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in 1722 and ordained pastor of the church in North Haven, then a part of New Haven, which charge he held until his death, 14 May, 1700. He published the " Prospect of the City of Jerusa- lem " (New London. 1742): "Lookiug-Glass for Changelings" (1743) ; " The Declaration of the As- sociation of the County of New Haven concerning the Rev. George Whitefield" (Boston, 1745); and "The Character and Duty of Soldiers" (Xew Lon- don. 1753). Ezra was graduated at Yale in 1740, and in 1749 was chosen tutor there. About this time Benjamin Franklin sent an elec- tric apparatus to Yale, and, becoming inter- e-ted ill tile 11CW SC1- ence, Mr. Stiles made some of the first ex- periments in electrici- ty in Xew England. Having studied theol- ogy, he was licensed in 1749, and in April, 1750, preached to the Housatonic Indians in Stockbridge, Mass., but, owing to religious

doubt, resolved to

abandon the ministry for the law, and, being ad- mitted to the bar in 1753. pracii-ed for two years in New Haven. In February. 1755. he delivered a Latin oration in honor of Dr. Franklin on the occasion of his visit to Yale, and formed a friend- ship with Franklin that lasted until death. In 1750 he became pastor of the 2d church in New- port, R. I., and during his residence then 1 , in ad- dition to his professional duties, devoted himself to literary and scientific research, corresponding with learned men in almost every part of the world. In 1767 he began the study of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. His congregation hav- ing been scattered by the occupation of Newport by the British, he removed in 1777 to Portsmouth, N. H., to become pastor of the North church, and thence to Xew Haven, to accept the presidency of Yale college, which post he held from 23 June, 1778, until his death, serving also as professor of ecclesiastical history, and after the death of Prof. Naphtali Daggett as professor of divinity, also lecturing on philosophy and astronomy. He was accounted, both at home and abroad, as the most learned and accomplished divine of his day in this country. He received the degrees of A. M. from Harvard in 1754, and that of S. T. D. from Edin- burgh in 1705, Dartmouth in 1780, and Princeton in 1784. Princeton also gave him the degree of LL. D. in the last-named year. His publications are " ratio Funebris pro Exequis Jonathan Law" (New London, 1751) ; " Discourse on the Chris- tian Union" (Boston, 1701; 3d ed., 1791); "Dis- course on Saving Knowledge" (Newport, 1770): " The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor," a sermon before the legislature (Hart- ford, 1783) ; " Account of the Settlement of Bris- lol. R. I." (Providence, 1785); and "History of Three of the Judges of Charles I.. Major-General Vhalley. Major-General Goil'e. and Col. Dixwell, etc.. with an Account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett." who was -upposed to have been also one of the judges (Hartford, 1794). Dr. Stiles left unfinished an " Ecclesiastical History of New England." His diary and forty-five volumes of manuscripts are preserved in the library of Yale. His daughter, Mary, married Dr. Abiel Holmes, who wrote his " Life " (Boston, 1798). See also the " Life of Ezra Stiles," by James Luce Kingsley, in Sparks's "American Biography."

STILES, Henry Reed, physician, b. in New York city. 10 March. is:!2. He is a kinsman of Ezra Stiles, and was educated at the University of the city of New York and at Williams. After graduation at the medical department of the Uni- ei-iiy of the city of New York and at the New York Ophthalmic hospital in 1855. he practised in New York city, in Galena, 111., and Toledo, Ohio. In 1856 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and in 1857-'8, under the firm of Calkins and Stiles, pub- li>]ied educational works and the " American Jour- nal of Education." In 1859-'03 he practised medi- cine in Brooklyn and Woodbury. X. Y. In 1863 he became librarian of the Long Island historical society, of which he was a founder and director. In 1868-'70 he served in the Brooklyn office of the Metropolitan board of health, and in 1870-'3 he was a health inspector in the board of health of New York city. In 1873 he was appointed mediral superintendent of the State homoeopathic asylum for the insane in Middletown, N. Y., and under his direction the first two buildings were erected and its service was organized. In 1877 he removed to Dundee. Scotland, to take charge of the Homoeo- pathic dispensary there, remaining until 1881, when he returned to New York, where he practised until 1888. He then opened a private establishment for the care of mental and IHTVOU- di>rases at Hill View, N. Y. From 1882 till 1885 he was professor of mental and nervous diseases in the New York woman's uie.lieal college and hospital. Dr. Stiles was an organizer of the Public health association of New Y T ork city in 1872, a founder and officer of the Society for promoting the welfare of the insane in New York city, and has lectured on hygiene and sanitary laws in the New York homoeopathic medi- cal college. He was an organizer of the American anthropological society in 1869, and one of the seven founders of the Xew York genealogical and biographical society, serving as its president from INii'.i until 1ST:!. Williams gave him the degree of A. M. in 1*70. lie is the author of numerous me- moirs, has annotated and edited several works, and published "The History and Genealogies of An- eient Windsor. Conn." (New York, 1859; supple- ment. Albany, 1803); " Monograph on Bundling in America" (Albany, 1861); "Genealogy of the Mas- sachusetts Family of Stiles" (1863): "The Walla- bout Prison-Ship'Series"(2 vols., 1805) ; The Gene- alogy of the Stranahan and Joselyn Families " (1805) ; and " History of the City of Brooklyn. N. Y." (; oK. lirookhn. IM;; -;ih. I'leedited the Illus- trated History of the County of Kings and City of Brooklyn "' (2 vols., 1884)', and in part " The Humphreys Family and Genealogy " (1887).

STILES, Israel Newton, lawyer. b. in Suffield, Conn., 16 July, 1833; d. in Chicago, 111.. 17 Jan., 1895. He received a common-school education, bewail the study of law in 1849, and three years later removed to Lafayette. Ind., where he taught and continued his studies till his admission to the bar in 1855. He was prosecuting attorney two years and a member of the legislature, ami became aeiie as an anti-slavery orator during the Fremont canvass, delivering more than sixty speei -he.-. When the civil war began he enlisted as a private, but was soon made adjutant of the 20th Indiana regiment. He was taken prisoner at Malvern Hill, but. after six weeks in Libby prison, was exchanged. He was subsequently major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the 63d Indiana, and finally brevel brigadier-general, his commission being dated :;i