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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



Vermont Brigade. He rendered efficient serv- 

 ice in the Gettysburg battles, Ms brigade be- 

 ing conspicuous in the repulse of the final Con- 

 federate charge, and was severely wounded in 

 the cannonade with which Gen. Longstreet 

 strove to cover the Confederate retreat. As 

 soon as he was sufficiently recovered for light 

 duty, he was assigned to the command of the 

 troops garrisoning the forts in New York har- 

 bor, remaining at this post till May, 1864, 

 when on the final advance of Gen. Grant upon 

 Richmond he again took the field, being as- 

 signed to the Tenth Army Corps. He took 

 part in the battle of Cold Harbor, where he 

 lost two staff-officers and was again wounded. 

 In the movement of the Eighteenth Corps on 

 Petersburg, June 14, he led the advance with 

 his brigade, occupied some of the enemy's forti- 

 fications within three quarters of a mile of the 

 city, and was a third time wounded. On Sept. 

 19 he was assigned the task of storming Fort 

 Harrison, which he accomplished in a gallant 

 manner, capturing and holding that important 

 work at the cost of his right arm. This wound 

 unfitted him for active service for several 

 months. In December, 1864, he was assigned 

 to the command of the Vermont border, and 

 remained in service in the Department of the 

 East till February, 1866, when he was ordered 

 to duty at Baltimore, in connection with the 

 Freedmen's Bureau. He retired from the army 

 June 27, 1876, and was appointed Collector of 

 Customs for the District of Vermont, holding 

 the office till 1872. In 1881 he was appointed 

 acdoor-keeper of the House of Representives, 

 Washington, D. C., and he died at this post. 



Steele, J. Dorman, an American educator, born 

 in Lima, N. Y., in 1836 ; died in Elmira, N. Y., 

 May 25, 1886. He was graduated at Genesee 

 College, Lima, in 1858, and spent several years 

 as a teacher of natural sciences in various 

 schools, becoming Principal of the Free Acad- 

 emy in Elmira, N. Y., in 1866. He was the 

 author of a series of popular school-books, of 

 which his "Manual of Chemistry" (1868), 

 "Astronomy" (1868), "Philosophy" (1869), 

 "Geology" (1870), and "Physiology" (1871), 

 are the best known. 



Stephens, Ann Sophia, an American author, 

 born in Derby,, Conn., in 1818; died in New- 

 port, R. I., Aug. 20, 1886. She married Ed- 

 ward Stephens, a printer, of Plymouth, Mass., 

 in 1831, and soon afterward removed to Port- 

 land, Me., where she began her literary career. 

 In 1835 she established " The Portland Maga- 

 zine," and edited it for two years, during 

 whicl) time her contributions attained con- 

 siderable popularity. She removed to New 

 York city in 1837, and became editor of " The 

 Ladies' Companion," and, subsequently, of 

 " The Ladies National Magazine." Besides 

 her editorial writings, she was one of the 

 earliest contributors to " Graham's Magazine " 

 and "The Columbia Magazine," and her de- 

 scriptive sketches and novelettes were sought 

 by popular periodicals. In 1850 she was one 



of a company of ladies and gentlemen that set 

 out on a tour of Europe and the East, and 

 while abroad her quick observation and re- 

 markable powers of description were fully 

 employed in the opportunities that travel 

 afford. Previous to this trip she had won a 

 name as a story-writer by her "Mary Der- 

 went," for which she received a prize of $400, 

 "Malvia Gray," "The Patch-Work Quilt," 

 and " A Story of Western Life." On her re- 

 turn she issued "Fashion and Famine" (New 

 York, 1854), which is considered her best 

 work. To this succeeded " Wives and Wid- 

 ows," " Married in Haste," " A Noble Woman," 

 "The Reigning Belle," "Bellehood and Bond- 

 age," "Lord Hope's Choice," and its sequel, 

 " The Old Countess," and one of her latest, 

 "Phemie Frost's Experiences." For many 

 years previous to her death she was under a 

 contract to write exclusively for the house of 

 T. B. Peterson & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., by 

 whom a uniform edition of her works was 

 published in 1869. Mrs. Stephens was an ex- 

 treme naturalist in her work, taking her char- 

 acters and situations from life with marked 

 fidelity. While planning a new work she be- 

 came a frequent visitor to all kinds of public 

 and charitable institutions, the fear of assault 

 or contagious disease seldom interrupting her 

 quest of scenery and characters. She was one 

 of the most voluminous of American authors. 

 Stevens, Henry, an American bibliographer, 

 born in Barnet, Vt., August 24, 1819 ; died in 

 London, England, Feb. 28, 1886. He was a 

 student in Middlebury College, Vt., in 1838-'39, 

 and was graduated at Yale in 1843. and at the 

 Cambridge Law School in 1844. 'in 1845 he 

 established himself in London, England, as an 

 agent for the purchase of books for American 

 libraries, and continued in that employment 

 until his death. While engaged in obtaining 

 rare and valuable books for the Smithsonian 

 Institution, the Library of Congress, and the 

 most noted libraries in the United States, he 

 made a valuable collection of Americana, 

 which he deposited in the Library of the Brit- 

 ish Museum. He was an indefatigable worker, 

 and compiled and published, among other im- 

 portant bibliographical treatises and catalogues, 

 "A Catalogue Raisonne" of English Bibles" 

 (1854) ; " A Catalogue of American Books in 

 the British Museum " (1856) ; " Historical An- 

 tiquities" (2 vols., 1858); "A Catalogue of 

 the Crowninshield Library " (1860) ; " A Cata- 

 logue of the Library of Baron Humboldt," of 

 which collection he became the purchaser 

 (1861); " Bibliographica Americana" (1861); 

 and "Bibliographica Historica" (1870). Mr. 

 Stevens also rendered a great service to 

 American history by indexing the state papers 

 preserved in London relating to the colonial 

 interests of the principal American provinces. 

 He compiled an index to the papers relating 

 to New Jersey, in nine volumes; to those of 

 Maryland, in ten volumes; to those of Rhode 

 Island, in six volumes; and to those of Vir- 



