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 STICKNEY

STILES

the free coinage of silver, introducing a silver plank into the platform of the Republican na- tional convention in 1888. He also established the Silver Knight in Washington, D.C, and edited the same.

STICKNEY, William Wallace, governor of Vermont, was born at Plymouth, Vt., March 21, 1853; son of John W. and Ann (Pinney) Stick- ney; grandson of John and Celia (Thatcher) Stickney, and of Horatio and Sally (Woodbury) Pinney, and a descendant of William Stickney, a native of Hull, England, who settled in Rowley, Mass. , 1638. William Wallace Stickney was grad- uated from Phillips Exeter academy, N.H., 1877; studied law under Judge William H. Walker, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He was married. May 4, 1881, to Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Haynes and Ellen (Hunton) Lincoln of Ludlow, Vt., where he continued to reside. He served as clerk in the Vermont legislature, 1883- 93; was state's attorney, 1882-84, and 1890-93; a member of the state legislature, 1893-96, serving all that time as speaker of the house, and was elected as a Republican, governor of Vermont, serving, 1900-1903.

STILES, Charles Wardell, zoologist, was born in Spring Valley, N.Y., May 15, 1867; son of the Rev. Samuel Martin and Elizabeth (White) Stiles. He attended Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., 1885-86; College de France, 1886-87; uni- versities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1887-90, receiving the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. from Leipzig in the latter year; Trieste Zoological station, 1891, and Pasteur Institute and College de France, 1891. He was appointed zoologist in the bureau of ani- mal industry, U.S. department of agriculture, Washington, D.C, in 1891; professor of medical zoology in Georgetown university in 1893; special lecturer on the same subject in the Army Medical school in 1894; honorary custodian of helmin- thological collections, U.S. National museum, in 1894, and in the same year secretary of the ad- visory committee of the Smithsonian Table at the Naples Zoological station, all of which positions he still held in 1903. He was married in June, 1897, to Virginia, daughter of Lewis Baker of Washington. D.C. The honorary degree of M.S. was conferred upon him by Wesleyan in 1896. He was elected foreign correspondent to the Societe de Biologic in 1892, and to the Academie de Medi- cine in 1897; was U.S. government delegate to the International Zoological congresses at Leyden and Cambridge in 1895 and 1898, respectively; was elected a member of the International Commis- sion on Zoological Nomenclature in 1895, and its secretary in 1898; detailed as agricultural and scientific attache to the U.S. embassy to Berlin, 1898-99; was a corresponding member of the Zoological society of London, and a member of X.— 3

several American and European scientific socie- ties. His publications include: A Revision of Vie Adult Cestodes of Cattle, Sheep and Allied Ajiimals (1893); Tapeicorms of Poultry (1896); Tlie Inspection of Meats for Animal Parasites (1898); Sheep Scab, Its Nature and Treatment (1898); Internal Parasites of the Fur Seal (1899); Illustrated Key to the Animal Parasites of Man (1901); Trichinosis in Germany (1901), and con- tributions to the Proceedings of the U.S. National museum and to various scientific journals.

STILES, Ezra, educator, was born in North Haven, Conn., Nov. 29, 1727; son of the Rev. Isaac (Yale, A.B., 1733) and Kezia (Taylor) Stiles, and grandson of John and Ruth (Bancroft) Stiles, and of Edward (Harvard, A.B., 1671, A.M., 1720) and Ruth (Wyllys) Taylor, and a descendant of John Stiles who settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1635. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1746, A.M., 1749, and was employed there as a tutor, 1749-53. He had met Franklin prior to this, and conducted some experiments in electricity, which helped to draw the two men into a life-long friendship. In the summer of 1749 he was licensed to preach, and besides his regular college work, did some missionary work among the Indians, but because of " certain scruples respecting the truth of rev- elation," he decided to leave the ministry, and in 1753 he took the attorney's oath. He was a natural student, and law did not give him the leisure that he desired for study, and in 1755, when he received a unanimous call to the Second Congregational church of Newport, he accepted it. During his pastorate there, he studied mathe- matics and astronomy, and upon receiving a D.D. degree, began the study of Hebrew, in which he became very proficient. His observations upon the comet of 1759 were such as to attract atten- tion to him. The idea of founding a college in Rhode Island originated with him, and he drafted the first charter for what was later Brown uni- versity, but because of the sectarian nature of the college at first, he never identified himself with it. Dr. Stiles was an ardent patriot, and at the outbreak of the Revolution he was advised to leave Newport. He removed first to Bristol, then in March, 1776, to Dighton, and in April, 1777, to Portsmouth, N.H. At this time. Dr. Stiles was known in all New England as an Orientalist, a Hebraist, a student of the classics, of mathematics and of astronomy, a friend of Benjamin Franklin, and one of the very few scientists, and in 1778 was oflfered the presidency of Yale. He removed to New Haven in June, and assumed charge of the college. He was twice married; in February, 1757, to Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John Hubbard of New Haven. Conn. She died, May 29, 1775, and in 1783. he was married to Marv, widow of William Checkley,