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Dr. Beecher having been aiipointed president of Lane Theological seminary. In 1833 she liap- pened to cross the Ohio river into Kentucky, and there saw slavery in all of its horrors. She was married to Professor Calvin E. Stowe (q.v.), Jan. 6, 18.36. At this time the slavery question w;is at its greatest heat; James G. Birney and Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, publishers of 2Vte Philan- fhrnpist, were obliged to flee, their office was wrecked, and innocent black men were not safe ill Cincinnati. The little colony at Walnut Hills jilayiMi its part in harboring and forwarding the fugitive slaves, and was one of the first links in that wonderful cliain of hiding-places that helped so many fugitives from the south to Canada. In 18.50 Professor and Mrs. Stowe removed to Bruns- wick, Maine, and when that year the fugitive slave law was passed, ]Mrs. Stowe felt that the people of the north did not realize what slavery was. In June, 1851, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ap-

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peared as a serial in the National Era, an anti- slavery paper published by Gamaliel Bailey and John G. Whittier. At the time it was published in book form, she moved with her husband to Andover, Mass., and the following year went abroad. In 1864 she removed to Hartford, Conn., where she continued her writing. Her published works are as follows: Unele Tom's Cabin (1852); A Key to Uncle. Tom's Cabin (1853); A Pee}) into Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (1853); Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (XSoi); Dred. A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856); Our Charlie and What to do With Him (1858); Minister's Wooing (18.59); The Pearl of Orr's Island (1802); Agnes of Sorrento (1862); Reply on Behalf of the Women of America to the Christian Address of many Thousand Women of Great Britain (1863); The Ravages of a Carpet (1864); House and Home Papers by Christopher Crowfield (1^64); Religious Poems (1865); Stories About Our Dogs

(1865); Little Foxes (ISGH); Queer Little People (1867); Daisy's First Winter and Other Stoi'ies (1807); The Chimney Corner, by Christopher Crow- field {\SGS); Men of Our Times {imb); Old Toini Folks (1865)); Lady Byron Vi)idicated, a History of the Bryon Controversy (ISGd); The American Womaii's Home (ISGd); Little Pussy T17//on'(1870); Pink and White Tyra^iny {IHi;].); Savi Lawson's Fireside Stories (1871); 3Iy Wife and I (1872); Palmetto Leaves (1873); Betty's Bright Idea and Oilier Tales (1875); We and Our Neighbors (1875); Foofstejis of the Master (1876); Bible Heroines (1878); Poganuc People (1878); .4 Dog's Mission (1881). Mrs. Stowe's biography was written by her son, Charles E. Stowe, a Congregational clergyman, and by her friend, Annie Fields. She died in Hartford, July 1, 1896.

STRAIT, Thomas Jefferson, representative, was born in Chester district, S.C. Dec. 25, 1846; son of Jacob F. and Isabella (Wylie)" Strait; grandson of Leonard Strait and of Peter Wylie, and a descendant of William Wylie of the Revo- lutionary army. He attended Maysville (S.C.) and Cooper (Miss.) institutes, and entered the Confederate army in March, 1862. He served throughout the war in the 6lh South Carolina regiment in Jenkins's brigade, Longstreet's corps, and in the 29th South Carolina regiment. Gist's brigade, Hardee's corps, and engaged in the bat- tles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Seven days' battles around Richmond, 2d IManassas, Freder- icksburg, Suffolk, Lookout Mountain, Raccoon Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Calhoun Station, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and around Atlanta, Jonesboro and Franklin, and in many minor battles and skirmishes in Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. He was married, Dec. 2, 1869, to Kate A. Lathrop, daughter of Dr. Albert W. and Susan T. Lathrop, and granddaughter of Charles Lathrop. He was graduated from the South Carolina Medical col- lege in 1885; was state senator, 1890. and a Demo- cratic representative from the fifth South Caro- lina district in the 53d, 54th and 55th congresses, 1893-99.

STRANG, Lewis Clinton, dramatic critic, was born in W^estfield, Mass., Dec. 4,1869; son of Clinton W., and Ella J. (Lewis) Strang. He attended the Bridgeport (Conn.) high school, 1884-88, and was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, Boston university, in 1892, becom- ing a reporter for the Boston Journal in Septem- ber of the latter year; assistant city editor and assistant in the dramatic department, 1894, and dramatic editor and critic in 1898. He was mar- ried. Aug. 7, 1895. to Martha W. Locke of South Braintree, Mass. He is the author of: Famous Actresses of the Day, and Famous Actors of the Day (1889); Prima Donnas and Soubrcttes of