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SCHWARTZ, Karl:
Priest of the Episcopal Church: horn Nov. 21. 1862, and has always resided in N. Y. State. Son of Sevmour T. and Mary (Swift) Schwartz: was graduated from Cortland Normal School. 1882: Svra- cuse Universitv. 1886: Berkelev Divinity School. 1889; M. A .. Syracuse University. 1895; ordained deacon. and priest, 1889; rector Trinity Church. Lowville, N. Y .. 1899-91; assistant minister Church of Zion and St. Timothy, N. Y. Citv, 1891-98 ; chaplain and captain First N. Y. Volun- teer Infantry in war with Spain. 1898-99. Dean Cathedral Church of the Saviour, Syracuse, N. Y., since 1899. Author: A Catechism; Nature's Correction of In- herited Criminal Tendencies ; The Chris- tian Year: Message ; Before the Cross :
A besides numerous articles and pamphlets. Married Miss Elizabeth Gill 1904. Member of the Council of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1891-93. Address. 302 Hawley Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.
SCHWEITZER, Hugo:
Chemical expert; born Germany, June 8, 1861; educated at Breslau, Freiburg, in Baden, Berlin, Heidelberg (1880-86),
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Germany ; was graduated from Freiburg, Baden. A. B., Ph. D .; special studies in chemistry; assistant instructor organic chemistry Laboratory University of Hei- delberg, Germanv: chemist Badische Ani- lin and Soda Fabrik, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine. Germany: chemist Farbenfabriken, formerly Friedrich Bayer & Co .. Elber- feld, Germany. Since then in practice as chemical expert in N. Y. City; hon- orary secretary Society of Chemical In- dustry. New York Section; president So- ciety German Chemists, New York Sec- tion; secretary, German Universities As- sociation in America; president of Chem- ist Club (elected Jan. 1, 1905). Author of many articles on technical and sci- entific chemical subjects in chemical journals and trade papers. Residence, 427 West 117th St .; office, 40 Stone St., N. Y. City.
SCOLLARD. Clinton:
Author; born Clinton, N. Y .. Sept. 18. 1860; educated at Hamilton College and Harvard University . professor of rhetoric and elocution. Hamilton College. 1891-94; professor of English literature, Hamilton College. 1894-96. Married Georgia Brown, July 3, 1900. Independent. Address,
Clinton, N. Y.
SCOVILL, Edward Washburn:
Republican Assemblyman, representing the county of Columbia; born Brooklyn, 1870. but was taken by his parents to Hudson. Columbia County, N. Y., in 1871, where he has since resided. Was edu- cated in the public schools and at St. Luke's, Philadelphia. and later took a course of study at Cortland Place Insti- tute.
He had spent four years in busi- ness in N. Y. City. when ill health com- pelled him to abandon this, and he re- turned to Hudson. where he has since been prominent. Served over five years in the Twenty-third Separate Co., Na- tional Guard, and was honorably dis- charged at the expiration of his term, at which time he held the rank of corporal. When the Spanish War broke out he was among those who volunteered for the de- fense of his country. Was elected to the Assembly of 1903 and 1904, and was ap- pointed a member of the following As- sembly committees: Commerce and Navi- gation, Public Education. and Federal Relations. Address, Hudson, Columbia County. N. Y.
SCOTT, Edward W .:
President of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York; born Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1845. Entered
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the life insurance business in 1870; be- came connected with the Equitable Life Assurance Society as its superintendent of agencies in 1872; elected a vice-presi- dent of the company in 1884; held that position until Feb., 1896, when he re- signed. In December of that year he was elected president of the Provident Sav- ings, which position he now holds. He is considered one of the ablest, as he is one of the most experienced, men in the busi- ness life insurance. His business abilities are also recognized in other di- rections, being a director in the Mer- chants' Exchange National Bank of N. Y. City, and other financial institutions. He received some years ago a decoration from one of our foreign governments for introducing life insurance into the Span- ish-American countries. He has been an extensive traveler in foreign lands, hav- ing been three times around the globe, and possesses an extended acquaintance at home and abroad. He is a member of the Union League Club, the Merchants Club, the N. Y. Athletic Club, the Law- yers Club, the Columbia Yacht Club, the Suburban Riding and Driving Club. He is also a member of the New England So- ciety, Municipal Art Society, the New York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, American Museum of Natural History, and other institu- tions. Address, 145 Riverside Drive, N. Y. City.
