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 380 STEUBENVILLE rected to join the army under Washington, and during the winter arrived at Valley Forge. On May 5, 1778, he was appointed inspector general with the rank of major general, and in June he was at the battle of Monmouth. He prepared a manual for the army, which was approved by congress in 1779, and intro- duced the most thorough discipline. In 1780 he was a member of the court martial on the trial of Major Andre. In the same year he was placed in command of the troops in Virginia, and in January following was active in harass- ing the British forces under Benedict Arnold. In the summer he was attached to Gen. Lafay- ette's division, and took part in the siege of Yorktown. In 1790 congress voted him a life annuity of $2,500. Several of the states passed resolutions acknowledging his services, and voted him tracts of land. New York present- ed him with 16,000 acres near Utica, forming a township called from him Steuben, where he passed the remainder of his life, giving por- tions of the land to his aids, and leasing the re- mainder. His life has been written by Francis Bowen in Sparks's "American Biography," and by Friedrich Kapp (New York, I860). STEUBENVILLE, a city and the capital of Jef- ferson co., Ohio, on the Ohio river, here crossed by a railroad bridge, 22 m. N. by E. of Wheeling, W. Va., 35 m. W. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and 125 m. E. by N. of Columbus; pop. in 1860, 6,154; in 1870, 8,107; in 1875, locally estimated at 15,000. It stands on an elevation on the right bank of the river, is well laid out and substan- tially built, is surrounded by. a rich farming and stock-growing country, and is the centre of an important trade. Abundance of excel- lent coal is found in the neighborhood, and there are eight shafts within the city limits. The court house is the finest in eastern Ohio. The city has water works, gas works, and two steam fire engines. The Pittsburgh, Cincin- nati, and St. Louis railroad, and the river divi- sion of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad, intersect here. The river trade is extensive. The chief manufactories are two founderies and machine shops, two rolling mills, a nail mill, two engine and boiler works, three blast furnaces, a flouring mill, two woollen mills, a paper mill, three breweries, and two glass works. There are two national banks, two private banks, two savings institutions, nine public schools, including a high school, a fe- male seminary, a Roman Catholic school, two daily and two weekly newspapers, and 18 churches (Christian, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic). A blockhouse was erected on the site of Steuben ville in 1786, and in 1787 a fort was built and named in honor of Baron Steu- ben ; but the place was not permanently set- tled till 1797. It was incorporated as a city in 1851, and in 1871 its limits were extended. STEVENS. I. A W. county of Minnesota, intersected by the Pomme de Terre river, a tributary of the Minnesota ; area, 576 sq. m. ; STEVENS pop. in 1870, 174. The surface is rolling and is studded with numerous lakes. The soil is productive. The St. Paul and Pacific railroad traverses it. II. An unorganized S. W. county of Kansas, bordering on Indian territory ; area, 720 sq. m. It is intersected by the Cimarron river. The surface is undulating. III. A N. W. county of Dakota, bounded S. W. by the Mis- souri river, recently formed and not included in the census of 1870 ; area, about 3,100 sq. m. It is mostly occupied by the Plateau du Coteau du Missouri. The N. E. corner is intersected by Mouse river. IV. The N. E. county of Washington territory, bordering on British Columbia and Idaho, bounded S. in part by the Snake river, W. in part by the Cascade moun- tains, and intersected by the Columbia ; area, 28,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 734. Lake Chelan is in the W. part, and the county is watered by Clarke's fork, the Okinakane, Palouse, Spo- kane, and other streams. There are broad plains and rugged mountains, with some bar- ren places, but the proportion of valuable land is large, and much of it is very fertile. The climate is mild. There are gold mines on the bars of the Columbia and lateral streams. The chief productions in 1870 were 8,791 bushels of wheat, 12,504 of oats, 3,825 of potatoes, and 791 tons of hay. There were 415 horses, 1,100 cattle, and 485 swine. Capital, Colville. STEVENS, Abel, an American clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1815. He studied at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., and in 1834 was settled as pastor of a Methodist Episcopal church in Boston. In 1837 he trav- elled in Europe, and on his return was sta- tioned in Providence, R. I. In 1840 he took editorial charge of " Zion's Herald" in Boston, and in 1852 of the " National Magazine," New York ; in 1855 revisited Europe, and on return- ing in 1856 was elected editor of the " Christian Advocate and Journal," New York. He after- ward became joint editor of "The Methodist," from which he retired in 1874. Dr. Stevens has published " Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into New England" (1848); " Memorials of the Progress of Methodism in the Eastern States " (1852) ; " Church Polity;" " The Preaching required by the Times " (1855) ; " Sketches and Incidents, a Budget from the Saddle Bags of an Itinerant ;" " The Great Re- form;" "History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century called Methodism " (3 vols., 1858-'61), which has been several times edited and reprinted in England; "Life and Times of Nathan Bangs, D. D." (1863); " History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America" (4 vols., 1864-'7) ; " The Centenary of American Meth- odism " (1 866) ; " The Women of Methodism " (1866) ; and " Compendium of the History of Methodism" (1868). STEVENS, Alexander Hodgdon, an American sur- geon, born in New York in 1789, died there, March 30, 1869. He graduated in medicine in 1815 at the university of Pennsylvania, and