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gen and Berlin, Germany, and attended lectures
at till' SurlK)nne, Paris, France, ISCil-OG. lie was
ordained to the New-Church (Swedenborgian)
ministry, 180:^; was pastor at Glendale, Oiiio,
1863-64. and was president of L'rbana university,
Oliio, 1870-86. Ho was married. Oct. 28, 18G9, to
TluHlia Uedelia, daughter of William Wallace and
Redelia Ann (Cox) Gilclirist of Staten Island,
N.Y.; was pastor at Glasgow. Scotland, 1886-88,
and in Washington. D.C., from 18S9. He re-
reived the honorary degree of D.D. from Bowdoin,
llXrJ. He is the author of: The Christian Hym-
nal (1867): Moody Mike (1869); Aiigelo, the Cir-
cus Boy (1874); The Pillow of Stones (1876); TJie
Hem of his Garment (1876); The Latin Sjyeakvr
■878); The Xeic Metaphysics (1888); The Ethics
of Scri'ice (1889); Dante and Swedenborg and
other Essays in the Nexc Renaissance (1893);
The Angel of the State (1896); Introduction and
Xotes to Translation of Kant's Dreams of a Sjnrit
Seer ( 1900) . and Swedenborg and Modern Idealism
(1902): and translated: Swedenborg's " The Soul
or Ritional Psychology" (1886) , with introduction
and ap|>endix; " The Poems of Giosue Carducci,
with Essays on the Hellenic Revival in Italy"
(1892). and "The Trophies," sonnets of J. M.
de nere<lia (1900).
SEWALL, Harold Marsh, diplomatist, was born in Bath. Maine. Jan. 3, 18G0; son of Arthur and Emma (Crooker) Sewall. He was graduated at Harvard. A.B., 1882. LL.B., 1885; was appointed by President Cleveland in 1885 vice-consul at Liv- erpool; was promoted consul-general of Samoa, 1SS7; was attache of the commission which ne- gotiated the tripartite agreement of Berlin, 1889, and was re-appointed by President Harrison U.S. consul-general at Samoa in 1889. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Maine in 1892; was a delegate to Republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896. and was elected the same year a repre- sentative in the Maine legislature. He was appointed U.S. minister to Hawaii in 1897, re- ceived transfer of sovereignty of the Islands to the United States in 1898, and was special agent of the United States there until the organization of the territory. He was elected in 1900 the first member from Hawaii of the Republican national committee, and was again elected in 1903 a rep- resentative in the Maine legislature.
SEWALL, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Bostf)n. Mass., Aug. 1"), 16^8; son of Judge Sam- muei (q.v.) and Hannah (Hull) Sewall. He was graduatr-d from Harvard college, A.B., 1707, A.M., 1710; was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Sept. 16, 1713, and was pastor of the South church, Boston, Mass., 171.3-69. He was married in 1713, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. John Walley. He declined the presidency of Harvard college tendered him in 1724; was a
fellow of the college, 1728-65; and presented
many volumes to the college, when the library
was burned in 1764. He was a member of the
commission appointed for the propagation of
the Gospel in New England, and corresponding
member of the Scottish Society for Promoting
Cliristian Knowledge. The honorary degree of
D.D. was conferred on him by the University of
Glasgow in 1731. Many of his sermons were pub-
lished. He died in Boston, Mass., June 27. 1769.
SEWALL, May Wright, reformer, was born
in Milwaukee, Wis., May 27, 1844; daughter
of Piiilander Montague and Mary (Brackett)
Wriglit: granddaughter of Paul and Mary (Mon-
tague) Wright, and of John and Eunice (Clarke)
Brackett. and a descendant of Peter Montague,
who settled in what is now South Hadley, in
1638, and of Sir Adino Nye Brackett, who, under
a character granted by King Charles, occupied a
part of New Hampshire including what is now
Lancaster, Coos county, where the family held a
part of its original domain until 1890. The
Bracketts are derived from a Norman who was
knighted on the field of Hastings; and the Mon-
tagues from a younger son of the family which
furnished a long line of Lords Montague to
English history. Miss Wright was graduated
from the Northwe'Jtern university, Evanston, 111.,
A.B., 1866, A.M., 1868; taught school in Plain-
well, Mich., being the first woman superintend-
ent of the graded schools of a town in that state,
and subsequentlj' devoted herself to the promo-
tion of the higher education of women and the
woman suffrage movement. She was married,
Oct. 30, 1880, to Theodore Lovett Sewall, Har-
vard, A.B., 1874, LL.B., 1876; a prominent edu-
cator, who died in 1895. She became principal
of the Girls' Classical school, founded by her hus-
band in Indianapolis, Ind., 1882; and in 1891-92,
traveled extensively in Europe in the interests of
the Congress of Representative Women at the
Columbian exposition, 1893, of which, as the pres-
ident of the National Council of Women of the
United States of America, she was the organizer.
She was chairman of the executive committee of
the National Woman Suffrage association, 1882-
89; member of the Indiana commission in the
board of World's Fair commissioners, 1892-93;
president of the National Council of Women,
1891-95 and again, 1896-99, and in 1S99 was made
honorary president. Slie was president of the
International Council of Women. 1899-1904. and
was sent as a delegate to the Universal Congress
of Women in Paris, 1889, where she delivered
addresses in French; to Halifax, N.S., 1897; to
Ottawa. Canada, 1898; to London, 1897 and 1898,
and to The Hague, 1898. She was a U.S. commis-
sioner to the Paris exposition, 1900, and to the
various congresses held during the same year.
