Stoughton, Edwin Henry – Strain, William
Stoughton, Edwin Henry
soldier, lawyer, was born June 28, 1838, in Springfield, Vt. His services in the civil war gained for him promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862.
He died Dec. 25, 1868, in Boston, Mass.
Stoughton, William
governor, was born May 30, 1632, in England. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; and in 1699 was acting governor. He died July 7, 1701, in Dorchester, Mass.
Stoughton, William Lewis
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 20, 1827, in Bangor, N. Y. From 1856 to 1860 he was prosecuting attorney; and in 1861 was appointed United States district attorney for Michigan. He entered the volunteer army as lieutenantcolonel; and was brevetted a brigadiergeneral for gallantry on the field, and after the war was brevetted a major-general. In 1866 he was elected attorney-general of Michigan. In 1868 he was elected a representative from that state to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a republican. He died June 6, 1888, in Sturgis, Mich.
Stout, Adelaide
poet. Her poems, Little One, Gathering Mint, Sweet Brier, Consider, Pets, are among her recent productions which have elicited much comment, giving her the reputation of being one of the ablest writers in the western part of New York.
Stout, Bryon Gray
agriculturist, banker, congressman, was born in 1829 near Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1854 he was elected to the Michigan state legislature; and was reelected in 1856, and chosen speaker of the house. He was state senator in 1860; and was president pro tempore of the senate. He was member of the Philadelphia convention of 1866; and also of the national demoa cratic conventions of 1868, 1880 and 1888.
He was engaged in private banking prior to 1869, and from that time in agriculture. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. He died June 19, 1896, in Pontiac, Mich.
Stout, Jacob
governor. While holding the position of lieutenant-governor of Delaware in 1820 he was acting-governor of that state, serving one year.
Stout, Lansing
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 27, 1828, in Pamelia, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected to the California legislature. In 1857 he went to Oregon and turned his attention to the practice of law; and in 1858 was elected judge of Multnomah county. Before the close of that year he was elected a representative from Oregon to the thirty-sixth gress; and subsequently served in the state legislature. He died in 1870. con-
Stover, Elias S
merchant, mining operator, state senator, was born Nov. 22, 1836, in Rockland, Maine. He has been a member of the house and senate of the Kansas legislature, of which state he was lieutenant-governor. He is a prominent merchant and mining operator of Albuquerque, N. M.; and is a member of the senate in the legislature of that state. He has also contributed valuable articles on current topics to the periodical press. a
Stover, John H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 24, 1833, in Aaronsburg, Pa. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as a private; was at once made captain; served as major of the one hundred and sixth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers until 1864; and was then colonel of the one hundred and eighty-fourth regiment until the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Yorktown, the seven days' battles, and those of Fredericksburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and was present at the final surrender of the confederate forces. He moved to Missouri; and was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy.
Stow, Baron
clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1801, in Croydon, N. H. He was a baptist clergyman of Boston, of much prominence in his day, among whose writings are, Helen's Pilgrimage; History of the English Baptist Mission to India; Christian Brotherhood; and First Things. He died Dec. 27, 1869, in Boston, Mass.
Stow, Silas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1811 to 1813.
Stowe, Calvin Ellis
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 6, 1802, in Natick, Mass. In 1824 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then entered educational work. In 1830 he had the editorial charge of the Boston Recorder; and during 1831-33 was in the chair of languages at Hanover. He then filled the chair of biblical literature in the Lane seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained for seventeen years.
He was the author of an Introduction to the Study of the Bible; and has also made numerous and valuable contributions to literary and religious periodicals. His other works are, Origin and History of the Books of the Bible; Elementary Instruction in Europe; and Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews. He was the husband of the noted Harriet Beecher Stowe. He died Aug. 22, 1886, in Hartford, Conn.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth
[BEECHER], author, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1812, in Litchfield, Conn. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impressed with the wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin for The National Era at Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till April, 1852.
The Minister's Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr's Island; Dred; The Chimney Corner; and Religious Poems, among which is the well known hymn, Still, Still with Thee. Her lesser works comprise, My Wife and I; Sam Lawson's Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers; Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy's First Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman's Home (with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Palmetto Leaves; Betty's Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible Heroines; Poganuc People; and A Dog's Mission.
She died in 1896.
Stowell, Charles Henry
microscopist, author, was born in 1850 in New York. He is a microscopist, professor of histology in the university of Michigan; and the author of Students' Manual of Microscopy; Physiology and Hygiene; The Microscopical Structure of the Human Tooth; A Primer of Health; A Healthy Body; and Essentials of Health.
Stowell, John M
manufacturer, journalist, was born in 1824 in New York.
In 1856 he moved to Milwaukee, where he was engaged in journalistic work, and served that city as mayor.
Stowell, Mrs. Louisa Maria
[REED], educator, author, was born Dec. 23, 1850, in Grand Blanc, Mich. She is an instructor in microscopical botany at the university of Michigan for twelve years; and the author of Microscopical Structure of Wheat; and Microscopic Diagnosis.
Stowell, William H. H
merchant, congressman, was born July 26, 1840, in Windsor, Vt. He settled in Virginia in 1865; and was appointed collector of internal revenue for the fourth district in 1869. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-second, fortythird and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Stower, John G
state senator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829; and was a state senator from Madison county in 1833 and 1834..
Strachey, William
colonist, author, was born in 1585 in England. He was the first secretary of the Virginia colony. He was the author of A True Repertory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas, supposed to have been the inspiration of Shakespeare's Tempest; Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; and For the Colony in Virginia Britannia: Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall. He died about 1640.
Strader, Otto
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Louisiana; and in 1806 was appointed a judge of the United States district court for the district of Louisiana.
Strader, P. W
engineer, congressman, was born Nov. 6, 1818, in Warren, N. J. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress.
Strain, William
agriculturist, legislator, was born July 10, 1860, in Bolinas, Cal. He is a successful agriculturist of Crescent City, Cal.; and served with distinction as a member of the thirty-second session of the California state legislature.