SCOTT, Emily Maria:
Artist; born Springwater, N. Y .; presi- dent of Woman's Art Club, vice-presi- dent of Water Color Club; member Na- tional Arts Club; most of her life a resi- dent of N. Y. City. Organizer and leader in all art movements; received honors in the way of medals and honorable men- tion whenever exhibiting; actively inter- ested in every movement pertaining to advancement in art. Address, 142 East 18th St., N. Y. City.
SCOTT, Francis M .:
Jurist; born N. Y. City, 1848; was graduated from the College of the City of New York, 1867, and from Columbia Col- lege Law School, 1869; was appointed assistant corporation counsel of New York, Feb., 1885; aqueduct commissioner of New York, Aug., 1888; appointed corpora- tion counsel of New York, Feb., 1895; elected justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 1897, for term Jan. 1, 1898, to Dec. 31, 1911. Member University, Man-
hattan, Century, Larchmont Yacht, and other clubs. Residence. 42 Park Ave .; office, County Courthouse, N. Y. City.
SCOTT, Frank Hall:
President of Century Co .; born Terre Haute. Ind., 1848; educated in public schools and Pennsylvania Military Acade- my; has been president of the Century Co. since 1893; president of American Publishers Association ; member of New York Chamber of Commerce, also of the Aldine, Players. Century and City Clubs. Residence, Orange, N. J .; office, 33 East 17th St .. N. Y.
SCOTT, Henry W .:
Jurist; born, 1865, Sangamon Co., Ill .; admitted to the Bar at age of eighteen. Democratic candidate for District Judge in Kansas in 1889, and lacked only five votes of an election. U. S. District Judge of Oklahoma 1893, which he resigned to engage in practice in N. Y. City. Member of firm of Scott & Treadwell. Residence, 201 West 122nd St .; office, 93 Nassau St., N. Y. City.
SCOTT, J. Hutchison:
Born East Liberty, Pa., Feb. 11, 1868; son of Thomas Scott and Matilda Dallas Sanders. Father's family bankers and railroad men of prominence; mother's family diplomatic and army, such as Vice-President George M. Dallas, Hon. William Wilkens, ambassador to Russia, General John Sanders, U. S. Army, Col- onel W. W. Sanders. Appointed to An- napolis Naval Academy by President Arthur, 1884. Resigned Feb., 1885. En- tered merchant service, passing through various grades from boy to boatswain. Entered revenue cutter service as cadet, May, 1890; commended for bravery, 1891, for jumping overboard in Lisbon harbor, Portugal, and saving a seaman suffering from delirium. Was graduated, 1892; assigned to revenue cutter Woodbury. Received thanks of Congress for action at Carden, Cuba, rescuing Torpedo boat Winslow. Officially commended for bravery, Dec., 1899, in taking charge of boat in rescue of Portuguese bark Frater- nidada off Blackstone Rocks in a south- east gale, saving 113 men, women and children. Resigned from revenue cutter service July 1, 1901, receiving from de- partment first official letter of regret ever sent to an officer on his leaving that ser- vice. Is now in employ of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. Member Markham Club of Philadelphia and of Railroad Club of New York. Address, 109 West St., N. Y. City.
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SCOTT, William Forse:
Lawyer, writer; born Dayton, O., Dec. 27, 1844, where he was educated; served during the Civil War in Fourth Iowa Cavalry. Member of the law firm of Scott & Upson. Served U. S. V., 1861-65, pri- vate to adjutant Fourth Iowa Cavalry. Author: The Story of a Cavalry Regiment. Member N. Y. City Bar Association, State Bar Association, Military Service Insti- tution, Massachuetts Military Historical Society, Loyal Legion, Anthropological Society (Yonkers) and various clubs. Residence, Croton, N. Y .; office, 27 Will- iam St., N. Y. City.
SCRANTON, Walter:
President and director of the Continu- ous Metal Refining Co .; vice-president and director of the Cornwall R. R. Co .; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lackawanna Steel Co .; director of the Cornwall Iron Co., Franklin Iron Co., Lackawanna Coal & Coke Co., Marine Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., South Buffalo R. R. Co., Stony Point Land Co., and Tilly Foster Iron Mines. Married Mary Wood- bridge. Member Union, Lotos, and Essex County Country Clubs. Residence, E. Orange, N. J .; office, 100 Broadway, N. Y. City.
