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Rh Friends, of which he was a member, and aided with counsel and money the American colonization society. He paid t'o'r the education of Dr. Samuel McGiil and other colored men that became emi- nent in Liberia, and his influence prevented the passing of a law to banish free negroes from Mary- land. His fortune was bequeathed to found the Sheppard asylum for the insane in Balti- ra ore. His grandnephew, Nathan, author, b. in Baltimore, Md., 9 Nov., 1834 ; d. in New York city, 24 .Ian., 1888, was graduated at Attleborough col- lege in 1854, and at Rochester theological seminary in 1859. During the civil war he was special corre- spondent of the New York " World " and the Chi- cago " Journal " and " Tribune," and, during the Franco-German war, of the " Cincinnati Gazette." His experiences were published as " Shut, up in Paris," a diary of the siege (London, 1871), and was translated into French, German, and Italian. He was also a special American correspondent of the London "Times" and a contributor to " Fraser's Magazine " and " Temple Bar." In 1873 he became lecturer on modern English literature, and teacher of rhetoric, at the University of Chicago, and four years later he accepted a similar charge at Allegha- hy college. He spent four years in Europe, and lec- tured in all of the principal towns of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1870 delivered a course before the Edinburgh philosophical society and on " Pub- lic Speaking" before the Universities of Aberdeen and St. Andrew's, Scotland, which has been issued as " Before an Audience " (New York, 1886). In 1884 he settled in Saratoga Springs, founded the Saratoga athenaeum, and was its president until his death. He also compiled and edited " The Dick- ens Reader" (1881); "Character Readings from George Eliot" (1883); "The Essays of George Eliot," with an introduction (1883); "Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself " (1884) ; and " Saratoga Chips and Carlsbad Wafers" (1887).

'''SHERATON. James Paterson''', Canadian cler- gyman, b. in St. John, New Brunswick. 29 Nov., 1841. After graduation at the University of New Brunswick in 1862 he studied theology in the University of King's college, Windsor, Nova Scotia, took orders in the Church of England in 1864-'5, and became rector of Shediac, New Brunswick, in 1865, and of Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1874. In 1877 he became principal and professor of exegetical and systematic theology in Wycliffe college, To- ronto, which offices he now (1898) holds. He was a member of the senate of the University of Toronto in 1885. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Queen's university. Ontario, in 1882. He was editor of " The Evangelical Churchman " from 1877 till 1882, and since that date has been its principal editorial contributor, and he is the author of essays on education, the church, and Christian unity.

'''SHERBROOKE. Sir John Coape''', British sol- dier, b. about 1764; d. in Claverton, Nottingham- shire, England, 14 Feb., 1830. He entered the British army, in which he became captain in 1783, lieutenant-colonel in 1794, colonel in 1798, lieuten- ant-general in 1811, and colonel of the 33d regi- ment in 1818. He served with credit in the taking of Seringapatam in 1797, and in 1809 was appoint- ed to the staff of the army in the peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, being second in command at the battle of Talavera, 27-28 July, 1809. For his conduct there he was appointed lieutenant-gov- ernor of Nova Scotia, and in 1816 he was transferred to the governorship of Lower Canada. At this time the farmers had suffered from the total loss of their wheat crop, and he advanced for their relief 14,216, which parliament augmented by the ad- ditional sum of 35,500. During his administra- tion he effected the admission of the speaker of the assembly, ex-officio, to a seat in the executive council. He resigned his office in 1818, returned to England, and was made general in May, 1825. SHERBURNE, Andrew, sailor, b. in Rye, N. H.. 30 Sept., 1765; d. in Augusta, Oneida co., N. Y., in 1831. He sailed before the mast at an early age, was shipwrecked, captured by the British. confined in the Old Mill prison in England, and afterward became a Baptist clergyman. He re- ceived a pension for his services in the navy during the Revolution, and wrote his own "Memoirs" (Utica, 1828; 2d ed., Providence, 1831).

SHERBURNE, John Samuel, jurist, b. in Portsmouth, N. H.. in 1757; d. there, 2 Aug., 1830. After graduation at Dartmouth in 1776 he studied law at Harvard, was admitted to the bar, and be- gan to practise in Portsmouth. He served as brigade major on the staff of Gen. William Whip- pie, and lost a leg at the battle of Butts Hill, R. I., 29 Aug., 1778. He was elected a representative to congress from New Hampshire, serving from 2 Dec., 1793, till 3 March, 1797, and was subse- quently appointed by President Jefferson U. S. district attorney for New Hampshire, serving from 1801 till 1804. From that time till his death he was U. S. judge for the district of New Hamp- shire. His son, John Henry, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1794; d. in Europe about 1850, entered Phillips Exeter academy in 1809. In 1825 he be- came register of the navy department in Washing- ton, D. C., and for several years was foreign corre- spondent for the Philadelphia "Saturday Courier." He published "Osceola," a tragedy; "Erratic Poems " ; a " Life of John Paul Jones " (Washing- ton. 1825): " Naval Sketches " (Philadelphia, 1845 1: " The Tourist's Guide in Europe, or Pencillings in England and on the Continent " ; and " Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams. 1797-1801," as printed and suppressed by John Wood in 1802 (1846). His son, JOHN 'HENRY (1814-1849), was a U. S. naval officer and served in the Mexican war.

SHERIDAN, Philip Henry, soldier, b. in Albany, N. Y., 6 March, 1831; d. in Nonquitt, Mass., 5 Aug., 1888. After attending the public school he was entered as a cadet in the United States military academy, 1 July, 1848. On account of a quarrel with a cadet file-closer in 1850, whose conduct toward him he deemed insulting, he was suspended from the academy for a year, but returned, and was graduated, 1 July, 1853, standing thirty-fourth in a class of fifty-two, of which James B. McPherson was at the head. Gen. John M. Schofield and the Confederate Gen. John B. Hood were also his classmates. On the day of his graduation he was appointed a brevet 2d lieutenant in the 1st infantry. After service in Kentucky, Texas, and Oregon, he was made 2d lieutenant in the 4th infantry, 22 Nov., 1854, 1st lieutenant, 1 March, 1861, and captain in the 13th infantry, 14 May, 1861. In December of that year he was chief quartermaster and commissary of the army in southwestern Missouri. In the Mississippi campaign from April to September, 1862, he was quartermaster at Gen. Halleck's headquarters during the advance upon Corinth. It then became manifest that his true place was in the field. On 20 May, 1862, he was appointed colonel of the 2d Michigan cavalry, and on 1 July was sent to make a raid on Booneville, Miss. He did excellent service in the pursuit of the enemy from Corinth to Baldwin, and in many skirmishes during July, and at the battle of Booneville.