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690  numerous addresses and pamphlets, he has published "How a Free People conduct a Long War" (Philadelphia, 1862), "Northern Interest and Southern Independence: a Plea for United Action" (1863); "Memorial of the Great Central Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission" (1864); "History of the United States Sanitary Commission" (1866); and Studies in Mediæval History" (1881).—Another brother, Moreton, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 27 Oct., 1822; d. in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 20 Aug., 1855, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841, and after studying medicine with his brother, Alfred Stillé, was graduated at the medical department of the university in 1844. Subsequently he spent three years in the medical schools of Dublin, London, Paris, and Vienna, and on his return in 1847 settled in Philadelphia, where he began practice. In 1848 he was elected one of the resident physicians of the Pennsylvania hospital, which post he held for nine months, and in June. 1849, during the cholera epidemic of that year, he was appointed to serve in the Philadelphia almshouse, where he was stricken with the disease and narrowly escaped with his life. In 1855 he was appointed lecturer on the theory and practice of medicine in the Philadelphia association for medical instruction, and completed his first course of lectures there. Dr. Stillé contributed various articles to the medical journals of Philadelphia, and was associated with Francis Wharton in the preparation of a "Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence" (Philadelphia, 1855).

STILLMAN, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 10 March, 1738 ; d". in Boston, Mass., 12 March, 1807. His youth was passed in Charleston, S. C., where his parents had removed when he was eleven years old. His education, i-l.-i -ical and theological, was good, though he at- tended neither college nor seminary. He was ( ,r- dained to the ministry in 1759, and soon afterward became pastor of a Baptist church on James island. Impaired health obliged him to leave the south, and, after preaching for congregations in New Jer- sey, he was called in 1765 to the pastoral cha r. the 1st Baptist church in Boston, which relation he sustained for more than forty years. Few cler- gymen in New England were held in higher es- teem or exerted a wider influence. As a preacher he had no superior. In all the philanthropic movements that distinguished Boston he was an active and honored worker. He was a member for that city of the convention in 1788 that ratified the constitution of the United States. His zeal for education was evinced especially in the inter- est that he took in Brown university, in whose act of incorporation (1764) and first list of trustees his name appears. In 1788 that college conferred on him the degree of D. D. Dr. Stillman published a large number of sermons, among which were "A Sermon on the Repeal ( the Stamp-Act" (1766) ; " Thoughts on the French Revolution " i1794i: and "A Sermon ocea-ioned by the Death of George Washington " (1799).

STILLMAN, Thomas Bliss, mechanical en- gineer. 1). in Westerly, R. I., 30 Aug., 1806; d. in Plainfield. X. J., 1 Jan.. 1866. He was educated at Union college, and in 1832 came to Xew York city and took charge of the Xovelty iron-works. The first line of steamships on this coast to carry pas- sengers and freight between Xew York and Charles- ton. S. ( '.. a- established by him. During the civil war he was U. S. inspector of steam vessels for the Xew York district, and superintendent of con- struction of revenue cutters. His last work was to put twelve armed steam cutters afloat in place of the sailing vessels that had been previously used. lie u .1 - also at various times president of the board of comptrollers, of the park board in Xew York county, and of the Metropolitan police commission. For nearly twenty years he was a trustee of the Xew York hospital, and he was long president of the Metropolitan savings bank. He invented im- proved forms of machinery that have come into use. His brother. William James, author, b. in Scheneetady, N. Y., 1 June, 1828, was gradu- ated at Union college in 1848, and began the study of landscape-painting under Frederick E. Church. In 1849 he went to Europe, remaining six months, and returning with a thorough belief in the new school of pre-Raphaelitism. During 1851-'9 he was a regular exhibitor at the Academy of design, of which he was elected an associate member in 1 >"> I. In 1852 he went to Hungary for Louis Ivi--uth, to carry away the crown jewels of the kingdom, which had been hidden by Kossuth dur- ing the revolution. Thence he went to Paris, to study under Adolphe Y-von. On his return to the United States, in company with John Durand he founded the " Crayon," in 1855. He returned to Europe in 1859, and was U. S. consul in Rome during 1861-'5. and in Crete in 1865-'9. Since 1870 he has devoted himself entirely to literature. During 187.VX2 he acted as correspondent of the London " Times " in Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Greece, and in 1883-'5 he was the art critic of the Xew York " Evening Post " and associate edi- tor of the " Photographic Times." Since 1886 he had resided at Rome as the London " Times V correspondent, and was retired in 1897. His pub- lished works are " Acropolis of Athens " (London, 1870); "Cretan Insurrection" (Xew York, l>74i: - Herzegovina and the Late L T prising " (London, 1877); and "On the Track of Ulysses" (Boston, 1887). He has also edited "Poetic Localities of Cam- bridge " (Boston, 1875), and has contributed arti- cles to various magazines. Mr. Stillman is an ex- pert photographer, and in 1872-'3 published UM> manuals of photography. In 1872 he also brought i >ut twenty-five photographic views of Athens, and in ISM; the Autotype companyof London began the publication, for the Hellenic society, of a series of photographs from his negatives of the Acropolis.

'''STILWELL. Silas Moore''', lawyer, b. in New York city, 6 June, 1800; d. there, Ki May. 1881. His ancestor, Xicholas Coke, brother of John Coke, the regicide, emigrated to this country early in the 17th century, where he adopted the name Stilwell. Stephen, the father of Silas M. Stilwell, a soldier in the Revolutionary war. went in 1804 to Woodstock, Ulster co., X. Y.. where he established a glass-factory. The son wa- educated at W Istoi k free academy until 1812. when, his father having failed, he went to Xew York and entered business. In 1814 he engaged in surveying in the wet. and then settled in Tennessee, where in 1^'J'J lie was in the legislature, lie afterward remoed to Vir-