SCRIBNER, Arthur Hawley:
Book publisher; born N. Y. City, March 15, 1859; son of Charles and Emma L. (Blair) Scribner; was graduated from Princeton, 1881. Married, 1900, Helen C. Annan. Treasurer and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. Member Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, Dunlap So- ciety, University, Grolier, Racquet, Cen- tury, Aldine, Ardsley, Seawanhaka-Co- rinthian Yacht and 19th Century Clubs. Residence, 39 E. 67th St .; office, 155 5th Ave., N. Y. City.
SCRIBNER, Charles :
Publisher; born N. Y. City, Oct. 18, 1854; son of Charles Scribner (founder of the Scribner publishing house) and of Emnia E. Blair (daughter of John I. Blair, of Blairstown, N. J.); married Louise Flagg, daughter of Rev. Jared B. Flagg, D. D .; member National Academy of Design; was graduated from Prince- ton in 1875, and since then connected with the publishing house; director of National Park Bank, Bank of the Metrop- olis and Plaza Bank. Address, 12 East 38th St .; office, 155 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City. SCRIBNER. Frank Kimball:
Author, short story writer; born N. Y. City, Feb. 22, 1867; son Walter and Har- riet A. Kimball Scribner; was graduated
from Williams, 1890 ; Harvard Law School Married, New York, Alice Margaret Thill. Author: The Honor of the Princess; The Love of the Princess Alice; The Fifth of November; In the Land of the Loom; A Maid of the Colonies; A Continental Cav- alier. Member American Social Science Association, American Canoe Association. Address, 26 E. 21st St., N. Y. City.
SCRIBNER, Gilbert Hilton:
Retired lawyer; born Monroe Co., N. Y., June 23, 1831; son of Sewell B. Scribner; was graduated from Oberlin College, O .; read law with Hon. Daniel B. Taylor of N. Y. City; admitted to Bar, 1856, and practiced his profession until 1868. Mar- ried, 1856, at Rochester, N. Y., Sarah Woodbury, daughter of Hon. James O. Pettengill. Member New York Legisla- ture, 1869; secretary State of New York, 1870-73; president N. Y. Skin and Cancer Hospital. Author: Where Did Life Begin? Contributor to Popular Science Monthly. Member N. Y. Academy of Anthropology, N. Y. Geographical Society, Sons of Am- erican Revolution, Society of American Authors, Union League. Address, "Ingle- hurst," Yonkers, N. Y.
SCRIPTURE, William Ellis :
Jurist ; born Westmoreland, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1843; son of Parker A. and Harriet Standish Snow Scripture; was
educated at Hamilton College and
Albany Law School. Married, 1867, Emma C. Goodwin. Admitted to N. Y. Bar, 1867; Judge Supreme Court Fifth Judicial District; present term expires 1909. Republican. Address, Rome, N. Y.
SCRYMSER, James Alexander:
Capitalist ; born N. Y. City, 1839; was educated at College Hill Academy, Pough- keepsie, N. Y. Served in Civil War in Twelfth N. Y. Volunteers. Projected and organized, 1865, International Ocean Tele- graph Co., operating cable line between West Indies and U. S., also the Mexican Telegraph Co., and the Central and South America Telegraph Co., with cable lines between the U. S. and Mexico and Cen- tral and South America, of which com- panies he is president. Member of Mili- tary Order Loyal Legion, N. Y. Botanical Gardens, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of Jekyl Island, Century, Metropoli- tan, Riding and Union League Clubs. Residence, 107 E. 21st St .; office, 66 Broadway, N. Y. City.
SCUDDER, Edward M .:
Lawyer; was graduated from Trinity College (Conn.), 1877. Member University, Church and Republican Clubs, City Bar
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SCUDDER, Fred C .:
Director of Atlantic Avenue Elevated R. R. Co., Jamaica & South Shore R. R. Co., Long Island R. R. Co., North Shore Branch, Nassau County Ry. Co., N. Y. & Long Beach R. R. Co., N. Y. & Rockaway Beach Railway Co .; Northport Traction Co., Ocean Electric Ry. Co., and West Jamaica Land Co., (Limited). Address, 128 Broadway, N. Y. City.
