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Searles, William Henry – Seccomb, Joseph

Searles, William Henry

civil engineer, author, was born in 1837 in Ohio.

He is a civil engineer; and the author of Field Engineering; and The Railroad Spiral.

Sears, Barnas

clergyman, educator, author, was born Nov. 19, 1802, in Sandisfield, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological seminary in 1836-48, and president of Brown university in 1855-67. He is the author of Life of Luther; The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; and Essays on Classical Literature. He died July 6, 1880, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

Sears, Edward I

journalist, educator, author, was born in 1819 in Ireland. He was professor of languages in Manhattan college. He became editor and proprietor of the National Quarterly, a literary magazine, in 1860, and conducted it until his death. He published, under the pen-name of H. E. Chevalier, Legends of the Sea. He died Dec. 7, 1876, in New York city.

Sears, George W

soldier, author, was born in 1821 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of Wellsboro, Pa., who served in the federal army during the civil war. He is the author of Woodcraft; and Forest Runes (verse).

Sears, Robert

publisher, was born June 28, 1810, in St. John, N. B. His books were among the first of the now well-known class of books sold exclusively by suscription.

Sears, Schuyler Earl

clergyman, poet, was born April 7, 1868, in Sharon, Ohio. He graduated from the Baldwin university and the Drew Theological seminary, and has received the degree of B. A. He now fills a pastorate in the methodist episcopal church at Perrysville, Ohio; and is the author of more than a hundred poems, which have appeared in the Cleveland Leader, and other current periodicals.

Seat, William J

business man, legislator, was born June 14, 1866, in Polk county, Ore. He is a successful business man of Vollmer, Idaho; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Idaho state legislature.

Seaver, Ebenezer

congressman, was born in 1763. He was a member of the state legislature from 1794 to lou2; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1820; and a representative in congress from Massachusetts in 1803- 13. He died March 1, 1844, in Roxbury, Mass.

Seawell, Molly Elliott

author, was born in 18- in Virginia. She is a Washington writer and newspaper correspondent; and the author of The Sprightly Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston, a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian, and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis; Midshipman Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and Thin; A Strange, Sad Comedy; and Quarterdeck and Fok'sle.

Seawell, Washington

soldier, was born in 1802 in Virginia. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1865.

Seccomb, John

clergyman, author, was born April 25, 1708, in Medford, Mass.

He was a congregational minister at Harvard, Mass., in 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey's Will, a once extremely popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the Widow Abbey, He died in January, 1793, in Nova Scotia.

Seccomb, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born in 1706 in Medford, Mass. He was a congregational minister at Kingston, N. H., from 1737, and author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as God. He died in 1760.