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Schermerhorn, Simon J

farmer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1827, in Rotterland, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected without opposition to the New York state legislature. He is interested in banking, being a director and trustee of local banks. He was on the Cleveland electoral ticket in 1888, representing the old twentieth district of the state of New York; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

SCHIEFFLIN, SAMUEL BRADHURST, author, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in New York city. He is a business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics.

He is the author of Message to the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers; and The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.