SCUDDER, Moses Lewis:
Business man, author; born Massachu- setts, 1843; son of Rev. M. L. and Sarah A. Pratt Scudder; was graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1860, Wes- leyan University, 1863. Married, 1873, Clarine Williams. For some years in brokerage business in Chicago. Author: Almost an Englishman; National Bank- ing; Congested Prices. Member American Geographical Society, Union, Players, and Down Town Clubs of N. Y. City and Chi- cago, and Literary Clubs of Chicago. Residence, Huntington, L. I., N. Y .; office, 32 Liberty St., N. Y. City.
SCUDDER, Myron T .:
President of State Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y .; born Palamanir, Madras Presidency, India, Sept. 28, 1860; father and grandfather were missionaries to In- dia, under Dutch Reformed Board; was educated at private schools and acade- mies in New Jersey and Ohio, in San Francisco and Brooklyn; was graduated from Rutgers College in 1882. Married, Miss Martha N. Dumont, of Far Hills, New Jersey, June 20, 1897. A. B. Rutgers College, 1882; and A. M., 1886; student at Yale University, graduate School of Phil- osophy, 1898-99; general secretary Y. M. C. A., Yonkers, N. Y., 1883-84; principal, Fort Plain, N. Y., 1884-89; principal Rome Free Academy, Rome, N. Y., 1889-90; in- structor in Latin and Greek, Plattsburgh State Normal School, 1890-92; inspector of high schools and academies, University of the State of N. Y., 1892-97; principal of Hillhouse high school, New Haven, Conn., 1897-99 ; president New Paltz Nor- mal School, 1899; lecturer, New York Uni- versity School of Pedagogy, 1903-04. Au- thor: New York Supplement of Frye's Geography; also of New York, Its State and Local Government (published by Maynard, Merrill & Co.); also joint au- thor of Gill System of Moral and Civic Training. Republican. Address, State
Normal School, New Paltz, Ulster N. Y.
SCUDDER, Silas Downer:
Banker; born Jan. 1, 1862, Vellore, In- dia; son of American missionaries to In- dia under Dutch Reformed Board; was educated at Hastings, England, finishing with five-year course at Stuttgart, Ger- many. Entered service of Bank of Mon- treal, 62 Wall St., N. Y. City, in 1878. Established banking partnership with
Frank H. Dyckman at Sleepy Eye, Minn. (Bank of Sleepy Eye) in 1882. Because of ill-health moved to San Antonio, Tex., engaging in mortgage loan and insurance business there, representing Scottish Am- erican Mortgage Co. of Edinburgh, Scot- land, and the Germania Fire Insurance Co., of N. Y .; London Assurance Corpora- tion of London, England, and others. In 1896 appointed Southern manager of Ger- mania Fire Insurance Co., N. Y., at New Orleans, La .; promoted to Germania's head office, N. Y., in 1899, and became in- terested in various Northern enterprises. Elected treasurer of North American
Trust Co., of N. Y., in 1901, and now de- voting all his time to the banking depart- ment of that institution. Married at San Antonio, Tex., in Dec., 1886; has three children. Address, 135 Broadway, N. Y. City.
SCUDDER, Townsend:
Ex-member of Congress; born North- port, N. Y., July 26, 1865; son of Townsend and Sarah M. (Frost) Scudder; was edu- cated at common schools, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland; was graduated from Columbia Law School, LL. B., 1888. Married Mary Dannat Thayer; four terms counsel to Queens County; member Congress, 1899-1901, First New York Dis- trict; declined renomination to Fifty- seventh Congress; elected in 1902 to Fifty- eighth Congress from First New York District, overcoming strong Repubucan majority. Democrat. Residence,, Glen Head, Long Island; office, 10 Wall St., N. Y. City
SEABURY, William Jones:
Clergyman; born N. Y. City, Jan. 25, 1837; son of Rev. Samuel and Hannah Amelia Jones Seabury ; graduate of Co- lumbia, 1856, A. M., 1859 ; was admitted to N. Y. Bar, 185S; was graduated from General Theological Seminary, 1866, or- dained deacon and priest, 1866; Hobart College, D. D., 1874; ad eundem, General Theological Seminary, 1885; married,
1868, Alice Van Wyck, daughter of
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Thomas Marston and Mary Susan Sal- tonstall Beare. For thirty years rector Church of the Annunciation, N. Y .; pro- fessor of Ecclesiastical Polity and Law, General Theological Seminary from 1873. Author: Manual for Choristers; Lectures on Apostolic Succession; An Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity; Notes on the Constitution of 1901, 1302. Editor Memoir and Papers of Rev. Sam- uel Seabury, D. D. Address, 8 Chelsea Square, N. Y. City.
