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Soper, Erastus Burrows

soldier, lawyer, business man, was born Sept. 15, 1841, in Pitcher. N. Y. During 1857-61 he attended the Western college; Cornell college during 1865-68, and subsequently received from the latter institution the degree of A. M. During the civil war he served as private, sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain in the first and twelfth regiments Iowa volunteer infantry. He has resided in Iowa since 1847, and is an able lawyer and business man of Emmetsburg. He has been director, vice-president and president of a large number of banking and other corporations; is a charter member of the Iowa Society Sons of the American Revolution; is prominent in fraternal orders; and for twenty years has been an active and influential member of the board of trustees of Cornell college.

SOPHOCLES, EVANGELINUS APOS- TOLIDES, scholar, educator, author, was born March 8, 1807, in Greece. He was a Greek scholar of distinction, and professor at Harvard university in 1849-83. His chief work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods; and among his other publications are Greek Grammar for Learners; and History of the Greek Alphabet. He died Dec. 17, 1883, in Cambridge, Mass.