served on the board of examiners for the admis
sion of volunteer officers to the U.S. navy in
1868; was light- house inspector, 1869-71; was
promoted commodore, Feb. 10, 1869 ; rear ad
miral. Feb. 14, 1873 : was commander-in-chief of
the North Atlantic squadron, 1873-74, and was
retired upon reaching the age limit. June 13, 1874.
He died in Washington. B.C.. March 23. 1882.
SCOTT, Irving Murray, mechanical engineer,
was born at Hebron Mills, Baltimore county,
Md., Dec. 25, 1837 ; son of John and Elizabeth
(Lettig) Scott ; grandson of Thomas and Eliza
beth (Matthews) Scott ; great-grandson of Abra
ham and Elizabeth (Rossiter) Scott, and great 2 -
grandson of Abraham Scott, a Quaker, who emi
grated from Cumberland county, England, June
22, 1722, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he
was married in 1726 to Elizabeth Dyer. He at
tended Milton academy, Md., three years, and
evening classes at the Baltimore Mechanics In
stitute, and obtained employment in the machine
shop of Obed Hussey, the inventor, and later in
larger works in Baltimore. He devoted himself
to draughting of mechanical construction, and
in 1830 removed to San Francisco, where in 1861
he became chief draughtsman of the Union iron
works. He was superintendent of the Union
iron works, 1863-65, general manager, 1865-1903,
and vice-president, 1873-1903, when it was pur
chased by the United Ship Building company.
He was married, Oct. 7, 1863, to Laura Horcl
of Covington, Ky. He designed the machinery
for working the Comstock mines; invented the
Scott and Eckart, and Scott and O Neill cut-off
engines and many other mechanical devices.
He was president of the Art Association (1876-
81 ) . San Francisco, and the Mechanics Institute
(1878-80) and of several other organizations, and
a member of the principal clubs on the Pacific
coast. He was the builder of the U.S. battle
ships Oregon and Olympia. He was a presidential
elector on the Republican ticket in 1896. In 1898
lie visited Russia, Sweden, Denmark. Holland,
Belgium and England in the interests of Ameri
can shipbuilding. He was a regent of the Uni
versity of California, 1878-80 ; a trustee of the
Leland Stanford Junior university, 1891-98 ; and
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appointed U.S. commissioner to the commercial
congress held at Ostend, Belgium, in 1902. He
was married in 1863 to Laura Horde of Covington,
Ky. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him
by Santa Clara university in 1901. He died in
San Francisco, Cal., April 28, 1903.
SCOTT, John, representative, was born in
Hanover county, Va., in 1782. He removed with
his parents to Indian Territory in 1802, and later
to Missouri territory, where he practised law,
1806-61. He was a delegate from Missouri Ter
ritory to the 14th congress as successor to Rufus
Easton, and to the 15th and 16th congresses,
serving, 1816-21. Missouri was admitted to the
Union in 1821, and he was the Missouri represen
tative in the 17th-19th congresses, 1821-27. He
died at St. Genevieve, Mo., Oct. 1, 1861.
SCOTT, John, soldier, was born in Fauquier
county, Va.. April 23, 1820; son of Judge John
and Elizabeth B. (Pickett) Scott ; grandson of
Rev. John and Eliza (Gordon) Scott and of Col.
Martin and (Blackwell) Pickett, and a descend
ant of a distinguished Scottish family, and on the
paternal side collaterally descended directly
from Professor Thomas Gordon, of Aberdeen
(Scotland) university. He studied law with his
father, and after graduating from the University
of Virginia was admitted to the bar in 1841. He
was married, Nov. 14, 1850, to Harriet Augusta,
daughter of James and Eliza R. (Pinsham)
Caskie of Richmond, Va. He was editor of the
Richmond Whig, 1850-51, and in 1858 he organ
ized and commanded the Black Horse cavalry"
of Fauquier county, which constituted the state
guard during the imprisonment, trial and execu
tion of John Brown. He entered the Confederate
army in 1861 as captain of cavalry ; recruited a
company over which lie was promoted major ;
and was promoted colonel and transferred to the
trans-Mississippi department. In 1870 he was
appointed commonwealth s attorney for Fau
quier county, Va. He is the author of : The Lost
Principle of tJie Federal Government or the Sec
tional Equilibrium (1860); Partisan Life with
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Mosby (1867) ; and The Republic os a Form of
Government, or the Evolution of Democracy in
America (1890).
