United States medical purveyor in 1853, held that office till the close of the civil war, and in 1864 was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general. He became lieutenant-colonel and chief medical purveyor in 1866, and was retired in 1869. He died Nov. 10, 1880, in New York city.

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