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end of his life, and at the time of the death of Sir William Phips became acting governor. He was appointed chief justice of the superior court of the colony on 22 Dec., 1092, and held that office during the w'itchcraft trials. When others acknowledged that they had been deluded, hr persistently con- tended that be had acted up to his best judg- ment. Gover- nor Stoughton is spoken of as a "rich and atrabil- arious bachelor," although he gave to Harvard prop- erty that cost 1,000, and by his will made a bequest of land to the college. In 1698 the first Stoughton Hall was built, which

gave place to a

new edifice in 1805, that still preserves the memory of his gift. Gov. Stoughton also gave liberally to the churches of Dorchester and Milton and to the poor people of his own town.

STOUGHTON, William Lewis, lawyer, b. in New York, 20 March, 1827; d. in Sturgis, Mich., 6 June, 1888. He early removed to Sturgis, Mich., and, after being admitted to the bar in 1851, he settled in the practice of his profession. In 1854 he was elected prosecuting attorney, serving twice, and in 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln U. S. district attorney for Michigan. This office he resigned in the beginning of the civil war, and entered the llth Michigan volunteers, in which he became lieutenant-colonel. His services were prin- cipally in the west, and at Stone River he attained his colonelcy and commanded a brigade in Gen. George H. Thomas's corps at Chickamauga, Mis- sion Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church. Ruff's Sta- tion (where, while directing the fire of a battery, lie lost a limb), and Atlanta. He continued with his regiment until wounded, and on 13 Miircli, 18G5, he received the brevets of brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers. In 1866 he was elected attorney-general of Michigan, then he was chosen as a Republican to congress, and served, with re-election, from 4 March, 1869, till 3 March, 1873. Subsequently he retired to Sturgis.

STOW, Baron, clergyman, b. in Croydon. N. H., 16 June, 1801 ; d. iii Boston, Mass., 27"Dec., 1869. He was graduated at Columbian college, Georgetown, D. C., in 1825, and in 1827 was or- dained to the ministry in Portsmouth, N. H., where he was settled as pastor of the Baptist church. In 1832 he was called to the pastorate of the Baldwin place Baptist church in Boston, in which connec- tion he had a successful ministry of sixteen years. At the close of this term of service he became pas- tor of the Rowe street (now Clarendon avenue) church, and continued in this relation until 1867, "when he retired from regular ministerial work. He twice visited Europe for the benefit of his health. Dr. Stow performed a large amount of work as a member of the executive committee of the American missionary union. He was a grace- ful and vigorous writer, as well as one of the most eloquent and successful preachers of his denomina- tion. He was one of the compilers of the " Psalm- ist," a hymnal (1849), and editor of " Daily Manna " and the " Missionary Enterprise " (1846), a volume of sermons on missions, to which he contribnti'd one of great merit. He was the author of " Memoir of Harriet Dow" (Boston. 1S32); "History of the Baptist Mission to India" (1835); "History of the Danish Mission on the Coast of ( 'm-omandel " (1837); "Daily Manna" (1842); "The Vlmle Family in Heaven and Earth" (1845); "Christian Brotherhood" (1859): and " First Things" (ls.->d).

STOWE, Calvin Ellis, clergyman, b. in Natick, Mass., 6 April, 1802; d. in Hartford, Conn., 22 Aug., 1886. His ancestors came from London to Boston in 1634. Mr. Stowe was a lad of six years when his father died, leaving a widow and two boys to struggle with poverty, so he was sent to board at the home of his maternal grand-parents (Bigelow, Natick), and at the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a paper-maker. He was early distinguished for his insatiable craving for books, and acquired the rudiments of Latin by studying at odd moments during his apprenticeship in the paper-mill. His earnest desire and determined efforts to gain an education attracted the attention of benevolent people, who resolved to assist him, and in November, 1820, he was sent to the academy in Gorham, Me. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1824, remained there one year as librarian and instructor, and in September, 1825, entered the theological seminary at Andover, Mass. In the seminary, at the instigation of Prof. Moses Stuart, he completed a scholarly translation of Jahn's “Hebrew Commonwealth” (Andover, 1828; 2 vols., London, 1829). In 1828 he was graduated, and in the following year he became editor of the Boston “Recorder,” the oldest religious paper in the United States. In addition to his editorial labors, he published a translation from the Latin, with notes, of “Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews” (1829). In 1830 he was appointed professor of Greek in Dartmouth, and he married in 1832 Eliza, daughter of Rev. Bennett Tyler, of Portland, Me. The same year he removed to Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati, Ohio, having been called to the chair of sacred literature in Lane theological seminary. In August, 1834, his wife died without children, and in January, 1836, he married Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Lyman Beecher, the president of the seminary. Prof. Stowe became convinced by his experience as an instructor that the great need of the west at that time was an efficient common-school system, and, without neglecting his professional duties, he devoted himself heart and soul to this work. In May, 1836, he sailed for England, primarily to purchase a library for Lane seminary, but he received at the same time an official appointment from the state legislature to visit as agent the public schools of Europe, particularly those of Prussia. On his return he published his “Report on Elementary Education in Europe.” In 1850 Prof. Stowe accepted a professorship in Bowdoin, and in 1852 he was appointed to fill the chair of sacred literature at Andover seminary. In 1853 and 1856 he visited Europe with Mrs. Stowe. In 1864, owing to failing health and increasing infirmities, he resigned his professorship and removed to Hartford, Conn. Besides the works mentioned above, he published “Introduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible” (Cincinnati, 1835); “The Religious Element in Education,” a lecture (1844); “The Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures,” inaugural address (Andover, 1853); and “Origin and History of the Books of the Bible, both Canonical and Apocryphal” (Hartford, 1867). — His wife,

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, b. in Litchfield, Conn., 14 June, 1812; d. in Hartford, 1