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Domingo, and in 1872 organized the Liberal Re- publican party and presided over the national convention at Cincinnati, May 1, 1872, that nominated Horace Greeley for President. He favored the resumption of specie payment and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Southern states. He supported Rutherford B. Hayes for President in 1876 ; was secretary of the interior in Hayes's cabinet, 1877-81 ; editor of the New York Evening Post, 1881-84: ; and a leader in the Independent Republican movement in 1884, when he supported Cleveland, the Democratic candidate for President. He visited Europe in 1888, where he was accorded the honors due an American citizen by Prince Bismarck and other German leaders. He was a member of the American Pliilosophical society and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Historical society ; and was president of the Civil Service Reform league, 1892-1901. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Mis- souri, 1874, by Harvard, 1876, and by Columbia, 1899. He is the author of : Speeches (1865) ; Life of Henry Clay (1887) ; Abraham Lincoln: An Essay (1889).

SCHUSSELE, Christian, painter, was born in Guebwiller, Alsace, April 16, 1834. He studied art in Paris, 1842-48, Adolphe Yvon and Paul Delaroche being his instructors, and he also learned the art of chromo-lithography. He came to the Un ited States in 1848, where he first engaged •as a lithographer, but subsequently as a painter. He suffered from palsy in his right hand from 1863, which did not yield to treatment either in America or Europe. He was professor of draw- ing and painting in tlie Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1868-79. Several of Iiis paintings were reproduced by eminent en- gravers and largely circulated. His works in- clude : Clear the Track (1851); Franklin before the Lords in Council (1856) : Men of Progress (1857); Zelsberger preaching to the Lidians (1859); TTie Iron Worker and King Solomon (1860) ; Wash- ington at Valley Forge (1862) ; Home on Furlough (1863); McClellan at Antietam (1863); Queen Esther Denouncing Human (1869), and The Alsa- tian Fair (1870). He died in Merchantville, N. J., Aug. 20, 1879.

SCHUYLER, Aaron, educator, was born in Seneca county, N.Y.. Feb. 7, 1828; son of John B. and Elizabeth (Turner) Schuyler ; grandson of Arent Schuyler, and a descendant of Philip Schuyler (q.v.) through Arent and Casper Wil- iiam Schuyler. He attended Seneca academy and the Ohio Wesleyan university ; was principal of Seneca academy, 1851-62 ; professor of mathe- matics at Baldwin university, Ohio, 1862-75 ; president of Baldwin university, 1873-85 ; and was elected professor of mathematics and mental

philosophy at Kansas Wesley an university in 1885. He was married, Nov. 13, 1851, to Amanda, daugh- ter of Giles and Content Pearce ; and secondly, July 29, 1886, to Mrs. Josephine Campbell of Bera, Ohio. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Ohio Wesleyan university in 1860, and that of LL..D by Otterbein university in 1875. He is the author of : Higher Arithmetic (1860) ; Principles of Logic (1869); Complete Algebra (1870) ; Surveying and Navigation (1873) ; Ele- ments of Geometry (1876) ; Empirical and Rational Psychology (1882) ; Outlines of Psychology (1893) ; and Systems of Ethics (1902).

SCHUYLER, Eugene, diplomatist, was born in Ithaca, N.Y., Feb. 26, 1840; son of George Washington and Matilda (Scribner) Schuyler. His father (1810-88) was state treasurer, 1863-65 ; superintendent of the banking department of New York, 1866-70, and a representative in the state legislature in 1878. Eugene was graduated from Yale college in 1859, and from the Columbia Law school in 1863 ; and practised law in Ithaca and in New York city until 1866. He was U.S. consul at Moscow, 1866-69 : atReval, 1869-70 ; and secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, 1870-73. While acting charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg in 1873, he made a journey of eight months through Russian Turkestan, Bokhara, Kliokand and Kuldja. He was secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople. 1876-78. and in this official capacity was sent to Bulgaria to inves- tigate the Turkish massacres, making an official report that was partly instrumental in putting an end to the outrages. He was married in 1877 to Gertrude Wallace, daughter of Charles (q.v.), and Henrietta (Low) King. He was U.S. consul at Birmingham, England, 1878-79, and consul- general at Rome, Italy, 1879-1880 ; charge d'af- faires and consul-general in Bucharest, 1880-82, and concluded the commercial and consular treaties between the United States and Roumania and Servia. He was U.S. minister resident, and consul-general to Greece, Servia and Roumania, 1882-84, and after 1884 devoted himself to literary work. He was named bj' President Harrison for first assistant-secretary of state in March, 1889, but his name was not confirmed by the senate for political reasons. He was U.S. consul-general at Cairo, Egypt, 1889-90. He was a correspond- ing member of the Roumanian academy and of the London, Russian, Italian and American geographical societies, and received decorations from the governments of Russia, Greece, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria. The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Yale in 1861. that of LL.B. by Columbia in 1863, and that of LL.D. by Williams in 1882. and by Yale in 1885. He edited John A. Porter's " Selections from the Kalerala " (1867) ; translated Ivan Turgenieff's