A dictionary of American authors
Part 54
=Rush, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1745-1813. An eminent physician of Philadelphia who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and treasurer of the United States Mint, 1799-1813. Treatise on Diseases of the Mind; Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical; Sixteen Introductory Lectures. _See Thacher’s Medical Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography._
=Rush, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1811-1877. Son of R. Rush, _infra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Appeal for the Union; Letters on the Rebellion, 1862.
=Rush, Jacob.= _Pa._, 1746-1820. Brother of B. Rush, 1st. A Philadelphia jurist. Charges on Moral and Religious Subjects; Character of Christ; Christian Baptism.
=Rush, James.= _Pa._, 1786-1869. Son of B. Rush, 1st. A distinguished Philadelphia citizen, the founder of the Ridgeway Library, to which he left one million dollars. He was a physician by profession, but lived the life of a recluse. The Philosophy of the Human Voice; Analysis of the Human Intellect; Rhymes of Contrast on Wisdom and Folly. _Lip._
=Rush, Richard.= _Pa._, 1780-1859. Son of B. Rush, 1st, _supra_. A Philadelphia statesman who was secretary of the treasury, 1825-29. Codification of the Laws of the United States (1815); Court of London (1819-25); Washington in Domestic Life; Occasional Productions. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._
=Russell, Addison Peale.= _O._, 1826- ----. An Ohio journalist and essayist, now (1897) living in retirement in Wilmington, Ohio. Half Tints; Library Notes; Thomas Corwin, a Sketch; Characteristics; A Club of One; In a Club Corner; Sub-Cœlum. _Clke. Hou._
=Russell, Francis Thayer.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. Son of W. Russell, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Waterbury, Connecticut, rector of St. Margaret’s School there, and voice instructor in the General Theological Seminary in New York city. The Use of the Voice.
=Russell, Irwin.= _Mi._, 1853-1879. A Southern writer of dialect verse. Dialect Poems. _Cent._
=Russell, Israel Cook.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A professor of geology in the University of Michigan from 1892, and a geologist in the United States Geological Survey, 1880-92. Lakes of North America; Lake Lahontan; Quarternary History of Moro Valley; Glaciers of North America; Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada; Volcanoes of North America, and many geological reports. _Am. Gi._
=Russell, William.= _S._, 1798-1873. An elocutionist of note, widely known in his day as a teacher. Orthophony, or Vocal Culture; Pulpit Elocution; Lessons in Enunciation; Grammar of Composition. _Hou._
=Russell, William Eustis.= _Ms._, 1857-1896. A popular Massachusetts statesman, mayor of his native city of Cambridge, 1884-88, and governor of Massachusetts, 1890-93. Speeches and Messages. _Lit._
=Rutherford, Mildred.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. An educator of Athens, Georgia. Her series of literary text-books includes, English Authors; American Authors; Classic Authors; French and German Authors.
=Rutledge, Edward.= _S. C._, 1797-1832. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. The Family Altar; History of the Church of England.
=Ruttenber, Edward Manning.= _Vt._, 1824- ----. An antiquary of Newburg, New York, who has published a History of Newburg; History of Orange County; History of the Hudson River Tribes.
=Ryan, Abram Joseph.= “Father Ryan.” _Va._, 1839-1888. A Roman Catholic priest and verse-writer of the South whose verse has been much over-praised in some quarters. It is spirited and fluent, but has not the literary quality needful to preserve it. Poems, Patriotic, Religious, and Miscellaneous; The Conquered Banner, and Other Poems; A Crown for Our Queen.
=Ryan, Father.= _See Ryan, Abram._
=Ryan, Mrs. Marah Ellis [Martin].= _Pa._, 1860- ----. An actress and novelist living at Fayette Springs, Pennsylvania. A Pagan of the Alleghanies; Merze; On Love’s Domains; Told in the Hills; Squaw Eloise.
=Ryan, Patrick John.= _I._, 1831- ----. A Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia. What Catholics do Not Believe; Some of the Causes of Modern Religious Scepticism.
=Ryan, Stephen Vincent.= _Ont._, 1825-1896. The Roman Catholic bishop of Buffalo from 1860. The Claims of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop to Apostolical Succession and Valid Orders Disproved.
=Rylance, Joseph Hine.= _E._, 1826- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. Mark’s in the Bowery from 1871, and prominent among Broad Churchmen. Preachers and Preaching; Essays on Miracles; Social Questions; Pulpit Talks on Topics of the Time; Christian Rationalism. _Wh._
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=Sabin, Elijah Robinson.= _Ct._, 1776-1818. A Methodist evangelist of New England. The Road to Happiness; Charles Observator.
