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gen and Berlin, Germany, and attended lectures at till' SurlK)nne, Paris, France, ISCil-OG. lie was ordained to the New-Church (Swedenborgian) ministry, 180:^; was pastor at Glendale, Oiiio, 1863-64. and was president of L'rbana university, Oliio, 1870-86. Ho was married. Oct. 28, 18G9, to TluHlia Uedelia, daughter of William Wallace and Redelia Ann (Cox) Gilclirist of Staten Island, N.Y.; was pastor at Glasgow. Scotland, 1886-88, and in Washington. D.C., from 18S9. He re- reived the honorary degree of D.D. from Bowdoin, llXrJ. He is the author of: The Christian Hym- nal (1867): Moody Mike (1869); Aiigelo, the Cir- cus Boy (1874); The Pillow of Stones (1876); TJie Hem of his Garment (1876); The Latin Sjyeakvr ■878); The Xeic Metaphysics (1888); The Ethics of Scri'ice (1889); Dante and Swedenborg and other Essays in the Nexc Renaissance (1893); The Angel of the State (1896); Introduction and Xotes to Translation of Kant's Dreams of a Sjnrit Seer ( 1900). and Swedenborg and Modern Idealism (1902): and translated: Swedenborg's " The Soul or Ritional Psychology" (1886), with introduction and ap|>endix; " The Poems of Giosue Carducci, with Essays on the Hellenic Revival in Italy" (1892). and "The Trophies," sonnets of J. M. de nere<lia (1900).

SEWALL, Harold Marsh, diplomatist, was born in Bath. Maine. Jan. 3, 18G0; son of Arthur and Emma (Crooker) Sewall. He was graduated at Harvard. A.B., 1882. LL.B., 1885; was appointed by President Cleveland in 1885 vice-consul at Liv- erpool; was promoted consul-general of Samoa, 1SS7; was attache of the commission which ne- gotiated the tripartite agreement of Berlin, 1889, and was re-appointed by President Harrison U.S. consul-general at Samoa in 1889. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Maine in 1892; was a delegate to Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896. and was elected the same year a repre- sentative in the Maine legislature. He was appointed U.S. minister to Hawaii in 1897, re- ceived transfer of sovereignty of the Islands to the United States in 1898, and was special agent of the United States there until the organization of the territory. He was elected in 1900 the first member from Hawaii of the Republican national committee, and was again elected in 1903 a rep- resentative in the Maine legislature.

SEWALL, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Bostf)n. Mass., Aug. 1"), 16^8; son of Judge Sam- muei (q.v.) and Hannah (Hull) Sewall. He was graduatr-d from Harvard college, A.B., 1707, A.M., 1710; was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Sept. 16, 1713, and was pastor of the South church, Boston, Mass., 171.3-69. He was married in 1713, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. John Walley. He declined the presidency of Harvard college tendered him in 1724; was a

fellow of the college, 1728-65; and presented many volumes to the college, when the library was burned in 1764. He was a member of the commission appointed for the propagation of the Gospel in New England, and corresponding member of the Scottish Society for Promoting Cliristian Knowledge. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Glasgow in 1731. Many of his sermons were pub- lished. He died in Boston, Mass., June 27. 1769. SEWALL, May Wright, reformer, was born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 27, 1844; daughter of Piiilander Montague and Mary (Brackett) Wriglit: granddaughter of Paul and Mary (Mon- tague) Wright, and of John and Eunice (Clarke) Brackett. and a descendant of Peter Montague, who settled in what is now South Hadley, in 1638, and of Sir Adino Nye Brackett, who, under a character granted by King Charles, occupied a part of New Hampshire including what is now Lancaster, Coos county, where the family held a part of its original domain until 1890. The Bracketts are derived from a Norman who was knighted on the field of Hastings; and the Mon- tagues from a younger son of the family which furnished a long line of Lords Montague to English history. Miss Wright was graduated from the Northwe'Jtern university, Evanston, 111., A.B., 1866, A.M., 1868; taught school in Plain- well, Mich., being the first woman superintend- ent of the graded schools of a town in that state, and subsequentlj' devoted herself to the promo- tion of the higher education of women and the woman suffrage movement. She was married, Oct. 30, 1880, to Theodore Lovett Sewall, Har- vard, A.B., 1874, LL.B., 1876; a prominent edu- cator, who died in 1895. She became principal of the Girls' Classical school, founded by her hus- band in Indianapolis, Ind., 1882; and in 1891-92, traveled extensively in Europe in the interests of the Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian exposition, 1893, of which, as the pres- ident of the National Council of Women of the United States of America, she was the organizer. She was chairman of the executive committee of the National Woman Suffrage association, 1882- 89; member of the Indiana commission in the board of World's Fair commissioners, 1892-93; president of the National Council of Women, 1891-95 and again, 1896-99, and in 1S99 was made honorary president. Slie was president of the International Council of Women. 1899-1904. and was sent as a delegate to the Universal Congress of Women in Paris, 1889, where she delivered addresses in French; to Halifax, N.S., 1897; to Ottawa. Canada, 1898; to London, 1897 and 1898, and to The Hague, 1898. She was a U.S. commis- sioner to the Paris exposition, 1900, and to the various congresses held during the same year.