Sterne, Simon
lawyer, author, was born July 23, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He studied at the university of Pennsylvania, and also at the university of Heidelberg, and was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1859, and to the bar at New York in 1860, at which latter place he has since been practicing his profession. He delivered many addresses politico-economical subjects. In 1870 on wrote Representative Government, and in 1881 Constitutional Development and Political History of the United States, and contributed a number of articles to Lalor's Cyclopædia of Political Science and United States History. He was appointed by Gov. Tilden in 1875 on the commission to devise a plan for the government of the cities of New York, and in 1884 was commissioned by President Cleveland to report on the relation of the railways of western Europe to their governments. In 1895 he was appointed by Gov. Morton as one of a commission to recommend changes in methods of legislation. He has been counsel for many prominent bankers, private corporations and railway companies, and is regarded as one of the leading corporation lawyers in New York. On June 8, 1870, he married Mathilde Elsberg, sister of the late Prof. Louis Elsberg, the celebrated laryngologist, and has one child, Alice L.
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STERRETT, JOHN ROBERT SITLING- TON, educator, author, was born in 1851 in Virginia. He is a professor of Greek at Amherst college from 1892; and the author of Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor; and The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.