Semling, C. Knute
educator, journalist, was born June 8, 1865, in Norway. He has been principally engaged in educational work; was professor in Druflat college of Portland, N. D.; was editor of the Northwest Standard at Grafton, N. D.; has been justice of the peace of Halsted; and during 1892-94 was proprietor of the Halsted Reporter. He now resides in Gary, Minn., engaged in journalistic work.
SEMMES, ALEXANDER JENKINS, clergyman, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 17, 1828, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a surgeon in the confederate navy who became a Roman catholic clergyman, president of Pio Nono college, Macon, Ga., from 1886. He is the author of Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; and Notes from a Surgical Diary.