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12. 1861, commaniled the 2d brigade, Blenker's division, under Gen. John C. Fremont, and com- manded the 2d division, 1st corps. Army of Vir- ginia, at the 2d battle of Bull Run. August-Septem- ber. 1862. He commanded the 2d division, 11th army corps. Army of the Potomac, in the Clian- cellorsville campaign and at Gettysburg. In 1865 he resigned his commission. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the preparation of a series of school geographies, that liad an ex- tensive circulation. He also prepared A Topo- graphical Map of the United States and The Cen- tennial Gazetteer (1873). He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 25. 1ST7.

STEJNEGER, Leonhard, zoologist, was born in Bergen, Norway, Oct. 30, 1851; son of P. Stamer and Ingeborg Catharine (Hess) Stejneger. He was graduated from R. Frederic's university, Christiana. Norway, candidatus juris, 1875; came to the United States in 1881, and was engaged in a natural history expedition to Bering Island and Kamtchatka. under the auspices of the Smith- sonian Institution, 1882-83. He was assistant curator of birds in the U.S. National museum, Washington, D.C., 1884-89, and appointed curator of reptiles in 1889. He was married, March 22, 1S'J2. to Marie Reiners, of Krefeld, Germany. He was sent by the U.S. fish commission to study the fur-seal question in Commander Is- lands, 1895. and again as a member of the com- mission, 1896-97. His publications include; Xorsk Ornitologisk Ekskursjonsfaiuia (1873); Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtchatka (1885); the greater part of Birds, "Standard Natural History" (Vol. IV., 1885); Report of the Rooker- ies of the Commander Islands (1897); The Asiatic Fur-Seal Islands and Fur-Seal Industry (1898), and also many monographs and papers in the Proceedings of the U.S. National museum and in other scientific publications.

STEMBEL, Roger Nelson, naval officer, was born in Middleton, Md., Dec. 27, 1810. He was appointed midshipman in the U.S. navy, March 27, 1833; and was on board the Porpoise, West India squadron, when she was wrecked near Vera Cruz in 1833. He served on the Vandalia, 1833-37; attended the New York Naval school, 1837-38; and was promoted passed midshipman, June 23, I'^'SS. He was assigned to the depot of charts and instruments at the U.S. navy depart- ment; promoted lieutenant, Oct. 26, 1843; was a member of the coast survey, 1843-47; and served on the steam frigate Mississippi in the East Indies. 1857-60. He was promoted com- mander, July 1, 1861. and served in the western gun-boat flotilla at the engagements of Lucas's Bend and Belmont in 1861. and at Fort Henry, Island No. 10. and Craigheads Bend in 1861,

where he commanded the flagsliip Chieinnati. He was seriously wounded wlien the Cincinnati was sunk by Confederate rams at Fort Pillow. He was on special duty at Philadelphia and Pitts- burg, Pa., until 1855; was promoted captain U.S.N., July 25, 1866; commanded the steam sloop Canandaigua, European squadron, 1865-67; was stationed at the naval rendezvous, Boston, Mass., 1869-71, and was promoted commodore, July 3, 1870. He cominanded the north squadron, of the Pacific fleet, 1870-72; and commanded the entire fleet. 1872-74. He was retired, Dec. 27, 1872, on attaining the age of sixty-two years, and was promoted rear-admiral on the retired list, June 5, 1874. He resided in Washington, D.C., and died in New York city. Nov. 20. 1900.

STEPHEN, Adam, soldier, was born in Vir- ginia, about 1730. He joined a company of troops, and took part in the expedition against the French posts on the Ohio in 1754. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and commanded the forces at Winchester, Va., during the absence of George Washington. He commanded an expedition against the Creeks in 1758; relieved the South Carolina colonists from their invasions, and was put in command of the entire frontier defences of Virginia in 1763. In 1775 he joined the Con- tinental arm}', and was given command of a regiment; was promoted brigadier-general, Sept. 4, 1776, and major-general. Feb. 19. 1777. He took part in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown, where on account of a dense fog his division fired on the right wing under General Anthony Wayne. He was accused of intoxication, and in the winter of 1777 was cash- iered. He died in Virginia in November, 1791.

STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton, statesman, was born in Taliaferro county, near Crawford- ville, Ga., Feb. 11, 1813; son of Andrew B. and Margaret (Grier)

Stephens, and grand- son of Alexander Stephens, a native of England, who immi- grated to Pennsyl- vania about 1746; served in the Colonial army under Braddock, andin theContinental army during the Rev- olution; removed to Georgia in 1789-90, and settled on a plantation in what became Taliaferro county, and died in

1813. His maternal grandfather, Aaron Grier, was the father of Robert Grier, the maker of " Grier's Almanac," popular in Georgia for many

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