SCOTT, John, author, was born in Jefferson
county, Ohio. April 14, 182-1; son of John and
Eliza (Skelley) Scott; grandson of Alexander and
Rachel (McDowell) Scott and of John and Mar
garet (Simrall) Skelley, and a descendant of Hugh
Scott, who was born in Ulster. Ireland, and
came to Chester county, Pa., about 1680. He
matriculated at Franklin college. New Athens,
Ohio, 1841, but did not graduate ; studied law in
Steubenville, Ohio, and was admitted to practice
by the supreme court, 1845. He served in Mexico
as a private in the Kentucky mounted volunteers,
1846-47, being captured with Cassius M. Clay at
Encarnacion, January, 1847. In 1851 he located
at Mt. Sterling, Ky., where he published the
Kentucky Whig, 1852-54 ; removed to Iowa in
1856 ; was a state senator, 1860 ; commissioned
lieutenant-colonel. 3rd Iowa infantry, 1861, and
served as colonel of the 32d Iowa infantry. 1862-
64. He was married, Nov. 24, 1863, to Mary
Sophia, daughter of Orestes H. and Mary (Atkin
son) Wright of Freeport, 111. He was lieutenant-
governor of Iowa, 1868 ; U.S. assessor of internal
revenue, 1870-71 ; published the Farmers Jour
nal, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1872, and was state
senator, 1886. He was president of the State
Agricultural society of Iowa, 1872-73 ; of the
State Improved Stock Breeders association, 1875,
and of the State Road Improvement association,
1878. He was also president of the State Society
of Scotch-Irish, and of the Pioneer Law Makers
association, and Past Grand Master of Iowa Free
Masons. He is the author of : Em-amadou or
the Prison in Mexico (1848) ; Hugh Scott and
His Descendants (1894) ; and History of the
Thirty-Second Iowa Infantry (1895). Colonel
Scott was residing in Des Moines, la., in 1903.
SCOTT, John, senator, was born at Alex
andria, Pa., July 24, 1824 ; son of Ma j. -Gen. John
Scott, an officer in the war of 1812 and a repre
sentative in the 21st congress, 1829-31. John
attended the common schools and the law de
partment of Marshall college, Chambersburg, Pa.,
was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practised
law in Huntingdon, Pa., 1846-69. He was prose
cuting attorney for Huntingdon county, 1846-49 ;
a member of the revenue commission in 1851 : a
Republican representative in the state legislature
in 1862 ; presided over the Republican state con
vention of 1867, and was elected U.S. senator to
succeed Charles R. Buckalew, serving 1869-75.
While in the senate he served on the committees
on naval affairs, claims, and Pacific railroads,
and was chairman of the special committee to
investigate Ku-Klux outrages in the South. He
declined the secretaryship of the interior and re
turned to his law practice in Pennsylvania in
1875. He was special counsel of the Penn
sylvania railroad, at Pittsburg, Pa., 1875-77 ;
and general solicitor, 1877-95. He was a trustee
of the University of Pennsylvania, 1884-96, and
a director and trustee of the Princeton Theolo
gical seminary, 1889-96. He died at Philadel
phia. Pa., Nov. 29, 1896.
SCOTT, John Hart, educator, was born in
Northville, Mich., Jan. 4, 1847; son of George
and Abigail (Hart) Scott ; grandson of Jer
emiah and Phoebe (Bloomer) Scott, and of Seth
and Patience (Burdick) Hart. He graduated
from the University of Rochester, A.B., 1871,
and from the Rochester Theological seminary,
B.D., 1874. He was married, July 23, 1873, to
Florence Madeleine, daughter of Maynard and
Emily (Barrett) Davis, of Des Moines, Iowa. He
was ordained to the Baptist ministry, 1874 ; was
pastor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1874-79 ; at Ypsilanti,
Mich., 1879-81 ; engaged in business at Minne
apolis, Minn.. 1882-90 ; business manager of The
Ensign, Minneapolis, Minn., 1890-92; of the
Young People s Union, Chicago, 111., 1892-93;
engaged in business, 1893-96 ; was professor of
theology in Shaw university, Raleigh, N.C., 1896-
97, and in the latter year was made president of
Indian university, Bacone, Indian Territory.
