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STEVENSON, Daniel, educator, was born in Versailles, Ky., Nov. 12, 1823; son of Daniel and Elizabeth ( West) Stevenson; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Evans) Stevenson, who removed from Frederick county, Md., to Kentucky in 1786, and of Thomas and Atha (Fant) West, Virginians. He was a descendant of the Stevensons who came to America with the Calverts in the settle- ment of Maryland in the seventeenth century, and of John Evans, one of the few persons com- prising the first class of the Methodists formed in America. Daniel Stevenson attended private local schools; was graduated from Transylvania university, Lexington, Ky., A.B., 1847; taught school in Mississippi, 1848, and in Clark county, Ky., in the same year beginning the study of law. He was married, Aug. 5, 1849, to Sarah Ann, daughter of the Rev. Richard and Sarah (Hitt) Corwine, whose ancestors were among the ear- liest settlers in Salem, Massachusetts. He lield a professors! lip and was pro tempore president a: the Whitewater Female college, Centerville, Ind.. 1849-51; became a member of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Soutli, in the latter year; was one of the founders of Wesleyan college, Millersburg (now at Win- chester) Ky., 1859, and state superintendent of public instruction, 18G3-67. At the close of the civil war he united with the Methodist Episcopal church, being one of the " Loyal Eighteen." After 1867 he held successive pastorates in Par- kersburg, Va., in Lexington and Louisville, Ky., and in the New Hampshii'e conference till 1879. In the latter year he returned to Kentucky and leased the old Augusta college building, and operated it as a collegiate institute for the Meth- odist Episcopal church till 1887, wlien he accepted the presidency of Union college, at Barbonr- ville, Ky., a position he held till the year he died. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1871. He was a member of the General Conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal church in 1872 and in 1896. He was a wide contributor to the periodical litera- ture of his church. He died in Barbourville, Ky., Jan. 2, 1897.

STEVENSON, Edward Irenjeus Prime, criti- cal editor and author, was born in Madison, N.J., Jan. 29, 1868; fifth son of the Rev. Paul Eugene and Cornelia (Prime) Stevenson; on the paternal side of ancient Scottish ancestry, and on the maternal side, a direct descendant through both Catholic and Huguenot lines from the Primes of Hertfordshire, England. He was graduated from Freehold institute, a classical school in New Jersey; entered almost immediately upon a career of critical work and general authorship, being for many years constantly associated with The Independent of New York city, and with the

periodical press and the private critical staff of the firm of Harper & Brothers. In the capacity of a specialist in musical criticism and in certain other branches of sesthetics, and in a thorough critical knowledge of English and foreign liter- ature, he established a recognized reputation. He was co-editor of the " Library of the World's Best Literature," 1896-97; lectured much on foreign litei'atures; traveled in eastern Europe, and after 1900, liis health declining, became a resident of Austria-Hungary, except for frequent visits to the United States. He is the author of: A Matter of Temperament; Mliite Cockades; Left to Themselves; Mrs. Dee's Encore and The Square of Sevens; the bulk of his writing being found in the critical departments of Harper's Weekly and Tlie Independent.

STEVENSON, James, ethnologist, was born in Maysville, Ky., Dec. 24, 1840. He attended the University of Rochester, New York; became in- terested in ethnology, and in 1855 visited the far west for the purpose of studying the Indian tribes of that region. In 1856 he assisted Fer- dinand V. Hayden (q.v.) in his geological in- vestigations in Dakota and Nebraska; continued his Indian researches among the Blackfoot and Sioux tribes, and made a survey of the Yellow- stone country. During the civil war he was a member of Gen. Fitz-John Porter's staff, until November, 1862, and subsequently served with the army as colonel. He was married, Api'il 18, 1872, to Matilda Coxe Evans (q.v.). In 1866-67 he was again associated with Professor Hayden, chief of the newly organized geological survey of the territories. In his capacity as executive officer he discovered the sources of the Columbia and Snake rivers; was the first white man to reach the summit of Great Teton mountain: made a pass over the Rocky mountains, and subse- quently continued his exploration of Yellow- stone Lake, being instrumental in the crea- tion of Yellowstone Park. With Maj. John W. Powell (q.v.) he was influential in or- ganizing the bureau of ethnology in 1879, con- ducting the expedition sent out by the bureau in the same year to study the Zuni and Pueblo my- thology, philosophy and sociology, and to exjDlore the cave, cliff and mesa ruins of New Mexico. He also visited the Hopi and Navajos tribes of Arizona and the Mission Indians of California, making collections of archaic implements, ceram- ics and ceremonial objects for the U.S. National museum and the Smithsonian Institution. He was a fellow of the Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of nvimerous scientific organizations, and a contrib- utor to their various Proceedings, and published several illustrated catalogues of Indian coUec-