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 STILLE

STIMSON

David Crane and Rachel Motte (Hooton) Black- iston of Brighthelmstone, Kent county, Md. He was elected a member of the American Philosoph- ical society in 1833; of the Philadelpliia Medical society, 1834, and a fellow of the College of Phy- sicians, 1842, and its president, 1883-84; member of the Philadelpliia County Medical society, 1849, and its president; member of the Pathological so- ciet}% 1859-63, and its president; member of the American Medical association, 1847, and its sec- retary, and its president, 1871. He was also a mem- btT, honorary member and corresponding fellow of various medical societies and academies of medi- cine in the United States and Europe, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1850; LL.D. from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, 1876, and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. He translated Andral's " Pathological Haemo- tology *' in collaboration with Dr. Meigs (1884), and is the author of: Medical Instruction in the United States (1845); Elements of General Patliol- ogy (1848); Report on Medical Literature {IQhO); T!ie Unity of Medicine{\8oQ); Humboldt's life and Characters (1859); Tlierapeutics and Materia Medica (3 vols., 1860); War as an Instrument of Civilization (1862); Epidemic Meningitis (1867) and National Dispensatory, with' Dr. Jolm M. Maisch (1879). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 24, 1900.

STILLE, Charles Janeway, educator and author, was born in Philadelpliia, Pa., Sept. 23, 1819; son of John and Maria (Wagner) Stille. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1889; was admitted to the bar, but did not practise, pre- ferring to devote his interests to literature. He was a member of the U.S. sanitary commission during the civil war; was professor of belle- lettres, English language and literature in the University of Pennsylvania, 1866-67; of history and English literature, 1867-68; John Welsh Centennial professor of history and English liter- ature, 1878-80, and professor emeritus of the same, 1880-99. During his connection with the university he was influential in founding the scientific department and in effecting the change of its location and the erection of new buildings in West Philadelphia. He received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1866, and LL.D. in 1868 from Yale college, and the latter degree also from the University of Pennsylvania in 1896. He is the author of: How a Free People Conduct a Long War (1863); Northern Interest and Southern In- dependence: a Plea for United Action (1863); Memorial of the Great Central Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission (1864); Historical Development of American Civilization (1864); History of the United States Sanitary Commission (1866); Annals of the United States

Christian Commission (1868); Memoir of Rev. William Smith, D.D. (1869); Studies in Mediaeval History (1882); Bcaumarchais; The Lost Million, and Life and Times of John Dickinson (1891). His estate, amounting to about $160,000, he be- queathed to his widow, and after her death, to. the Gloria Dei churcii of Philadelphia, the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, and to Yale uni- versity: the Yale bequest to be used for the benefit of undergraduates in history and politi- cal science. He died in Atlantic City, N.J., Aug. 11, 1899.

STIMSON, Frederic Jesup, author, was born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855; son of Edward and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson; grandson of Jeremj^ and Hope (Godfrey) Stimson, and of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, and a de- scendant of George Stimson, who was killed at the battle of Mount Hope, December, 1675. He attended school in Dedham, Mass., Dubuque, Iowa, and Lausanne, Switzerland; was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B., 1876, LL.B., 1878; was admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass., 1879, where he began practice, and was also admitted to the New York bar in 1885. He was attorney- general of Massachusetts, 1884-85; and general counsel to the U.S. industrial commission, 1898- 1901. He was twice married: first, June 2, 1881, to Elizabeth Bradlee, daughter of Henry Ward and Elizabeth (Bradlee) Abbot of Boston, who died in 1896: and secondly, Nov. 12, 1902, to Mabel, daughter of Richard Lewis and Sarah (Frazer) Ashhurst of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Stimson was elected a member of the corporation committee of Massachusetts, under the act of 1903, with C. G. Washburn and Hosea M. Knowl- ton. He was Democratic candidate for repre- sentative in congress from the twelftli Massachu- setts district in 1903. His law publications in- clude: Stimson's Laic Glossary (1881); Amencan Statute Laiv (1886; with triennial .supplements); Government by Injunction; Labor in its Relations to Laze (1894); Handbook to the Labor Laio of the United States (1896). He is also the author of the following works in general literature, some of them written under the pen name " J. S. of Dale ": Rollo's Journey to Cambridge (1879); Guerndale (1882); The Crime of Henry Vane (1884); The Sentimental Calendar (1886); The Residuary Legatee (1886); First Harvests (1887); In the Tliree Zones (1893); Mrs. Knollys and Other Stories (1894); Pirate Gold (1896); King Noanett (1896), and Jethro Bacon of Sandwich (1901), besides many contributions to periodicals.

STIMSON, Henry Albert, clergyman, was born in New York city, Sept. 28. 1842; son of Henry Clark and Julia Maria (Atterbury) Stim- son; grandson of Henry Bowen and Mary (Pond) Stimson, and of Lewis and Catherine (Boudinot)