=Sabin, Joseph.= _E._, 1821-1881. An English publisher and bibliophile who came to America in 1848, and finally, settling in New York city, became widely known as a bookseller and collector of rare books. The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, with Scriptural Proofs; Bibliotheca Americana; Bibliography of Bibliographies.
=Sabine, Lorenzo.= _N. H._, 1803-1877. Son of E. R. Sabin, _supra_, but choosing another spelling of his surname. A secret government agent in relation to the Ashburton Treaty, and secretary of the Boston Board of Trade in his later years, as well as member of Congress from Massachusetts. The American Loyalists; Life of Commodore Edward Preble, in Sparks’s American Biography; Notes on Duels and Duelling; Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas. _Lit._
=Sachs, Bernard.= _Md._, 1858- ----. A physician of New York city, well known as a neurologist. Nervous and Mental Diseases of Childhood, and many professional monographs.
=Sachse, Julius Friedrich.= _Pa._,1842- ----. A journalist of Philadelphia. The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania; The Genesis of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.
=Sadlier= [săd-leer´], =Anna Teresa.= _Q._, 1856- ----. Daughter of Mrs. Sadlier, _infra_. Seven Years and Mair; The King’s Page; Ethel Hamilton; Names that Live: a volume of biographies; Women of Catholicity; The Silent Woman of Alood; and many translations from the French, Italian, and German. _Har. Sad._
=Sadlier, Mrs. Mary Anne [Madden].= _I._, 1820-1903. A prominent writer of Roman Catholic Sunday-school tales, wife of J. Sadlier, a New York publisher. Among her many writings are, Alice Riordan; Red Hand of Ulster; The Daughter of Tyrconnell; The Old House by the Boyne.
=Sadtler, Samuel Philip.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A chemist of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1875. Chemical Experimentation; Handbook of Industrial Organic Chemistry; A Text-Book of Chemistry (with H. Trimble). _Lip._
=Safford, James Merrill.= _O._, 1822- ----. The State geologist of Tennessee from 1854, professor in Vanderbilt University from 1875. A Geological Reconnoissance of Tennessee; Geology of Tennessee.
=Safford, Truman Henry.= _Vt._, 1836-1901. An astronomer of note, famous in childhood as a mathematician, and professor of astronomy at Williams College from 1876. Mathematical Teaching and its Modern Methods.
=Safford, William Harrison.= _W. Va._, 1821- ----. A lawyer of Chillicothe, Ohio. Life of Blennerhasset; The Blennerhasset Papers. _Clke._
=Salisbury, Edward Elbridge.= _Ms._, 1814-1901. A philologist of distinction, professor of Arabic at Yale University, 1841-56. General and Biographical Monographs (1885).
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. A novelist of New York city. Balzac: a Study; The Philosophy of Disenchantment; The Anatomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure; The Truth about Tristram Varick; Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When Dreams Come True; The Pace that Kills. _Hou._
=Saltus, Francis Saltus.= _N. Y._, 1849-1889. Brother of E. E. Saltus, _supra_. An erratic verse-writer, much of whose life was passed abroad. His verse is not without a certain luxurious power, but it is wilful in the extreme, diffuse, and unpruned. Honey and Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of Endor; The Bayadere, and Other Sonnets. _Lip. Put._
=Sampson, Ezra.= _Ms._, 1749-1823. A Congregational clergyman at Plympton, Massachusetts, 1775-95, subsequently a journalist in Hartford. Beauties of the Bible; The Historical Dictionary; The Sham Patriot Unmasked; The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ _Har._
=Sampson, John Patterson.= _N. C._, 1837- ----. A minister of the African Methodist church, prior to 1882 a lawyer in Washington. Common Sense Physiology; The Disappointed Bride; Temperament and Phrenology of Mixed Races; Jolly People; Illustrations in Theology.
=Sampson, William.= _I._, 1764-1836. A once famous lawyer of New York city who came to America in 1798, having previously been a barrister in Dublin. Sampson Against the Philistines, or the Reform of Lawsuits; Memoir of William Sampson, are his chief works.
