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Stetson, Lemuel

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman. He served three years in the assembly of New York; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845. He was county judge of Clinton county from 1847 to 1851.

Steuart, George H

soldier, was born Aug. 24, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he became brigadier-general. He defended the bloody angle at the battle of the Wilderness against Hancock's corps, and was taken prisoner, but exchanged in the winter of 1864-65. Since the war he has resided in Baltimore.

Steuart, James Aloysius

physician, was born April 3, 1828, in Baltimore, Md. He established himself in practice in Baltimore, and became physician to the city general dispensary, and assistant physician to the Maryland hospital for the insane. Since 1875 he has been health commissioner, registrar of vital statistics, and president of the city board of health.

Steuart, Richard Sprigg

physician, was born Nov. 1, 1797, in Baltimore, Md. Beginning practice in Baltimore, he was elected in 1828 president of the Maryland hospital for the insane, which he reorganized, and of which he was president till his death. He died July 13, 1876, in Baltimore, Md.

Stevens, Bradford N

educator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1813, in Boscawen, N. H. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-second congress as an independent democrat.

Stevens, Charles Asbury

author, was born in October, 1845, in Norway. Since 1870 he has devoted himself to literary labor, contributing to the periodical press and to the preparation of books for youthful readers, with the titles Camping Out; Left on Labrador; Off to the Geysers; On the Amazon; Lynx Hunting; Fox Hunting; and The Moose Hunters. He is one of the editors of the Youth's Companion.

Stevens, Charles Ellis

clergyman, author, was born July 5, 1853, in Boston, Mass. He is an episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The Sources of the Constitution of the United States in Relation to Colonial and English History.

Stevens, Charles Ford

railroad president, was born June 21, 1850, in Geneva, N. Y. He is president of the Central railway of New Brunswick at Philadelphia, Pa.

Stevens, George Barker

clergyman, educator, author, was born July 13, 1854, in Spencer, N. Y. He is a congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven, and professor in Yale Divinity school from 1886. He is the author of Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline Theology; The Johannine Theology; and Doctrine and Life.

Stevens, H. S

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1832 in Weston, Vt. In 1856 he located in that portion now Arizona; and was a representative in the territorial legislature of Arizona from 1868 to 1873. He was elected a delegate from Arizona to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.

Stevens, Henry

antiquary, state legislator, was born Dec. 13, 1791, in Barnet, Vt. He was the founder and first president of the Vermont Historical society. The most valuable part of his collection was placed for safe-keeping in the state house at Montpelier, where in 1857 it was burned. He was a member of the legislature for two terms. He died July 30, 1867, in Barnet, Vt.

Stevens, Henry

bibliographer, author, was born Aug. 24, 1819, in Barnet, Vt. He was a bibliographer of prominence, who lived in London after 1845; and the author of Historical Nuggets; Historical Collections; Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; Historical and Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum; and indexes to state papers in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. He died Feb. 24, 1886, in England.