OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (STOCKDALE SUMMERS.) 



hisnajne known throughout the mechanical world, 

 and devised other apparatus, including a safety 

 fire sprinkler. He served in the Somerville Com- 

 mon Council in 1884, and in the Board of Alder- 

 men in 1885-86. 



Stockdale, Thomas King-land, jurist, born m 

 Pennsylvania, in 1828; died in Summit, Miss, 

 Jan. 8. 1899. He was graduated at Jefferson Col- 

 lege in 185G; removed the same year to Covington 

 County, Mississippi, to teach; and was principal 

 of the Holmesville Academy, in Pike County, m 

 1857-'o8. In 1859 he was graduated at the law 

 department of the University of Mississippi, and 

 began practicing. He enlisted in the Confederate 

 service at the outbreak of the civil war; became 

 a lieutenant adjutant of the 10th Mississippi In- 

 fantry, and major in 1861; retired from the regi- 

 ment* and organized and became commandant of 

 a battalion of cavalry in 1802; and was promoted 

 lieutenant colonel of the 4th Mississippi Cavalry 

 in 1804. He commanded his regiment at the bat- 

 tle of Harrislmrg, near Tupelo, July 14, 1864, 

 where he was wounded, and was paroled with 

 (Jen. Forrest's men. May 12, 1865. After the war 

 IIP served a term as justice of the Supreme Court 

 of Mississippi, was a presidential elector on the 

 Democratic ticket in 1872 and 1884, and was 

 elected to Congress in 1886, 1888, 1890, and 1892. 



Stone, Frederick, jurist, born in St. Mary's 

 County, Maryland, Feb. 7, 1820; died near La 

 Plata, Md., Oct. 17, 1899. He was educated at St. 

 John's College, Annapolis. He was elected as a 

 Democrat to the Maryland Legislature in 1859, 

 and in 1864 was elected to Congress, and he held 

 his seat there till 1871. In that year he was re- 

 turned to the Legislature, and in 1876 was a 

 member of the Constitutional Convention. Later 

 he became a Republican, and in 1882 was elected 

 chief justice of the 7th Judicial Circuit Court of 

 Appeals. His term expired by constitutional 

 limit of age in 1890. 



Stone, Marvin Chester, inventor, born in 

 Portage County, Ohio, in 1842; died in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., May 17, 1899. In boyhood he made 

 many mechanical articles of practical utility. He 

 was a student in Oberlin College, but his course 

 was interrupted by the civil war, in which he 

 served with the National army. Subsequently he 

 undertook a theological course, but abandoned 

 it for journalism in Washington. After a few 

 years he applied himself wholly to inventing, 

 manufacturing, and philanthropic work. Among 

 his original devices are a machine for making 

 paper cigarette holders, one for making paper 

 tutes for use in place of straws with cold drinks, 

 and a method for coloring fine china and other 

 wares in imitation of the famous " peachblow 

 vase." He was highly successful as a manufac- 

 turer, and he made his factory a model establish- 

 ment, providing within it a library of standard 

 fiction and other works, a music room, a hall for 

 debates and social functions, and a large dancing 

 floor, all for the exclusive use of his operatives 

 and their friends. Several years ago Mr. Stone, 

 in association with two or three others, erected 

 two blocks of model tenement houses for the 

 colored people of Washington, where they might 

 have good home privileges at a low rent. 



Stotsenburg, John Miller, military officer, 

 born in New Albany, Ind., Nov. 24, 1858; killed 

 in battle near Quingua, Luzon, Philippine Islands 

 April 23, 1899. He was graduated at West Point 

 81, and commissioned a second lieutenant in 

 the 6th Cavalry: was promoted first lieutenant 

 Aug. 19, 1899; was graduated at the United States 

 Infantry and Cavalry School in 1897, and became 

 captain, Dec. 14, 1898. On the call for volunteers 



for the war against Spain he w r as commissioned 

 major of the 1st Nfebraska Infantry (May 9, 

 1898), at the request of the State authorities, who 

 had become attached to him \vhile he was Pro- 

 fessor of Military Science and Tactics in the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska from December, 1897. On 

 June 15 he sailed with his regiment for Manila, 

 and with it took part in the operations against 

 Malate Fort and in the attack and capture of 

 Manila on Aug. 13. On Nov. 10 he was pro- 

 moted colonel, and within a few weeks he over- 

 came by his soldierly conduct a strong opposi- 

 tion in the regiment against his advancement. 

 On April 23, 1899, the American troops had an 

 encounter with a body of insurgent Filipinos 

 near Quingua, four miles northeast of Malalos, 

 the 1st Nebraska Infantry suffering the most 

 severely, and the affair developed into a bloody, 

 though successful fight. The Filipinos occupied 

 a horseshoe trench about a mile long on the edge 

 of a wood, and had a strong outpost. The 1st 

 Battalion of the 1st Nebraska was sent to recover 

 the body of a slain cavalryman, and it advanced 

 till checked by a fierce volley from the trench. 

 The battalion lay about 800 yards from the 

 trench, under fire, for two hours. Re-enforce- 

 ments were called, and Col. Stotsenburg, who 

 had spent the night with his family in Manila, 

 rushed to the rescue with the 2d Battalion. He 

 ordered a charge, and when at the head of his 

 men he came within 200 yards of the insurgents 

 he was shot in the breast, and died instantly. 



Strieby, Michael E., clergyman, born in 

 Columbiana, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1815; died in Clifton 

 Springs, N. Y., March 16, 1899. He accompanied 

 his parents to Worcester, Ohio*, in boyhood; en- 

 tered Hudson College in 1830, and in 1835 he and 

 his classmates went to the newly established 

 Oberlin College, where he was graduated in 1838. 

 Failing health forced him to abandon study for 

 a year, and he then entered the theological sem- 

 inary at Oberlin, but was able to remain there 

 only a short time. As his health recovered he 

 began preaching as a supply. In April, 1842, he 

 was ordained pastor of the Free Presbyterian 

 Church at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and he held this 

 charge eleven years, during which the church be- 

 came Congregational. In 1852 he went to the 

 newly organized Plymouth Congregational 

 Church at Syracuse, N. Y., remaining there near- 

 ly twelve years. He was then chosen secretary 

 of the American Missionary Society. He had 

 much to do with the establishment of Fisk Uni- 

 versity, Hampton Normal and Industrial Insti- 

 tute, Atlanta University, and about 20 other 

 chartered institutions, besides the organization of 

 scores of churches. In 1896 he retired. 



Summers, Thomas Osmond, surgeon, born in 

 Charleston, S. C., Nov. 10, 1849; died in St. Louis, 

 Mo., June 19, 1899. He served in the civil war on 

 the Confederate side. After the war he studied 

 medicine in Nashville, Tenn., and later served as 

 Professor of Anatomy at Vanderbilt University. 

 With 15 students of the university he volunteered 

 his services during the yellow fever epidemic in 

 Memphis. Having discovered a new method for 

 treating the disease, he was placed in charge of 

 suppressive measures at Jacksonville, Fla. Later 

 he w^as sent by the Federal Government to study 

 the disease in Cuba and South America. In 1895 

 he was called to the, chair of Anatomy in the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis. 

 In the Spanish-American War he was surgeon 

 of the 2d Tennessee Volunteers. He accompanied 

 the army to Santiago, and had charge of the hos- 

 pital of the 6th Brigade, 5th Corps. He published 

 an Anatomy (Nashville, 1875). 