SCOTT, John M., jurist, was born in St. Clair,
III., Aug. 1, 1824; son of Samuel and Nancy
(Biggs) Scott. He attended the common schools ;
was instructed by private tutors, and studied
law in the office of William C. Kinney, Belle
ville, 111., being admitted to the bar in 1847. He
commenced practice in Bloomington, 111., in
1848 ; was judge of the McLean county court,
1852-62 ; judge of the circuit court, 1862-70, and
of the supreme court, 1879-88. serving as chief-
justice by allotment in 1875, 1883 and 1886.
After his retirement from the bench in 1888
Judge Scott devoted himself to literary work.
He bequeathed to the city of Bloomington,
Illinois, the principal of his estate, estimated at
2,000,000, on the death of heirs, for a public
hospital. He is the author of biographical
sketches of Browne, Foster, Phillips and Rey
nolds, the four first judges of the Illinois supreme
court, and Rewritten Cha liters of Illinois History
Prior to IS If). His opinions are contained in the
Illinois Reports " (3rd-126th vols.). He died in
Bloomington, 111., Jan. 21, 1898.
SCOTT, John Morin, delegate, was born in
New York city, in 1730 ; grandson of John Scott,
the immigrant. He was graduated from Yale,
A.B., 1746, A.M., 1749; was one of the founders
of the Sons of Liberty ; a member of the New
York general committee in 1775, and a member
of the provincial congress in 1775. He was
appointed brigadier-general and commanded a
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brigade at the battle of Long Island, but in 1778
resigned his commission to accept the appoint
ment of secretary of state of New York, made
March 13, 1778, in which office he served until
Oct. 23, 1780. He was a delegate to the Con
tinental congress, 1780-83. He died in New York
city. Sept. 14. 1784.
SCOTT, John Witherspoon, educator, was
born in Hookstown, Pa., Jan. 22. 1800 : son of
the Rev. George McElroy and Anna (Rea) Scott.
His father was a Presbyterian clergyman. He
was graduated at Washington college. Pa.. 1823 ;
was a post-graduate student at Yale, 1823-24, and
finished his theological studies under private in
struction. He held the professorship of mathe
matics and natural sciences at Washington col
lege, 1824-28, and the same position at Miami
university, Oxford, Ohio, 1828-45. He was mar
ried, Aug. 18, 1825, to Mary P., daughter of John
Neal. of Washington, Pa. In April, 1830. he was
licensed to preach, and in October, 1831, he was
ordained. He received the degree of D.D. from
Augusta college in 1840. In 1845 upon his re
moval to College Hill, Hamilton county, he as
sisted in the founding of Farmers college (which
became Belmont college in 1884). and continued
a member of its faculty until 1849, when he
accepted the presidency of the Oxford. Miss.,
female college, serving as such until 1849. He
was a professor of natural science at Hanover col
lege, Ind., 1860-68 ; principal of the Presbyterian
academy, Springfield, 111. ; professor at Mon-
ongahela college. Jefferson, Greene county. Pa.,
1875-81, and clerk in the pension office at Wash
ington, B.C., 1881-89. His daughter, Caroline
Scott, married Benjamin Harrison, and upon
the inauguration of Harrison as President, Dr.
Scott resigned his clerkship and became a mem
ber of his daughter s family at the White House,
where he resided until his death, which occvirred
in Washington B.C., Nov. 29, 1892.
SCOTT, John Work, educator, was born at
Slate Ridge, York county, Pa., Nov. 27, 1807.
He was prepared for college at a classical school
kept by the Rev. Samuel Morton at Chaceford.
