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Stearns, Frank Preston

author, was born in 1846 in Massachusetts . He is a Boston writer upon art, literature and history, and the author of The Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The Midsummer of Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern Modern English Prose; and Summer Travel in Europe.

Stearns, John Glazier

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 22, 1795, 22, 1795, in Ackworth, N. H. He was a baptist clergyman prominent in central New York, and the author of The Primitive Church; Letters on Freemasonry; The ; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; and The Influence of the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration. He died Jan. 16, Jan. 16, 1874, in Clinton, N. Y.

Stearns, John Newton

temperance reformer, author, was born May 24, May 24, 1829, in New Ipswich, N. H. He is the author of The Temperance Chimes; The Temperance Speaker; The Centennial Songster; One Hundred Years of Temper- Temperance; and Temperance in All Nations.

Stearns, Junius Brutus

artist, was born July 2, 1810, in Arlington, Vt. His work was mainly in portraiture , but he painted also numerous historical subjects. Of these the best known are the Washington Series, five paintings representing Washington as a citizen, farmcitizen, farmer, soldier, statesman, and Christian . His Millennium is in the Academy of Design, of Design, New York. He died Sept. 17, 1885, in , 1885, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Stearns, Lewis French

clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1847 in Massachusetts. He was a presbyterian clergyman, and professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological seminary in 1880-92. He was the author of The Evi- The Evidence of Christian Experience; Present Day Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss; and Life of Henry Henry Boynton Smith. He died in 1892 .

Stearns, Oakman Sprague

clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 20, 1817, in Bath, Maine. He was a Bapwas a Бaptist clergyman of Massachusetts, and proand professor of biblical interpretation at Newat Newton Theological seminary from 1868. He was the author of A Syllabus of Messianic Passages in the Old Testament; and Introduction to the Books of the Old Testaof the Old Testament. He died in 1893.

Stearns, Onslow

governor, was born in New Hampshire. In 1869 he was elected governor of New Hampshire ; and was re-elected in 1870. He died Dec. 28, Dec. 28, 1878, in New Hampshire.

Stearns, Ozora Pierson

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 15, 1831, in De Kalb, N. Y. He was élected county attorney of Olmstead coun- Olmstead county, Minn., in 1861. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican to republican fo fill a vacancy and took his seat Jan. 23, Jan. 23, 1871.

Stearns, Robert E. C

scientist, author, poet, was born Feb. 21, 1827, in Boston, Mass. He is connected with the departconnected with the scientific departments of the Smithsonian institution, and the United States geological survey at Washington, D. C.

He has published scientific numerous papers; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States. as-

Stearns, Winfrid Alden

author, was born in 185-. He is the author of Labrador: a Sketch of Its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on Labrador; and New England Bird Life.

Stebbens, Sarah Bridges

author, poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.

She is the author of several volumes of poems, the most notable of which are Marble Isle Legends of the Round Table; and Galgano's Wooing, and Other Poems. is also the author of a prose work enwork entitled Annals of a Baby; and also a romance entitled He and I.

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