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guage. and also sent on special commissions to the great libraries of the continent. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, IS.IO-SG; a member of the committee for promoting the Caxton exhibition, 1877. and of the Librarians' association, 1877-86. He became a famous bibliog- rapher, and his catalogues and bibliographical writings include: Catalogue of my EngJis.h Li- brary (1853); .4 Catalogue Raisonue of English Jiibks (18'i4); Catalogue of a Library of WorJxS relating to America (1854); Amei^'rari Bibliog- rapher (1854); Catalogue of American Books in the Library of the British Museum (1857); Analyt- ical Index to Colonial Documents of New Jersey in the State Paper Offices of England (1858); C ttalogne of American Maps in the British Museum (1859); Catalogue of Canadian Books in the British Museum (1859); Catalogue of Mexican and other Sjiaiiish- American and West Lidian BcKjks in the British Museum (1859); Bibliotheca Americana (1861); Historical Nuggets (1862); Tlie Humboldt Library (I860); Historical and Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discovenes in America (1869); Bibliotheca Historica (1870); Schedule of 2000 American Historical Nuggets (1870); Sebastian Cabot-John Cabot-0 (1870); Bibliotheca Gcographica et Historica (1872); American Books icith Tails to 'Em (1873); Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition (1878); Histoi-y of the Oxford Caxton Memorial Bible (1878); Photo- Bibliography (1878); Historical Collections (1881- 86); Who Spoils our New English Books (1885); Recollections of James Lenox (1886), and many essays, unpublished, notably a supplement to "Life of Panizzi " by Louis Fagan. He also edited "The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies (1886). He died in South Hampstead, England. Feb. 28. IS'^6.

STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls, soldier, was born in Andover, Mass., March 25, 1818; son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens; grandson of Jona- tlian and Susannah (Bragg) Stevens, and a de- scendant of John Stevens, one of the founders of Andover. 1610, who came from Cavesham. Oxford county, England, in 1638. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1839, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant and assigned to the corps of engineers. He served as assistant en- gineer of the construction of Fort Adams, New- port, R.I., 1839-41; of the repairs of Fairhaven battery. New Be<lford Harbor, Mass.; was pro- moted 1st lieutenant. July 1. 1840; was married, Sept. 8, 1841, to Margaret Lyman, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Lyman) Hazard of New- port, R.I. He directed the repairs of the de- fenses of Portsmouth Harbor, N.H., 1842-46; and was superintending engineer iu the construction of Fort Knox. Penobscot river, Maine, 1843-46. He was adjutant of engineers at the siege of Vera

Cruz. Mexico, in the battles of Cerro fJordo. Con- treras.Churubusco, Molino del Rev. Cluipultepec, and in the assault and capture of the city of Mexico, where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted captain, Aug. 20, 1847, for Contreras and Clmrubusco, and major, Sept. 13, 1847, for Cliapultepec. He was engaged as superintending engineer at Fort Knox. Maine. Portsmouth, N.H., and at Forts Pulaski and Jackson. Ga.; was in charge of tiie coast survey office, Washington, D.C.. 1849-53; a member of the commission for improving the James and Appomattox rivers, Va.. and Cape Fear river, N.C., in 1853. He re- signed from the army. ]VIarch 16, 1853, to accept the governorship of Washington Territory and charge of the exploration of the northern route for the Pacific railroad. He surveyed a belt of the country 200 miles wide, from St. Paul, Minn., to Puget Sound, and demonstrated the practica- bility of that route and the navigability for steamboats of the upper Columbia and Missouri. He was the first governor of Washington Terri- tory, 1853-57; and superintendent of Indian affairs and commissioner to make treaties witii over 30.000 Indians of the extreme northwest. He extinguished the Indian title to 150,000 square miles of territory, and instituted a beneficent policy for civilizing these tribes, who in 1903 were living under his treaties, and had made consider- able progress in civilized habits. He also made a treat}' with the warlike and hostile Blackfeet in October, 1855, and between them and the hunting tribes of Washington and Oregon, crossing the Rocky Mountains twice on this service. The dis- affected Indians of these territories, having broken out in war against the whites while he was absent on this expedition, he forced his way across the Rocky Mountains in midwinter, called out the entire male population of his territory as volunteers, and waged so vigorous a campaign against the hostiles that before the close of 1856 they were subdued. He arrested certain white men, former employees of the Hudson Bay com- pany, suspected of aiding the hostiles, and when Chief-Justice Edward Lander issued a writ of habeas corpus for their release, proclaimed mar- tial law over Pierce and Thurston counties, ar- rested the chief justice and held him a prisoner un- til the close of the war. He resigned as governor in August, 1857, and was delegate from Washing- ton Territory in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857- 61. In congress he vindicated his course as gov- ernor, caused his Indian treaties to be ratified, and the scrip he had issued to pay the expenses of the war to be assumed by the government. In the presidential contest of 1860 he was chairman of the Democratic national executive committee and conducted the canvass for the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. But when the southern leaders de-