New Jersey, A.B., 1751, A.M., 1754. He was
married, March 23, 1752, to Isabella, daughter of
Col. Kenneth and Anne (Reed) Anderson of
Monmouth county, N.J. He was a practising
physician in Monmouth county, N.J. ; a member
of the committee of safety ; lieutenant-colonel
in 1775 ; and subsequently colonel of the 1st
Monmouth county regiment, and was killed
while leading a battalion of his regiment against
the British, at Black s Point, N.J., Oct. 16, 1781.
He represented Monmouth county in the New
Jersey legislature several terms ; was speaker in
1776 ; a delegate to the Continental congress,
1777-79 ; and on July 13, 1778, visited the legisla
ture of New Jersey to urge upon that body the
policy of signing the Articles of Confederation.
He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey,
1778-81. He died at Black s Point, near Shrews
bury, N.J., Oct. 16. 1781.
SCUDDER, Samuel Hubbard, naturalist, was
born in Boston, Mass., April 13, 1837 ; son of
Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. He
entered Williams college with the class of 1857 ;
was graduated, A. B., 1857, A.M., 1800; took a
post-graduate course at the Lawrence Scientific
school. Harvard university, and received his
degree, S.B., 1862. He was assistant in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1862-64 ; was
University lecturer at Harvard, 1863-64, and
assistant librarian, 1879-82. He was connected
with the Boston Natural History society, as sec-
retar\ , 1862-70, as custodian, 1804-70, and as
president, 1880-87. He was married, June 25, 1867,
to Jeannie, daughter of Edgcumbe Heath and
Mary Ann Blatchford of New York. He was a
member of the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science and chairman of the sec
tion on natural history in 1874 ; general secretary
in 1875 ; librarian of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, 1877-85, and paleontologist on
the U.S. geological survey, 1886-92. He was also
a member of the National Academy of Sciences
and the American Philosophical society ; an
honorary member of the Society of Physics and
Natural History at Geneva, of the Entomological
societies of London and of St. Petersburg, and
the Natural History society of Madrid, and a
corresponding member of various other learned
societies of Europe. He received the degree
S.D. from Williams, and LL.D. from Western
university, in 1890. He reported on the entomo
logical specimens obtained by the government
expedition to the Yellowstone survey, on the
boundary between Canada aud the United States.
He edited Science (1883-85) ; and his bibliography
of more than five hundred titles includes : Cata
logue of the Orthoptera of the United States
(1868); Entomological Correspondence of Thaddeus
William Harris (1869) ; Fossil Butterflies (1875);
Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all Countries
1G33-187G (1879) ; A Century of Orthoptera
(1879) ; Butterflies (1881) ; Nomenclator Zoologi-
cus (1882) ; Systematic Review of Our Present
Knoivledge of Fossil Insects (1886) ; Winnipeg
County; or Roughing it with an Eclipse Party
(1886) ; Butterflies of the Eastern United States
and Canada (1889); Bibliography of Fossil In
sects (1890) ; Index to the Known Fossil Insects of
the World (1891) ; Tertiary Rhynchophorous
Coleoptera of the United States (1893) ; Brief
Guide to the Common Butterflies (1893); The Life
of a Butterfly (1893) ; Frail Children of the Air
(1895); Guide to the Genera and Classification of
North American Orthoptera (1897); Everyday
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Butterflies (1890) ; Catalogue of the Described
Orthoptera of the United States and Canada
(1000) : Adepliagons and Clavicoru Colcoptera
from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Colo.
(1900) ; Index to the Orthoptera of North
America described in the Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Cent uries (1902.)
