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porter in chancery. In 1857 he was appointed 

 minister to Rome, and in 18G1 was recalled at his 

 own request. In 1865 he was elected United States 

 Senator, but the validity of his election was ques- 

 tioned, and he was unseated, March 27, 1866. In 

 1869 he was again elected, and he served till 1875. 

 He was appointed Attorney-General of New Jersey 

 in 1877, and was re-elected in 1882, 1887, and 

 1802. He was a delegate at large to all the Demo- 

 cratic national conventions after 1864. He was 

 also a delegate to the Unionist convention at Phila- 

 delphia in I860. He received the degree of LL. D. 

 from Princeton College in 1882. He published 

 Equity Reports. 



Stone, John Marshall, ex-Governor of Missis- 

 sippi, born in Gibson County, Tenn., April 30, 

 1830; died in Holly Springs, Miss., March 2, 1900. 

 In 1855 he removed to Mississippi. During the 

 civil war he served in the Confederate army. In 

 the battles around Petersburg he commanded a 

 brigade. After the war lie was station agent of 

 the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at luka. 

 He was mayor of luka and treasurer of Tishe- 

 mingo County, Mississippi, but was removed from 

 the latter ottice by military authority. In 1869 

 he was elected to the State Senate, and he served 

 there continuously till 1876. When Gov. Ames 

 resigned, in March, 1876, he became acting Gov- 

 ernor, and in November, 1877, he was elected for 

 a full term. In 1884 he was appointed Railroad 

 Commissioner. In 1889 he was again elected Gov- 

 ernor, and he served till 1895. At the time of his 

 death he was president of Starkville Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College. 



Storrs, Richard Salter, clergyman, born in 

 Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21, 1821; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., June 5, 1900. He was graduated at Am- 

 herst College in 1839, taught in Monson Academy 

 and Williston Seminary, 

 and later entered the law 

 office of Rufus Choate. 

 But he gave up the study 

 of law, entered Andover 

 Theological Seminary, 

 and was graduated there 

 in 1845. His first pastor- 

 ate was in Harvard Con- 

 gregational Church, 

 Brookline, where he was 

 ordained, Oct. 22, 1845. 

 In November, 1846, he 

 was called to the Church 

 of the Pilgrims, in Brook- 

 lyn, where he was pastor 

 emeritus at the time of his death. He was one of 

 the founders of the Independent in 1848, and re- 

 mained one of its editors till 1861. From 1871 till 

 1879 he served on the Brooklyn Park Commission. 

 In 1873 he was made president of the Long Island 

 Historical Society. He was well known as an 

 orator throughout the United States. He was 

 president of the American Board of Commissioners 

 tor Foreign Missions in 1887-'97. The degree of 

 1). I), was conferred on him by Union College in 

 1853 and by Harvard in 1859; that of LL. D. by 

 Princeton in 1874, and L. H. D. by Columbia in 

 1887. His published works include a dozen occa- 

 sional discourse*, sermons, and orations, contrib- 

 uted to Broadway Tabernacle sermons (1860); 

 Introductory Essays to Punchard's View of Con- 

 gregationalism (Boston, 1860); Kindling (New 

 York, 1856) ; An Oration Commemorative of Presi- 

 dent Lincoln (1869); Conditions of Success in 

 Preaching (1875); Early American Spirit and the 

 Genesis of it (1875) : John WyoklilFe and the First 

 English isible (1880); Recognition of the Super- 

 natural in Letters and Life (1881); Manliness in 



the Scholar (1883); The Psalter (1883); The 

 Divine Origin of Christianity (1884); The Pro- 

 spective Advance of Christian Missions (1885) ; 

 Forty Years of Pastoral Life (1886); Declaration 

 of Independence (1886); The Broader Range and 

 Outlook of the Modern College Training (1887); 

 Puritan Spirit (1889); and Bernard of Clairvaux 

 (1892). 



Strong, William. L., merchant, born in Lou- 

 donville, Ohio, March 22, 1827; died in New 

 York city, Nov. 2, 1900: He was a dry-goods 

 clerk in Wooster and Mansfield, Ohio, till 1853, 

 when he removed to New York city to engage in 

 similar business. In 1863 he became a member 

 of the firm of Sutton, Smith & Co., and in 1870 

 the firm's name was changed to William L. Strong 

 & Co. Mr. Strong was the organizer of busi- 

 ness men's clubs in several presidential campaigns, 

 and in 1882 was an unsuccessful candidate for 

 Congress on the Republican ticket. In 1894 he 

 was elected mayor of New York by a combination 

 of Republicans and Anti-Tammany Democrats, 

 and he served till January, 1898. For portrait, 

 see Annual Cyclopaedia for 1894, page 536. 



Stryker, William Scudder, lawyer, born in 

 Trenton, N. J., June 6, 1838; died there, Oct. 29. 

 1900. He was graduated at Princeton College in 

 1858. In 1861 he assisted in raising the 14th New 

 Jersey Regiment; served on Major-Gen. Gillmore's 

 staff, and distinguished himself at the capture of 

 Morris island and in the night assault on Fort 

 Wagner, and was brevetted lieutenant colonel. 

 Later he was made paymaster at Parole Camp, 

 Columbus, Ohio. He was attached to the staff of 

 Gov. Ward of New Jersey, and, April 12, 1867, 

 was made brigadier general* in the State Guard and 

 adjutant general. In 1874 he was brevetted major 

 general. He was admitted to practice at the bar 

 in 1866. He was devoted to historical research, 

 and published Official Register of the Officers and 

 Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War 

 (Trenton, 1872) ; Roster of the Ne\v Jersey Vol- 

 unteers in the Civil War (1872); Washington's 

 Reception by the People of New Jersey in 1789 

 (1882) ; Gen. Maxwell's Brigade of the New Jersey 

 Continental Line (1885) ; The New Jersey Volun- 

 teers (1887); The Affair at Egg Harbor (1894); 

 The Continental Army at the Crossing of the 

 Delaware River (1890); and The Battles of Tren- 

 ton and Princeton (Boston, 1898). 



Sullivan, Timothy, soldier, born in Cork, Ire- 

 land, April 14, 1820; died in Oswego, N. Y., April 

 21, 1900. About 1850 he removed to Oswego, 

 where he had a shoe store. He was captain of the 

 Oswego Guard thirteen years. When the civil 

 war broke out he was commissioned colonel of 

 the 24th New York Regiment. At the battles of 

 Bull Run and South Mountain he was brigade 

 commander, and he was made brigadier general 

 for gallantry. Later he was detailed on recruiting 

 service. He' also served a year as president of the 

 examining board of the 1st Army Corps. 



Tasker, Stephen P. M., mechanical engineer, 

 born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 21, 1834; died 

 there, March 19, 1900. In early youth he served 

 in the pattern shop and drawing room of the firm 

 of which his father was a member, and at the age 

 of twenty-one he was taken into partnership. 

 Under his supervision the Newcastle Iron Works 

 were constructed. He perfected and patented sev- 

 eral important mechanical inventions. 



Tavares, Morton, actor, born in Kingston. 

 Jamaica, in 1821; died there, June 15, 1900. !!< 

 made his first appearance at the age of eleven 

 with n company that visited his native place. A 

 few years later he went to New York and secured 

 an engagement under the name of Tavares Mor- 



