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Segar, Joseph E

state legislator, congressman, was born June 1, 1804, in King William county, Va. In 1836 he was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia, and continued to serve for several years; and was again elected to the same position in 1848, and continued to serve almost uninterruptedly until the state rebelled against the union. After eastern Virginia was restored to the federal authority, he was elected a representative from Virginia to the thirty-seventh congress. He died in 1855.

Seguin, Edouard

physician, author, was born Jan. 20, 1812, in France. He was a French physician who came to the United States in 1848 and whose specialty was the training of idiots. Among his many works on this and other professional topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical Thermometry; and Idiocy and Its Treatment by the Physiological Methods. He died Oct. 28, 1880, in New York city.

Segur, Seth Willard

clergyman, author, was born in 1831, in Vermont.

He was a congregational clergyman of Ohio, and subsequently of Massachusetts, and was the author of Relation and Responsibilities of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation's Hope; and National Blessings and Duties. He died in 1875.

Seidenbush, Rupert

Roman.catholic bishop, was born Oct. 30, 1830, in Bavaria. The northern part of Minnesota was erected into a vicariate apostolic by a papal brief on Feb. 12, 1875, and he was appointed its vicar apostolic, under the title of bishop of Halia in partibus.

Seip, Theodore Lorenzo

college president, was born June 25, 1842, in Easton, Pa. In 1886 he was elected president of the Muhlenberg college, Pa., which position he still holds.

Selden, Dudley

lawyer, congressman. He was a prominent member of the New York bar; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. He died Nov. 7, 1855, in Paris, France.

Selden, Henry Rogers

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 14, 1805, in Lyme, Conn. In 1862 he was appointed a judge of the court of appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, and he was afterward elected for a full term, but resigned in 1864. He published Reports, New York Court of Appeals, 1851-54, in six volumes. He died Sept. 18, 1885, in Rochester, N. Y.

Selden, Joseph

lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and in 1820 was appointed judge of the United States court for the territory of Arkansas.

Selden, Samuel Lee

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 12, 1800, in Lyme, Conn.

He began to practice law in Rochester, N. Y., in 1825, was chancery clerk and first judge of common pleas in Monroe county for many years, and in 1847 was elected justice of the supreme court. In 1856 he was elected judge of the court of appeals, which place he resigned in 1862.

He died Sept. 20, 1876, in Rochester, N. Y.

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver

naval officer, was born April 24, 1804, in Boston, Mass. He became a rear admiral on the retired list in 1870.

Selfridge, Thomas Oliver

naval officer, was born Feb. 6, 1837, in Charlestown, Mass. In 1870 he was the commander of the Darien exploring expedition. SELIGMAN, EDWIN ROBERT AN- DERSON, educator, author, was born in 1861, in New York, He is a professor of political economy and finance in Columbia college, and the author of Chapters on Mediæval Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs; Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice; and Essays on Taxation.