SEDGWICK, ELLERY

(1872), an American editor, b. at New York, s. of Henry Dwight and Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick. He graduated from Harvard University in 1894. He began as a teacher in Groton, Ma . school and later was editor of various leading Magazines including Leslie’s Monthly and the American Magazine until 1909 after which ha was editor of the Atlantic Monthly and president of the Atlantic Monthly Company. (1861), an American author, b. in Stock bridge, Ma . Studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1884, and began to practice in New York. In 1898 he retired from law practice to devote himself entirely to his writing. He has written etiers of Captain Cuellar, 1896; Life of Father Hecker, 1897; E ays on Great Writers, 1902; Italy in the Thirteenth Century, 1912; An Apology for Old Maids, and Other E ays, 1917, and Marcus Aurelius, 1921.