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in the general court and was the father of Sol- omon Stoddard, who graduated from Harvard college in 1662; was its first librarian, and after- wards became minister of the church at North- ampton, Mass., in which town his descendants were still living in 1903. Francis Hovey Stoddard was graduated from Amherst college, A.B., 1869, and was married. May 14, 1873, to Lucy Maria, daughter of Hinsdale and Lucy C. (Root) Smith of Springfield, Mass. For some years after grad- uation lie was engaged in teaching; taking up afterward the study of English philology. He attended Oxford university, England, 1884-86; was instructor in English, University of Cali- fornia. 1886-88; and was appointed professor of English language and literature, New York uni- versity in 1888, which position he still held in 1903. He received the degree of A.M. from Amherst in 1886, and that of Ph.D. from the Western University of Philadelphia, 1896. He is the author of: References for Shidents of Miracle Plays and Mysteries, 1887; Introduction to the Works of Lord Byron (1899); Hie Evohition of the English Novel (1900); Life and Letters of Charles Butler (1903); and contributions to the Anglia Englische Studien, New Englander, An- dover Revieic. Academy, and other publications.

STODDARD, John Lawson, lecturer, was born in Brookline. 'Sla.ss., April 24, 1850. He attended the coTnmon schools; was gi'aduated with high- est honors from Williams college, A.B., 1871, and studied theology in the Yale Divinity school, 1871-73. He was an instructor in Latin in the Boston Latin school, 1873-74; traveled abroad, 1874-76. and on his return became a teacher of classics. Deciding to devote his attention to lecturing, he traveled extensively, producing in 1879 the " Stoddard Lectures" on foreign coun- tries and America, which he continued to deliver with remarkable success in all the leading cities of the United States, until April, 1897, when he retired from the lecture platform, and made his residence in New York city. He was married, Dec. 24, 1877, to Mary H. Brown of Bangor, Maine. His publications include: Red Letter Days Abroad; Glimpses of the World, a portfolio of photographs, and the Stoddard Lectures on Travel Abroad and in America (10 vols.).

STODDARD, Richard Henry, poet, was born in Hinghain, Mass., July 2, 1825; son of Reuben and Sophia (Guruey) Stoddard; and grandson of Ichabod Stoddard, and of Thomas Gurney. His father, a sea captain, was lost at sea when Rich- ard was a child; his mother married again, and removed to New York in 1835, taking him with her. After a few years in school, he worked as an iron mouhler, but wlien still young began to write for papers and became acquainted with the young literary men, including Bayard Taylor.

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He was married in 1852, to Elizabeth Drew Bar- stow of Mattapoisett, Mass. Through the in- fluence of Nathaniel Hawthorne he obtained official employment in the custom-house, 1853- 70; was confidential clerk to Gen. George B. McClellan, 1870-73, and city librarian in New York, 1874-75. He was literary re- viewer for the New York World, 1860-70, and accepted the same position with the New York Mail and Express in 1880, and was at one time associated with Charles F. Browne, Fitz James O'Brien, George Arnold and Henry Clapp, Jr., as editor of Vanity

Fair. He was vice-president of the Society of American Authors, and in January, 1903, trans- ferred to the Authors club of New York city, his private collection of first editions, valuable man- uscripts and rare copies of English classics. He was editor of the " Bric-a-Brac Series " (1874-75) and of the " Sans Souci Series," and is the author of: Foot Prints (1849), later suppressed by the au- thor; Castlein the Air (1852); Adventures in Fairy Land (1853); Songs of Summer (1857); Town and Country (1857); Life, Travels and Books of Alex- ander von Humboldt (1860); Last Political Writ- ings of General Nathaniel Lyon (1861); The Loves and the Heroines of the Poefs (1861); The King's Bell (1862); John Guy Vassars Twenty-one Years Around the World (1862); Adsum, poem on the death of Thackeray (1863); The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1864); Melodies and Madrigals (1805); Children in the Wood (1865); Abraham Lincoln, Horatian Ode (1865); Book of the East (1867); Putman the Brave (1869); .4 Century After (1876); The Lion's Cub (1890), Under the Evening Lamp (1893), and was engaged on works relating to English literary history and memora- bilia. His Recollections appeared posthumously. He died in New York city. May 12, 1903.

STODDARD, William Osborn, author, was born in Homer, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1835; son of Prentice Samuel and Sarah Ann (Osborn) Stod- dard; grandson of Vine and Sabria (Avery) Stoddard, and of John and Amelia (Cotton) Os- born, and a descendant of Ralph Stoddard, who emigrated from England in 1635, and aided Win- throp in founding New London, Conn.; of John Osborn of Albany, N.Y., who settled in Cortland county, N.Y,, in 1820; of John Cotton, and of Elder Brewster. He attended private schools