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# Who's Who in the Far East/SPARHAM. Rev. Charles George

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​ SPARHAM, Rev. Charles George (HANKOW), B.A.; Clergyman and Missionary; ft. Jan. 1, I860, at Brighton, Eng.;. Mary B. L., o. s. d. of Rev. Griffith John, D. D. Educ.: Cheshunt College, Herts; University College, London; London University. Appointed to Cent. China Miss, by London M. Soc., 1884; travelled extensively in province of Hupeh, and established ​mission centres in cities of Yun Meng and Yengshan, l884-95; Collaborated with Rev. Griffith John in pioneer work in Hunan, and the establishment of mission centres at Uengchow, Siangtan and Changsha, 1897-1902; Superintended the districts of Hwang-pi, Hwangan and Hwang-kang in Hupeh, 1897-1906 (during this period over tU churches were established and about 2000 persons baptised); with five others explored the higher valley of the Lu-shan range near Kiukiaug, the exploration resulting in the founding of the Kuling Sanatorium, 1894; member of Kuling Council, 1899-1905 (Chairman 1902-05); member of spec, committee which secured extension of Kuliug Estate, 1904; Principal of London Mission Normal School, Hankow. Publications: "Christianity and the Religions of China," "Outline life of Christ," etc. Address: London Mission, Hankow, China.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 2

​2.A piratical captain (archipirata) in the employment of Polyxenidas, the commander of the fleet of Antiochus, against Pausistratus, the Rhodian admiral, B.C. 190.(Liv. xxxvii. 11.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nero 7.

7. Tib. Claudius Nero served under Cn. Pompeius Magnus in the war against the pirates, b. c. 67. (Florus iii. 6; Appian, Mithridat. 95.) He is probably the Tib. Nero mentioned by Sallust (Bell. Cat. 50) and by Appian (B. C. ii. 5), who recommended that the members of the con­spiracy of Catiline, who had been seized, should be kept confined till Catiline was put down, and they knew the exact state of the facts.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 11.

​7. A native of Delphi, mentioned by Plutarch, and called in one passage ίερεύς (De EI apud Delphos, c. 5, vol. iii, p. 82), and in another προφήτης (De Defectu Oracul. c. 51, vol. iii. p. 200), may possibly, as Wyttenbach supposes, be the same individual as the son of Euthydemus mentioned above. No. 4. (Wyttenb. Notes to Plut. De Recta Rat Aud. p. 37, c.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Myles

MYLES (Μύλης), a son of Lelex, brother Polycaon, father of Eurotas, and king of Lacedaemon, was regarded as the inventor of mills. (Paus. iii. 1. § 1, 20. § 2, iv. 1. § 2.) Stephanus Byzantius mentions Μυλάντιοι θεοὶ as the protectors of mills. [L. S.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nero

