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New York. He performed many difficult and successful operations, several of them for the first time in the United States, and was the in- ventor of various surgical instruments of great value. He received the degree LL.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1872. He is the author of : Strabismus, with an Appendix on Stammering (1840), and of reports of opera- tions. He died in New York city, Feb. 7, 1886.

POST, Charles Cyrel, author, was born in Shiawassee, Mich., May 16, 1846 ; son of Martin (1809-77) and Julia A. (Bancroft) Post ; grandson of Stephen (1779-1863) and Hannah (Calkins) Post, great-grandson of Oliver (1746-1816) and Submit Post, and a descendant of Abraham, one of three sons of Stephen Post, who came from England and settled in Saybrook, Conn. He was. a student at Hiram and Oberlin colleges, leaving to study law, and was admitted to the bar in 1874, but instead of practising, engaged in jour- nalism in Indianapolis, Ind. He was secretary of the state grange of Indiana, and prominent in state politics. He was married first, in 1878, to Minnie, daughter of the Rev. J. K. Speer of North Carolina, and secondly, in 1884, to Helen, daugh- ter of Caleb and Elizabeth Wilmans, of Fair- field, 111., and founder of the school of men- tal science. He was publisher of the Chicago Express, 1883-85 ; removed in 1885 to Douglas- ville, Ga.. where he became a leading member of tlie Peoples' party, founding and editing the organ of that party in Atlanta, and was chair- man of the Georgia delegation to the Peoples' national convention at Omaha, July 3, 1892. In 1892 he removed to Sea Breeze, Fla., and in 1899 founded in Florida the School of Scientific, Philoso- phic and Psychic Research, to which he donated property estimated to be worth $200,000. His published works include : Driven from Sea to Sea (1883); Frotn Wabash to the Rio Grande (1885); Congressman Swanson (1888); Metaphysical Es- says {18QQ)\ Men and Gods (1898), and contribu- tions to periodicals.

POST, George Edward, clergyman, and scien- tist, was born in New York city, Dec. 17, 1838 ; son of Dr. Alfred Charles (q.v.) and Harriet (Beers) Post ; and grandson of Cyrenius Beers. He was graduated from the New York Free acad- emy, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857; from the Univer- sity of the City of New York, M.D., 1860, and from Union Theological seminary, in 1861. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, June 5, 1861, and was chaplain in the U.S. army, 1861- 63. He was married at Georgetown, D.C., Sept. 17, 1863, to Sarah, daughter of Robert and Fran- ces (Davis) Read. He was sent by the American Board of Foreign Missions to Tripoli, Syria, 1863 ; was professor of surgery at the Syrian Protes- tant college, Beirut, from 1868, and surgeon to

the Johanniter hospital, Beirut, from 1871. He devoted much attention to botany and ornithol- ogy, and was made a member or fellow of nu- merous foreign and American scientific societies. He was decorated with the Order of Othmaniyeh, by the Sultan of Turkey, with the Order of the Red Eagle, and that of the Ducal House of Saxony, Germany. His published works include : Flora of Syria, Palestine and Egyjit (1880) ; Text-Book of Botany {\S70); Text-Book of Mammalia (1871); Butler's Physiology (1872); Text-Book of Birds ( 1875) ; Text-Book of Surgery (1873) ; Text-Book of Materia Medica (1875); Concordance to the Bible (1878); Dictionary of the BiWe (1899), all in Arabic, and the Flora of Syria, Palestine and Siani, in English (1896), besides contributions to religious publications.

POST, Louis Freeland, journalist, was born in Vienna, N. J., Nov. 15, 1849; son of Eugene Jerome and Elizabeth (Freeland) Post ; grand- son of David and Sarah (Vliet) Freeland and of Dr. Lewis and Theodosia (Steele) Post ; and a descendant of Stephen Post who was born in England, immigrated to Cambridge, Mass., in 1634, removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636, and in 1648 to Saybrook, Conn., wliere he died Aug. 16, 1659. Louis F. Post attended the public schools first in Vienna and Danville, N.J., and afterward in New York city ; learned the printer's trade at Hackettstown, N.J. ; studied law in New York city, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1870. He was in South Carolina, 1871-72, as stenographic and law clerk of David T. Cor- bin, U.S. attorney and state senator, and reported the Kuklux trials there with Benn Pitman. He practised law in New York city after March, 1872 : was assistant U.S. attorney for the south- ern district of New York, 1874-75, under George Bliss, and was on the staff of the New York daily Truth, 1879-82. In 1881 he became a convert to Henry George's single tax theories ; in 1882 was a candidate for representative in congress on the Labor and the Greenback tickets ; in 1883 was Greenback candidate for attorney-general of New York, and again practised law, 1883-90. He edited the daily Leader, the campaign sheet of the Henry George mayoralty campaign, in 1886, and was the George candidate for district at- torney of New York county in 1887. He was a contributor to The Standard, edited by Henry George, 1886-91 ; its editor, 1891-92, and associate editor and editor of the Cleveland Recorder, 1896-97. In 1898 he removed to Chicago, 111., and founded Tlie Public, a political and economic review, the general policy of which is directed by the principles of radical democracy and the single tax theory of public revenues and land tenure. He became somewhat widely known as a public lecturer on economic subjects. He was