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520 ly of Elder Thomas Leavett. of Boston" (1850); "Thunder and Lightning, and Deaths in Marsh- field in 1658 and 1666 " (1850) ; " Records of the Governor of and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686" (5 vols. in 6, 1853-'4); with David Pulsifer edited "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England " (11 vols., 1855-'61); "Decimal System for Libra- ries" (1856); and "Memoir of the Inauguration of the Statue of Franklin" (1857).

SHURTLEFF, Roswell Morse, artist, b. in Rindge, Cheshire co., N. H., 14 June. 1838. About 1857 he went to Buffalo, where for two years he studied drawing. In 1859 he was in Boston, studying at the Lowell institute, and d rawing on wood for John Andrew. In 1861 he enlisted in the National army, and he afterward con- tinued to furnish drawings to various periodical-; and to the wood-engravers. About 1870 he be- gan to devote himself entirely to painting. His animal paintings first gained him distinction, and of these the best known are " The Wolf at the Door" and " A Race, for Life" (1878). Amon^ his later works in oil, most of which are scenes in the Adirondacks, are " On the Alert " (1879) ; " Autumn Gold "(1880); " Gleams of Sunshine" (1881); and " A Song of Summer Woods " (1886). His water- colors include "Harvest Time," "Basin Harlior. Lake Champlain." and "The Morning Draught" (1SM1), and "A Mountain Pasture" (1882). He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1880. and is a member of the Water-color society.

SHUTE, Samuel, colonial governor, b. in Lon- don, England, in 1662 ; d. in England, 15 April, 1742. He was brought up as a dissenter in re- ligion, being a grandson of the Puritan divine. Jo- seph Carvl, and was educated at the' University of Leyden, but adhered later to the Church of Eng- land. Entering the army, he served under the Prince of Orange, and afterward under the Duke of Marlborough in the Netherlands, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1716 he obtained a commission as royal governor of Massachusetts, paying a bonus of 1,000 to Col. Elisha Burgess, the first appointee of George I. He was honest and well-meaning, but obstinate, and from the be- ginning was engaged in a struggle with the assem- bly over the prerogative. The financial depression resulting from Indian wars he attempted to relieve by the emission of treasury bills, condemning a banking scheme that was favored by the legisla- ture. He endeavored to make treaties with the eastern Indians, and wean them from the influence of Sebastian Rasle. A controversy with Elisha Cooke with regard to the royal rights to ship tim- ber in the forests of Maine and the conduct of the king's surveyor, led him to annul Cooke's. elec- tion to the council in 1718. The assembly retorted by choosing Cooke their speaker : but the governor refused to recognize the election. He' had a dis- pute with the general court also over the impost bill, and when he demanded a fixed salary the representatives reduced the amount voted to him in the form of a present to 500, and, on his in- sisting on an annual payment of 1.000, gave him that amount in currency, worth but 360. In 1723 he went to England to urge his charges again-! the general court, and was there met by counter demands. The points at issue were settled by an explanatory charter that was signed on 12 Aug., 1725, and adopted by the general court on 15 Jan., 1 ?_'(>. which denied the right of the legislature to adjourn at will for more than two days, and gave the go verm ir a negative over the choice of speak- er, but contained no injunction for fixing the sala- ries of the crown officials. When Shute was about to take ship again for Massachusetts, in June, 1727, the king died, and the new cabinet that came into office appointed another governor.

SHUTE, Samuel Moore, educator, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa.. 24 Jan., 1823. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1844. and studied theology in the seminary of the Reformed church, Philadelphia. He was pastor of a Baptist church in Pemberton. N. J.. from 1853 till 1856, and then of one at Alexandria, Va., till 1859, when he be- came professor of the English language and litera- ture in Columbian university, Washington. D. C. He is the author of a " Manual of Anglo-Saxon " (New York, 1867).

SIBIEL, Alexander, known as , German antiquary, b. in Saarlouis in 1709: d. in Dessau in 1791. He studied at Mechlin, became a Jesuit, and was sent to New Spain in 1734. After being for several years a professor in the college of the order in Mexico, he was appointed vicar of a remote parish in the northern part of the country, where he discovered some half-buried monuments of the Aztec architecture covered with hieroglyphs. He devoted several years to their study, buying, meanwhile, Aztec antiquities whenever he could find them, and at last was enabled to read part of the inscriptions. Distinguished men of science, like Ventura and Boturini, had previously labored vainly for years to decipher Aztec inscriptions. Toward 1770 Sibiel returned to Germany and was appointed chaplain at the court of Anhalt. His works include &ldquo;De arte Hierogliphum Mexicanorum&rdquo; (Dessau, 1782); &ldquo;Reisen in Mexico&rdquo; (2 vols., 1785); and &ldquo;Litteræ annuæ Societatis Jesu in provincia Mexicana&rdquo; (5 vols., 1787).

SIBLEY, George Champlain. explorer, b. in Great Barrington, Mass.. in April, 1782 ; d. in Elma, St. Charles co.. Mo.. 31 Jan., 1863. He was the son of John Sibley, a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, and a daughter of Samuel Hopkins, of Newport, and was brought up in North Carolina. He went to St. Louis, Mo., during Jefferson's administration as an employe of the Indian bureau, and was subsequently sent among the Indians as an agent of the government. Escorted by a band of Osage warriors, he explored the Grand Saline and Salt mountain, publishing an account of the expedition. After retiring from the Indian department, he was appointed a commissioner to survey a road from Missouri to New Mexico, and made several treaties with Indian tribes. He and his wife. MARY EASTON, were the founders o Lindenwood college. St. Charles. Mo., giving the land on which it is built. He was interested in the scheme of All LI in colonization and other philanthropic objects. His nephew, Henry Hopkins, soldier, b. in Nachitoches, I. a. 25 May, 1816; d. in Frederickburg, Va., 33 Aug., 1886. 'He was graduated at the I". S. military academy in 1838. served in I ho Florida war as 2d lieutenant of dragoons, was promoted 1st lieutenant on 8 March. 1840. took part in the expedition against the Seminoles in the Everglade-,. and served as adjutant of his regiment till 1S46. lie was engaged in the military occupation of 'l'ea-. w.-i- made a captain on 16 Feb., 1847, and took part in all the principal operations of the Mexican war, gaining the brevet, of major for gallantry in I he affair at Medelin, near Vera Cruz. Hrseneil for several years on the Texas frontier ngain-t the Indian-, was stationed in Kansas during llie anii>la MTV conflict, took part in the Utah expedition and in the Navajo expedition of IHiiO. and. while' stationed in New .Mexico, was promoted major, but resigned on the same day, !:-! May, 1X111, in ordci