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vols., Albany, 1865); “Life and Writings of Col. William L. Stone” (1866); “Guide-Book to Saratoga Springs and Vicinity” (1866); “Letters and Journals of Mrs. General Riedesel” (1867); “Life and Military Journals of Major-General Riedesel” (1868); “History of New York City” (1872); “Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston” (1875); “Campaign of General Burgoyne and St. Leger's Expedition” (1877); “Third Supplement to Dowling's History of Romanism” (1881); “The Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson” (1882); “The Journal of Captain Pausch, Chief of the Hanau Artillery during the Burgoyne Campaign” (1886); “Genealogy of the Stone Family” (1887); and “Ballads of the Burgoyne Campaign” (1893).

STONE, William Oliver, artist, b. in Derby. Conn., 2G Sept., 1830: d. in Newport, K. I., 15 Sept., 1875. He studied with Nathaniel Jocelyn at New Haven, and in 1851 removed to New York. In 1856 he was elected an associate of the National academy, and he became an academician three years later. He gained distinction in portraiture, and devoted himself entirely to that branch of art. Among his numerous portraits are those of Bishops Williams of Connecticut (1858). Littlejohn of Rhode Island (1858), and Kip of California (1859) ; John W. Ehninger (1859), owned by the National acade- my: Rev. Henry Anthon (1860); Cyrus W. Field (1865) ; and James Gordon Bennett (1871).

STONEMAN, George. soldier, b. in Busti.Chau- tauqua eo., X. V.. s Aug., 1822; d. in Buffalo, X. Y.. "i Si-|.t.. 1S'J4. II,- was graduated at the V. S. mili- tary academy in 1846. He acted as quartermaster to the Mormon bat- talion at Santa Fe, was :-ent with it to California in 1MT. and remained ac- tively engaged on the PacinV tillls.-,7. I n March of this year he be- came captain in the2d cavalry, and served till "1861, '1 1 idly in Texas. In February of that year. liilc 1 in command of Fort I ':'" n. he refused to obey the order of his superior, Gen.

David E. Twiggs,

for the surrender of the government proprrtv to the seecsMonists. evacuated the fort, and went to New York by steamer. He became major of the 1-t cavalry on !i May. 1861, and served in west- ern Virginia till 13 Aug., when he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and chief of cav- alry of the Army of the Potomac. He organized the cavalry of that army and commanded during the Virginia peninsular campaign of 1862. After the evacuation of Yorktown by the Confederate troops his cavalry and artillery pursued and over- took them, and thus brought on the battle of Williamsburg. 5 May. 1862. He took command of Gen. Philip Kearny's division after the second battle of Bull Run, succeeded Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman as commander of the 3d army corps, 15 Nov., 1862, and led it at Fredericksburg on 13 Dec. He was promoted major-genera!. 2!' Nov.. ISO:.', led a cavalry corps in the raid toward Rich- mond from 13 April till 2 May. IM>:;. and com- manded the 23d corps from January till April. 1864. On the reorganization of the armies oper- ating against Richmond by Gen. Grant, Gen. Stone- man was appointed to a cavalry corps in the De- partment of the Ohio, was engaged in the opera- tions of the Atlanta campaign in May-July. 1864. and conducted a raid for the capture of Macon and Andersonville and the liberation of prisoners, but was captured at Clinton. Ga.. 31 July, and held a raptivetill 27 Oct. He led a raid to southwestern Virginia in December, 1864. commanded the dis- trict of east Tennessee in February and March, 1865, conducted an expedition to Asheville, N. C., in March-April, lS(;r>. and was engaged at Wythe- ville, the capture of Salisbury. N. C., and at Ashe- ville. He became colonel of the 21st infantry. 28 July, 1806. and was brevetted colonel, brigadier. - and major-general for gallant conduct. He retired from the army. 1(1 Aug.. 1871. After the war he resided in California, of which he was governor in 1883-'7. having been chosen as a Democrat.

STORER, Bellamy, jurist, b. in Portland. Me., 9 March, 1798; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 June, 1875. He was educated at Bowdoin, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1817, and the same year began practice at Cincinnati. In 1824 he advocated the election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency, and edited " The Crisis," an organ of his party. He served in congress in 1835-'7, declined renomination, and in 1844 was a presidential elector on the Henry Clay ticket. He was for many years a professor in the Cincinnati law-school, and served for nineteen years as judge of the supreme court of that city. He was popular as a speaker at both political and religious meetings. At one time in his early life Judge Storer was a leading spirit in a religious band of young men called " Flying Artillery," who went "from town to town to promote revivals. He received the degree of LL. D. from Bowdoin in 1821. His brother. David Humphreys, physician, b. in Portland. Me.. 26 March. 1804 ; d. in Boston, 10 Sept., 1891, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1822. and, after studying medicine with Dr. John C. Warren, was graduated at the medical department of Harvard in 1 s ','">. Settling in Boston, he there began his practice, residing there until his death. In 1837 he originated the Tremont street medical school, and in 1854 he was called to the chair of obstetrii-s and medical jurisprudence in the medical department of Harvard, becoming also its dean, which appointments he held until 1868. Dr. Storer was physician to the Massachusetts general hospital from 1849 till 1858. and in 1837 was given charge of the departments of zoology and herpetology, under the direction of the Massachusetts state survey. He was a member of many medical and scientific societies in the United States, to whose Iran-act i< 'ii- lie had frequently contributed papers on natural sciences, and in 1866 was president of the American medical association. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Bowdoin in 1876. His larger publications include a translation from the French of Louis C. Kiener's "Genera, Species, and Iconography of Recent Shells" (Boston, 1837): "Report on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts" (1>-:i:ii: "Synopsis of the Fishes of North America" (Cam- bridge, 1846); and "History of the Fishes of Massachusetts" (in parts, Boston, 1853-'67). David's son. Horatio Robinson, surgeon, b. in Bo-ton. Mass., 27 Feb., 1830, was graduated at Harvard in 1850, where he devoted special study to natural science, and was a private pupil of Louis Ai:a i/ and Asa Gray. He then turned to medicine, received his degree from Harvard in 1853. and then spent two years in Paris. London, and Edinburgh, during one of which he was the assistant, in pri-