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STOKES

and Homer academy ; was employed in his faUier's publishing and book store at Syracuse, N.Y., 1S49-53. and graduated from the Univer- sity of Rochester, N.Y., A.B., 1858. He was one of the editors of the Chicago (111.) Daily Ledger, 1857, and editor and part proprietor of the Cen- tral Illinois Gazette, Champaign, 111., 1858-CO, writing and printing the first editorial nomina- ting Abraliam Lincoln for the Presidenc}'. He was appointed secretary to President Lincoln, to sign land patents, and afterward his assistant private secretary, serving in this capacity, 1861- 6-1, with the exception of his three months' en- listment as a volunteer in 1861, and his service as volunteer policeman during the draft riots in New York city, 1863. He was U.S. marshal of Arkansas, 1864-65 ; resigning in 1866 on account of ill health ; subsequently engaged in telegraphic, mining, manufacturing and railway enterprises, securing nine patents for mechanical inventions. He was married, July 25, 1870, to Susan Eagle- son, daughter of James and Susan (Eagleson) Cooper of New York city. He was chief clerk of the engineer bureau of the department of docks. New York city, 1873-75. He was a member of the staff of the Examiner, a Baptist weekly, 1867-75. In 1SG2 Mr. Stoddard took an active part in organizing the Union League of America, serving as president of one of its first coun- cils, and as its grand corresponding secre- tary, 1862-63. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by the University of Roch- ester in 1868. His publications, many of them juvenile stories, include : Scanderoon, verse (1870); Verses of Many Days (1875); The Heart of It (1880); Esau Harding (1881); Dah Kinger (1881); Wrecked (1882); The Quartette (1882); Saltillo Boys (1883); Among the Lakes (1884); Life of Abraham Lincoln (1884); Winter Fun (1885); The Volcayio Under the City (1885); The Talking Leaves (1885); Two Arroivs (1886); Chuck Purdy (1887); The Captain's Boat (1888); Lives of the Presidents (10 vols., 1888-89); Crowded Out o' Crofield (1890); The Red Mustang (1890); Miss Eaton's Romance (1890); The Wliite House in War Time (1890); Gid Granger (1890); Little Smoke (1891); Table Talk u-ith Lincoln (1892); Men of Business (1892); Battle of Xeiv Yoi-k (1892); The IMiite Cave (1893); Guert Ten Eyck (1893); On the Old Frontier (1893); Chris, the Old Model Maker (1894); The Partners (1895); Chumley's Past (1895); The Wind-fall (1896); Tlie Sicordmaker's Son (WJQ); Walled /?i(1897); Lost Gold of the Montezumas (1897) ; The Red Patriot (1897) ; The Wh istle Dispatch Boat (1898) ; First Cruise Out (1898); Success Against Odds (1898); With the Black Prince (1898); The Young Financier (1899); Running the Cuban Blockade (1899); Lincoln at Work (ISOO); Ulric the Jarl

(1899); Ned, Son of Webb (1900); The Xoank's Lo^r (1900); Mutnnye (1901); Jack Morgan {VdOl); Errand Boy of Andrew Jackson (1902); Voyage of the Charlemagne (1902). In 1903 Mr. Stod- dard was residing in Madison, N.J.

STODDERT, Benjamin, cabinet officer, was born in Charles county, Md., in 1751 ; son of Capt. Thomas Stoddert, an officer in the French and Indian war, wlio was killed at Braddock's defeat ; and grandson of Maj. James Stoddert, who emigrated from Scotland about 1675, and settled in Maryland. Benjamin entered the mercantile business, but in 1770 he joined the patriot army, as captain of cavalry, and attained the rank of major. He took part in the battle of Brandywine, where he was severely wounded, and unfitted for active service ; but was appointed secretary of the board of war, serving till 1781. He removed to Georgetown, D.C. ; was the first secretary of the U.S. navy in Washington's cabinet, 1798-1801, and served as acting secretary of war, on the resignation of James McHenry, May, 1800, till June, 1800, when Henry Dexter accepted the portfolio. He was instrumental in the increase of the American naval force from three frigates to five frigates and to twenty-three sloops of war. He died in Bladensburg, Md., Dec. 18, 1813.

STOKES, Anson Phelps, author, was born in New York city, Feb. 22, 1838 ; son of James and Caroline (Phelps) Stokes. He was educated by tutors and in private schools, and was married, Oct. 17, 1865, to Helen Louisa, daughter of Isaac Newton Phelps of New York city. He was a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., merchants, and subsequently of Phelps, Stokes «fe Co., bankers, and also a director and trustee of various companies. He was first president of the Reform club of New York ; a member of the American Social Science association ; president of the National Association of Anti-Imperialist Clubs, 1900, and actively interested in local charitable institutions, and in civil-service reform and free-trade movements. His son, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., Yale, A.B., 1896, A.M., 1900; Episcopal Theological school, B.D., 1900, became assistant minister at St. Paul's cliurch. New Haven, Conn., and in 1899 secretary of Yale. Anson Phelps Stokes, Sr., is the author of : Joint- Metallism (5 eds., 1894-96); Dangers of the Proposed National Paper-Money Trust, pamphlet (1898).

STOKES, Montford, senator, was born in Stokes county, N.C., in 1760 ; son of John Stokes, U.S. district judge, who died in 1790. He en- tered the merchant service when very j-oung, and left it in 1776, to enlist in the Continental navy under Commodore Stephen Decatur. He was captured before he had served a year, and was