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him, the conference resulting in an order directing Boston schools. He was graduated from Harvard him to proceed to the port of New York and as- in 1871, receiving the degree of A.B., and then en- sume charge of the appraiser's office there, in which the adoption of radical measures was neces- sary. This movement was without precedent, but was provided for by statute in case of necessity. He was continued in the New York office nearly two months after the inauguration of President Harrison, when he was relieved, April 29, 1889, .by the appointment of a retired merchant of New York city to the place. Mr. Stearns returned to his old position at this port May 1, 1889, which he retained until July 10, 1891.
STEARNS, WILLIAM S., was born in Salem, Mass., Sept. 27, 1822. After fitting for college he entered Harvard in 1837, graduating in 1841. He then entered the Harvard Law School, in 1843, and three years later was admitted to the Essex bar. From 1870 to 1873 he was city solicitor of Charlestown, and in the latter year practised in Boston, having as a partner the late John Q. A. Griffin. On the latter's death he formed his
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present partnership with Mr. John Haskell Butler. The firm have a large general practice, and rank among the foremost at the Suffolk bar.
STEDMAN, GEORGE, M.D., was born in Boston Jan. 27, 1850. He was educated mainly in the
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tering the Harvard Medical School, was graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1875. He was surgeon ·house-officer of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital in 1874-5, and in 1876 he was elected superintendent of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, which position he still holds. On April 13, 1880, he was appointed by Governor Long associate medical examiner for Suffolk county, and in 1887 reappointed by Gov- ernor Ames, each term being for a period of seven years. Dr. Stedman is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, the Massachusetts Medico- Legal Association, and the Boston Medical Library Association.
STEDMAN, HENRY RUST, M.D., was born in Bos- ton Sept. 19, 1849. He was educated at Boston grammar and Latin schools, and graduated at Harvard A.B. 1871, Harvard M.D. 1875. He served one year as house surgeon in the Massachu- setts General Hospital, and one and a half years as house physician to the Boston City Hospital. After three years' general practice in Boston he was appointed assistant physician to the Danvers Lunatic Hospital, during which time he went abroad as assistant physician in foreign asylums (in Eng-
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land and Scotland). He was also in charge of Danvers Lunatic Hospital for two years as acting superintendent. Leaving Danvers, he established a private hospital for mental and nervous diseases at
Forest Hills, West Roxbury district, which establishment he still conducts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, the Boston Med- ico-Psychological Society, the American Neurologi- cal Association, and various others. Dr. Stedman has contributed many valuable papers to the medi- cal journals, relating to mental and nervous diseases, and has been especially interested in advocating the improved care of the pauper insane of the State. Dr. Stedman married Miss Mabel, daughter of the late Rev. John Weiss, the well-known divine and Shakespearian scholar, of this city.
STEPHENSON, HARRIS M., architect, was born in Boston Jan. 18, 1845. He was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1859 he began the study of architecture in the office of S. C. Bugbee & Son. After a year and a half in Europe he was four years in the office of N. J. Bradlee. In 1870, in company with Daniel Appleton, he began the practice of his profession in Boston. They carried on the business together for eighteen years, dissolv- ing partnership in 1889. He is a designer of all kinds of work, but has made a specialty of domes- tic work. Evidences of his skill and genius may be found in a large number of stores in Boston and in many fine residences in Jamaica Plain, Newton, Brookline, Roxbury, Waltham, and the Back Bay district. He also designed the St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, and the St. John's Church in Keo- kuk, Iowa; St. Mark's Church in Fall River, and others ; and houses in Kansas City, Mo., San Fran- cisco and Passadena, Cal., and Passaic and Orange, N.J .; the interior fitting of business offices in New York and Boston, a large number of residences all along the shore, Turk's Head Inn at Rockport, and the Murdock Hospital at the South End. Mr. Stephenson was married in 1870, to Miss Harriet W. Currier, and resides in Jamaica Plain.
STEVENS, CHARLES BENJAMIN, register of deeds, Middlesex county, was born in Boston Nov. 7, 1818. His parents moving to Cambridge when he was at an early age, he was educated in the Cam- bridge public schools and at Wesleyan Academy, Wil- braham, Mass. He came to the office of registry of deeds as copyist, was afterwards appointed head clerk under Mr. Stone, and then, in 1865, register,
which position he has held ever since. Previous to this he enlisted in the Union service, September, 1862, for nine months, with the Forty-seventh Mas- sachusetts Regiment, Company A, from Cambridge, and was discharged as first lieutenant September, 1863, at expiration of service. He is a member of John A. Logan Post, G.A.R., the Loyal Legion, the Masons, and Odd Fellows. He was formerly chief engineer of the Cambridge fire department, for a number of years. His son, Henry A. Stevens, is assistant register in the office with him.
