Stevenson, John White – Stewart, Jacob Henry
Stevenson, John White
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 4, 1812, in Richmond, Va. He was elected to the Kentucky legislature in 1845, 1846, and 1847. He was one of the three commissioners appointed to revise the civil and criminal code of Kentucky.
He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from that state; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. In 1867 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Kentucky, and acted as governor. In 1871 he entered the United States senate for the term ending in 1877.
He died Aug. 10, 1886, in Covington, Ky.
Stevenson, Sarah Hackett
physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1843, in Buffalo Grove, Ill. In 1876 she was a delegate from the Illinois State Medical society to the American Medical association at Philadelphia, and was the first woman physician to be elected a member of that body. She was one of the promoters of the Home for Incurables and Training School for Nurses in Chicago, and outside of her large practice has found time to publish works on Biology, in two volumes; and Physiology.
Stevenson, Thomas Greely
soldier, was born Feb. 3, 1836, in Boston, Mass. He successfully defended Washington, N. C., against a superior force; and became a brigadier-general. He was killed at the head of his troops in the battle of Spottsylvania. A memoir of Gen. Stevenson was printed privately after his death. He died May 10, 1864, near Spottsylvania, Va.
Stevenson, William C
educator, author, was born Dec. 25, 1864, in Vernon county, Wis. He is a successful educator, and since 1890 has been professor of bookkeeping and penmanship in the Kansas State Normal school of Emporia, the largest normal school in the world. He is the author of a text-book on Bookkeeping, which has been adopted for use in all the schools of Kansas.
Stevenson, William E
governor.
He was governor of West Virginia from 1869 to 1871.
Stevenson, William H
railroad president, was born in 1847 in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1887 he was elected president of the New York, Rutland and Montreal railroad and director and trustee of numerous other corporations.
Steward, Lewis
manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in Wayne county, Pa. He has been engaged in farming and manufacturing in Plano, Ill.; and was democratic candidate for governor in 1876. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. died Aug. 27, 1896, in Plano, Ill.
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Stewart, Alexander
lawyer, jurist. He was judge of the United States for the territory of Illinois, and held the position until the organization of the state government in 1818.
Stewart, Alexander
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1829, in Canada. In 1849 he moved to where the city of Wausau is now located, engaging in the lumber business, which occupation he has ever since followed. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Stewart, Alexander Peter
soldier, educator, was born Oct. 2, 1821, in Rogersville, Tenn. He became brigadiergeneral in the confederate army in 1861, major-general in 1863, and lieutenantgeneral in 1864. In 1868 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of Mississippi, and chancellor of the university.
Stewart, Alexander Turney
merchant, was born Oct. 12, 1802, in Ireland. He was considered the greatest merchant in the world. He is said to have made his immense fortune by attenaing to details, and following closely the one priced system of merchandising of which he was the father. He died April 10, 1876, in New York city.
Stewart, Alvan
reformer, was born Sept. 1, 1790, in South Granville, N. Y. He removed to Utica, N. Y. His life was mainly given to the temperance and the anti-slavery causes. A volume of his speeches was published in 1860. He died May 1, 1849, in New York city.
Stewart, Andrew
agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born in June, 1792, in Fayette county, Pa. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature, and served three years; and was appointed by President Monroe district attorney for western Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1829, from 1831 to 1835, and from 1843 to 1847. He died July 16, 1872, in Uniontown, Pa.
Stewart, Archibald
congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785 to fill a temporary vacancy.
Stewart, Austin
educator, author, was born about 1793 in Prince William county, Va. He was an author and educator of African descent who published Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman. He died about 1860.
Stewart, Charles
soldier, congressman, was born in 1729 in Ireland.
He became a deputy surveyor-general of the province of Pennsylvania. In 1777 he was appointed by congress commissarygeneral of issues in the continental army, serving as such on Washington's staff till the close of the war. ar. In 1784-85 he was a representative from New Jersey in congress. He died July 24, 1800, in Flemington, N. J.
Stewart, Charles
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 30, 1836, in Memphis, Tenn. In 1866 he moved to Houston, Texas; was city attorney in 1872; and served two terms as a state senator. He was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses as a democrat.
Stewart, Charles Samuel
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1795, in Flemington, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman, chaplain in the navy; and the author of Residence at the Sandwich Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in 1850-63; and Personal Record of a Cruise. He died Dec. 15, 1870, in Cooperstown, N. Y.
Stewart, Charles Seaforth
soldier, was born April 11, 1823, at sea.
He served during the civil war in the corps of engineers, was made major in 1863, and was chief engineer of the middle military division in 1864-65. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1867, colonel in 1882, and was retired in 1886.
Stewart, Chase
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 26, 1856, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is an able lawyer of Springfield, Ohio; and for six years was prosecuting attorney of his county. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives; and re-elected in 1897.
Stewart, David
lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 13, 1800, in Baltimore, Md. He was a senator in congress from Maryland from 1849 to 1850 by executive appointment to fill a vacancy.
He was commissioner of public buildings: for the District of Columbia. He died Jan. 5, 1858, in Baltimore, Md.
Stewart, David
clergyman, was born May 16, 1809, in Warren county, Ohio. In the civil war he was identified with the various. measures for the support and comfort. of the soldiers.
While he was on a mission of that kind to the army at.
Vicksburg, the citizens of Rush county nominated him, without his knowl-- edge, to represent them in the legisla-- ture. Thus pressed. into the political field he made the canvass, was elected in 1864, and re-elected in. 1866 and 1868.
Stewart, Eliza D
philanthropist,. was born April 26, 1816, in Piketon, Ohio..
She organized the first Woman's union in the great temperance cause; and is the author of Memories of the Crusade; and The Crusader in Great Britain.
Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell
physician, author, was born Aug. 10, 1815,. in Williamsburg, Va. He is a physician of New York city who removed to England in 1855; and is the author of Hos-- pitals and Surgeons of Paris.
Stewart, George H
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 26, 1858, in Fayette county, Ind. He received a thorough education in the normal schools, and graduated in law and the scientific course.
For four years he was prosecuting attorney of Frontier county, Neb.; was state senator from Ada county in the second session of the Idaho state legislature for two years. He has been a trustee of the state normal school of Albion, Idaho; a member of the board of education of and since 1894 has been Boise City; judge of the district court for a term of six years.
Stewart, Gideon Tabor
lawyer, journalist, prohibitionist, was born Aug. 7, 1824, in Johnstown, N. Y. In 1861 he moved to Iowa, where he edited and published the Dubuque Daily Times during the civil war. He has been elected three times grand worthy chief Templar by the Good Templars of Iowa, and has been their nominee three times for governor, seven times for supreme judge, once for congress, and once for vice-president of the United States.
Stewart, Harlon Lincoln
jour-- nalist, was born Dec. 12, 1861, in Norwalk, Ohio. He is editor and publisher of the Norwalk Daily News in Norwalk,.
Ohio.
Stewart, Isaac A
lawyer, jurist,, was born Jan. 10, 1854, in Knox county, Ky. Since 1891 he has been judge of the criminal court at De Land, Fla. He is one of the largest orange growers in his section.
Stewart, Jacob Henry
surgeon, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1829, in Clermont, N. Y. He was a member of the Minnesota state senate in 1858 and 1859; and was surgeon-general of the state from 1857 to 1863. He was appointed surgeon of the first Minnesota volunteer infantry in 1861. He was surgeon of the board of enrollment in 1864 and 1865.
He was postmaster of St. Paul from 1865 to 1870; and mayor of St. Paul in 1864, 1865, 1872, 1873 and 1874. He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. He died Aug. 25, 1844, in St. Paul, Minn.