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SHURTLEFF, Nathaniel Bradstreet, anti^ quarian, was born in Boston, Mass., June 29, 1810; son of Dr. Benjamin and Sally (Shaw) Shurtleflf ; grandson of Benjamin and Abigail (Atwood) Sliurtleff, and a descendant of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Mass. He attended the Boston public schools, and the Round Hill school at Northampton, Mass., and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1831, A.M., 1834, and M.D., 1834. He was demonstrator at Harvard, 1835-36 ; subsequently settled in prac- tice in Boston, succeeding to his father's exten- sive practice after the latter's death in 1847, and was married. July 18, 1836, to Sarah Eliza, daughter of Hiram Smith of Boston. He devoted much time to literary work ; was appointed by the secretary of state to take charge of the print- ing of the " Massachusetts Colony Records" and the " New Plymouth Colony Records," serving, 1853-58, and was mayor of Boston, 1868-70. He was corresponding secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical society in 1850, and its vice-president, 1851-52 ; a member of the Mass- achusetts Historical society ; American Philoso- phical society ; American Antiquarian society ; American Statistical association, and American Academy of Sciences, and an lionorary member of the London Society of Antiquarians, He was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard, 1852-61 and 1863-69, and secretary of the board, 1854-74 ; and received the honoi-ary degree A.M., from Brown and from the University of Illinois in 1834, and that of M.D. in 1843 from Shurtleflf college, Alton, 111,, named in honor of his father, a generous contributor to its support. He edited several numbers of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and Records of the Col- ony of Xew Plymouth in Neiv England, with David Pulsifer (11 vols., 1855-61), and is the author of: Epitome of Phrenology (1835); Perpetual Calen- dar for Old and Neio Style (1848); Passengers of the '' 3Iayflou'er" in 1620 (184&); Brief Notice of William Shurtleff of Marshfield (1850); Genealog- ical Memoir of the Family of Elder Tliomas Leavett of Boston (1850); TImnder and Lightning, and Deaths in Marshfield in 1658 and 1666 (1850); Records oftlie Governor of and Company of the 3Iassachitsetts Bay in New England, 162S-16S6 (5 vols., 1853-54); Decimal System for Libraries (1856), and Memoir of the Inaiigui'ation of the Statue of Franklin (1857). He died in Boston, Mass.. Oct. 17. 1874.

SHURTLEFF, Roswell Morse, artist, was born in Rindge, N.H,, June 14, 1838 ; son of Dr. Ashael Dewey and Eliza (Morse) Shurtleflf ; grand- son of Ashael and Sarah (Dewey) Shurtleflf and of Isaac and Myriam (Spoflfovd) Blorse and a de- scendant of William Shurtleflf. who came from Yorkshire, England, to Plymouth, Mass., in 1628,

and of Anthony Morse, who immigrated to Mass- achusetts from England in 1635. His paternal grandfather served in the wars of 1S12 and the Revolution. After his father's death in 1840, the family settled in Berlin, Mass., where he attended the common schools. He was graduated from Dartmouth college, B.S., 1857 ; served as clerk in an architect's office at Manchester, N.H., in 1857, and removed to Buffalo, N.Y., where he worked at lithography, 1858-59. He attended the even- ing classes of the Lowell Institute at Boston, Mass., and was employed during the day at draw- ing on wood by John Andrews, a prominent en- graver. He studied at the National Academy of Design, New York city, 1859, and engaged as an illustrator of periodicals, 1860-61. He enlisted in the 99th New York volunteers, April 16, 1861 ; was promoted lieutenant and adjutant in his company, and was shot and taken prisoner, July 19, 1861, being the first officer in the Union army to meet that misfortune. He was confined in the hospitals and prisons of the Confederate States for eight months, when he was released on parole and resumed magazine illustrating and wood en- graving. He was married, June 14, 1867, to Clara E,, daughter of Joseph B, and Eleanor (Carrier) Halliday of Hartford, Conn. ; opened a studio in New York city in 1870, and began to make oil paintings of animals, later devoting himself to landscape in both water-color and oil. He be- came an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1881, an Academician in 1890, and a member of the Water Color society. His oil paintings include : Tlie Wolf at the Door (1878); A Race for Life, in the Smith College Art gallery (1878); On the Alert (1879); Autumn Gold (1880); Gleams of Sunshine (1881); A Song of Summer Woods (1886) ; and Silent Woods, in the Metropol- itan Art museum (1892); Mid-Day in 3Iid-Sum- 77ier(1899); his water colors, Harvest Time (1881); Basin Barhor, Lake Champlain (1881); The Morn- ing Draught (1881); and A Mountain Pasture (1882); Forest Stream (1886); 3Iountain 3Iists (1895) ; Near the Au Sable Lake (1896) ; and Edge of the Woods (1900).

SIBLEY, Henry Hastings, governor of Min- nesota, was born in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 20, 1811; son of Judge Solomon (1769-1846) and Sarah Whipple (Sproat) Sibley ; grandson of Reuben and Ruth (Sibley) Sibley, and of Col. Ebenezer and Catherine (Whipple) Sproat, and a descend- ant of John Sibley, who sailed from England in Winthrop's fleet in 1629, and settled in Salem, Mass. His father, a native of Sutton, Mass., re- moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1797, where he be- came prominent in the early history of the city and state. He studied law in his father's office ; was employed in a mercantile house in Sault Sainte Marie in 1828, and was supply-purchasing