Stitt
EDWARD RHODES, an American physician and naval officer, born at Charlotte, N. C., in 1867. He was educated at the University of South Carolina (A. B. 1885, LL. D. 1917); University of Pennsylvania (M. D. 1889), and studied at the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1905. He was appointed a United States naval assistant surgeon in 1889 and became medical director, United States Navy, with the rank of rear-admiral in 1917. He specialized in tropical diseases and for many years served in the Philippine Islands. He was a professor of tropical medicine at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Jefferson Medical College; a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners; a member of several medical societies; and a teacher, and since 1916 commanding officer, at the United States Naval Medical School. He wrote "Practical Bacteriology-Blood Work and Animal Parisitology" (1908); "Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases" (1914).
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Stitute Of
an organization whose purpose it is to serve as a clearing-house of information regarding social institutions for the betterment of society in all countries. At first known as the League for Social Service, it was reorganized under its present name in 1902. Its work is divided under the following heads: gathering facts on social and industrial betterment; interpreting these facts and tracing their causes; and to make known results obtained by the various social betterment institutions in all countries. As an instance, when an employer desires to establish profit-sharing in his firm, the Institute will save him the trouble of an extensive investigation into the subject and supply him with the material.
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Stock
a name originally applied to a cruciferous garden plant, Matthiola incana (called more fully stock gillyflower), but now extended to the various species of Matthiola, and to certain allied plants of the same order. They are herbaceous or shrubby, biennial or sometimes perennial, and have single or double fragrant flowers. M. incana is probably the parent of the greater number of the hoary-leaved varieties cultivated in Great Britain, and known as Brompton stock, queen stock, etc. M. annua is the source of the common or 10 weeks' stocks, and M. graeca of the smoothleaved annual stocks. The Virginia stock (Malcolmia maritima) has been introduced from the Mediterranean, and like the species already mentioned is a great favorite in the flower garden on account of its beauty and fragrance.
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Stock Dove
the common wild pigeon, 14 inches in length, and with a general bluish gray plumage, the breast being purplish. It raises two or three broods in a season and builds its nest in a tree stump or in a rabbit burrow.
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Stockade
an inclosure or pen made with posts and stakes. In civil engineering, a row of piles, or a series of rows with brushwood in the intervals, driven into a sea or river shore, to prevent the erosion of the banks. In fortification, stout timbers planted in the ground so as to touch each other, and loopholed for musketry.
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Stockbridge
FRANK PARKER, an American author and journalist, born at Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and at the George Washington University, but learned the printer's trade in 1894 and became reporter and editorial writer on the Buffalo "Express." He was the founder and editor of the "American Home Magazine" and later served in various capacities on the "New York American," "Globe," "Herald," "Mail," and the Cincinnati "Times- Star." He was prominently identified with the publicity campaign of President Wilson in 1911 and at various times was editor of the "Town Development Magazine," "Popular Mechanics," and "Old Colony Magazine." He was a member of the A. L. A. and of the Author's League of America, and besides frequently contributing to magazines wrote "Yankee Ingenuity in the War" (1919); and (with M. R. Trabue) "Measure Your Mind" (1920).
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Stockbridge (II)
HORACE EDWARD, an American agricultural chemist, born at Hadley, Mass., in 1857. He was educated at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Boston University, and at the University of Göttingen. From 1884 to 1885 he was associate professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural College; from 1885 to 1889 professor of chemistry and geology at the Imperial College of Agriculture and Engineering, Japan; from 1887 to 1889 chief chemist of the Japanese Government ; from 1890 to 1894 president of the N. D. Agricultural College and director of the N. D. Experiment Station; from 1897 to 1906 professor of agriculture at the Florida Agricultural College and director of State agricultural institutions; and from 1906 on, editor of the " Southern Ruralist," Atlanta, Ga. He was a member of many domestic and foreign chemical , agricultural, educational and scientific societies, and from 1916 to 1917 president of the Farmers' National Congress . Besides writing reports and magazine articles on agricultural and scientific topics, he published "Rocks and Soils" (1888); and "Land Teaching" (1910 ).
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Stockinet
a general name given to plain fabrics made on the knitting machine. The name is a corruption of stocking-net. Stockinet is made of cotton, linen, silk, or wool. Wool stockinet is often called jersey cloth. Stockinet is used in the manufacture of hosiery and underwear.
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Stockport
a parliamentary and municipal borough of England, partly in Cheshire and partly in Lancashire, 5 miles S. E. of Manchester, on the Mersey. It occupies an elevated site, on which the houses rise in irregular tiers, giving it a picturesque appearance. Its chief structures are St. Mary's Church, Christ Church, the free grammar school, the Sunday-school, the free library, the museum situated in Vernon Park, Park, and the immense railway viaduct which here crosses the Mersey. The cotton trade, connected with which are spinning, weaving, dyeing, etc., is the staple, and there are also foundries, machine shops, breweries, etc. Pop. (1919) 125,629.
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Stockton
FRANCIS RICHARD, an American author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 5, 1834; became an engraver and draughtsman; was connected with the Philadelphia "Post," and with "Hearth and Home," New York; joined the editorial staff of "Scribner's Monthly," and became assistant editor of "St. Nicholas"; his earliest writings were odd tales for children, but he attained a high reputation as a writer of short stories, marked by quaintness of subject and treatment and by dry humor. The first the "Rudder Grange of these were Stories," followed by very many others, of which, perhaps, the best known are: Casting Awa Away of Mrs. Lecks F. R. STOCKTON Dusantes," "The Hundredth Man," "A Tale of Negative Gravity," etc. He died in Washington, D. C., April 20, 1902.
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