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SCHRIVER


SCHULTZ


SCHRIVER, Edmund, soUlier, was born in York. P;i.. Sept. 16. 1812. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy, and as.signed to the 2d artillery. July 1, 1833; served in Tennessee and Alabama. 1833-34; was assistant instructor in infantry tactics at the Academy, 1834-35; was promoted 2d lieutenant, July 31, 1834, and 1st lieutenant. Nov. 1. 1836; served in the adjutant- general's office, 1835-39, and again. 1839-41. be- ing assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, in 18:59; and served in the Florida war in 1839. He was at the headquarters of the Department of the East, 1841-46; was promoted captain, Aug. 17, 1842; resigned from the army, July 31, 1846. and engaged in railroad enter- prises in New York. 1847-61. He served as aide- de-camp on the staff of Governor Morgan of New York, with the rank of colonel, April to July, 1861; was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the nth U.S. infantry, May 14, 1861, and colonel. May 18, 1862; was chief of staff, Army of the Potomac. March 15, 1862 to January, 1863; took part in the occupation of Fredericksburg,Va.; the Shenandoah campaign; the Northern Vir- ginia campaign, where he was chief of staff of the 3d corps, and engaged in the battle of Cedar Mountain, the passage of the Rappahannock, and the battle of Manassas. He was acting inspec- tor-general of the Army of the Potomac, January to March. 1863; was promoted inspector-general, U.S. army, March 13, 1863, and assigned to the Army of the Potomac; and participated in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, the Mine Run expedition, the Richmond and Peters- burg campaign, and was brevetted brigadier- general, U.S.A., Aug. 1, 1864, for services in the field, and major-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for services during the war. He was attached to the office of tiie secretary of war, 1866-72, hav- ing charge of the inspection bureau. 1866-69 and 1871-76; was inspector of the U.S. Military academy, 1866-71, and on a tour of inspection in Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas, 1872-73; was inspector-general of the divi.sion of the Pacific, 1876-81; a member of the retiring board at San Francisco, Cal., in 1877, and of the board to examine the case of Dr. William A. Hammond (q.v.), 1878-79; and was retired, Jan. 4, 1881, having served beyond the age limit. He died in Washington. D.C.. Feb. 10. 1899.

SCHROEDER, Seaton, naval officer, was born in Wasliinglon, D.C. Aug. 17. 1849; son of Francis and Caroline CScaton) Schroeder; grand- .son of Henry and Henrietta Maria (Gheguiere) Schroetler and of William Winston and Sarah (Gales) Seaton. He passed liis boyhood in Europe; was appointed acting mid.shipman.Sept. 27, 1864; graduated from the U.S. Naval academy. 1868: promoted ensign April 19, 1869; master, July 12,


1870. and lieutenant, Oct. 29, 1872. He served as midshipman in the Saginaiv and Pensdcoht on the Pacific station, and in the Benicia, Asiatic squadron, 1869 to 1872, taking part in Admiral John Rodgers's Corean expedition in 1871, and being mentioned for gallant conduct. He served in the Worcester, Canandaigua and Pinta in the North Atlantic squadron, 1872-74; in the Sicatara around the world, 1874-75; and was on special duty in the Gettysburg in the Mediterranean. 1876-78. He was married in January, 1879, to Maria, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Bache) Wain Wright of Washington, D.C.. He was on leave of absence to take part in the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, 1879-80; and on duty at intervals in the hydrographic office and the office of naval intelligence and the board of inspection and survey. He served in the Despaich an 1 Albatross, 1882-85. and in com- mand of the Vesuvius, 1890-93. He was promoted lieutenant-commander, Sept. 27, 1893; assigned to the 3Iassac]iusetts in December, 1896, and served on board that vessel during the Spanish- American war, 1898, being promoted commander, March 3, 1899. In the spring of 1900 he was appointed governor of the island of Guam, to succeed Capt. R. P. Leary, and returning in 1903 was appointed chief naval intelligence officer, succeeding Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee. He is the author of Fall of Maximiliaii's Empire (1887), and in 1894 received a gold medal for an essay read before the U.S. Naval institute.

SCHULTZ, Jackson Smith, merchant, was born in Hyde Park. N.Y., Nov. 9, 1815; .son of Abraham and Mary (Smith) Schultz; grandson of John and Anna (Van Steenburg) Schultz. and of Maurice Smith; great-grandson of Christian Otto and Christina Margaret (Sharpstein) Schultz, who came from Germany before 1737. He worked at his father's tanner}', Middletown, Del- aware county, N.Y.. 1824-27, and in his father's store. New York city, 1828-34: attended Goold Brown's academy in New York city, during the winter months of 1828-34. and Waterville col- lege, Maine, 1834-36.^ He was connected with the leather busine.ss of his father and his uncle. Morgan L. Smith, in New York city, 1836-37, and was a member of the firm of Young and Schultz, 1837-91. He was married first, Jan. 11, 1837, to Catharine, daughter of Abner Chichester, and after her death in November, 1877, secondly. May 8. 1879, to Mary (Fay) Wells, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Fay, who survived him. He was a charter member of the Eclectic association, founded in 1837; a memVjer of the Mercantile Library association; president of the board of health of New York city, and of the exci.se com- mission, 1866-77; and a member of the Union League club, 1861-91. He was a Hard Money,