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1861; commanded the forces at McDowell. Va., May 8, 1862, composed of his own and Robert H. Milroy's brigades, and under Fremont in the battle of Cross Keys, JuneT, 1862. lie command- fd the 1st division, Sigel's 1st corps, at second Bull Run, where he was severely wounded; was promoted major-general of volunteers, Sept. 18, 1862. to date from Aug. 30. 1862, and commanded the Middle department and the 8th army corps at Baltimore. Md., in 18G3. He resigned his com- mission, Dec. 3. 1863, to take liis scat in the 3Sth congress. He procured while in congress the establi;-iiment of the military and naval asylum; and was president of the board of visitors of the U.S. Military academy in 1865. He was a dele- gate to the Philadelphia Loyalist convention of 1866, and a member of the Alabama claims commission, 1871. He was U.S. minister to Great Britain, 1871-76, resigning when charges were preferred against him of complicity in the cele- brated Emma mine fraud in 1876, and he appeared before a committee of the U.S. house of represen- tatives, where he was acquitted. He was a trustee of Miami university, 1835-39. After 1876 he prac- tised law in "Washington, D.C., until his death, wliich occurred in that city, March 23, ]890.

SCHENCK, William Edward, clergyman and editor, was born in Princeton, N.J., March 29, 1819; son of Jolm Conover and Annie Brooks (Hutchinson) Schenck; grandson of Joseph and Margaret (Conover) Schenck and of Isaac and Annie (Brooks) Hutchinson; and a descendant of Roelof Martense Schenck, who was born at Amersfoort, Holland, in 1619, and came to New York, June 28, 1650. He attended the Edgehill school in Princeton; was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841; studied law, 1838-39, and was graduated at the Princeton Theological seminary in 1842. He was a mission- ary in t!ie coal region, 1842; was ordained by the presbytery of New Brunswick, Feb. 28, 1843. and was pastor at Manchester, N.J., 1843-45, of the Hammond Street Presbyterian church, New York city, 1845-48, and of the First Presbyterian church, Princeton. N.J., 1848-52. He was super- intendent of church extension in the presbytery of Philadelphia, 1852-54, and was corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Publi- cation, 1854-86; being also editor of the board from 1862-70. He was made one of the directors of Princeton Theological seminary in 1865; sec- retary of the board, 1870-98, and chairman of the joint committee to prepare the general catalogue of 1894; and secretary of the Alumni associ- ation, 1872-97, being honorary secretary after 1897. He was a member of the Reunion committee, 1867-70; a trustee of the General Assembly, 186.5- 87, and vice-president of its board, and in 1865 was elected vice-president of the Pennsylvania

Colonization society and in 1897 of the American Colonization society. He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson college in 1861. He was married first, April 18, 1843, to Jane Whittemore Torry, daugliterof William and Adeline (Whitte- more) Torrey of New York; and secondly, April 3, 1861, to Mary Bates, daughter of the Rev. An- drew and Eliza (Gosman) Kittle of Elizabeth, N.J. He is the author of: Hisioi-ical Account of the Firstt Presbyterian Church of Pi-inccton, N.J. (1851); Church Extension for Cities (1854): God Our Guide (1862); The Fountain for Sin (1864); Au7it Fanny's Home (1865); Children in Heaven (1866). and Xearing Home (1867).

SCHERESCHEWSKY, Samuel Isaac Joseph, tiiird missionary bishop of Slianghai, China, and 118th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Tauroggen, Russian Litiiuania, May 6, 1831, of Jewish parents. He was a student at home and in different Rabbinical schools of Russia, tiien at Breslau, Germany, and came to the United States in 1854, when he embraced Christianity and was a student at the Western Theological seminarj', Allegheny, Pa., 1855-58. He changed his creed, and joined the Protestant Episcopal church. He entered the General Theological seminary, New York city, class of 1860, and in 1859 was appointed missionary to China. He was admitted to the diaconate in St. George's church. New York city, July 7, 1859; sailed for China the same month with Bishop Boone, and was advanced to the priesthood in the mission chapel at Shanghai, China, by Bishop Boone, Oct. 28. 1860. He was a missionary at Shanghai, 1860-63, and at Peking, 1862-75. He was married at Shanghai in 1868. He returned to America in 1875, when he was elected mis- sionary' bishop of Slianghai, Cliina, and declined. He was again elected in 1876 and declined, but upon his election in 1877 he accepted and was consecrated in Grace church, New York city, Oct. 31, 1877, by Bishops Smith, Potter, Bedell, assisted by Bishops Stevens, Kerfoot and Lyman. He returned to China via England w^iere he at- tended the Lambeth conference of 1878, and in 1881 was taken ill and returned to Europe in 1882 with his family. He resigned liis jurisdiction in 1883, when in Switzerland, and returned to America in 1886, and engaged in revising the Mandarin Bible, translated by him while in Pe- king, and in 1888 began the revision of the entire Bible in the classical language of China. In 1890 he returned to Cliina and had his work transliterated into the Chinese characters. In 1892 he was invited by the American Bible society to accompany their agent. Dr. Hughes, to Tokyo, Japan, to superintend the printing of the revised Mandarin version, and the entire work was finished and put into circulation in 1902.