Sterrett, Samuel – Stevens, James
Sterrett, Samuel
congressman.
He was a member of the house of representatives of the United States from Maryland from 1791 to 1793. He died July 12, 1833, in Baltimore, Md.
Stetefeldt, Carl August
civil engineer, inventor, author, was born Sept. 28, 1838, in Germany. He is widely known through the mining districts by his invention of the Stetefeldt furnace, which is extensively used in the west for the roasting of silver ores preparatory to the extraction of the metal by either amalgamation or lixiviation. Besides technical papers he has written The Lixiviation of Silver Ores with Hyposulphite Solutions.
Stetson, Charles
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1801, in New Ipswich, N. H. In 1834 he was appointed judge of the municipal court of Bangor, Maine. In 1845 he was elected a member of the executive council of the state; and re-elected three years in succession. In 1848 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-first congress. He died March 27, 1883, in Bangor, Maine.
Stetson, James Burgess
merchant, railroad president, was born March 27, 1831, in Kingston, Mass. He is president and general manager of The North Pacific Coast railroad and The California Street Cable railroad in San Francisco and has banking and industrial interests.
He has been supervisor for two years in San Francisco.
Stetson, John Batterson
manufacturer, was born May 5, 1830, in Orange, N. J. He is president of the John B. Stetson company, in Philadelphia, Pa. An interesting feature of the Stetson factories is the amount of space set apart for the entertainment of operatives. There are reading rooms, a parlor, a hall which will seat two thousand persons, a library, a dispensary, and an armory, and he has also promoted the formation of a Sunday school and various literary and other societies.
Stetson, Lemuel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman. He served three years in the assembly of New York; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845. He was county judge of Clinton county from 1847 to 1851.
Steuart, George H
soldier, was born Aug. 24, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he became brigadier-general. He defended the bloody angle at the battle of the Wilderness against Hancock's corps, and was taken prisoner, but exchanged in the winter of 1864-65. Since the war he has resided in Baltimore.
Steuart, James Aloysius
physician, was born April 3, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. He established himself in practice in Baltimore, and became physician to the city general dispensary, and assistant physician to the Maryland hospital for the insane. Since 1875 he has been health commissioner, registrar of vital statistics, and president of the city board of health.
Steuart, Richard Sprigg
physician, was born Nov. 1, 1797, in Baltimore, Md. Beginning practice in Baltimore, he was elected in 1828 president of the Maryland hospital for the insane, which he reorganized, and of which he was president till his death. He died July 13, 1876, in Baltimore, Md.
Stevens, Aaron Fletcher
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Derry, N. H. In 1849 he was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature; was reelected, and served five years as a state solicitor. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as major in the first New Hampshire infantry, and for his gallantry was brevetted a brigadier-general. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. He died May 10, 1887, in Nashua, N. H.
Stevens, Abel
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1815, in Philadelphia.
He is a methodist clergyman of New York city of prominence as a writer, and long connected with the Methodist Book Concern. He is the author of History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States; History of Methodism; Life of Madame de Staël; Life of Nathan Bangs; Character Sketches; Women of Methodism; Christian Work and Consolation; Church Polity; and Tales from the Parsonage.
Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon
surgeon, author, was born Sept. 4, 1789, in New York city. He was a surgeon of New York city, whose chief works are, Inflammation of the Eye; Lectures on Lithotomy; and First Lines of Surgery.
He died March 30, 1869, in New York city.
Stevens, Augusta De Grasse
art critic, author, was born in 186- in New York. He is a novelist and art critic who has lived in London for many years; and is the author of Distance, a novelette; Old Boston, an American Historical Romance; Weighed in the Balance; The Lost Dauphin; Miss Hildreth; The Sensation of the Season; and A Romantic Inheritance.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin
bibliographer, author, was born Feb. 19, 1833, in Barnet, Vt. He is a bibliographer who has edited Campaign in Virginia in 1781; and Facsimiles of Manuscripts in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-83.
Stevens, Bradford N
educator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1813, in Boscawen, N. H. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-second congress as an independent democrat.
Stevens, Charles Asbury
author, was born in October, 1845, in Norway. Since 1870 he has devoted himself to literary labor, contributing to the periodical press and to the preparation of books for youthful readers, with the titles Camping Out; Left on Labrador; Off to the Geysers; On the Amazon; Lynx Hunting; Fox Hunting; and The Moose Hunters. He is one of the editors of the Youth's Companion.
Stevens, Charles Ellis
clergyman, author, was born July 5, 1853, in Boston, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The Sources of the Constitution of the United States in Relation to Colonial and English History.
Stevens, Charles Ford
railroad president, was born June 21, 1850, in Geneva, N. Y. He is president of the Central railway of New Brunswick at Philadelphia, Pa.
Stevens, Edward
soldier, was born about 1745, in Culpeper county, Va. He served through the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died Aug. 17, 1820, in Culpeper county, Va.
Stevens, Frederick Clement
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1861, in Boston, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in 1884, and commenced practice in St. Paul. He was elected to the state legislature of Minnesota in sessions of 1888-89 and 1890-91; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Stevens, George Barker
clergyman, educator, author, was born July 13, 1854, in Spencer, N. Y. He is a congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven, and professor in Yale Divinity school from 1886. He is the author of Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline Theology; The Johannine Theology; and Doctrine and Life.
Stevens, H. S
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1832 in Weston, Vt. In 1856 he located in that portion now Arizona; and was a representative in the territorial legislature of Arizona from 1868 to 1873. He was elected a delegate from Arizona to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.
Stevens, Henry
antiquary, state legislator, was born Dec. 13, 1791, in Barnet, Vt. He was the founder and first president of the Vermont Historical society. The most valuable part of his collection was placed for safe-keeping in the state house at Montpelier, where in 1857 it was burned. He was a member of the legislature for two terms. He died July 30, 1867, in Barnet, Vt.
Stevens, Henry
bibliographer, author, was born Aug. 24, 1819, in Barnet, Vt. He was a bibliographer of prominence, who lived in London after 1845; and the author of Historical Nuggets; Historical Collections; Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; Historical and Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum; and indexes to state papers in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. He died Feb. 24, 1886, in England.
Stevens, Hestor L
lawyer, congressman, was born in October, 1803, in Lima, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. He died May 7, 1864, in Georgetown, D. C.
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls
soldier, civil engineer, governor, was born March 28, 1818, in Andover, Mass. He was at the siege of Vera Cruz under General Scott; fought in several subsequent battles; and was twice brevetted for gallant services. He served for a time as an assistant in the coast survey office in Washington city; and in 1853 was appointed governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of Washington. In 1857 he was elected a delegate to congress from Washington territory, where he continued to serve until the breaking out of the rebellion.
When governor of Washington territory he traveled throughout its whole extent; and as commissioner made many treaties with the Indian tribes. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the volunteer service. He was killed in the battle of Bull Run Sept. 1, 1862, near Chantilly, Va.
Stevens, James
congressman, was born in 1768 in Fairfield, Conn. He served in congress as a representative from Connecticut from 1819 to 1821, voting with the south on the Missouri compromise. In 1822 he was appointed postmaster of Stamford. He died in April, 1835, in Stamford, Conn.