NERO, the eldest son of Germanicus and Agrippina, was a youth of about three years of age at the death of his father in A. D. 19. In the follow­ing year (a. d. 20) he was commended to the favour of the senate by the emperor Tiberius, who went through the form of requesting the body to allow Nero to become a candidate for the quaestor-ship five years before the legal age. He likewise had the dignity of pontiff conferred upon him, and about the same time was married to Julia, the daughter of Drusus, who was the son of the emperor Ti­berius. Nero had been betrothed in the lifetime of his father to the daughter of Silanus (Tac. Ann. ii. 43), but it appears that this marriage never took effect. By the death of Drusus, the son of Tiberius, who was poisoned at the instigation of Sejanus in a. d. 23, Nero became the heir to the imperial throne ; and as Sejanus had compassed the death of Drusus, in order that he might suc­ceed Tiberius, the same motives led him to plan the death of Nero, as well as of his younger brother Drusus. And this he found no difficulty in ac­complishing, as the jealous temper of Tiberius had already become alarmed at the marks of public favour which were exhibited to Nero and Drusus as the sons of Germanicus, and he had expressed his displeasure in the senate, in a. d. 24, at the public prayers which had been offered for their health. Spies were placed about Nero, and every word and action of the unhappy young prince were eagerly caught up, misinterpreted and misrepre­sented, and then reported to the emperor. His wife was also entirely in the interests of Sejanus, since her mother was the mistress of the all-power­ful minister ; and his brother Drusus, who was of an unamiable disposition, and who did not stand so high-in the favour of their mother Agrippina, was readily induced to second" the designs of Sejanus, in hopes that the death of Nero would secure him the succession to the throne. At length, in a. d. 29, Tiberius sent a letter to the senate in which he accused Agrippina and Nero in the bitterest terms, but was unable to convict them of any attempt at rebellion ; the haughtiness of the former and the licentiousness of the latter were the chief crimes laid to their charge. The people, who loved Agrippina and hallowed the memory of Germani­cus, surrounded the senate-house, exclaiming that the letter was a forgery. On the first day the senate came to no resolution on the matter, and Tiberius found it necessary to repeat his charges. The obsequious body dared no longer resist ; and the fate of Agrippina and Nero was sealed. Nero was declared an enemy of the state, was removed to the island of Pontia, and shortly afterwards was there starved to death. According to some accounts he put an end to his own life, when the executioner appeared before him with the instruments of death. (Tac. Ann. iii. 29, iv. 8, 17, 59, 60, 67, v. 3,4 ; Suet. Tib. 24, Cal. 7 ; Dion Cass. lviii. 8.) Re­specting Drusus, the brother of Nero, see Drusus, No. 16, and respecting Julia, the wife of Nero, see Julia, No. 9.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 10.

​6. A grammarian of Thyatira, who is supposed by Fabricius to have been the same person as Nicander of Colophon, on account of an expression used by Stephanus Byzantinus (De Urb. s. v. Θυάτειρα); it is, however, more probable that Stephanus confounded together two different individuals. He wrote a work, Περί των Δημων (Harpocrat. Lex. s. v. Θυργωνίδαι, Τιτακίδαι), and another called by Athenaeus (xv. p. 678), Άττική Όνόματα, which is probably the same as that quoted by Harpocration, under the title Άττική Διάλεκτος (s. v. Μέδιμνος, Βωλεωνες Τριπτηρα), and which consisted of at least eighteen books. (Harpocr. s. v. ξηραλοιφειν.) This is probably the work which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus (iii, pp. 76, 81, 114, &c.).
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 13.

​9. Nicander Nucius [Nucius]. [ W. A. G. ]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 2.

​2.A piratical captain (archipirata) in the employment of Polyxenidas, the commander of the fleet of Antiochus, against Pausistratus, the Rhodian admiral, B.C. 190.(Liv. xxxvii. 11.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 1.

​NICANDER (Νίκανδρος), historical. 1. A king of Sparta, the eighth of the family of the Proclidae, the son of Charilaus, and the father of Theopompus. He was contemporary with Teleclus, and reigned twenty-eight or twenty-nine years, about B.C. 809—770. (Pausan. iii. 7. § 4. See Clinton, Fasti Hell. vols. i. and ii.) Some of his sayings are preserved by Plutarch (Lacon. Apophthegm. vol. ii, p. 155, ed. Tauchn.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Nicander 12.

​8. "Ambrosius Nicander, Toletanus, qui circa A, Chr. 817, S. Cyriaci Episcopi Anconitani Martyrium versibus Latinis scripsisse, et catalepses (sive argumenta) in Silii Italici libros composuisse traditur." (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. iv. p. 354, ed. Harles.) Fabricius gives no authority for this statement, nor does Harles supply the defect. It appears, however, that there has been some confusion respecting this personage, who is, in fact, no other than Ambrosius de Victoria (or Nicander), who lived in the sixteenth century. (See Anton. Biblioth. Hisp. Vetus, vol. i. p. 508, vol. ii. p. 452; id. Biblioth. Hisp. Nova., vol. i. p. 67.)
# Woman of the Century/Anne Goza

