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Deaf Mutes, and Clark Institute, and engaged in editorial work as assistant editor of the St. Louis Presbyterian, 1857-58. She contributed frequently to the St. Loviis Republican under the pen name, " Howard Glyndon," and in 1861 wrote an article protesting against the call for fifty thousand men, made by Governor Jackson of Missouri, which was so widely copied that the editors of a Confederate organ in St. Louis published an appeal to the reading public, not to be influenced by the opinion of an inexperienced girl, to which she replied in " An Appeal from Judge to Jury." She was Washington correspondent to the Mis- souri Republican, 1866-67; went to Europe, Feb- ruary. 1865. as correspondent to the Republican, and later was emploj'ed in the same capacity by the New York Times, remaining abroad until 1868. Slie removed to New York, where she was employed on the Mail, and contributed to the Tribune. She was married in 1876 to Edward W. Searing, a native of Sherwood, Cayuga county, N.Y., a well known lawyer of New York city. Siie was greatly interested in the educa- tion of deaf mutes, and in 1886 went to Califor- nia with a teachers' convention held at Berkeley in July, 1886. She then settled in Santa Cruz, Cal., where she was residing in 1903. She is the author of: Idyls of Battle (1864); Notable Men ill the House of Representatives (1864); A Book for Little Boys (1870); Sounds from Secret Cham- ber s(\Sl^).

SEARLE, Arthur, astronomer, was born in London, England, Oct. 21, 1837; son of Thomas Searle, who was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1795, and was married in England to Anne Noble. The family returned to America in 1840, and Arthur was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859. Early in 1861 he went to California with a party of young men who intended to en- gage in sheep-farming; but he afterward sup- plied a temporary vacancy among the professors of the University of the Pacific, returning to Massachusetts in 1862, In 1866-67, he served for a time in the statistical department of the U.S. Sanitary commission. In April, 1868, he began work at the Harvard observatory, becoming as- sistant in 1869, and Phillips professor of astron- omy in 1887. He was married, Jan. 1, 1873, to Emma, daughter of Robert and Ferdinande Emilie (Hecker) Wesselhoeft of Jena, Germany, afterward of Brattleboro, Vt. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the author of: Outlines of As- tronomy (1874), and of contributions to the Pro- ceediugs and Memoirs of the American Academy and to the Annals of the Observatory.

SEARLE, George Mary, astronomer and clergyman, was born in Loudon, England, June 27, 1839; son of Thomas and Anne (Noble) IX. — 19

Searle. His father, who was an American, a direct descendant of Robert Searle who lived in Dorchester in 1662, brought the family to this country in 1840. George was graduated at Har- vard A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and in 1857 was ap- pointed computer on the Nautical Almanac and w^as assistant at the Dudley observatory at Albany, N. Y., 1858-59, during which time he discovered the asteroid Pandora, the first found by regular search in America. He served under Dr. B. A. Gould on the U.S. coast survey, 1859- 62, and was assistant professor of mathematics at the U.S. Naval academy, 1862-64. Mr. Searle had been a member of the Unitarian Congrega- tional church, but in 1859 he joined the Protestant Episcopal communion, and on Aug. 15, 1862, he was received into the Roman Catholic church. He became an assistant at the Harvard obser- vatory in 1866, but resigned in 1868 to join the Paulist community in New York, in which he was ordained priest. March 25, 1871. In 1S89 he removed to the Paulist house connected with the Catholic university in Washington, D.C., and that year took charge of the observatory con- nected with the university, and was professor of mathematics in the Catholic universitj*, 1895- 97. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the Catholic university at Washington, 1896. He is the author of the Elements of Geometry {1877) and Plain Facts for Fair Minds (1895).

SEARLE, James, delegate, w-as born in New York city about 1730. He received a commer- cial training in the oifice of his brother, John Searle, in Madeira; was admitted as a member of the firm and returned to America in 1763, having married, in 1762, Nancy, daughter of Patrick Smith of Waterford, England. He established a mercantile house in Philadelphia in 1763; signed the non-importation agreement of Oct. 25, 1765; was made a manager of the United States lottery by congress in 1776, and served as a dele- gate to the Continental congress, 1778-80, and

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as a member of the naval board from Aug. 19 to Sept. 28, 1778, when he resigned on finding that he could not work in harmony with the board. He was chairman of the commercial committee