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Summers, Thomas Osmond – Sumner, Jethro

Summers, Thomas Osmond

was born Oct. 11, 1812, in England. He was a methodist clergyman of Nashville, and the author of Commentary on the Gospels, Acts, and Ritual of the Methodist Church South; Treatise on Baptism; On Holiness; and Talks Pleasant and Profitable. He died in 1882.

Summers, William Douglas

lawyer, was born Nov. 10, 1862, in Kentucky.

He taught school for a while, and in 1882 moved to Harrisville, Mo., and two years later was admitted to the bar. He is now one of the ablest and most learned lawyers of Missouri; takes a prominent part in political affairs, and ranks high in various fraternal orders.

Summey, George

clergyman, college president, was born June 3, 1853, in Asheville, N. C. This eminent presbyterian clergyman since 1892 has been chancellor of the Southwestern Presbyterian university of Clarksville, Tenn., and since 1887 has been editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly.

Sumner, Charles Fletcher

physician, legislator, jurist, was born March 28, 1817, in Hebron, Conn. For three terms this eminent physician was a member of the Connecticut state legislature, and probate judge for two terms. He is a genealogist and the author of Bolton Town History; and other historical works.

Sumner, Charles Pinckney

lawyer, author, poet, was born in 1766 in Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Boston, high sheriff of Suffolk county from 1825 till his death, and the author of Eulogy on Washington; The Compass; and Letters on Speculative Masonry. He died in 1839.

Sumner, Daniel H

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1837, in Malone, N. Y. In 1871 he settled at Waukesha, Wis., and in 1875 was elected district attorney and served two years. He was unanimously renominated, but declined further service. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-eighth congress.

Sumner, Edwin Vose

soldier, governor, was born Jan. 30, 1797, in Boston, Mass. He was a major in the Mexican war; was governor of New Mexico in 1851-53; and in 1861 was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular army; and served with distinction in a score of battles and engagements. He was made major-general in the regular army for services before Richmond. He died. a March 21, 1863, in Syracuse, N. Y.

Sumner, George

educator, physi-- cian, author, was born Dec. 19, 1793, in Pomfret, Conn. He was a Hartford phy- • sician, professor of botany at Trinity college in 1824-55, and the author of Compendium of Physiological and Systematic Botany. He died Feb. 20, 1855, in Hartford, Conn.

Sumner, George

political economist, author, was born Feb. 5, 1817, in: Boston, Mass. He lectured extensively on philanthropic subjects, and contributed to the North American and the Democratic reviews and to French and German periodicals. His advocacy of the system of solitary confinement in prisons led to its adoption in French penitentiaries,. which furnished the subject for a pamphlet entitled The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline Triumphant in France..

He died Oct. 6, 1863, in Boston, Mass.

Sumner, Increase

lawyer, jurist,. state senator, governor, was born Nov. 27, 1746, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a state representative from Massachusetts from 1776 to 1780, and a state senator from 1780 to 1782. He was an associate judge of the supreme judicial court from 1782 to 1797. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799. He died June 7, 1799, in Roxbury, Mass.

Sumner, Jethro

soldier, was born in 1730 in Virginia. He served throughout the revolutionary war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general. He died in 1790, in Warren county, N. C.