​ANNE GOZA. GOZA, Miss Anne, humorist, born in Hatchett Creek, Ala., 4th July, 1872. Her home has always been in her native town, excepting the time spent in school. Although one of the very youngest of the rising writers of the South, Miss Goza has already acquired a wide reputation as a writer of humorous and dialect stories. She has chosen the dialect of the people of the Alabama mountains, and she has made skillful use of that peculiarly interesting jargon. She is a regular contributor to the Burlington "Hawkeye." the Atlanta "Sunny South," the Cleveland "Plain Dealer," the New Orleans "Times Democrat," and many other prominent journals. Her success has been marked and remarkable. She is a prolific writer, and in the quaint people around her she has abundant material for her future work. She is distinctly original, and her sketches record much that will be of interest to the future students of American folk-lore. She has published one volume, "The Fall of Queen Prudence."
# Woman of the Century/Annie L. Jack

​JACK, Mrs. Annie L., horticulturist, born in Northamptonshire, England, 1st January, 1839. ANNIE L. JACK. She is of English blood. Her maiden name was Annie L. Hayr, a name well known to readers of the "Waverley Magazine," to which periodical she contributed many articles. In 1852 she came to America and was at once sent to Mrs. Willard's seminary in Troy, N. Y. There her literary talent was recognized and developed. One of her first published productions was a school composition, an allegory, which Mrs. Willard caused to be published in the Troy "Daily Times." Before she was sixteen years old, she passed the required examination and gained a position as first-assistant teacher in the city free schools. After a time she moved to Canada, where she became the wife of Mr. Jack, a Scotch fruit-grower of intelligence and position, a man of sterling worth. Mrs. Jack found congenial surroundings and employment on their fruit farm, called "Hillside," which is beautifully situated on the Chateauguay river. The home is one of culture, refinement and prosperity. Mrs. Jack has made herself widely known as a writer on horticultural subjects, in which field she is a recognized authority. She has won several prizes in competition in the "Rural New Yorker" and other periodicals. The family at Hillside is made up of five daughters and six sons, and (heir varied tastes and requisitions have kept the mother busy. Her oldest son developed a taste for botany and entomology, and he is now on the staff of the Harvard Arboretum and a regular contributor to ​the columns of the New York "Garden and Forest." Another son has developed a talent for scientific writing. The family are noted for clear and wholesome thinking, and the genius of both parents is seen reflected in each member. Mrs. Jack's literary friends and acquaintances are chiefly Americans. Her success in horticulture attracted the attention of the venerable John Greenleaf Whittier, who in a letter to her wrote: "Many women desire to do these things, but do not know how to succeed as thou hast done." Her library contains many fruit and farm books, but not all her work is given to the tempting grapes, strawberries, raspberries, apples and other fruits to whose culture she has given so much attention. During all the busy years of her farm life she has found time to write poems and short stories by the score. One series of stories, showing the fields of work that are open to women, attracted much attention, and it resulted in an order from "Harper's Young People" for an article on that subject from her pen. To the Montreal " Witness," over the pen-name "Loyal Janet," she contributed a series of Scotch articles that hit upon social topics. Mrs. Jack's management of her home has shown that it is possible to make a farm-house a home of comfort, refinement and luxury, with art, music, flowers and education quite as much at command as in the crowded towns. In Hillside all the Scotch and English home traditions are preserved, and the accomplished mistress has made the country farm-house one of the landmarks of the Dominion of Canada.
# Woman of the Century/Anne H. Giles

​ANNE H. GILES. GILES, Miss Anne H., philanthropist, born in Prairie du Chien, Wis., 1st August, 1860. She removed to Chicago in early life. Her father is William Alexander Giles, in pioneer days of Wisconsin a representative of the press. Later he was the head of the firm of Giles Brothers, jewelers, and is to-day one of Chicago's most prominent citizens. Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Harper. In the public schools of Chicago Anne Giles was conspicuous for her superior scholarship. During her course in Smith College she excelled in Greek, Latin and other studies. She was graduated from that institution in 1882, taking the degree of A. B. From her childhood she was imbued with the missionary spirit, always attempting to help the poor and the suffering, seeking them out rather than waiting for circumstances to appeal to her. As a teacher of the Chinese she was a special leader among church-workers for a number of years. As foreign corresponding secretary of the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions she has become widely known. Practically interested in the education of the freedmen, associated with various societies of Christian Endeavor, devoting all her time to benevolent work, and being a general financial contributor to home and foreign missions, she is recognized as one of the most earnest and useful daughters of philanthropy in Chicago. The story of the "Poacher's daughter," which has gone through numerous editions, was translated by her for Sunday-school libraries.
# Woman of the Century/Annie Fillmore Sheardown

