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the Scottish Arboricultural society, and president of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- culture. He edited Garden and Forest, 1887-97, and is the author of : Catalogue of the Forest Trees of North America (ISSO); Pruning Forest and Ornamental Trees, a translation from the French of Adolphe Des Cars (1881); Reports on tite Forests of North America {iQSl); The Woods of the United States, with an account of their Structure, Qualities, and Uses {1885) ; The Forest Flora of Japan (1894), and The Silva of North A:iierica (U vols., 1883-1903).

SARQENT, Epes, author, was born in Glouces- ter, Mass., Sept. 27, 1813 ; son of Epes and Han- nali (Dane) Sargent ; grandson of John Osborne and Lydia (Foster) Sargent and great-grandson of Col. Epes and Catharine (Osborne) Sargent. In his youth he travelled with his father in Rus- sia, and returning to Boston, attended the Latin school, and Harvard college where he was associ- ated with his brother John Osborne Sargent and Oliver "Wendell Holmes, in the publication of the Harvard Collegian. He became connected with the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Atlas, and in 1839 became assistant editor of the Mirror, New York city. On his return to Boston in 1846 he became editor of the Transcript, and later en- gaged in editing a series of educational works. Hp was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Weld, of Roxbury, Mass. In 1836 he began to write for the stage, and produced The Bride of Gtnoa (1837), Velasco, Change Makes Change, and Priestess. Among his poems are Songs of the Sea (1847) ; The Woman who Dared (1869) ; and Life on the Ocean Wave, besides a lyric on the death of Warren. His other works are, WeaWi and Worth (1840) ; WhaVs to be Done, or the Will and the Way (1841) ; Fleetwood, or the Stain of a Birth (1845) ; Peculiar, a Sale of the Great Trans- ition (1863) ; Life and Services of Henry Clay (1843) ; American Adventure by Land and Sea (2 vols. 1847) ; The Critic Criticised (1856) ; Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land (1857) ; and Origi- nal Dialogues (1861). He edited the lives of Collins, Campbell, Goldsmith, Gray, Hood and Rogers (1852-65) ; "Works of Benjamin Franklin " (1853); " Works of Horace and James Smith" (1857); The Modern Drama (15 vols., 1846-58); and Cyclopcedia of English and American Poetry ( 1883). He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 31, 1880.

SARQENT, Frederick Leroy, botanist, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 25, 1863; son of George Frederick and Mary Motley (Gavett) Sar- gent ; grandson of John G. and Martha (Bellamy) Sargent and of George B. and Catharine M. E. (Motley) Gavett, and a descendant of William Sargent of Ipswich, Newbury, Hampton, Salis- bury and Amesbury, who received a grant of land at Agawam, now Ipswich, Mass., April,

1633. He removed to New York city in 1866, where he attended the common schools, and the College of the City of New York, 1879-81, com- pleting his studies by a special course in botany at the Lawrence Scientific school. Harvard, 1883-

86. He was an instructor in the summer school of botany. Harvard, 1886 ; head of the depart- ment of botany. University of Wisconsin, 1886-

87, and instructor of botany in the medical school of Boston university, 1894-95. He became pres- ident of the Columbine association, 1895, and was a delegate to and president of the National Flower convention at Asheville, N.C.. Oct. 21-23, 1896. He was married, July 9, 1903, to Helen M. C, daughter of Francis James and Elizabeth E. (Sedgwick) Child of Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of: Guide to Cryptograms (1886); Through a Miscroscope, in collaboration with Samuel Wells and Mary Treat (1886); A Key to North American Species of Cladonia. CamhHdge (1893) ; Hoto to Describe a Flowering Plant (1894) ; Corn Plants: Tlieir Uses and Ways of Life (1899), and contributions on botanical subjects to the Popular Science Monthly and other scientific periodicals. In 1903 Mr, Sargent was residing in Cambridge, Mass.

SARQENT, Henry Winthrop, horticulturist, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 26, 1810 : son of Henry and Hannah (Welles) Sargent ; grandson of Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent and of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt) Welles and a de- scendant of Tliomas Wells, second colonial gover- nor of Connecticut in 1655, and again in 1658, He was graduated from Harvard in 1830 and practised law in Boston for a short time, but later engaged in the banking business with Archibald Gracie in New York city. After his marriage, Jan. 10, 1839, to Caroline, daughter of Francis and Maria (Wyckoff) Olmsted of New York, he retired from business and devoted him- self to horticulture. He purchased a tract on the Hudson which he called " Wodenethe " and which he made one of the most celebrated gardens in the United States. He is the author of : Treatise on Landscape Gardening (1859) ; Skeleton Tours through England, Ireland and Scotland (1866) ; A Supplement to Andrew J. Downing' s Landscape Gardening (1875) ; and many articles in horticul- tural magazines. He died at Fishkill-on-the- Hudson. N.Y., Nov. 10, 1882.

SARQENT, Herbert Howland, soldier, Mas born in Carlinville, 111., Sept. 29, 1858; son of Jacob True and Maria Lucretia (Braley) Sargent : grandson of Daniel and Deborah (Foss) Sargent and of Elliott and Lucretia (Bullard) Braley. and the ninth in descent from William Sargent (born in England about 1606 ; died at Amesbury, Ma.ss.. March, 1675). He was graduated from Black- birn university, B.S., 1878, and from the U.S.