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Stanton, Theodore – Starkweather, David A

Stanton, Theodore

journalist, author, was born Feb. 10, 1851, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He is a journalist living in Paris, and the author of The Woman Question in Europe.

Stanton, William A

clergyman, author, was born March 5, 1854, in Lawrenceville, Pa. He has filled pastorates in various churches of the baptist denomination. He is the author of the Stanton Genealogy; and A History of the First Baptist Church of Rockford, Ill.

Stanton, William H

congressman.

He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.

Stanwood, Edward

journalist, author, was born in 1841 in Maine. He is a Boston journalist, managing editor of The Youth's Companion, and the author of A History of Presidential Elections; and History of Cotton Manufacture in New England.

Staples, Ernest Linwood

lawyer, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10,. 1856, in Monroe, Conn. He received a thorough education under private tutors, and was admitted to the bar of Connecticut in 1883; and practiced his profession in Shelton since 1886. In 1896 he was admitted to the unitarian ministry at Boston, Mass. He is the author of A Man of Destiny, an epic having Abraham Lincoln for its subject; and also the author of Our Ulysses, and Other Poems.

Stark, Charles B

lawyer, author, son of Hon. Joseph C. Stark of Tennessee. of Hon.

Joseph C. Stark of Tennessee.

He is a successful lawyer of St. Louis, Mo., and the author of Stark's Missouri Digest in three volumes.

Stark, Henry M

statistician, was born April 14, 1845, in Flanders, N. J.

He received a thorough education in the public schools; and has principally been engaged in railroad positions. During 1889-91 he was commissioner of labor and industrial statistics of the state of Wisconsin. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press; and takes an active part in the public affairs of South Superior, Wis.

Stark, John

soldier, was born Aug. 28, 1728, in Londonderry, N. H. He was a brigadier -general, and is a conspicuous figure in American history, by his victory over the British at Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777 , and by his words before going into battle : There are the red-coats; we must beat them to-day, or Molly Stark is a widow!

He died May 8, 1832, in Manchester, N. H.

Stark, Joseph Carter

state senator, jurist, was born Dec. 29, 1817, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was a Tennessee state senator, and judge of the tenth judicial circuit court of Tennessee.

He died March 6, 1890.

Stark, William

lawyer, poet, was born about 1820 in Manchester, N. H. He devoted himself to literary pursuits and to the care of a large collection of rare birds and animals. His park in Manchester, N. H., which was open to the public, was widely known.

He wrote several poems, and frequently lectured.

He died Oct. 29, 1873, in Somerville, Mass.

Stark, William Ledyard

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 29, 1853, in Mystic , Conn. He was commissioned major and judge-advocate-general of the Nebraska national guard, and was nominated for congress by the populists and afterwards by the democrats, and elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Starkweather, David A

lawyer, congressman, was born in Connecticut.

He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841, and again from 1845 to 1847. He was a presidential elector in 1848, and was minister to Chili from 1854 to 1857.

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