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Sheats, William Nicholas

educator, state superintendent of public instruction, was born March 5, 1851, in Auburn, Ga. He graduated from Emory college at Oxford, Ga., in 1874. He then taught in the Fletcher institute during 1873-74, and in various other institutions until 1881. In 1880 he was elected superintendent of public instruction of Alachun county, and filled that position by constant re-elections until 1892, since which time he has been state superintendent of public instruction of Florida. In 1885 he was elected a member of the state constitutional convention, and was the author of the article on education adopted by that body, which laid the foundation of the state's educational system, and placed Florida in the lead in public education among all of her southern sisters. His work as state superintendent has been highly successful.

SHECUT, JOHN LINNÆUS EDWARD WHITRIDGE, physician, scientist, author, was born Dec. 4, 1770, in Beaufort, S. C.

He was a once eminent physician and scientist of Charleston, and the author of Flora Carolinensis; Medical and Philosoophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; and A New Theory of the Earth. He died in 1836 in Charleston, S. C.