Stillman
WILLIAM JAMES, an American artist, journalist, author, and traveler; bor born in Schenectady, N. Y., June 1, 1828; was graduated at Union College in 1848; began life as an artist; founded and edited the "Crayon," an art journal in New York. He was for many years a correspondent of the London "Times" and the New York "Evening Post," and was especially conversant with the affairs of Greece; he was consul-general to Crete, 1865-1869. His published works are: "The Acropolis of Athens" (1870); "The Cretan Insurrection" (1874); "Herzegovina and the Late Uprising" (1877); "On the Track of Ulysses" (1887); "Reminiscences of a Journalist." He died in Frimley Green, Surrey, near London, England, July 6, 1901.