his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who was one of the
early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever; Reflections on
Yellow Fever Periods.
=Spalding, Martin John.= _Ky._, 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic archbishop
of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review of
D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences
of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in
Kentucky; Miscellanea. _See Life by J. L. Spalding, supra; Gross’s
Sketches of Contemporaries._
=Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr].= _Me._, 18-- - ----. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of average verse. The
Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. _Rob._
=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= _Me._, 1847- ----. A novelist and
philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in behalf
of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian
school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in
Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s
Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely.
_Le. Lo._
=Sparks, Jared.= _Ct._, 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard University,
1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53. He is best known
by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part
the author. It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote those of Ethan
Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; Charles
Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He
published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes
and life of each; and also Correspondence of the American Revolution.
His editing has been sometimes criticised because he occasionally toned
down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected the spelling of his
subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects have been generally
recognized. _See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G. E. Ellis, supra, 1869;
Herbert Adams, supra._ _Har._
=Sparks, William Henry.= _Ga._, 1800-1882. A Mississippi planter, after
1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories of Fifty Years.
He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems being, Somebody’s
Darling; The Dying Year.
=Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry.= _N. Y._, 1809-1897. A banker of Buffalo,
author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great Rebellion.
=Spaulding, Henry George.= _Ms._, 1837- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later
Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.
=Spaulding, Solomon.= _Ct._, 1761-1816. A Congregational clergyman
of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was subsequently an
iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a romance called The
Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes asserted to be the
basis of the Mormon Bible. _See Patterson’s, Who Wrote the Mormon
Bible? 1882._
=Spear, Charles.= _Ms._, 1801-1863. A Universalist minister of Boston
active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the
Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from Prison.
=Spear, Samuel Thayer.= _N. Y._, 1812-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871. Family Power;
Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The
Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; The Bible Heaven.
_Fu._
=Spears, John Randolph.= _O._, 1850- ----. A journalist of New York
city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and
Other Stories of the Sea. _Mac. Put._
=Speed, John Gilmer.= _Ky._, 1853- ----. A journalist of New York city.
Life of Keats.
=Speer, William.= _Pa._, 1822- ----. A Presbyterian missionary in
China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; God’s
Rule for Christian Giving.
=Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa.= _E._, 1840-1867. A novelist who was the
first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States
army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.
=Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A North
Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North
Carolina; History of North Carolina.
=Spencer, Ichabod Smith.= _Vt._, 1798-1854. A Presbyterian clergyman
prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches; Sermons;
Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.
=Spencer, Jesse Ames.= _N. Y._, 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83,
and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works
include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United
States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches
of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things;
Studies in Eschatology; Papalism _vs._ Catholic Truth; Memorabilia of
Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. _Wh._
=Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews].= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A prominent
woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian Business
College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the English
Language.
=Spencer, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1793-1857. A physician who was medical
professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital Chemistry;
Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. _See
Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858._
=Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez].= _Fl._, 18-- - ----. A writer
who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the
United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as
Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. _Cas._
=Spitzka, Edward Charles.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A physician of New York
city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis,
and Treatment.
=Spofford, Ainsworth Rand.= _N. H._, 1825- ----. The librarian of
Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts.
Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical Characters.
=Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott].= _Me._, 1835- ----. A
novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both prose and
verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking luxuriance
of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other
Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of
Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark’s, a story
for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied
to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three
Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown, _supra_, and L. Guiney,
_supra_); The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About
Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and Other Poems. _See Atlantic
Monthly, April, 1882._ _Cop. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Rob. Scr._
=Spooner, Lysander.= _Ms._, 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston prominent
as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged
Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive Slaves;
Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty: Causes and
Cure.
=Spooner, Shearjashub.= _Vt._, 1809-1859. A dentist of New York city.
Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical
and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and
Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.
=Sprague, Alfred White.= _Sh._, 1821- ----. A Boston chemist who
published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.
=Sprague, Charles.= _Ms._, 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe Bank,
Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer, and
still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems
as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to
Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841,
the latest edition being that of 1876. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry
of America._
=Sprague, Charles Ezra.= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. The secretary of the Dime
Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical Symbolism;
Handbook of Volapük.
=Sprague, John Titcomb.= _Ms._, 1810-1888. An officer of the United
States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865. Origin, etc.,
of the Florida War (1848).
=Sprague, Mary Aplin.= _O._, 1849- ----. A novelist of Newark, Ohio. An
Earnest Trifler. _Hou._
=Sprague, Peleg.= _Ms._, 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of Boston.
Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases.
=Sprague, William Buell.= _Ct._, 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the
work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to
a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on
Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr
Griffin, _supra_; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to
European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse, _supra_; Aids to Early
Religion.
=Sprecher, Samuel.= _Md._, 1810- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, president
of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and author of The
Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.
