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to accept a call to the pastorate of the Baptist Temple, in 

 Columbus, Ohio, where he spent twelve years. 



While in Ohio he was given the degree of doctor of philoso- 

 phy by Denison University, and the degree of doctor of laws 

 by Columbus College. He subsequently spent twelve years as 

 pastor of the First Baptist Church of New Britain, Con- 

 necticut. In the fall of 1897 he accepted a call to return to 

 Falls of Schuylkill Church, and entered upon what proved 

 his first and last field of labor, January i, 1898. 



Doctor Stidham was secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia 

 Baptist Ministers Conference, which recently elected him hon- 

 orary secretary for life. He was widely known in the Masonic 

 fraternity in which he was a thirty-second degree Mason. 

 He was a member of Mary Commandery No. 36, Knights 

 Templar. 



In 1864 he was married to Miss Nannie Button, of Balti- 

 more, who, with a son, Ferdinand Stidham, of Boston, and 

 three daughters, Mrs. M. D. Stanley, of New Britain, Conn. ; 

 Mrs. Leonard Ritter, of West Philadelphia ; Miss Edna Stid- 

 ham ; and four grandchildren survive. The North American 

 (Philadelphia), June 10, 1913. 



Dr. Stidham was an enthusiastic amateur lepidopterist, and 

 had a collection of exotic and domestic species. He was the 

 discoverer of a new species of Plagodis which was taken at 

 his home (Falls of Schuylkill), and named schuylkillensis by 

 Mr. J. A. Grossbeck. H. S. 



Grasshopper Army Moving Eastward (Orthop.) 

 Roswell, N. M., June 3. The column of grasshoppers which invaded 

 Elida, a town in northeastern New Mexico, last week, has moved east 

 and is continuing in a northeasterly direction, according to advices 

 received here today. The pest destroyed most of the small gardens 

 and lawns in Elida. The column is about 18 miles in width. Its prog- 

 ress is slow, the grasshoppers not having developed wings. 



Sacramento, Cal., June 3. From San Diego County, in the south, to 

 Shasta, in the north, various sections of California are in the "grip of 

 the grasshopper," and unless an extensive campaign of extermination 

 is prosecuted by farmers and fruit growers heavy damage to some 

 crops may result. This warning was given out today by State Horti- 

 culturist A. J. Cook after the receipt of reports of wide-spread attacks 

 by the pests. The Public Ledger (Philadelphia). 



