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Stinell, John Henry – Stockton, Richard

Stinell, John Henry

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 9, 1840, in Providence, R. I. He served in the civil war, and was second lieutenant of the second regiment New York artillery. He is justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and president of the Rhode Island Historical society.

Stith, William

clergyman, author, was born in 1689 in Virginia. He was an episcopal clergyman of Virginia, and president of William and Mary college in 1752-55. He wrote a History of Virginia.

He died Sept. 27, 1755, in Williamsburg, Va.

Stivers, Emmons B

lawyer, educator, state legislator, author. For a number of years he was actively engaged in school work, either as teacher, principal or superintendent. He is the author of Outlines of United States History; and Recreations in School Studies. He was elected as a democrat from Brown county, Ohio, to the seventy-second general assembly of Ohio.

Stivers, Henry C

soldier, journalist, state legislator, was born Sept. 30,1848, in Pomeroy, Ohio. He is the editor and owner of the Journal of Brainerd, Minn., of which city he was mayor in 1890. The following year he was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature. was

Stockbridge, Levi

agriculturist, was born March 13, 1820, in North Hadley, Mass. For twelve years he was a member of the state board of agriculture of Massachusetts; in 1867 he was called to a chair in the Massachusetts Agricultural college of Amherst, of which he was president in 1880-82. He has conducted a series of investigations on the fertilization of crops; and his researches have chiefly appeared in the Annual Reports of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Stockham, Alice Bunker

physician, author, was born in 1833 in Ohio.

She is a prominent physician and author of the well-known work entitled Tokology, which has been translated into several languages.

Stockslager, Strother M

soldier, lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born May 7, 1842, in Mauckport, Ind. He served in the union army during the war of the rebellion. He was a state senator from 1874 to 1878. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-seventh congress; and reelected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat. Since 1878 he has been the editor of the Corydon Democrat.

Stockton, John Drean

journalist, was born April 26, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. From 1873 till his death he was dramatic and musical critic of the New York Herald. He wrote Fox and Geese, a comedy which ran one hundred nights in New York and other cities, and more than three hundred in London. He died Nov. 3, 1877, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Stockton, John N. C

legislator, banker, was born in 1860 in Gadsden county, Fla. For many years he has been the president of the National bank of Tampa, and the National bank of Florida.

In 1897 he served with distinction as a member of the Florida state legislature.

Stockton, Richard

signer of the declaration of independence, was born Oct. 1, 1730, near Princeton, N. J. He was appointed a judge, both under the provincial government and after the adoption of the constitution. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1776 and 1777; and signed the declaration of independence.

He died Feb. 28, 1781, in Princeton, N. J.

Stockton, Richard

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born April 17, 1764, near Princeton, N. J. In 1792 and 1800 he was a presidential elector; was a senator of the United States from 1796 to 1799; and was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1815. He died March 7, 1828, in Princeton, N. J.