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him by Harvard in 1840, and that of D.C.L. by Oxford university in 1887. Among his most noted portrait works are : statue of Joseph Story in Mount Auburn cemetery, statue of Edward Everett in the Boston public garden, busts of James Russell Lowell, Josiah Quincy and Edward Everett ; the bronze statue of George Peabody, erected in London in 1869. and the statue of Francis Scott Key, in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, Cal. His other works include : Sappho (1862) ; Saul (1863) ; Cleopatra (1864) ; Delilah (1866) ; Helen (1869) ; Judith (1872) ; Semiraviis (1872) ; Sardanapalns (1878) ; and Thetis and Achilles (1887-88). He is the author of : Life and Letters of Joseph Story (2 vols., 1851) ; Poems (1856): Tlie American Question (1862); Roba di Roma (1862) ; Proportions of the Human Figure, According to a Netv Canon for Practical Use (1866) ; Graffiti d'ltalia (1869) ; The Roman Laivyer in Jerusalem (1870) ; Tragedy of Nero (1875) ; Castle St. Angela (1877) ; He and She, or a PoeVs Portfolio (1883) ; Fiammetta (1885) ; Poems (2 vols., 1886) ; Conversations in a Studio (1890) ; Excursions on Art and Letters (1891) ; A Poefs Portfolio: Later Reading (1894). See "Life of William Wetmore Story." by Henry James (London, 1903). He died in Vallombrosa, Italy, Oct. 7, 1895.

STOTT, William Taylor, educator, was born in Vernon, Ind., May 22, 1836 ; son of the Rev. John and Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott ; grandson of the Rev. William T. and Mary A. (Wilkinson) Stott), and of the Rev. William and Frances (Vawter) Vawter, and great-grandson of Raleigh Stott and of Jesse Vawter. He was graduated at Franklin college, lud., in 1861, and enlisted in the 18th Indiana volunteers ; served as private two years and as captain two years, and com- manded his regiment in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. He was graduated at the Rochester Theological seminary in 1868, and on May 21, 1868. was married to Arabella Ruth, daughter of Isaac Storrs and Mary M. (Pierce) Tracy, of Rochester, N.Y. He was pastor at Columbus, Ind., 1868-69; professor of natural sciences at Franklin college, 1869-72, and became president of Franklin college in 1872. He received the de- gree of D.D. from Kalamazoo college in 1872, and that of LL.D. from Shurtleff College in 1899. He was president of the Indiana Baptist conven- tion in 1875, and in 1898 became associate editor of the Baptist Outlook.

STOUQHTON, William Lewis, soldier and representative, was born in New York, March 20, 1827. He removed to Sturgis, Mich., and was admitted to the bar in 1851 ; was prosecut- ing attorney, 1855-59. and in 1861 became U.S. district attorney for Michigan, but soon resigned to enlist in the 11th Michigan volunteers. He

fought at Stone's river, was promoted colonel Dec. 28, 1862, and during the latter part of the battle of Chickamauga commanded the 2d brig- ade, 2d division, Thomas's corps. He served dur- ing Hood's invasion of Tennessee and Sherman's march to Atlanta. He was seriously wounded at Ruff's Station, and March 14, 1865, was bre- vetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers. He was attorney -general for the state of Michigan, 1867-68, member of the state constitutional convention of 1867, and a Repub- lican representative from the fouith Michigan district in the 41st and 42d congresses, 1869-73. He died in Sturgis. Mich., June 6, 1888.

STOWE, Calvin Ellis, educationist, was born in Natick, Jlass., April 6, 1802. His fatlier died in 1808, and in 1814 he began an apprenticeship in a paper-mill. In 1820 through the assistance of friends he was enabled to attend Gorham acad- emy. He was graduated at Bowdoin. A.B.. in 1834, A.M., 1827, and at the Andover Theological seminar}' in 1828 ; edited the Boston Recorder, 1829-30, and held the chair of Greek at Dart- mouth, 1830-32. He was married in 1832, to Eliza, daughter of the Rev. Bennett Tyler of Port- land, Maine. He was professor of sacred litera- ture at Lane Theological seminary, Ohio, 1832- 50. His wife died in 1834, and in 1836 he mar- ried Harriet Elizabeth, daugliter of Dr. Lyman Beecher (q. v.). Professor Stowe became interested in the cause of education in the west, and in 1836 went to Prussia to study the public school system. He filled the cliair of natural and re- vealed religion at Bowdoin, 1850-52, and was professor of sacred literature at Andover Theolo- gical seminary until 1864, when he resigned and moved to Hartford, Conn. He received the hon- orary degree of D.D. at Miami, and at Indiana university in 1837, and at Dartmouth in 1839. He is the author of : Lntroduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible (1835) ; The Relig- ious Element in Education (1844); Tlie Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures (1853); Origin and History of the Books of the Bible, both Canonical and Apocryphal (1867). He died at Hartford, Conn., Aug. 22. 1886.

STOWE, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher), author, was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 14, 1811; daughter of the Rev. Lyman (q.v.) and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. Her mother died in 1815, and she lived at her grandmother's home until her fath.er married again in 1817. She attended Litclifield academy, 1817-24, and it was here that at the age of twelve she wrote her precocious essay entitled " Can Immortality of the Soul be Proved by the Light of Nature?" In 1824 she entered the school kept by her sister Catherine at Hartford, and taught there from 1826 until 1832, when the family moved to Walnut Hills, Oliio.