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of the Boston Public library ; assisted John La- Farge in the decorations of Trinity church. Boston, and in 11*03 comploto.l a portrait statue of Phillips Brooks ft>r the triangular space between the north transept of the cliurcli and the ciiapel.

ST. JOHN, Charles Elliott, clergyman, was born in Prairie tiu Cliiou, Wis., Dec. 19, 1856; son of Thomas Elliott and Henrietta (Knox) St. John. He attended the high school in Worcester. Mass. ; was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1S8;3. and from Harvard Divinity .school, B.D., 1SS3 ; oi\lained to tlie Unitarian ministry in tiie latter year, and served as pastor of the Second Congregational church, Northampton, Mass.. 1883-91. He was married, June 26. 1888, to Martha Elizabeth, daughter of George Draper and Martha (Plummer) Everett of Dover, Mass. He was pastor of the First Unitarian church, Pittsburg. Pa., 1891-1900. and in July, 1900. was appointed secretary of the American Unitarian association of Boston, Mass.

ST. JOHN, Isaac Munroe, engineer, was born in Augusta, Ga., Nov. 19, 1827 ; son of Isaac R. and Abby R. (Munroe) St. John. He was grad- uated at Yale, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1848; studied law in New York cit}-, and in 1847 became as- sistant editor of the Patriot, at Baltimore, Md. He subsequently engaged in civil engineering on tiie Baltimore and Ohio railroad until 1855, and superintended divisions in the construction of the Blue Ridge railroad in Georgia, 1855-61. He was a private in the Fort Hill Guards, South Carolina state troops, in February, 1861 ; was transferred to engineer duty in April, 1861, and became engineer-in-chief of the Confederate forces on the Peninsula under Gen. John B. Magruder. He was promoted major and chief of the mining and nitre bureau corps in ^lay, 1862, and subsequently rose through the various grades to the rank of brigadier-general, attaining the position of commissary-general of the Confed- erate States army in 1865. He was married dur- ing the progress of the civil war to a daughter of Col. J. L. Carrington of Richmond, Va. He was chief engineer of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington railroad, 1866-69 ; city engineer of Louisville. Ky., making its first topographical map and establishing the sewerage system, 1870-71, and consulting engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and chief engineer of the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad, 1871-80. He died at the Green- brier. Whit" Sulphur Springs.W.Va.. April 7, 1880.

ST. JOHN, John Pierce, governor of Kansas, was born in Brook ville, Ind., Feb. 25. 1833 ; son of Samuel and Sophia (Snell) St. John ; grand- son of Daniel and Mercy (Gardner) St. John. The St. Johns are of Huguenot descent. He worked on his father's farm and in a country store ; attended the district school, and removed

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to California in 1853, where he shipped for a voy- age to South America, Mexico, Central America and the Sandwich Islands. He also served in the Indian wars in California and Oregon, engaged in mining, and removed to Charleston, 111., in 1859. He was mar- ried, March 28, 1860, to Susan J. Parker, daughter of Col. Na- thaniel Parker of Ciiarleston, 111. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1861, practised in Charles- ton, and in 1862 was arrested and tried under the Illinois "Black Laws," on the criminal charge of harboring a colored person, and was ac- quitted. He aided in organizing the 68th Illinois volunteers in 1862. in which he served as captain ; was detached and assigned as acting assistant adjutant-general, under Gen. John P. Slough ; commanded the troops at Camp Mattoon, 111., in 1S64; was appoint- ed lieutenant-colonel of the 143d Illinois infantr}-, and served in the Mississippi valley until tiie close of the war. He practised law in Independ- ence, Mo., 1865-69, and in Olathe, Kan., from 1869 ; was a member of the Kansas senate. 1873- 74 ; was Republican governor of the state for two terms, 1879-83. and was nominated for President of the United States on tiie Prohibition ticket in 1884, from which year he advocated prohibition, woman suffrage, and the free coinage of both gold and silver. He also opposed the war in the Philippines, 1898-1901, and lectured extensively on these subjects.

ST. PALAIS, James Maurice de Long d'Aus= sac de, R.C. bishop, was born at La t:'"lvatat, diocese of Monti)elier, France, Nov. 15, 1811. He attended the College of St. Nicholas du Chardonet at Paris, and the Seminary of St. Sulpice, 1830- 36. He was ordained, May 28, 1836. at Paris, France, by Mgr. de Quelin, archbishop of Paris, and was sent to America as a missionary. He arrived at Vincennes, Ind., and established a church about thirty-five miles east of that town. After building several churches in Indiana, he removed to Chicago in 1839, and began a labor among the Indians. In the face of much opposi- tion, he built St. Mary's church, which became the first cathedral of the diocese of Chicago. In 1844 he was removed to Logansport. in 1846 went to Madison, and in 1847 was appointed vicar- general and superior of the ecclesiastical semi- nary at Vincennes. He became administrator of