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Sullivan, John Langdon

civil engineer, physician, was born April 9, 1777, in Saco, Maine. He was appointed engineer of the first canal in the United States, between Boston harbor and the Merrimac river, and in 1814 received a patent for the first steam tow-boat. He died Feb. 9, 1865, in Boston, Mass.

SULLIVAN, JOHN TURNER SAR- GENT, lawyer, author, poet, was born in 1813 in Boston, Mass. He wrote several well-known songs, and, besides the memoir of his father, published translations of stories from the German. He died Dec. 30, 1838, in Boston, Mass.

SULLIVAN, MARGARET FRANCES, journalist, author. She is literary and art editor of the Chicago Tribune and an editorial contributor to the press of New York. She is author of Ireland of To-Day; and Mexico, Picturesque, Political and Progressive.