SEAGER, Henry Rogers:
Professor Political Economy, Columbia University; born Lansing, Mich., July 21, 1870; son of Schuyler F. and Alice Berry Seager; was graduated from University Michigan, Ph. B., 1890; University of of Pennsylvania, Ph. D., 1894. Author of Introduction to Economics (Holt); mar- ried, 1899, Harriet Henderson, of Phila- delphia. Address, 635 W. 115th St., N. Y. City.
SEAGLE, Nathan A .:
Protestant Episcopal clergyman; born Rutherfordton, N. C., Dec. 24, 1868; son of Philip C. and Mary S. (Drake) Seagle; was graduated from General Theological Seminary, N. Y. City, 1894, and from N. Y. University, 1899; ordained dea- con, 1894; priest, 1895; assistant minister St. Thomas Parish, N. Y. City, 1894- 1900; rector St. Stephen's Parish, N. Y. City, since 1900. Married, April 15, 1895, Emma, daughter of the late John Fraser, Esq., of N. Y. City and England, and niece of ex-Consul Robert W. Fraser. Address, 120 West 69th St., N. Y. City. SEAMAN, Alfred P. W .:
Lawyer; born Winsted, Conn., Sept. 7, 1856; son of the late Samuel A. Seaman, a well-known clergyman of N. Y. City. Was graduated from Columbia College in 1879. Admitted to the Bar in 1880. Has since been actively engaged in prac- tice in the City of N. Y., and interested in philanthropic and political reform movements. Was one of the founders of the Tenement House Building Co., one of the first organizations to erect model tenements in this city, and of the Colonial Club. He has been an active official of the Citizens' Union from its inception, and of the committee of one hundred on. transit reform. Was elected a municipal court justice Nov. 3, 1903, upon a nomina- tion made as a protest against political methods of local political organization. Author: Svengali's Diary, and of various pamphlets and short articles in current
periodicals. Address, 147 West 87th St., N. Y. City.
SEAMAN, Henry Bowman:
Consulting engineer; born N. Y. City, Jan. 20, 1861; son of Valentine H. and Rebecca C. Seaman; was graduated from Swarthmore College, C. E., 1881. Admit- ted to N. Y. Bar; 1886 Assistant Engineer Kings Co. El. Ry .. Brooklyn, N. Y .; chief of engineers Audit Co. of N. Y. City; bridge engineer Erie R.R., 1890, N. Y. L. E. & W., 1898; engineer on construc- tion N. Y., N. H., & H. R. R., 1903; also chief engineer for contractors of Fourth Ave. division of N. Y. City Subway, and for various other constructions. Member of American Institute of Mining Engi- neers, American Society Civil Engineers, American Society Mechanical Engineers. Residence, 135 St. James Place, Brook- lyn; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City.
