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STEVENS, Edwin Augustus, engineer, was born in Hoboken, N.J., July 28, 1795; son of John and Eachel (Cox) Stevens. He was educated by ]irivate tutors and engaged with liis father and brothers in practical engineering. He became treasurer and general manager of the Cam- den and Amboy rail- road on its incorpora- tion in 1830, and he invented a plow, known as the Stevens plow, and an air- tight fire-room to ap- ply forced draught in steamers. He assisted his brother in build- ing the Stevens bat- tery and in all the railroad projects car- ried out by the brothers. At the be- ginning of the civil war he offered to complete the Stevens battery, and built a small iron-clad, the Naagatuck, to demonstrate the practica- bility of the larger vessel. The Nmigatuck was accepted by the government and took part in the advance of the Federal fleet up the James river in 1862. The government, however, refused to appropriate money to finish the larger battery, and at his death Mr. Stevens left the vessel, with $1,000,000 for its completion, to the state of New Jersey. He left, by his will, an endowment of $500,000; a building fund of $150,000 and a block of ground in Hoboken for the " erection and maintenance of an institution of learning ", which resulted in the Stevens Institute of Technology, a school of mechanical engineering, opened in 1871 with Dr. Henry Morton (q.v.) as president, and to which institution Andrew Carnegie in 1899 gave |65,000 to erect the Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering, inaugurated, Feb. 6, 1902, in con- nection with which occasion Mr. Carnegie gave $100,000 more as an endowment to take care of the building. Mr. Stevens was married in 1854, to Martha Bayard, daughter of Albert B. and Caroline (Bayard) Dod of Princeton, who survived him and devoted property in real-estate valued at |30,000 in 1898 to the Stevens Institute of Technology, and large sums of money approx- imating a quarter of a million of dollars for the benefit of religious and charitable institutions in Hoboken, N.J. Their son, Edwin Agustus Ste- vens, became a mechanical engineer and promoter in the public affairs of the city of Hoboken and the state of New Jersey. Edwin Agustus Ste- vens. Sr.. died in Paris, France, Aug. 8, 1868.

STEVENS, George Barker, educator and author, was born in Spencer, Tioga county, N.Y.,

July 13, 1854; son of Thomas Jackson and Wel- tha (Barker) Stevens; grandson of Moses and Amy (Spaulding) Barker. He was a student at Cornell university, 1873-75; and was graduated from the University of Rochester, A.B., 1877, and from Yale universitj% B.D., 1880. He was mar- ried, Nov. 23, 1880, to Kate Abell, daughter of Hampton and Jeannette (Loomis) jNIattison of Oswego, N.Y. He was pastor of the First Con- gregational church at Buffalo, N.Y., 1880-82; of the First Presbyterian church at Watertown, N.Y., 1882-85, and was a student in the univer- sities of Germany, 1885-86. He was professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation at Yale university, 1886-95, and of systematic the- ology from 1895. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Syracuse university in 1883, that of D.D. from the University of Jena, Germany, in 1886, and from Illinois college in 1902, and that of LL.D. from the University of Rochester in 1903. He edited the " Homilies of Chrysostom on the Acts and Romans " for Di". Philip Schaff's edi- tion of " Post-Nicene Church Fathers," and is the author of: TJie Pauline Tlieology (1892); TJie Johannine Tlieologij (1894); ASJiort Commentary on Galatians (1894); Doctrine and Life (1895); TJie Epistle of Paul in Modern English (1898); Tlie Tlieology of the Neio Testament (1899): The Messages of Paid (1900); Hie Messages of the Apostles (1900); The Teaching of Jesus (1901), and numerous theological and philosophical mag- azine articles.

STEVENS, Henry, bibliographer, was born in Barnet, Vt., Aug. 24, 1819; brother of Benjamin Franklin Stevens (q.v.). He attended the Lj-n- don academy, Vt., in 1836; taught school; served as a clerk in the treasury department at Wash- ington, D.C., and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1843, A.M., 1846, meanwhile studying law in Cambridge, Mass. Influenced by his father's zeal in collecting American historical documents, he became engaged in research of a similar na- ture, and in 1845 went to London, England, where he acted as the purchasing agent for several public, private and collegiate libraries in America, including: the Smithsonian Institution; the Library of Congi-ess; the John Carter Brown library of Providence, R.I., to which he sold his entire collection of Americana, and the Lenox library in New York city, a very large portion of which was once his private possession. Through a letter of introduction from Jared Sparks (q.v.), who had first encouraged his search for Americana in foreign archives, he be- came acquainted with Sir Anthony Panizzi, chief librarian of the British Museum, who was em- ployed by him to furnish the Museum with eveiy book and pamphlet relating to North or South America that could be discovered in any Ian-