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and resigned his office, and in 1851 he organized St. Luke's parish, Portland, Maine. He was rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, 1852-58; and was rector of Zion church, N.Y. city, 1859- 73. He decUned the appointments of bishop of California in 1850, and of Hayti in 1870. The honorary degree of S.T.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1845, and by Trinity in 1846. He is the author of: Narrative of a Tour through Armenia, Hindostan, Persia and Mesopotamia (2 vols. 1844); A Treatise on the Antiquity, Doc- trine, Ministry, and Worshij) of the Anglican Church, in Greek (1849); Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent (1850); The War in the East (1855); Parochial Sei-mons (1859); and TJie Cross above the Crescent, a Romance of Constan- tinople (1877); Christus Redemptor; Gone Before; Manual of Consolation; Many Thoughts About Our Lord. He died in Astoria, N.Y., April 12, 1894.

SOUTHGATE, James Haywood, prohibition- ist, was born in Norfolk, Va., July 13, 1859; son of James and Delia (Haywood) Southgate; grand- son of James and Mira Ann Southgate, and of Robert Hill and Susan (Battle) Wynne, and a descendant of John Southgate of England, and, on his mother's side, of the Jeffries family of Scotland. He removed with his parents to North Carolina in 1861; attended the academies, and the University of North Carolina, 1876-78; en- gaged in banking and insurance business in Durham, N.C., in 1883; and was married in 1883 to Kate Southgate, daughter of Bartholomew and Wilhelmena (Haldane) Fuller. She died in 1893. He was president of the Y.M.C.A. of North Carolina; treasurer of the State Sunday -School association; a member of the platform commit- tee of the national convention of the Proliibition party, held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1892, and at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1896, and was the candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the National Prohibition ticket in 1896.

SOUTHWICK, George Newell, representative, was born in Albany, N.Y., March 7, 1863; son of Henry C. and Margaret J. Southwick. He was graduated at Williams college in 1884; began journalism in the same year, and in 1886-88, was official reporter of the legislature, for the Asso- ciated Press. He became editor of the Albany Morning Express in 1888, and in 1889, editor of the Albany. Evening Journal. He canvassed Albany and neighboring counties for Harrison in 1888-93; was chairman of the Republican state convention in 1896, and was elected a Republican representative from the twentieth district of New York in the 54th and 55th congresses, 1895- 99, and in the 57th and 58th congresses, 1901-05, and served as a member of the committees on territories, and expenditures of the treasury de- partment.

SOUTHWORTH, Emma Dorothy Eliza

(Nevitte), novelist, was born in Washington, D.C., Dec. 26, 1819; daughter of Capt. Charles Nevitte. She attended the school of her step- father, Joshua L. Henshaw, and in 1840 she was married to Frederick H. Southworth of Utica, N. Y. She taught school, 1844-49, and contributed stories to the Baltimore Saturday Visitor, the National Era, and other periodicals. When Robert Bonner purchased the Ledger, he paid Mrs. Southworth $5,000 per year, for her contributions. In 1876 she moved from Georgetown, D.C., to Yonkers, N.Y., reciring later to Georgetown. She is the author of over sixty books, many of which were translated into Spanish, French and German. Her best known novels include: Retribution (1849); Unknown (1874); Nearest and Dearest (1881); An Exile's Bride (1887); The Deserted Wife; Cruel as the Grave. She died in Wash- ington, D.C., June 29, 1899.

SPAETH, (Phillip Friederich) Adolph (Theo- dor), educator and clergyman, was born in Esslingen, Wiirtemberg, Germany. Oct. 29, 1839; son of Dr. Ernest Phillip Heinrich and Rose (Boley) Spaeth. He was graduated from the University of Tubingen, A.B., 1861, and in 1868 became a tutor in the Duke of Argyle's family in Scotland. He became pastor of Zion's church, Philadelphia, in 1864, and in 1867 accepted the pastorate of St. Johannes' German Lutheran church, Philadelphia. He was made professor of New Testament exegesis in the Lutheran Theolo- gical Seminary in 1873; was president of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1880-88; president of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1892-95. and in 1896 was elected president of the General Confer- ence of Lutheran Mother-houses of Deaconesses in the United States. He was twice married; first, May 8, 1865, to Maria Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. John Duncan, LL.D. of Edinburgh. Scotland, and secondly, Oct. 12, 1880, to Hariett Reynolds, daughter of the Rev. Charles Porterfield Krauth, D.D., LL.D. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1875, and that of LL.D. from Muhlenberg College, Penn- sylvania, 1895. He contributed many articles for the Lutheran Encyclopaedia and for a number of religious periodicals; was one of the editors of the Documentary History of the Ministerium of Penn- sylvania. 1898, and principal editor of the Ger- man " Kirchenbuch " and " Sontagschulbuch " of the general council, and is the author of: Phoebe, the Deaconess (1885); Faith and Life as repre- sented by Martin Luther (1887): Liederlust (1887); Saatkorner (1893); Biography of Dr. W. J. Mann (1895); Commentary on the Gospel of St. John (1896). and Biography of Dr. Charles Porterfield Krauth (1898),