Storrs (II)
RICHARD SALTER, an American clergyman; born in Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21, 1821; was graduated at Amherst College in 1839 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1845. His first pastorate was in Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Mass., was ordained Oct. 22, 1845. In 1846 he was called to the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was pastor emeritus at the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the "Independent" in 1848 and remained on its editorial staff till 1861; served on the Brooklyn Park Commission in 1871- 1873; was president of the Long Island Historical Society, and of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; and the author of numerous books, sermons, orations, discourses, etc. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 5 5, 1900.
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Story
WILLIAM WETMORE, an American sculptor, son of Judge Joseph; born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 19, 1819; was graduated at Harvard in 1838; was admitted to the bar and practiced five years; went to Rome to study art and made Italy his home. Among his sculptures are: a statue of Edward Everett (in the Boston Public Garden); and one of Prescott at Bunker Hill; "Cleopatra"; "Semiramis"; "Judith"; "Jerusalem"; "Medea"; "The Sybil"; etc.; and busts of Judge Story, Lowell, Bryant, etc. He published: "Nature and Art: A Poem" WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1844); "Poems" (1847); "Life and Letters of Joseph Story" y" (1851); "Poems" (1856); "The American Question" (1862); "Roba di Roma" (1862); "Graffiti d'Italia" (1868); "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem" (1870); "Nero: An Historical Play" (1875); "Stephania: A Tragedy" (1875); "Vallombrosa" (1881); "He and She" (1883); "Poems" (1885-1886); "Fiametta" (1886); "Conversations in a Studio" (1890); "Excursions in Art and Letters" (1891); "A Poet's Portfolio" (1894). He died in Vallombrosa, near Florence, Italy, Oct. 7, 1895.
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Story (JOSEPH an American jurist born)
JOSEPH, an American jurist; born in Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 18, 1779. In 1811 he was appointed nted an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and held the office till his death. His works include: "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States" (1833); "Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws," considered his ablest effort (1834); and "Miscellaneous Writings" (1835). In 1851 his "Life and Letters" was edited by his son, W. W. Story. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 10, 1845.
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Story of a Bad Boy, The
The, an autobiographical story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. See Aldrich
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Story, Joseph
Joseph (1779-1845), an eminent American jurist. He was a native of Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received his degree at Harvard in 1798 and began soon afterward to practice law. He held various public positions. In 1808 he was sent to Congress. In 1811 he was speaker of the Massachusetts House. The latter year he was appointed associate justice of the United States supreme court. In this capacity he was an associate of Chief Justice Marshall, with whose views his own coincided. He also held a professorship of law in Harvard from 1829 until the time of his death. His lectures, published in book form, are authoritative. They have a wide use in schools of law. The title of chief interest to the ordinary reader is the Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Others are The Conflict of Laws, Equity Pleadings, Equity Jurisprudence, Law of Partnership, Law of Promissory Notes, etc.
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Stour
a river of England 47 miles long, flowing E. along the Suffolk and Essex boundary to the North Sea at Harwich.
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Stourbridge
a market town of Worcestershire, England, on the Stour, at the border of Staffordshire and the Black Country; 4½ miles S. by W. of Dudley and 12 W. by S. of Birmingham. The famous fireclay named for this town is said to have been discovered about 1555 by wandering glassmakers from Lorraine. Stourbridge has glass, earthenware, and firebrick works, besides manufactories of iron nails, chains, leather, etc. It has a grammar school (at which Samuel Johnson passed a year), a corn exchange, county court, mechanics' institute, etc.
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Stovaine
trade name for the hydrochloride of dimethylamino-amyl benzoate. It is a synthetic drug used as a substitute for cocaine as a local anæsthetic. It is claimed that it is less toxic than cocaine.
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Stovall
PLEASANT ALEXAN- DER, an American editor and diplomat, born at Augusta, Ga., in 1857. He He was educated at the University of Georgia and became editor of the Athens "Georgian," the Augusta "Chronicle," and the Savannah "Press," of which latter paper he was also proprietor. From 1902 to 1906 and again from 1912 to 1913 he was a member of the Georgia House of Cyc-Vol. IX Representatives. From 1913 to 1920 he was United States minister to Switzerland. He wrote "Life of Robert Toombs" (1891).
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Stow
JOHN, an English historian; born in London about 1525. He learned his father's business, tailoring, but his bent was toward antiquarian research. His chief publications were "A Summary of Englische Chronicles" (1561); "Annales, or a Generale Chronicle of England from Brute until the present Yeare of Christe" (1580); and "A Survey of London" (1598). He also printed the "Flores Historiarum of Matthew of Westminster" (1567), the "Chronicle of Matthew of Paris" (1571), and the "Historia Brevis of Thomas Walsingham" (1574). He died in London April 6, 1605.
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Stowe
CALVIN ELLIS, an American educator; born in Natick, Mass., April 6, 1802; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1824, at Andover Seminary in 1828; and edited the Boston "Recorder" in 1829-1830. He was Professor of Greek at Dartmouth College in 1830-1832, and of Sacred Literature in Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, O., in 1833-1835. He married Harriet Elizabeth Beecher in January, 1836, and went to Europe to examine the public school systems. He was professor at Bowdoin in 1850; and at Andover in 1852-1864. His publications include a translation of Jahn's "Hebrew Commonwealth" (1829); "Lectures on the Poetry of the Hebrews" (1829); "Report on Elementary Education in Europe"; "Introduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible" (1835); and "Origin and History of the Books of the Bible" (1867); also addresses and pamphlets. He died in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 22, 1886.
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Stowe (II)
CHARLES EDWARD, an American lecturer and writer, born at Brunswick, Maine, in 1850. He was a son of Harriet Beecher Stowe (q. v.) and was educated at Harvard and the Universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Heidelberg. After following the sea for four years, he studied abroad and upon his return was ordained a Congregational minister. He devoted his time to lecturing and wrote "Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe" (1889); "Lives of Distinguished Americans" (1889); "Harriet Beecher Stowe The Story of Her Life" (with L. B. Stowe, 1912).
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