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STEUBENVILLE

1825

STEVENSON

spent his whole fortune in clothing his men. Congress in 1790 voted him $2,400 yearly and a township of land near Utica, N. Y., where he died on Nov. 28, 1794. See Life by Kapp.

Steu'benville, O., a city, cour.ty-seat of Jefferson County, is on the Ohio, 68 miles below Pittsburgh, by rail 43 miles from Pittsburgh. It is in a rich farming-country, with large coal-mines and natural gas, and has a large trade. It stands high on the right bank of the river, is well laid-out, and has foundries, machine-shops, rolling-mills, tin and paper mills, blast-furnaces, boiler-works and factories of nails, glass, pottery, white lead and beer. The city is built on the site of Fort Steuben, which was erected in 1787 and named after Baron Steuben. The permanent settlement was made in 1797. It is served by three railroads and three interurban lines. Population 22,391

Ste'vens, Alfred, an English sculptor, was born at Blandford, Dorset, England, in 1818. His great work, which ranks him among the great sculptors of England, is the monument of Wellington for St. Paul's Cathedral, London, one of the finest pieces of modeling in England in the igth century. It was begun in 1856, but was left unfinished at his death on May 1,1875. In 1892 it was moved from the side chapel, where it had been almost hidden, to the place for which it was originally intended. See Alfred Stevens by Stannus.

Stevens Point, Wis., a town, county-seat of Portage County, is on Wisconsin River, 161 miles northwest of Milwaukee. It has a lumber-trade and a number of lumber-mills, besides furniture-factories, foundries, machine-shops, railroad-shops and flour-mills. It has public and parochial schools, a high-school, a commercial school and public library. One of the normal schools of Wisconsin is here. Pop. 8,692.

Stevens, Thaddeus, American statesman, Republican and antislavery man, was born at Peacham, Vt., April 4, 1792, and died at Washington, D. C., Aug. n, 1868. After graduating in 1814 at Dartmouth College, he studied law and practiced at Gettysburg, Pa., and was subsequently drawn into politics, serving for a time in the state legislature in the Whig interest and becoming an active advocate of the public-school system. In the Whig interest he later served several terms in Congress, and meanwhile removed to Lancaster, Pa., where he rose to a prominent position at the bar. In Congress, in 1850, he opposed the Clay compromise measures, including the fugitive-slave law. In 1858 he was returned to Congress as a Republican, and became one of the ablest leaders of that party, manifesting great powers as an orator. He was a pronounced advocate of emancipation and the enfranchisement of the negro; was bitterly hostile to the seceding states; and stringent in his

proceedings against them. He lived to take an active part in the unsuccessful impeachment of President Johnson and to see the readmission into the Union of the first group of reconstructed states. Though skeptical in his religious opinions, he was reverent in his attitude to Christianity — the devout faith of his mother. Part of his estate he bequeathed to an orphan-asylum at Lancaster, Pa., to be open both to white and colored children.

Ste'venson, Adlai E., was born in Chris -tian County, Ky., Oct. 23, 1835. After graduating at Central College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He began the practice of law in Metamora, 111., and remained there for ten years. He then removed to Bloomington, and was elected Congressman for that district in 1874 and 1878. He was appointed first assistant postmaster-general in 1885 by President Cleveland, and in 1892 was elected vice-president of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Grover Cleveland. He was candidate for governor of Illinois in 1908.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850-94)0 The history of English literature records no braver story than the life and work of this blithe story-teller, tender poet and charming essayist. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 18 5 o, he spent much of his childhood in bed, with but the frailest hold on life. He died at the early age of 44. Within a period of 20 years, while waging one long fight with death, he produced an enormous quantity of work of enduring quality. Constant pain and over-powering weakness he did not permit to affect a cheerful spirit, nor to quench the flame of joy that burns in every line he wrote. In the autobiographical poems entitled A Child's Garden of Verse Stevenson shows how, shut-away from ordinary childish pleasures, he created a wonder-world of romance out of the simplest things. His bed was "the pleasant land of counterpane," not a weariness. Always happy, he was a source of happiness, if of anxiety, to his father and mother, to good Aunt Balfour and to his Scotch nurse who never had the heart to be cross with the "wee, winsome laddie."

When he grew older, he was able to take the course in Edinburgh University and to study engineering and law, but no regular study was possible in childhood. So he lived

ROBERT STEVENSON