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Stuart, Hamilton – Stubblefield, Olive

Stuart, Hamilton

journalist, state legislator, was born Sept. 4, 1813, in Jefferson county, Ky. In 1838 he removed to Texas, where he established the Civilian, an independent democratic journal, which he continued for nearly forty years. He has resided in Galveston since its foundation; was its mayor in 1848-52, and served as a member of the legislature in 1847-48.

He subsequently became one of the editors of the Galveston News.

Stuart, Jane

artist, author, was born about 1810. For many years she followed the profession of portrait-painting. She contemplated writing a life of her father, and published several papers in Scribner's Monthly in 1877. The work was subsequently written, at her request, by George Champlin Mason. She died April 28, 1888, in Newport, R. I.

Stuart, John Todd

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 10 1807, near Lexington, Ky. In 1832 and 1834 he was a member of the Illinois legislature. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh congresses. In 1848 he was elected to the state senate, serving four years. In 1862 he was elected a representative to the thirty-eighth congress. He died Nov. 28, 1885, in Springfield, Ill.

Stuart, Mary Mccrea

philanthropist, was born in 1810 in New York city.

She was known through New York as one of the most philanthropic women there, donating large sums of money to various institutions, the principal one being the Princeton Theological seminary. She died Dec. 30, 1891, in New York city.

Stuart, Moses

clergyman, educator, author, was born March 26, 1780, in Wilton, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts; and professor of sacred literature at Andover seminary in 1809-48. Among his writings are Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans and the Hebrews; Hints on the Prophecies; Conscience and the Constitution; and Critical History and Defense of the Old Testament Canon. He died Jan. 4, 1852, in Andover, Mass.

Stuart, Philip

soldier, congressman, was born in 1760 in Maryland. He was elected as a federalist to congress from Maryland, and served with re-elections from 1811 till 1819. During the war of 1812 he was an officer in the Maryland volunteers at the time of the British invasion. He died Aug. 14, 1830, in Washington, D. C.

Stuart, Robert

explorer, was born Feb. 19, 1785, in Scotland. In 1810 he was one of the founders of Astoria, Ore. In 1812, with a party of six, he traveled overland from Astoria to New York; and the story of the journey is given at length by Washington Irving in his Astoria. He was subsequently commissioner for all the Indian tribes in the northwest; and in 1834 became treasurer of Michigan at Detroit. He died Oct. 28, 1848, in Chicago, Ill.

Stuart, Robert Leighton

merchant, philanthropist, was born July 21, 1806, in New York city. In 1880 he gave $55,000 to the Presbyterian hospital, New York city; $100,000 to Princeton Theological seminary: $100,000 to Princeton college; and $50,000 to the San Francisco Theological seminary. Mr. Stuart's charities are continued by his widow, whose New York residence is among the finest in the country. He died Dec. 12, 1882, in New York city.

Stuart, Mrs. Ruth Mcenery

was born in 18- in Louisiana. She is the author of A Golden Wedding, and Other Tales; Carlotta's Intended, and Other Stories; The Story of Babette; Sonny; and Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets.

Stubblefield, Olive

educator, lecturer, was born in Olathe, Kan. She received a thorough education in the Southwest Kansas college and the Kansas State university. She has attained success in educational work; has been county superintendent of schools of Lincoln county, Okla.; and is a successful lecturer upon temperance and kindred subjects.