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 SUTHERLAND

SWAIN

purveyor at "Washington, until 18G5 ; was bre- vetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, March 13, 1865, for services during the war ; promoted lieu- tenant-colonel and assistant medical purveyor, July 28, 1866 ; colonel and surgeon, June 26, 1876 ; brigadier-general and surgeon-general, Dec. 23, 1890, and was retired. May 29, 1893. He died in Washington, D.C., May 11, 1895.

SUTHERLAND, Joel B., representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1791. He was gradu- ated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1812 ; sei-ved in the war with Great Britain, 1813- 1815, and later was a representative in the state legislature. He was a Jackson Democratic rep- resentative in the 20th-24th congress, 1827-37 ; chairman of the committee on commerce, 1S35- 1837, and was judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of : Manual of Legislative Practice and order of Busi- ness in Deliberative Bodies (1830) ; and a Con- gressional Manual (1839). He died in Phila- delphia, Pa.. Nov. 15, 1861.

SUTLIFF, Phebe Temperance, educator, was born in Warren, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1859 ; daughter of Levi and Phebe Lord (Marvin) Sutliff ; grand- daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Granger) Sutliff and of Joseph and Temperance (Miller) Marvin, and a descendant of Reinold Marvin, who left England in 1635, and settled in Hartford, Conn. She was graduated from Vassar college, A.B., 1880 ; taught in Hiram college, Ohio, 1885-86, and was head of the department of history and English literature, Rockford seminary, Illinois, 1887-89. She was a post-graduate student at Cornell university, 1889-90, receiving the degree of A.M., in the latter year ; studied at the Uni- versity of Zurich and Swiss Polytechnic in- stitute, 1890-91 ; was head of the department of history and economics at Rockford college, Illinois, 1892-96, studying at the University of Chicago, 1895 ; head of the department of modern European and United States history from 1896, and president of the college, from 1896, resigning in 1901 in order to devote her entire time to re- search work. She was made a member of the American Historical association, and the Ameri- can Academy of Political and Social Science.

SUTRO, Adolph Heinrich Joseph, engineer, was born in Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, April 29, 1830. He attended the Polytechnic school in Germany, and made a special study of mining engineering. His family emigrated to America on the death of his father, arriving in New York city in 1850, and soon removing to Baltimore, Md. Shortly afterward Adolph went to Cali- fornia in search of gold. In 1800 he visited Nevada, made a survey of the mining region there, and planned the Sutro tunnel at Virginia city, connecting with and draining the mines of

the Comstock Lode, the main tunnel being over 20,000 feet in length. It was begun in 1869, and connection was made with the first of the mines in 1878. This engineering feat made Sutro a multi-millionaire, as it drained and ventilated abandoned mines of great value. He returned to San Francisco, and invested largely in real estate. He was candidate for mayor of San Francisco on the Populist ticket in 1894, and although opposed by the Southern Pacific Railroad company and the local press, he was elected in November, 1894. He created and opened a public park ; built an aquarium and salt water baths ; and in 1895 gave to the regents of the University of Cali- fornia thirteen acres of land within the city limits, on which to erect buildings for the affili- ated colleges of the university ; and to the city a similar tract for the erection of a library of over 200,000 volumes, valued at $2,000,000. He be- queathed ^10,000 to Vassar college, and left his large estate to his children, on the condition of its being applied, after their death, to the founding of scholarships and the encouragement of scien- tific discoveries and inventions. In February, 1898, he was adjudged incompetent, and a guar- dian of his person and estate was appointed. He died in San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 8, 1898.

SWAIN, David Lowry, governor of North Carolina, was born in Buncombe county, N.C., Jan. 4, 1801 ; second son of George and Caroline (Lane) Lowrie Swain. His father, of English descent, born in Roxboro, Mass., 1763. was a hat- ter by trade ; settled in Wilkes county, Ga. ; was a representative in the Georgia legislature five years, and a member of the state constitutional convention. He removed to Buncombe county, N.C.,.for his health, in 1795, and was postmaster of Asheville. The son prepared for college at New- ton academy, Asheville ; was a student at the University of North Carolina, four months of 1821 ; read law under Judge Taylor of Raleigh,

1822, and was admitted to the bar in December,

1823. He was married in 1826, to Eleanor H., daughter of William White of Raleigh, and grand- daughter of Governor Caswell. He represented his county in the state legislature, 1824-29 ; was state solicitor of the Edeston circuit, 1829 ; judge of the superior court, 1830-32 ; governor of the state, by yearly elections, three terms, 1832-35 ; member of the convention to revise the constitu- tion of tlie state in 1835, and president of the University of North C'a.Tolina, 1835-68. He was a delegate for North Carolina, to the convention at Montgomery in 1861, that organized the Confeder- ate States government. He was the founder of the State Historical society and of the University Magazine. As governor he had an immense in- fluence and great personal popularity with all classes. As president of the university his sue-