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Rh '''STEVENSON. Sarah Hackett''', physician, b. in Buffalo (trove. 111., 2 Feb., 1843. She was gradu- ated at the State university, Bloomington. III., in 18G3, and ten years later was studying .-it tin- South Kensington scientific schools, London. On her return to the United States she entered the Woman's medical college, Chicago, where she was graduated in 1875. Since that time she has held several pro- fessorships in the same college and many posts of honor in other medical associations ami institu- tions. In 1870 she was a delegate from the Illinois state medical society to the American medical as- sociation at Philadelphia, and was the .first woman physician to be elected a member of that body. She was one of the promoters of the Home for incurables and Training school for nurses in Chi- cago, and outside of her large practice has found time to publish works on " Biology " (2 vols.. New York-. 1S75) and " Physiology" (Chicago, 1880).

STEVENSON, Thomas Greely, soldier, b. in Boston, Mass., 3 Feb., 1836 ; d. near Spottsylvania, Va., 10 May, 1864. He early entered the militia. and at the opening of the civil war was major of the 4th infantry battalion. He had a high reputa- tion as a drill-master, and trained a large number of young men that afterward entered the National arniy. After doing a month's garrison duty at Fort Independence, he recruited the 24th Massa- chusetts regiment in the autumn of 1861, and com- manded it in the capture of Roanoke island and New Berne in 1862. After holding the outpost defences of the latter place for several months, he conducted several expeditions within the enemy's lines, and on 6 Sept. successfully defended Wash- ington, N. C., against a superior force. He led a brigade against Goldsboro' and Kinston later in the year, and in the expedition against Charleston in February, 1863, having been made brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers on 27 Dec., 1862. He aided in the reduction of Morris island, and led the reserves in the assault on Fort Wagner. After a visit to the north to recruit his health, he was placed at the head of the 1st division of the 9th corps. He was killed at the head of his troops in the battle of Spottsylvania. A memoir of Gen. Stevenson was printed privately after his death (Cambridge).

STEWARD, Theophilus Gould, clergyman, b. in Gouldtown, N. J., 17 April, 1843. His parents were of African descent. He was licensed to preach at twenty years of age, and at twenty-one entered the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal church, and was stationed in Camden, N. J. He went to the south in 1805, and preached and taught in South Carolina and Georgia. He wrote the platform upon which the Republican party of Georgia was first organized, and returning to the north in 1871, by appointment of his church, re- opened the missions in the island of Hayti. On his return he took a full course in theology at the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school in Philadel- phia, and also studied in the School of elocution there. He has written an " Essay on Death, Hades, and the Resurrection " ; " The End of the World " ; and " Genesis Re-read " (Philadelphia. 1885).

STEWARDSON, Thomas, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa.. 10 July, 1807: d. there, 30 June, 1878. He was graduated at the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1830, and continued his studies in Paris. On his return he was associated with various hospitals in Phila- delphia, and was an active member of the board of health for many years. A.bout 1845 he removed to Savannah, Ga., where he made a specialty of the treatment of yellow fever. In 1860 he introduced into this country the new silk-worm, Bourbyx i-i/ti/ln'fi. which he fed on leaves of the ailantus- tree. lie was the author of a "Life of Dr. Ger- hard " (Philadelphia, 1804) ; translated Louis's " Researches on Emphysema of the Lungs " (Phila- delphia, 1838): and edited, with additions. Elliot- son's " Principles of Medicine " (Philadelphia, 1844).

STEWART, Alexander, British soldier, b. in England about 1740; d. in December. 1794. He was appointed captain in the 37th foot in 1761, and reached the grade of colonel in 1780. During the Revolutionary war he served in the south. In May, 1781, he commanded the British forces in South Carolina, and was defeated at Eutaw Springs on 8 Sept. by Gen. Nathanael Greene, being subse- quently compelled to retreat to Charleston. In 179(1 he was made a major-general.

STEWART, Alexander, Canadian jurist, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 30 Jan., 1794; d. there, 1 Jan., 1868. He was the son of a Scottish Presby- terian minister, was educated at the Halifax gram- mar-school, and became a clerk in the ordnance department. He afterward entered a house that was engaged in the West India trade, and soon be- came a member of the firm, but studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. He became a member of the Nova Scotia assembly in 1826, the legislative council in 1837, and in 1840 of the execu- tive council. In 1846 lie became master of the rolls and judge of the vice-admiralty court, and in 1856 he was made a companion of the Bath.

STEWART, Alexander Peter, soldier, b. in Rogersville, Hawkins co., Tenn., 2 Oct., 1821. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1842, became 2d lieutenant in the 3d artillery, and was acting assistant professor of mathematics at the academy from 1843 till 31 May, 1845, when he resigned. He was then professor of mathe- matics and natural and experimental philosophy in Cumberland university, Tenn., in 1845-'9, and in Nashville university in 1854-'5, and became city surveyor of Nashville in 1855. He was ap- pointed by Gov. Isham G. Harris major of the corps of artillery in the provisional army of Ten- nessee, 17 May, 1861, and became brigadier-general in the Confederate army, 8 Nov., 1861, major-gen- eral, 2 June, 1863, and lieutenant-general, 23 June, 1864. He was engaged in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro', and the campaign about Hoover's Gap, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and through the Dalton-Atlanta campaign under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. He was with Gen. John B. Hood in his movements in the rear of Gen. Sher- man's army, and destroyed the railroads and cap- tured the garrison at Big Shanty and Acworth. He was at Franklin and Nashville under Hood, and at Cole's Farm, in North Carolina, under John- ston. In 1868 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Mis- sissippi, and chancellor of the university.

STEWART, Alexander Turney, merchant, b. in Lisburn. near Belfast, Ireland, 12 Oct., 1803 ; d. in New York, 10 April, 1876. He was the descendant of a Scotch emigrant to the north of Ireland and the only son of a farmer, who died when he was a school-boy. He studied with a view to entering the ministry, but, with his guardian's consent, abandoned this purpose and came to New York in the summer of 1823, without any definite plans for the future. He was for a period employed as a teacher in a select school in Roosevelt street near Pearl, then one of the fashionable localities of the city, returning to Ireland, he received the moderate fortune his father had left him, bought a stock of Belfast laces and linens, and on reaching New York opened a store at No. 283 Broadway, 2 Sept., 1825,