=Samson, George Whitefield.= _Ms._, 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman and educator of New York city, president of Rutgers Female College from 1871. A voluminous writer whose principal works comprise, Elements of Art Criticism; Physical Media in Spiritual Manifestations; The Atonement; The Divine Law as to Wines; Idols of Fashion and Culture; Tested Truths as to Relations of Capital and Labor; Outlines of the History of Ethics; Spiritualism Tested, originally issued as To Daimonion; Guide to Self-Education; The Bible Revisers’ Greek Text; Guide to Bible Interpretation. _Lip._
=Samuels, Adelaide Frances.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. Sister of E. A. Samuels, _infra_. A writer for juveniles. Dick and Daisy Series; Dick Travers Abroad Series; Daisy Travers. _Le._
=Samuels, Edward Augustus.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A Boston naturalist. Ornithology and Oölogy of New England; Among the Birds; Mammalogy of New England; The Living World (with A. Arnold).
=Samuels, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1825- ----. A noted seaman and inventor who organized the Steam Heating Company of New York city in 1881. From Forecastle to Cabin. _Har._
=Samuels, Mrs. Susan Blagge [Caldwell].= _Ms._, 1848- ----. Wife of E. A. Samuels, _supra_. A popular writer for juveniles. The Golden Rule Series. _Le._
=Sanborn, Alvan Francis.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. Moody’s Lodging House, and Other Tenement Sketches; Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, and Other Stories. _Cop._
=Sanborn, Edwin David.= _N. H._, 1808-1885. An educator who was professor of literature at Dartmouth College, 1863-85, and author of a History of New Hampshire.
=Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin.= _N. H._, 1831- ----. A noted journalist and reformer living at Concord, Massachusetts, and connected with The Springfield Republican from 1868. Life of Thoreau; Life and Letters of John Brown; Life of Dr. S. E. Howe, _supra_. _Fu. Hou. Rob._
=Sanborn, Helen Josephine.= _Me._, 1857- ----. A Winter in Central America, a volume of travels. _Le._
=Sanborn, Kate.= _See Sanborn, Katherine._
=Sanborn, Katherine Abbott.= _N. H._, 1839- ----. Daughter of E. D. Sanborn, _supra_. A popular and versatile writer of ephemeral books, who was professor of English literature at Smith College prior to 1886. Home Pictures of English Poets; Vanity and Insanity of Genius; Adopting an Abandoned Farm; Abandoning an Adopted Farm; A Truthful Woman in Southern California; My Literary Zoo, and a number of compilations. _Ap. Fu. Hou._
=Sanborn, Mrs. Mary [Farley].= 18-- - ----. A novelist of Boston. Sweet and Twenty; It Came to Pass; Paula Ferris. _Le._
=Sandeman, Robert.= _S._, 1718 or 1723-1771. The founder of the Sandemanian sect, who came to America in 1764 and gathered a church at Danbury, Connecticut, where he died. Letters on Theron and Aspasio; Thoughts on Christianity.
=Sanders, Daniel Clarke.= _Ms._, 1768-1850. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of the University of Vermont, 1800-14, subsequently pastor at Medfield, Massachusetts. A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States, which he published in 1812, is now a very rare book. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Sanders, Mrs. Elizabeth [Elkins].= _Ms._, 1762-1851. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Conversations, principally on the Aborigines of North America; First Settlers of New England; Reviews.
=Sanderson, John.= _Pa._, 1783-1844. An educator of Philadelphia, classical professor in the High School, 1836-44, and of some note in his day as a humourist. The American in Paris; The American in England; and the first two volumes of the Biography of the Signers of the Declarations of Independence. _See Hart’s American Literature._
=Sanderson, John Philip.= _Pa._, 1818-1864. An officer in the Federal army. Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on Foreign Immigration; Republican Landmarks.
=Sanderson, Joseph.= _I._, 1823- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman in New York and other localities. Jesus on the Holy Mount; Memorial Tributes; The Bow in the Cloud.
=Sands, Alexander Hamilton.= _Va._, 1828-1887. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, who entered the Baptist ministry not long before his death. History of a Suit in Equity; Recreations of a Southern Barrister; Practical Law Forms; Sermons by a Village Pastor.
=Sands, Robert Charles.= _N. Y._, 1799-1832. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city who wrote a Life of Paul Jones; The Talisman (with Bryant and Verplanck); co-author with Eastburn of the once noted poem Yamoyden. _See Life by Verplanck; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._
=Sanford, Henry Shelton.= _Ct._, 1823-1891. A diplomatist who was secretary of the United States legation at Paris, 1849-53, chargé d’affaires there till April, 1854, and minister to Belgium, 1861-69; and who founded the town of Sanford, Florida, in 1870. Penal Codes in Europe; The Avendslood Correspondence.
