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Staples, William Read

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 10, 1798, in Providence, R. I. He was associate judge of the Rhode Island supreme court from 1835 till 1854; and was chief justice of that court in 1854-56. He edited the second volume of the Rhode Island Historical society's collections, and Samuel Gorton's Simplicities' Defence Against Seven-Headed Policy (Providence); and issued Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspé (1845); Proceedings of the First General Assembly for the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in 1647; and Rhode Island Form-Book. He died Oct. 19, 1868, in Providence, R. I.

STARBUCK, CALVIN WASHBURN, journalist, was born April 20, 1822, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He established the Cincinnati Times, an afternoon newspaper. To his exertions and generosity are mainly due the Relief union, the Home of the Friendless, and other charitable institutions of Cincinnati, while his private gifts were many and constant. He died Nov. 15, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio.