STILES
STILLE
of Providence, R.I. He received the degrees:
A.M. from Harvard in 1754. D.D from Edinburgh.
Scotland, in 17G5, and from Dartmouth in 1780,
and D.D. and LL.D. from the College of New
Jersey, Princeton, in 178-4. He wrote: Discourse
on the Christian Union (1761); Discourse on Sav-
ing Knoirledge {1170); The United States Elevated
to Glory and Honor (1783); Aii Account of the
Settlement of Bristol, R.I. (1785); Jlie History of
TJiree of the Judges of Charles I. (1794), and the
Ecclesiastical History of Neiv England, which he
left unfinished at his death. His biography was
written by his son-in-law, Abiel Holmes (q.v.), in
1798. See also "The Literary Diary of Ezra
Stiles ", edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter (3
vols.. 1908). He died at New Haven, May 12, 1795.
STILES, Henry Reed, physician and author,
was born in New York, N.Y., March 10, 1832; son
of Samuel and Charlotte Sophia (Reed) Stiles;
grandson of Capt. Asabel and Jane Allen (Chapin)
Stiles and of Deacon Abner and Elizabeth Woods
(Loring) Reed, and a descendant in the eighth
generation from John Stiles, who came from
Bedfordshire, England, to Windsor, Conn., in
1636. He attended the University of the City of
New York, 1850-52, and was graduated M.D. in
1855. He was married, Jan. 31, 1856, to Sarah,
daughter of the Rev. Charles M.and Zilpah(Hutch-
iuson) Woodward of Freeport, 111. He practised
medicine in Galena, 111., and in New Y^>rk state,
1856-61; engaged in literary work, 1865-68, and
held various clerkships in the bureau of vital sta-
tistics of the Metropolitan board of health, 1868-
70; was medical inspector of board of health,
1870-73; medical superintendent of State Homeo-
pathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown,
N. Y., 1873-77. He removed to Dundee, Scotland,
in 1877, to take charge of the Dundee Homeo-
pathic dispensary; returned in 1881, and in 1887
became medical consultant of the Humphrey's
Homeopatiiic Medical company. He was one of
the founders of the Long Island Historical society
in 1861, and its librarian, 1861-65. He was one of
the organizers of the Public Health association of
New York city in 1872, and of the Society for
Promoting the Welfare of the Insane. He was
for eight years recording secretary of the Amer-
ican Ethnological society; a corresponding mem-
ber of the Dorchester Historical and Anti-
quarian •society; of the New England Historical
Genealogical society, and various state historical
societies. He received from Williams college the
honorary degree of A.M. in 1876. He is the
author of: Histories and Genealogies of Ancient
Windsor, Conn. (1859), of which a greatly en-
larged revision in 2 vols, was published in 1893;
Bundling in America (1861); Genealogy of the
Massachusetts Family of Stiles (1^03); edited: Fur-
man's " Notes on Brooklyn" (1865); " Wallabout
Prison Sliip Series " (2 vols., 1865); '• Genealogy of
the Humphreys family" (1884); " Genealogy of
the Stranahan and Joslyn Families" (1865); and
is the author of: History of the City of Brooklyn,
N.Y. (3 vols. 1869-70); History of Kings County,
and City of Brooklyn, N.Y. (1884); The Connect-
icut Stiles Family (1895); A Handbook of Gene-
alogy (1899); and History and Genealogies of
Ancient Wethersfield, Conn. (1903). In 1903 he
resided at Hill View, Lake George, N.Y.
STILES, John D., representative, was born in Luzerne county. Pa., Jan. 15, 1823. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1844, practised in AUentown, Pa.; served as district attorney in Lehigh county, 185:3-56; was a delegate to the Democratic na- tional conventions, 1856, 1864, and 1868; a member of the Union convention that met in Philadel- phia in 18G6; and a representative from Penn- sylvania in the 37th, 38th and 40th congresses, having been elcted to complete the term of T.B. Cooper, who died April 4, 1862. He took his seat, April 3, 1862, and served, 1862-65, and 1869-71.
STILLE, Alfred, physician, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., Oct. 30, 1813; son of John and Maria (Wagner) Stille; and a descendant of Olaf Stille, one of the earliest Swedish settlers and land owners in America, and of Tobias Wagner, chancellor of Tiibingen university, and a dis- tinguished Protestant reformer. He was a stu- dent at Yale, 1828-30; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1832, A.M., 1835, M.D., 1836. He was resident physician in Phila- delphia college, resigning to continue liis studies abroad. He was resident physician in Pennsyl- vania hospital, 1839-41; lecturer on general pa- thology and practice of medicine at the Philadel- phia Association for Medical Instruction, 1845- 51; visited Vienna for the purpose of study iu 1851; was professor of the theory' and practice of medicine, Pennsylvania Medical college, 1854- 59, and in the University of Pennsylvania, 1864- 84, and professor emeritus, 1884-1900; phj'sician, St. Joseph's hospital, 1849-77; U.S.A. surgeon, Satterlee hospital, 1862-63; lecturer on clinical medicine at the Philadelphia hospital, 1865-67, and physician, 1865-71. He first married Caroline Christina Barnet, from whom he was separated for more than forty years; and on June 15, 1899, he married Katharine Amanda, daughter of