Pa., was graduated at Jefferson college, Canons-
burg. Pa., 1827, was professor of mathematics at
Washington college, Pa., 1829-30 ; and entered
the Princeton Theological seminary, 1830. grad
uating in 1832. He was licensed. Oct. 3, 1832, by
the presbytery of New Castle, and was ordained at
Poland, Ohio, April 3, 1834, by the presbytery of
Hartford. He was stated supply at Three Springs,
Pa., and Free church in Steubenville, Ohio. 1836-
47. Here he founded Grove academy in 1836,
and was its principal, 1836-47. He was princi
pal of Lindsley institute. Wheeling, Va., 1847-53,
president of Washington college, Pa.. 1853-65,
principal of Woodburn Female seminary, Mor-
gantown. W.Va., 1865-67 ; vice-president and pro
fessor of ancient languages in West Virginia
university, 1^67-77, and professor at Biddle uni
versity at Charlotte, N.C., 1879. He received
the degrees of B.B. from Washington college,
Penn., in 1852, and LL.B. from Washington
and Jefferson college in 1865. He died at Ridg-
way, N.C., July 25, 1879.
SCOTT, Julian, historical painter, was born in
Johnson, Lamoille county, Vt., Feb. 15, 1846;
son of Charles Walter and Lucy S. (Kellum)
Scott ; grandson of Jonathan and Sophia (Lathe)
Scott and of Jonathan K. and Lydia Turner
(Bryant) Kellum : and a descendant of Jonathan
Scott (Sr. ) a native of Scotland, a graduate of
Edinburgh university, and a lieutenant in the
Revolutionary war, from Vermont, and of the
Rev. Joshua Lathe of Birmingham, England,
who with his wife came to America and settled
in Hanover, N.H., in the latter part of the eigh
teenth century ; and on his mother s side of
Nehemiah Bryant (uncle of William Cullen
Bryant) and of the artist Turner. He joined the
Federal army in 1861, and served with the Army
of the Potomac until 1863. meanwhile making
numerous sketches in the field and in military
hospitals. By act of congress he was awarded
a medal of honor for distinguished bravery and
was placed on the staff of Gen. William F. Smith.
In 1863 he entered the art school of the National
Academy of Besign. New York, and later
studied under Emanuel Leutze in New York city,
going to Paris in 1866, to pursue his studies. He
was married Oct. 13, 1870, to Mary, daughter of
William and Mary Burns, of New York city.
He exhibited at the National Academy in 1870, and
was made an associate Academician in 1871. He
was elected a life-fellow of the American Geo
graphical society in 1873. In 1890 he was in
Arizona and New Mexico, gathering material for
the report on the llth census on the Indians in
the southwest. His reports, profusely illustrated,
are embodied in the U.S. Indian Census, 1890.
He made his residence in Plain field, N.J. , and
was elected colonel of Brake s Zouaves of New
Jersey. His paintings are chiefly on the military
order, and include : Rear Guard at TT kite Oak
Stmmp (1870); Battle of Cedar Creek (1871);
Battle of Golding s Farm (1871); Tlie Recall
(1872) ; On Board the Hartford (1874) ; Old Re
cords (1875) ; Duel of Burr and Hamilton
(1876) ; Reserves Awaiting Orders (1877) ; In the
Cornfield at Antietam (1879); Charge at Peters
burg (1882) : The War is Over (1855) : Tfie Blue
and the Gray (1886) ; and Death of General
Sedgwick (1889). He died in Plainfield, N.J.,
July 4. 1901.
SCOTT, Levi, M.E. bishop, was born at Cant-
wells Bridge, near Odessa, Newcastle county,
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Del., Oct. 11, 1803. He was brought up on a farm,
was a carpenter and cabinetmaker with limited
education, prepared for the ministry, 1823-26 ;
joined the Philadelphia conference of the M.E.
church, in April, 1826, and was transferred to
the Dover circuit, Delaware, in 1827. He was
ordained deacon in 1828 ; and was pastor of St.
George s, Philadelphia, 1828-30. He was mar
ried, in 1830, to Sarah H. Smith of Westchester ;
was made presiding elder of the Delaware dis
trict. 1834-40, principal of Dickinson College gram
mar school, 1840-43 ; an agent of the Methodist
Book Concern in New York city, 1848-52 : and
was elected and ordained bishop by the gen
eral conference at Boston, Mass., in 1852. and
served till 1872. The honorary degree of M.A.
was conferred on him by "Wesleyan university in
1840, and that of D.D. by Delaware college in
1846. He died on the farm where he was born,
near Odessa, Del., July 13, 1882.
