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wounded. He was governor of the northwestern branch of the National Home for Disabled Vol- unteer Soldiers near Milwaukee, Wis., for several years. He died in Detroit. Mich., April 27, 1892.

SHARP, Joseph Henry, artist, was born in Bridgeport. Oliio. Sept. 27, 1859; son of William Henry and Elizabeth (Raynes) Sharp; grandson of Joseph W. and Prudence Lovejoy (Babcock) Sharp and of Natlianiel M. and Hester (Workman) Iiaynes,and of Protestant Irish, Scotch, and Eng- lish descent. He studied in Antwerp, under Charles Verlat, 1881-82; at the Munich academy under Carl Marr, 1886-88, and also with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant in Paris, 1895- 96. He was married, June 16, 1892, to Addie Josepiiine. daughter of Silas D. and Lancetta (Harris) Byram of Liberty, Ind. In 1878 he opened a studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1893 became an instructor in the life painting class of the Cincinnati Art museum. Eleven of his portraits of famous Indians were purchased by the U.S. government in 1900 for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He exhibited at the Paris exposition, 1900, and was elected a member of the Society of Western Artists. His paintings include: Pueblo Harvest nr Corn Dance (1894), owned by Cincinnati Art Museum; TJie Chant (1897); TJie Great Sleep (1899), both owned by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst of California; Mourning Her Brave (1900); After Many Years of Warfare (1901). He was awarded a silver medal at Buffalo for Indian portraits. His col- lection of eighty Indian portraits and pictures was purchased in 1902 by Mrs. Phcebe Hearst for the University of California. In June, 1903, he resigned from the Cincinnati academy to de- vote all the time to Indians on various reserva- tions, liaving commissions ahead for five years.

SHARP, KatherJne Lucinda, librarian, was born in Elgin, 111., May 21, 1865; daughter of John William and Phebe (Thompson) Sharp; granddaughter of John J. and Olive (Hyde) Sharp

and of Thomas and (Hoit) Thompson. She

graduated at Northwestern university, Evanston, III.. A.B., 1885. Ph.M., 1889, and at the New York State Library school, B.L.S., 1892. She was a teacher at Elgin academy. 111., 1886-88; as- 8i.stant librarian. Scoville institute, Oak Park, 111., 1888-90; organizer of the public library at Wheaton. 111., 1891, and at Xenia, Ohio, 1892; in charge of the comparative library exhibit at the AVorld's Columbian exposition. Cliicago. 111., 1893; director of the department of library science, Armour Institute of Teclmology, Chicago, 1893-97; director of the summer school of library science at the University of Wisconsin. 189.5-96; lecturer on library economy. University of Chicago, 1896; became director of the Bureau of Information, State Library association. 111., in

1896; a member of the council of the American Library association in 1895, and was its vice- president, 1895-96, and head librarian and direc- tor of the state library school of the University of Illinois from 1897.

SHARPE, George Henry, soldier, was born in Kingston, N.Y.. Feb. 2(5, 1828. He was fitted for college at Albany academy; was graduated at Rutgers college, A.B., 1847, A.M., 1850, and was a law student at Yale, 1847-49. He was admitted to the bar in 1850; served as an attache of the U.S. legation at Vienna, 1851-52; practised law in Kingston, N.Y., 1854-61, and in 1861 served as captain in the 20th regiment. N.G.S.N.Y., en- listed for three months. On his return he raised the 120th New York volunteers for tliree years' service, and was elected colonel of the regiment in 1862. He served with the Army of the Poto- mac, and on the staffs of Generals Hooker, Meade and Grant, and was the provost-marslial to whom the duty of paroling General Lee and his staff fell, which act seemed for them freedom from arrest for treason. He was brevetted brigadier- general of volunteers in 1865, and major-general in 1866. He went to England, France and Italy on a secret mission for the department of state in 1S67, accomplishing his work with eminent success. He was U.S. marshal for the southern district of New York, 1870-73, and surveyor of customs for New York, 1878-78 and 1879-82. He was a member of the state assembly, 1879-83, and speaker, 1880 and 1881, where his vote decided the election for U.S. senator at the time of the Platt- Conkling resignation. He was chairman of the commission for the promotion of trade between the United States and South American states in 1883, but resigned upon Cleveland's accession to- the Presidency. He was U.S. appraiser of cus- toms, 1890-99, resigning in 1899. having reached his seventieth year, and retiring from public life. He died from the result of a surgical operation, at the home of his son-in-law, Ira Davenport, in New York city, Jan. 14. 1900.

SHARPE, William, delegate, was born in Cecil county, Md., Dec. 13, 1742; son of William Sharpe. who emigrated from the north of Ireland, and settled in Cecil county, Md., prior to 1718. He was educated in Maryland, and engaged in the practice of law in Mecklenburg, N.C., in 1763, and was married to a daughter of David Reese, a signer of the Mecklenburg declaration. He removed to Rowan county, was secretary of the Committee of Safety of that county, and repre- sented tiie county in the provincial congresses held at New Berne in April, 1775, and at Hillsboro in August. 1775. and at the constitutional con- vention at Halifax that framed a state constitu- tion. April 13. 1776. He represented the Salisbury district in the council of safety for the state, .si