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Steendam, Jacob – Stephens, Henry Louis

Steendam, Jacob

poet, was born in 1616 in Holland. He is the earliest poet of New York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India company, and lived in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown. His four small volumes of verse include: The Thistle Finch; The Complaint of New Amsterdam; The Praise of New Netherland; and Spurring Verses.

Steenerson, Halvor

lawyer, legislator, was born June 30, 1852, in Dane county, Wis. He is a successful lawyer of Crookston, Minn.; has been county attorney; city attorney and a member of the board of education. He served with distinction as a state senator in the Minnesota legislature.

Steenrod, Lewis

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, serving from 1839 to 1845.

Steiger, Ernst

bibliographer, publisher, author, was born in 1832 in Saxony. He is a bibliographer and publisher of New York city, and the author of Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; and Periodical Literature, a bibliography.

Steinbach, John A

soldier, contractor, was born Jan. 28, 1847, in Bethel, Mo. He served as a soldier in the civil war and was promoted to first lieutenant United States volunteers. He is a successful contractor and business man, and has been mayor of Quincy, Ill.

Steiner, Lewis H

physician, educator, author, was born May 4, 1827, in Frederick, Md. He was chief inspector in the army of the Potomac, of United States sanitary commission; and was the state senator for twelve years from Frederick county, Md. He was the first librarian of the Enoch Pratt free library of Baltimore, and is the author of a number of scientific and religious works.

Steinway, Albert

was born June 10, 1840, in Germany. Early in the civil war he was advanced to the colonelcy of the sixth regiment of New York volunteers, and later became brigadier-general. He died May 14, 1877, in New York city.

Stenger, William S

lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 13, 1840, in London, Pa. He served as district attorney for Franklin county, Pa., and in 1874 was elected a representative: from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.

Stephen, Adam

soldier, was born about 1730 in Virginia. He was made a brigadier-general in 1776, and in 1777 was. promoted major-general.

STEPHEN, MRS. ELIZABETH (WILL- ISON), author, was born in 1856 in Alabama. She is the wife of a presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Ill., and the author of The Confessions of Two, a novel..

Stephen, Harlan E

poet. He is a successful writer of Iowa, and the author of a number of meritorious poems. He has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state, and has. filled a number of local offices in Glenwood.

Stephens, Harriet Marion

author, was born in 1823. She was the author of Home Scenes and Home Sounds; and Hagar the Martyr, a novel. She died in 1858 in East Hampden, Maine.

Stephens, Henry Louis

book-illustrator, was born Feb. 11, 1824, in Philadelphia. He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for Vanity Fair; Mrs. Grundy; Punchinello; and other periodicals. He died Dec. 13, 1882, in Bayonne, N. J.