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1883-S4 ; professor of biological sciences at Coe college, 1S84-87. and was in charge of the anthro- pological department of the American Museum of Natural History, 1839-91. He was registrar of Chautauqua imiversity. 188.8-89. and in 1893 became professor of anthropology at the Uni- versity of Chicago. Besides his numerous maga- zine contributions, he wrote : On the Hills (1890); Some First Steps iti Human Progress (1895); Amrriean ItidiansilSdd); Indiutis of South Mexico (l^;t9). and Strange Peojiles (1900).

STARR, William Q., educator, -was born in Riippahannock county, Va.. Sept. 26. 1840; son of William H., and Frances Starr. He attended Richmond college, 185-1-55. and was graduated from Randolph-Macon college in 1859. He studied at the Randolph-Macon college, divinity school, Boydton, Va-. and in 1859 became pres- ident of the Marengo Military institute in Alabama. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in 1860, was president of the Wesleyan Female college, 1873- 78, and in 1899 became president of the Randolph- Macon college, which position he still held in 1903.

STARRETT, Helen Ekin, author, was born in Allegheny county. Pa., Sept. 19, 1840; daughter of the Rev. John and Esther Fell (Lee) Ekin ; granddaughter of Silas and Rebecca (Fell) Lee of Bucks county, Pa., and of William and Martha (Cowan) Ekin of "Westmoreland county, Pa., and a descendant of the Fell family of Longlands, England. She was graduated from the Pittsburg, Pa., high school in 1856. and was married, Feb. 15, 1864, to the Rev. William Aikin Starrett, son of William and Ellen (McEwen) Starrett of Al- legheny county, Pa. She was the founder of the Kenwood institute, a classical school for girls in Chicago, m., 1885, and principal of the same from its foundation for nine years. She then founded a school of her own. incorporated as the Starrett School for Girls. She is the author of : Future of Educate'! TT'omeu (1880) ; Letters to a Daughter (1882); Letters to Elder Daughters (ISSS); Gyppie, an Obituary (1884); Pete, the Story of a Chicken (1885); Letters to a Little Girl (1886); After Col- lege. Wltat For Girls ? (1895), and with her sister, Frances Ekin Allison, author of a volume of poems entitled Crocus and Wiiitergreen (1893). She also contributed to magazines and to religious and educational journals both as editorial and miscellaneous writer. Her home in 1903 was in Chicago. 111.

START, Charles Monroe, jurist, was born in Bakersville, Vt., Oct. 4, 1839; son of Simeon Gould and Man.- Sophia (Barnes) Start: grandson of Moses and Margaret (Gould) Start ; great- grandson of Georgt" an<l Mary (Tucker) Start, and a descendant of William Start of Ipswich,

Mass. He was educated at Bakersfield and Barre academies, Vt., joined the volunteer army in 1861, and was appointed 1st lieutenant, company I, 10th Vermont regiment, resigning on a surgeon's certificate of disability, December, 1863. In 1863 he removed to Rochester, Minn. He was mar- ried, Aug. 10, 1865, to Clara, daughter of William C. and Clarissa (Pratt) Wilson of Bakersfield, Vt. He was prosecuting-attorney of Olmstead county, 1863-80 ; attorney-general of Minnesota, 1880-81 ; judge of the third judicial district court, 1881-94 ; was re-elected in 1894 for six years, and resigned in 1895 to accept the office of chief- justice of the supreme court of the state, having been elected on the Republican ticket at the state election held, Nov. 6, 1894, and re-elected in 1900 for a second term of six years.

STAUGHTON, William, educator, was born in Coventry, England, Jan. 4, 1770. He was baptized in 1787, and graduated from Bristol Theological college in 1792. In 1793 he came to America. He was pastor at Georgetown. D.C., 1793-94 ; Bordentown and of various other Baptist churches in New Jersey, 1794-1805 ; churches in Philadelphia, 1805-22 ; president of Columbian college in Washington, D.C., 1822-27, and was elected president of Georgetown college, Ken- tucky, in 1829, but died before taking the chair. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1801. He was twice married : first, to Maria Hanson, who died in January, 1823, and secondly, to Anna C. Peale who sur- vived him. His son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. S. W. Lynd. published his memoir in 1834. Dr. Staugh- ton died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 1829.

STAUNTON, William, clergyman and author, was born in Chester, England, April 20. 1803. He came with his father to the United States in 1818, and settled in Pittsburg, Pa. ; studied the- ology under the Rev. Henry J. Whitehouse of Rochester, N.Y. ; was ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, June 9, 1833, and ordained priest, Sept. 7, 1834. He was a mis- sionary in Palmyra and Lyons. N.Y., 1833-34; was rector of St. James, Roxbury, Mass., 1835- 37; of St. Peter's, Morristown, N.J., 1840-47; founded and was first rector of St. Peter's, Brook- lyn, N.Y., 1848-51, and was rector of Trinity, Potsdam, N.Y., 1852-59. He removed to New- York city in 1859, and engaged in literary pur- suits. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Hobart in 1856. He is the author of : Dictionary of the Church, revised under the title Ecclesiastical Dictionary {\SU-(i\): Tlie Catechists' Manual (1850): So7igs and Prayers for the Family Altar (ISdO); Book of Common Praise (1866); Episodes in Clerical and Parish Life (1887) ; and the composer of a Te Deum and Voluntary for the Organ. He died in New York, Sept. 29, 1889.