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Stoever, Martin Luther

educator, author, was born Feb. 17, 1820, in Germantown, Pa. He was a Pennsylvania educator, a professor in the college at Gettysburg in 1840-70; and the author of Brief Sketch of the Lutheran Church in the United States; and Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. He died July 22, 1870, in Germantown, Pa.

Stokely, Samuel

lawyer, state legislator, congressman. He served in the Ohio state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1843.

Stokes, John

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was a native of North Carolina. He served as a colonel in the revolution; and in 1790 was appointed judge of the United States district court for North Carolina.

He died in October, 1790, in Lafayetteville, N. C.

Stone, Alfred

architect, was born July 29, 1834, in East Machias, Maine.

He has designed many of the most important public buildings, business blocks and private residences of Providence, R. I. con-

Stone, Alfred P

merchant, gressman. He was treasurer of the state of Ohio; was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1844 to 1845; and was appointed by President Lincoln a collector of internal revenue. He died Aug. 2, 1865, in Columbus, Ohio.

Stone, Amasa

philanthropist, was born April 27, 1818, in Charlton, Mass.

He gave large sums in charity to the city of Cleveland. He built and endowed the Home for Aged Women and the Industrial School for Children, and gave $600,- 000 to Adelbert college of Western Reserve university. He died May 11, 1883, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Stone, Andrew Leete

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1815, in Oxford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman in San Francisco from 1866; and the author of Service the End of Living; Ashton's Mothers; Memorial Discourses; and Leaves from a Finished Pastorate. He died in 1892.

Stone, Collins

clergyman and educator, was born Sept. 7, 1812, in Guilford, Conn. In 1852 he was called as principal to the Ohio state asylum for the deaf and dumb at Columbus, but he returned in 1863 to take charge of the asylum at Hartford, where he remained until his death. He died Dec. 23, 1870, in Hartford, Conn.

Stone, David Marvin

journalist, author, was born Dec. 23, 1817, in Oxford, Conn. He was a noted journalist of New York city, and editor of The Journal of Commerce in 1849-93. He published Frank Forrest (1850), a work that passed into twenty editions. He died in 1895.

Stone, Eben F

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1822 in Newburyport, Mass. He served terms in each branch of the state legislature; and served in the union army during the war of the rebellion, in command of a regiment. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyseventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.

Stone, Ebenezer Whitten

soldier, author, was born June 10, 1801, in Boston, Mass. He was an adjutant-general of the Massachusetts militia from 1851; and the author of Digest of Massachusetts Militia Laws: Compend of Instructions in Military Tactics; and Manual of Percussion Aim. He died April 18, 1880, in Roxbury, Mass.

Stone, Edwin Martin

clergyman, author, was born April 29, 1805, in Framingham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Providence; and the author of Life of Elhanan Winchester; History of Barre, Massachusetts, 1630-1842; The Invasion of Canada in 1775; and Our French Allies in the Revolution. He died Dec. 15, 1883, in Providence, R. I.