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STEBBINS, Emma, sculptor, was born in New York city, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1815. She engaged in portrait painting as an amateur, and in 1837 studied sculpture in Rome, Italy, under Paul Akers, and executed busts of Charlotte Cushman and John W. Stebbens (1859); statuette of the boy Joseph; statues of Horace Mann (1860) and Columbus, and a fountain representing the " An- gel of the Waters" (1860-62), in Central Park, N.Y. She returned to New York in 1870. She edited "Letters of Charlotte Cushman" with a memoir in 1878. He died in New Y^'ork city, Oct. 25, 1882.

STEDM AN, Edmund Clarence, poet and critic, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 8, 1833; son of Maj. Edmund Burke and Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge) Stedman; grandson of Griffin and Eliz- abeth (Gordon) Stedman, and of David Low and Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge, and a descendant, in the eighth generation, of Isaac Stedman, who was born in England, 1605, and immigrated to Massachusetts, 1635. After Edmund's father's death in 1835, he became the ward of his great- uncle, James Stedman of Norwich, Conn., to whose home he was sent in 1839. He attended Yale college, 1849-51, receiving his A.B. degree, 1871, as a member of the class of 1853; continued his studies under private instructors at Northamp- ton, Mass., 1851, and was editor of the Norwich Tribune, 1852-53, and of the Winsted (Conn.) Herald, 1854-55. He removed to New York city in 1856, whei'e he contributed verse to leading publications, and was editorially connected with the Tribune, 1859-61. He was married, Nov. 2, 1853, to Laura Hyde, daughter of Asa and Eliza- beth (Rogers) Woodworth of Danielsonville, Conn. He was located at Washington, D.C., as as war correspondent of the New York World, 1861-63; was in the confidential employ of At- torney-General Bates, 1863-64, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, 1869-1900, sub- sequently devoting his entire time to literary

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work, and making his home in Bronxville. N.Y. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Yale, 1871, and by Dartmouth, 1873; that of L.H.D. by Columbia, 1892, and that of LL.D. by Yale, 1894. Mr. Stedman acquired a wide reputation as a liter- ary critic of unusual discrimination, lec- turing at Johns Hop- kins university upon the " Nature and Ele- ments of Poetry," upon the creation of the Turnbull chair of poetry, the first chair of its kind in Amer- ica, 1891, and repeat- ing the same course at Columbia college, 1891, and at the Uni- versity of Pennsyl- vania, 1892. He was

frequently chosen to deliver original poems on important public occasions. He served as vice- president and president of the American Copy- right league. He edited, with Thomas B. Aldrich, '■ Cameos, from the Poems of Walter Savage Landor " (1874); "Poems of Austin Dobson " (1880); " The Library of American Literature," with Ellen M. Hutchinson (11 vols., 1888-89); "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe " wuth G. E. Woodbury (10 vols. 1895); "A Victorian An- thology " (1895), and " An American Anthology " (1900). He is the author of: Poems. Lyric and Idyllic (1860); Alice of Monmouth (1864); The Blameless PiHnce (1869); Poetical Works (1873); Victorian Poets (1875); Hawthorne, and Other Poems (1877); Poets of America (1885); The Na- ture and Elements of Poetry, lectures (1892); Poems Note First Collected (1897).

STEDMAN, William, representative, born in Cambridge, Mass., baptized, Jan. 20, 1765, He was