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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (SNOW STEVENSON.) 



185th New York Volunteers; returned to the field as 

 its lieutenant colonel; was promoted colonel, Feb. 1, 

 lsi;r>; and was i>n-vetted briirai lier general for meri- 

 torious service, March -J!, LSI;:,. He took part in 20 

 battles and several minor engagements. In the ac- 

 tion at the Quaker Road, Maivh _!',>, 1865, he saved the 

 colors of his regiment after the fourth color-bearer 

 had been shot. After the war he returned to Syracuse, 

 and in ls70-'T- was a member of the Legislature. 



Snow, Freeman, educator, born in Palmyra, N. Y., in 

 1*41 : .lied in Nelson, Pa., Sept. 1'J, 1894. At the be- 

 ginning of the civil war he enlisted in the 37th New 

 York Volunteers, and was in active service till se- 

 verely wounded at Malvern Hill. After the war he 

 worked his way through Phillip's Andover Academy 

 and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1873. 

 For two years he was Assistant Professor of History 

 at the United States Naval Academy; for a year he 

 taught history at the Boston Latin School ; and in 

 1^1 he was appointed an instructor in forensics and 

 American history at Harvard. After spending three 

 vears in study in France and Germany, he returned 

 to Harvard in 1886 as Professor of International Law 

 and American Diplomacy, and held the chair till his 

 death. During the month preceding his death he 

 delivered a series of lectures on international law at 

 the United States Naval War College by appointment 

 of the Navy Department, and prepared them for pub- 

 lication by the Government. He received the degree 

 of Ph. I), from Heidelberg, and that of LL. D. from 

 Harvard, after taking its full course in law. 



Southgate, Horatio, clergyman, born in Portland, Me., 

 July 5, 1812; died in Astoria, Long Island, April 11, 

 1894. He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1832, 

 and studied for the Congregational ministry at An- 

 dover Theological Seminary. His views having 

 changed while there, he applied for orders in the 

 Episcopal Church and was ordained deacon by Bish- 

 op Griswold in 1835. The next year he was ap- 

 pointed by the board of missions to report on the 

 state of Mohammedanism in Turkey and Persia, and 

 at once sailed for this new field. Returning to the 

 United States in 1839, he was ordained priest, and in 

 1840 was sent as missionary to Constantinople. He 

 served in this capacity for four years, and on Oct. 26, 

 1844, was consecrated bishop for the dominions of 

 the Turkish Sultan. In 1849 he returned to the 

 United States, and the next year resigned his bishop- 

 ric. He organized St. Luke's Church in his native 

 city in 1851, and from 1852 to 1858 was rector of the 

 Church of the Advent in Boston, Mass. He became 

 rector of Zion Church in New York city in 1859, and 

 remained in that office until his resignation in Sep- 

 tember, 1872. After that date he lived in retirement 

 at Astoria. He was the author of " Narrative of a 

 Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia, and Meso- 

 potamia " (New York, 1840) ; u Narrative'of a Visit to 

 the Syrian [Jacobite] Church of Mesopotamia" 

 (1844) ; " Practical Directions for the Observance of 

 Lent" (1850); "The War in the East" (1855); "A 

 Treatise on the Antiquity, Doctrine, Ministry, and 

 Worship of the Anglican Church" (Constantinople, 

 in Greek, 1849) ; " Parochial Sermons" (1859) ; " The 

 < 'ross above the Crescent, a Romance of Constantino- 

 ple 1 ' (Philadelphia, 1877). He also contributed 

 largely to periodicals. 



Stanton, Frederic Perry, lawyer, born in Alexandria, 

 Va., Dec. 22, 1814; died near Ocala, Fla., June 4, 

 1894. He was a brother of Richard Henry Stanton, 

 the jurist and author; was graduated at Columbian 

 College in 1833, and in the^ following year was ad- 

 mitted to the bar and removed to Memphis, Tenn. 

 In 1845-'.',;", he was a Representative in Congress, 

 where for two years IK; was chairman of the Judiciary 

 Committee; in 1S57 was appointed Secretary of Kan- 

 sas Territory ; and in 1858-'61 was Governor. He 

 was associate editor of the " Continental Monthly" 

 in 1863-'64; subsequently lived in Virginia; and 

 settled in Florida about 1886. 



