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Seymour, Moses

soldier, state legislator, was born July 23, 1742, in Hartford, Conn. He held the office of town-clerk of Litchfield for thirty-seven years consecutively from 1789 till his death, was elected annually to the legislature from 1795 till 1811, and was active in the affairs of the protestant episcopal church. He died Sept. 17, 1826, in Litchfield, Conn.

Seymour, Thomas Day

educator, author, was born in 1840 in Ohio. He is a professor of Greek at Yale university from 1880, and the author of Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad; Selected Odes of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer; and Homer's Iliad.

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Seymour, Thomas Hart

soldier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1808 in Hartford, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1843 to 1845. In 1846 he went to Mexico as a major of the New England regiment. He was elected governor of the state of Connecticut in 1850, and was three times re-elected.

He was subsequently appointed minister to Russia. He died Sept. 3, 1868, in Hartford, Conn.

Seymour, Truman

soldier, was born Sept. 25, 1824, in Burlington, Vt. He served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars, and attained the brevet of major-general in the United States army.

Seymour, William

state legislator, congressman, was born in Connecticut.

He served as a member of the New York assembly in 1832 and 1834; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837.

Shackelford, James M

soldier, lawyer, was born July 7, 1827, in Lincoln county, Kỳ. He served in the Mexican war as a lieutenant; and during the civil war attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. Since 1865 he has practiced law in Evansville, Ind., and in 1880 was a republican presidential elector.

Shadwick, William

congressman.

He was a member of congress from North Carolina during the years 1796 and 1797.

Shafer, Helen Almira

educator, was born Sept. 23, 1839, in Newark, N. J.

In 1877 she became professor of mathematics at Wellesley college, near Boston, Mass., and was made president of this institution in 1888.

Shafroth, John F

lawyer, congressman, was born June 9, 1854, in Fayette, Mo. He practiced law at Fayette, Mo., until 1879, when he removed to Denver, Col., where he has ever since pursued his profession. In 1887 he was elected city attorney of Denver, and was reelected to the same position in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a silver republican.

Shafter, James Mcmillan

lawyer, state legislator, was born May 27, 1816, in Athens, Vt. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, practiced law in Townsend and Burlington, Vt., served in the legislature, and in 1842-49 was secretary of state. Removing to Wisconsin in 1849, he served in the legislature, was its speaker, and in 1852 was a defeated candidate for congress. In 1852 he removed to California; served in the California senate in 1861-62, and again in 1863-64.

Shafter, Oscar Lovell

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 19, 1812, in Athens, Vt.

In 1854 he removed to California, and practiced his profession there until 1864, when he became associate justice of the state supreme court for a term of ten years. He died Jan. 23, 1873, in Florence, Italy.

Shanklin, George S

congressman.

He was a presidential elector in 1864, and was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress.