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Schultz, Irwin William – Schuyler, Philip J

Schultz, Irwin William

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 6, 1855, in Phillipsburg, N. J. He has served his native city as mayor, and is the presiding judge of the court of common pleas of his county.

Schultze, Augustus

educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1840, in Germany. For fifteen years this eminent theologian and philologist was professor of exegesis and dogmatics at the Moravian college and Theological seminary of Bethlehem, Pa., and since 1885 has been its president. He is the author of The Mission Fields of the Moravian Church; Grammar and Vocabulary of the Alaskan Eskimo Language; The Theology of Peter and Paul, and other works.

Schultze, John S

railroad president, was born Sept. 30, 1837, in Centre county, Pa. Since 1878 he has been president of the Newburg, Dutchess and Connecticut railroad.

Schumaker, John G

lawyer, congressman, was born June 27, 1826, in Claverack, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected district attorney for Kings county; and in 1862 and 1864 was elected corporation counsel for the city of Brooklyn. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress; and was also elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Schuneman, Martin G

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807.

Schurman, Jacob Gould

educator, college president, author, was born May 22, 1854, in Prince Edward Island.

For many years he was a successful Canadian educator; and since 1892 has been president of Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the president of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the United States and Maryland. He is the author of Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God; and Agnosticism and Religion.

Schuyler, Aaron

educator, mathematician, author, was born Feb. 7, 1828, in New York. He is a mathematician who was professor in Baldwin university and president of that institution in 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan university. He is the author of The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic; Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; and Empirical and Rational Psychology.

Schuyler, Anthony

clergyman, author, was born July 8, 1816, in Geneva, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace church at Orange, N. J., from 1868, and author of Household Religion.

Schuyler, Montgomery

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1814, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ church from 1854; and the author of The Church: its Ministry and Worship; and The Pioneer Church. He died in 1896.

Schuyler, Montgomery

journalist, author, was born Aug. 19, 1843, in Ithaca, N. Y. He is a journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times; and the author of Studies in American Architecture.

Schuyler, Peter

soldier, merchant, was born Sept. 17, 1657, in Albany, N. Y. He was a successful merchant of Albany, and its first mayor. He died Feb. 19, 1724, in Albany, N. Y.

Schuyler, Philip J

congressman, was born in 1768. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819. He died Feb. 21, 1835, in New York city.

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