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tions in the Rcjiorts of the Bureau of Elhuology, with which he remainaJ connected until liis death. He died in New York city, July 25, 1888. STEVENSON, John Dunlap, soldier, was horn in Staunton, Va., June 8, 1801. He attended the College of Soutli Carolina, and practised law in Franklin county, 1842-4G. At the outbreak of the war with Mexico he organized a company of volunteers and served under Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, in the invasion of New Mexico. He re- moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1847; was a represen- tative in the state legislature; president of the state senate, and in 18G1 he organized the 7th regiment of Missouri volunteers. He com- manded the district of Savannah during the siege of Corintli; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and commanded the district of Corinth and fortified Decatur, Ala. He commanded the 3d brigade, 3d division, 17th corps. Army of the Tennessee, in the Vicks- burg campaign. Ma)' 1 — July 4, 1803. He re- signed his commission. Aug. 8, 1864, but was re- commissioned, and commanded the district of Harper's Ferry. He was promoted colonel, 30th infantry, July 28, 1866, and was stationed in northern Georgia in 1866. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers for gallantry at Champion Hill, and brigadier-general, U.S.A., for distinguished services during the war, March 2, 1867. He commanded the 2.jth infantry, 1867-71. and resigned his commission in 1871. He re- sumed his law practice in St. Louis, Mo., 1871-97, and died in St. Louis, Jan. 22, 1897.

STEVENSON, John White, senator, was born in Richmond, Va., May 4, 1812; son of Andrew Stevenson (q.v.). He was prepared for college at Harapden-Sidney academy and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1832. He was ad- mitted to the bar, and began practice in Coving- ton, Ky., 1841, subsequently becoming county- attorney. He was a representative in the Ken- tucky legislature, 1845-47; took an active part in the state constitutional convention of 1849; was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1848, 1852 and 1856. and presidential elector for the state at large in 1852 and 1856. He was one of the revisers of the civil and criminal code of practice in Kentuck}-, 1854; a Democratic repre- .sentative from Kentucky in the 35th and 86th congresses, 1857-61; was elected lieuten- ant-governor of the state in 1867, and upon the death of Gov. John L. Helm, Sept. 8, 1867, became acting govern- or, and in 1868 governor of the state, serving as such until 1871. He was United States senator, 1871-77: professor of com- mercial law and contracts in the Cincinnati Law

school, Ohio; chairman of the Democratic na- tional convention at Cincinnati, 1880, and presi- dent of the American Bar association in 1884. He married Isahidla, daughter of Maj. Samuel Win- ston, of Newport, Ky. He died in Covington, Ky., Aug. 10. 1886.

STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe, ethnologist, was born in San Augustine, Texas; daughter of Alex- ander Hamilton and Maria Matilda (Coxe) Evans; granddaughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Watkins (Sayre) Coxe, and a descendant of Samuel and Elizabeth (Watkins) Evans, who were the first settlers of the famih' name in Virginia, and of James Sayre, who settled on a grant of land ■ from King George in the township of Burton, Nova Scotia, where he died, Aug. 5, 1784. She removed with her parents in infancy to Wash- ington, D.C.; was educated at Miss Anable's scliool, Philadelphia, Pa., and was married to James Stevenson (q.v.), from whom she re- ceived special instruction in ethnology, accom- panying him on his Rocky mountain and New Mexico explorations, and assisting him in mak- ing collections for the U.S. National museum. She made an extensive vocabulary of the Zuni language; was received with her husband into the secret organizations of the Pueblo tribes, and studied their esoteric institutions. She was made a member of the staff bureau of American eth- nology of the Smithsonian Institution, Washing- ton, D.C, in 1889; served on the jury for anthro- pology at the World's Columbian exposition, 1893; was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Washington (D.C.) Academy of Sciences, the Anthropological society and other scientific organizations. She is the author of: Zuni and Zunians; Religious Life of the Zuni Child; The Sia, Zaiii Sccdp Ceremonial; Zuni Ancestral Gods and Masks, and The Esoteric and Exoteric Life of the Zuni, a monograph in the 23d annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

STEVENSON, Sara Yorke, archjeologist, was born in Paris, France, Feb. 19, 1847; daugh- ter of Edward and Sarah (Hanna) Yorke; grand- daughter of Samuel and Mar}' (Lippincott) Yorke and of James and Sarah (Jackson) Hanna. and a descendant of Col. Thomas Yorke who came from Yorkshire. England, in 1728, settled in Berks county where he entered into partnership with John Potts, the founder of Pottstown (whose sis- ter, Martha, he married), and served with distinc- tion in the French and Indian wars; also of Edward Yorke, who, during the Revolution, served on the flagship Montgomery and com- manded the galliot Camden; his wife, Sarah Stille, being lineal descendant of Olof Stille, oneof the earliest Swedish colonists of the state (1736- 1741), wlien the region was known as New Sweden.