=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth [Munson].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A journalist of New York city, editor of Harper’s Bazar, 1889-99, and a popular verse-writer whose domestic poems display sentiment of a very genuine kind. Her writings in verse comprise, On the Road Home; Easter Bells; Poems of the Household; Home Fairies and Heart Flowers. She has also written a Manual of Missions of the Reformed Church, and several books for girls, including Hours with Girls; Home and Heaven; Splendid Times; Five Happy Weeks; May Stanhope and her Friend; Miss Dewbury’s School; Little Knights and Ladies. Maidie’s Problem. _Har. Hou. Meth. Wh._
=Santayana, George.= _Sp._, 1863- ----. An instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. Sonnets and Other Poems; The Sense of Beauty: being the Outlines of Æsthetic Theory. _St._
=Sargent, Charles Sprague.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. Grand-nephew of L. M. Sargent, _infra_. A botanist of eminence, Arnold professor of arboriculture at Harvard University from 1879, editor of Garden and Forest from 1888. The Silva of North America; Report on the Forests of North America; The Woods of the United States; Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan. _Ap. Hou._
=Sargent, Epes.= _Ms._, 1813-1880. A once prominent Boston journalist and littérateur, who perhaps will be longest remembered by the familiar poem, Life on the Ocean Wave. His verse includes, Songs of the Sea; Poems; The Woman who Dared. In fiction he published, Wealth and Worth; What’s to be Done?; Fleetwood; Peculiar, a tale of the Great Rebellion. He wrote the dramas, Bride of Genoa; Velasco; Change Makes Change; The Priestess. His miscellaneous writings comprise, Life of Henry Clay; American Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land; Original Dialogues; Planchette, the Despair of Science; Memoir of Franklin. He edited a popular series of school and critical editions of many English poets, and Harper’s Cyclopedia of Poetry. _Co. Har. Le. Rob._
=Sargent, Fitzwilliam.= _Ms._, 1820- ----. Grand-nephew of W. Sargent, 1st, and father of John Singer Sargent, the artist. A Philadelphia surgeon who went to live in Switzerland in 1854. Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery.
=Sargent, Henry Winthrop.= _Ms._, 1810-1882. A noted horticulturist of Fishkill, New York. Skeleton Routes through England, etc.; Treatise on Landscape Gardening. _Ap._
=Sargent, John Osborne.= _Ms._, 1811-1891. Brother of E. Sargent, _supra_. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. He translated Grün’s Last Knight; and published, also, Papers for the Times by a Berkshire Farmer; and Horatian Echoes: Translation of the Odes of Horace. _Hou._
=Sargent, Lucius Manlius.= _Ms._, 1786-1867. Brother of H. W. Sargent, _supra_, and a distant cousin of W. Sargent, 1st, _infra_. A once prominent temperance advocate of Boston. Temperance Tales, a very popular work; Dealings with the Dead; The Irrepressible Conflict; Hubert and Ellen, and Other Poems; Translations from the Minor Latin Poets. _See Reminiscences of, by Sheppard, 1889._
=Sargent, Nathan.= _Vt._, 1794-1875. A journalist and politician. Life of Henry Clay; Public Men and Events (1875).
=Sargent, Winthrop.= _Ms._, 1753-1820. A patriot soldier in the Revolutionary War, governor of Northwest Territory, 1798-1800, and of Mississippi Territory, 1790 and 1801. Papers Relating to Certain American Antiquities; Boston, a poem.
=Sargent, Winthrop.= _Pa._, 1825-1870. Grandson of W. Sargent, _supra_. A lawyer of New York city. Life of Major André, a work displaying much research. He also edited the History of Braddock’s Expedition, from Original Papers.
=Sartwell, Henry Parker.= _Ms._, 1792-1867. A botanist and physician of Penn Yan, New York, who from 1840 devoted his attention to the genus Carex. His herbarium of more than eight thousand specimens is in Hamilton College. Carices Americanæ Exsiccatæ.
=Satterlee, Henry Yates.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Washington, prior to 1896 a prominent clergyman of New York city. A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed. _Scr._
=Saunders, Frederick.= _E._, 1807-1902. The librarian of the Astor Library, New York city, 1859-96. New York in a Nut-Shell; Salad for the Solitary and Salad for the Social; Memoirs of the Great Metropolis; The Story of Some Famous Books; Story of the Discovery of the New World by Columbus (1892); Pastime Papers; Stray Leaves of Literature; Character Studies. _Ran. Wh._
=Savage, Edward Hartwell.= _N. H._, 1812-1893. A Boston policeman and justice of the peace. Boston Police Recollections; Five Thousand Boston Events, 1630-1880.
