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 Rh SUNDERLAND, Le Roy, author, b. in Exeter, R. I., 18 May, 1802 ; d. in Quincy, Mass., 15 May, . He was apprenticed to a shoemaker at East Greenwich, R. I., was converted to Methodism, be- came a preacher at Walpole, Mass., in 1823, and was soon known as an orator of great power. He was prominent in the temperance and anti-slavery movements, presided at the meeting in New York city in October, 1834, when the first Methodist anti- slavery society was organized, and in December wrote the " Appeal " to Methodists against slavery, which was signed by ministers of the church in New England. He was appointed a delegate to the first anti-slavery convention in the west, at Cincin- nati, in 1841, and to the World's convention in 1843, in London. His preaching was attended by strange phenomena. Under his first sermon the entire audience was " struck down by the power of God," as it was then called ; and ever afterward when he preached with reference to the awakening of sinners such manifestations appeared to a greater or less extent. His study of such phenomena had doubtless a determinative effect in his subsequent denial of Christianity, which he opposed during forty years preceding his death. He edited " The Watchman" in New York in 1836-'43; "The Magnet " in 1842-'3 ; " The Spirit World," at Bos- ton, in 1850-2; and was a large contributor to various religious periodicals. He published " Bib- lical Institutes " (New York, 1834) ; " Appeal on the Subject of Slavery " (Boston, 1834) ; " History of the United States " (New York, 1834) ; " History of South America " (1834) ; " Testimony of God against Slavery " (Boston, 1834) ; " Anti-Slavery Manual" (New York, 1837); "Mormonism Ex- posed " (1842) ; " Pathetism, with Practical Instruc- tions " (1843) ; " Book of Health " (1847) ; " Pathet- ism : Man considered in Respect to his Soul, Mind, Spirit" (1847); "Pathetism: Statement of its Philosophy, and its Discovery Defended" (1850); " Book of Psychology " (1852) ; " Theory of Nutri- tion and Philosophy of Healing without Medicine " ; "Book of Human Nature" (1853); and "The Trance, and how Introduced " (Boston, 1860).

SUNDERLAND, Thomas, jurist, b. in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1821 ; d. in New York city, 9 Oct., . He studied law early in life, and went to California during the gold excitement of 1849. After securing a large fortune, he engaged in the practice of his profession, and became chief justice of the supreme court of California. He resided in Nevada for some time, and was urged ineffectually to become Democratic candidate for U. S. senator from that state. He served for many years in the California legislature, and was an active member of the Scientific society of San Francisco.

SUPLEE, Thomas Danly (su-play), educator, b. in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1846. He was gradu- ated at Princeton in 1870, and studied at Union and Princeton theological seminaries and at the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school in Philadel- phia. He became professor of Latin in Shattuck school, Faribault, Minn., in 1876, vice-rector of St. Augustine college, Benicia, Cal., in 1877, head- master of Trinity school, Tivoli-on-Hudson, N. Y., in 1879, head-master of Harcourt place school, Gambier, Ohio, in 1882, and rector of Courtlandt place school, Lakewood, N. J., in 1885, which post he still holds. He has published "Frank Muller, or Labor and its Fruits" (Philadelphia, 1869); " Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia," poems (1870) ; " Riverside : a Romance " (Princeton, 1871) ; " Plain Talks " (Trenton, 1872) ; " Life of Ephraim Dod Saunders, D. D., Founder of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia " (Philadelphia, 1873) ; and has edited " Trench on the Studv of Words " (New York, 1878) ; " Life of Theodore Bland Pryor, First Mathematical Fellow of Princeton College " (San Francisco, 1879) ; and " Hand-Book of Civil Govern- ment under the Constitution of the United States " (Philadelphia, 1883). Mr. Suplee is preparing a life of Richard Realf (q. v.), and editing his poems.

SUTCLIFFE, Thomas, British soldier. He rose to be a colonel in the army, and was for some time governor of the island of Juan Fernandez. He published " Sixteen Years in Chili and Peru, 1822-'39 " (London, 1841), and " Crusoniana, or the History of the Island of Juan Fernandez " (1843).

SUTHERLAND, Alexander, Canadian clergyman, b. in Guelph, Ont., 17 Sept., 1833. He was the son of a Scottish farmer, but, his father dying, he received few educational advantages. He learned the printing trade, but, uniting with the Methodist church, studied for the ministry, and was licensed as a preacher in 1859. He was afterward stationed at Niagara, but in 1861 removed to Thorold, and. till 1874 was settled at Drummondville, Hamilton, Yorkville, Toronto, and Montreal. He was secretary of the conference in 1870-1, delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Brooklyn, N. Y., and in .1874, when the union of the Methodist churches in Canada was consummated, he was appointed secretary and treasurer of Methodist missions. In connection