OBITUARIES, A.MKIIKJAN. (Suu^-STOCKTON.) 



in that region. Lieut. Shufcldt was a son of 

 \dmiral Robert W. Shufeldt, United States 

 niivy, retired. 



Small, Michael P. ( military officer, born in York, I 'a., 



Aii:/. :', 1881 ; died "ii Governor's Island, N. V.. A iii.'. 



II,- -A as graduated ut tlie United States Mili- 



cademy, July 1,1851 ; was brevetted 8d lieuten- 



eoloiid, <>ct. !, lss;. in the volunteer army hi- was 

 lieutenant - colonel and commissary of subsistence 

 ir>'iii Anir. 14, 1863, till Jan. 25, 1865, and was colonel 

 from May -'." till I ><. 29 following. He was brevet- 

 ted major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel, March 13, 

 1865, for meritorious services in the subsistence de- 

 partment during the war; colonel of volunteers, Jan. 

 . tor distinguished services in the campaign of 

 ! ; ami brigadier-general United States anny, 

 April It. isr,;>, for faithful services in his department 

 during the war. At the time of his death he was as- 

 sistant commissary-trcneral of subsistence, and was 

 stationed at Governor's Island. 



Smith, John Ambler, lawyer, born in Village View, 

 Va., Sept. -J."., 1M7; died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 

 fl, ls;ej. He- W as educated in Eichmond, Va., and 

 WHS admitted to the bar there in 1867. In 1868 he was 

 appointed a commissioner in chancery for the courts 

 of that city, and Attorney of Charles City and New 

 Kent Counties, and was elected State Senator in 1869. 

 In ls-72 hi; was elected to Congress from the 3d Vir- 

 ginia District as a Republican, and there served on 

 the Committee on Railways and Canals. At the 

 close of his term he settled in Washington, and prac- 

 ticed there till his death. 



Smith, Boswell, publisher, born in Lebanon, Conn., 

 March :',, 1829; died in New York city, April 19, 

 1892. lie was a nephew of Roswell J. Smith, com- 

 piler of several schoolbooks of note in his dav, in- 

 eluding "Smith's Grammar" and "Smith's Arith- 

 " When fourteen years old he became a clerk 

 in the office of his uncle's publishers in New York 

 city. Three years afterward he entered Brown Uni- 

 versity, where he took the English and scientific 

 courses : then studied law in Hartford, Conn. ; and 

 removed to Lafayette, Ind., to begin practice. By 

 1868 he had acquired large means by law practice 

 and fortunate investments. In that year he disposed 

 of all his business interests in Indiana and took his 

 family to Europe, intending to ensure in some branch 

 of publishing on his return. While abroad he met 

 the lute Dr. Joaiah G. Holland, who had matured 

 plans for an illustrated magazine to be devoted 

 ohiefiy to promoting American art and literature. 

 Mr. Smith agreed to join Dr. Holland in estab- 

 lishing the magazine, and on their return the two 

 formed a partnership with Scribuer, Armstrong & 

 < 'o., and brought out the first number of " Scribner's 

 Monthly " in November, 1870, with Dr. Holland as 

 editor. In 1873 the lirm established " St. Nicholas," 

 and bought and merged into it several juvenile pub- 

 lications. In 1881 Mr. Smith bought Dr. Holland's 

 interest in the publications, and afterward the whole 

 interest of Charles Scribner's Sons, and changed the 

 name of the magazine to the u Century Magazine." As 

 Boon as thesuccess of the new venture seemed ;I<MII-< ,1 

 Mr. Smith turned his attention to the publication of 

 a dictionary. This grew far beyond his original plan, 

 and, under the name of the u Century Dictionary," was 

 completed iii (i royal 8vo volumes before his death. 



Sproull, Thomas, clergyman, born near l-'iveport, Pa., 

 in [808; died in Pitts'hurg, Pa., March 20,1892. He 

 was graduated at the Western University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and was pastor of the Reformed Presbyte- 

 rian congregation of Allrghany and Piltsburg irom 

 1834 till 1868. In 1847 he was moderator of the 

 Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and 

 subsequently he was editor of several religious peri- 

 odicals and a professor in the Presbyterian College. 

