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Sikes, William Wirt

journalist, author, was born in 1836 in Watertown, N. Y. He was a journalist of New York city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, in 1876-83; and the author of British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales; and Studies of Assassination. He died Aug. 19, 1883, in London, England.

SILKMAN, THEODORE HANNIBAL, lawyer, public official, was born March 25, 1858, in New York city. He received his education in Hooper's academy of Yonkers, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar and has since practiced law continuously in New York city. He has been United States commissioner for the city of Yonkers; police commissioner for six years; and is now president of the board.

He began a term of six years as surrogate of West Chester county, N. Y., in 1895.