Stuart, Gilbert
Gilbert (1755-1828), an American portrait painter. He was born at Narragansett, Rhode Island . At the age of thirteen he began painting portraits without instruction. In 1770 a friend took him to England, but dying, left Stuart to return to America in poverty. He managed to scrape together some money by painting portraits and went again to England where he remained during the Revolutionary war. None the less he retained his American patriotism. In 1792 he returned to America with the avowed purpose of linking his name with that of the Father of his Country by painting the portrait of Washington. He established his studio in New York , Philadelphia, Washington, and Boston successively. He painted portraits of the first five presidents, and of Edward Everett, John Jay, Jacob Astor, Judge Story, W. E. Channing, the Quincys, and Admiral Perry. While in England he portrayed George III, George IV, and other members of the royal family, as well as Mrs. Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Benjamin West. His most noted portrait, that of Washington, is owned by the Boston Athenaeum.
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Stubbs
WALTER ROSCOE, an American public official, born in Richmond, Ind., in 1858. He studied at the University of Kansas and began his business career as a railroad contractor. Later he became the owner and operator of large cattle ranches in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, from 1904 to 1908 chairman of the Republican State Committee of Kansas, and from 1909 to 1913 (2 terms) Governor of Kansas. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the United States Live Stock Industry Committee. STRONG, WILLIAM, a Scotch painter, born at Dumbarton in 1859. He was educated at Dumbarton Academy, Slade School, and University College, London, and has studied and worked in London since 1875. He received the Silver Medal for Etching in the Paris International Exhibition in 1889, and the First Class Gold Medal for Painting in the Dresden International Exhibition in 1897. 1906 he became an associate in the Royal strongly-heated Academy; and an LL.D., Glasgow, 1909. He has been president of the a International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers since 1918. He wrote "The Earth Fiend," a ballad d; and ; "Death and the Ploughman's Wife."
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Stubbs (WILLIAM an English historian)
WILLIAM, an English historian; was born in Knaresborough, England, June 21, 1825; was educated at Ripon Grammar School, whence he proceeded to Oxford University and latterly became a fellow of Trinity College. In 1848 he was ordained, and became vicar of Navestock, Essex, in 1850. In 1862 he was appointed librarian of Lambeth Palace, in 1866 Professor of Modern History at Oxford, in 1869 curator of the Bodleian Library, in 1875 rector of Cholderton, Wilts, in 1879 canon residentiary of St, Paul's, in 1884 bishop of Chester, and in 1888 bishop of Oxford. He edited many valuable historical works in the Rolls Series, including "Chronicles and Memorials of the reign of Richard I." (1864-1865); "Gesta Regis Henrici II." (1867); "Chronicle of Roger Hoveden" (1872-1873); "Memorials of St. Dunstan" (1874); and "Opera Radulphi de Diceto" (1876); his chief work the Constitutional History of England (1874- 1878), and many others. He was a member of various English and foreign learned societies. He died April 22, 1901.
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Stubbs, William
William (1825-), a noted British historian. He was graduated at Oxford in 1848. Much of his subsequent life is connected in one capacity or another with the University of Oxford. Stubbs was an untiring student of the early history of England. He dug into the records of Canterbury and into the chronicles of the reigns of the earlier kings. He published numerous works. His reputation rested chiefly on The Constitutional History of England in It s Origin and Development. Another important piece of work was an edition of Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History. To American students Stubbs is the historian of the English constitution.
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Stuck
HUDSON, an American clergyman and explorer; born in England, in 1863. In 1885 he removed to the United States, and in 1892 graduated from the theological department of the University of the South. He was appointed a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1892, and served as rector of several churches in Texas. In 1904 he was appointed archdeacon of the Yukon. He was interested in mountain climbing and exploration, and on June 7, 1913, with three companions, reached the summit of Mount McKinley, being the first to perform this feat. This was followed by other explorations in Alaska. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and was a member of other scientific societies. He wrote "Ascent of Denali (Mount Mc- Kinley)" (1914); "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog-Sled" (1914); "Voyages on the Yukon and its Tributaries" (1917); "A Winter Circuit of Our Arctic Coast" (1920). He died in 1920.
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Stuckofen Furnace
This furnace or bloomary was formerly employed in some parts of Germany as a direct method of producing malleable iron from the ore, but it has been gradually abandoned in favor of the less direct but more economical methods now in vogue. The furnace is about fifteen feet high and thirty inches in diameter at the hearth--the latter having but one arch, which serves for inserting the tuyere, and also for taking out the bloom. The hearth is first filled with charcoal and lighted, after which the roasted ore and charcoal charged alternately, when the tuyere is inserted and blast supplied from a bellows driven by a convenient water-wheel. Slag is tapped from time to time and the metal falls to the hearth. After about twenty-four hours have elapsed the blast ceases, the tuyere is drawn out, breast removed, and the bloom lifted out and conveyed to the shingling-hammer for consolidation. Subsequent operations after the usual methods result in bar-iron. See SHINGLING; PUDDLING; etc.
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Stud
A small piece of metal which is slotted to receive the outer coil of the hair spring. Any short rod or roller projecting from a part of a machine is termed a stud. To set with projecting jewels or pieces of metal, as watch cases are sometimes ornamented. SULLY, HENRY. Born in 1680 and died in 1728. A celebrated watchmaker and the author of a work on horology. He was an Englishman by birth, though he resided most of the time in France, where he died.
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