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Schwatka, Frederick

naval officer, author. He was a naval officer and explorer; and the author of In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along Alaska's Great River; and The Children of the Cold. He died in 1892.

SCHWEINITZ, EDMUND ALEXAN- DER, bishop, college president, author, was born March 20, 1825, in Bethlehem, Pa. He was a Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president of the Moravian college in 1867-84; and the author of The Moravian Manual; The Moravian Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle to the Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian Church; History of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; and Systematic Benevolence. He died Dec. 18, 1887, in Bethlehem, Pa. SCHWEINITZ, LEWIS DAVID DE, clergyman, botanist, author, was born Feb. 13, 1780, in Bethlehem, Pa. He was a Moravian clergyman of Bethlehem, Pa., famous in his day as a botanist; and the author of Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Caroline Superioris; Synopsis Fungorum in America; and Boreali Media Digentium. He died Feb. 8, 1834, in Bethlehem, Pa.