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Stanley, John

state legislator, congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a distinguished member of the legislature of North Carolina, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1801 to 1803, and again from 1809 to 1811. He died Aug. 3, 1834, in New Berne, N. C.

Stanly, Fabius

naval officer, was born Dec. 15, 1815, in New Berne, N. C.

He served in the Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of rear-admiral.

He died Sept. 5, 1882, in Washington, D. C.

Stansbury, Arthur J

author, was born in 1781 in New York city. Besides contributing to periodicals, he published several sermons and addresses, and was the author of Elementary Catechism on the Constitution of the United States; and a Report of the Trial of Judge James H.

Peck, or an Impeachment by the House of Representatives of the United States.

He died about 1848.

Stansbury, Howard

explorer, civil engineer, author, was born Feb. 8, 1806, in New York city. He was an explorer who was a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An Expedition to Great Salt Lake. He died April 17, 1863, in Madison, Wis.

Stansbury, Philip

traveler, author, was born about 1802. He was the author of A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America, to the Lakes, the Canadas, and the New England States, Performed in the autumn of 1821. He died about 1870.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

suffragist, author, was born Nov. 12, 1815, in Johnstown, N. Y. In 1848, chiefly through her efforts, the first woman's rights convention was formed and held in Seneca Falls, N. Y. She is the author of a History of the Woman Suffrage Movement.

Stanton, Frank Lebby

journalist, poet, was born in 1858 in Georgia.

He is a journalist and popular verse-writer of Atlanta, and the author of Songs of the Soil.

STANTON, FREDERICK PERRY, business man, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 22, 1814, in Alexandria, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1845 to 1855; and was appointed governor of the territory of Kansas in 1858.

Stanton, Henry

soldier, was born about 1796 in Vermont. He was brevetted brigadier-general for meritorious conduct in the Mexican war in 1847. He died Aug. 1, 1856, in Hamilton, N. Y.

Stanton, Henry Brewster

journalist, reformer, author, was born June 29, 1805, in Griswold, Conn. He was a journalist and reformer of New York city, and the author of Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; and Random Recollections. He died Jan. 14, 1887, in New York city.

Stanton, Henry Thompson

soldier, lawyer, journalist, poet, was born June 30, 1834, in Alexandria, Va. He is an officer in the United States army, and an Indian commissioner. He has written much humorous verse. He is the author of The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; and Jacob Brown, and Other Poems.

Stanton, Joseph

congressman, United States senator, was born July 19, 1739, in Charleston, R. I. He was a senator in congress from Rhode Island from 1790 to 1793; and a representative in congress from 1801 to 1807. He died about 1807 in Charleston, R. I.

Stanton, Oscar Fitzalan

naval officer, was born July 18, 1834, in Sag Harbor, N. Y. He entered the navy as acting midshipman in 1849, and was graduated from the United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1855, promoted to master in 1855; commissioned lieutenant in 1856, and became a commodore.