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SCIiENCK

in Turkey, where he lalxDreJ for forty-four years. He was married. Feb. 26, 1834, to Mary Reynolds, an American missionary, and resided in Vienna, wliere lie was engaged in translating the Scrip- tures into Hebrew-Spanish. 1839-42. In 1857 he visited the United States, and resided in Austria, 1874-77. and in New York city, 1877-83. He re- ceived the degree D.D. from the University of Halle in 1867. and LL.I). fromtlie College of New Jersey in 1879. He translated the Bil)le into the Turkish language, and published Essay oil the Right Use of Property (1832); andMeiUtationson the Last Ikiys of Christ ; (1837 ; new eds., 1853 and 1858). His sons published his Autobiography with an introduction by Prof. Edward G. Parks (1SS7V He di.'d in New York city. Jan. 27, 1883.

SCHELL, William Elias, educator, was born in Carroll county, Indiana. Oct. 25, 1861 ; son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Zeller) Schell ; grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Kayler) Schell and of John and Susannah (Kumler) Zeller; great-grandson of Bishop Henry Kumler of the church of the United Brethren of Christ, and of Andrew Schell, who served in the Revolutionary war. His first Schell ancestor came from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1710. and settled in Lancaster county, Pa. He attended the district schools, and by teaching earned his college tuition, being graduated from AVestern college, Toledo, Iowa, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1893. He was married, Jan. 3, 1880, to Alice L., daughter of Nathan and Mary C. (Foster) Pierson of Dane. Wis. ; was a minister in the church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1889-94 ; served as presiding elder, 1894-97. and in the latter year was elected president of York college, Nebraska. He was a member of the general conferences of his denomination, 1897 and 1901 ; a director of its board of education, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lane university, Lecompton, Kan., in 1902.

SCHELLINQ, Felix Emmanuel, educator, was burn at New Albany, Ind., Sept. 3, 1858 ; son of Felix and Rose (White) Schelling ; grandson of Ulrich and Barbara (Mesiner) Schelling and of George Basby and Jane (Hamilton) White. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, B.A.. 1881, LL.B.. 1883, M.A., 1884; practised law, 18.S4-86, and in March, 1886, was married to Caroline, daugliter of James Alexander and Hannah (Palmer) Derbyshire of Philadelphia. He was at the University of Pennsylvania as in- structor in English, 1886-89, assistant-professor of English literature. 1889-91, professor of English literature, 1891-93, and in 1893 became John Welsh centennial professor of English literature. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Franklin and Marshall college in 189S. He was elected member of the Modern Language Association of America and of the American Philosophical society.

He is the author of : Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth (1891) ; The Dis- coveries of Ben Jonson (1892); Life and Writ- ings of George Gascoigne (1893) ; A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics (1895); A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics (1899) ; The English Chronicle Play (1902).

SCHEM, Alexander Jacob, author, was born in Wiedenbruck, Prussia, March 16, 1826. He came to the United States in 1851. having com- pleted a course in theology and philology in the Universities of Bonn and Tiibingen, and after teaching three years served as professor of ancient and modern languages in Dickinson college. Pa., 1854-60 ; as a member of the staff of the New York Tribune, 1860-69, as editor of the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Conversations-Lex- icon (11 vols.), 1869-74, and as assistant super- intendent of the public schools of New York city, 1874-81. He edited a " Latin-English Diction- ary " with the Rev. George R. Crooks (1857) ; a "Cyclopaedia of Education " with Henry Riddle (1877); and •' Year-Book of Education," supple- ments to the latter (1878-79). He was also a regular contributor to the current cyclopaedias, and was an editor of the Methodist and of the Methodist Quarterly Review. He published the " American Ecclesiastical Year-Book " (1860); the " Ecclesiastical Almanac" (1868-69), and several editions of " Schem's Statistics of the World." He died at West Hoboken, N.J., May 21, 1881.

SCHENCK, David, jurist and author, was born in Lincolnton, N.C., March 24. 1835 ; son of Dr. David Warlick and Susan Rebecca (Bevens) Schenck ; grandson of Micliael and Barbara (War- lick) Schenck and of Simeon and Eliza Bevens. In 1813 his paternal grandfather built in Lincoln count}', N.C., the first cotton mill erected south of the Potomac river. David was educated at the Lincolnton high school ; was admitted to the bar in 1856, and practised in Greensboro, N.C. He was married, Aug. 25, 1859, to Sallie W., daughter of Jacob A. and Lucy (Dodson) Ram- seur. He was judge of the superior court, 1874- 81, when he resigned ; and was for fifteen years (1881-96) general counsel of the Richmond and Danville railroad company. He was projec- tor and first president of the Guilford Battle Ground company, organized in 1887 to care for Guilford Battle Ground Park and for the preser- vation of documents, autographs, relics and otiier historical matter connected with the Revolution- ary history of North Carolina. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1876. He is the author of : North Carolina Railroad Laiv (1889); North Carolina in 17S0-S1, a history of the invasion of the South- ern Colonies by Earl Cornwallis (1893), and other literary productions.