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Staveley, Robert Milton

clergyman, poet, was born Oct. 31, 1859, in England. At nine years of age he came to America with his parents, attended the Dakota university for two years, and the Garrett Biblical institute for two Since 1894 years. he has been engaged in ministerial work in South Dakota; has written extensively for the periodical press, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems. Some of his poems have been given a place in several standard collections. ST. CLAIR, ARTHUR, soldier, congressman, governor, author, was born in 1734 in Scotland. In 1764 he settled in Pennsylvania, where he erected mills. In 1770 he was made a district surveyor and justice of common pleas In 1776 he pleas was ordered to Canada; acquitted himself with great ability, rose to the rank of major-general. He joined General Washington; took a leading part in battles of Princeton, Ticonderoga, and Brandywine; assisted Sullivan against the Six Nations, and was a commissioner to arrange a cartel with the British in 1780. He was a delegate to congress in 1785, and was chosen president of the same in 1787.

He was appointed governor of the norththe northwest territory in 1788; made an Indian treaty in 1789, and located the city of Cincinnati, and gave ve it its name. He was appointed general-inchief of the army in 1791. He died Aug. 31, 1818, in , 1818, in Greensburg, Pa.