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ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1859, 

 was admitted to the bar in 1800, and removed 

 to New York city, where he began to practise in 

 18G1. He became the counsel for many large cor- 

 porations and mercantile houses. Early in his 

 career he paid especial attention to the study of 

 political economy, and in 1803 and 1805 delivered 

 lectures on that subject in Cooper Union. In 



1804 he was one of the organizers of the American 

 Free-Trade League, and became its secretary. In 



1805 he published the Social Science Review. He 

 was secretary of the Committee of Seventy in the 

 fight against the Tweed regime, and drafted the 

 charter of this committee and other legislation 

 of the period. In 1875 he was appointed one of 

 the commissioners to devise a plan for the gov- 

 ernment of cities in New York State. In 1895 

 he was one of the commission to recommend 

 changes in the methods of administration. In 

 1890 he went to Europe to report on the relations 

 between the railroad and governments of western 

 Europe. He contributed many articles to maga- 

 zines on economic and political subjects, and pub- 

 lished Our Representative Government and Per- 

 sonal Representation (1871); Suffrage in Cities 

 (1878); Hindrances to Prosperity (1879); and 

 Constitutional History and Political Develop- 

 ment of the United States (1882). 



Sterrett, James P., jurist, born in Juniata 

 County, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1822; died in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Jan. 22, 1901. He was graduated 

 at Jefferson College in 1845, and at the University 

 of Virginia in 1848. He practised law in Pitts- 

 burg till 1801, when he was appointed a com- 

 missioner to revise the revenue laws of Pennsyl- 

 vania. In 1802 he was appointed to fill the vacan- 

 cy caused by the death of the president judge of 

 Allegheny County; later in the year he was elect- 

 ed, as a Republican, to the same office, being 

 reelected in 1872 by the votes of both parties. 

 In 1877 he was appointed justice of the Supreme 

 Court, and Feb. 21, 1893, was made chief justice. 

 He resigned Jan. 1, 1900. 



Stockley, Charles Clark, ex-Governor of Dela- 

 ware, born in Sussex County, Delaware, Nov. 6, 

 1819; died in Georgetown, Del., April 20, 1901. 

 In early life he was successively teacher, mer- 

 chant, and farmer. In 1854 he was elected sheriff 

 of Sussex County on the Democratic ticket. In 

 1872 he was elected State Senator, serving two 

 terms, and in 1875, during his second term, was 

 president of the Senate. In 1882 he was chosen 

 Governor of Delaware. In 1890 he left the Demo- 

 cratic party on the money question and cham- 

 pioned the cause of the gold Democrats. 



Stoddard, Lorimer, actor and playwright, 

 born in New York city in 1804; died in Sag Har- 

 bor, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1901. He was the only son 

 of Richard Henry and Elizabeth Barstow Stod- 

 dard. In order to prepare himself for dramatic 

 writing he became an actor, appearing first in 

 minor parts with the Lyceum Theater company. 

 His first pronounced success was at the Union 

 Square Theater in 1887, when he played Trelaw- 

 ney, the young English nobleman, in the original 

 production of The Henrietta, supporting Robson 

 and Crane. He continued to act at intervals up 

 to 1897, but his acting was always to him a mat- 

 ter of secondary importance. He appeared in New 

 York city as Henry Achurch in the special per- 

 formance of The Globe-Trotter, at the Garden 

 Theater, in July, 1894; as Monte Jones in The 

 Governor of Kentucky, supporting W. H. Crane, 

 at the Fifth Avenue Theater, in January, 1890; 

 and as Adolph Kleinbacher in the melodrama 

 New York, at the American Theater, in February, 

 1897. He was for a time a member of Richard 



Mansfield's company, and for Mr. Mansfield he 

 wrote his first play, Napoleon, which was success- 

 fully produced at the Garrick ThcaU-r in JJccfin- 

 ber, 1895.' A year later lie dramai i/l Thomas 

 Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervillcs, which was 

 produced with great success by Mrs:. Ki.ske at the 

 Fifth Avenue Theater in March, JMiJT. in -him; of 

 the same year his play, The Question, was pre- 

 sented by Daniel Frawley's company in San 

 Francisco. His last work, with the exception of 

 a play upon which he was at work at his death, 

 was the dramatization of Marion Crawford's In 

 the Palace of the King, in which Viola Ail on 

 made a notable success in the season of 1900-1901. 

 He was also the author of several one-act plays. 

 Personally Mr. Stoddard was a genial and at- 

 tractive man, and from a literary as well as a 

 dramatic point of view his work was of a high 

 order. 



Strecker, Herman, sculptor and naturalist, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 24, 1830; died 

 in Reading, Pa., Nov. 30, 1901. With his parents 

 he removed to Reading in 1845. His first work 

 as a sculptor was done when he was but twelve 

 years old; one of his best-known works of art 

 was the Soldiers' Monument at Reading. He de- 

 voted his leisure to the study of zoology, mineral- 

 ogy, and especially butterflies, of which he had 

 a collection of more than 300,000. He published 

 Lepidoptera, Rhophaloceres, and Heteroceres, In- 

 digenous and Exotic (1872-77), and Native and 

 Exotic Butterflies and Moths (1878). 



Streeter, Alson J., politician, born in Rensse- 

 laer County, New York, in 1823; died in Gales- 

 burg, 111., Nov. 24, 1901. He removed early to 

 Illinois, where he became a farmer, and where 

 throughout his life he interested himself in bet- 

 tering the condition of the agricultural and labor- 

 ing classes. He was the candidate of the National 

 Labor party for President of the United States 

 in 1888, and three years later for United States 

 Senator, and conducted both campaigns with 

 great earnestness in the face of sure defeat. 



Studebaker, Clement, manufacturer, born in 

 Gettysburg, Pa., March 12, 1831; died in South 

 Bend, Ind., Nov. 27, 1901. With his parents he 

 removed to Ashland County, Ohio, in 1830, and 

 learned the blacksmith trade. In 1850 he went 

 to South Bend, where he taught school during 

 the winter of 1850-'51. In February, 1852, he 

 started in the blacksmith business with his 

 brother Henry, and among the first work turned 

 out by them was a contract for 100 wagons for 

 the Government. In 1808 their company was in- 

 corporated as the Studebaker Brothers Manufac- 

 turing Company; he was its president. He was 

 a delegate at various times to National Repub- 

 lican conventions, commissioner for Indiana to 

 the Paris Exposition of 1878, also to the New 

 Orleans Exposition, president of the Indiana 

 Board of World's Fair Managers, member of the 

 Pan-American Congress, and a trustee of Depauw 

 University. 



Sudsburg, Joseph Maria, soldier, born in 

 Munich, Germany, March 17, 1827 ; died in Balti- 

 more, Md., April 8, 1901. He entered the Bavarian 

 army, and after several years' service was ap- 

 pointed 2d lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In 

 1848 he took part in the struggle of the people 

 against the King, and after the defeat that came 

 to his party he went to Switzerland. Later he 

 went to France, where he served as a private in 

 the Legion of Strangers under Marshal Mc- 

 Mahon. He came to the United States, and in 

 April, 1801, enlisted as a private! in the 2d Mary- 

 land Regiment, National army. He was elected 

 captain of his company, and later recruited the 



