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business. He was United States shipping commis- 

 sioner at that port from 1872 till 1885, and afterward 

 practiced law. 



Stockbridge, Francis Brown, merchant, born in Bath, 

 Me., April 9, 1826 ; died in Chicago, 111., April 30, 

 1894. He received a common-school education ; was 

 a drug clerk in Boston in 1843-'47 ; went to Chicago 

 and engaged in the lumber business ; and removed 

 to Allegan County, Mich., to take charge of his saw- 

 mills in 1851. In 1869 he was elected to the State 

 Legislature, and in 1871 to the Senate; and in 1887 

 and 1893 was elected United States Senator as a Re- 

 publican. In Congress he was a member of the Com- 

 mittees on the Census, Epidemic Diseases, Fisheries, 

 Indian Ati'airs, Naval Affairs, and Railroads. He ac- 

 quired large wealth, became noted as a stock breeder, 

 and made the Children's Home of Kalamazoo a large 

 beneficiary under his will. 



Stolbrand, Carlos John Meuller, military officer, born 

 in Sweden, May 11, 1821 ; died in Charleston, S. C., 

 Feb. 3, 1894. He entered the Royal Artillery when 

 eighteen years old ; served in the Schleswig-llolstein 

 campaign in 1848-' 50 ; and came to the United States 

 at the close of that war. In July, 1861, he enlisted in 

 the National service as a private ; soon afterward 

 was commissioned captain in the 1st Battalion of 

 Illinois Light Artillery ; and subsequently was chief 

 of artillery under Gen. John A. Logan. He took part 

 in the siege of Corinth, in the Atlanta campaign, and 

 in Sherman's march to the sea; and in February, 

 1865, was promoted brigadier general of volunteers 

 and resigned his commission. After the war he set- 

 tled in South Carolina and entered political life. In 

 1868 he was secretary of the State Constitutional Con- 

 vention, a delegate to the National Republican Con- 

 vention, and a presidential elector. He was also for 

 some years superintendent of the State Penitentiary, 

 and, under President Harrison's administration, wiis 

 superintendent of the new United States Government 

 building in Charleston. 



Stone, George W., jurist, born in Bedford County, 

 Va., Oct. 24, 1811 ; died in Montgomery, Ala., Maivh 

 11, 1894. He accompanied his parents to Tennessee 

 in 1817 ; was admitted to the bar in Fayetteville, 

 Tenn., in 1834; and settled in Talladega, Ala., in 

 1840. In 1843 he was appointed to fill a vacancy on 

 the Circuit Court bench ; in 1856 was elected a judge 

 of the Supreme Court, where he served till 1865 ; in 

 1876 was appointed .Associate Justice of that court ; 

 and from 1884 till his death was its Chief Justice. 



Stoneman, George, military officer, born in Busti, 

 Chautauqua County, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1822; died in 

 Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1894. lie was graduated at 

 West Point in 1846, and entered the army as brevet 

 2d lieutenant, 1st Dra- 

 goons. In the regular 

 army he was promoted 

 2d lieutenant, July 12, 

 1847 ; 1st lieutenant, July 

 25, 1854; captain in the 

 2d Cavalry, March 3, 

 1855 ; major, 1st Cavalry, 

 May 9, 1861 ; lieuten- 

 ant colonel, 3d Cavalry, 

 March 30,1864; colonel, 

 21st Infantry, July 28, 

 1866; retired Aug. 16, 

 1871 ; appointed colonel 

 of infantry, Feb. 9, 1891 ; 

 and again retired on the 

 24th. In the volunteer 

 army he was commis- 

 sioned a brigadier general, Aug. 13, 1861 ; pro- 

 moted major general, Nov. 29, 1862 ; and mustered 

 out of the service Sept. 1, 1866. During his active 

 career he was brevetted colonel, United States army, 

 Dec. 13, 1862, for services in the battle of Fredericks- 

 bunr; and brigadier general and major general, 

 March 13, 1865, for services in the capture of Char- 

 lotte, N. C., and during the war, respectively. Gen. 

