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Military academy, 18S3, being promoted 2d lieu- tenant "id U.S. cavalry, June 13, 1883, and served on frontier duty until 18D8. except one year, 1886-^7, wlien lie was profes-sor of military science at the Uuiversitv of Illinois. He w:ii) married, Aug. 11,1880, to Alice Carey, daughter of Lindsay and Eliza- beth (Miller) Apple- gate of Ashland, Ore. He served at Wash- ington, D.C., May, 1898, in organizing volunteers for the Spanish- American war; was appointed colonel. Fiftli Volun- teer infantry. May 20, 1898; organized the regiment and arrived at Santiago, Cuba, Aug. 1^, and com- manded the regiment there under Gen. Leonard Wood until March 20, when he was ordered with his regiment to command the district of Guan- tanamo. He sailed from Guantanamo to the United States the following May, and was mustered out of service at Camp Meade, Pa., May 31. 1899. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel, 29th infantry. U.S. volunteers, July 5, 1899; sailed with his regiment for Manila, Philippine Islands. Oct. 5, 1899, arriving Nov. 2; participa- ted in combats with insurgents on the island of Luzon; commanded the attacking forces at the battle of San Mateo, in which General Lawton was killed, Dec. 19, 1899; was honorably discharged from the volunteer service, May 10, 1901, and promoted captain, 2d U.S. cavalry. March 2, 1899. He is the author of: Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign (1893), and The Campaign of Marengo (1897 ). His works on Napoleon's campaigns gave him high standing as an authority on military strategy.

SARGENT, John Singer, artist, was born- in Florence. Italy, in 18.")G; son of Dr. Fitzwilliam

and (Newbold; Sargent. His father, a

well-known physician and surgeon of Boston, Mass. , was the author of several books on surgery, and his mother, a water-color artist of ability. He was educated in Italy and Germany; studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, and in 1874 entered the studio of Carolus- Duran of Paris, France, who was the subject of his first exhiljited portrait in the Salon of 1877. This p<jrtrait was soon followed by the two pic- tures: Ell Route pour la Peche and Smoke of Ambergris. In 1879 he traveled through Spain, where he became a devoted student of the art of Velasquez and conceived his El Jaleo, which im-

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mediately established his reputation as a master of technique. On his return to Paris, he opened a studio on the boulevard Berthier; exhibited a full length portrait of a young woman in the Salon of 1881, which placed him among the fore- most portrait-painters of the contemporary world, and in 1884 removed to London, where he continued to exhibit annually at the Royal Acad- emy, his work being distinguished by its "cleverness of ex- pression, amazing vividness of insight into character and expert control over points of craftsman- ship." He visited the United States in 1876, 1887 and 1889, painting in 1887 a famous por- trait of Mrs. Henry Marquand, and again in 1895 and 1903, to hang his mural paintings in the Boston Public library, having previously exhib- ited them in the Royal Academy at London. These canvases, some of them in the Byzantine style, combining bas-belief and painting, repre- sent "The Progress of Religion." Mr. Sargent was made a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880; an Associate National Acade- mician in 1894, and an Academician in 1897, and a member of the Societe Nationale de Beaux Arts. A loan exhibition of his most notable portraits since 1884, was held in Copley Hall, Boston. Mass., under the auspices of the Boston Art Students' association, February-March, 1900. He also ex- hibited at various times in the United States, at Boston, New York city, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago, and in England, at the New English Art Club of London. His American portrait subjects include: Mr. Burckhardt (1880); Mr. Thornton K. Lothrop (1882); Mrs. Wilton Phipps (1886); Mrs. Inches (1888); Mrs. R. H. Derby (1889); Mrs. Kissam (1890); Thomas B. Reed (1891); Mr.s. Manson (1891); Miss Helen Dunham (1891-92); Henry Cabot Lodge;:\Irs. Carl Meyer and her two children (1897); Calvin S. Brice (1898); Mrs. Ralph Curtis (1898); William M. Chase (1902), and President Theodore Roosevelt (1903). Among his English subjects may be mentioned: Laily Agnew: Lady Plaj-fair (1885); The Hon. Laura Lister; Coventry Patmore, in the National Portrait gallery of London; Mr. Wertheimer (189S), in the same gallery; Francis C. Penrose (1898). and Sir Thomas Sutherland (1898). He also painted the portrait groups: Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose; and Lady Echo, Mrs.