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386 tadores de Yucatan." The two last were not published and have been lost.

'''SANDEMAN. Robert''', founder of a sect, b. in Perth, Scotland, in 1718; d. in Danlmry, Conn.. 2 1 April, 1771. He studied in the University of Edin- burgh, engaged in the linen trade, and, on marry- ing the daughter of the Rev. John Glass, became an elder in his church, and reduced Glass's opinions to a system. Under Sandeinan's influence churches were gathered in the principal cities of Scotland, and Newcastle, London, and other English towns. His views excited much controversy. They were similar to those of Calvin with the distinguishing tenet that faith was a " mere intellectual belief, a bare belief of the bare truth." He rejected all mys- tical and double sense from the Scripture, prohib- ited games of chance, " things strangled." accord- ing to the Jewish precept, and college training, and required weekly love feasts, and a plurality of elders. The sect was divided into two parts, the Baptist Sandemanians, who practised the sacrament of baptism, and the Osbornites, who rejected it. San- deman came to this country in 1764. and organized societies in Boston. Mas-., and Danlmry, Conn. During the Revolution the Sandemanians were generally loyalists, and gave the Whigs much trou- ble. The sect now numbers about 1,500 persons (1898). Sandeman published a series of ' Letters addressed to James Ilervey on his ' Therein and Aspa-io'" (Edinburgh, 1757: last ed., 1838).

SANDERS, Daniel Clarke, educator, b. in Sturbridge, Mass., 3 May, 1708; d. in Medfield, Mass., 18 Oct., 1850. He was graduated at Harvard in 1788, was a teacher in the Cambridge grammar- school while studying divinity, and was licenced to preach in 1790. He was pastor of the Congrega- tional church in Vergennes. Vt.. in 1794-1800. and in October of the latlrr year brrmiir president of the University of Vermont, which post he held for fourteen years. In 1815-'29 he was pastor of the church in Medfield, Mass. He afterward accepted no settled charge, but preached occasionally, and interested himself in educational concerns, being chairman of the Medfield board of select men and of the school committee. He served in the Massa- chusetts constitutional convention in 1820. Har- vard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1809. Dr. Sanders was an earnest worker in the cause of edu- cation. While president of the University of Ver- mont he performed his duties for three years with- out an assistant, the class of 1804 received all its instruction from him, and he regularly taught from six to ten hours a day. He published about thirty discourses, and a " History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States" (Mont- pdicr. Vt., 1812).

SANDERS, Elizabeth Elkins, author, b. in Salem, Ma.-*., in 1762; d. there, 10 Aug., 1851. She was educated in her native town, married Thomas Sanders in 1782, and was greatly esteemed for her exten-ive benevolence. She corresponded with many eminent persons, and published "Conversa- tions, principally on the Aborigines of North America" (Salem, Mass., 1828); " First Settlers of New England" (Boston, 1829); and "Reviews of a Part of Prescott's ' History of Ferdinand and Isabella,' and of Campbell's ' Lectures on Poetry ' " (1841). She also contributed to the press on moral and religious subjects.

SANDERS, John, engineer, b. in Lexington, Ky., in 1810 ; d. in Fort "Delaware, Del., 29 July, 1858. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1834, became captain in the engineer corps in 1838, and for many years was engaged in improving the Ohio river, and in the construction and repair of the interior defences of New York harbor. During the Mexican war he participated in the battles of Monterey and Vera Cruz, and re- ceived the brevet of major for gallantry in the first- n, d action. He subsequently was employed in the improvements on Delaware bay and river, and in constructing Fort Delaware. He published " Memoirs on the Resources of the Valley of the Ohio " (New York, 1844). and a translation of Fran- cois F. Poncelet's " Memoir of the Stability of Re- vetements and their Foundation" (1850).

'''SANDERS. William Price''', soldier, b. in Lexington, Ky., 12 Aug., 1833: d. in Knoxville, Tenn., 18 Nov., 1863. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in ls.~iii. became 1st lieutenant. 10 May, 1*61. and on the 14th of that month captain of the 3d U. S. cavalry. He engaged in the battles of Yorktown. Wiliiamsburg. Meehaniesville, and Hanover Court-House during the Virginia peninsular campaign, became colonel of the 5th Kentucky cavalry in March, 18(i3, was in pursuit of Morgan's raiders in July and August, was chief of cavalry in the Department of the Ohio in October and November, and participated in the action- at Blue Lick Springs. Lcnori, and Campbell's Station, where he was mortally wounded. He became brigadier-general of volunteers, 18 Oct., 1863. SANDERSON, John, author, b. near Carlisle, Pa., in 1783; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 5 April. 1844. He was educated by a private tutor, and began the study of law in Philadelphia in 1806, but became a teacher, and was subsequently associate principal of Clermont seminary. He went abroad in 1835, and. on his return the next year, became professor of Latin and Greek in the Philadelphia high-school, which post he held until his death. Rufus V. Gris- wold said of him : ' He was not less brilliant in his conversation than in his writings, but he never summoned a shadow to any face, nor permitted a weight to lie on any heart." With his brother, Joseph M. Sanderson, he published the first two volumes of the " Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence" (Philadelphia, 1820; completed in 7 volumes, by Robert Wain, Jr., and others, 1820-'7; illustrated ed., by William Broth, r- head, 1865). He was also author of a pamphlet in which he successfully opposed the plan to exclude the classical languages from Girard college (1826); sketches of Paris" (1838; republished in London, under the title of " The American in Paris," 1838; 3d ed., 2 vols., 1848) ; and portions of a work en- titled "The American in London," which appeared in the " Knickerbocker Magazine."

SANDERSON, John Philip, soldier, b. in Lebanon county. Pa., 13 Feb., 1818 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 14 Oct.. 1864. He was admitted to the bar in ls:!!l. and served in the legislature in 1845, and in the state senate in 1847. He edited the Philadel- phia " Daily News " in 1848-'56, and became chief clerk of the U. S. war department in 1801, but re- -ignrd to become lieutenant-colonel of the 15th U. S. infantry. He was appointed its colonel in July, 1863, and in February, 1864, became provost-marshal-general of the Department of the Missouri. His most important public service was the full exposition that he made during the civil war of the secret political organization in the northern and western states, known as the " Knights of the golden circle " or the " Order of American knights." He published "Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on Foreign Immigration" (Philadelphia, 184:-!). and " Republican Landmarks" (1856).

SANDERSON, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Itally-ba,C ity Monaghan. Ireland. 2:! May. 1S23. He was graduated at the Royal college, IVltast, in