Stoddard, Anthony – Stokes, Montford
Stoddard, Anthony
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1678, in Northampton, Mass. He was minister at Woodbury, Conn., from 1702 till his death. He was clerk of probate forty years; was the lawyer and physician of his people, and one of the most extensive farmers in the town. He published an Election Sermon.
He died Sept. 6, 1760, in Woodbury, Conn.
Stoddard, Charles Augustus
clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Observer from 1885; and the author of Across Russia; Spanish Cities; Beyond the Rockies; and Cruising Among the Caribbees.
Stoddard, Charles Warren
lecturer, author, poet, was born Aug. 7, 1843, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 he made a voyage to the Hawaiian Islands, where he passed much time; and was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is now lecturer upon English literature in the Catholic university of Washington, D. C. He is the author of South Sea Idyls; Mashallah, a Flight into Egypt; The Lepers of Molokai; and other works.
Stoddard, Ebenezer
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 6, 1786, in West Woodstock, Conn. He was for several years a member of the Connecticut state legislature; was lieutenantgovernor of the state for one year; and was a representative in congress from 1821 to 1825. He died in August, 1848, in Woodstock, Conn.
Stoddard, Mrs. Elizabeth Drew
[BARSTOW], author, poet, was born May 16, 1823, in Mattapoisett, Mass. She is a novelist and poet whose work in verse and fiction shows much individuality. She is the author of The Morgesons; Temple House; Two Men; Lolly Dinks's Doings, a juvenile tale; and Poems.
Stoddard, John
jurist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1681. He was for many years a member of the council of Massachusetts; chief justice of the court of common pleas, and colonel of militia.
His Journal of an Expedition to Canada, 1713-14, was printed in the Genealogical Register in 1851. He died June 19, 1748, in Boston, Mass.
Stoddard, John F
educator, author, was born July 20, 1825, in Greenfield, N. Y. He was eminently successful as an instructor of mathematics and in This efforts to promote normal schools, and left a fund to Rochester university for a gold medal to be awarded to the best student in mathematics. His principal published works are Practical Arithmetic; Philosophical Arithmetic; University Algebra (1857); and School Arithmetic. He died Aug. 6, 1873, in Kearney, N. J.
Stoddard, John Lawson
lecturer, author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. He is a popular stereopticon lecturer; and the author of Red Letter Days Abroad; and Napoleon from Corsica to St. Helena.
Stoddard, John Potter
lawyer, diplomat, United States senator, was born Aug. 2, 1826, in Princeton, N. J. In 1857- 61 he was United States minister to Rome, In 1865 he was chosen United Italy.
States senator from New Jersey; was subsequently unseated; and in 1869 was elected for term ending in 1875. In 1877 he was appointed attorney-general of New Jersey, and was chosen again in 1882 and in 1887.
Stoddard, Joshua C
inventor, was born Aug. 26, 1814, in Pawlet, Vt. He turned his attention to inventing, and in 1856 devised the steam-calliope, which is used on Mississippi steamers. He also invented the Stoddard horse-rake and hay-tedder.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
journalist, author, poet, was born July 2, 1825, in Hingham, Mass. He is a critic of New York city, and literary editor of The Mail and Express from 1880. He has edited the Bric-a- Brac Series and other volumes, while his own writings include Poems; Adventures in Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King's Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion's Cub, with Other Verse; and Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays on literary topics.
Stoddard, Solomon
clergyman, author, was born in 1643 in Boston, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman, and pastor at Northampton, Mass., from 1669 until his death. He was the author of Appeal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; Safety in the Righteousness of Christ; and Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained, a reply to Increase Mather's Order of the Gospel, and one which occasioned much exciting controversy. He died Feb. 11, 1729, in Northampton, Mass.
Stoddard, Solomon
educator, author, was born in 1800 in Northampton.
He became professor of languages at Middlebury college, Vermont. He was coauthor with Ethan Allen Andrews of a Grammar of the Latin Language, which was at one time almost universally used in this country, and had passed through sixty-five editions. He died Nov. 11, 1847, in Northampton.
Stoddard, Walter P
clergyman, poet, was born July 4, 1852, in New York city. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native city, and attended the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn.
He has attained success as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He preached in New England until 1891, when he served three years in Oskaloosa, Iowa; and now fills a pastorate in Mt. Peasant, Iowa. He has traveled extensively in Europe; has lectured in many places in his adopted state; and is the author of various papers contributed to current literature; and his poems have appeared in several standard works.
Stoddard, William Osborn
journalist, inventor, author, was born Sept. 24, 1835, in Homer N. Y. He is a journalist and inventor whose writings have been largely though not entirely for juvenile readers, and have been very popular. He is the author of Little Smoke; The Windfall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltillo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of Many Days; The Heart of It; The White Cave, an Australian Story; The Red Mustang; Two Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; Winter Fun; Men of Business; The Talking Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, a story of the draft riots in New York; Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger; and Chuck Purdy.
Stoddart, John T
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1833 to 1835.
Stoddert, Benjamin
soldier, merchant, cabinet officer, was born in 1751 in Charles county, Md. He served as a major during the revolution; and was for many years extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits in Georgetown, D. C. In 1798 he was appointed secretary of the navy, and was the first man who served in that capacity. He died Dec. 18, 1813, in Bladensburg, Md.
Stoeckel, Gustave Jacob
musician, educator, composer, was born Nov. 9, 1819, in Germany. Since 1849 he has been instructor in music at Yale, and organist of the college chapel. He has published a collection of sacred music for mixed voices, and College Hymn-Book for male voices, besides compositions for the piano, songs and overtures and symphonies for orchestra.
Stoever, Martin Luther
educator, author, was born Feb. 17, 1820, in Germantown, Pa. He was a Pennsylvania educator, a professor in the college at Gettysburg in 1840-70; and the author of Brief Sketch of the Lutheran Church in the United States; and Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. He died July 22, 1870, in Germantown, Pa.
Stokely, Samuel
lawyer, state legislator, congressman. He served in the Ohio state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.
Stokes, J. William
agriculturist, congressman, was born in 1853 in Orangeburg county, S. C. He was brought up to farm life, attending the ordinary schools of his county and town until he was nineteen years of age; graduated from Washington and Lee university, Virginia, in 1876, and taught school for twelve years, graduating meantime in medicine from Vanderbilt university, Tennessee; in 1889 he returned to the farm, assisted in arganizing the farmers, and was president of the State Farmers' alliance two terms; was elected to the state senate in 1890; was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1892, and was presidential elector on the democratic ticket the same year; in 1894 was nominated without opposition in the democratic primaries in the new seventh congressional district. He received the certificate of election to the fifty-fourth congress, but the seat was declared vacant. At the election on Nov. 3, 1896, he was elected to the short term of the fiftyfourth congress; was re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat, receiving 8,065 votes against 1,342 votes for T. B. Johnson, regular republican.
Stokes, John
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was a native of North Carolina. He served as a colonel in the revolution; and in 1790 was appointed judge of the United States district court for North Carolina.
He died in October, 1790, in Lafayetteville, N. C.
Stokes, Montford
governor, United States senator, was born in 1760 in Wilkes county, N. C. He was elected to the United States senate, which honor he declined; and in 1816 was again elected United States senator, and served until 1823. In 1826 he went into the general assembly of North Carolina as senator; and in 1829 was elected a member of the commons. In 1830 he was again elected to the commons, and in the same year was elected governor of the state.