STEVENS, CHARLES WISTAR, M.D., son of Dr. Thomas J. and Abigail (Baker) Stevens, was born in Marlow, N.H., Aug. 3, 1836. He was prepared for college at the Wilbraham Academy, and entered Harvard in 1856, graduating in 1860. He first en- tered commercial life in New York city, but in 1861 abandoned that and went abroad, where he began the study of medicine. While there he taught school in London, in order to obtain means for the continuation of his studies. Returning home, he took the course in the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1870. - Then he began practice in Charlestown, where he has since re- mained. He was city physician of Charlestown in 1872, and in 1892 is surgeon to the Wilson line and the Furness line of steamers. In 1860 Dr. Stevens compiled the book of " American College Songs," the first collection of college songs ever published in the country, and this was followed by a number of other popular publications, among them " Up the Hudson," " Three Cities of Paris," " Education of Women from a German Stand- point," and " Curiosities of the Human Hair." Dr. Stevens is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Academy of Medicine. On May 27, 1874, he was married in Paris, France, to Miss Melina Lallier ; they have one child, Char- lotte Melina Stevens.
STEVENS, EDGAR FREMONT, was born in Nashua, N.Y., Aug. 11, 1860. He came to Boston when a boy, and graduated from the English High School. He studied dentistry with Dr. D. F. Whitten from 1880 to 1883, and then entered Harvard Dental School, from which he received the degree of D.M.D. in 1887. On leaving college he began practice with Dr. Whitten, his former instructor, in South Boston, continuing with him for four years : he is now practising alone at No. 424 Broadway. Dr. Stevens is a prominent member of the Massachusetts Dental Society, the Harvard Odontological Society, and the Harvard Alumni Association.
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STEVENS, EDWARD FLETCHER, architect, son of K. His first wife was Miss Ella L. Bartlett, who died A. and Mary (Woodbury) Stevens, was born in in 1880; and his present wife, to whom he was married in 1884, was Mrs. Mary E. Oakes.
Dunstable, Mass., Oct. 22, 1860. He was educated in the Pepperell public schools and at the Institute of Technology, graduating from the latter in 1883. He began his professional work as draughtsman for Allen & Kenway, and for two years he was with McKim, Mead, & White, as clerk of the works at the new Public Library. In July, 1890, he formed a partnership with Henry H. Kendall, under the firm . name of Kendall & Stevens, and their work is shown in public buildings in Newton and Woburn, and in private residences in the suburbs of Boston. Mr. Stevens resides in Newton Centre.
STEVENS, G. H., son of M. M. Stevens and Hannah (Morrell) Stevens, was born in the town of Lyman, now Monroe, N.H., Feb. 24, 1846. His education was obtained in the public schools, and at the age of fifteen he came to Boston to get to work. He entered the employ of Henry A. Ball, boot and shoe merchant, on Pearl street, and here he remained twelve years. Seeking more scope for 'his mechanical tendencies, he found employ- ment with the firm of J. S. Holt & Co., dealers in leather-board and machinery. While here he formed the friendship of W. M. Sprague, dealer in leather boards, and ultimately became his partner. The business under their joint management proved a success, and their copartnership lasted for about six years. Meanwhile Mr. Stevens, being an in- ventive and mechanical genius, devoted much thought, time, and money to the production of leather-board shanks, and on closing his connection with Mr. Sprague he began business in 1886 with Mr. Gordon, under the firm name of Stevens & Gordon, as boot and shoe shank manufacturers. This business also proved prosperous. In 1888 he purchased Mr. Gordon's interest, and being now in a position to expand his ideas, he brought all his mechanical ability and inventive knowledge to his aid, and launched out on his own account, under the firm name of G. H. Stevens & Co. His factory on South street, where his leather-board and steel shanks are made, is in full running order under his personal management, and his ingenious devices are of his own creation. The patents of these in- ventions are his sole property, his machines are specially made for cutting shanks, which can be cut into any desired shape, and the shanks are sold to the manufacturers direct, the leather-board with steel shank attached being fitted ready for use. Mr. Stevens is a member of the Blue Lodge Chapter and Commandery. He has been twice married.
