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Rh b. in Brooklyn. X. Y., 18 Jan., 1844. was a pupil of the National academy, and has studied also under Edwin White and Loon Bonnilt. He was elected an associate of the academy in 1879, and is also a member of the Water-color society and the Xew Yurk etching club. In 1886 he gained the Clarke prize at the academy. Among his works are the oil-paintings, " Contemplation." in Smith college. Northampton. Mass. (1878): "Extremes Meet "and "The Convent Composer" (1881); "Autumn." " Good-bye, Summer," " The Cronies," and "Fortune by Tea-Leaves " (1886) ; and the water-colors " Soli- taire " and " Old Ballads " (1878) ; " Two Sides of a Convent-Wall "(1884); and "The Fortune-Teller," "The Net-Mender," and "The Lightened Load" (1887). His pencil has been frequently employed in book-illustration, and he is well known as a teacher.

SATTERLEE, Richard Sherwood, surgeon, b. in Fairfteld. Herkimer co., X. Y., 6 Dec., 1798 ; d. in Xew York city, 10 Nov., 1880. His father. Ma]'. William Satterlee, served in the Revolutionary army. After a collegiate course the son studied medicine, was admitted to practice, and in 1818 settled in Seneca county, X. Y., subsequently re- moving to Detroit. He became assistant surgeon in the II. S. army in 1822, served in the first and second Florida wars, and in 1846 was assigned to duty under Gen. William J. Worth, as chief sur- geon of the 1st division of regulars. After the capture of Mexico he became medical director on tin- staff of Con. Winfield Scott. He became U. S. medical purveyor in 1853. held that office till the close of the civil war, and in 1864 was brevetted " lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general for diligent care and attention in procuring proper army supplies as medical purveyor, and for econo- my and fidelity in the disbursement of large sums of money." He became lieutenant-colonel and chief medical purveyor in July, 1866, and was re- tired, 22 Feb., 1869. "

SAUGANASH, The, Indian name of Capt. BILLY CALDWELL, a half-breed leader, b. in Canada about 1780; d. in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 28 Sept., 1841. His father was an Irish officer in the British service, and his mother a Pottawattamie. He received a good education from the Jesuits at De- troit, could speak and write English and French, and was master of several Indian dialects. He early formed an acquaintance with Tecumseh, and from 1807 till the death of the latter they were intimate and devoted friends. The Sauganash was a faithful friend to the whites, and did all he could to mitigate the horrors of savage warfare. Although he was hostile to the whites at the time of the Chicago massacre in August, 1812, it is said that the lives of the prisoners were saved through the intercession of Caldwell and Shabona, who were not in the engagement. The Sauganash took up his residence in Chicago about 1820. In 1826 he was one of the justices of the peace there. In 1828 the Indian department, in consideration of his services, built him the first frame house in Chicago. He occupied this house (near what is now the corner of Xorth State street and Chicago avenue) till he left the country with his tribe in 1836 for Council Bluffs. By a treaty that was made 2 Jan., 1830, the Sauganash, Shabona, and other friendly Indians had reservations granted them by the government, and 1,240 acres on the north branch of the Chicago river was set apart for Caldwell, which he sold before leaving the country. Caldwell owed allegiance to three distinct nations at the same time. He was captain of the Indian department under Great Britain in the war of 1812, and never renounced his allegiance, was a justice of the peace in Chicago, and a chief of the Ottawas and Pottawattamies. See ' Waubun, the Early Day," by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (Chicago, 1857).

SAULSBURY, Eli, senator, b. in Kent county, Del., 29 Dec., 1817; d. in Dover, 22 March, 1893. He attended select schools, followed an irregular course at Dickinson, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised in Dover, Del. He was a mem- ber of the legislature in 1853-'4, and succeeded his brother, Willard, as U. S. senator, having been elected as a Democrat in 1870. He was re-elected in 1876, and again in 1883 for the term that expired on 3 March, 1889. He offered an amendment to the " force bill " in the 42d congress, and in the same session opposed in two speeches and voted against the act "to enforce the provisions of the 14th amendment to the constitution of the United States and for other purposes." He moved an amend- ment to the specie-payment bill, and spoke and voted in the negative against military interference in the organization of the Louisiana legislature in the 43d congress. His brother, Willard, senator, b. in Kent county, Del., 2 June, 1820 ; d. in Dover, 6 April, 1892, was educated at Dickinson, studied law, practised in Georgetown, Del., and in 1850-'5 was state attorney-general. In the mean time he took an active part in politics, and became known throughout the state as an orator. He was chosen U. S. senator as a Democrat in 1858. and served by re-election till 1871. During his first term of ser- vice in that body he devoted all his energies to I ln> preservation of the Union, and the prevention of civil war. Among his important speeches vas t hat on the state-rights resolution of Jefferson Davis, delivered 2 April. 1800 ; that on the resolution pro- posing to expel Jesse D. Bright (q. r.), delivered 29 Jan., 1862; that on the bill to prevent officers of the army and navy from interfering in elections in the southern states, delivered 24 March, 1864; and that on amending the constitution of the United States, delivered 6 March, 1866. In the 36th con- gress he closed the debate on disunion by calling attention to the fact that " as Delaware was the first to adopt the constitution of the United States, she would be the last to do any act looking to separa- tion." He offered a resolution proposing a confer- ence for the settlement of difficulties in the 37th congress, and argued against the constitutionality of the bill on compensated emancipation in Mis- souri. He served on the reconstruction committee in the 39th congress, voted in the affirmative on the 15th amendment in the 40th congress, and in the negative on the Virginia bill in the 41st con- gress. He was a delegate to the Chicago Demo- cratic convention in 1864. and in 1873 he was elected chancellor of Delaware.

SAUNDERS, Alvin, senator, b. in Fleming county, Ky., 12 July, 1817; d. in Omaha, Neb.. 1 Nov., 1899. His family were Virginians. He went with his father to Illinois in 1829, and attended school in the intervals of farm-work. He removed in 1836 to Mount Pleasant, in that part of Wisconsin territory that is now Iowa, and was postmaster there for seven years. At the same time he studied law ; but, instead of practising, he engaged in business as a merchant and banker. Mr. Saunders was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of Iowa in 1846, and a state senator for eight years. He sat in the first Republican convention in the state, and in the National conventions of 1860 and 1868, was a com- missioner to organize the Pacific railroad company, and served as governor of Xebraska territory from 1861 till its admission into the Union in 1867. During his term of office the population of the