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Rh Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1806 he declined the appointment of colonel of infantry in the regular army. In 18(15 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democrats for secretary of state of New York, in 1868 he was chosen a presidential elector, and he was elected to congress the >ame year, and re- eleeied in 1870. In IN 7 6 lii! was elected president of the board of city works, lirooklyn, which post lie afterward resigned, and in 1884 he was again elected to congress. He was one of the commis- sioners of the Brooklyn bridge, and was in favor nf making il free to the public.

SLOCUMB, Ezekiel, soldier, b. in Craven county, N. ('., aliout 1750: d. near Dudley, N. ('., 4 .Inlv. IS40. His father, Joseph, was at one lime a men-haul in A I lanta. (in. The son entered the Revolutionary army at an early dale, and served through the war. As a lieutenant he fought at the battle of Moore's Creek. N. C., 27 Feb., 1776, and lie attained the rank of colonel lie fore the close of the war. After the battle of Guilford, in 1781, his farm was ravaged by the Itritish troops while 011 their inarch from Wilmington to Vir- ginia, and. aided liy Maj. Williams, he raised a troop of about 201) men, and, following the royal army, succeeded in cutting oil' their foraging par- ties and harassed (hem greatly mil il I hey crowed K'lanoke river, when he joined lien. Lafayette with his troop, and was at Yorktown on It) Oct., 17si. After the war he returned to his home on a plantation near Dudley. N. ( '.. held many offices of honor and trust, and was a member of the North Carolina house of commons from 1812 nil 1818. His wife, MABY HOOKS, at the battle of Moore's Creek, fearing for her husband's -afety. visited the scene of the baltle alone, and, having been assured that he was unharmed, dressed the wounds of the injured and returned to her home forty hours after she had left it, having ridden 125 miles on horseback. Their son Jesse, b. in Dud- ley, N. C., 20 Aug., 1780: d. in Washington, D. ('., 20 Dee., ls20, was elected to congress from North Carolina for two successive terms, serving from 1 Dee.. 1817, till his death.

SLOUGH, Joint P. (slo). soldier, b. in Cincin- nati, Ohio, in 1821); d. in Santa Fc, N. M., 16 Dec., 1867. He became a lawyer in his native city, anil in 1850 was elected to the legislature of Ohio, from which he was expelled for striking a member. In 1852 he became a secretary of the central Demo- cratic committee of Ohio, and soon afterward he went to Kansas, and in 18(50 to Denver city, Col. At the opening of the civil war he raised a company of volunteers, assumed command of Fort Garland, and afterward became colonel of the 1st Colorado regiment, forming part of Gen. Kdward K. S. Can- by s expedition to New Mexico. He fought there, in opposition to orders, the battle of Pigeon's i;:iin -he, gaining a victory over Gen. Henry II. Sibley, who was fon-ed to retire into Texas. Im- mediately after this he gave up his commission as colonel and proceeded to Washington, where he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and military governor of Alexandria. At the close of the war he was appointed chief justice of New Mexico by President Johnson ; but his manner and irritable temper rendered him unpopular. A series of resolutions were passed in the legislature ad- vocating his removal from the chief justiceship, which so incensed him against William D. Kyner- son, the member who had introduced them, that a personal encounter took place between the two men, resulting in (ien. Slough's death.

SLUTER, George Ludewig, clergyman, b. in Rodenborg, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, 5 May. is:;;. In 1847 he settled with his parents in St. Louis, .Mo. He was graduated at Westminster college, Fulton. Mo., in 18liO, in 1S6:! at Princeton theo- logical seminary, and he was licensed asa preacher by the presbyiery of New Brunswick the same yeai-. He has been settled as pastor in Rens- selaer, and St. Louis, Mo., Duluth, Minn., and Shelbyville, Ind.. and since 1881 at Arlington, N. J. From 1866 till 1870 he was secretary of home missions of the synod of Missouri. He was assistant editor of the " Missouri Presbyterian " in 1 si ill-' 70, and since 1881 has been I he 'New York correspondent of the Cincinnati ' Herald and Pres- byter. ' He has published Life and Character of Joseph Hamilton" (Shelbyville. Ind.. 1S72); Me- morial of Mrs. Jane Major" (1874); " History of our l!eloeil < 'liurcli " (18761 ; " Historical and Critical Investigations of the Ada Pilati" (Indianapolis, 1879) ;" Illustrated Historical Atlas of Shclbv County, Indiana" (Chicago, 1880): "The Religion of Politics" (Shelbyville. 1880); "Life of the Em- peror Tiberius " (New York, 1 88 1 ) ; and minor works.

SMALL, Alvin Edmond, physician, b. in Maine, 4 March, isi 1 : d. in ( 'hicago, 111.', 29 Dec., 1866. He began I he study of medicine at Bath in 1831, anil sub- sequently continued it in the University of Pennsyl- vania. He settled in Delaware county, Pa., but in in his profession. While here he became converted to the Homoeopathic school of medicine. In 1849 Dr. Small was appointed professor of physiology and pathology in the Homoeopathic medical college of Pennsylvania, where he remained for seven years, during which time he wrote several medical works and was editor of the > Philadelphia Journal." In 1H56 he removed to Chicago and entered at once into an extensive practice, which he continued till his death. Soon after his arrival in that city he was called to the chair of theory and practice in llahneinann college, which he held for life.
 * S.|5 returned to Philadelphia and took high rank

SMALL, Henry Beaumont. Canadian natural- rist, b. in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, Eng- land, :!1 Oct., 1831. lie was educated at King's college, London, and Lincoln college, Oxford, where he was graduated in 185:!, afterward emigrated to Canada, and in 1S5S removed to the state of New York, where he was a teacher of classics in a mili- tary school at Sing Sing in 1860-'2. lie afterward taught for a time in New York city, served in the U. S. sanitary commission in Virginia during part of the civil war, and in 1865 returned to Canada. He entered the civil service of Canada in 1868, and became chief clerk of emigration and quarantine in 1885. Mr. Small has contributed extensively to the British, American, and Canadian press and to magazines, and among other works has published "Animals of North America, Mammals" (Mon- treal, 1805) ; "Fresh-Water Kish " (1806); "Chroni- cles of Canada" (1868) : " Resources of the Ottawa Valley" (Ottawa, 1872); "Mineral Resources of Canada" (1880); and " Canadian Forests " (.Mon- treal, 1885).

'''SMALL. John,''' British soldier, b. in Strathardle, Athole, Scotland, ill 1726; d. in the island of Guernsey, 17 March, 17!)6. After serving in the Scotch brigade in the Dutch service, he was commissioned ail ensign in the 42d Highlanders. 29 Aug., 1747, and was appointed a lieutenant on the eve of the departure of that regiment for this country, to join the force under London, lie served under Abercrombie in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758, accompanied Sir Jeffrey Amherst the following year in his expedition, went to Montreal in 1760," was on service in the West Indies ill 1762, and the same year was made captain. On 14