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Rh with Columbia from 1887-'90 as adjunct professor, and since 1890 as professor of political economy and finance. He has been one of the editors of the " Political Science (Quarterly " since 1886, and the series in history, economics, and pul>lic law of Columbia since 1890. Prof. .Seligiuan's publica- tions include "Chapters on Medianal Guilds of England " (Baltimore, 1887) ; " Finance Statistics of American Commonwealths" (Boston, 1889); " Railway Tariffs and the Interstate Commerce Law " (New York. 1887) ; " The Shifting and In- cidence of Taxation " (1892 ; 2d edition, 1898) ; " Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice " (1894): and " Essays in Taxation" (1895).

SENN, Nicholas, surgeon, b. in Buchs, canton of St. Gall. Switzerland, 31 Oct., 1844. He came to this country with his parents when he was nine years old, and settled at Ashford, Wis. He was educated at the Kond du Lac grammar-school and at Chicago medical college, where he was grad- uated in 1868. After practising in Ashford he re- moved to Milwaukee ni 1874 and attained to a large practice, gaining reputation as a bold and success- ful surgeon, es[)ecially in intestinal complaints, in which he became a recognized authority. In 188.5 he was appointe<l professor of the principles and jjractice of surgery in the College of physicians and surgeons of Chicago, and in 1888 was made professor of the principles of surgery and surgical pathology in Kush medical college. He removed to ("hicago in 181tl. Dr. Senn was appointed sur- geon-general of Wisconsin just before his removal from .Milwaukee, and organized the associations of military surgeons of the National guard both of Wis<!onsin and of the United States, serving as president of both Itodies. He saw service in the field as a surgeon during the war with Spain. Lieut.-Col. Senn is a member of many foreign learned so<;ietics, and was an American delegate to the International medical congress at Berlin in 1890. He is a constant contributor to surgical lit- erature, and has published " Four Months among the Surgeons of Europe" (Chicago, 1887); " Kx- perimental Surgerv " (1882) ; " Intestinal .Surgery" (1892); "Surgical Bacteriology" (Philadelphia, 1894) ; " Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Tumors" (1896); '" Principles of .Surgery" (2<1 edition, 1897) ; " Tuberculosis of the Genito- I'rinary Organs" (1898): and "Surgical Notes on the Spanish-American War" (Chicago, 1899).

'''SEKK.. Father Jnnipero'''. See Junipero, MlliUKI, .Joslj Skkka.

SEWALIi, Arthnr. ship-builder, b. in Bath, Me.. 25 Nov., 1S15, is a descendant of the family of .Samuel Sewall (q. v.). He studied in the com- mon »chfH)ls of Bath, ami at an early age made a trip to Prince Eilward island, buying ship tim- lier lor the Bath yards. He then entered the em- ploy of his father's firm : in 18.54 he joined his elder brother in the firm of E. & A. Sewall, and took over the business of the old firms of Wil- liam U. Sewall and of Clark & Sewall. The two brothers launched their first ship, " Holyhead," of 1.000 tons burden, in .January. 185.5. In 1879, upon the <lealh of his elder brother, the firm nunic was changed to Arthur Sewall & Co. In 189;t the ship- yards were etjuipped for the construction of steel sading vessels. He had coimeclions with various railroiKls in Maine, and in the western states and Mexi(M), as director and president ; he is also presi- dent of the Bath mvtional bank. He was a dele- gate to the national Democratic convention at Bal- timore in 1872 that nominated Horace Greeley, to that in Cincinnati when Hancock was nomi- nated in 1880, and was a delegate-at-large to the convention that nominated Cleveland in 1884. In 1888 he attended the convention at St. Louis, and was then elected a member of the Democratic na- tional committee ; he was also a member of the ex- ecutive committee of that organization for the' campaign of that year. In 1892 he attended the Chicago convention, and was elected again to the national committee and maile a member of the ex- ecutive committee. In 1898 he was the nominee of his party for U. S. senator against Eugene Hale. At the Chicago convention of 1896 he was nomi- nated vice-president on the Democratic ticket headed bv William Jennings Brvan {q. i:). — His son, Harold Marsh, b. in Bath, Me., 3 Jan., 1860, was graduatetl from Harvard in 1882, and from the law-school of that university in 1885. Soon after he entered the consular service as vice-consul at Liverpool, and later was piadc consul-general at Samoa, where he served under the first Cleveland and the Harrison administration. He was attached to the commission sent by Secretary Blaine to Ber- lin for the settlement of Samoan atiairs. Upon his return he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Bath. He was chairman of the Kepublican state convention, was appointed a dele- gate to the national convention at St. Louis in 18i)6, and was .sent to Hawaii by President Mc- Kinlev as the American minister.

SEXTON, James Andrew. soldier. b. in Chicago, III., 5 Jan., 1844; d. in Washington, D. C, 5 Feb., 1899. He enlisted as a nrivate, 19 April, 1861, in the hundred days' men. He then re-enlisted in the 67th Illinois infantry, and was commissioned 1st lieutenant ; afterward he was transferred to the 72<1 Illinois, in which reginu'iit he served as cap- tain. He served in the 17th army-corps of the Army of the Tennessee, taking part in the battles of Columbia. Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin, and served throughout the Nashville campaign. In 1865 he was on the staff of Gen. Andrew J. Smith, commander of the 16th army-corps, and remained with him until the end of the war. He ha<l his left leg broken Ixdow the knee in the cap- ture of the Spanish fort, Slobile, where he was struck by a piece of shell. After the war he spent two years in Alabama upon a plantation near Mont- gomery, but he returned to Chicago in 1867, and established himself in business there. Col. Sexton was appointed [wstmaster of Chicago in April, 1889. He was an active worker in the Grand army of the republic, the military order of the Loyal legion, and in other societies. He was a past commander of the de[)artment of Illinois, Grand army of the republic ; president of the board of trustees of the Illinois state soldiers' and sailors' home; served as presidential elector; as colonel in the Illinois Na- tional guard ; and held other positions of responsi- bility in his state. In September. 1H98. he was elect- ed commander-in-chief at the thirty-second annual encamimient of the Grand army of the republic, and in the same month he was appointed a tnembcr of the war department investigating committee.

'''SEXTON. Samuel''', otologist, b. in Xenia. Ohio, in 1m:{3; iI. in New York city. 11 July, 1896. He studied medicine, and was gradiuiled at the University of Louisville. During the first year of the civil war he served as a surgeon, and in 1869 he made his home in New York city, where he gained a reputation as an exjjcrt in ear diseases. He was appointed chief surgeon of the West Side eye and ear infirmary in 1877, and later was a lecturer in the New York eye aiul ear infirmary. His long practice was remarkable for his having made clinical notes on over sixty thousand cases which had received his attention. Dr. Sexton invented spe-