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he:id of a large force. He immediately began skirmishing with the enemy. Not caring to risk an open battle, he hanissed the enemy in camp ana on the marcli, captured their pickets and stole their supplies, until, in October, Major Wemvss was sent against him. Wemyss found and attacked Sumter.November 12, on Broad river, but was defeated and he liimself was captured. Tarleton next attacked Sumter at Blackstock Hill on November 20, and was driven back, losing 200 killed and wounded to Sumter's seven. Sumter was wounded in the shoulder at this engagement, and was thus incapacitated for service that winter; but early in 1781 he raised three new regiments, and with Marion and Pickens, waged border warfare. In February, 1781, he attacked Fort Ganby and destroyed its magazines. Two days later he captured a provision train on its way to Camden, lie defeated Major Frazer on Broad river, and on May 10 captured the force at Orangeburg. S.C. Ill health finally obliged him to resign his commission, and after the declara- tion of peace he became interested in politics. He was a member of the South Carolina conven- tion that ratified the constitution of the United Stat<?s, and in the convention voted against the constitution because it did not suflBciently shield the states from Federal usurpation. He was a representative from Soutli Carolina in the 1st and 2d congresses, 1789-9.3. taking his seat May 25, 1789, and in the 5th and 6th congresses, 1797-1801, and on the resignation of Charles Pinkney as U.S. senator in 1801 he was elected senator to complete his term, taking his seat Dec. 19, 1801, completing the term March 3, 1805, and was re- elected for a full term, but resigned in 1810 to accept the position of U.S. minister to Brazil. 1810-11. He was the last surviving general officer of the Revolution, and it was in his honor that Fort Sumter was named. He died at South Mount, near Strasburg. S.C, June 1, 1832.

SUPER, Charles William, educator, was born in Pottsville, Pa., Sept. 12, 1842; son of Henry and Mary (Diener) Super; grandson of John Jacob and Eleonora (Ruediger) Super, who came from Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1819, settling in Perry county. Pa.; and of Peter and Mary (Trout) Diener of Schuylkill county. Pa. He spf'ut a few of his earlier years in the home of his paternal grandparents; attended schools near hf)me and the seminary at New Berlin; was graduated from Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., A.B.. 1866; taught scliool in Pennsylvania, Dela- ware, and Ohio, 180(>-69; was married, Dec. 24, 1867, to Mary Louise, daughter of John Henry and Eliza (Koehler) Clewell of Canfield. Ohio; continue<l studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany, 1869-71, becoming a linguist of un- usual acquirements; taught an academy in Fre-

derica. Del., 1871-2; was professor of languages in the Cincinnati Wesleyan college, 1872-78; studied law, 1878-79, and in 1879 was appointed professor of Greek and instructor in German in Ohio university, Athens, Ohio. In 1883 he made

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a second visit to Europe, making a special study of foreign educational systems, and in 1883, upon the resignation of the Rev. Dr. William H. Scott, became acting president of the university, serv- ing as such until his election as president in June, 1884, a position that he held together with the professorship of Greek, except the two years, 1896-98, until 1901, after which he held the profes- sorship only. In 1896 he made a thi^-d visit t& Europe. In 1874 tiie Illinois Wesleyan university conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D., upon ex- amination, and in 1894 Dickinson college made him an honorary LL.D. He was one of the edi- tors of the Journal of Pedagogy from its incep- tion in 1887 until 1893; translated " Weil's Order of Words " (1887); is the author: of A History of the German Language (1893); Befireen Heathen- ism and Christianity (1899); Wisdom and Will in Education (1902), together with some minor works and hundreds of contributions to leading publications on educational, social and historical subjects.

SUTHERLAND, Charles, army surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.. May 29, 1829. He was appointed assistant surgeon, U.S.A., Aug. 5, 1852, and commissioned captain and assistant surgeon, Aug. 5. 1857. He was stationed in Texas in 1861, and on its secession joined a regiment of troops, reporting for duty in New York city in March, 1861. He took part in the secret expedi- tion to Fort Pickens, Fla.. in Ainil, 1861; was. stationed at Fort Pickens, 1861-62; was promoted major, April 16, 1862. and was appointed medical purveyor to the armies at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. He was medical inspector of camps and transports of the Army of Tennessee, in and about Vicksburg, Miss.; was medical director to the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and was a member of the retiring l>oard at Wil- mington, Del., 1863-64. He was director of the hospitals at Annapolis and purchasing medical