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650 has all the elements of old John Adams; able, stanch, patriotic, full of principle, and always unpopular. He lacks that sense of other people's opinions which keeps a man from running against them.&rdquo; Mr. Stanton was the author of &ldquo;Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland&rdquo; (New York, 1849), and &ldquo;Random Recollections&rdquo; (1886). &mdash; His wife, Elizabeth Cady, reformer, b. in Johnstown, N. Y., 12 Nov., 1815, is the daughter of Judge Daniel Cady, and, after receiving her first education at the Johnstown academy, was graduated at Mrs. Emma Willard's seminary in Troy, N. Y., in 1832. While attending the World's anti-slavery convention in London in 1840 she met Lucretia Mott, with whom she was in sympathy, and with whom she signed the call for the first Woman's rights convention. This was held at her home in Seneca Falls, on 19 and 20 July, 1848, on which occasion the first formal claim of suffrage for women was made. She addressed the New York legislature on the rights of married women in 1854, and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 1860, and in 1867 spoke before the legislature and the constitutional convention, maintaining that during the revision of the constitution the state was resolved into its original elements and that citizens of both sexes had a right to vote for members of that convention. She canvassed Kansas in 1867 and Michigan in 1874, when the question of woman suffrage was submitted to the people of those states, and since 1869 she has addressed congressional committees and state constitutional conventions upon this subject, besides giving numerous lectures. She was president from 1855 till 1865 of the national committee of her party, of the Woman's loyal league in 1863, and of the National woman suffrage association until 1873. In 1868 she was a candidate for congress. She has written many calls to conventions and addresses, and was an editor with Susan B. Anthony and Parker Pillsbury of &ldquo;The Revolution,&rdquo; which was founded in 1868, and is joint author of &ldquo;History of Woman's Suffrage&rdquo; (vols. i. and ii., New York, 1880; vol. iii., Rochester, 1886). &mdash; Their son, Theodore, journalist, b. in Seneca Falls, N. Y., 10 Feb., 1851, was graduated at Cornell in 1876. In 1880 he was the Berlin correspondent of the New York &ldquo;Tribune,&rdquo; and he afterward engaged in journalism in Paris, France. He is a contributor to periodicals, translated and edited Le Goff's &ldquo;Life of Thiers&rdquo; (New York, 1879), and is the author of &ldquo;The Woman Question in Europe&rdquo; (1884).

STANTON, Joseph, senator, b. in Charlestown, R. I, 19 July, 1739; d. there, 15 Dec., 1821. He served as 3d lieutenant in the Rhode Island regi- ment that was raised for the expedition against Canada in 1759, was a member of the general as- sembly of Rhode Island from 1768 till 1774 and of the committee of safety in 1776, and a delegate to t he State convention that adopted the constitution of the United States in 1790. He was elected a U. S. senator, as a Democrat, serving from 25 June, 1790, till 3 March. 1793. was again a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives, and was afterward chosen to congress, serving from 7 Dec., 1801, till 3 March. 1807.

STANTON, Oscar Fitzalan. naval officer, b. in Sag Harbor, N. Y., 18 July. 1834. He entered the navy as acting midshipman, 29 Dec., 1849, and was warranted midshipman from the same date. lie was graduated at the U. S. naval acadeiu ai Annapolis in 1855, promoted to master, 16 Sept., 1855, and commissioned lieutenant, 2 April, 1856, serving in the steamer " Memphis," on the Para- guay expedition, irr 1858-'9, on the coast of Africa in 1859-'60, and in the sloop " St. Mary's." of the Pacific squadron, from December, 1860, till April. 1862. He was commissioned lieutenant-command- er, 16 July. 1862. commanded the steamer " Tioga," in the special West India squadron, in 1862 'ii. and the steamer " Panola." on the Western Gulf block- ading squadron, in 1863-'4. In 1SIJ.3 he was on ordnance duty at New York, after which he served at the naval academy until May, 1867. He was promoted to commander. 12 Dec., 1867, and had charge of the steamer " Tahoma," of the North At- lantic squadron, ami the " Purveyor," on special ser- vice, in 1867-'9. He commanded the receiving-ship at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1871, the steamer " Mon- ocacy," on the Asiatic station, from 1872 until 1874, when he was transferred to the " Yantic." He was promoted to captain, 11 June, 1879, and in Novem- ber, 1881, went on duty at the Naval asylum at Philadelphia, where he remained until November, , when he took command of the steam frigate " Tennessee," flag-ship of the North Atlantic sta- tion. He was made commodore in 1893. rear- admiral. ls',14, and was retired the same year.

STANTON, Richard Henry, jurist, b. in Alex- andria, Va., 9 Sept., 1812. He received an aca- demic education, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in Maysville, Ky. Being elected to congress as a Democrat, he served from 3 Dec., l*m. till 3 March, 1855, and he was presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1856, state at- torney for his judicial district in 1858, a delegate to the National Democratic convention in 1868, and district judge in 1868-74. He has edited the ' Maysville Monitor " and the " Maysville Express," and published a " Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases in Kentucky" (Cincinnati, 1855): " Practical Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc., of Kentucky" (1861): and a "Practical Manual for Executors, etc.. in Kentucky " (1862). His brother, Frederic Perry, lawyer, b. in Alexandria, Va., 22 Dec., 1814; d.near Ocala, Fla., 4 June, 1894. obtained a good education, and was graduated at Columbian college in 1833. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Alexandria in 1834, and re- moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he practised his profession. He was elected to congress as a Demo-rat, serving from 1 Dec., 1845, till 3 March, ls.v>. and in 1853-'5 was chairman of the judiciary com- mittee. In 1857 he was appointed secretary of Kansas territory, and he was governor of Kansas from 1858 till 1861. In 1863-'4 he edited with Robert J. Mather the "Continental Monthly," and he had published numerous speeches in pamphlet- form. Richard Henry's son, Henry Thompson. poet, I), in Alexandria, 30 June, 1834'; d. in Frank- fort, Ky., 8 May, 1896, was educated in Kentucky and at the U. S. military academy, but was not graduated. He served as captain and major in the Confederate army. For several years he had been connected with the U. S. Indian commission- ers in selecting lands for Indian reservations. He had invented an iron tie for binding cotton-bales, and is the author of " The Moneyless Man, and other Poems" (Baltimore, 1872). 'From 1875 till 1886 he edited the " Kentucky Yeoman."

'''STANTON. Robert Livingston,''' clergyman, b. in Pachaug, Conn., 28 March. 1810; d. at sea, 23 May, 1885. After graduation at Lane seminary he was ordained by the presbytery of Mississippi in and held charge of churches in Blue Ridge. Miss., from 1839 till 1841, Woodville, Miss., in 1841-'3, and in New Orleans, La., from 1843 till 1851, when he became president of Oakland college, Miss., serving until 1854. From 1855 till 1862 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Chillicothe, Ohio,