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 SANGSTER

SANKEY

1898, serving as acting inspector-general, U.S.A. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, May 27, 1898, and was in command consecutively of the 2d brigade, 2d division, 1st corps, June 19- 29, 1898; 3d division, 1st corps, June 29-Nov. 19; 2d brigade, 2d division, 1st corps, Nov. 19-Dec. 4, and 2d division, 1st corps, Dec. 4-23. He was assigned to the command of the district of Mantanzas, Cuba, Jan. 11, 1899; mustered out of the volunteer service, June 12, 1899, and assigned to duty with assistant secretary of war the fol- lowing July 3. General Sanger was appointed by President McKinley director of the census of Cuba and Porto Rico, Aug. 9 and Sept. 8, 1899, respectively, and a member of the War college board, June 21, 1900. He was promoted colonel and inspector-general, U.S.A., Feb. 2, 1901, and brigadier-general, U.S.A., July 23, 1902. In 1903 he was supervisor of the Philippine census, with headquarters at Manila, P. I.

SANGSTER, Margaret Elizabeth, author, was born at New Rochelle, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1838; daughter of John and Margaret (Chisholm) Mun- son; granddaughter of John and Grace (Gale) Munson, and of Thomas and Margaret (Kirkaldy) Chisholm; and of Irish and Scottish lin- eage. She was edu- cated in New York city, and was mar- ried Aug. 12, 1858, to George Sangster. She contributed to the leading periodi- cals, and was associ- ate editor of Hearth and Home, 1871-73; of the Christian at Work, 1873-79, and of the Christian In- telligencer from 1879; staff-contributor to the Christian Herald from 1894, and editor of Harper's Bazar, 1889-99. She is the author of: Home and Heaven (1860); Five Happy Weeks (1862); Mary Stanhope and Her Friends (1863); Miss Dewbury's School (1870); Splendid Times (1870); Hours ivith Girls (1876); Mamial of Mis- sions of the Reformed Church in America (1880); Poems of the Household (1882); Home Fairies and Heart Flowers (1882); With My Neighbors (1883); Art of Home Making (1883); On the Road Home (1890); Easter Bells (1891); Little Knights and Ladies {\SQ2); Maidie's Problem (1892); Winsome Womanhood {imO); Janet Ward (1902); When Angels Come to Men (1903),

SANKEY, Ira David, evangelist, was born in Edenburg, Pa., Aug. 28, 1840; son of David and Mary (Leeper) Sankey; grandson of Ezekiel and

Jane (Cubbison) Sankey. In 1857 he moved with his parents to New Castle, Pa., where he became a class leader in the M.E. church, and later leader of the choir. He was also for a few years president of the New Castle Young Men's Christian asso- ciation, and after- ward, in 1883, pre- sented the town with a new, fully-equipped Association building. In 1861 he enlisted in the 12th Pennsyl- vania infantry, and after serving out his time became a deputy in the revenue service under his father, who was U.S. collector of internal revenue, ap- pointed by President Lincoln. He was married, Sept. 9,

1863, to Frances Victoria, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth Edwards of New Castle; and of this union were born three sons, two of whom, John Edwards and Ira Allan, were living in 1903. In 1870 he went as a Y.M.C.A. delegate to the International convention in Indianapolis, and it was here that he first met Mr. Dwight L. Moody, with whom he soon afterward became associated in evangelistic work. Mr. Sankey and Mr. Moody went to Great Britain in 1871, and in 1873, during their memorable campaign there, Mr. Sankey compiled the first of the ' 'Sacred Songs and Solos " series, the songs of which were soon sung the world over. On their return to America in August, 1875, this hymn book, with a few additions, was prepared for publication by Mr. Sankey and Mr. P. P. Bliss, under the title of " Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs." This was the first of the well-known Gospel Hymn series (1875-1894), the last four numbers of which (Gospel Hymns Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6) were edited by Mr. Sankey, Mr. George C. Stebbins and Mr. James McGranahan, as were the popular hymn books, " Sacred Songs No. 1 " and " No. 2 " (1896- 99) . The royalties from all of these hymn books went to the support of the Northfield schools established by Mr. Moody. In 1898 Mr. Sankey visited Egypt, Palestine and Southern Europe, and upon his return to this country, began the series: " Services of Song and Story," upon which he was still engaged in 1903. His most famous sacred songs are: The Ninety and Nine; TJiere'll Be No Dark Valley; 11 hen the 3rists Have Rolled Aivay; Faith is the Victory; A Shelter in the Time of the Storm. He also edited: Winnowed Hymns (1890); Christian Endeavor Hymns (1894); Young People's Songs of Praise (1902); and was