SCUDDER, Vida Dutton, educator, was born
in Madura, India, Dec. 15, 1861 ; daughter of the
Rev. David Coit (1835-1862) and Harriet Louisa
(Dutton) Scudder ; grand-daughter of Charles
and Sarah (Coit) Scudder. ami of George and
Mary (Pomeroy) Dutton of Boston, Mass. She
was graduated from Smith college, Northampton,
Mass., A.B., 1884; continued her education in
Oxford. England, and in Paris, France, and be
came connected with the formation of college
settlements. She was an instructor in English
literature at "Wellesley college, Mass., 1887-92,
and in 1892 became associate professor of Eng
lish literature. She edited : " Selected Poems "
from George MacDonald (188?) ; Macaulay s
"Lord dive/ (1889) ; "Introduction to the
Writings of John Ruskin " (1890), and Shelley s
"Prometheus Unbound" (1892): and is the
author of : How the Ruin Sprites were Freed
(1888) ; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern Eng
lish Poets (1895); The Witness of Denial (1896);
Social Ideas in English Letters (1898); Introduc
tion to the Study of English, Literature (1901); A
Listener in Babel ; Being a Series of Imaginary
Conversations (1003).
SEABROOK, Benjamin Whitemarsh, gover
nor of South Carolina, was born in 1795. He was
graduated from the College of New Jersey in
1812; became a planter at Edisto Island. S. C.,
and served as a state senator,
and was governor of the state,
1848-50. He was president
of the State Agricultural so
ciety, and is the author of :
Essay on the Management of
Slaves (1834) and a Memoir
of the Origin, Cultivation <tud
Uses of Cotton (1844). He died in St. Luke s
parish, S. C., April 16. 1856.
SEABURY, Samuel, first bishop of Connecti
cut, and 1st of the succession in the American
episcopate, was born in Groton, Conn., Nov. 30,
1729; son of the Rev. Samuel (1706-1764) and
Abigail (Mtmiford) Seabury ; grandson of John
and Elizabeth (Alden) Seabury and of Thomas
and Hannah (Remington) Mumford, and a de
scendant of John Seabury, who emigrated from
Porlock, Somersetshire, England, to the Barba-
does, and from there in 1639 to Boston, Massa
chusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Seabury (1706-
1764) after being ordained in England, organized
the parish of St. James, New London, Conn., of
which lie was rector. 1732-43 ; and resided at
Hempstead, N.Y.. as rector of St. George s
church, 1743-64. It was amid this atmosphere of
church influence that the son spent his boyhood
and received his preparation for college and for
the priesthood. He was graduated from Yale,
A.B.. and fourth in the class of 1748 (A.M. 1751),
and served as catechist and pursued a course in
theology under the direction of his father, 1748-
51. He was then sent to England to receive
orders, and before ordination studied medicine in
the University of Edinburgh. He was ordered
deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. John
Thomas) Dec. 21. 1753, and advanced to the
priesthood by the Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. Richard
Osbaldiston) two days later. On his return to
America, witli the license of Sherlock, Bishop of
London, to officiate in New Jersey, he was elected
rector of Christ Church, in New Brunswick in
that province, and served this parish, 1754-57.
While at New Brunswick, he was married. Oct.
12, 1756, to Mary, daughter of Edward Hicks of
New York. He was then called to Grace church,
Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., where he was rector, 1757-
66, and in 1706 was inducted into the rectorship
of St. Peter s, West Chester, which lie held for
about ten years. In November, 1775, he was
taken by a band of armed men under Sears to
New Haven, where he was imprisoned for six
weeks, being finally released on requisition of the
governor of New York as a citizen taken from his
province without process of law. Returning to
his parish he found hostilities commenced, and
being unable to continue his duties he closed the
church and took refuge in New York where he
in part supported his family by the practice of
medicine, serving also through the war as chap
lain of the King s American Regiment, under
commission of Sir Henry Clinton (Feb. 14, 1778).
