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Adcane and Mrs. Tennant (1900), and portraits of Ellen Terry as " Lady Macbeth '"; Ada Rehan; '• Cariuencita " Luxembourg gallery; T7ie Java- nese Dancing Girl, which was one of the series awarded a grand medal at the Paris exposition of 1889; Venetian Bead-strings, and Spanish Court- yard. See: "The Art of J. S.Sargent, R.A.," by A. L. Baldry in The Studio (February, 1900), a.ntt John S. Sargent's Decorations " by Sylvester Baxter in Harper's Weekly (June 1, 1895).

SARGENT, Jonathan Everett, jurist, was born in New London, N.H., Oct. 23, 1816; son of Ebenez- ■er and Prudence (Chase) Sargent; grandson of Peter Sargent, and a descendant of William Sar- gent. Jonathan E. Sargent was graduated at Dart- mouth, A.B., 1840, A.M., 1843, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He removed from Canaan to Wentworth in 1843. and was married, Nov. 29, 1843, to Maria Cordelia Jones of Enfield. He be- •came colonel in the New Hampshire militia, was solicitor for Grafton county, 1844-54. a represen- tative in the state legislature, 1851-53, being speaker of the house, 1852-53, and was president ■of the state senate in 1854. In 1852 his wife died, and on Sept. 5, 1853, he was married to Louise Jennie, daughter of Col. James K. Paige ■of Wentworth, N.H. He was chief-justiceof the court of common pleas, 1855-59; associate justice of the New Hampshire supreme judicial court, 1859-73, and chief-justice of that court, 1873-74. He served as vice-president of the New Hamp- shire Historical society for several years; was president of the New Hampshire Centennial home for the aged, and was prominent in financial and banking circles. Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1869. He died in Con- cord. N.H., Jan. 6, 1890.

SARGENT, Lucius Manlius, author, was born in Boston, Mass., June 25, 1786; son of Daniel and Mary (Turner) Sargent; grandson of Col. Epes and Catharine (Osborne) Sargent and of the Hon. John Turner of Salem, Mass. His father was a Boston merchant. He attended Harvard and studied law, but did not practise. He early became associated with the cause of temperance, delivering lectures and writing on that subject. Ha contributed to the Boston Transcript, under the name "Sigma," and his papers on the coolie trade were republislied in England. He was twice married, first on April 3, 1816, to Mary, sister of Horace Binney, and secondly on July 14, 1825, to Sarah Cutter, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Dun of Boston. He is the author of: Translations from Minor Latin Poets (1807); Hu- bert and Helen and other Verses (1812); Ode (1813); Three Temperance TaZes (1848); Dealings icith the Dead (1856); Reminiscences of Samuel Dexter (1858), and The Irrepressible Conflict (1801). He died in West Roxbury, Mass., June 2, 1867.

SARGENT, Paul Dudley, soldier, was torn in Salem, Mass., in 1745; son of Col. Epes and Catharine (Osborne) Sargent. He joined the patriot army at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war and commanded a regiment at the siege of Boston, being wounded at Bunker Hill. He com- manded a brigade at Harlem, Trenton, Princeton and White Plains, and after the war was elected chief justice of the court of common pleas of Hancock county, Maine. He was judge of the probate court, justice of the same, first repre- sentative to the general court, postmaster, and an overseer of Bowdoin college. 1794-96. He died in Sullivan. Maine. Sept. 28, 1828.

SARGENT, Winthrop, patriot, was born in Gloucester, Mass.. May 1, 1753; son of Winthrop and Judith (Saunders) Sargent; grandson of Col. Epes and Esther (Maccart}') Sargent and of Thomas and Judith (Robinson) Saunders, and a descendant of William and Mary (Epes) Sargent, who settled at Cape Ann. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1774; was cap- tain of a merchant ship belonging to his father, and in 1775 entered the patriot army. He was naval agent at Glousester, Jan. 1-March 16, 177G; and captain in Gen. Henry Knox's regiment of artillery, serving until the close of the war, and attaining the rank of major. In 1786 he became connected with the Ohio company and was ap- pointed by congress surveyor of the territory northwest of the Ohio river. He was commis- sioned secretary of the Northwestern Territory, Sept. 1, 1789; recommissioned, Dec. 10, 1794, and was commissioned governor of the Mississippi Territory, May 7, 1798, serving, 1798-1801. He was married, Oct. 24, 1798, to Mary, daughter of William and Eunice (Hawley) Macintosh of In- verness, Scotland, and afterward of Natchez. Miss. He served in the Indian wars of 1791 and 1794-95, taking part in the expedition under Gen. Arthur St. Clair, where he was wounded. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; corresponding member of the Mas- sachusetts Historical society, a member of the American Philosophical society, and an original member of the Society of Cincinnati. In collab- oration with Benjamin B. Smith, he published Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities (1796), and Boston, a poem (1803). He died in New Orleans, La., June 3, 1820.

SARGENT, Winthrop, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23, 1825; son of George Washington and Margaret Jessie Percy Sargent, and grandson of Winthrop Sargent, the patriot (q.v.). He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1848, and from the Harvard Law school, LL.B., 1847. He practised in Philadelphia and in New York, and devoted his spare time to literature. He was a member