Stewart, James – Stickler, Joseph William
Stewart, James
congressman, was born in 1770. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina during the years 1818 and 1819. He died in February, 1822, in North Carolina.
Stewart, James
physician, author, was born April 7, 1799, in New York city.
He was a physician of New York city; and the author of Diseases of Children; and The Lungs. He died Sept. 12, 1864, in Rye, N. Y.
Stewart, James A
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1808, in Dorchester county, Md.
He served in the state legislature; and was a judge of the circuit court of Maryland: He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Stewart, James Fleming
lawyer, congressman, was born June 15, 1851, in Paterson, N. J. He graduated at the Law school of the university of New York in 1870, taking the first prize for best examination.
He practiced law in New York city until 1875, since which time he has followed his profession in his native city. He was three times appointed recorder of Paterson, the criminal magistrate of the city, which office he occupied at the time of his election to congress.
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Stewart, James Jones
lawyer, was born April 22, 1868, in Montgomery, Ala. He received his education at the university of Alabama, and at the age of eighteen years was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Alabama. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Braidentown, Fla.; and for three years was captain of company G, first regiment Alabama state troops.
Stewart, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1800 to 1801 to fill a vacancy; and re-elected to the seventh and eighth congresses. was
Stewart, John
agriculturist, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1795 in Chatham. He served many years in the Connecticut legislature; and was judge of Middlesex county court. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1843 to 1845. He died Sept. 16, 1860, in Chatham, Conn.
Stewart, John D
soldier, lawyer, jurist, clergyman, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1833, in Fayette county, Ga. He was elected probate judge, and served as such five years; and was lieutenant and captain in the thirteenth Georgia regiment during the civil war. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1865- 67. He was ordained a minister of the baptist church in 1871; and was mayor of Griffin, Ga., in 1875-76. He was judge of the superior court from 1879 until 1886; and was twice elected judge by the legislature without opposition. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was reelected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.
Stewart, John W
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in 1825 in Middlebury, Vt. He was state's attorney for his native county from 1852 to 1855. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1856 and 1857; was a state senator in 1862 and 1863; and was again in the assembly in 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867. He was governor of the state from 1870 to 1872; and was again a representative in the legislature in 1876 and 1877. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Stewart, Marcus A
author, poet, was born Sept. 21, 1852, in Madison, Wis.
He is a writer of San Jose, Cal.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rosita.
Stewart, Orrville H
journalist, poet, author, was born Oct. 25, 1876, in Adams, Ind. He is the city editor of the Daily New Era of Greensburg, Ind.; staff correspondent of several metropolitan dailies, and a regular contributor to the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Chicago Chronicle, Indianapolis Journal, and the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. His bestknown poem is Down on the Farm, and his Hoosier Stories have been widely copied in the periodical press.
Stewart, Philo Penfield
founder, was born in July, 1798, in Sherman, Conn. He was one of the founders of Oberlin college. He died Dec. 13, 1868.
Stewart, Robert Adger
lawyer, orator, was born March 6, 1862, in Abbeville, S. C. He received his education in the South Carolina college and the Hampton institute, Virginia. He has been professor of law and secretary of the law faculty of Allen university, South Carolina; and in 1886 was elected dean of the law department, which he declined. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar; is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Manning, S. C.; and is well known as the silver-tongued orator of the south. He has received the degree of LL. B., and contributes extensively to law literature.
Stewart, Robert Mercellus
state senator, governor, was born March 12, 1815, in Truxton, N. Y. In 1845 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention, and for ten years he was a member of the state senate. He was elected governor of Missouri in 1857. He died Sept. 21, 1871, in St. Joseph, Mo. a common
Stewart, Thomas E
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1824, in New York city. In 1854 he was elected commissioner of schools; and in 1864 and 1865 was elected a member of the New York state assembly. In 1866 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress.
Stewart, Thomas Mccants
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 28, 1854, in Charleston, S. C. He has been professor of mathematics in the State Agricultural college of South Carolina; and since 1886 has practiced law in New York city. He ranks high as an orator and as an author, his bestknown book being Liberia: The Americo-African Republic. During 1891-95 he was a member of the board of education of the city of Brooklyn, and served on several important committees.
Stewart, William
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1811, in Mercer, Pa. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania for three years. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyfifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Stewart, William Bell
clergyman, was born Oct. 10, 1818, in Butler county, Pa. He received his education at the Washington college, Pennsylvania; and has attained success as a clergyman. of the presbyterian church. He has been pastor and, principal of several colleges; and secretary of the American Tract soclety.
Stewart, William H
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 25, 1838, in Deep Creek, Va. Since 1873 he has been successfully engaged in the practice of law in Virginia. For two terms of four years each he was commonwealth's attorney for the coun-- ty of Norfolk; during 1887-94 was vicepresident and direc-- tor of the Portsmouth Street Railway company; was a director in the Su-- burban Railway company of Norfolk, Va.;. and is now president of the Port Norfolk.
Electric railway, which runs from Portsmouth to Port Norfolk, of which latter city he was the founder. He is the author of The Battle of the Crater, and other works; and a number of articles contributed to current literature. He served as second lieutenant of the Wise light dragoons,. state volunteers; and subsequently the Jackson Grays, confederate army. He fought gallantly throughout the war; and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
Stewart, William M
educator,. was born Sept. 5, 1859, in Draper, Utah.
He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and graduated from the state university of Utah, subsequently receiving the degree of master of didactics. He then began educational. work, and was elected superintendent of schools in Salt Lake county in 1885, receiving the re-election twice. He has served as regent of the university for three terms; and is now principal of the state normal school and professor of pedagogy in the state university. He has taken an active part in educational affairs, and in 1887 attended the National Educational association held in Chicago, and. was elected director of the Educational association for Utah; and the following. year attended the convention of the National Educational association in San Francisco.
Stewart, William Morris
law-- yer, United States senator, was born Aug.. 9, 1827, in Lyons, N. Y. In 1860 he re-- moved to Virginia City, Nev., where he was largely engaged in early mining litigation and in the development of the Comstock lode. He was elected United States senator in 1864 and re-elected in 1869; in 1875 he resumed the practice of law in Nevada, California, and the Pacific coast generally, and was thus engaged when elected to the United States senate, as a republican.
Stickler, Joseph William
scientist, was born June 26, 1854. Much original work has been performed by him in attempting to discover a disease in the lower animals, which will furnish virus, which, when introduced into the human tissues, will render them proof against the contagion scarlet of fever. He has done much to secure such legislative action as will probably result in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis from the state of New Jersey.