Stickney, Albert – Stilwell, John B
Stickney, Albert
lawyer, author, was born in 1839, in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of The Lawyer and His Clients; A True Republic; Democratic Government: a Study of Politics; and The Political Problem.
Stickney, Alpheus Beede
railroad president, was born June 27, 1840, in Wilton, Maine. Since 1894 he has been president of the Chicago and Great Western railway at St. Paul, Minn.
Stickney, Horace A
merchant, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1846, in Harrison, Iowa. For many years he studied medicine; was for several years engaged in railroad work, then followed mercantile pursuits; and is now the proprietor of property interests and a large hotel in Steele, N. D. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Stickney, John
musician, was born in 1742 in Stoughton, Mass. He traveled extensively through the New England states, and acquired reputation as a teacher and composer, but finally settled in South Hadley, where he continued his teaching. He published The Gentlemen and Ladies' Musical Companion, a valuable collection of psalms and anthems, together with explanatory rules for learning to sing. He died in 1826 in South Hadley, Mass.
Stickney, Mrs. Julia Granby
[NOYES], poet, was born July 5, 1830, in West Newbury, Mass. She is a poet of Groveland, Mass.; and the author of Poems on Lake Winnepesaukee.
Stiffer, J. M
educator, clergyman, theologian, was born Dec. 8, 1839, in Altoona, Pa. During 1871-75 he filled the chair of Bible exegesis in Shurtleff college; and in 1882 was called to the same chair in the Crozer Theological seminary.
He has published a number of sermons and religious works.
Stiles, Charles Wardell
zoölogist, was born May 15, 1867, in Spring Valley, N. Y. He has been professor of zoölogy in the Georgetown university; and zoölogist in the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture. His publications have been chiefly on medical zoölogy.
Stiles, Edward H
lawyer, was born Oct. 8, 1836, in Granby, Conn. In 1892 he was appointed master in chancery of the United States circuit court for the western district of Missouri.
Stiles, Ezra
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 29, 1727, in North Haven, Conn.
He was a congregational clergyman, famous in colonial days, who was president of Yale college in 1778-95. He was the author of Account of the Settlement of Bristol, R. I.; and History of Three of the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. He died May 12, 1795, in New Haven, Conn.
Stiles, George P
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York; and removed to Iowa. In 1854 he was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Stiles, Henry Reed
physician, author, was born March 10, 1832, in New York city. He is a prominent physician of Brooklyn; and the author of History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; History of Brooklyn, Long Island; and The Wallabout Prison Ship.
Stiles, Israel Newton
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born July 16, 1833, in Suffield, Conn. He was prosecuting attorney two years and a member of the Indiana legislature, and became active as an anti-slavery orator during the Fremont canvass, delivering more than sixty speeches. He was subsequently major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the sixty-third Indiana, and finally brevet brigadier-general, his commission being dated Jan. 31, 1865. He removed to Chicago, where he has earned a high reputation as a lawyer.
Stiles, John D
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1823, in Luzerne county, Pa. In 1853 he was elected district attorney for Lehigh county, and held the office three years. In 1856 he was a delegate to the naconvention tional which nominated Mr.
Buchanan for president.. He was elected to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty - eighth congress. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864; to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866; and to the New York democratic convention of 1868. He was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a democrat.
Stiles, Joseph Clay
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1795, in Savannah, Ga. He was a presbyterian clergyman, after 1860 an evangelist in the south; and was the author of Modern Reform Examined, or the Union of North and South on Slavery; and The National Controversy. He died March 27, 1875, in Savannah, Ga.
Stiles, William H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born in January, 1808, in Savannah, Ga. In 1833 he was elected solicitor-general of the eastern district of Georgia, which office he resigned in 1836. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1843 to 1845; and was appointed by President Polk charge d' affaires to Austria. He served as a colonel in the great rebellion.
He published a History of Austria. He died Dec. 20, 1865, in Savannah, Ga.
Still, William
philanthropist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1821, in Shamony, N. J. He is a noted Philadelphia philanthropist of African descent; and the author of The Underground Railroad; Voting and Laboring; and Struggle for the Rights of Colored People in Philadelphia.
Stille, Alfred
physician, author, was born Oct. 30, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a physician of Philadelphia; and the author of Elements of General Pathology; The Unity of Medicine; Humboldt's Life and Character; Was as an Element of Civilization; Othello and Desdemona: their Characters; The National Dispensatory (with Maisch); Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Epidemic Meningitis; and Epidemic or Malignant Cholera.
Stille, Charles Janeway
educator, author, was born Sept. 23, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia educator, and provost of the university of Pennsylvania in 1868-80. He is the author of Historical Development of American Civilization; Studies in Mediæval Civilization; Beaumarchais and the Lost Million, a chapter of the Secret History of the American Revolution; History of the United States Sanitary Commission; How a Free People Conduct a Long War; Northern Interest and Southern Independence; Life and Times of John Dickinson; and General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line.
Stille, George Nelson
journalist, public official, was born April 26, 1857, in Bethel, Ohio. He learned the printing business, and is now the editor and part owner of The Republican of Unionville, Mo. He has been sheriff of Putnam county fortwo terms; postmaster of his city; and in 1896 was nominee for railroad and warehouse commissioner of the state of Missouri. He has served on county, congressional and state committees; has been a delegate to two national republican conventions, and several state and congressional conventions. He is prominent in fraternal orders, and in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Stille, Moreton
physician, author, was born Oct. 27, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of a Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence. He died Aug. 20, 1855, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Stillman, James W
lawyer, merchant, legislator, author, poet, was born in 1840 in Unadilla Forks, N. Y. In 1868- 69 he was a member of the Rhode Island state legislature, where he distinguished himself by espousing the cause of woman suffrage. Since 1880 he has been a merchant in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Woman Suffrage; The Mormon Question; The Unknown God; God and the Universe; and a volume of poems.
Stillman, Thomas Bliss
civil engineer, banker, inventor, was born Aug. 30, 1806, in Westerly, R. I. During the civil war he was United States inspector of steam vessels for the New York district, and superintendent of construction of revenue cutters. For nearly twenty years he was a trustee of the New York hospital, and he was long president of the Metropolitan Savings bank. He invented improved forms of machinery that have come into use. He died Jan. 1, 1866, in Plainfield, N. J.
Stillman, William James
littérateur, artist, author, was born June 1, 1828, in Schenectady, N. Y. He is a writer and artist who was consul at Rome in 1861-65, and in Crete in 1865-69. He has lived at Rome from 1886 as the correspondent of The London Times for Italy and Greece.
He is the author of History of the Cretan Insurrection; Poetic Localities of Cambridge; Herzegovina and the Late Uprising; Turkish Rule and Warfare; On the Track of Ulysses; and Manual of Photography.
Stillman, William Olin
physician, author, was born Sept. 9, 1856, in Albany, N. Y. He resides in Albany, N.
Y., where he is actively and very successfully engaged in the practice of medicine. He is the author of Two Vaginal Speculums; Cholera and Prevention; and Popular Sanitation.
Stilwell, John B
soldier, educator, was born June 23, 1843, in Scipio, Mich. He received a thorough education in his native state. He served as a soldier during the civil war as a private in company M, fifth regiment Michigan cavalry. He enlisted Sept. 23, 1862; was captured on March 2, 1864; was in Libby prison and Andersonville until Nov. 21, when he was exchanged at Savannah, Ga. He served with distinction and was honorably discharged July 5, 1865. He has attained success in educational work, and is now superintendent of schools of McMinnville, Mich.