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Stoddard, Anthony

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1678, in Northampton, Mass. He was minister at Woodbury, Conn., from 1702 till his death. He was clerk of probate forty years; was the lawyer and physician of his people, and one of the most extensive farmers in the town. He published an Election Sermon.

He died Sept. 6, 1760, in Woodbury, Conn.

STODDARD, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, clergyman, journalist, author, was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Observer from 1885; and the author of Across Russia; Spanish Cities; Beyond the Rockies; and Cruising Among the Caribbees.

STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN, lecturer, author, poet, was born Aug. 7, 1843, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1864 he made a voyage to the Hawaiian Islands, where he passed much time; and was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is now lecturer upon English literature in the Catholic university of Washington, D. C. He is the author of South Sea Idyls; Mashallah, a Flight into Egypt; The Lepers of Molokai; and other works.

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