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lard's Seminary in 1832, and was married in 1840. 

 In 1846 she removed to Seneca Falls, N. Y., and 

 two years later she issued a call for the first 

 woman's congress and began the woman-suffrage 

 movement. She addressed the New York Legis- 

 lature on the rights of married women in 1854, 

 and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 

 1860. In 1866, believing women to be eligible for 

 public office, she offered herself as a candidate 

 for Congress. For twenty-five years she annual- 

 ly addressed a congressional committee in favor 

 of an amendment to the Federal Constitution 



f ranting enlarged privileges to women. Mrs. 

 tanton was president of the National Woman 



Suffrage Associa- 

 tion in 1865-'93, 

 and honorary 

 president of the 

 Woman's Loyal 

 League in 1861. 

 In 1868, with Su- 

 san B. Anthony 

 and Parker Pills- 

 bury, she estab- 

 lished a periodical 

 entitled The Revo- 

 lution, which was 

 discontinued a 

 few years later. 

 Among her publi- 

 cations were The 

 History of Wom- 

 an Suffrage (with 

 Susan B. Anthony 

 and Matilda Jos- 



lyn Gage); Eighty Years and More (1895); and 

 (with others) The Woman's Bible (1895). 



Steele, George McKendree, clergyman, born 

 about 1815; died in Kenilworth, 111., Jan. 14, 

 1902. He held pastorates in the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church in Fitchburg, Lowell, Lynn, and 

 Boston; joined the New England Conference of 

 that Church in 1853; became president of Law- 

 rence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1865, with 

 which he remained till 1879, when he went as 

 principal to Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, 

 Mass. He held the latter post till 1892, when 

 he resigned and retired. 



Stevens, Benjamin. Franklin, bibliographer, 

 born in Barnet, Vt., Feb. 19, 1833; died in Lon- 

 don, England, March 5, 1902. He went to Lon- 

 don in 1860 to join his brother Henry in the 

 bookselling business, in which he was engaged 

 till his death. He was occupied thirty years in 

 making a chronological index of American docu- 

 ments in England, France, Holland, and Spain 

 from 1763 to 1784; also securing facsimiles of 

 many rare and important manuscripts relating 

 to American history. He, too, devoted much 

 time to the compilation of unpublished manu- 

 scripts pertaining to the American Revolution. 

 He was purchasing agent for many American 

 libraries; United States despatch agent in Lon- 

 don; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; a 

 member of the Societfi d'Histoire Diplomatique; 

 honorary member of the Connecticut, New Hamp- 

 shire, Maryland, Minnesota, and Vermont His- 

 torical Societies; and was intimately associated 

 with other similar organizations. 



Still, William, abolitionist, born in Shamong, 

 N. J., Oct. 7, 1821 ; died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 

 14, 1902. He was of African descent; removed 

 to Philadelphia in 1844; and became a clerk in 

 the office of the Pennsylvania Antislavery So- 

 ciety in 1847. He sheltered the wife, daughter, 

 and sons of John Brown while the latter was 

 awaiting execution. He was chairman and corre- 



sponding secretary of the Philadelphia branch of 

 the underground railroad in 1851-'61; and after 

 the civil war wrote the narratives of escaped 

 slaves, which constitute the only full account 

 of this organization. He was appointed post 

 sutler at Camp William Penn for colored troops 

 during the civil war, and in 1885 was sent by 

 the Presbytery of Philadelphia as a commis- 

 sioner to the General Assembly at Cincinnati. 

 He was one of the original stockholders of the 

 Nation, a member of the Board of Trade of Phil- 

 adelphia, a member of the Freedmen's Aid 

 Union and Commission, vice-president and chair- 

 man of the Board of Managers of the Home 

 for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons ; and author 

 of The Underground Railroad; Voting and La- 

 boring; and Struggle for the Rights of the Col- 

 ored People of Philadelphia. 



Stockton, Francis Richard, author, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., April 5, 1834; died in Wash- 

 ington, D. C., April 20, 1902. He was graduated 

 at the Central High School, Philadelphia, in 

 1852, and became a draftsman and engraver. In 

 1866 he invented and patented a double graver. 

 Turning from his first profession to journalism, 

 he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Post, and 

 in 1870 that of the newly established Hearth and 

 Home in New York. A little later he was on the 

 staff of Scribner's Monthly; and when St. Nich- 

 olas was established, in 1874, he became its as- 

 sistant editor, in which chair he remained for 

 several years. His earliest writings were fanci- 

 ful stories for children, contributed to the River- 

 side Magazine and other periodicals, and his first 

 publication in book form was a collection of these 

 with the title Ting-a-Ling Stories (1870). He soon 

 made a reputation as a writer of humorous sto- 

 ries, his first success for older readers being the 

 Rudder Grange Stories (1879). The complete list 

 of his published books is as follows: The Ting- 

 a-Ling Stories (1870) ; Roundabout Rambles 

 (1872) ; What Might Have Been Expected (1874) ; 

 Tales out of School (1875); Rudder Grange 

 (1879) ; A Jolly Fellowship (1880) ; The Floating 

 Prince (1881); The Story of Viteau (188.4); The 

 Lady or the Tiger, and Other Stories (1884); 

 The Late Mrs. Null (1886); The Christmas 

 Wreck, and Other Stories (1886); The Casting 

 away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine (1886); 

 The Hundredth Man (1887); The Bee Man of 

 Orn, and Other Fanciful Tales (1887); The Du- 

 santes (1888); Amos Kilbright, and Other Sto- 

 ries (1888); Ardis Claverden (1889); The Great 

 War Syndicate (1889); The Stories of the Three 

 Burglars (1889); The Merry Chanter (1890); 

 The Squirrel Inn (1891); The House of Martha 

 (1891) ; The Rudder Grangers Abroad, and Other 

 Stories (1891); Kobel Land (1891); The Clocks 

 of Rondaine (1892); The Watchmaker's Wife, 

 and Other Stories (1893); Fanciful Tales (1894); 

 Pomona's Travels (1894); The Adventures of 

 Captain Horn (1895); A Chosen Few (1895); 

 Stories of New Jersey (1896) ; Mrs. Cliff's Yacht 

 (1896); Captain Chap or the Rolling Stones 

 (1896); A Story-Teller's Pack (1897); The Great 

 Stone of Sardis (1897); The Girl at Cobhurst 

 (1897); The Associate Hermits (1898); The Vi- 

 zier of the Two-Horned Alexander (1899); The 

 Young Master of Hyson Hall (1899) ; Afield and 

 Afloat 1900); A Bicycle of Cathay (1900); Kate 

 Bonnet (1902); and John Gayther's Garden, and 

 the Stories Told Therein (1902). He left an un- 

 published novel entitled The Captain's Tollgate. 

 His most original creation is The Lady or the 

 Tiger, the title of which has become almost pro- 

 verbial. This story was dramatized as a comic 

 opera and produced with success on the New 



