STEVENS STEWART. 



conjunction with them established passenger and tow- nu BUITAXNICA). He was educated at (ho nni-. 

 boats on the Hudson and other rivois. On the out- of his native city, and from it obtained tin- 

 break of the civil war ho and Jumos A. offered to coin- of M. A. Whilo still an undergraduate, lie had 

 I'lt-to the iron-clad battery left unliuishcil by their a college magazine. Ho travelled on the Continent 

 brother Robert, on condition thut government should of Europe and across the United States. 11 

 remunerate them for their outlay in the event of its book to attract attention was 'J'rtirt-1.1 irit/i <i 

 proving a success ; and, for tin- purpose of showing 

 the reasonableness of the proposal, they titled out, 

 at their own cost, the little iron-clad Naugatnck, 

 which rendered valuable service in engagements on 



the James Uiver. Nevertheless the offer was de- 

 clined, whereupon Edwin himself expended con- 

 siderable sums on the battery, ami on his death 



in the . But still more jxipular were his 



>< Island, Kidxapptd : a Slmy uf the Rebellion 

 -f " t.'i, '/'/" fh/namil'irds, and olln-rs. 



STEYlASuN. AYu.i.iAM Fi.rvixo (1832-1886), 

 Irish Piv-Uytorian minister, was born at Ktrabane, 

 Sept. 20, 1881 He graduated at the Univei 

 Glasgow and, after studying theology in Scotland 



bequeathed it, with 81,000,000 to complete it, to and (id-many, was licensed to preach in IWili. His 



the State of New Jersey. This sum proving insuffi- 

 cient, the vessel was sold by the State in 1874 to the 

 U. S. government, but, Congress having failed to 

 make the appropriation for the purchase, it re- 

 mained at the dock of Hoboken uncompleted. At 

 an early period Edwin purchased the entire site 

 on which the city of Hoboken is built, by which, 

 as well as by his other enterprises, he acquired 

 an immense fortune. He endowed the Hobokon 

 high school, and bequeathed in all nearly $1,000,000 



uk was as city missionary in Belfast, and in 

 I860 he took charge of a newly fanned Presbyterian 

 church in Dublin. He was also busy in contribut- 

 ing to Hood lion/* and other periodicals, lii Is71 

 he was called to assist in directing the foreign mis- 

 sion work of the Irish 1'rosbyteriaii (ieiioral A 

 bly. In 1873 he attended the meeting of the Evan- 

 gelical Alliance nt New York, and in 1*77 he travelled 

 around the world in the interest of missions. In 

 1881 he was made moderator of the Irish General As- 



to establish the Stevens Institute of Technology sotnbly. He was a member of the senate of tin i 



at the same place. He died at Paris, Aug. 8, 1868. 

 STKVKXS, WILUAM BACON- (1815-1887), a bishop 

 of the American Episcopal Church, was born at Bath, 

 Maine, July 13, 1815. Having early lost his father, 

 lie was brought up in the residence of his grandpar- 

 ents in Boston. He belonged to the Congregational 

 Church, and expected to enter its ministry, but on 

 account of ill-health he left Phillips Academy, An- 

 dover, and took a sea- voyage around the globe, spend- 

 ing five months in the Sandwich Islands and five 

 more in China. On his return he studied medi- 

 cine at Savannah, Ga., but received his degree from 

 Dartmouth College in 1837. While engaged in 

 practice at Savannah he organized the Georgia His- 

 torical Society, and edited two volumes of its Collec- 

 tiont. His health having been restored he took up 

 the study of theology under Bishop Stephen Elliott, 

 and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in l*n. 

 He was then called to be professor of belles-lettres 

 and moral philosophy in tho University of Georgia, 

 at Athens, and, having been appointed by the legis- 

 lature State historian, he published his' History of 

 (teat-gift (2 vols., 1847-59), which was highly com- 

 mended by Bancroft and Sparks. In 184S ho was 

 chosen rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, 



University, and was made chaplain to Loid Aber- 

 deen, when vicen>y of In -land. Jic.lied at RuUigar, 

 Dublin, Sept. 16, IKSi!. His published works am 

 Praying ana Working (IWi / - and Deeds \\'n,-tk 

 Knfvnng (1870) ; Hi/inn* />./ < 'An-// <m<i llt.mr 1 1878). 

