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command of .the Tahoma, Gulf of Mexico, May- September, 1867 ; promoted commander, Dec. 12, 1867 ; commanded the store-ship Purveyor on special service in the Gulf of Mexico and on the coast of Africa, 1868-69 ; the receiving-ship Van- dcdia, Portsmouth, N.H., 1870-71 ; the Monocacy and the Yantic, China and Japan coasts, 1872-74 ; was stationed at the navy yard, Norfolk, Va., 1874-77 ; and was at the torpedo station, Newport, R.I., June-September, 1878. He was promoted captain, June 11, 1879 ; commanded the training ship Constitution, 1879-81 ; was at the naval asy- lum at Philadelphia, Pa., 1881-84 ; commanded the flag-ship Tennessee, North Atlantic station, 1884-8.5 ; the naval station at New London, Conn., 188.5-89; the training station at Newport, R.I., and the Neio Hampshire and Richmond, 1890-91, being promoted commodore. May 19, 1891. He served as governor of the Naval Home, Phila- delphia, Pa., 1891-93 ; commanded the flag-ship Newark, South Atlantic station, 1893, but in con- sequence of his salutation of the flag of the Brazilian cruiser Aquidaban was ordered home ; subsequently commanded the North Atlantic squadron, and proceeding to the West Indies hoisted the flag of rear-admiral Jan. 13, 1894, by special order on board the Kearsarge, which ii -jtr — steamer was

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STANTON, Richard Henry, representative, was born in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 9, 1812 ; son of Richard and Harriet (Perry) Stanton ; and brother of Frederick P. Stanton ; grandson of Benjamin Stanton and of Alexander Perry, and a descend- ant of John Stanton who came from England prior to the sixteenth century, and of David Perry of a Huguenot family of France. He at- tended the Alexandria academy ; studied law and removed to Maysville, K}-. He was married,

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Sept. 19, 1833, to Asenath, daughter of the Rev. Pharis and Elizabeth (Bonner) Throop of Fairfax county, Va. He was postmaster of Maysville ; a Democratic representative from Kentucky in the 31st, 32d and 33d congresses, 1849-55, and was pres- idential elector for Buchanan and Breckinridge in 1857. He was state attorney in 1858, and a delegate to the Democratic national convention in New York in 1868. He served as district judge, 1868-74. He edited the Maysville Monitor, and the Maysville Exjoress. and is the author of : A Code of Practice in Civil Criminal Cases in Ken- tucky (1855): Practical Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc. of Kentucky (1861); Practical Man- ual for Executors, etc. far Kentucky (1862). He died at Maysville, Ky., in November, 1891.

STANTON, Robert Livingston, educator, was born in Griswold, Conn., March 28, 1810. He attended the literary department of Lane Theo- logical seminary in 1834, and was gi-aduated at the theological department in 1837. He was or- dained by the Mississippi presbytery in 1839, and filled three pastorates until 1851. He was presi- dent of Oakland college, 1851-54, pastor at Chilli- cothe, Ohio, 1855-62, professor of pastoral the- ology and homiletics at Danville seminary, 1862- 66, and president of Miami university, 1866-71. He was an editor in New York city, 1871-72, and of the Herald and Presbyter in Cincinnati, 1872- 78. He removed to Washington, D.C., in 1878, and died on his way to a faith healing convention to be held in London. He was moderator of the General Assembly, 1866, and was a trustee of Lane university, 1870-73. Princeton and Wash- ington colleges conferred the degree of D.D. upon him in 1852. He wrote : Tlie Church and the Re- bellion (1864). He died at sea, May 23, 1885.

STANWOOD, Edward, editor, was born at Augusta, Maine, Sept. 16, 1841 ; son of Daniel Caldwell and Mary Augusta (Webster) Stanwood ; grandson of Isaac and Joanna (Caldwell) Stan- wood of Ii^swich, Mass., and of Peter Eaton and Rebecca (Symonds) Webster of Salem, Mass.; great-grandson of Isaac Stanwood of Ipswich, a Revolutionary soldier, and a descendant of Philip Stanwood, who settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1652. He was graduated from Bowdoin college, A.B., 1861, A.M., 1864; was assistant editor of the Kennebec Journal and correspondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser, 1862-67 ; was assistant on the editorial staflf of the Advertiser, 1867-82, and was married, Nov. 16, 1870, to Eliza, daugh- ter of Samuel and Jane (Blackstock) Topliff of Boston, Mass. On the death of Mr. Goddard in 1882, he succeeded to the editorial chair, which he resigned in November, 1883. He was as- sistant on the staflf of the Youth's Companion, Boston, 1884, and in 1885 was advanced to managing editor. He was special agent of the