Stevenson (V)
(JOSEPH) ROSS, an American theologian, born at Ligonier, Pa., in 1866. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1886 and from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1889. After taking post-graduate studies in Berlin, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1890, and served as pastor for several years in Sedalia, Mo. From 1894 to 1897 he was adjutant professor of ecclesiastical history at McCormick Theological Seminary, and full professor from 1897 to 1902. In the latter year he became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York City, serving until 1909. From that year till 1914 he was pastor of the Brown Memorial Church, in Baltimore. In 1914 he was elected president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. During the World War he was a member of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and of the War Work Council. He served in France with the Y. M. C. A. and with the Army Educational Commission in 1918-19.
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Stevenson (VI)
ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR, a British author; son of Thomas Stevenson; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1850; educated at the University of Edinburgh, was intended for his father's profession, but studied ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON law; in 1873 went abroad for his health; wrote for periodicals till 1878, when his first book appeared; visited California in 1879; spent the winter of 1887-1888 in the Adirondacks; cruised in the Pacific; bought a tract of land ("Vailima" or "Five Streams") in Samoa, where he made his home. He published: "An Inland Voyage" (1878); "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes" (1878); "Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879); "Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers" (1881); "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" (1882); "New Arabian Nights" (1882); "Treasure Island" (1883); "The Silverado Squatters" (1883); "The Dynamiter: More New Arabian Nights" (1885), with Mrs. Stevenson; "A Child's Garden of Verse" (1885); "Prince Otto" (1885); "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886); "Kidnapped" (1886); "Underwoods" (1887); "The Merry Men and Other Tales" (1887); "Memories and Portraits" (1887); "The Black Arrow" (1888); "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889); "Ballads (1891); "The Wrecker" (1891-1892); "A Foot- Note to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" (1892); "David Balfour" (1893); "Island Nights' Entertainments" (1893); "The Ebb Tide" (1894); "Weir of Hermiston" and "St. Ives" (1895-1896), the last two left not quite complete. He died in Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, Dec. 3, 1894.
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Stevenson (VII)
SARA YORKE (Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson), an American archæologist, born at Paris, France, in 1847. She was educated in Paris until 1862, and later lived in Mexico, marrying Cornelius Stevenson of Philadelphia, in 1870. The University of Pennsylvania bestowed upon her the honorary degree of Sc. D., the first honorary degree ever conferred by this institution on a woman. In 1897 she was secretary of the American Exploration Society, and in 1904 president of the department of archæology, University of Pennsylvania. From 1894 to 1901 she was a trustee, and since 1908 curator, of the Philadelphia Museums; and from 1899 to 1903 president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Archæological Institute of America. She took an active part in the civic affairs of Philadelphia, being at various times an officer of the Civic Club, and since 1914 its honorary president. In 1909 she was president of the Pennsylvania Equal Suffrage Society. In 1897 she went to Rome on a special mission for the department of archæology of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1898 to Egypt for the American Exploration Society. During the World War she was the chairman of various relief committees in Philadelphia, and was made by the French Government Officier d'Instruction Publique. She wrote, besides many articles on Egyptian archæology and other topics: "Maximilian in Mexico." In 1908 she became literary editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger."
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Steward
in the original sense, one who looked after the domestic animals and gave them their food; hence, one who provides for his master's table, and, generally, one who superintends household affairs for another. A person employed on a large estate or establishment, or in a family of consequence and wealth, to manage the domestic affairs, superintend the other servants, collect rents, keep the accounts, etc. An officer in a college who provides food for the students and and superintend superintends the affairs of the kitchen. An official on a vessel, whose duty it is to distribute provisions to the officers and men. In passenger ships, a man who superintends the distribution of provisions and liquors, waits at table, etc. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, the recording steward of a congregation of Methodists.
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Stewart (CHARLES erations of against)
CHARLES erations of 1804 against Tripoli and aided in the destruction of the "Philadelphia." In 1813 he took command of the "Constitution," and in December sailed from Boston on a cruise to the coast of Guiana and the Windward Islands, which resulted in the capture of the British schooner "Picton" and several merchant vessels. A year later he sailed in the same ship on a second cruise, and on Feb. 20, 1815, captured the British ship "Cyane," mounting 34 guns, and the sloop of war "Levant," mounting 21 guns. He commanded a squadron in the Mediterranean in 1816-1820, and in the Pacific in 1821-1823; served on the board of navy commissioners; commanded the home squadron; and had charge of the naval station at Philadelphia. In 1857 he was placed on the retired list, but resumed service in 1859 as commander of the Philadelphia navy yard, and on July 16, 1862, was made rear-admiral on the retired list. He died in Bordentown, N. J., Nov. 7, 1869.
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Stewart (DUGALD a Scotch philosopher)
DUGALD, a Scotch philosopher; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 22, 1753; was educated in Edinburgh and attended the lectures of Dr. Reid in Glasgow. In 1772 he began to assist his father who was Professor of Mathematics in Edinburgh University, being appointed joint-professor three years afterward. In 1778 he agreed to lecture also as a substitute for Adam Ferguson in the chair of moral philosophy, and in 1785 when the latter resigned, Dugald Stewart received the appointment. Besides holding this position for a quarter of a century, from which he spread a fine intellectual and moral influence, Stewart was the author of "Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind" (1792-1827), "Outlines of Moral Philosophy" (1793), and accounts of the "Life and Writings of Adam Smith," of Dr. Robertson, and of Dr. Reid. He died in 1828.
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