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Session, Walter L

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Brandon, Vt. He was commissioner of schools for several years; was a member of the New York assembly in 1853 and 1854; and was a member of the state senate in 1859 and 1865. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses; and in 1884 was elected a representative to the fortyninth congress as a republican.

Sessums, Davis

bishop of Louisiana, was born July 7, 1858, in Houston, Texas.

He is an eloquent orator, and a metaphysician of some note. He has published various metaphysical theses, together with some episcopal addresses, lectures and sermons.

Seton, Robert

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 28, 1839, in Italy. He is a Roman catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in the United States, and the author of Memoirs, Letters and Journal of E. Seton; and Essays on Various Subjects, principally Roman.

Seton, William

naval officer, author, poet, was born Jan. 28, 1835, in New York city. He is a naval officer of the United States, and the author of Romance of the Charter Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel's Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; and The Pioneer, a poem.

Settle, Evan E

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1848, in Frankfort, Ky. He was elected county attorney from Owenton, Ky., in 1878, reelected in 1882, and again in 1886. He resigned in 1887, and was twice elected to the Kentucky legislature, and served in that body in sessions of 1887-88 and 1889- 90. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Severance, Luther

journalist, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1797 , in Montague, Mass. He was the founder of the Kennebec Journal, and editor from 1825 to 1849. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1843 to 1847; and was frequently a member of the Maine legislature, serving five years in the assembly and two years in the senate. He died Jan. 25, 1855, in Augusta , Maine.

Severance, Mark Sibley

author, was born in 1846, in Massachusetts. He is the author of Hammersmith: his Harvard Days, a novel.

Severy, Melvin Linwood

dramatist, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1863, in Mel- , poet, was born Aug. 5, 1863, in Melrose, Mass . He is the author of a dozen plays and a volume entitled Fleur-de-Lis.

He is also a lecturer and instructor of oratory in Boston, Mass.

Sevier, Ambrose Hundley

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 4, 1801, in Green county, Tenn.

He was elected a member of the Arkansas state legislature; first in 1823 and again in 1825. From 1827 to 1836 he was a delegate to congress from Arkansas; when the territory became a state, in 1836 , he was elected a senator to congress. He died Dec. 21, 1848, in Little Rock, Ark.

Sevier, John

soldier, congressman, governor, was born in 1744, in Tennessee.

He was a representative in congress from North Carolina in 1790 and 1791; from 1796 to 1801, and 1803 to 1809 was governor of Tennessee; and was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1811 to 1815. He was then appointed one of dary line of the Creek territory. He died the commissioners to ascertain the boun- Sept. 24, 1815, in Fort Decatur, I. T.

Sevier, John

pioneer, was born Sept. 23, 1745, in Rockingham county, Va. He was a pioneer in North Carolina; and served several terms in the legislature of that state from Wapauga. He was also a district judge, and filled various other positions of honor. was