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Stivers, Moses Dunning

manufacturer, journalist, congressman, born Dec. 30, 1828, near Beemerville, N. J.

In 1869 he became collector of United States internal revenue for the eleventh district of New York, which office he held fourteen years. In 1868 he became proprietor of the Orange County Press, then a weekly, and now a semi-weekly. He is also one of the proprietors and editors of the Middletown Daily Press. He was president of the New York State Press association in 1887. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress as a republican. ST. JOHN, CHARLES, merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1818, in Orange county, N. Y. He was a merchant and lumberman of Port Jervis, N. Y.; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.

ST. JOHN, DANIEL B., merchant, banker, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1808, in Sharon, Conn. In 1839 he was elected to the New York state legislature.

He was a representative from New York to the thirtieth congress; and from 1849 until 1855 had charge of the bank department of New York.

ST. JOHN, EVERITTE, railroad president, was born Feb. 4, 1844, in Connecticut. He is the vice-president and general manager of the Seaboard Airline of Norfolk, Va.; and is one of the most noted railroad men in America. In 1862 he entered railroad service as a clerk; and in 1863 became connected with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway, of which he eventually became general manager.

In 1891 he reorganized the General Managers' association of Chicago, and was its permanent chairman until Jan. 1, 1895, when he took the office of vice-president of the Seaboard line; and since his connection with that company he has made it one of the leading railroads of the south.

ST. JOHN, HENRY, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to ST. JOHN, ISAAC MUNROE, civil engireer, soldier, journalist, was born Nov. 19, 1827, in Augusta, Ga. He entered the engineer corps of the confederate army at Richmond, Va., and was promoted through the various grades to the rank of brigadier-general. He was city engineer of Louisville in 1870-71, made the first topographical map of that city, and established its system of sewerage. From 1871 until his death he was consulting engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and chief engineer of the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad. He died April 7, 1880, in Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

ST. JOHN, JASON EDGAR, educator, was born May 30, 1848, in Clinton, Mich.

For the past quarter of a century he has been connected with the Industrial School for Boys of Lansing, Mich., of which institution he is superintendent. ST. JOHN, JOHN PIERCE, governor, was born Feb. 25, 1833, in Franklin county, Ind. He removed to Olathe, Kan., in 1869, served in the state senate in 1873-74, and was elected governor of Kansas as a republican in 1878, serving until 1882.

ST. MARTIN, LOUIS, merchant, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 in Saint Charles Parish, La. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the New Orleans post-office; and was elected in 1846 to the legislature of Louisiana. He was appointed the same year register of the United States land office for the southeastern district of Louisiana by President Polk; and was elected a second time to the legislature. After two years' service he was elected to the thirty-second congress from the first district of Louisiana. He was elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.