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rank of major. He was captured by the Coufed- erate army in May, 186-i, and was a prisoner until March, 1865, and on reaching Washington he was honorably discharged and returned to his home in Pennsylvania. He was a railroad surveyor, 1865-68 ; foreman of a lumber mill at Oconto, Wis., 1868-76, and in 1876 became a lumber man- ufacturer in that place. He was a Republican member of the state senate, 1887 and 1889 ; was elected governor in 1896 and re-elected in 1898 over Hiram W. Sawyer, Democrat, by 37,803 plurality, his term expiring January, 1900.

SCOFIELD, Qlenni William, jurist, was born at Dewittville, Chatauqua count3% N.Y., March 11, 1817. He was apprenticed to a printer, 1831-36 ; was graduated from Hamilton college in 1840 ; taught school, and studied law until 18-13, when he began the practice of law in Warren, Pa. He was district attorney for his district, 1816-48 ; a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, 1850-51, and a member of the state senate, 1857-59. Governor Curtin appointed him president judge of the eighteenth judicial dis- trict in 1861. He was a representative from Pennsylvania in the 38th-43rd congresses. 1863-75, being one of the three representatives at large from Pennsylvania in the 43d congress, and was chair- man of the committee on naval affairs. He was register of the U.S. treasury, 1878-81, and associ- ate justice of the U.S. court of claims, 1881-91. He received from Hamilton college the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1884. He died at Warren, Pa., Aug. 31, 1891.

SCOLLARD, Clinton, author, was born in Clinton, N.Y., Sept. 18, 1860 ; son of James Isaac and Elizabeth (Stephens) Scollard ; grandson of William Ross and Hannah (Sennett) Scollard and of John Davison and Abby (Crombie) Stephens. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1881, and studied two years at Harvard and several months at Cambridge, England, visiting, while abroad, Greece. Egypt and Palestine, and re- turning in 18S7. He was assistant professor of rhetoric and literature in Hamilton col- lege, 1888-91, and professor of English litera- ture and Anglo-Saxon, 1891-96. He was mar- ried, July 3, 1890, to Georgia, daughter of George Densmore and Celestia (Scollard) Brown of Jackson, Mich. He is the author of : Pictures in Song (1884); With Reed and Lyre (1886) ; Old .and Xeio World Lyrics (1888) ; Giovio and Giulia (1891); Songs of Sunrise Lands (1892); Under Summer Skies (1893) ; On Sunny Shores (1893) ; Hie Hills of Song (1895); Boy's Book of Rhyme (1896); Skenandoa (1896); A Christmas Garland (1897) ; A Man at Arins (1898) ; Laicton (1900) ; Son of a Tory (1900); The Lutes of Morn (1901); A Knight of the Highivay (1901); The Cloistering of Ursula (1903) ; Lyrics of the Datvn (1902).

SCOTT, Abram M., governor of Mississippi, was born in South Carolina. He removed lo Mississippi Territory, when a young man ; com- manded a company in a regiment called out by Governor Holmes in 1811, to punish the Indians for the massacre at Fort Minis, in what is now Alabama, and subsequently settled in Wilkinson county, which he represented in the state constitutional convention of 1817. He re- presented Wilkinson county in the state legisla- ture for several terms ; was elected lieutenant- governor of the state on the ticket with Gerard C. Brandon for governor, serving, 1827-31 ; and was governor of Mississippi from January, 1833, until his death at Natchez, Miss., in November, 1833.

SCOTT, Austin, educator, was born in Maumee, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1848 ; son of J. Austin and Sarah (Ranney) Scott ; grandson of Jere and Amelia (Wakeman) Scott and of Reuben and Elizabeth (Gibbons) Ranney. He removed, with his parents to Toledo, Ohio, in 1859 ; attended the public schools ; was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1869, editing the College Courant ; was a post-graduate student at the Uni- versity of Michigan, 1869-70, receiving the degree of A.M., and. continued his studies at the universities of Leipzig and Ber- lin, 1870-73. While abroad he was private secretary to George

Bancroft, U.S. minister, and meantime was made bearer of dispatches from the emperor of Germany to the state department, Washington, relative to the northwestern boundary agitation. He was an instructor in German at the Univer- sity of Michigan, 1873-75 ; an associate in history at Johns Hopkins university, 1875-81, establish- ing there the Seminary of American History, and at the same time occupied in collecting materials for Bancroft's "History of the Constitution of the United States." He was married, Feb. 21, 1882, to Anna Prentiss, daughter of Jonathan French and Anna (Prentiss) Stearns of Newark, N.J. He was acting professor of history in Rut- gers college, New Brunswick, N.J., 1883 ; Voor- hees professor of history, political economy and constitutional law, 1883-90, and on Nov. 25, 1890. was elected to the presidency of the college. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1873, and that of LL. D. from Princeton in 1891. He is the authorof iVe?t' Jerse?/(1903).in American Com- monwealths series, and contributions to reviews.