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Rh SUYDAM, James Augustus (si'-dam), artist, b. in New York, 27 March, 1819 ; d. in North Conway, N. H., 15 Sept., 1865. His first instructor was Miner K. Kellogg, with whom he travelled through Greece and Turkey. Later, after his return to the United States, he studied also with Asher B. Durand and John P. Kensett. He was elected an honorary member of the National academy in 1858, and an academician in 1861. When the building of the academy was projected he took an active part in its construction. He held office in the academy until his death, and bequeathed to it the " Suydam Collection " of pictures, besides a large sum of money. He was quite successful in his coast views. Among his works are " View on Long Island " and " Hook Mountain on the Hudson " (1863).

SUYDAM, John Howard, clergyman, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1 Oct., 1832. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1854, and at the Theological seminary of the Reformed church in New Brunswick, N. J., in 1857, and was ordained by the classis of Pough- keepsie. He was settled as pastor at Pishkill in 1857-'62, and in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1862-'9, and since 1869 has been in Jersey City. He has been president of the board of superintendents of the New Brunswick theological seminary and of the general synod of the Reformed church. He re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Rutgers in 1882. In addition to sermons, he has published " The Cruger Family " (Philadelphia, 1864) ; " Cruel Jim " (1870); and" The Wreckmaster" (1871).

SUZOR, Louis T., Canadian author, b. in Low- er Canada in 1834 ; d. in Quebec, 18 Aug., 1866. He was a lieutenant-colonel, and had been deputy assistant adjutant-general of militia in Canada at the time of his death. He published "Aide-memoire du carabinier volontaire " (Quebec, 1862) ; " Ta- bleaux synoptique des mouvements d'une com- pagnie" (1863); "Tableaux synoptic des evolu- tions de bataillon " (1863) ; " Exercices et evolu- tions d'inf anterie " (1863) ; " Code militaire " (1864) ; Maximes, conseils et instructions sur l'art de la guerre " (1865) ; " Guide theorique et pratique des manoeuvres de l'infanterie " (1865) ; and " Traite d'art et d'histoire militaires " (1865).

SWAIM, David Gaskill, soldier, b. in Salem, Columbiana co., Ohio, 22 Dec, 1834. He was edu- cated at Salem academy, studied law, and after admission to the bar in 1858 began practice in Sa- lem. At the beginning of the civil war he left a prosperous law-practice and entered the National service, being commissioned 2d lieutenant in 1861, and 1st lieutenant, 4 Nov., 1861, in the 65th Ohio regiment. He was promoted to captain and as- sistant adjutant-general, 16 May, 1862, and en- gaged in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro', and Perryville. He was in Washington, D. C., till December, 1862, was assistant adjutant-gen- eral on the staff of Gen. William S. Rosecrans and Gen. George Thomas till November, 1863, and was present at Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and at Missionary Ridge. From January till Octo- ber, 1864, he was on mustering duty at Wilming- ton, Del., and afterward, till September, 1866, was assistant adjutant-general, Department of Missouri. He was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel for faithful and meritorious services during the war, and appointed 2d lieutenant in the 34th U. S. infantry, 28 July, 1866, was promoted major and judge-advocate, 9 Dec, 1869, and became judge-advocate-general of the army with the rank of brigadier-general, 18 Feb., 1881. In 1884 he was court-martialed on various charges and suspended for ten years. He was the intimate friend and companion of President Garfield.

SWAIN, David Lowry, governor of North Carolina, b. in Asheville, Buncombe co., N. C, 4 Jan., 1801 ; d. in Chapel Hill, N. C, 3 Sept., 1868. After receiving his education at the University of North Carolina he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1823, and practised in Raleigh. In 1824 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1831 he was appointed a judge of the state supreme court. From 1832 till 1835 he was governor of North Carolina, being the youngest man to fill that office. He was elected president of the University of North Carolina in 1835 and filled this post until his death, contributing effectively to the improvement of the institution. In 1865 he was invited by President Andrew Johnson to advise with him regarding the reconstruction of the Union. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Princeton in 1841, and by Yale in 1842. He wrote many valuable histori- cal papers, and published " The British Invasion of North Carolina in 1776 " in the " North Carolina University Magazine," for May, 1853, which was afterward included in a volume of lectures, en- titled " Revolutionary History of North Carolina " (New York, 1853).

SWAIN, James Barrett, editor, b. in New York city, 30 July, 1820. He learned the printing business with Horace Greeley, with whom he was a partner in the publication of the " Log Cabin " in 1840, and in 1838-'9 was private secretary to Henry Clay. In 1843-'9 he was editor of the " Hudson River Chronicle " in Sing-Sing, serving also as clerk of the state-prison there in 1848-'9. He was city editor of the New York " Tribune " in 1850, of the " Times" in 1851-2, editor of the "American Agriculturist " in 1852, a political contributor to the " Times " in 1853-9, and its Washington cor- respondent in 1860-1. He was also editor of the "Free State Advocate" (a campaign paper pub- lished in New York in 1856 by the National Repub- lican committee), of the Albany " Daily Statesman " from 1857 till 1861, and again of the " Hudson River Chronicle" from 1876 till 1885. He was a railroad commissioner for New York state in 1855-'7, 1st lieutenant in the 1st U. S. cavalry and also colo- nel of the 1st U. S. volunteer cavalry in 1861-'4, engineer-in-chief of the National guard of New York in 1865-'6, U. S. weigher in 1867-'70, and post-office inspector in 1881-5. Mr. Swain is the author of " Life and Speeches of Henry Clay " (2 vols., New York, 1842 ; 3d ed., 1848) ; " Historical Notes to a Collection of the Speeches of Henry Clay" (2 vols., 1843); and "Military History of the State of New York " (3 vols., 1861-'5).

SWAINSON, William, English naturalist, b. in Liverpool, England, 8 Oct., 1789; d. in New Zealand in 1855. He served in the commissary department of the British army in 1807-15, trav- elled in South America in the latter year, and, re- turning to London, devoted himself to the study of natural history. In 1841 he emigrated to New Zealand, where he published works on the natural history and social and political condition of that country and Tasmania. He published numerous works, including " Ornithologipal Drawings of Birds from Mexico and Brazil" (1831-41), and as- sisted Sir John Richardson in the account of North American birds in his " Fauna Boreali Americana " (4 vols., London, 1829-'37).

SWAN, Caleb, soldier, b. in Maine; d. in Washington, D. C, 20 Nov., 1809. He became an ensign in the 4th Massachusetts Continental infantry, 26 Nov., 1779, and was afterward transferred to the 8th infantry, which in 1784 became part of the 1st American regiment of infantry. On 8 May, 1792, he was appointed paymaster-general of the U. S.