SCOTT, Nathan Bay, senator, was born in
Guernsey county, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1842. He at
tended the county schools, engaged in mining in
Colorado, 1859-62, and served as a private in the
Ohio volunteers, 1862-65. He removed to Wheel
ing, AV. Va., and engaged in the manufacture
of glass as manager and president of the Central
Glass company. He was a member and presi
dent of the city council, 1880-82 ; a state senator,
1882-90 ; passed the mutual savings bank law
and organized the first savings bank in the state
in 1887, of which he was president ; a member of
the executive committee of the Republican na
tional committee, 1888-1902; commissioner of
internal revenue, 1898-99 ; and was a Republican
U.S. senator from AVest Alrginia, 1899-1905, hav
ing been elected after a prolonged contest, Jan.
25. 1899, by one majority, and serving in the sen
ate as chairman of the committee on mines
and mining, and as a member of the committees
on military affairs, pensions, railroads, public
buildings and grounds. He traveled extensively
in the United States and in the Old AVorld,
where he visited the unfrequented regions. He
was a generous benefactor, and served as a
trustee and director of the Wheeling city hos
pital and of the Altenheim Home for Aged
AVomen.
SCOTT, Orange, founder of the AA r esleyan Meth
odist church, was born in Brookfield, A t., Feb.
13, 1800. He resided with his parents in Canada
for six years, and after his return to Vermont
attended the common schools, and in 1822 was
ordained to the Methodist ministry. He was
presiding elder of the Springfield district, Mass.,
1830-34; and of Providence district, R.I., 1834-35.
He was so active in the anti-slavery cause as to
have charges preferred against him by his bishop
in 1838, but they were not sustained. In 1842,
finding he could not conscientiously remain in
a church which sustained the slavery cause, he
withdrew, and was one of the founders of the
AVesleyau Methodist church ; assembled a con
vention at Utica, N.Y., May 31, 1843, where he was
made president of the convention, and directed the
formation of its platform, which excluded bishops
and presiding elders, substituting presidents of
conferences and district chairmen. He was editor
of the True Wesleyan, 1843-44, and in 1846 he re
tired from the ministry. He is the author of
An Appeal to tlie Methodist Episcopal Church
(1838), and numerous contributions to the Trn?
Weslenan. He died in Newark, N.J.. July 31 , 1847.
SCOTT, Robert Kingston, governor of South
Carolina, was born in Armstrong count} , Pa..
July 8, 1826. He studied medicine in Navarre,
Ohio, and at the Starling Medical college,
Columbus, Ohio : practised in Henry county,
Ohio, 1851-57, and engaged in
mercantile business, 1857-61.
On the outbreak of the civil
war lie joined the Federal
army as lieutenant-colonel,
68th Ohio volunteers, and the
regiment was assigned to the
3d brigade, 3d division, Army
of the Tennessee, under Gen. U.S. Grant. He was
engaged at Fort Donelson and Shiloh; was pro
moted colonel of the regiment, and was in the 2d
brigade, 3d division, 17th army corps, in the
Vicksburg campaign. He commanded this bri
gade in the Atlanta campaign, and was taken
prisoner, but was exchanged Sept. 24, 1864, in
time to take part in the struggle for Atlanta and
in the march to the sea, and through the Car-
olinas. He was appointed brigadier-general of
volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, and was brevet ted
brigadier-general, U.S. A 7 ., Jan. 26, 1865, and
major-general, U.S. A 7 ., Dec. 2, 1865. He was as
sistant commissioner of the Freedmen s bureau,
1865-68 ; resigned his commission July 6, 1868,
and was elected by the Republican party first
governor of South Carolina, under the recon
struction act in 1868 ; was re-elected in 1870. and
served until 1874. In 1871 he was charged with
over-issuing state bonds, but defeated a resolu
tion of impeachment by a justification of his ac
tion in a message to the legislature. He ob
tained from the President troops to suppress
the Ku-Klux outrages in South Carolina. He
engaged in the real estate business in Columbia,
S.C., and removed to Napoleon, Ohio, where he
continued the business. On Dec. 25, 1880, he
accidentally shot and killed Warren G. Drury, of
Napoleon, Ohio : was tried for manslaughter, and
acquitted, Nov. 5, 1881. He was stricken with
apoplexy in May. 1899, and died in Napoleon,
Ohio, Aug. 13, 1900.