Steinberger, Albert Barnes. ex-Premier of Samoa, born 

 in Schuylkill County, Pa., Dec. 25, 1840 ; died in 



Dorchester, Mass., May 2, 1894. His father was one 

 of the largest operators in coal and iron in Pennsyl- 

 vania, lie was educated at Princeton, studied law, 

 married a daughter of Hon. Alfred Ely, of Rochester, 

 N. Y., in 1867, and engaged in the manufacture of 

 firearms and metallic cartridges. In 1870 he repre- 

 sented a syndicate that had a large contract to sup- 

 ply the French Government with firearms and car- 

 tridges. Part of the contract was executed when 

 trouble arose over financial matters, and the contract 

 and its negotiation became the subject of a congres- 

 sional investigation, and the business remained unad- 

 justed at his death. On Feb. 17, 1872, the great chief 

 of the Navigator, or Samoan, Islands signed an agree- 

 ment with Commander Richard W. Meade, U. S. N., 

 granting the United States the privilege of establish- 

 ing a naval station in the harbor of Pago Pago, Tu- 

 tuila island, and in April following the chiefs and 

 rulers petitioned President Grant to annex the islands 

 to the United States. Soon afterward Mr. Steinber- 

 ger applied to the President for appointment as 

 special commissioner from the United States to 

 Samoa, and on March 29, 1873, he was commissioned 

 a special agent to " obtain accurate information in re- 

 gard to the Navigator Islands." He reached Apia, 

 Upolo island, on Aug. 17, issued a manifesto to the 

 chiefs and rulers, and on the 21st met the principal 

 men in a grand council. While he avoided all refer- 

 ence to the subject of annexation, the chiefs and the 

 white residents openly favored it. At this council 

 the foundation was laid of a new form of government 

 for the islands, and in October a new code of laws, 

 drawn up by Mr. Steinberger, was promulgated. In 

 December Mr. Steinberger returned to the United 

 States, and made an elaborate report to the President, 

 which formed the basis of a memorable discussion in 

 Congress. On Dec. 11, 1874, Mr. Steinberger received 

 another commission to visit Samoa, and sailed from 

 San Francisco in the United States steamer " Pensa- 

 cola," with a considerable quantity of presents for the 

 chiefs, in February, 1875. Soon after his arrival a 

 new constitution was promulgated, under which Ma- 

 lietoa, the most powerful chief, was selected as King, 

 and Mr. Steinberger as Prime Minister and Chief Jus- 

 tice. In October a special commissioner was sent 

 from Samoa with a draft of a treaty between the king- 

 dom and the United States. Meanwhile, commercial 

 and political complications were increasing, in which 

 the new Government, the United States consul, and 

 the American, English, and German merchants were 

 concerned. In December the British man-of-war 

 " Barracouta " arrived in Apia harbor; charges were 

 preferred against Mr. Steinberger, who was supported 

 by the native Government; and at a meeting of the 

 King with the foreign consuls on board the " Barra- 

 couta," on Feb. 7, 1876, the former was prevailed on to 

 depose his Prime Minister. On the following day 

 Mr. Steinberger was seized, taken on board the Brit- 

 ish vessel, which sailed for Auckland, New Zealand, 

 on March 29, and was landed, penniless, at Levuka, 

 Fiji Islands. He made his way to Paris and London, 

 and after filing claims for damages for his seizure and 

 deportation, returned to the United States, and filed 

 charges against Mr. Foster, the United States consul 

 at Apia, for his participation in the affair. Capt. 

 Stevens, of the " Barracouta," was ordered to return 

 to England for trial ; Consul Foster was removed by 

 Secretary Fish. Congress made a partial investiga- 

 tion ; and Mr. Griffin, who succeeded Mr. Foster, in 

 an official report in February, 1877, gave, high praise 

 to Mr. Steinberger's acts while at Samoa. These 

 constituted his only redress and vindication. 



Stevenson, Jonathan D., pioneer, born in New York 

 city, in 1800 ; died in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 14, 

 1894. He went to California in 1847 as commander 

 of the regiment of New York volunteers raised at 

 the request of President Polk, and known as Steven- 

 son's regiment. When this was disbanded, in 1848, he 

 engaged in mining, and prepared the first code ot 

 mining regulations ever observed in California. Re- 

 turning to San Francisco, he went into the real-estate 



