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Schussele, Christian

artist, was born April 16, 1824, in Alsace. He worked at chromo-lithography, which he had also followed in France, but later he devoted himself almost entirely to painting. His best-known works are Clear the Track; Franklin before the Lords in Council; Men of Progress, in Cooper institute, New York; Zeisberger Preaching to the Indians; The Iron-Worker and King Solomon; Washington at Valley Forge (1862); and Home on Furlough, and McClellan at Antietam. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in Merchantville, N. J. SCHUWERK, WILLIAM MARTIN, lawyer, legislator, was born April 12, 1856, in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years this able lawyer was the prosecuting attorney for Evansville, Ill. He served as a member of the thirty-sixth general assembly of the Illinois legislature.