 Stoneman's first military service was as quartermaster 





to the Mormon battalion at Santa Fe, in 1847. Ho 

 accompanied it into Mexico, and after the war served 

 on the Pacific coast till 1857, when he was transferred 

 to Texas. In February, 1861, while in command of 

 Fort Brown, Texas, he was ordered by Gen. Twiggs, 

 his superior officer, to surrender to the State seces- 

 sion authorities the fort and all Federal property in 

 his charge ; but lie refused, evacuated the fort, and 

 hastened to New York city. In August, after serving 

 in western Virginia, he was appointed chief of cavalry 

 in the Army of the Potomac. He organized that 

 branch of the army, commanded it during the penin- 

 sular campaign of 1862, and brought on the battle of 

 Williamsburg by overtaking the Confederate troops 

 with his cavalry and artillery after they had evacu- 

 ated Yorktown. After the second battle of Bull Run 

 he was assigned to command Gen. Kearny's division ; 

 and on Nov. 15, 1862, was appointed commander of 

 the 3d Army Corps. With this corps he distin- 

 guished himself at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13. In 

 April and May, 1863, he commanded a cavalry corps 

 in raids toward Richmond, and then till April, 1864, 

 was in command of the 23d Army Corps. He was 

 then assigned to command a cavalry corps in the 

 Army of the Ohio. In the Atlanta campaign he 

 undertook to capture Macon and Andersonville, and 

 release the prisoners confined in the latter place, but 

 was himself captured at Clinton, Ga., and held a 

 prisoner for three months. In December, 1864, he 

 led a raid into southwestern Virginia; in February 

 and March, 1865, commanded the District of East 

 Tennessee; led an expedition to Asheville, N. C., in 

 March and April ; and was engaged in the capture of 

 Salisbury and the subsequent operations in North 

 Carolina. After the war he purchased a ranch in 

 Los Angeles County, Cal. ; in 1882 was elected Rail- 

 road Commissioner of California as a Democrat ; and 

 in the following year was elected Governor of the 

 State, serving till January, 1887. 



Strong, James, educator, born in New York city, Aug. 

 14, 1822 ; died in Round Lake, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1894. He 

 was graduated at Wesley an University in 1844; was 

 teacher of ancient languages in Troy Conference Acad- 

 emy, West Poultney, Vt., in 1844-'46; Professor of 

 Biblical Literature and Acting President of Troy Uni- 

 versity in 1858-'61 ; and Professor and Professor Emeri- 

 tus of Exegetical Theology in Drew Theological Semi- 

 nary from 1868 till his death. He never was licensed 

 to preach, but received the degrees of S. T. D. in 1856 

 and LL.D. in 1881, both from Wesley an University. 

 Dr. Strong visited Egypt and Palestine in 1874 ; was 

 a member of the Old Testament Committee of Bible 

 revisers, and a former chairman of the Archaeological 

 Council of the Oriental Society ; and for several years 

 before his death was a lecturer at the Round Lake 

 Summer School. He was the author of "Harmony 

 and Exposition of the Gospels" (New York, 1852); 

 "Harmony in Greek" (1854); "Scripture History 

 delineated from the Biblical Records and all other 

 Accessible Sources " (Madison, N. J., 1878) ; " Irenics : 

 A Series of Essays showing the Virtual Agreement 

 between Science and the Bible " (New York, 1883) ; 

 "The Tabernacle of Israel in the Desert" (1888) ; 

 and " The Student's Commentary : A Complete Her- 

 meneutical Manual on the Book of Ecclesiastes " 

 (1893). He was editor of the translation of the com- 

 mentary on "Daniel" (1876) and "Esther" (1877) in 

 the American edition of Lange ; and with the Rev. 

 John McClintock, D.D., for 3 volumes, and after- 

 ward alone of a " Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theologic- 

 al, and Ecclesiastical Literature" (10 vols., 1867-'81). 

 His last notable work, completed shortlv before his 

 death, was a biblical concordance on which he had 

 been engaged for more than thirty years. 



Swing, David, clergyman, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 Aug. 23, 1830 ; died in Chicago, 111., Oct. 3, 1894. _ He 

 was brought up on a farm ; was graduated at Miami 

 University with high honors as a linguist in 1852; 

 began studying theology, but within a year was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Languages at Miami, and re- 

 mained there twelve years. In 1866 he accepted a 