=Spring, Gardiner.= _Ms._, 1785-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman,
long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick Church,
1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons;
Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit Ministrations;
Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The Mercy Seat,
comprise his chief works. _See Personal Reminiscences of._ _C. P. S._
=Spring, Leverett Wilson.= _Vt._, 1840- ----. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the
University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams
College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher. _Hou._
=Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter].= _Ind._, 1832- ----. The wife of an
Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two novels,
Beechwood; Self.
=Sproull= [sprowl], =Thomas.= _Pa._, 1803-1892. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.
=Squier= [skwīr], =Ephraim George.= _N. Y._, 1821-1888. An archæologist
and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and consul-general of
Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient
Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis, _supra_);
Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the
Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; Peru.
_Ho._
=Squier, Miles Powell.= _Vt._, 1792-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God; Reason and the
Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.
=Staley, Cady.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A civil engineer, president of the
Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and author of The Separate
System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).
=Stall, Sylvanus.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s
Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to
the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. _Fu._
=Stallo, John Bernhard.= _G._, 1823-1900. A Cincinnati lawyer, minister
to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics; General
Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. _Ap._
=Stanley, Anthony Dumond.= _Ct._, 1810-1853. An educator who was a
professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary
Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.
=Stanley, Sir Henry Morton=, originally John Rowlands. _W._, 1841-1904.
A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans
merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in
search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the
Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by
the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the
Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King,
and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through
the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State;
In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America
and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. _See Stanley and
Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore,
1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo;
Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s
Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column._ _Har._
=Stansbury, Howard.= _N. Y._, 1806-1863. An explorer who was a
topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An
Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). _Lip._
=Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady].= _N. Y._, 1815-1902. Wife of H. B.
Stanton, _infra_. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer who
devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms, and
(with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman Suffrage
Movement.
=Stanton, Frank Lebby.= _Ga._, 1858- ----. A journalist and popular
verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. _Ap._
=Stanton, Henry Brewster.= _Ct._, 1805-1887. A journalist and reformer
of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain
and Ireland; Random Recollections. _Har._
=Stanton, Henry Thompson.= _Va._, 1834-1898. Son of R. H. Stanton,
_infra_. An officer in the United States army and an Indian
commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man, and
Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. _Clke._
=Stanton, Richard Henry.= _Va._, 1812-1891. A jurist of Kentucky. Code
of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical Treatise for
Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.
=Stanton, Robert Livingstone.= _Ct._, 1810-1885. Brother of H. B.
Stanton, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The Church and
the Rebellion.
=Stanton, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. Son of H. B. and E. Stanton,
_supra_. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question in Europe.
_Put._
=Stanwood, Edward.= _Me._, 1841- ----. A Boston journalist, managing
editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential Elections;
History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. _Hou._
=Starr, Eliza Allen.= _Ms._, 1824-1901. An art lecturer in Chicago.
Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.
=Starr, Frederic Ratchford.= _N. S._, 1821-1889. A noted dairy farmer
of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not?; What
Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.
=Starr, Moses Allen.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. A physician of New York
city, prominent as a neurologist. Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases;
Lectures on Insanity; Brain Surgery.
=Stauffer, Francis Henry.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A sensational novelist
of Philadelphia, long a contributor to the Saturday Night. Among his
serials published in that paper, none of them of much literary merit,
are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; Devona the Dauntless.
=Staunton, William.= _E._, 1803-1889. An Episcopal clergyman of New
York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary, and wrote much on
musical topics.
=Stearns, Asahel.= _Ms._, 1774-1839. A Massachusetts lawyer and
Congressman, professor of law at Harvard University, 1817-29. Summary
of the Law and Practice of Real Actions; General Laws, 1780-1822 (with
L. Shaw).
=Stearns, Charles.= _Ms._, 1753-1826. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
at Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1785 till his death. The Ladies’
Philosophy of Love, a Poem; Principles of Morality and Religion.
=Stearns, Charles Woodward.= _Ms._, 1818-1887. A physician and surgeon
of note as a Shakespearean scholar. Shakespeare’s Medical Knowledge;
Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; Concordance of the
Constitution of the United States; The Black Men and the South and the
Rebels.
=Stearns, Edward Josiah.= _Ms._, 1810-1890. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator in Maryland. A Platform for All Parties; Notes on Uncle
Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English Pronunciation; The Faith of
Our Forefathers, an Examination of Archbishop Gibbons’s “Faith of Our
Fathers;” The Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. _Wh._
=Stearns, Frank Preston.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Great-nephew of L. M.
Child, _supra_. A Boston writer upon art, literature, and history. The
Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The Midsummer of
Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern English Prose;
Summer Travel in Europe. _Put._
=Stearns, John Glazier.= _N. H._, 1795-1874. A Baptist clergyman
once prominent in central New York. The Primitive Church; Letters on
Freemasonry; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; The Influence of
the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration.
=Stearns, John William.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A professor in the
University of Wisconsin from 1884. The History of Education in
Wisconsin.
