Stebbins, Emma – Steele, William G
Stebbins, Emma
was born Sept. 1, 1815, in New York city. She was a sculptress who lived many years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte Cushman. She was the author of Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of Her Life. She died Oct. 25, 1882, in New York city.
Stebbins, Giles Badger
author.
He is the author of After Dogmatic Theology, What? The American Protectionist's Manual; Chapters from the Bible of the Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization Society; and Progress from Poverty.
Stebbins, Henry G
banker, congressman, was born in 1812 in New York city. He was one of the originators, and president of the Dramatic Fund association, and an active manager of the New York Academy of Music. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress.
Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
(MOORE) (HEWITT), author, poet, was born in 1818 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of History; and Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.
Stebbins, Rufus Phineas
clergyman, author, was born in 1810 in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Ithaca, N. Y., and subsequently of Newton Centre, Mass. He was the author of A Study of the Pentateuch; and A Common Sense View of the Books of the Old Testament. He died in 1885.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence
author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1833, in Hartford, Conn. He is a poet and literary critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock exchange there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The Prince's Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of the Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; and The Star Bearer. His other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith; Victorian Poets; Poets of America; and The Nature and Elements of Poetry. His most important labors as editor have been, A Library of American Literature; The Works of Poe; and A Victorian Anthology.
Stedman, William
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1765 in Massachusetts. In 1802 he was a representative in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1803 to 1810. He died in 1831 in Newburyport, Mass.
Steedman, Charles
naval officer, was born Sept. 24, 1811, in Charleston, S. C. In 1828 he was appointed a midshipman; passed through all the grades, and attained the rank of rear-admiral.
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Steedman, James Barrett
soldier, state legislator, was born July 30, 1818, in Northumberland county, Pa. 1843 he was a member of the Ohio state legislature. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California; returned the following year, ar, and during President Buchanan's administration was printer to congress.
He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of major-general.
Steel, Harry Givin
journalist, was born Dec. 6, 1868, in Ashland, Pa. He has been editor and business manager of the Shamokin Daily Dispatch, and other prominent papers; and is now editor and owner of The Daily Herald of Shamokin, Pa.
Steel, George Alexander
business man, legislator, was born April 22, 1846, in Stafford, Ohio. He is the son of William Steel, a prominent abolitionist of Ohio, and cousin of Hon. William E.
Gladstone. On April 2, 1863, he started for Portland, Ore., going by the way of New York, Aspinwall, Panama and San Francisco, arriving there on May 25, 1864.
He has been county treasurer, state senator, postmaster of Portland for two terms, special agent of the postoffice department, and has filled various other offices of trust. He is widely and favorably known throughout Oregon; is largely interested in street railways in Portland and vicinity, and is now president and superintendent of the East Side Railway company, one of the longest and most successful electric railways in the United States.
Steele, Daniel
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1824 in New York. He is a methodist clergyman and educator of note, and the author of Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers; Bible Readings; and Sermons and Essays.
Steele, David
clergyman, author, was born in 1827 in Ireland. He is a reformed presbyterian clergyman of Pniladelphia from 1861, and the author of The Times in Which We Live, and the Ministry They Require; and The Apologetics of History.
Steele, Frederick
soldier, was born Jan. 14, 1819, in Delhi, N. Y. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of major-general. He died Jan. 12, 1868, in San Mateo, Cal.
Steele, George Mckendree
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1823 in New York. He is a methodist clergyman and educator; and principal of Wilbraham academy, Massachusetts. He is the author of Outline Study of Political Economy.
Steele, George W
lawyer, soldier, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1839, in Fayette county, Ind. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1882 he established the First National bank of Marion, Ind., and became its president. He was the first governor of Oklahoma, and resigned after serving twenty months. He was a member of the forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fiftyfourth congresses and was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Steele, Isaac Nevett
lawyer, was born April 25, 1809, in Cambridge, Md.
He received a thorough education in the public academy of Cambridge; St.
John's college of Annapolis, and at Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.
In 1830 he was admitted to the bar; and attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers in America, and a leader of the Maryland bar. He contributed valuable articles to current literature. He died April 11, 1891, in Baltimore, Md.
Steele, James
soldier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 16, 1765, in Lancaster county, Pa. He served in the war of 1812-14, and for meritorious conduct was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of militia. He died Sept. 30, 1845, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Steele, Joel Dorman
educator, author, was born May 14, 1836, in Lima, N. Y. He was a prominent educator of Elmira, N. Y., who published Barnes's History of the United States and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology; Human Physiology; Zoölogy; and Chemistry. He died May 25, 1886, in Elmira, N. Y.
Steele, John
soldier, state senator, was born Aug. 15, 1758, in Lancaster county, Pa. In 1801 he was elected state senator, but, as he held a United States appointment, his seat was declared vacant. In 1804 he was elected state senator and in 1805 became speaker of that body.
He also held the rank of brigadier-general in the Pennsylvania militia.
Steele, John
agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1764, in Salisbury, N. C. He served a number of years in the North Carolina state legislature, part of the time as speaker, and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1790 to 1793. In 1806 he was a commissioner to adjust the boundaries between the states of North and South Carolina. He was a general of the militia; held the office of first comptroller of the treasury under Presidents Washington and Adams, and in 1814 was again elected to the legislature. He died Aug. 14, 1815, in Salisbury, N. C.
Steele, John B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 28, 1814, in Delhi, N. Y. In 1841 he was appointed district attorney for Otsego county, N. Y.
In 1847 he moved to Kingston, and in 1850 he was elected special judge of that county. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was accidentally killed Sept. 24, 1866, in Kingston, N. Y.
Steele, John H
governor, was born in 1792 in North Carolina. He was governor of New Hampshire from 1844 to 1846. He died July 3, 1865, in Peterborough, N. H.
Steele, John N
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a presidential elector in 1832, and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1835 to 1837.
Steele, Thomas Sedgwick
author, was born in 1845 in Connecticut.
He is the author of Canoe and Camera: a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River; and A Voyage to Vikingland.
Steele, Walter Leak
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 18, 1823, in Steele's Mills (now Little's Mills), N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina state house of commons in 1846, 1848, 1850 and 1854, and to the state senate in 1852 and 1858. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat, and declined a renomination.
Steele, William G
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1820, in Somerset county, N. J. He was for several years a state director for the Delaware and Raritan canal, and the Camden and Amboy Railroad company.
He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress.