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Stratton, Charles C

state legislator, governor, was born in 1796 in New Jersey. He served a number of years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843.

He was governor of New Jersey from 1844 to 1848. He died March 30, 1859, in Gloucester county, N. J. STRATTON, CHARLES CARROLL, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 4, 1833, in Mansfield, Pa. In 1887 he accepted the presidency of Mills college, Oakland, Cal. He was a delegate to the general conference of the methodist church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1872, and to that in Cincinnati in 1880.

STRATTON, CHARLES SHERWOOD, dwarf, was born Jan. 4, 1838, in Bridgeport, Conn. He was known by the name of Gen. Tom Thumb. When first exhibited by Barnum he was not more than two feet high, and weighed less than sixteen pounds; but as he grew older his height increased to forty inches. In 1863 he married Lavinia Warren, also a dwarf forty inches in height and fifty pounds in weight. They were the wonders of the world. He died July 15, 1883, in Middleborough, Mass., and was buried in Bridgeport, where a marble shaft forty feet in height was raised to his memory.