Upon the recognition of the Independence of the
American States he was elected by the clergy of
English ordination in Connecticut (Woodbury,
March 25, 1783), to bo the bishop of the church in
that state, and sailed for England with credentials
as an applicant for consecration by the English
bishops, with instructions that failing in this
quest he should apply to the bishops of the Scot
tish church, whose line of succession back of the
time of Charles II. was identical with that of the
English episcopate, but who had lost their civil
status by refusal to swear allegiance to the suc
cessors of James II. The English bishops could
not legally confer consecration without the oath
of allegiance to the king, which could not be
taken by one who was to exercise his office in a
foreign state. Various other difficulties wei e sug
gested, but this was the main point. The bishops
could not dispense with the oath ; the king
and privy council would not: and, in the vain
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hope that Parliament would, the applicant re
sided for about sixteen months in England ; after
which, concluding that he had been " amused if
not deceived, 1 he went to Scotland where at
Aberdeen, Nov. 14, 1784, he was consecrated by
the Scotch Bishops Kilgour, Petrie, and Skinner,
returning to America as the first Bishop of Con
necticut, as well as of the American Church. In
the General Convention of 1789, by action of the
House of Bishops, he became by virtue of senior
ity of consecration the first to hold the office of
presiding bishop. During the exercise of his
episcopate he resided in New London, being rec
tor of St. James church, 1785-96, and Nov. 18,
1790, was also made bishop of Rhode Island. His
first and only act of consecration was on Sept. 17,
1792, when he co-operated with Bishops Provoost,
White and Madison, all consecrated by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, in the consecration of
Thomas John Claggett, bishop of Maryland,
through whom, however, every subsequent bishop
of the American Church traces his episcopal
lineage. He received the degree of A.M. from
Columbia in 1761, and that of D.D. from the
University of Oxford in 1777. He is the author
of : Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Con
tinental Congress. The Congress Canvassed, and
A View of the Controversy between Great Britain
and Her Colonies, all in 1774, under signature
" A. W. Farmer ; Sermons (2 vols. 1791 ; 1 vol.
1798). The Rev. Eben E. Beardsley. D.D., wrote
Life and Correspondence of Samuel Seabury "
(1881), and the Rev. William Jones Seabury, D.D.
read a sketch of Bishop Seabury before the New
York Genealogical and Biographical society, Dec.
14, 1888, which was published in the Record of
the society, April, 1889, and subsequently reprinted
in pamphlet form. Bishop Seabury died in New
London, Conn., Feb. 25, 1796. in the 12th year of
his episcopate, having been in orders nearly
forty-three years.
SEABURY, Samuel, clergyman, was born in
New London, Conn., June 9, 1801 ; son of the
Rev. Charles and Ann (Saltonstall) Seabury ;
grandson of Bishop Samuel (q.v.) and Mary
(Hicks) Seabury, and of Roswell and Elizabeth
(Stewart) Saltonstall. He was instructed at
home by his father, but chiefly by his own unre
mitting studies, for some years also keeping a
school for boys ; was admitted to the diaconate
by Bishop Hobart in 1826, and was advanced to
the priesthood in 1828. He was professor of
languages in St. Paul s college, Flushing, L.I.,
1828-33 ; edited The Churchman, 1833-49 ; was
rector of the Church of the Annunciation, New
York city, 1838-68, and in 1868 was succeeded by
his son, the Rev. William Jones Seabury (q.v.).
He was professor of Biblical learning in the Gen
eral Theological seminary, New Y ork, 1862-72.
He was three times married, first to Lydia Hunt-
ington, daughter of Gurdon and Betsey (Tracy)
Bill ; secondly, Nov. 17, 1835, to Hannah Amelia,
daughter of William and Kezia (Youngs) Jones,
of Oyster Bay, L.I., N.Y., and thirdly to Mary
Anna Schuyler, daughter of Samuel and Cathe
rine (Schuyler) Jones, who survived him. He
received the honorary degrees A.M. in 1823 and
D.D. in 1837 from Columbia college. He is the
author of : Historical Sketch of Augustine, Bishop
of Hippo (1833) ; The Continuity of the Church
of England in the Kith Century (1853); The Su
premacy and Obligation of Conscience (1860) ;
American Slavery Distinguished from the Slavery
of English Theorists and Justified by the Law of
Nature (1861); Mary, the Virgin (1868) and
Theory and Use of the Church Calendar in the
Measurement and Distribution of Time (1872) :
and many occasional papers. He died in New
York city. Oct. 10, 1872.
