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raember of important committees, and during his third term was the chairman of that on roads and canals. On 12 .March, 1851, lie was commissioned as minister to Brazil. In 1852, with John S. I'en- dleton, who was accredited to the Argentine Re- public as charge d'affaires, he arranged a treaty of friendship and commerce with the government of that country and one for the free navigal ion of the river La Plata and its great trib- utaries. They also negotiated trea- ties with the gov- ernments of Uru- guay and Para- guay, lit- left Rio Janeiro on 8 ( let.. 1853, and after his return to Ohio engaged in the railroad business. He offered his ser- vices to the gov- ernment when the C ivil war began,

and was one. of

the first brigadier-generals appointed by President l.meoln, his commission bearing the date of 17 .May. isiil. He was attached to the military de- partment of Washington, and on 17 June moved forward by railroad with a regiment to dislodge the Confederates at Vienna, but was surprised by a masked battery, and forced to retreat. On meet- ing re-enforcements, he changed front, and the enemy retired. His brigade formed a part of Gen. Daniel Tyler's division at the first Bull Run battle, and was on the point of crossing the Stone Bridge to make secure the occupation of the plateau, when the arrival of Confederate re-enforcements turned the tide of battle. He next served in West Vir- ginia under Gen. William S. Rosecrans, and was ordered to the Shenandoah valley with the force that was sent to oppose Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. Pushing forward by a forced march to the relief of Gen. Robert H. Milroy, he had a sharp and brill- iant engagement with the enemy at McDowell. At Cross Keys he led the Ohio troops in a charge on the right, and maintained the ground that he won until he was ordered to retire. Gen. John C. Fre- mont then intrusted him with the command of a division. At the second battle of Bull Run he led the first division of Gen. Franz Sigel's corps. He was wounded in that action by a musket-ball, which Chattered his right arm, incapacitating him for active service till 16 Dec., 1862. when he took com- mand of the middle department and eighth corps at Baltimore, having been promoted major-general on 18 Sept. After performing effective services in the Gettysburg campaign, he resigned his commis- sion on 3 Dec., 1863, in order to take his place in the house of representatives, in which he served as chairman of the committee on military affairs. He was re-elected in 1804. and was placed at the head of the same committee, where lie procured the establishment of the National military and naval asylum. In 1805 he was president of the board of visitors to the U. S. military academy, and was one of the committee of congress on the death of President Lincoln. serving also on the committee on retrenchment. In 1865 he attended Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia and the soldiers' convention at Pittsburg. Pa. He was re-elected to congress in 1800 and in 1868. when his opponent was Clement L. Vallandigham, serving as chairman of the committee of ways and means and of the ordnance committee. On 22 Dec., 1870, he received the appointment of minister to Great Britain. In 1871 he was one of the "Alabama" commission. He resigned his post in 1870 in consequence of the failure of the Emma silver-mine company, in which he had permitted himself to be chosen a director, and resumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C.

SCHENCK, Noah Hunt, clergyman, b. in Pennington, .Mercer co., X J., 30 June, 1825; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 Jan., 1885. He was graduated at Princeton in 1844, studied law in Trenton, N. J.. was admitted to the bar in 1847, and praetised there till 1848. when he removed to Cincinnati. Ohio. In 1851 he abandoned his profession for the ministry, and after graduation at the theological seminary in Gambler, Ohio, in 1853, took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church. After having charge of parishes in Ohio, Chicago, Ill., and Baltimore, Md., he was called in 1869 to St. Ann's, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained till his death. The new church building, one of the finest in Brooklyn, was erected early in Dr. Schenck's rectorship, and in 1879 he succeeded in freeing it from debt. Dr. Schenck was active in the missionary work of his church, sat for many years in its general convention, and in 1871 went to St. IVterburg as one of a delegation of three from the Evangelical alliance to memorialize the czar in favor of Russian dissenters. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1865. Dr. Schenck founded and edited "The Western Churchman" during his pastorate in Chicago, and in 1867 became co-editor of " The Protestant Churchman " in New York. He was the author of numerous published sermons and addresses, of which a collection has appeared in book-form (New York, 1885). A memorial of him was issued by the warden* and vestry of St. Ann's church, including an address by Bishop Littlejohn (Brooklyn, 1885).

SCHENCK, William Edward, clergyman, b. in Princeton, N. J., 29 March, 1819. lie was graduated at Princeton in 1838, and at the theological seminary in 1841, after taking up and abandoning the study of law. After doing missionary work in the Pennsylvania coal region, he was ordained in 1843, and until 1852 held pastorates successively in Manchester, N. J., New York city, and Princeton. He was then superintendent of church extension in the presbytery of Philadelphia till 1854, when he became corresponding secretary of the Prebyterian board of publication. He was also its editor in 1802-'70. and in the same year- served as permanent clerk of the general assembly of the old- school branch of his denomination. Since 1805 he has been a director of Princeton theological seminary. Jefferson college. Pa., gave him the derive of D.D. in 1861. Dr. Schenck has published "Historical Account of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, N. J." (Princeton. 1851): "Aunt Fanny's Home" (Philadelphia, 1805] ; -Children in Heaven" (1800); "Nearnm II " and sermons and tracts in English and German. He has also prepared a " General Catalogue of Prince- ton Theological Seminary" (Trenton, 1881). and n- necrologies! reports since L875.

SCHERESCHEWSKY. Samuel Isaac Joseph, P. E. bishop. b. in Tanniggen. Russian Lithuania. 6 May, 1831. He was educated partly in his native town and partly at the Rabbinical college, Zhitomeer. Russia, he also spent two years in the University of Breslau, Germany. On his arrival in the United States, he went first to West-