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740 '''SULLIVAN. Edward,''' Canadian bishop, b. in Lurgan, Ireland, 18 Aug., 1832 d. in Toronto, 9 Jan., 1899. He was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1857. was assistant minister at St. George's church, Montreal, afterward rector of Trinity church. Chicago, and then took charge of a parish in Montreal. He became bishop of Algoma in 1882, resigned in 1892, and was elected bishop of Huron, but declined. He received a D. C. L.

SULLIVAN, Jeremiah, lawyer, b. in Harrisonburg, Va., 31 July, 1794; d. in Madison, Ind., 6 Dec., 1870. He was educated at William and Mary college, and was admitted to the bar in Winchester, Va., in 1814. He served for some time as a major of volunteers in the war of 1812, and in 1816 removed to Indiana, and settling at Madison, engaged in practice. In 1821 he was elected to the legislature, and while a member of that body proposed Indianapolis as the name for the state capital. From 1831 till 1837 he was one of the fund commissioners for the state, in 1837 he was appointed one of the judges of the state supreme court, and he was judge of the criminal court of Jefferson county from 1869 till his death. He was once an unsuccessful candidate for congress, and had been appointed by the governor of the state a commissioner to adjust the land question that arose between Ohio and Indiana out of the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal. His son, Algernon Sydney, lawyer, b. in Madison, Ind.. 5 April, 1826; d. in New York city, 4 Dec., 1887, was educated at Hanover college, Ind., and Miami university, Ohio, and graduated at the latter in 1850. Having been admitted to the bar, he practised for several years, in 1855 removed to Cincinnati, and in the spring of 1859 to New York, where he soon attracted attention by his legal talent and his oratory. Shortly after the opening of the civil war he was counsel for several privateersmen that had been captured and taken to New York, and his acting in that capacity having caused him to be suspected by the authorities, he was arrested and confined in Fort Lafayette for three months. He was assistant district attorney of New York for three years, and public administrator from 1875 till 1885, resigning each of those offices to attend to his private practice. Mr. Sullivan was president of the Southern society, and connected with many charitable associations. Another son, Jeremiah Cutler, soldier, b. in Madison, Ind., 1 Oct., 1830; d. in Oakland. Cal.. 21 Oct., 1890, served during the civil war. became brigadier-general of volunteers, 28 April, 1862. and resigned, 11 May. 1865.

SULLIVAN, John, soldier, b." in Berwick, Me., 17 Feb., 1740; d. in Durham, N. H., 23 Jan., 1795. Dermod, chief of Beare and Bantry, Ireland, who was killed in his castle of Dunboy in 1549, was his wr,i-known lineal ancestor. His father. Owen, who died in 1796 at the age of 105, was born in Limerick during the siege in 1691, and came to this country in 1723. The son studied law, practised with success in Durham, N. H., and from 1772 held the commission of major in the militia. He was sent from New Hampshire in May. 1774. to the Continental congress at Philadelphia at the age of thirty-three, and was appointed in June, 1775, one of the eight brigadier-generals of the Continental army, then engaged in the siege of Boston, Gen. Nathanael Greene and himself being placed in command of the left wing under Gen. Charles Lee. Before this, in December, 1774. he had led, with John Langdon, a successful expedition against Fort William and M.in. near Portsmouth. He took a principal part in the siege of Boston, but for a brief period was detached for the defence of Portsmouth. By his influence, when the time was up for the stipulated service of the troops from Connecticut, the army was re-enforced by 2,000 men from his own state of New Hampshire. After the

evacuation of the city, Sullivan took command, on 2 June, 1770. of the northern army on the borders of Canada. He made an unsuccessful attack on the British at Three Rivers, but his troops were prostrated by smallpox and menaced by greatly superior numbers, and he led them in a skilful retreat to join Washington at New York. After holding for a brief period the chief command on Long Island, and being appointed major-general, he yielded command on the island to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, his senior in years and date of commission. With Lord Stirling and about 8,000 men on Long Island they held at bay for a time 23.000 British troops, better equipped and disciplined. Sullivan and Stirling were captured, but soon exchanged. The former did good service in the operations of Westchester. receiving the thanks of Washington in general orders at the close of the campaign. When Gen. Charles Lee, lodging apart from his troops, was taken prisoner, Sullivan led the right wing to join Washington on the Delaware, and commanded the right wing in the passage of the river on Christmas night, and the capture of the Hessians at Trenton. He also took part in the battle of Princeton. While waiting for the British to attack Philadelphia, Sullivan made a night descent on Staten island to capture several regiments that were posted there, and took 100 prisoners. He received the approbation of congress. He then marched rapidly to join Washington, and, in command of the right wing, fought at the Brandywine and at Germantown, where he defeated the British left. When, early in 1778, the alliance was made with France, Sullivan was sent by Washington to take command in Rhode Island, and when D'Estang arrived with his fleet he did his part to raise 10.000 men in a few weeks to co-operate with it against Newport, which was then garrisoned by 7.000 British and Hessians. The volunteers ere disconcerted by the withdrawal of the French fleet, which sailed away to fight the English, and being instructed by Washington that 5,000 more troops were on their way to re-enforce the garrison, Sullivan marched the army, now reduced to 6,000 men, to Butt's hill, and from 7 to 7 on 29 Aug. fought what Lafayette pronounced the best- contested battle of the war, 6.000 on each side, virtually ending about 4 in driving the enemy from the battle-field at the point of the bayonet. While waiting in the summer of 1779 for the promised return of D'Estaing from the West Indies to co-operate against Canada. Sullivan, in command of 4.000 men, to prepare the way, entered the Iroquois' country in the state of New York to punish and prevent the devastations of the Indian