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SARGENT

associated with others in compiliiiK and arrang- ing: Male Chorus Ao. 1 and Xo. -' ( 18aS-9tt); Gems of Song for the Sunday School (1901).

SANTAVANA, George, educator and author, was lx)rn at Madrid. Sj-ain. Dec. 16. 1863. In 1872 he came to the United States and was educated at the BostOQ Latin school and Harvard college, graduating with the class of 1886. In 1889 he became an instructor in philosopliy at Harvard, and in 1898, assistant professor. He is the autlior of: Sonnets and 0th, r rocms (1894^; The Sense of litauty (1896); Lucifer, a TJieological Tragedy (1899); Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. (1900); 77u' Hermit of Carniel (1901).

SARQEANT, Nathaniel Peaslee, jurist, was born in Methuen. Mass.. Nov. 2, 1731; son of the Rev. Christoplier and Susanna (Peaslee) Sargeant; grandson of Tliomas and Mary (Stevens) Sargent and of Col. Natlianiel and Judith (Kimball) Peaslee. and a descendant of William and Eliz- abeth (Perkins) Sargent. William Sargent emi- grated from England and settled in Ipswich, Mass.. in 1633, becoming later a grantee of Ames- bury, Mass. Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant was grad- uated at Harvard, A.B., 1750, A.M., 1753; and practised law in Haverhill, Mass. He was a dele- gate to the Provincial congress in 1775, judge of the superior court of judicature in Massachusetts in 1775-89, and chief-justice of the supreme court of the state. 1790-91. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He %vas married, first, Feb. 3, 1759, to Rhoda Bar- nard of Amesbury, Mass., and secondly, to Mary (Livingston) Leavett. He died at Haverhill, Mass.. Oct. 12, 1791.

SARGENT, Aaron Augustus, senator, was born in Newburyport. Mass., Sept. 28, 1827; son of Aaron Peaslee and Elizabeth (Stanwood) Sar- gent; grandson of Moses and Lydia (Severance) Sargent and of John Stanwood, and a descendant of William Sargent. He learned the printers' trade, and in 1847 became a reporter in Washing- ton, D.C. He removed to California in 1849; and in 1850 establislied the Xevada Journal in "Seyadsk City. He was married March 15, 1852, to Ellen' Swctt, daughter of Amos and Rebecca (Ingalls) Clark of Newbury port. He was admitted to the bar in 1854; chosen district attorney of Nevada county in 1856; vice-president of the Re- publican national convention in 1860; a Republi- can representative in the 37th congress, 1861- 63; in the 41st and 42d congresses, 1869-73. and U.S. senator. 1873-79. He was the author of the first Pacific railroad act tiiat was passed in con- gress July 1. 1862. He practised law in San Fran- cisco, lS7d-82. and in 1882. wjis appointed envoy extraordinary and minister jdenipott^ntiary to Germany by President Arthur. At the time of Mr. Sargent's arrival in Berlin, the German gov-

ernment was imposing increasing restrictions upon American pork. Mr. Sargent reported to his government the real cause of restriction and recommended retaliation. His report was inad- vertently published, and for this and other dip- lomatic reasons his position became unpleasant. He presented his resignation and was immedi- ateh' nominated U.S. minister to Russia, which he declined, returning home in 1884. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of California in 1865. He died in San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 14. 1887.

SARGENT, Charles Sprague, botanist and dendrologist, was born in Boston, Mass., April 24, 1841; son of Ignatius and Henrietta (Gray) Sargent; grandson of Ignatius and Sarah (Stevens) Sargent and of Samuel and Mary (Brooks) Gray; great-grandson of Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent: greats-grandson of Col. Epesand Cath- arine (Osborne) Sargent; greats-grandson of Wil- liam and Mary (Duncan) Sargent, and great-- grandson of William and Maiy (Epes) Sargent, who emigrated to Gloucester, Mass., in 1678. He was graduated from Harvard university in 1862; was appointed lieutenant and aide-de-camp of U. S. volunteers in 1862; and was brevetted major of U.S. volunteers in 1865. He was profes- sor of horticulture, 1872-73; director of the botanic garden at Harvard, 1873-79, and was chosen Arnold professor of arboriculture in 1879. He received the degree LL.D. from Harvard in 1901.

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He was married, Nov. 27, 1873. to Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Allen) Robeson of Tiverton, R.I. He planned the Jesup collection of North American woods for the Museum of Natural History, New York city; was chairman of the commission for the preservation of Adirondack forests in 1885, and chairman of the commission appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was elected a member in 1895, to decide upon a forest policy for the American woodlands, 1896-97. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical society; of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Horticultural society of England, and