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to the India famine sufferers and the balance to various local charities. He is the author of: Richard Bruce (1891); Robert Hardy's Seven Days (1892); The Twentieth Door (1893); The Crucifixion of Philip Strong (1893); John Kiiig's Question CZass (189-1); His Brother s Keeper (1895); In His Steps (1896); Malcolm Kirk (1867); Lend a Hand (1897); The Redemption of Freetown (1898); The Miracle at Markham (1898); One of the Two (1898); For Christ and the Church (1899); Edward Blake (1899); Born to Serve (1900); lllio Killed Joe's Baby 9 (1901); The Wlieels of the Machine (1901); The Reformer {1902}; The Narrow Gate (1903).

SHELDON, David Newton, educator, was born in Suffield. Conn., June 26, 1807; son of David and Elizabeth (Hall) Sheldon. He was graduated at Williams college, A.B., 1830, A.M., 1833, and at the Newton Tlieological institution, 1835. He was married, Oct. 15, 1835, to Rachel H., daugh- ter of John and Jane (Molineux) Ripley, of Bos- ton, Mass. He was ordained and sent to France by the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1835, where he was a missionary, 1835-39. He was a pastor at Halifax, N.S., 1839-41; at Water- ville, Maine, 1843-43; was president of Water- ville college, 1843-52, and pastor of the Elm Street

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Baptist church at Bath, Maine, 1853-55. He be- came a Unitarian in 1855, and assumed the pas- torate of the Unitarian society in Bath, and in 1863 returned to Waterville, where lie was pastor of the First Unitarian society until 1878. He re- ceived the degree of D.D. from Brown university in 1847. He is the author of: Sin and Redemp- tion (1856). He died at Waterville, Maine, Oct. 4, 1889.

SHELDON, Edward Stevens, philologist, was born at Waterville, Maine, Nov. 31, 1851; son of President David Newton Sheldon (q.v.). He at- tended Colby university, 1867-68; was graduated at Harvard in 1872; was an instructor in Italian and Spanish there, 1873-73; studied at Berlin, Paris and Leipzig, 1874-77; was instructor in modern languages at Harvard, 1877-78; tutor in German, 1878-81, and instructor in modern lan- guages, 1881-84. He was the first to occupy the chair of romance philology as assistant professor,

1884-94, and was made full professor in 1894. He was married, April 3, 1884, to Catherine Hamlin, daughter of Barney and Malvina (Wheeler) Hinckley, of Poughkeepsie. He was elected a member of the Modern Language Association of America (of which he was president, 1901), of the American Philological society; was secretary of the American Dialect society, 1889-93, and its president, 1893-94. He is the author of: A Short German Grammar (1879), besides many articles on philology.

SHELDON, Grace Carew, journalist, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., March 35, 18.55; daughter of Chief-Justice James (q.v.) and Sarah (Carew) Sheldon; granddaughter of James and Sylvia (Alexander) Sheldon and of Daniel and Grace Billings (Palmer) Carew, and a descendant on her maternal grandmother's side, of Capt. George Denison, said to have been a greater and more brilliant soldier than Myles Sandish, who came to American in the Lioii when thirteen years of age, and settled in Roxbury, Mass.; and also of John Sheldon, who came to Dorchester, Mass., early in the sixteenth century. She was graduated from Wells college, Aurora, N.Y., A.B., June, 1875, and received an advanced education in vocal and instrumental music. After extensive travel in Europe, she foimded the Woman's Ex- change of Buffalo, N.Y., May 1, 1886, an organ- ization for the disposal of handiwork of self-sup- porting women in the United States; originated drawing i-oom talks on "European Cities" and "Scott and his Novels" in Buffalo and other cities, 1887; was the first American woman dele- gate to the International Press congress, Bor- deaux, France, September, 1895, acting at the same time as correspondent for the Buffalo Courier; was sent to South America in February, 1896, as special correspondent on the gold mine controversy, and visited Venezuela (going up the Orinoco river to Ciudad Bolivar), also Curasao, Hayti and the other West Indies, contributing articles meanwhile to the New York and Buffalo press. In 1897 she organized an independent newspaper syndicate, which she supplied weekly as she traveled. She was a charter member of The Scribblers' club of Buffalo; corresponding member of the National Geographic society, and active member of the League of American Pen- Women. She is the author of: As We Saw It in '90 (1891); From Pluckemin to Paris (1899).

SHELDON, Henry Clay, theologian, was born in Martinsburgh, N.Y., March 13,1845; son of Ira and Fanny Maria (Bingham) Sheldon; grand- son of Josepli and Mary (Arthur) Sheldon and of Abial and Sally (Fowler) Bingham. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1867. A.M., 1870; from the theological department of Boston university. 1871, and in 1874 went to Leipzig to study. He