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Waterman, Sigismund

physician, surgeon, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 22, 1819, in Bavaria. In 1857 he was appointed police surgeon, which place he filled for nearly thirty years, and during the civil war he was made one of the draft surgeons. Among his papers are Practical Remarks on Scarlatina; Therapeutic Employment of Oxide of Zinc; and Spectral Analysis as an Aid in the Diagnosis of Disease. WATERMAN, SYLVANUS DEXTER, soldier, educator, was born Sept. 14, 1842, in Litchfield, Maine. In 1861 he graduated from Bowdoin college, and served gallantly through the civil war in the third regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry. He has attained success in educational work; has been superintendent of schools in Greencastle, Ind.; principal of grammar schools in Louisville, Ky.; for twelve years was principal of the high school in Stockton, Cal.; and is now principal of high school and general superintendent of public schools of Berkeley, Cal. In 1882 he was republican nominee for state superintendent of public instruction of California.