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Scherer, John Jacob

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Feb. 7, 1830, in Wythe county, Va. He was president of Colorado college, Texas, for twenty years; president of Marion Female college, Virginia; and president of the general synod south of the Lutheran church.

SCHERESCHEWSKY, SAMUEL ISAAC JOSEPH, clergyman, author, was born May 6, 1831, in Russia. He is third protestant episcopal bishop of the China mission. He was consecrated in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some years in Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a translation of the Bible into Chinese.