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712 "Saul" (ISli:!,; Delilah "(1866); "Helen" (1869): -Judith" (1872): " Sardanapalus " (1878) ; Jerusalem in her Desolation " (1870) ; and "The- tis and Achilles " (1887-'8). His -Cleopatra"! lsi;4i and "Semiramis" (1872) are now in the Metropoli- tiin museum of art in Xew York city. Mr. Story was also an accomplished musician. During his iv.-idence abroad he published "Life and Letters of Joseph Story" (2 vols., Boston, 1851) ; "Poems" (1856); "The American Question " (London, 1862) ; " Roba di Roma, or Walks and Talks about Rome " (1862) ; " Proportions of the Human Figure accord- ing to a New Canon for Practical Use" (1866); "Graffiti d'ltalia " (1869); "The Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem " (1870) ; " Tragedy of Nero " (1875) ; " Castle St. Angelo " (1877) ; ""He and She, or a Poet's Portfolio" (1883); "Fiammetta" (1885); and " Poems " (2 vols., 1886). His sons are artists of promise, WALDO being a sculptor and JULIAN a painter, whose works are well known in London, Paris, and Rome. Joseph's cousin, Isaac, poet, b. in Marblehead, Mass., 25 Aug., 1774; d. there, 19 July, 1803, was the grandson of Rev. Simon Brad- street, and son of Rev. Isaac Story (1749-1816), who was minister of Marblehead from 1771 till 1800. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1793, and, after studying law, followed his profession in Cas- tine, Me., where he also edited the " Journal," and at Rutland, Mass. He contributed to current lit- erature, notably to " The Farmer's Museum," and a series to the " Columbian Centinel," which he signed " The Traveller." In 1800 he delivered a eulogy on Washington at Sterling, Mass., where he then resided, and in 1800 a Fourth-of-July oration in Worcester, Mass., which was published. Mr. Story issued in book-form " An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle " (Marblehead, 1792) ; " Consolatory Odes, dedicated to those Unfortunate Beings who labor under the Malignant Influence of the Democratic Mania " (Worcester, 1799) ; and " A Parnassian Shop opened in the Pindaric Style, by Peter Quince, Esq." (Boston, 1801).

STOUGHTON, Edwin Wallace (sto-ton), law- yer, b. in Springfield, Vt., 1 May, 1818 ; d. in New York city, 7 Jan., 1882. He came to New York city when he was eighteen years old, and there studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1840 he became connected with important cases, including some famous patent trials, notably those of Charles Goodyear. He was engaged in the case of Ross Winans against the Erie railway company, ami was counsel for the latter in the receiver cases in the U. S. courts in 1868. Mr. Stoughton was retained by William M. Tweed at the beginning of his legal troubles, though he took no active part in the defence ; and he conducted the suit of the stockholders in the Emma mine litigation. During the administration of President Grant he published an elaborate letter in which he defended on consti- tutional grounds the president's use of the army in Louisiana. He was one of the party that, after the election of 1876, went to New Orleans to observe the action of the returning board, and was a warm defender of Rutherford B. Hayes's title to the office of president, which he supported by argu- ment as one of the counsel before the Electoral commission. In October, 1877, he was appointed minister to Russia by President Hayes, and re- mained there until May, 1879, when he returned to the United States. The climate of St. Peters- burg did not agree with him, and the seeds of disease that he contracted there finally caused his death. As a young man he attracted some atten- tion by his contributions to " Hunt's Merchants' Magazine," but they were afterward discontinued. He gave 15,000 to Dartmouth to found a museum of pathological anatomy. His nephew, Edwin Henry, soldier, b. in Springfield, Vt., 28 June, 1838 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 25 Dec., isiis. was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1859, and assigned to the (Jth infantry. During 1859-'60 he served in garrison at Fort Columbus, N. Y., and on scouting duty in the western territories, but he resigned on 4 March, 1861, from the regular army. In Septem- ber he was commissioned colonel of the 4th Ver- mont volunteers, and with his regiment joined the Army of the Potomac. He served during the pen- insular campaign, and was engaged in the siege of Yorktown, the action at Lee's Mill, the battles of Williamsburg and Savage Station, and the opera- tions before Richmond. His services gained for him promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers on 5 Nov., 1862, and he was assigned to the command of the 2d Vermont brigade, covering the defences of Washington. While stationed at Fairfax Court-House. Va,. he was captured by Gen. John S. Mosby on 8 March, 1863, but, after confine- ment for several weeks in Libby prison, he was re- leased. His commission had expired by constitu- tional limitations four days before his capture. Gen. Stoughton then resigned from the army and entered on the practice of law in New York city, but failing health compelled his removal to Boston, where he died.

STOUGHTON, Israel, settler, b. in England ; d. in Lincoln, England, in 1645. He emigrated to Massachusetts and early settled in Dorchester. In November, 1633, he was admitted as a freeman, and he was a member of the first general court, which convened in May, 1634, also serving in 1635-'7. He was pronounced disabled from holding office for three years in consequence of the publication of a pamphlet in which he denied to the governor and his assistants certain of the powers that they claimed, but in 1636 he was restored to his privi- leges. In May, 1637, he commanded the Massa- chusetts troops that were sent against the Pequots, and in 1642 he became captain of the artillery company. He was appointed a commissioner to administer the government of New Hampshire in 1641, and was assistant to the governor of Massa- chusetts in 1637-'42 and 1644. In 1642 he went to England, but he returned in 1644 as lieutenant- colonel of Gen. William Rainsborow's regiment, in which command he served until his death. He was a large land-owner of Dorchester, and gave 300 acres to Harvard college. His son, Willlam governor of Massachusetts, b. in England, 30 May, 1632 ; d. in Dorchester, Mass., 7 July. 1701, was graduated at Harvard in 1650, after studying theology went to England, where he became a fellow at New college, Oxford, but was ejected from that office on the restoration. He returned to New England in 1662, and acquired a high reputation as a preacher. In 1668 he was appointed to deliver the annual election sermon, and it was pronounced one of the best that had been heard on such an occasion. He declined all invitations of settlement as a pastor, but served as an assistant from 1671 till the dissolution of the government in 1686, and in 1677-'9 he was in England as agent for the colony. In 1686 he was re-elected assistant, but refused to serve, occupying, however, the office of chief justice from July to December, 1686. He also became a member of the council of Gov. Edmund Andros, which office he held until April. Kis'.i, when he was one of the council of safety that wrested the government frnm that officer. In May. Hi!)',', he was appointed -governor, which place he held until the