=Savage, James.= _Ms._, 1784-1873. A Boston lawyer eminent as a genealogist. He is best known as the author of a Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, upon which twenty years of labour were expended.
=Savage, John.= _I._, 1828-1888. A journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Washington. Poems; Picturesque Ireland; Lays of the Folkstead; Modern Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our Living Representative Men; Life of Andrew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Martyrs; Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other plays.
=Savage, Minot Judson.= _Me._, 1841- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence among radical thinkers, pastor of Unity Church, Boston, 1874-96, and, since the latter year, of the Church of the Messiah in New York city. Christianity the Science of Manhood; Beliefs About Man; Belief in God; Life Questions; Poems; The Religion of Evolution; The Religion of Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern Sphinx; Man, Woman, and Child; Social Problems; My Creed; Religious Reconstruction; Signs of the Times; Helps for Daily Living; Four Great Questions Concerning God; The Evolution of Christianity; Is This a Good World?; Jesus and Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud; Bluffton, a novel; The Minister’s Handbook. _See Men of Progress of Massachusetts._ _El._
=Savage, Philip Henry.= _Ms._, 1868-1899. Son of M. J. Savage, _supra_. A Boston littérateur. First Poems and Fragments. _Cop._
=Savage, Richard Henry.= _N. Y._, 1846-1903. A novelist. My Official Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist; Delilah of Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas; The Masked Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita; After Many Years, and Other Poems. _Ne._
=Sawtelle, Henry Allen.= _Me._, 1832-1885. A Baptist clergyman of San Francisco and elsewhere. Open Communion; Things to Think Of. _Ne._
=Sawyer, Mrs. Caroline Mehetabel [Fisher].= _Ms._, 1812-1894. Wife of T. J. Sawyer, _infra_. The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition.
=Sawyer, Frederick William.= _Me._, 1810-1875. A Boston lawyer. Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; Hits at American Whims.
=Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose.= _N. Y._, 1807-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of Whitesboro, New York, prominent as a biblical scholar. Elements of Biblical Interpretation; Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A Critical Exposition of Baptism; Organic Christianity; Reconstruction of Bible Theories. He made a translation of the Scriptures, of which the New Testament was published.
=Sawyer, Lemuel.= _N. C._, 1777-1852. A North Carolina lawyer. Life of John Randolph; Autobiography.
=Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson.= _Vt._, 1804-1899. A Universalist clergyman and educator, after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts College. Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,--the Son or the Father?; Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates.
=Saxe, John Godfrey.= _Vt._, 1816-1887. A lawyer and littérateur of Vermont and subsequently of New York, widely known as a humourous poet. Progress; A New Rape of the Lock; The Proud Miss McBride; The Money King; Clever Songs of Many Nations; The Masquerade; Leisure Day Rhymes; Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. _Hou._
=Say, Thomas.= _Pa._, 1787-1834. A zoölogist who was the first curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1825 he removed to New Harmony, Indiana, and was the agent of the Owen socialist colony there. Vocabularies of Indian Languages; American Conchology; American Entomology. His Complete Writings on Conchology have been edited by Binney, and those on Entomology by Le Conte. _See Memoir by Ord._
=Sayles, John.= _N. Y._, 1825-1897. A Texas jurist, professor in Baylor University from 1880. Practice in the District and Supreme Courts of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of Texas, with Notes; Notes on Texan Reports, include the larger number of his professional writings. _See Bibliography of Texas._
=Sayre, Lewis Albert.= _N. J._, 1820-1900. A distinguished surgeon of New York city, professor of orthopædic surgery in Bellevue Hospital College. Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on Orthopædic Surgery; Spinal Curvature and its Treatment. _Ap._
=Scarborough, William Saunders.= _Ga._, 1852- ----. An educator of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce University, Ohio, from 1877. First Lessons in Greek; Theory and Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.
=Schaeffer= [shā´fe̯r], =Charles Frederick.= _Pa._, 1807-1879. Son of F. D. Shaeffer, _infra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor of systematic theology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1864-76. A System of Lutheran Theology is one of several important works which he translated from the German. _See American Lutheran Biographies._
=Schaeffer, Charles William.= _Md._, 1813-1896. Nephew of C. F. Schaeffer, _supra_. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of eminence, professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary from 1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Family Prayers.
=Schaeffer, Frederick David.= _G._, 1760-1836. A once prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine Vertheidigung der Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.