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Yale in 1807. He studied medicine with Dr. Edward Miller in New York city; wa.-5 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., in 1811, and completed his studies abroad in Eng- land and Paris. He was appointed surgeon in the U.S. army in 1812 and later established a practice in New Y(nk city. He was professor of surgery at the New York Medical Institution, 1814-18: professor of surgery at Rutgers college; was surgeon to the New York Hospital, where he introduced the European method of instruction; was professor of the principles and practice of surgery at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, 182r)-;]8, and professor emeritus, 1838-69. He was appointed president of the college in 1841. He was president of Die New York State Medical society: vice-president of the American Medical association in 1847, and president in 1848. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1849. He is the author of an edition of Sir Astlej- Cooper's " First Lines of Surgery" (18'22). and of numerous scientific articles in the leading medical journals. He died in New York city. March 30. 18G9.

STEVENS Benjamin Franklin, bibliogra- pher, was born m Barnet, Vt., Feb. 19, 1833; son of Henry Stevens (1791-1867); grandson of Enos Stevens (1739-1808), author of a valuable histor- ical journal dating. 1777-83; great-grandson of Capt. Phinhehas Stephens (1707-56), a colonial soldier, and a descendant of Thomas Stevens of London, England. His father was the founder and first president of the Vermont Historical society. He was educated in the district school of Barnet and at the University of Vermont, and in 1860 went to London, England., where he be- came associated in the book-selling business with his brother Henry (q.v.), and was appointed U.S. despatch agent and also purchasing agent for American libraries. He was married, Jan. 28, 1865, to Cliarlotte, daughter of Charles Whitting- hara, a pioneer printer of London, after whose death lie conducted the Chiswick press. Charlotte Whittingham was an artist of considerable rep- utation. With a staff of assistants, Mr. Stevens was engaged for over thirty years in making manuscript chronology and an alphabetical cata- logue index of American papers in manj' of the archives in England, France. Holland and Spain, from 1763 to 1784, and facsimiles of 2107 important hisorical manuscripts in European archives, re- lating to America, 1773-83. with descriptions, edi- torial notes and translations. He was also in- strumental in making a facsimile, by photo- graphing from the original manuscript in the foreign office in Paris, of the MS. Codex Cohnn- bus. entitled "His Own Book of Privileges. 1502, with English translation." His other noted fac-

similes include: The Clinton Civnpaign in Vir- ginia, 1781; "Geu. Sir William Howe's Orderly Book from June 17, 1775, to May 26, 1776," and the unpublished British Headquarters colored mamiscript map of New York and environs (1782), which he disovered in the war office, London, and issued in January, 1901. He cal- endared for the Royal commission on Historical Manuscripts; the American portion of Earl of Dartmouth's papers; Headquarters papers of the British commanders-in-chief of America: Gens. Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and Sir Guy Carlton, and compiled the unpublished manuscript iiapers pertaining to the Provincial ti"Oops and to the Loyalists during the American Revolution. He died at his home. The Sheaves, Surbiton, Surrey, England, March 15, 1902,

STEVENS, Charles Ellis, educator, was born in Boston. July 5, 1853; son of James Edward Poole and Mary Pitkin (Abrams) Stevens. He was a special student in the .senior class of the University of Pennsylvania in 1871; studied at Yale college, 1872-73, and was graduated from the Berkeley Divinity school, Middletown, Conn., 1875, continuing his studies abroad in 1876. He was married to EllaMontieth, daughter of Walter Montieth Aikman of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was assistant minister of Grace church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1876-77; was ordained priest in 1877; rector of the Church of Ascension at Brooklyn, 1877-80; was secretary of the auxiliarj- branch of the Protestant Episcopal board of missions in the United States, 1878-01; became examining chaplain of the diocese of Long Island, N.Y., in 1886; was arch-deacon of Brooklyn, 1887-91, and rector of Christ church, Philadelphia, Pa., from 1891. He was a special lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Wooster, Ohio, 1888; of the same at St. Stephen's college, Annandale, N.Y., 1890, and of history and political science there, 1891, and special lecturer of constitutional law and professor of constitutional history and civil polity at the University of the Citj' of New York, 1891. He received the degree of B.D. from Nashotah Theological seminary. Wisconsin; that of LL.D. from the University of Wooster, 1888, and in the same year, D.C.L. from King's college. Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a fellow of the Royal Geographical society; a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Edinburgh, and of other European and American learned societies; was made Knight Commander of the Order of Christ, by the king of Portugal; Knight of the Order of Isabella of Castile, by the queen regent of Spain, and officer of the Academie de France, in recognition of his .services to political science. He is tiie autlior of: Sources of the Constitution of the United States (1894); The Romance of ArenfeU, and Other Tales of the Rhine (1897).