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Rh land for president, and after the latter's election Mr. Stevenson was appointed first assistant post- master-general. The celerity he displayed in re- moving Republicans and appointing Democrats to their places rendered him extremely popular with his party, particularly in the south, and " Ad- lai's axe became a common and almost prover- bial expression. At the close of Cleveland's term he returned to Bloomington, and in 1892 he was elected chairman of the Illinois delegation to the national Democratic convention which nominated Mr. Cleveland, after which he received the nomi- nation of vice-president. This he accepted in an eloquent speech at the official reception to the can- didates in Madison square garden. New York. In May, 1893 the vice-president unveiled the beauti- ful bronze statue of Columbus by Sunal, erected in Central park bv prominent citizens of New York.

'''STEVENSON. Carter Littlepare''', soldier, b. near Fredericksburg, Ya.. 21 .Sept., 1817; d. in Caroline county, Va., 15 Aug., 18H8. lie entered the U. S. military academy, July, 1834, and on gradua- tion was made 2d lieutenant of the 5th infanlrv, Jidy, 18;i8,lst lieutenant, 23 Sept., 1840, and captain, 30 June, 1847. lie resigned in June, 1861, and was appointedlieut<'nant-colonelof the corpsof infantry in the Confederate army, and was assistant adju- tant-general to Brig.-Gen. Long in 1881. was after- ward colonel of the 53d regiment of Virginia in- fantry, anil was appointed briga<lier-generul of the Confeilcratestatesarniy, February, 1862. and major- general, October, 1862. He was for some time in command of the garrison at Cumberland Gap. His first division was composed of the brigades of Brown, Cumming, Pcttus, and Reynolds, and the light l)att«ries of Anderson, Rowan, Corput, and Carnes, Army of Tennessee. Ilis second division was composed of the brigades of Pettus, Palmer, and Cummings, .rmy of rennessec. On 18 July, 1864, he iissmuumI cumniund of IIoihI's corps.

'''STEVENSON. Robert Louis''', author, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 13 Nov., 18.50; d. at Vai- lima, near Apia, Samoa, 4 Dec., 1894. liis father was a civil engineer, and on his mother's side he was ilescendcd from James Balfour (170.5-'95). He was an only child, and his health was poor from boyhood. He was educatt-ii privately, and in t867 he entered Edinburgh university, where he spent several winters. In 1880 he married Mrs. Oslmurne, an American liuly whom he had met in F'rance. In June, 1879, he had followed her to America, where he remained eight months, partly in Monterey and partly in San Francisco. His voyage to the United States is described in " An Amateur Emigrant" (1895), published posthu- mously. While in America he was at death's door, and ylrs. Osbourne nursed him through his worst illness. From 1880-'7 he lived the life of an in- valid, but all the while writing bcK)ks, un<launted by his physical feebleness. His father dying in 1897, he again came to America, bringing his family with him. He had thought of living in Colora<lo, but when he reached Newport, K. I., was induced by his friends to try the Adirondack mountains for a winter. At Saranac lake he did some of his best work in the mixed vein of auto- biography and criticism, surprising the natives by his skill in skating. In June. 1888, he left San Francisco for a lontf tour of the South sciu", and an American publisher offered him ten thousand dollars for letters detailing his adventures in this course. His literary indu.«try henceforth was greater than ever, and he produced many Ixioks, several of which were either first published in the United States or relate to American topics.

STEWART, Edwin, naval officer, b. in New York city, 5 May, 1837, and was graduated at Williams college. He was appointed assistant paymaster in the navy in 1861, and saw his first service with the gunboat " Pembina " in the expedi- tion which resulted in the capture of Port Royal. Afterward he was attached to the "Richmond," and took part in Farragut's famous exploits at Port Hudson and in Mobile bay. He was pro- moted pay inspector in March, 1870, and in May, 1890, he was appointed chief of the bureau of sup- plies and accounts, with the rank of paymaster- general of the navy. When Admiral Stewart was retire<l in May, 1899, he received a letter from Secretary Ixmg, who said : " Your administration of your bureau has been marked by the highest efficiency, an<l I am not aware than even in the press and exigency of the most exacting periods has there been any error or failure. The disin- terested and successful manner in which the affairs of the bureau have been atlministercl. the prompt- ness antl abundance with which our ships and yards have been supplied, and the general thor- oughness of your work in every respect, are now matters of common knowledge. You have set a high standard for your successors, and contributed very largely to whatever good reputation the navv department now has."

'''STOUDARD. Charles Angustus'''. editor, b. in Boston, Mass., 28 May, 1833. He was griuluated from Williams, and was one of the editors of the " Williams Quarterly Magazine," which, during eighteen years thereafter, was the literary organ of the students. He became a teacher at Phillips academy, Andover, but soon went to Europe and the east for travel and study, and spent the win- ter of 18.55-'6 in the University of Edinburgh and the Free Church of Scotland theological seminary. Upon his return to the United States he entered Union theological seminary, from which he was graduated in 1859; was ordained a pastor of the Washington Heights Presbyterian cnurch. New York city, in 1859, remaining there for twenty- four years. He married a daughter of Dr. Prime, editor of the " New York Observer," and in 1869 he became his associate editor, and in 1873 a pro- prietor of that paper. Upon Dr. Prime's death lie assumed the management of the " Observer," of which he has continued to be both publisher and editor. Williams gave him the degree of A. M. in 1857, and that of D. I), in 1871. His works include " Acro.ss Russia from the Baltic to the Danube" (New York, 1891); "Spanish Cities, with Glimpses of Gibraltar ami Tangier" (1892); "Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in Califoniia" (1894); and "Cruising among the Caribbees" (1895).

STOKES, Henry Newlin, chemist, b. in Moorestown. N. J., 24 Oct., 1859. He was graduated from Ilaverford college in 1878, and then entered the Johns Hopkins university, where he studied chemistry and biology, receiving the degree of Ph. D. from that institution in 1884 for a thesis on phthalic sulphiiiide. Dr. Stokes then went abroad and studied in the chemical laboratories of the University of Munich and the Polytechnic school of Zurich. On his return to the United States in 1889 he became as.«istant chemist ill the IT. .S. geological survey. In 1892 he was appointed assistant professor of general and inorganic chemistry in the University of Chicago, but a year later resigned that appointment and returned to the U. S. geological survey, where he has since remained. His researches, results of which have appeared in the " American Chemical Journal," have been on oxy- and amido-oxy-pyridines,