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Sewall, Theodore Lorett

educator, was born Sept. 20, 1853, in Germantown, Ohio. He received his education in the classical and commercial academy of Wilmington, Del.; and graduated from Harvard in 1874, with the degree of A. B.; and from the Harvard Law school two years later. The same year he opened the Boys' Classical school at Indianapolis; and in 1882 founded the Girls' Classical school in the same city, of which his wife, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, is principal.

For ten years he was secretary of the Indianapolis Literary club, and was one year its president. For five years he was secretary of the Contemporary club; founder and secretary of the Indiana Harvard club; and is interested in various reforms, civil service reform, higher education, and in the political enfranchisement of women.

SEWARD, CLARENCE ARMSTRONG, lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1828, in New York city. He was judge-advocate-general of the state of New York in 1856-60. After the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward and his son, Frederick W., he was appointed acting assistant secretary of state.