​SHEARDOWN, Mrs. Annie Fillmore, singer and musical educator, born in Franklin, Conn., 8th June, 1859. She is descended from five New England Colonist families, the English Fillmores, Hydes, Pembers and Palmers, and the French Fargos. As those families settled early in America, she can call herself purely American. Her mother's family were all musical, and from her earliest childhood her desire was to sing. She began her studies when she was between eight and nine years of age. first with a pupil of Bassini. She afterward took lessons from the late C. K. Hayden, of Boston, and others. ANNIE FILLMORE SHEARDOWN. Her intention at first was to become an oratorio singer, but after she became a student under the late Emma Seiler, in Philadelphia, she decided to study the voice, with the intention of becoming a teacher. After three years with Mrs. Seiler, she took a position as soprano in Christ Church in Norwich, Conn. After filling her engagement, she became the wife of Dr. T. W. Sheardown, son of the late Hon S. B. Sheardown, of Winona. Minn After marriage she continued to sing and teach for the love of it. Five years later, owing to marital troubles she separated from Dr. Sheardown and took up teaching as a profession In 1882 she studied six months with George Sweet, of New York, taking lessons, listening to his lectures and studying his method of imparting. She studied with other teachers, and in 1891 she made a most valuable discovery relative to the voice, finding the voice to be an exact science, a principle to be demonstrated, with laws as unalterable as those of mathematics. She is the first person to note this great fact. She has always felt there was something wrong in all methods, and now, looking at the voice as a principle, she is able to demonstrate where the error lies. A lengthy article from her pen, entitled *' The Philosophy of the Voice in Singing," setting forth a few of her discoveries, appeared in "Werner's Voice Magazine" for April, 1892. She has lived in nine States of the Union, and now permanently located in Atlanta. Ga.
# Woman of the Century/Annie L. Y. Orff

​ORFF, Mrs. Annie L. Y., editor and publisher, was born in Albany. N. Y. She is a niece of the well-known artists John and William Hart, of New York City, and has inherited in an eminent degree their artistic tastes and talents. She passed the early part of her life in her native city, where she had a happy girlhood, with no thought of care. She became the wife, at the age of eighteen, of Mr. Swart, a business man of ability and with him she removed to St. Louis, Mo. After a brief married life, she was left a widow, dependent upon her own exertions and with no experience of the world or its ways. There existed, at that time, a railroad ​guide, a small publication which its owner was desirous of converting into a weekly issue that would be of service to the traveling public, giving exact tables of the twelve railroads culminating in ANNIE L. V. ORFF. St. Louis. The first step necessary to be taken was to secure a successful canvasser for its subscription list and to solicit advertising matter. That canvasser Mrs Swart became, and through sheer courage and endurance she made a success of her first venture, and was retained on the publication for a few years in the capacity of canvasser until, seeing a better prospect in becoming the owner of the guide, she bought out its proprietor. The success of that venture, together with the business knowledge so gained, induced her to establish a chaperone bureau for the purpose of supplying female guides to strangers of their own sex in the city. From that idea grew the publication of a magazine called the "Chaperone." which is now one of the finest periodicals in the West. Shortly after the inauguration of the "Chaperone" Mrs. Swart became the wife of Mr. Orff who is associated with her in the publication of the magazine. In addition to her business ability. Mrs Orff is also a highly cultured woman, discussing politics, art and science, with masterly diction and comprehensive learning. She is, in an unostentatious manner, a very charitable woman. She is lady manager for the World's Fair.
# Woman of the Century/Anne Reeve Aldrich

