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92, and in cooperation with the United States government, made a collectiou of the national songs of the world, 18!>G-S9. In 1892. in con- junction with David Blakely, he organized Sousas band, of wiiicli he became director. He is the composer and publisher of many popular marches, orchestral suites, a " Te Deum," songs, waltzes and the liglit operas: El C'apitan; Bride Elect (libretto and music, 1898); The Charlatan, and Chris, or the Wonderful Lamp. He is the author of: The Fifth Strimj, a musical novel (1902).

SOUTHARD, Henry, representative, was born on Lon.LC Island. N.Y.. in October, 1749; son of Abraham Southard. His father removed from Plymouth. Mass.. to Baskingridge in 1757, where Henry received an ordinary education; worked as a day- laborer on a farm, and was eventually able from his earnings to purchase a farm for himself. He served in the Revolutionary war; was a member of the state legislature for nine years; a Democratic representative from New Jersey in the 7th. 11th and Uth-lGth congresses, serving. 1801-11 and 1815-1821. In the 16th con- gress he served on a committee with his son, Samuel L. Southard (q. v.), the senator. He died in Baskingridge. N.J.. June 2, 1842.

SOUTHARD, Milton Isaiah, representative, was born at Perryton. Licking county. Oliio, Oct. 20. 1836; son of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Par- nell) Southard; grandson of Abraham and Elizabeth (Hull) Southard and of James and Achsah (Stocksdale) Parnell, and a descendant of Thomas Southard, who emigrated from Eng- land and was settled at Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., in 1657. Abraham Southard removed from New Jersey to Washington county. Pa., where he was sheriflf. and in 1805 removed to Ohio and settled as a farmer in Licking county. Milton I. Southard was graduated from Denison university: was admitted to the bar in 1863; com- menced practice in Toledo. Ohio, and in 1866 became a partner with his brother, Frank H. Southard, at Zanesville, Ohio. He was prose- cuting-attorney for Muskingum county, 1867-71, and was a Democratic representative from the thirteenth Ohio district in the 43d, 44th and 45th congresses, 1873-79, serving in the 44th congress as cliairman of the committee on territories and in the 45th congress, of the " select committee on the state of the law representing the ascertainment and declaration of the election of President and Vice-President," advocating the amendment sub- stituting electoral votes for presidential electors. He was married, Aug. 10. 1876, to Virginia, daughter of RoVjert Hamilton (q. v.) of Newton, N.J. In 1881 Mr. Southard removed from Zanes- ville to New York city, where he continued the practice of his profession in partnership with Gen. Tlioraas Ewing. He was a member and

president of the Ohio society of New York; a member of the Lawyers" club, the Twilight club and llie Society of Medical Jurisprudence in New York.

SOUTHARD, Samuel Lewis, statesman, was born in Baskingridge, N.J., June 9, 1787; son of Henry Southard (q.v.). He was graduated from theCollegeof New Jersey, A.B., 1804. A.M., 1807; taught school in New Jersey; studied law while a tutor in the family of Jolin Taliaferro (q.v.) of Virginia; was admitted to the Virginia bar, and practised in Trenton, N.J. He served as deputy-attorney for several years; was admit- ted as counsellor-at-law in 1814; elected a mem- ber of the state legislature in 1815, and a week after taking his seat was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersej', serv- ing. 1815-21. He was a presidential elector on the Monroe and Tompkins ticket, 1820; and was a senator from Feb. 16. 1821, to March 3, 1823, com- pleting the term of James J. Wilson (q.v.). He was secretary of the navy in the cabinets of Monroe and Adams, Sept. 16. 1823-March 3. 1829, meanwliile acting as secretary of the treasury, March 7-July 1, 1825, and for a brief time as secretary of war. He was attorney-general of New Jersey, 1829; governor of the state. 1832; was again U.S. senator from Dec. 2, 1833, to May 31, 1842, when he resigned. During the 27th con- gress he acted as president of the senate j^ro tem- pore. He was a trustee of Nassau Hall. College of New Jersey, and a charter trustee of Princeton Theological seminary, 1822-42, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the Unversity of Pennsylvania in 1832. He is the author of: Re- ports of the Supreme Court of Neiv Jersey, 1816-20 (1819-20); Centennial Address (1832); Discourse on William Wirt (1834). He died in Fredericks- burg. Va.. June 26. 1842.

SOUTHGATE, Horatio, first missionary bishop of Constantinople, and 47th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Portland, Maine, Julys, 1812. He was graduated from Bowdoin col- lege, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835, and from the Andover Theological seminary, in 1835; was admitted to the diaconate of the Protestant Episcopal church at Trinity churcli, Boston, July 12, 1835, by Bisliop Griswold, and was sent as a missionary to in- vestigate the openings for mission work in Turkey and Persia, 1836-41. He was ordained priest, in St. Paul's chapel. N.Y'. city, by Bishop Onderdonk, Oct. 3, 1839; was appointed a missionary to Con- stantinople, Turkey, in 1840, .serving four years, and was consecrateil bishop of the dominions and dependencies of Turkey in St. Peter's clmrch, Philadelphia, Pa.. Oct. 26. 1844. by Bishops Chase, Whittingham and Elliott, assisted by Bishops Johns and Henshaw. He labored in Turkey, 1844-49, returned to the United States in 1850