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Stickler, Joseph William – Stiles, Joseph Clay
Stickler, Joseph William
scientist, was born June 26, 1854. Much original work has been performed by him in attempting to discover a disease in the lower animals, which will furnish virus, which, when introduced into the human tissues, will render them proof against the contagion scarlet of fever. He has done much to secure such legislative action as will probably result in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis from the state of New Jersey.
Stickney, Albert
lawyer, author, was born in 1839, in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of The Lawyer and His Clients; A True Republic; Democratic Government: a Study of Politics; and The Political Problem.
Stickney, Alpheus Beede
railroad president, was born June 27, 1840, in Wilton, Maine. Since 1894 he has been president of the Chicago and Great Western railway at St. Paul, Minn.
Stickney, Horace A
merchant, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1846, in Harrison, Iowa. For many years he studied medicine; was for several years engaged in railroad work, then followed mercantile pursuits; and is now the proprietor of property interests and a large hotel in Steele, N. D. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Stiffer, J. M
educator, clergyman, theologian, was born Dec. 8, 1839, in Altoona, Pa. During 1871-75 he filled the chair of Bible exegesis in Shurtleff college; and in 1882 was called to the same chair in the Crozer Theological seminary.
He has published a number of sermons and religious works.
Stiles, Charles Wardell
zoölogist, was born May 15, 1867, in Spring Valley, N. Y. He has been professor of zoölogy in the Georgetown university; and zoölogist in the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture. His publications have been chiefly on medical zoölogy.
Stiles, Edward H
lawyer, was born Oct. 8, 1836, in Granby, Conn. In 1892 he was appointed master in chancery of the United States circuit court for the western district of Missouri.
Stiles, Ezra
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 29, 1727, in North Haven, Conn.
He was a congregational clergyman, famous in colonial days, who was president of Yale college in 1778-95. He was the author of Account of the Settlement of Bristol, R. I.; and History of Three of the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. He died May 12, 1795, in New Haven, Conn.
Stiles, George P
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York; and removed to Iowa. In 1854 he was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Stiles, Henry Reed
physician, author, was born March 10, 1832, in New York city. He is a prominent physician of Brooklyn; and the author of History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; History of Brooklyn, Long Island; and The Wallabout Prison Ship.
Stiles, Israel Newton
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born July 16, 1833, in Suffield, Conn. He was prosecuting attorney two years and a member of the Indiana legislature, and became active as an anti-slavery orator during the Fremont canvass, delivering more than sixty speeches. He was subsequently major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the sixty-third Indiana, and finally brevet brigadier-general, his commission being dated Jan. 31, 1865. He removed to Chicago, where he has earned a high reputation as a lawyer.
Stiles, Joseph Clay
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1795, in Savannah, Ga. He was a presbyterian clergyman, after 1860 an evangelist in the south; and was the author of Modern Reform Examined, or the Union of North and South on Slavery; and The National Controversy. He died March 27, 1875, in Savannah, Ga.