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where he practised law. He was president of the luternatioiuil Peace League, and a delegate to the Riclimund couventioii of 1882. He was married in is:34. to Jane Harriet, daughter of the Rev. William L;imphier of Alexandria, D.C., and his son, Henry Thompson, served as captain and major in the Confederate army; was a member of the U.S. Indian commission, and became well known as an author and editor. Frederic Perry Stanton ditnl at Ocala. Fla.. June 4. 1894.

STANTON, Henry Brewster, journalist and antislavery orator, was born in New London county, Conn.. June 27, 1805; son of Joseph and Susan (Brewbter) Stanton; grandson of Simon Brewster, and a descendant of Tliomas Stanton, who emigrated from England in 1635, and settled in Connecticut, serving as crown interpreter- general of the Indian dialects and as judge of the New London county court; also of William Brewster, the Pilgrim. His father was a woolen manufacturer and merchant, in whose business he was employed, after receiving a common school education, until 1826, when he removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he became connected with the Monroe Telegraph, at that time sup- porting through its columns the presidential nomi- nation of Henry Clay. Mr. Stanton entered the campaign as a speaker; was deputy clerk of Monroe county, 1829-31, and a student in Lane Tlieological seminary, near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1832-34. but left in the latter year to devote him- self to the antislavery movement. His first ad- dress in behalf of the cause, delivered before the American Anti-slavery society (of which society he was secretary), in New York city in 1834, was followed by a series of addresses in the United States and Great Britain, covering a period of thirty years, during which time he was re- peatedly mobbed by the pro-slavery element. He was prominent in the movement to organize the abolitionists into a political party, 1837-40, and was editor of the Massachusetts Abolitionist. He was married, May 1, 1840. to Elizabeth Cady, and in June of the same year attended the World's Anti-Slavery convention at London, serving as one of the secretaries of the convention. He was admitted to the bar in 1842; practised in Boston, Mass., until 1847, when he removed to Seneca Falls, N.Y,, where he became a founder of the Republican party, having previously been a Free- Soil Demrx^rat. and was a state senator, 1849-61. Mr. Stanton was a regular contributor to the New York Tribune and to the Sun, 1860-86. being an editor of the latter paper, 1868-86. and is the author of the biographical sketches, as published in the book entitled: Reforms and Reformers (1849), and of Random Rrcollections (published posthumously, 1887), He died in New York city, Jan, 14, 1837.

STANTON, Joseph, senator, was born in Charlestown. R.I.. July 19, 1739; sou of Joseph and Mary (Champlin) Stanton, and greats-grand- son of Thomas Stanton, who settled in Rhode Island and was a noted colonial trader and Indian interpreter. As 2d lieutenant in a Rhode Island regiment he served in the expedition against Canada in 1759. He was a member of the general assembly of Rhode Island, 1768-75, and on the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, served on the committee of safety, and was commissioned colonel of a Rhode Island regiment in 1776. As a delegate to the Rhode Island convention, which ratified the Federal constitution, May 29. 1790, he opposed the adoption of the constitution. He was elected to the U.S. senate in 1700. drawing the long term, and took his seat June 25, 1790, serv- ing till March 3. 1793, He served almost continu- ously in the state general assembly. 1793-1801, and was a representative in the 7th, 8th and 9th U.S. congresses, 1801-07. He died in Charles- town. R.I.. but the date has not been ascertained.

STANTON, Oscar Fitzalan, naval officer, was born in Sag Harbor. L.I.. N.Y., July 18, 1834; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cooper) Stanton; grandson of Joseph and Fanny (Miner) Stanton and of Elias Mathus and Elizabeth (Havens) Cooper, and a descendant of Tliomas Stanton, who came from England in 1630. and settled in Stonington, Conn. He was appointed midship- man, Dec. 29, 1849, and served on the frigate Susquehanna, East India and China seas, in Com- modore Perry's Japan expedition, and on the Saratoga, among the islands of the Pacific Ocean, 1850-54. He was advanced to passed midship- man, June 12. 1855; served on board the Constel- lation in the Mediterranean, July, 1855, to June, 1858, was commissioned master, Sept. 16, 1855, promoted lieutenant. April 2, 1856, and served on the Memphis, in the Paraguay expedition, 1858- 59. He was married, July 6, 1859. to Caroline Eliza, daughter of Charles Fox and Eliza (Corey) Gardiner, a descendent of Lion Gardiner of Gardiner's Island, N.Y. He served on the Ports- mouth and Marion, west coast of Africa. 1859-60; on the St. Mary's, Pacific squadron, 1860-62: was promoted lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862, and served as executive officer of the gun-boat Tioga in the James River and Potomac flotilla and West India Flying squadron. May, 1862-Nov. 1863. He commanded the gun-boat Panola, West Gulf blockading squadron, 1863-64. being present at the battle of:\Iobile Bay; was on duty in the ordnance department. New York navy yard, 1864-65, being meanwhile detailed to the frigate Poichatan, East Gulf blockading squad- ron, March-August. 1865, and commanded the steamer Tullaposa during a portion of the cruise; served at the Naval academy, 1865-67; was in