 STKWAKT, CHAHLFS (1778-1841)), rear-admiral, 

 U. S. N., was born of Irish parents lit Philadelphia, 

 July 28, 1778. His father died two years later, leav- 

 ing his widow, with four children, in strai'i -m -.1 cir- 

 cumstances, ('lialles entered the merchant H 

 as cabin boy at the age of 1:1, and rose to the com- 

 mand of an Indiuman before he was 20. In 1798 he 

 entered the navy as lieutenant and served on board 

 the frigate United States against the French pii- 

 vateers in West India waters. In 1800 lie was ap- 

 pointed to command the schooner Experiment, and 

 in these seas captured the French schooner Deux 

 Amis and, soon after, the Diana, of 14 guns, retaking 

 several American vessels which had been made pri/es 

 by the French. The same year he rescued Ml women 

 and children who had boon wrecked when escaping 

 from tho revolution in Santo Domingo, which ser- 

 vice the Spanish governor of the island neknowl- 

 111 a letter of thanks to the President. In 

 1MU, in command of the brig Siren, Stewart took 



and, removing to that city, became noted as a pulpit part in the naval operations under Proble against 



orator. In 1861 he was chosen assistant bishop of Tripoli, co-operating with Decatur in the destruction 



Pennsylvania, and in 1863 succeeded Bishop Alonzo of tho Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands 



Potter in charge of the diocese. Under his episco- of the Dey. In 1806 he was promoted to captain. 



]>al direction the religions and benevolent work of From 1808 to 1812 he was employed in tho n . i - 



tho church was diligently prosecuted, and in a few 

 years the diocese, originally conterminous with the 

 State of Pennsylvania, hail to be twice divided. 

 Bishop Stevens retained Philadelphia and four ad- 

 joining counties, which still preserved for Pennsyl- 



cliant service, but re-entered tho navy in the latter 

 year on the outbreak of war with Great Britain. In 

 the summer of 1813 he took command of the Con- 

 stitution and sailed from Boston on a cruising ex- 

 pedition to the coasts of Guiana and the '\Vindwuul 



vania its relative rank in numbers and influence Islands, capturing the British war-schooner Picton, 



among the American dio His work was at of 14 guns, a letter-of- marque under her convoy, and 



times seriously interrupted by ill-health, and in 1886 several merchant vessels. In December, 1H14. ho 



lie was obliged to ask for an assistant. He resumed set out on a second cruise on board the Constitution. 



his activity, however, and was engaged in perform- then mounting M guns, with 470 men, and on Feb. 



ance of public duty until within a few weeks of his 20, 1815, after an engagement of 50 minutes, cupt- 



deuth. He died at Philadelphia, Juno 11, 1887. Bo- ured the British war-ship Cyane, of 34 guns and is.'i 



Bides the historical works noted, he published some men, and the sloop of war' Levant, of '21 guns and 



charges, devotional treatises, and memorial dis- 156 men. Tho British loss was stated as 41 : Stew- 



courses. For some years he had oversight of the art's was 3 killed and 12 wounded. A British hYot 

 American Episcopal churches on the Continent of I approached while he was lying at St. Jago, (': 



Europe, and in 1885 he preached the sermon before Verde, from which he adroitly escaped, earryiir 



tii-- Tan-Anglican Council at Lambeth. 



STEVENSON, IloBBBT Lot-is, British author, was 

 born at Edinburgh in 1845. He was grandson of 

 the engineer Kobert Stevenson, famous for his 

 building of light-houses (for whom, see ENCTCLOPJS- 



liim tho Cyano; the Levant was, however, recapt- 

 ured. For these sen-ices he received from Congress 

 a vote of thanks, a sword, and a gold modal ; !r< m 

 the legislature of Pennsylvania, a vote of thanks and 

 a sword ; and from New York, the freedom of the 



