Sears, Isaac
soldier, congressman, patriot, was born in 1729, in Norwalk, Conn. On the passage of the stamp act he ardently engaged in the patriot cause and became an active member of the Sons of Liberty. He was a member of the provincial congress of New York in 1783 and of the assembly in the same year.
He died Oct. 28, 1786, in China.
SEARS [JOSEPH] HAMBLEN, author, was born in 1865 in Massachusetts. He is a writer of New York city; and the author of The Governments of the World To- Day.