=Stearns, Lewis French.= _Ms._, 1847-1892. A Presbyterian clergyman,
afterwards professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological
Seminary, 1880-92. The Evidence of Christian Experience; Present Day
Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss, _supra_; Life of
Henry Boynton Smith, _supra_. _Hou. Scr._
=Stearns, Oakman Sprague.= _Me._, 1817-1893. A Baptist clergyman
of Massachusetts, professor of biblical interpretation at Newton
Theological Seminary from 1868. A Syllabus of Messianic Passages in the
Old Testament; Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament.
=Stearns, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1747-1819. A physician and astronomer of
Worcester, New York city, and lastly of Brattleboro, Vermont. Tour to
London and Paris; Mystery of Animal Magnetism; American Oracle; The
American Herbal or Materia Medica.
=Stearns, William Augustus.= _Ms._, 1805-1876. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Amherst College, 1854-76. Infant Church
Membership; A Plea for the Nation.
=Stearns, Winfrid Alden.= 185- - ----. Son of W. A. Stearns, _supra_.
Labrador: a Sketch of its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on Labrador; New
England Bird Life (with E. Coues, _supra_).
=Stebbins, Giles Badger.= 1817-1900. After Dogmatic Theology, What?;
The American Protectionist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible of the
Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization Society;
Progress from Poverty.
=Stebbins, Emma.= _N. Y._, 1815-1882. A sculptress who lived many
years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte Cushman.
Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of her Life. _Hou._
=Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Moore] [Hewitt].= _Ms._, 1818- ----.
Memorial of F. S. Osgood, _supra_; Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of
History; Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.
=Stebbins, Rufus Phineas.= _Ms._, 1810-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of
Ithaca, New York, and subsequently of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. A
Study of the Pentateuch; A Common Sense View of the Books of the Old
Testament.
=Stedman, Edmund Clarence.= _Ct._, 1833- ----. A poet and literary
critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock Exchange
there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The
Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of the
Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other
Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star Bearer. His
other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith;
Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements of Poetry.
His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of American
Literature (with E. M. Hutchinson, _supra_); The Works of Poe (with G.
E. Woodberry, _infra_); A Victorian Anthology. _See Vedder’s American
Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897._ _Hou._
=Steele, Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. A Methodist clergyman and
educator of note. Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone
Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers;
Bible Readings; Sermons and Essays. _Meth._
=Steele, David.= _I._, 1827- ----. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia from 1861. The Times in Which we Live, and the Ministry
they Require; The Apologetics of History.
=Steele, Mrs. Esther [Baker].= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. Wife of J. D.
Steele, _infra_, and co-author with him of a General History and school
histories of the United States; France; Ancient Peoples; Mediæval and
Modern Peoples; Greece; Rome.
=Steele, George McKendree.= _N. Y._, 1823-1902. A Methodist clergyman
and educator, principal of Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts. Outline
Study of Political Economy. _Meth._
=Steele, Joel Dorman.= _N. Y._, 1836-1886. A prominent educator of
Elmira, New York, who published Barnes’s History of the United States
and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course
of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology;
Human Physiology; Zoölogy; Chemistry.
=Steele, Mrs. Margaret.= _See Conkling, Mrs._
=Steele, Thomas Sedgwick.= _Ct._, 1845- ----. Canoe and Camera: a Tour
Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to
the Aroostook River; A Voyage to Vikingland. _Est._
=Steendam, Jacob.= _H._, 1616-16--?. The earliest verse-writer of New
York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company, and lived
in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time
he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown.
His four small volumes of verse include, Der Distelvink (The Thistle
Finch); Klacht van Nieuw Amsterdam (The Complaint of New Amsterdam);
Tlof van Nieuw Nederland (The Praise of New Netherland); Prichel
Vaarsen (Spurring Verses). The literary merit of his work is small.
=Steenstra, Peter Henry.= _H._, 1833- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of Old Testament criticism and
interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1867. The Being
of God as Unity and Trinity. _Hou._
=Steiger, Ernst.= _Sxy._, 1832- ----. A bibliographer and publisher of
New York city. Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den
Vereinigten Staaten; Periodical Literature, a bibliography.
=Stella.= _See Lewis, Mrs._
=Stellhorn, Frederick William.= _G._, 1841- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol University, who has published
a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of the
Apostles; Annotations on the Gospels.
=Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Willison].= _Al._, 1856- ----. The wife of a
Presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Illinois. The Confessions of Two, a
novel.
=Stephens, Alexander Hamilton.= _Ga._, 1812-1883. A distinguished
Georgia statesman who was a representative in Congress from his State,
1843-59, vice-president of the Confederacy, subsequently a member
of Congress, and in 1882 governor of Georgia. School History of the
United States; History of the War between the States; Compendium of
United States History. _See Carroll’s Twelve Americans; Life by F. H.
Norton; Life by Johnston and Browne; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1870;
Appletons’ American Biography; Trent’s Southern Statesmen._ _Lip._
=Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia [Winterbotham].= _Ct._, 1813-1886. A
novelist and littérateur of New York city whose books were at one time
much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best work; A Story
of Western Life; The Old Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The
Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; A Popular History of the
United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being
the familiar Polish Boy.