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244 James Savage the antiquarian. He published " Old Men's Tears for their Own Declensions," a vigor- ously written presentation of tliu supposed degen- eracy of the author's times (Hoston, 1691 ; re- printed 1715, 1732, 1749, and 1769), and also a "Narrative of the Planting of Massachusetts Colony" (1694; reprinted in 1858).

SEATTLE, Indian chief, b. about the year 1780 ; d. in Seattle, 7 June, 1855. He repeatedly as- serted, late in life, that ho remembered the visit of Capt. George Vancouver and Lieut. Broughton, with the ships " Discovery " and " Chatham," in 1792. Seattle, when a young man, achieved local renown by the skil- ful and successful manner with which he resisted and de- feated hostile In- dians intent on as- sailing and plun- dering his own and neighboring tribes. For tills he was made chief over all the Squampsh tribe of liidians, some eight or ten thou- sand. The whites first became ac- quainted with him about 1850. He was impressed by them, and there- after was their steadfast and unfailing friend. He urged them to come into his country, guided and located them, sold them lands, and rendered thom innumerable services. In the war between the whites and Indians of 1855-'6, he and his people took no part, but treated the whites as nearly as possible just as before. He was a large-bodied, massive, big-brained man, a great orator as well as a brave warrior, with marvellous influence over the Indians, and enjoyed the respect and good feeling of the whites. His place of burial is marked by a handsome stone monument, placed there by his white friends of the city which de- rived its name from him, the stone bearing this inscription: "Seattle, Chief of the Squampsh and Allied Tribes, died June 7, 1866. The firm friend of the whites, and for him the city of Seattle was named by its founders." His name sounded like Sealth, but it was Americanized into Seattle. The old chief pleaded that the city might not be named after him, in accordance with tTie custom of his people that the name of the dead must never be spoken, but his consent was finally ob- tained. The chief never learned the art of writ- ing.—His daughter, Angeline, d. in Seattle, 31 May, 1896. She was one of the celebrities of the North Pacific coast for many years. Of her early life nothing is known. At the time of her death she was nearly blind and was popularly believed to be nearly a hundred years old. She was held in high esteem by the pioneers of the city and their descendants, because in the early fifties she had given timely warning of an intended Indian massacre, and so had probably saved several hun- dred lives. Her few and simple wants thereafter were amply supplied by the citizens of Seattle.

SEAWELL, Molly Elliot (sow-ell), author, b. in Gloucester county, Va., 23 Oct., 1860. Her family settled at Seawell's Point, near Old Point Comfort, in 1627, and five years later established themselves in Gloucester county. Gen. Washington Seawell (q. v.) is a member of the family. She was educated chiefly at home, where she had the use of an old-fashioned library, and early adopted literature as a profession. Miss Seawell's first achievement was in 1890, when she was successful in gaining a prize for a short story, winning, five years later, three thousand dollars for a New Ifork " Herald " prize story. Her publications are " Midshipman Paulding" (New York, J891) ; "Paul Jones" (1892): "Decatur and Somers" (1893); "The Berkeleys and their Neighbors" (1894) "A Strange, Sad Comedy " (1895) ; " The Sprightly Ro- mance of Marsac " (1896) ; " The History of Lady Hetty Stair's Suitors " (1897) ; " A Virginian Cava- lier," " The Rock of the Line " (1898) ; and "The Loves of the Lady Arabella" (1899).

SEDGEWICK, Robert, Canadian jurist, b. in Aberdeen, Scotland, 10 May, 1848. He came to Canada with his parents in May, 1849, and was educated at Dalhousie college, Halifax. He was called to the bar of Ontario, 1872, and of Nova Scotia, 1873, and became queen's counsel in 1880. He has been recorder of Halifax, commissioner of schools, governor of Dalhousie college, and lecturer in eqtiity in that university. He was an unsuc- cessful candidate for the legislative assembly of Nova Scotia in 1874. Became deputy minister of justice and solicitor of Indian affairs for Canada from February, 1888, to February, 1893, when he was elected to the bench as a puisne judge of the supreme court of the Dominion of Canada.

SEIDL, Anton, musician, b. at Pesth, Hungary, 6 May, 1850 ; d. in New York city, 28 March, 1898. He began the study of music at a very early age, and when onlv seven years old could pick out at the piano melodies which he had heard at the theatre. At fifteen he became a student of har- mony in counterpoint under Nieolitsch at the Hungarian national musical academy, of which Liszt was director. lie attended the normal school at Pesth for three years, the gymnasium eight years, and afterward entered the university, where he remained for two years, during which time he sang and played in several public con- certs. At sixteen years of age he evinced a de- cided penchant for the priesthood, but his love for music prevailed, and in 1870 he entered the con- servatory at Leipsic, and in 1872, despite the oppo- sition in Germany to the revolutionary character of Wagner's music, he went to Richter. who soon perceived his strong bent for conducting. From 1872 to 1878 Seidl resided in Bayreuth with Wag- ner, who treated him as one of the chosen few and sent him to Vienna for the express purpose of plac- ing " Siegfried " and ••Goetterdammerung" on the stage. In 1879 the young musician became con- ductor of the Leipsic opera-house, and in May, 1881, he introduced for the first time at the Vic- toria theatre, Berlin, the complete " Nibclungen Trilogy." Upon the death of Dr. Leopold Dam- rosch, in 1885, Seidl was summoned to take charge of the Metropolitan opera-house in New York, whither his wife, Frilulein Krauss, the " young dramatic soprano," had preceded him. Here he became the idol of the Wagnerites. and was se- lected as the director of the permanent orchestra of New York city, for the maintenance of which $100,000 was raised bv subscription.

'''SELIGMAN. Edwin Robert Anderson''', educator, b. in New York city, 25 April, 1861. He is a son of Joseph Seliginan, the banker, and was graduated from Columbia in 1879. From 1879-'82 he spent in Europe, studying at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg. Geneva, and Paris. He took post-graduate courses at Columbia between 1882-'4, and in the latter year received the degrees of LL. B. and Ph. D. He has chosen political economy as his specialty, and has been identified