SCIILF.Y
SCHMIDT
in Korea. Lieut. IIukU K. McKee was killed at
his sitic on tiie parapet while attacking the main
fortitioation.s. He served as liead of the depart-
ment of modern languages at the Naval academy,
l87iJ-76, and was promoted commander, June 10,
1874. He was on the Brazil station in the Essex,
1876-79. rescuing from the Island of Tristam
d'Acamba an American crew shipwrecked there.
In 1S84, he commanded an expedition that res-
cued Lieut. Adolphus W. (Jreely and six compan-
ions from deatliat Cape Sahine in Grinnell Laud.
For this, the Maryland legislature gave liim a
vote of thanks and a gold clironometer watch,
aiul tiie Massachusetts Humane Society presented
him with a gold medal. He was made chief
of bureau of equipment and recruiting for the
navy department at Wasliington in 1885; was
promoted captain, March 31, 1888, and when the
Baltiuwre was put into commission, he took
command of her, 18vS9-92, commanding that ves-
sel in Valparaiso where a number of her crew
were killed and wounded by a mob on shore. In
October of the same year he settled this difficulty
at Valparaiso, the Chilian government apologizing
for the insult, and paying an indemnitj' of $75,-
000. In August, 1891, he carried the body of
John Ericsson, the inventor of the monitor, to
Sweden, and was presented with a gold medal by
the king. He served as light-house inspector,
1893-95, and on the cruiser New York, 189-5-97,
and as chairman of the lighthouse board, 1897-98.
On Feb. 6. 1898. he was promoted commodore,
was later selected to command the flying squad-
ron to protect the Atlantic seaboard with the
U.S. cruiser Brooklyn as his flagship. He was
pre«:ent in the battle which destroyed Cervera's
squadron and cajitured its personel off Santiago,
July 3. 1898. On Aug. 10, 1898, he was pro-
moted Ijy the President to the rank of rear-
admiral, 'for eminent and conspicuous conduct
in battle." and on August 29, was appointed one
of the commissioners to direct the evacuation
of Porto Rico. In December of the same year
he was presented with a jewelled medal by the
Maryland legislature, and given its vote of thanks
and a service of silver by Maryland friends. He
was assigned to duty on the naval examining
board, April 14, 1899, and on April 27, was trans-
ferred to the naval retiring board as senior mem-
ber. In December, 1898, residents of Pennsj-l-
vauia presented him a gold and jewelled sword.
He received the degree of LL.D. from George-
town university, June 22. 1899, and on Nov. 4 of
the same year, residents of Atlanta presented
him with a silver loving cup. He was assigned
to duty as commander of the South Atlantic
squadron. Nov. 18, 1899, and was retired Oct. 9,
1901, having reached the age limit fixed In- law.
The fact that Coimnodore Sampson was tempo-
rarily absent, by order of the President, from San-
tiago on the morning Cervera made his effort to
escape from the harbor, caused a dispute between
the respective friends of Sampson and Schley as
to who was actually in command of the United
States fleet on that day. The third volume
of Maclay's " A History of the United States
Navy" (the first two volumes of which had been
adopted as a text-book by the Naval academy)
contained reflections on Schlejs conduct, charg-
ing him with irregularities. At Schley's request
a court of inquirj- convened Sept. 1, 1901. to in-
vestigate his conduct during the fight, and the
majoritj' report, which was not wholly favorable
to Schley, was excepted to by Admiral George
Dewey, the president of the court, in some
particulars. The report freed Schley of the
charge of irregularity and the congress of the
United States thereupon prohibited the use of
Maclay's history in the U.S. Naval academy.
Admiral Schley is the author of The Rescue of
Greely (1880).
SCHMIDT, Frederick Augustus, clergyman, was born in Leutenberg, Thuringia, Germany, Jan. 3, 1837; son of John Frederick and Helena (Wirth) Schmidt. His father died in 1839, and his mother, having relatives in Martin Stephen's colony in Missouri, came to America in 1841. In 1853 he was graduated at Concordia college, St. Louis, Mo., a member of the first class, and in 1857 was graduated from the Con- cordia Theological seminary at St. Louis, Mo. He was married, Dec. 8, 1858, to Carolina, daugh- ter of Joachim and Elisabeth (Weishaha) All- wardt of Plato, N.Y. He was pastor at Eden, N.Y., 1857-59, of St. Peter's, Baltimore. Md., 1859-61, and was profe.ssor in the Norwegian Lutheran college at Decorah, Iowa, 1861-71, at Concordia Theological seminary, 1871-76, and at the Norwegian Lutheran seminarj', Madison, Wis., 1876-86. In 1886 he became professor of systematic theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Divinity school, Northfield, Minn. Upon the formation of the United Norwegian Lutheran church in 1890, he became senior professor of its theological seminary, at St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, Minn. He received the degree of D.D. from Capitol university, Columbus, Ohio. He
