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of Providence, R.I. He received the degrees: A.M. from Harvard in 1754. D.D from Edinburgh. Scotland, in 17G5, and from Dartmouth in 1780,

and D.D. and LL.D. from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 178-4. He wrote: Discourse on the Christian Union (1761); Discourse on Sav- ing Knoirledge {1170); The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor (1783); Aii Account of the Settlement of Bristol, R.I. (1785); Jlie History of TJiree of the Judges of Charles I. (1794), and the Ecclesiastical History of Neiv England, which he left unfinished at his death. His biography was written by his son-in-law, Abiel Holmes (q.v.), in 1798. See also "The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ", edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter (3 vols.. 1908). He died at New Haven, May 12, 1795. STILES, Henry Reed, physician and author, was born in New York, N.Y., March 10, 1832; son of Samuel and Charlotte Sophia (Reed) Stiles; grandson of Capt. Asabel and Jane Allen (Chapin) Stiles and of Deacon Abner and Elizabeth Woods (Loring) Reed, and a descendant in the eighth generation from John Stiles, who came from Bedfordshire, England, to Windsor, Conn., in 1636. He attended the University of the City of New York, 1850-52, and was graduated M.D. in 1855. He was married, Jan. 31, 1856, to Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Charles M.and Zilpah(Hutch- iuson) Woodward of Freeport, 111. He practised medicine in Galena, 111., and in New Y^>rk state, 1856-61; engaged in literary work, 1865-68, and held various clerkships in the bureau of vital sta- tistics of the Metropolitan board of health, 1868- 70; was medical inspector of board of health, 1870-73; medical superintendent of State Homeo- pathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown, N. Y., 1873-77. He removed to Dundee, Scotland, in 1877, to take charge of the Dundee Homeo- pathic dispensary; returned in 1881, and in 1887 became medical consultant of the Humphrey's Homeopatiiic Medical company. He was one of the founders of the Long Island Historical society in 1861, and its librarian, 1861-65. He was one of the organizers of the Public Health association of New York city in 1872, and of the Society for Promoting the Welfare of the Insane. He was for eight years recording secretary of the Amer- ican Ethnological society; a corresponding mem- ber of the Dorchester Historical and Anti-

quarian •society; of the New England Historical Genealogical society, and various state historical societies. He received from Williams college the honorary degree of A.M. in 1876. He is the author of: Histories and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn. (1859), of which a greatly en- larged revision in 2 vols, was published in 1893; Bundling in America (1861); Genealogy of the Massachusetts Family of Stiles (1^03); edited: Fur- man's " Notes on Brooklyn" (1865); " Wallabout Prison Sliip Series " (2 vols., 1865); '• Genealogy of the Humphreys family" (1884); " Genealogy of the Stranahan and Joslyn Families" (1865); and is the author of: History of the City of Brooklyn, N.Y. (3 vols. 1869-70); History of Kings County, and City of Brooklyn, N.Y. (1884); The Connect- icut Stiles Family (1895); A Handbook of Gene- alogy (1899); and History and Genealogies of Ancient Wethersfield, Conn. (1903). In 1903 he resided at Hill View, Lake George, N.Y.

STILES, John D., representative, was born in Luzerne county. Pa., Jan. 15, 1823. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1844, practised in AUentown, Pa.; served as district attorney in Lehigh county, 185:3-56; was a delegate to the Democratic na- tional conventions, 1856, 1864, and 1868; a member of the Union convention that met in Philadel- phia in 18G6; and a representative from Penn- sylvania in the 37th, 38th and 40th congresses, having been elcted to complete the term of T.B. Cooper, who died April 4, 1862. He took his seat, April 3, 1862, and served, 1862-65, and 1869-71.

STILLE, Alfred, physician, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., Oct. 30, 1813; son of John and Maria (Wagner) Stille; and a descendant of Olaf Stille, one of the earliest Swedish settlers and land owners in America, and of Tobias Wagner, chancellor of Tiibingen university, and a dis- tinguished Protestant reformer. He was a stu- dent at Y''ale, 1828-30; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835, M.D., 1836. He was resident physician in Phila- delphia college, resigning to continue liis studies abroad. He was resident physician in Pennsyl- vania hospital, 1839-41; lecturer on general pa- thology and practice of medicine at the Philadel- phia Association for Medical Instruction, 1845- 51; visited Vienna for the purpose of study iu 1851; was professor of the theory' and practice of medicine, Pennsylvania Medical college, 1854- 59, and in the University of Pennsylvania, 1864- 84, and professor emeritus, 1884-1900; phj'sician, St. Joseph's hospital, 1849-77; U.S.A. surgeon, Satterlee hospital, 1862-63; lecturer on clinical medicine at the Philadelphia hospital, 1865-67, and physician, 1865-71. He first married Caroline Christina Barnet, from whom he was separated for more than forty years; and on June 15, 1899, he married Katharine Amanda, daughter of