Stephens, Henry Louis – Sterrett, John Robert Sitling- Ton
Stephens, Henry Louis
book-illustrator, was born Feb. 11, 1824, in Philadelphia. He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for Vanity Fair; Mrs. Grundy; Punchinello; and other periodicals. He died Dec. 13, 1882, in Bayonne, N. J.
Stephens, James Attison
lawyer, business man, was born Jan. 18, 1869, near Buchanan, Texas. He has had a very varied career, and is now a prominent lawyer of Benjamin, Texas, where he is also engaged in real estate, and is prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Stephens, John H
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Shelby county, Texas. He graduated from the law department of Cumberland university of Lebanon, Tenn., in 1872, and has practiced law since at Montague, Montague county, and Vernon, Wilbarger county, Tex.
He served as state senator in the twenty-first and twentysecond legislatures of Texas, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Stephens, John Phares
farmer, clergyman, legislator, author, was born Sept. 28, 1836, near Manilla, Ind. In 1860 he was ordained a pastor of the baptist church, and has since filled important pastorates in Ohio and Kansas; and is now filling a pastorate in the baptist church at Wellsville, Kan. In 1891 he served with distinction as a representative in the Kansas state legislature; is a prominent member of the Farmers' Alliance, and is the author of several works.
Stephens, Linton
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born July 1, 1823, in Crawfordsville, Ga. He represented the counties of Taliaferro and Hancock in the legislature for several years. In 1858 he was appointed to a vacancy in the supreme court of Georgia, and his decisions, contained in three volumes or the Georgia Reports, are characterized by their precision, perspicuity, and power of logic. He died July 14, 1872, in Sparta, Ga. man.
Stephens, Philander
congress- He was a member of the house of representatives in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833. He died July 8, 1842, in Springfield, Pa.
Stephens, Thomas
author. He was the author of The Castle Builder, or the History of William Stephens, of the Isle of Wight.
Stephens, Uriah S
was born Aug. 3, 1821, near Cape May, N. J. He was one of the founders of the order of the Knights of Labor. He died Feb. 13, 1882.
Stephens, William
governor, was born Jan. 22, 1671, in England. He was a colonial governor of Georgia in 1743-50, who published a Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia. He died in August, 1753, in Georgia.
Stephens, William
lawyer, jurist, was a citizen of Georgia. In 1801 he was appointed judge of the United States district court for the district of Georgia.
Stephenson, Benjamin
congressman. He was a delegate in congress from Illinois territory from 1814 to 1816, when he was appointed receiver of public moneys at Edwardsville, Ill.
Stephenson, Isaac
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born June 18, 1826, near Frederickton, N. B. In 1845 he moved to Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1858 removed to Marinette. He held various local offices, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1866 and 1868.
He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-eighth congress; was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Stephenson, James
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born March 20, 1764, in Gettysburg, Pa. He commanded a company in the campaign of General St. Clair; was present at the quelling of the whisky insurrection in Pennsylvania, and was promoted to the office of brigade inspector. He served for many years as a delegate to the Virginia assembly; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1803 to 1805, from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1822 to 1825. He died in August, 1833.
Stephenson, James S
congressman, was born in York county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died Oct. 17, 1831, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Stephenson, Luther
soldier, author, was born April 25, 1830, in Hingham, Mass. He served in the civil war attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel; and is also author and composer of a number of patriotic songs.
Stephenson, Samuel M
agriculturist, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born in 1831 in New Brunswick. He was chairman of the board of supervisors of Menominee county for several years; was a representative in the Michigan state legislature in 1877-78, and a member of the senate in 1879-80 and 1885- 86. He was elected to the fifty-first, fiftysecond, and fifty-third congresses and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Stephenson, William Worth
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 24, 1857, in Madison county, N. Y. He received a thorough education in the Daughters college, Kentucky university and the Bethany college of West Virginia, from which latter institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. In 1879-80 he was principal of the Harrodsburg academy. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar; reand has given his chief attention to the practice of law, and is now one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Harrodsburg. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Kentucky state legislature; elected in 1891 and served in the long session of 1891-93 as a member of the judiciary and other committees. In 1893 he was elected to the state senate and served in the sessions of 1894, 1896 and 1897, and took an active part in the deliberations of those assemblies. In 1896 he was a delegate to the convention of national democrats at Indianapolis; and has always taken a deep interest in political affairs.
Sterigere, John B
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Montgomery county, Pa., from 1827 to
Sterling, Ansel
congressman, was born in New London county, Conn. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1825.
Sterling, Micah
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1781 in Lyme, Conn. He was for some years a member of the New York legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1823. He died April 10, 1844, in Watertown, N. Y.
Sterling, Richard
educator, author, was born in 1812 in Ireland. He prepared a series of school-readers and spelling-books that came into general use throughout the southern and southwestern states. In 1873 he opened a boarding-school in Evansville, Ind., and in 1875 removed to Mocksville, N. C., where he kept a similar school till 1880, when he was elected superintendent of the public schools of the county. He died Oct. 3, 1883, in Mocksville, N. C.
Stern, Simon Adler
author, was born in 1838 in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Florentine Nights; Excerpts; and Jottings of Travel in China and Japan.
Sternberg, George Miller
surgeon, author, was born June 8, 1838, in Otsego county, N. Y. In 1861 he was appointed assistant-surgeon in the United States army; captain and assistant-surgeon in 1866; major and surgeon in 1875; lieutenant-colonel and deputy surgeon-general in 1891; and brigadier-general and surgeon-general in 1893. He is the author of Photo-Micrographs; Malaria and Malarial Diseases; Bacteria, from the French of Maguin; Immunity:
Protective Inoculations in Infectious Diseases; and Manual of Bacteriology.
Sterne, Simon
lawyer, author, was born July 23, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He studied at the university of Pennsylvania, and also at the university of Heidelberg, and was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1859, and to the bar at New York in 1860, at which latter place he has since been practicing his profession. He delivered many addresses politico-economical subjects. In 1870 on wrote Representative Government, and in 1881 Constitutional Development and Political History of the United States, and contributed a number of articles to Lalor's Cyclopædia of Political Science and United States History. He was appointed by Gov. Tilden in 1875 on the commission to devise a plan for the government of the cities of New York, and in 1884 was commissioned by President Cleveland to report on the relation of the railways of western Europe to their governments. In 1895 he was appointed by Gov. Morton as one of a commission to recommend changes in methods of legislation. He has been counsel for many prominent bankers, private corporations and railway companies, and is regarded as one of the leading corporation lawyers in New York. On June 8, 1870, he married Mathilde Elsberg, sister of the late Prof. Louis Elsberg, the celebrated laryngologist, and has one child, Alice L.
Sterne.
Sterrett, John Robert Sitling- Ton
educator, author, was born in 1851 in Virginia. He is a professor of Greek at Amherst college from 1892; and the author of Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor; and The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.