 Ho was author of pamphlets on theological and de- 



nominational topics, and published "Prelections on 

 Theology." 



Stackhbuse, Eli Thomas, airricnlturNt, horn in Marion, 

 S. C., March 27, LvM ; died in Washington, !>.<'., 

 June 14, 1892. He received u public-school educa- 

 tion, was brought up on his father's farm, taught for 

 four years, and was three times elected to tin 

 Legislature. He served through the civil war in 

 the Confederate army, becoming colonel ; after the 

 war returned to his farm, and applied himself chiefly 

 to the improvement of agriculture in the Southern 

 States. He was President of the Farmers' State Alli- 

 ance of South Carolina, was a leader in the councils 

 of the National Alliance, and was elected to Congress 

 from the 6th South Carolina District as a Democrat 

 in Is'.M, where he was a member of the committees 

 on Militia and on Expenditures in the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Stark, George, civil engineer, born in Manchester, 

 N. II., April 9, 1823 ; died in Nashua, N. II., April 13, 

 1892. He was a grandson of Maj.-Gen. John Stark ; 

 studied civil engineering, and in early life became 

 connected with railroad building. In 1852 he was 

 made Superintendent of the Hudson River Railroad, 

 which he left to take a similar office on the Nashua 

 and Lowell Railroad and its branches, and from 1857 

 till 1875 he was manager of the latter road. Resign- 

 ing in 1875, he was appointed one of a committee of 

 six to reorganize the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany, and in the same year he established a banking 

 nouse in partnership with his son. He was appointed 

 brigadier-general of the 3d Brigade of New Hamp- 

 shire Militia in 1857, colonel of the Governor's Horse 

 Guards in 1860, and brigadier-general in 1861, and 

 under the latter commission made his headquarters at 

 Portsmouth, and had charge of the organization of 

 State troops for the civil war. He was Democratic 

 candidate for Governor in 1860 and 1861. 



Steiner, Lewis Henry, physician, born in Frederick 

 City, Md., May 4, 1827 ; died in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 

 18, 1892. lie was graduated at Marshall College, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1846, and at the medical department 

 of the University of Pennsylvania in 1849, and settled 

 in Baltimore in 1852. From 1855 lie was for many 

 years connected with the management of the "Amer- 

 ican Medical Monthly" ; he contributed frequently to 

 the Mercersburg " Quarterly Review," " Southern 

 Quarterly," and other periodicals; and between 1852 

 and 1861 he held the chairs of Chemistry and Nat- 

 ural History in Columbia College, of Chemistry and 

 Pharmacy in the National Medical College, Wash- 

 ington, D'. C., and was lecturer on applied chemistry 

 at the Baltimore Medical Institute, and on chemis- 

 try and natural philosophy in the College of St. 

 James. He was an active Unionist at the begin- 

 ning of the civil war ; assisted in raising troops, and 

 was Chief Medical Inspector of the United States 

 Sanitary Commission in the Army of the Potomac 

 till the close of the war. The abolition of slavery 

 opened to him a new field of labor, and he interested 

 himself in the establishment of schools for colored 

 children throughout Maryland. In 1871, 1875, and 

 1879 he was elected a State Senator, in 1876 was a 

 delegate to the National Republican Convention, and 

 in 1882, on the establishment of the Pratt Free Li- 



ence"(1851); tf The Marvelous in Modern Thought"; 

 and " Abraham Lincoln," an address. 



Stewart, William A., jurist, born in Baltimore, Md., 

 Dec. 29, 182.') ; died there, Aug. 26, 1892. Ho was 

 graduated at the Maryland University, admitted to 

 the bar in 1847, elected to the Legislature several 

 times, and in the session of 18i'.s was Sneaker. In the 

 judiciary reform movement of iss-J he was elected 

 Judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland, and he held 

 the otlice till within a few weeks of his death. 



Stockton, Thomas Hewlings, clergyman, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., in 1S39; died in Buenos Ay res, Argen- 

 tine Republic, Aug. 3, 1892. He received a collegiate 



