Stilwell, Silas Moore – Stockbridge, Henry
Stilwell, Silas Moore
lawyer, state legislator, was born June 6, 1800, in New York city. In 1814 he engaged in surveying in the west, and then settled in Tennessee, where in 1822 he was in the legislature. He died May 16, 1881, in New York city.
Stilwell, Thomas L
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1830, in Stilwell, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected to the legislature of Indiana. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-ninth congress; and in 1867 was appointed minister resident to Venezuela. He was killed Jan. 14, 1874, in Anderson, Ind.
Stimmel, Smith
soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 17, 1842, in Franklin county, Ohio. He served as a soldier during the civil war, and was on President Lincoln's body guard from January, 1864, till date of his assassination. He removed to Fargo, N. D., and in 1889 was made president of the Dakota council (senate).
Stimpson, William
naturalist, author, was born Feb. 14, 1832, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a naturalist of eminence; and the author of Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum; Notes on • North American Crustacea; and Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream. He died May 26, 1872, in Ilchester Mills, Md.
Stimson, Alexander Lovett
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Dec. 14, 1816, in Boston, Mass. He is a lawyer and journalist; and the author of History of the Express Companies; New England Boys; and Waifwood, a novel.
Stimson, Frederick Jesup
lawyer, author, was born July 20, 1855, in Dedham, Mass. He is a lawyer and popular novelist of Boston; and the author of Labor in its Relations to Law; Handbook of the Labor Law of the United States; American Statute Law; Glossary of Technical Terms of the Common Law; Uniform State Legislation. In fiction he has published Guerndale; The Crime of Henry Vane; The King's Men; The Residuary Legatee; The Sentimental Calendar; In the Three Zones; First Harvests; Pirate Gold; King Noanett; and Rollo's Journey to Cambridge.
Stimson, John Ward
artist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1850, in Paterson, N. J.
He is an artist of New York city, four years superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum Art schools; and the author of The Law of Three Primaries.
Stimson, Lewis Atterbury
physician, educator, author, was born in 1844 in New Jersey. He is a physician of New York city, professor of surgery in the university of the city of New York; and the author of Manual of Operative Surgery; Practical Treatise on Fractures; and Treatise on Dislocations.
Stinell, John Henry
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 9, 1840, in Providence, R. I. He served in the civil war, and was second lieutenant of the second regiment New York artillery. He is justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and president of the Rhode Island Historical society.
Stith, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1689 in Virginia. He was an episcopal clergyman of Virginia, and president of William and Mary college in 1752-55. He wrote a History of Virginia.
He died Sept. 27, 1755, in Williamsburg, Va.
Stiver, Samuel L
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 1, 1848, in Potter's Mills, Pa. In 1874 he graduated with first honors from the La Fayette college, after taking the junior prize in mathematics and senior prize in astronomy. In 1878 he graduated from Union Theological seminary of New York city; the same year he was licensed as a clergyman, and the following year was ordained in the High Street Presbyterian church. He has filled pastorates in various churches; and since 1881 has been proprietor and superintendent of the Bunker Hill Military academy, Illinois. He has been editor of various publications, and has contributed extensively to current literature; and is the author of several educational works. He is a brilliant lecturer and educator; and is prominent in the political affairs of Macoupin county, Ill.
Stivers, Emmons B
lawyer, educator, state legislator, author. For a number of years he was actively engaged in school work, either as teacher, principal or superintendent. He is the author of Outlines of United States History; and Recreations in School Studies. He was elected as a democrat from Brown county, Ohio, to the seventy-second general assembly of Ohio.
Stivers, Henry C
soldier, journalist, state legislator, was born Sept. 30,1848, in Pomeroy, Ohio. He is the editor and owner of the Journal of Brainerd, Minn., of which city he was mayor in 1890. The following year he was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature. was
Stivers, Moses Dunning
manufacturer, journalist, congressman, born Dec. 30, 1828, near Beemerville, N. J.
In 1869 he became collector of United States internal revenue for the eleventh district of New York, which office he held fourteen years. In 1868 he became proprietor of the Orange County Press, then a weekly, and now a semi-weekly. He is also one of the proprietors and editors of the Middletown Daily Press. He was president of the New York State Press association in 1887. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a republican.
St. John, Charles
merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Orange county, N. Y. He was a merchant and lumberman of Port Jervis, N. Y.; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.
St. John, Daniel B
merchant, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1808, in Sharon, Conn. In 1839 he was elected to the New York state legislature.
He was a representative from New York to the thirtieth congress; and from 1849 until 1855 had charge of the bank department of New York.
St. John, Everitte
railroad president, was born Feb. 4, 1844, in Connecticut. He is the vice-president and general manager of the Seaboard Airline of Norfolk, Va.; and is one of the most noted railroad men in America. In 1862 he entered railroad service as a clerk; and in 1863 became connected with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway, of which he eventually became general manager.
In 1891 he reorganized the General Managers' association of Chicago, and was its permanent chairman until Jan. 1, 1895, when he took the office of vice-president of the Seaboard line; and since his connection with that company he has made it one of the leading railroads of the south.
St. John, Henry
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to
St. John, Isaac Munroe
civil engireer, soldier, journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1827, in Augusta, Ga. He entered the engineer corps of the confederate army at Richmond, Va., and was promoted through the various grades to the rank of brigadier-general. He was city engineer of Louisville in 1870-71, made the first topographical map of that city, and established its system of sewerage. From 1871 until his death he was consulting engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and chief engineer of the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad. He died April 7, 1880, in Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
St. John, Jason Edgar
educator, was born May 30, 1848, in Clinton, Mich.
For the past quarter of a century he has been connected with the Industrial School for Boys of Lansing, Mich., of which institution he is superintendent.
St. John, John Pierce
governor, was born Feb. 25, 1833, in Franklin county, Ind. He removed to Olathe, Kan., in 1869, served in the state senate in 1873-74, and was elected governor of Kansas as a republican in 1878, serving until 1882.
St. Martin, Louis
merchant, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 in Saint Charles Parish, La. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the New Orleans post-office; and was elected in 1846 to the legislature of Louisiana. He was appointed the same year register of the United States land office for the southeastern district of Louisiana by President Polk; and was elected a second time to the legislature. After two years' service he was elected to the thirty-second congress from the first district of Louisiana. He was elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Stockard, Henry Jerome
A. M., educator, poet, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in Chatham county, N. C. He is professor of English in the university of North Carolina. His contributions to literature have appeared in the Century, Youth's Companion, and other publications.
Stockard, Mrs. V. a. C
educator, college president, was born March 27, 1848, in Knox county, Mo. She received a thorough education, and for many years was engaged as a teacher in the public schools.
Her principal primary work was in the Richmond college, Missouri. For eight years she taught mathematics and French in the Central Female college of Lexington, Mo.; and since 1884 has been president of the Cottey college of Nevada, Mo.
Stockbridge, Francis Brown
merchant, United States senator, was born in 1826 in Bath, Maine. In 1850 he settled at Saugatuck, Mich. He served as a representative in the Michigan legislature in 1869; and was a state senator in 1871. In 1874 he moved to Kalamazoo. In 1887 he was elected to the United States senate for term expiring in 1893.
Stockbridge, Henry
lawyer, journalist, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1856, in Baltimore, Md. In 1887 he became one of the editorial staff of the Baltimore American, with which paper he is still connected. In 1882 he was appointed an examiner in equity by the supreme bench of Baltimore City. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a republican. During 1887-89 he was on the editorial staff of the Baltimore American. In 1891 he was appointed commissioner of emigration at the port of Baltimore; and in 1896 was elected associate judge of the supreme court of Baltimore City.