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SCOTT, Sutton Selwyn, author, was born in
Huutsville, Ala., Nov. 26, 1829; son of James
Greene and Ann (Biddle) Scott ; grandson of
John or Ijohu Scott, great-grandson of John or
Ijohn Scott, who emigrated to this country from
Scotland, and settled on a plantation in Dinwid-
die county, Va., near the line separating it from
Brunswick county. He was graduated from
East Tennessee university (University of Ten
nessee), A.B., 1850 ; began the practice of law at
Hunts ville, Ala., about the year 1855 ; was a
member of the state legislature from Madison
county, 1857-58 and 1859-60 ; was elected at the
latter session of that body a trustee of the Uni
versity of Alabama ; was one of the committee
appointed by Gov. A. B. Moore of Alabama to
meet Mr. Davis, the Confederate president-elect,
at West Point, Ga., Feb. 16. 1861, and escort him
to his inauguration at Montgomery ; and served
as Confederate commissioner of Indian Affairs
from 1863 to the close of the war. He was mar
ried at Columbus, Ga.. Nov. 10, 1864, to Loula
Marie, daughter of William and Polly (Bass)
Hurt of Russell county, Ala. He settled upon
his plantation near Uchee, Ala., 1865, and after
that time was mainly engaged in agricultural
pursuits. He was a delegate to the Alabama
constitutional convention, 1875 ; to the Demo
cratic national convention at Cincinnati, Ohio,
1880 ; a member of the state legislature from
Russell county, 1884 and 1890 ; U.S. commis
sioner to adjudicate claims in New Mexico and
Colorado, 1885-87, and chairman of the commis
sion to the Indians of Utah, 1894-96. He is
the author of : Southbooke-Sontliern Tales and
Sketches (1880) ; The Mobilians, or Talks about
the South (1897) ; and contributions to numerous
periodicals. In 1903 he was residing in Auburn,
Ala.
SCOTT, Thomas Alexander, railroad president,
was born in London, Franklin county, Pa., Dec.
28, 1824 ; son of Thomas Scott, the keeper of
" Tom Scott s Tavern " on the old limestone turn
pike from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. He at
tended the country schools in winter, worked on
the farm in summer, and served as clerk in stores
in Waynesboro, Bridgeport, and Mercersburg.
He was clerk to the toll collector at Columbia
on the state road, 1841-47 ; chief clerk to the col
lector of tolls in Philadelphia, and in 1851 entered
the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad. He
was general-superintendent of the mountain
district, with headquarters at Duncasville, 1852-
57; general agent of the Pittsburg office, 1853-55 ;
general superintendent of the entire line as
successor to General Lombaert, 1855-59; and vice
president, 1859-61. He was appointed on the staff
of Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, and in 1861, with the
aid of the U.S. troops, opened the new line of
railway from Washington to Philadelphia. He
was commissioned colonel of volunteers May 3,
1861, and was put in control of all government
railways and telegraphs. He was assistant sec
retary of war under Secretary Cameron, 1861,
and under Secretary Stanton, until May, 1862.
He utilized the transportation of the northwest
and of the western rivers for the benefit of the
U.S. army. On Sept. 24, 1863, he accepted a
government commission to repair the railroads
and superintend the transportation of the llth
and 12th army corps sent through Nashville to
General Rosecrans at Chattanooga, and he
served as assistant quartermaster general on the
staff of General Hooker. He was chosen presi
dent of the western division of the Pennsylvania
railroad in 1864, president of the Pennsylvania
Company, the agency through which the Penn
sylvania railroad obtained leases of connecting
roads to the west and of the " Pan Handle Route"
1871. He was also the president of the Union
Pacific railroad. 1871-72, and of the Pennsylvania
railroad, 1874-80, resigning in 1880, on account
of failing health. He was the founder and first
president of the Texas Pacific railroad. He died
in Darby, Pa.. May 21, 1881.