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Sayre, David Austen – Schenck, Abraham H

Sayre, David Austen

philanthropist, was born March 12, 1793, in Bottle Hill, N. J. He removed in early life to Lexington, where he became a successful merchant and banker. Though repeatedly meeting with heavy losses, he gave about $500,000 to benevolent objects during his lifetime, including $100,000 to found the Sayre institute. He died Sept. 11, 1870, in Lexington, Ky.

Sayre, Lewis Albert

educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 29, 1820, in Bottlehill, N. J. He is a distinguished surgeon of New York city, and professor of orthopedic surgery in Bellevue Hospital college. He is the author of a Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on Orthopædic Surgery; and Spinal Curvature and Its Treatment.

Scammon, Eliakim Parker

soldier, educator, was born Dec. 27, 1816, in Whitefield, Maine. He was professor in Mount St. Mary's college of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856-58, and president of the Polytechnic college in that city from 1859- 61. He became colonel of the twenty-third Ohio regiment in 1861, served in western Virginia and Maryland, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers.

Scammon, John F

merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1786, in Saco, Maine. He served in the Massachusetts legislature as a representative during 1817, and in the Maine legislature in 1820 and 1821. He was collector of customs at Saco from 1829 to 1841. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1845 to 1847; and was a state senator in 1855. He died May 23,

Scanlan, Lawrence

clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in Ireland.

In 1868 he was ordained a priest in Dublin, and in 1873 was consecrated bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah.

SCANLAND, MRS. AGNES LEONARD, author, was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Louisville, Ky. She is a writer of Leadville, Colo.; and the author of several works.

Scannell, Richard

bishop, was born May 12, 1844, in Ireland. He is an eminent Roman catholic bishop of Concordia, Kan.

Scarborough, John

bishop of New Jersey, was born April 25, 1831, in Ireland.

He has filled pastorates in Troy and New York city; and became protestant episcopal bishop of New Jersey.

Scarbrough, William

planter, inventor, was born Feb. 18, 1776, in Lower Three Runs, S. C. He built the first ocean steam boat, The Savannah, that crossed the Atlantic in 1819. He died June 11, 1838, in New York.

Schaff, David T

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1852, in Mercersburg, Pa. He is now a pastor of the presbyterian church in Jacksonville, Ill. He was the co-editor of the Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, a work of four volumes.

Schell, Richard

congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress, to fill a vacancy.

Schem, Alexander Jacob

statistician, author, was born March 16, 1826, in Prussia. He was a statistician of note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city in 1874-81. He was the author of Latin English Dictionary; Statistics of the World; and Cyclopædia of Education. He died May 21, 1881, in Hoboken, N. J.

Schenck, Abraham H

manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1777.

He was a member of the New York assembly in 1804-06; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1831.