SEABURY, William Jones, clergyman, was
born in New York city, Jan. 25, 1837 ; son of the
Rev. Samuel Seabury (q.v.) and Hannah Amelia
(Jones) Seabury. He was prepared for college
in New York city : was graduated from Colum
bia, A.B., 1856. A.M., 1859 ; was admitted to the
bar in 1858, and practised in New York city,
1858-64. He abandoned the practice of law in
1864 ; was graduated from the General Theolog
ical seminary in 1866 ; received orders as a deacon,
July 5, 1866, and was advanced to the priest
hood, Nov. 30. 1866, by Bishop Horatio Potter.
He succeeded his father as rector of the Church
of the Annunciation, New York city, in 18(58. and
was married. Oct. 29, 1868, to Alice Van Wyck,
daughter of Thomas Marston and Mary Susan
(Saltonstall) Beare of New York city. Pie was
elected Ludlow professor of ecclesiastical polity
and law in the General Theological seminary in
1873. He received the honorary degree D.D.
from Hobart in 1876, and from the General
Theological seminary in 1884. He edited Dr.
Samuel Seabury s "Memorial" (1873), and
"Discourses on the Nature and Work of the
Holy Spirit (1874); and is the author of : Sug
gestions in Aid of Devotion and Godliness : A
Manual for Choristers (1878) ; Tlie Union of Di
vergent Lines in the American Succession (1885) ;
Lectures on Apostolical Succession (1893) ; An
Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity
(1894) ; Notes on the Constitution of I .iOl (1902) ;
and many sermons, reviews and pamphlets.
SEARING, Laura Catharine (Redden), author,
was born in Somerset, Md., Feb. 9, 1840 ; a de
scendant of Edmund Waller, the poet, and of
John Hampden, the patriot. She removed with
her parents to St. Louis, and in 1851, after recover
ing from a dangerous illness, she was left entirely
deaf. She attended the Missouri Institute for
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Deaf Mutes, and Clark Institute, and engaged in
editorial work as assistant editor of the St. Louis
Presbyterian, 1857-58. She contributed frequently
to the St. Louis Republican under the pen name,
" Howard Glyndon," and in 1861 wrote an article
protesting against the call for fifty thousand
men, made by Governor Jackson of Missouri,
which was so widely copied that the editors of a
Confederate organ in St. Louis published an
appeal to the reading public, not to be influenced
by the opinion of an inexperienced girl, to which
she replied in " An Appeal from Judge to Jury."
She was Washington correspondent to the Mis
souri Republican, 1866-67 ; went to Europe, Feb
ruary. 1865, as correspondent to the Republican,
and later was employed in the same capacity by
the New York Times, remaining abroad until
1868. She removed to New York, where she was
employed on the Mail, and contributed to the
Tribune. She was married in 1876 to Edward
"W. Searing, a native of Sherwood, Cayuga
county, N.Y., a well known lawyer of New York
city. She was greatly interested in the educa
tion of deaf mutes, and in 1886 went to Califor
nia with a teachers convention held at Berkeley
in July, 1886. She then settled in Santa Cruz,
Cal., where she was residing in 1903. She is the
author of: Idyls of Battle (1864); Xotable Men
in the House of Representatives (1864) ; A Book
for Little Boys (1870) ; Sounds from Secret Cham
bers (1874).
SEARLE, Arthur, astronomer, was born in
London, England, Oct. 21, 1837 ; son of Thomas
Searle, who was born in Newburyport, Mass., in
1795, and was married in England to Anne Noble.
The family returned to America in 1840, and
Arthur was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1856,
A.M., 1859. Early in 1861 he went to California
with a party of young men who intended to en
gage in sheep-farming ; but he afterward sup
plied a temporary vacancy among the professors
of the University of the Pacific, returning to
Massachusetts in 1862. In 1866-67, he served for
a time in the statistical department of the U.S.