SEAMAN, Louis L .:
Surgeon; born Newburgh, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1851; was educated at Cornell, and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1876, and from the Medical College of the City of N. Y., in 1877; was graduated from the law de- partment of the University of New York, with the degree of LL.B., in 1884; has practiced medicine since 1876. Married, in 1889, Fannie Blackstone Freeman; was resident surgeon of the New York State Emigrant Hospital, 1877-79; superinten- dent of the State Emigrant Insane Asy- lum, 1879-81; chief of staff of the various hospitals and the training school for nurses, Blackwell's Island; made tour around the world in 1886, and made spe- cial studies in the hospitals in India of the contagious and epidemic diseases peculiar to the Orient. Member American Medical Association, Association of Mili- tary Surgeons, Academy of Medicine
and other similar institutions. Was a delegate to the international medical congresses of London., 1881; Berlin, 1894; Moscow, 1897; Paris, 1900, and Madrid, 1903. Major-surgeon of first regiment of U. S. Volunteer Engineers in the Span- ish-American War; served with the Seven- teenth and Twenty-third U. S. Infantry regiments in the Philippines in 1889-1900, and was with the army of Pekin, 1900-01; is surgeon-general of Spanish-American War Veterans and surgeon of the So- ciety of Colonial Wars and of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-Ain- erican War. Author: The Social Waste of a Great City; The Army Cartridge
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Belt; Utilization of Native Troops in Our SEARS, James H .:
Colonial Possessions; Observations in China on the U. S. Army Ration and the Canteen; The Army Ration and Its Adap- tability for Use in Tropical Climates; Observations in the Russo-Japanese War; From Tokio Through Manchuria with the Japanese. Has contributed many arti- cles to the North American Review, the Century Magazine, the Military Service Institution, and the New International Encyclopaedia, etc. Address, 247 Fifth Ave., N. Y. City.
SEARS, Clinton Brooks :
Lieutenant-Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army; born June 2, 1844, Penn Yan, N. Y .; son of Rev. Clinton W. and Ange- line (Brooks) Sears; enlisted as private in Company G, Ninety-Fifth Ohio Volun- teer Infantry, July 24, 1862, and served as a corporal during campaign in Ken- tucky and Tennessee in battles of Rich- mond, Ky., Perryville, Ky., and Stone River, Tenn., and as acting color sergeant Vicksburg campaign; in both assaults on Vicksburg and two attacks on Jackson, Miss .; upon the nomination of Generals Sherman and Grant was appointed by President Lincoln, a cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, Sept. 15, 1863; was graduated from there June 17, 1867; third in a class of sixty-three members, and assigned to the Engineer Corps, U. S. Army, by commissions as second and first lieutenant, June 17, 1867; served continu- ously since then as an officer of the En- gineer Corps, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on the Northern Lakes, on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, in the Yellowstone National Park, on Southern rivers and in the Philippine Islands, hav- ing had charge of various large and im- portant public works of river and harbor improvement. Member Mississippi River Commission; Division Engineer Gulf Di- vision, and in charge of the S. & S. W. Pass jetties ; commissioned captain, April 9, 1880; major, Sept. 20, 1892, and lieu- tenant-colonel Corps of Engineers, April 21, 1903; member Society of Mayflower Descendants, Colonial Wars, Foreign Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Military Order Loyal Legion, St. Nicholas, Uni- versity and Army and Navy Clubs, New York, and of Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs, Washington, D. C .; Fellow National Academy of Design, New York. Author: Ransom Genealogy; Tidal Harbor Improvements, and other brochures; hon- orary degrees of A. B. and A. M. from Ohio Wesleyan University. Address, New Orleans, La.
Lieutenant-commander U. S. Navy; appointed from New York; entered Naval Academy, Sept. 20, 1871; was graduated June 20, 1876. Ensign, Dec. 1, 1877; lieu- tenant (junior grade) Dec. 2, 1884 ; Asiatic Station, 1875; Kearsarge, North Atlantic Station, 1879-80; Naval Academy, 1881; training ship Portsmouth, 1882-84; Naval Observatory, 1885; Nautical Schoolship, St. Mary's, 1886-88; steamer Baltimore, 1889 to Aug., 1892. Promoted lieutenant Sept. 20, 1890; War College, Oct., 1892, to Nov., 1893; leave of absence, Nov., 1893- 94; C. S. S. Patterson, March, 1894; C. S. S. McArthur, April, 1894-97; Naval Home, May, 1897, to April, 1898; U. S. S. Brook- lyn, April, 1898, to 1899; Torpedo Station, May 18, 1899; Chicago, Nov. 18, 1899. Was promoted to lieutenant-commander, March 29, 1899; Bureau Hydrographic Office, New York, June 1, 1901, to 1903; U. S. S. Brooklyn, 1903. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
SEARS, Joseph Hamblen:
Writer; born Boston, 1865; son of T. Henry Sears; educated at Roxbury Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University, A. B., 1889. Married, 1891, Anna Wentworth Caldwell, of N. Y. City. Author: The Governments of the World To-day; Fur and Feather Tales; None But the Brave. Member Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht and Harvard Clubs. Address, 132 E. 38th St., N. Y. City.
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