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STAIIEL

SQUIER, Ephrairn George, ftn^hreoloj^ist, \v:is born in lU-tlilelinii. X.Y.. June IT. 1S21. He worked on:i liirni. attended school and devoted himself to the study of engineering. He was ».-onnected with the Xew York State Mechanic, All)any, N.Y.. 1841-4-}: removed to Hartford, Conn., and later to Cliillicotiie, Oliio. and en- gaged in journalism. He was associated with Dr. Edward Hamilton Davis in investigating tiie an- cient monuments of the valley of the Mississippi; and WHS appointed in 1848, by the New York Historiwil society to examine the ancient remains in New Y'ork state. He was special charge d'atlaires to the Central American states in 1849 and negotiated the treaties with Nicaragua. Hon- duris. and San Salvador. He was appointed U.S. commissioner to Peru in 186:5, and in 18G8 was appointed consul-general of Honduras. He was t!ie first president of the Anthropological Institute of N^'w Y'ork and a member of numerous histor- i<-al and scientific societies. The medal of the French Geographical society was given him in 1S")G. He was editor-in-chief at Frank Leslie's publishing house and is the author of: Aborigi- nal Monuments of the States of Neiv York (1849, new ed. \HM); Serpent Symbols (1852); Nica- ragua: its People. Scenery and Monuments (l8o2): Xofes un Central America (1854); Waikna. or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore (1855); The States of Central America (1857); Monographs of Authors who have Written on the Aborigi- nal Languages of Central America (1860); Trojn- cal Fibres and ih^ir Economic Extraction (1861); and Peru: Incidents and Explorations in the Land of the Incis ([^7~). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 17, ls8>^.

SQUIRE, Watson Carbosso, senator, was born at Cape Vincent, N.Y'.. May 18. 1838: son of the Rev. Orra Squire; and grandson of Col. Ebenezer Wheeler of the war of 1812. He attended Falley seminary. Fulton. N.Y.; taught school in Rose Valley, N.Y\, 1853, and at Marcellus, N.Y., 1854- 55, and was graduated from Wesleyan university, Conn., A.B., 1859. He began the study of law, bnt soon after became principal of Moravia insti- tute. New York, which position he held until April, 1861. wlien he enlisted for three months' service;is a priv.ate in Company F in the 19th New York infantry. He was promoted 1st lieu- tenant. May 7, and served in the upper Potomac until September. 1861, when he was mustered out and resumed the practice of law in Cleve- land, Oliio. being graduated from the Cleveland Law school in 1862. and admitted to practice in the supreme court of Ohio in .June of the sfiine year. He raised and was commissioned captain of a company of sharpshooters, which was mus- tered into service in January, 1863, as the 7th Independent compjiny of Ohio sharpshooters, and

subsequently known as General Sherman's body- guartl. With this ompany he i)arti(ii)ated in all the openitioiis of the Army of the C'uiiiberhind. being a pait of the time in coinniainl of a ]iro- visional battalion of Oliio sharpshootfis: was judge-advocate of the District of Tennessee, 1864- 65, and also served on the staffs of Major-General Rou.sseau and Maj. George H. Thomas. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel for meritorious service in August, 1865. He was subsequently connected with the firm of E. Rem- ington & Sons of liion. N.Y^., manufacturers of firearms, visiting foreign countries in the interest of the business, and subsequently becoming man- ager of the company. He was married, Dec. 23. 1868, to Ida, daughter of Philo Remington of Ilion, N.Y. He purchased property in Washing- ton Territory in 1876, and after severing his con- nection with the Remington company, removed to Seattle. He was governor of Washington Ter- ritory, 1884-87; presided over the statehood con- vention at Ellensburg in Januarj-, 1889, and in November, 1889, was elected, with John Beard Allen (q.v.), one of the tirst U.S. senators from the state of Washington, dra%ving the short term, serving by re-election from Dec. 2, 18S9. to Marcli 3, 1897, and officiating as chairman of the com- mittee on coast defences. He was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of United Stntes in 1895. and after 1897 resumed the practice of hiw in Seattle. Wasli.

STAHEL, Julius H., soldier, was born in Hun- gary, Nov. 4, 1825; son of Andreas and Barbara (Nagy) Stahel. He received his education in Budapest, fought in the struggle for independ- ence, 1848, under Louis Kossuth on the staff ot General Guy on, and was wounded. After the defeat of the patriots, in 1849, he resided in England and the Continent, and later came to New York, where he was engaged in jour- nalism up to 1861. when he joined the Federal army as lieu- tenant-colonel, 8th New Y^'ork volunteers, and left with his regi- ment for Washing ton. May 27, 1861. At the first battle of Bull Run, he was in command of the regiment attached to the 1st brigade, 5tli division, of the army under General McDowell, in reserve at Ccntreville. When the stanii)e<le of the Federal army commenced and General B!enl:ri"s bricrade was ordered to cover the re-