Sanitary commission. In April, 1868, lie began
work at the Harvard observatory, becoming as
sistant in 1869. and Phillips professor of astron
omy in 1887. He was married, Jan. 1, 1873,
to Emma, daughter of Robert and Ferdinande
Emilie (Hecker) Wesselhoeft of Jena, Germany,
afterward of Brattleboro, Vt. He was elected a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and is the author of : Outlines of As
tronomy (1874), and of contributions to the Pro
ceedings and Memoirs of the American Academy
and to the Annals of the Observatory.
SEARLE, George Mary, astronomer and
clergyman, was born in London, England, June
27, 1839 ; son of Thomas and Anne (Noble)
Searle. His father, who was an American, a
direct descendant of Robert Searle who lived in
Dorchester in 1662, brought the family to this
country in 1840. George was graduated at Har
vard A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and in 1857 was ap
pointed computer on the Nautical Almanac and
was assistant at the Dudley observatory at
Albany, N. Y., 1858-59, during which time lie
discovered the asteroid Pandora, the first found
by regular search in America. He served under
Dr. B. A. Gould on the U.S. coast survey, 1859-
62, and was assistant professor of mathematics
at the U.S. Naval academy, 1862-64. Mr. Searle
had been a member of the Unitarian Congrega
tional church, but in 1859 he joined the Protestant
Episcopal communion, and on Aug. 15, 1862, he
was received into the Roman Catholic church.
He became an assistant at the Harvard obser
vatory in 1866, but resigned in 1868 to join the
Paulist community in New York, in which he
was ordained priest, March 25, 1871. In 1889 he
removed to the Paulist house connected with the
Catholic university in Washington, D.C., and
that year took charge of the observatory con
nected with the university, and was professor
of mathematics in the Catholic university, 1895-
97. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the
Catholic university at Washington, 1896. He is
the author of the Elements of Geometry (1877) and
Plain Facts for Fair Minds (1895).
SEARLE, James, delegate, was born in New
York city about 1730. He received a commer
cial training in the office of his brother, John
Searle, in Madeira ; was admitted as a member of
the firm and returned to America in 1763, having
married, in 1762, Nancy, daughter of Patrick
Smith of Waterford, England. He established
a mercantile house in Philadelphia in 1763 ;
signed the non-importation agreement of Oct. 25,
1765 ; was made a manager of the United States
lottery by congress in 1776, and served as a dele
gate to the Continental congress, 1778-80, and
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Sept. 28, 1778, when lie resigned on finding that
he could not work in harmony with the board.
He was chairman of the commercial committee
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and a member of the committee on foreign
affairs. In 1780 he was sent to Holland and
France, to negotiate a loan for the state of Penn
sylvania, but failing in the negotiation he re
turned home in 1782. He removed to New York
in 1784, as agent for his brother s Madeira house,
and in 178.3 was married, secondly, to Isabella,
daughter of George West of Monmouth city,
N.J., and again took up his residence in Philadel
phia. He was a member of the Friendly Sons
of St. Patrick, and a trustee of the University of
the State of Pennsylvania, 1779-81. He died in
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 7, 1797.
SEARS, Barnas, educator, was born in Sanclis-
field, Mass., Nov. 19, 1802: son of Paul and
Rachel (Granger) Sears ; grandson of Paul and
Elizabeth (Slawter) Sears, and a descendant of
Richard Sears, Yarmouth, Mass., 1633, Marble-
head, 1637. His parents were Baptists, and he was
graduated at Brown university with the highest
honors, A.B., 1825, A.M., 1828. He then at
tended the Newton Theological Institution, 1825-
28 ; and was married to Elizabeth Grig-gs,
daughter of Timothy and Elizabeth (Griggs)
Corey of Brookline, Mass. He was pastor of the
First Baptist church, Hartford, Conn., 1827-29 ;
resident licentiate at Andover, 1830 ; professor
of languages, Madison university, 1831-33 ;
student in the universities at Halle, Leipsic and
Berlin, 1833-35 ; president of the Newton Theo
logical Institution, 1836-47 ; successor to Horace
NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SEMIAIABY.NEWTON CENTRE,MA35.