​ANNE REEVE ALDRICH. ALDRICH, Miss Anne Reeve, poet and novelist, born in New York City, 25th April, 1866. From her earliest childhood she showed a fondness for composition, spending hours from the time she learned to print in writing stories and verses, although she had the usual healthy childish tastes for romping and all out-of-door sports. At the death of her father, which occurred in her eighth year, her mother removed to the country, where she at first took charge of her daughter's education, which was afterward carried on by competent tutors. Miss Aldrich displayed remarkable proficiency in compostion and rhetoric, which was counterbalanced by what she herself calls an amusing inaptitude for mathematics, so that, while she was translating French and Latin authors for amusement, she was also struggling over a simple arithmetic, whose tear-blotted leaves she still preserves. In her fifteenth year a friend suggested to her to send a poem to "Scribner's Magazine." Although the verses were returned, with them she received a friendly note of encouragement and praise from the editor, who from that time often criticized the young girl's work. She wrote constantly and voluminously, usually destroying her work from month to month, so that but few of her earlier verses are extant. She also read widely, her taste inclining to the early English poets and dramatists and to mediæval literature. When she was seventeen, her first published poem appeared in "Lippincott's Magazine," followed by others in the "Century" and various periodicals. In 1885 Miss Aldrich's mother moved back to New York, where they now reside. Her first book was "The Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love" (New York, 1889), and she has published one novel, "The Feet of Love" (New York, 1890). Miss Aldrich dislikes country life and is fond of society. Her family is of English extraction. Her ancestors were Tories in Revolutionary days, and their large estates were confiscated by the American government because of their allegiance to the crown.
# Woman of the Century/Annie C Shaw

​SHAW, Miss Annie C., artist, born in West Troy, N. Y., 16th September, 1852. She studied art In Chicago, 111., with H. C. Ford, and was elected an associate of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1873, and an academician in 1876, being the first woman to receive those distinctions from that institution. She has studied from nature in the Adirondack Mountains, on the coast of Maine, and in the picturesque parts of Massachusetts, for many summers. She has produced a large number of fine pictures, some of the best-known of which are: "On the Calumet " (1874); "Willow Island" and "Keene Valley, N. Y." (1875); "Ebb Tide on the Coast of Maine " (1876); "Head of a Jersey Bull" (1877); "Returning from the Fair" (1878); "In the Rye-Field" and "Road to the Creek" (1880); "Close of a Summer Day" (1882); "July Day" and "In the Clearing" (1883); "Fall Ploughing." "Ashen Days " and "The Cornfield " (1884), and "The Russet Year" (1885). Her "Illinois Prairie" was shown in the Centennial Exposition in 1876.
# Woman of the Century/Annie Jennesa Miller

​MILLER, Mrs. Annie Jennesa, dress-reformer, born in New Hampshire, 28th January, 1859. She was educated in Boston, Mass. Her maiden name was Annie Jenness, and she traces ANNIE JENNESS MILLER. her ancestry back to that illustrious stock which produced Wendell Phillips and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She is the most prominent of all the leaders in the movement for reform in the matter of woman's dress. Before her marriage she had won considerable fame in Massachusetts as a woman of letters. She is a young and beautiful woman, highly cultured, who has taken up with energy and with a great deal of taste and good judgment the question of dress reform, or "the principles of correct and artistic dressing." She has lectured in all of the leading cities of the United States, to crowded houses, and has been well received, being invited over and over again to the same places. She now lives in Washington, D. C. She is one of the owners of a magazine published in New York and devoted to the aesthetics of physical development and artistic designs for dresses, containing articles by the best writers on all topics of interest to women. She has presented her ideas on dress to large assemblies, and her influence is widely acknowledged. All the progressive and reformatory movements of the day appeal to her and have her sympathy and support. She is the author of " Physical Beauty" and of "Mother and Babe," the latter a work which furnishes information and patterns upon improved plans for mother's and baby's wardrobe. Mrs. Miller's ultimate hope is to establish at the national capitol an institution for physical development and the highest art of self-culture, which shall be under the control 'if able students of anatomy, chemistry and physical science.