Stanley, John – Starin, John H
Stanley, John
state legislator, congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a distinguished member of the legislature of North Carolina, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1801 to 1803, and again from 1809 to 1811. He died Aug. 3, 1834, in New Berne, N. C.
Stanly, Fabius
naval officer, was born Dec. 15, 1815, in New Berne, N. C.
He served in the Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of rear-admiral.
He died Sept. 5, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Stansbury, Arthur J
author, was born in 1781 in New York city. Besides contributing to periodicals, he published several sermons and addresses, and was the author of Elementary Catechism on the Constitution of the United States; and a Report of the Trial of Judge James H.
Peck, or an Impeachment by the House of Representatives of the United States.
He died about 1848.
Stansbury, Howard
explorer, civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 8, 1806, in New York city. He was an explorer who was a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An Expedition to Great Salt Lake. He died April 17, 1863, in Madison, Wis.
Stansbury, Philip
traveler, author, was born about 1802. He was the author of A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America, to the Lakes, the Canadas, and the New England States, Performed in the autumn of 1821. He died about 1870.
Stansel, Martin L
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 23, 1824, in Savannah, Ga. In 1844 he graduated from the university of Alabama; has been judge of the circuit court, and during 1861-65 he served as colonel of the forty-first regiment confederate states volunteers. In 1865 he served as a member of the Alabama state constitutional convention; and for many years has served with distinction as representative and state senator of the Alabama state legislature. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Carrollton, Ala.
Stanton, Benjamin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 4, 1809, in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio state senate in 1841; resigned in 1842, but was re-elected the same year. In October, 1850, he was elected to the house of representatives of the thirty-second congress, and was reelected to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1862 he was lieutenant-governor of Ohio.
Stanton, Edwin Mcmasters
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 19, 1814, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1842 he was elected reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Ohio, and in 1848 formed a law partnership at Pittsburg. He soon afterwards began to be much employed in the supreme court of the United States which compelled him to remove to Washington in 1857. In 1858 he was sent, by the government, to California to defend its interests in certain important land cases in that state, and in 1860 went into President Buchanan's cabinet as attorney-general. In 1862 he was appointed secretary of war. In 1869 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died Dec. 24, 1869, in Washington, D. C.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
suffragist, author, was born Nov. 12, 1815, in Johnstown, N. Y. In 1848, chiefly through her efforts, the first woman's rights convention was formed and held in Seneca Falls, N. Y. She is the author of a History of the Woman Suffrage Movement.
Stanton, Frank Lebby
journalist, poet, was born in 1858 in Georgia.
He is a journalist and popular verse-writer of Atlanta, and the author of Songs of the Soil.
STANTON, FREDERICK PERRY, business man, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 22, 1814, in Alexandria, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1855; and was appointed governor of the territory of Kansas in 1858.
Stanton, Henry
soldier, was born about 1796 in Vermont. He was brevetted brigadier-general for meritorious conduct in the Mexican war in 1847. He died Aug. 1, 1856, in Hamilton, N. Y.
Stanton, Henry Brewster
journalist, reformer, author, was born June 29, 1805, in Griswold, Conn. He was a journalist and reformer of New York city, and the author of Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; and Random Recollections. He died Jan. 14, 1887, in New York city.
Stanton, Henry Thompson
soldier, lawyer, journalist, poet, was born June 30, 1834, in Alexandria, Va. He is an officer in the United States army, and an Indian commissioner. He has written much humorous verse. He is the author of The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; and Jacob Brown, and Other Poems.
Stanton, Joseph
congressman, United States senator, was born July 19, 1739, in Charleston, R. I. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1790 to 1793; and a representative in congress from 1801 to 1807. He died about 1807 in Charleston, R. I.
Stanton, Oscar Fitzalan
naval officer, was born July 18, 1834, in Sag Harbor, N. Y. He entered the navy as acting midshipman in 1849, and was graduated from the United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1855, promoted to master in 1855; commissioned lieutenant in 1856, and became a commodore.
Stanton, Richard Henry
journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Sept. 9, 1812, in Alexandria, Va. Being elected from Kentucky to congress as a democrat, he served from 1849 till 1855, and was presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1856; state attorney for his judicial district in 1858; a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1868, and district judge in 1868-74. He edited the Maysville Monitor and the Maysville Express, and published a Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases in Kentucky; Practical Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc., of Kentucky; and a Practical Manual for Executors in Kentucky.
Stanton, Stiles Trumbull
journalist, state senator, was born Dec. 10, 1849, in Stonington, Conn. He was executive secretary of state in Connecticut in 1879-80, and was a member of the house of representatives in 1881-82, and served in the state senate in 1884-86, being president pro tempore in 1885-86. Early in life he devoted himself to journalism, and became connected with the Norwich, Conn., Bulletin and the Worcester, Mass., Press, achieving a reputation as a humorist. He died Feb. 2, 1888, in New York city.
Stanton, Theodore
journalist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1851, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He is a journalist living in Paris, and the author of The Woman Question in Europe.
Stanton, William A
clergyman, author, was born March 5, 1854, in Lawrenceville, Pa. He has filled pastorates in various churches of the baptist denomination. He is the author of the Stanton Genealogy; and A History of the First Baptist Church of Rockford, Ill.
Stanton, William H
congressman.
He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.
Stanwood, Edward
journalist, author, was born in 1841 in Maine. He is a Boston journalist, managing editor of The Youth's Companion, and the author of A History of Presidential Elections; and History of Cotton Manufacture in New England.
Staples, Ernest Linwood
lawyer, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10,. 1856, in Monroe, Conn. He received a thorough education under private tutors, and was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1883; and practiced his profession in Shelton since 1886. In 1896 he was admitted to the unitarian ministry at Boston, Mass. He is the author of A Man of Destiny, an epic having Abraham Lincoln for its subject; and also the author of Our Ulysses, and Other Poems.
Staples, William Read
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1798, in Providence, R. I. He was associate judge of the Rhode Island supreme court from 1835 till 1854; and was chief justice of that court in 1854-56. He edited the second volume of the Rhode Island Historical society's collections, and Samuel Gorton's Simplicities' Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy (Providence); and issued Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspé (1845); Proceedings of the First General Assembly for the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in 1647; and Rhode Island Form-Book. He died Oct. 19, 1868, in Providence, R. I.
Starbuck, Calvin Washburn
journalist, was born April 20, 1822, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He established the Cincinnati Times, an afternoon newspaper. To his exertions and generosity are mainly due the Relief union, the Home of the Friendless, and other charitable institutions of Cincinnati, while his private gifts were many and constant. He died Nov. 15, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Starin, John H
congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1827, in Sammonsville, N. Y.
He received an academic education; commenced the study of medicine in 1842, and established and conducted the drug and medicine business at Fultonville from 1845 to 1858.
From 1848 to 1852 he was postmaster at Fultonville, and from 1856 to the present time has been largely engaged in the transportation business through the city, river and harbor and waters of Long Island Sound, and its accessories of vessel building. He is at present a director of the North River bank, New York city, and the Mohawk River National bank, and is greatly and personally interested in agriculture and stocking. He was elected to the fortyfifth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.