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SANDERS, Daniel Jackson, educator, was born at Wiimsl.oro. S.<".. Fol). 15, 1S47. His parents were slaves. He was a stiuleutat Brain- arJ Institute, Cliester, S.C. ; was graduated from Westeru Theological seminary in 1874, and was ordained by the presbytery of Fairfield in 1870. He was pastor at Wilmington, N.C., 1874- 86 ; and was married, Sept. IG. 1!^S0, to Fannie T., daughter of George W. and Eliza Price of Wil- mington. He founded the Afn'co-Ameriean Pre-tbylerian iu 1879, of wliieh he became editor and proprietor. In 1891 ho became president of Biddle university, Charlotte, N.C., an institution for the education of Negro youths. He was a member of the General council of Presbyterian churches held iu Toronto in 1892, also the one held in Wasliington in 1898, and was repeatedly a member of the Presbyterian General assembly. He received the honorary degrees A.M. and D.D. from Lincoln university, Pa., and D.D. from Biddle university. N.C.

SANDERS, Frank Knight, educator, was born at Batticotla, Jatliia. Ceylon, June 5, 1801; son of the Rev. Marshall Danforth and Georgiana (Knight) Sanders ; grandson of Anthony and Celinda (Brown) Sanders and of Joseph and Ruby (Hyde) Knight, and a descendant of Chad Brown (1638). He was graduated from Ripon col- lege, Wis., in 1882; spent the next four years as an instructor in JalTna college, Ceylon, and studied Semitic languages and Biblical literature at Yale, 1886-89. taking the degree of Ph.D. in 1889. He was married, June 27, 1888, to Edith, daughter of Morris and Mary Elizabeth (Billings) Blackman of Whitewater, Wis. HewasWoolsey professor of Biblical literature at Yale, 1893-1901, and on Oct. 1, 1901, became professor of Biblical history and archaeology and dean of the Divinity school at Yale university. In 1900 he was elected president of Iowa college, Grinnell, Iowa, which position he declined. He became a member of the American Oriental society, the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and of the American Archfeological association, and pre- sident ( lSK)3-04) of the Religious Education society. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ri|)on college in 1900. He is the author, with Professor C. F. Kent, of : TJie Messages of the Ear- lier Prophtts (1898); Tlie Messages of the Later Pz-o/i/jW.* (IHDQ); and co-editor, with Prof. C. F. Kent, of 77t<.' Historical Series for Bible Students (10 vols., 1890); the Messages of the Bible (12 vols.. 189''). and the Library of Ancient Inscrip- tioiift (10 vols.. 1903).

SANDERS, Frederic William, educator, was born in Westchester county, N.Y., Jan. 17. 1864; son of Dr. Henry and Frances Clara (Smith) aiuders : grand.son of Henry L. and Barbara (Vaughan) Sanders and of William and Elizabeth

(Scott) Smith. His mother's ancestors were among the early settlers of New England, but his father was an Englishman, although he served as a medical officer in the U.S. army during the civil war. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York, A.B., 1883 ; was engaged as a tutor, editor, government emploj'ee and law clerk, 1883-87 ; as a law proof-reader, Rochester, N.Y., 1887-88 ; was admitted to the bar in New York, 1887, and practised law in eastern Ten- nessee, 1888-91. He was a student in the Divinity school of Harvard, 1891-92, receiving the degree of A.M. upon examination from that university in 1892 ; was minister of the Unitarian church, Asheville, N.C, 1892-93 ; subsequently continued his studies in the University of Chicago, being graduated, Ph.D., 1895, and was university fellow in sociology, Columbia university. New York city, 1895-96. Dr. Sanders returned to the Uni- versity of Chicago in the latter year, where he held the position of university extension lecturer in sociology and pedagogy, 1896-97 ; was lecturer- elect on statistics and social economics in the graduate school of the university, 1897 ; was as- sistant professor, first of pedagogy and then of European history, and finalh* professor in West Virginia university, 1897-99 ; and was president of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1899-1901, officiating also as pro- fessor of political and economic science. He is the author of reviews in the Political Science Quarterly, the American Jouimal of Sociology, the Journal of Political Economy, 0,1x6. of mono- graphs and papers on sociological and philosoph- ical subjects, publislied independently or in scientific or popular magazines. He resigned the presidency of the territorial college of New Mexico and his seat in the territorial board of education in 1901, traveled in Europe, 1901-02, and on his return to America in 1902 took up his residence in New York.

SANDERS, John Caldwell Calhoun, soldier, was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala., April 4, 1840 ; son of Dr. Charles Peak and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Sanders of Ciiarleston, S.C; grandson of William and Martha (Ditmore) Sanders and of Dr. Matthew and Arabella (Keys) Thompson. His paternal grandfather, a native of England, emigrated to Charleston, S.C. His maternal ancestors resided in Anderson district, S.C He was a cadet in the University of Alabama, and was the first member of the student body to leave that institution in 1861 to join the Confederate States army. lie at once volunteered as a private in a military company raised in Greene county, and on the reorganization of this command was elected its captain, assigned to the 11th Alabama regiment, and he was with his company at Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, and