Mann as secretary and general agent of the
board of education, 1848-54; president of Brown
university, 1855-66 ; and general agent of the
Peabody Education Fund, 1867-80, with resi
dence at Staunton, Va. He was a fellow of
Brown, 1841-51; of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences; and corresponding and honorary
member of the Massachusetts Historical society.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from
Harvard in 1841, and that of LL.D. from Yale in
1862. He was editor of the Christ ain Rerieiu for
several years, and is the author of various refer
ence and text books and translations, and of : Life
of Martin Luther (1850) , and Discourse at the Cen
tennial Celebration of Broirn University (1864),
and of numerous contribution to periodicals
He died at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., July 6, 1880.
SEARS, Edmund Hamilton, clergyman, was
born in Sandisfield, Mass., April 6. 1810 ; son of
Joseph and Lucy (Smith) Sears ; grandson of
Joshua and Sarah (Blackmore) Sears and of
Silas Smith, and a descendant of Richard Sears.
He was graduated at Union, A.B.. 1834, A.M..
1837; and at Harvard. B.D., in 1837. and en
gaged in missionary work in Toledo. Ohio, 1837-
39. He was married, Nov. 7. 1839. to Ellen,
daughter of the Hon. Ebenezer and Abigail
(Crocker) Bacon of Barnstable, Mass. He was
ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1839 : was
pastor at Wayland, Mass., 1839-40 and 1848-64;
at Lancaster, Mass., 1841-48; and at Weston.
Mass., as colleague of Dr. Field, 1865-69. and as
pastor. 1869-76. He was a member of the Massa
chusetts Historical society, and received the de
gree D.D. from Union in 1871. He edited The
Monthly Religious Magazine with the Rev. R.
Ellis for several years, and is the author of : Re
generation (1853; 9th ed., 1873) ; Pictures of the
Olden Time (1857) ; Christian Lyrics (1860);
Athanasia (1860) ; The Fourth Gospel : the Heart
of Christ (1872) ; and Sermons and Songs of the
Christian Life (1875). He died in Weston, Mass.,
Jan. 16. 1876.
SEARS, Lorenzo, clergyman, educator and au
thor, was born at Searsville, Mass., April 18. 1838;
son of Nathaniel and Cordelia (Morton) Sears ;
grandson of Rufus and Priscilla (Sears) Sears
and of Dexter and Hannah (Munson) Morton ;
and a descendant of the immigrants : Richard
(1590-1676) and Dorothy (d. 1678) Sears of Yar
mouth, Mass., and of George (1590-1624) and
Juliana (d. 1665) (Carpenter) Morton of Ply
mouth, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1861,
and at the General Theological seminary, New
York city, 1864 ; was admitted to the diaconate
in 1864, and advanced to the priesthood in 1865 ;
and held rectorships in Connecticut, Rhode Is
land and New Hampshire, 1864-85. He was mar
ried to Adeline, daughter of James T. and
Sophia (Knight) Harris of Wyoming. R.I. . Jan.
2, 1866. He was professor of rhetoric and Eng
lish literature in the University of Vermont,
1885-88; librarian, 1886-88; associate professor
of rhetoric, Brown university, 1890-92, and in
1892 was made associate professor of rhetoric
and oratory, and of American literature in 1895.
He received the honorary degree of A.M. from
Trinity in 1887, and L.H.D. in 1892. He is the
author of : TJie History of Oratory (1896) ; The
Occasional Address, Its Composition and Litera
ture (1897) ; Principles and Methods of Literary
Criticism (1898) ; " An Historical Introduction
to the Library of Modern Eloquence " (1901) :
American Literature in the Colonial and National
Periods (1902). He is also the author of various
pamphlets and reviews.
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