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Show Eugkne Sent; VLEii.tho American consul con-sul at Cairo, who died yesterday, was a. native of New York state. He graduated grad-uated with high honors at Yale college in 1859, and was soon afterward admitted to the bar in New York. President Johnson appointed him consul at Moscow, and later he became acting secretary of legation le-gation at St. Petersburg. In 1875 Mr. Schuyler was appointed secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople, Constan-tinople, and soon' afterward was sent on a tour of inspection through Bulgaria Bul-garia to investigate the Turkish massacres massa-cres in that country. In 1879 he was appointed consul-general to Italy, and from 1880 to 1884 he served as consul-general consul-general to Roumania, Servia and Greece, his last diplomatic position being consul-general at Cairo. Mr. Schuyler was of a literary turn of mind, and wroto several valuable works, among which were "Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia," published in 1884; and "American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce." |