STEVENS, STEPHEN G., was born in Brooks, Me., Dec. 4, 1844. When he was five years of age his family moved to Kennebec county, and lived first in the town of Vassalborough and then in Farmingdale. He received his education in the public schools of these towns and at the Hallowell Academy. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the army and served as a private in Company D, First Frontier Cavalry, until the close of the war. Then he began the study of dentistry, entering the Boston Dental College and graduating in the class of 1877. In April, 1872, he began practice in Lynn. Fourteen years after he removed to Boston, to his present -location in the Evans House building. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Boston Dental College, past president of the Alumni Association, past president of the Massachusetts Dental Society, vice- president of the New England Dental Society, a member of the American Academy of Dental Science, of the Connecticut Valley Dental Society, and of the Boston Society for Dental Improvement. In 1890 he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in Berlin.
STEVENSON, JOHN LINDSAY, son of Joseph and Judith (True) Stevenson, was born in Fremont, N.H., Dec. 27, 1833. His youth was spent on a farm in his native town, and his school opportuni- ties were such as country towns then afforded. At fourteen he left his home and went to South Hampton, N.H., where he served an apprentice- ship in carriage-building. In 1852 he removed to Lawrence, and was employed in the construction of locomotive engines. While thus engaged an accident happened to him, Oct. 2, 1852, which, resulting in permanent injury to one of his limbs, completely changed his plans of life and caused him to relinquish his mechanical pursuits. After a severe illness and a long confinement, he came to Boston, and, entering a commercial college, fitted himself for an accountant. Subsequently, and for nearly ten years, he was employed as book-keeper. At the expiration of this time, on Jan. 1, 1862, he established himself in business in Faneuil Hall square, under the name of John I. Stevenson & Co., importers and dealers in wine, spirits, and liquors ; and here he has continued until the present time. Mr. Stevenson is a prominent Mason, his career in the fraternity beginning in 1856. He has passed through the chairs in various Masonic bodies. He
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was created a sovereign grand inspector-general for the thirty-third and last degree, and an honorary member of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, Sept. 18, 1878. He is an honorary member of Mt. Lebanon Lodge, Boston ; Amicable Lodge, Cambridge ; St. John's Lodge, Concepcion, Chili ; Boston Commandery, Boston ; St. John's Commandery, Philadelphia ; Ascalon Commandery, St. Louis ; Boston Lodge of Perfection, Boston ; Mt. Calvary Chapter of Rose Croix, Lowell ; and of the consistories of Vermont and Massachusetts. He conceived and carried through the memorable pilgrimage of Boston Commandery to San Francisco in 1883. He was a member of the old Athenian Club, its president in 1881-2 ; was president of the Boston Club in 1882-3; is a member of the New England and New Hampshire Clubs, and one of the board of directors; and treasurer of the Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Revolution. He is also a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and was its commander in 1877-8. He is president of the Cedar Grove Cemetery corporation. In September, 1853, Mr. Stevenson was married to Miss Ellen Bridge Hawkins, of Dover, N.H. His maternal grandfather was Capt. Benjamin True, a soldier in the Revolutionary War; his father served in the war of 1812-14 ; his brother, William Stevenson, served during the Civil War in the 2d New Hampshire regiment ; other members of the family served in various New England organizations, and only for the disability incurred in 1852, he also would have been early in the contest. He has four children living : two sons and two daughters. His eldest son was four years at West Point Military Academy, and subsequently served on the staff of Governor Butler, of Massachusetts.
STEWART, GEORGE ANDREW, was born in Boston Sept. 26, 1862. He was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School, and entering Harvard, gradu- ated in 1884. In college he took the highest final honors in classics, and the highest second year honors in mathematics. He has sailed yachts all his life, and immediately after leaving college he began to study yacht designing. He was associated with Edward Burgess from 1887 to the time of the latter's death, and then succeeded to his business, forming a copartnership under the firm name of Stewart & Binney. From 1886 to 1891 Mr. Stewart was yachting editor of the " Boston Globe."
STONE, AMos, third son of Phineas, - a lineal de- scendant of Rev. Samuel Stone, who came to this
country from England, A.D. 1633, and Hannah (Jones) Stone, - was born in Weare, N.H., Aug. 16, 1816. There he lived with his parents until 1824, when they removed to Charlestown, Mass. He was educated in the Charlestown Free School. At the age of fifteen he went to work in his father's grocery store, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. He then engaged in the real-estate business, in which he has continued more or less down to the present time, and has become one of the largest real-estate holders in Middlesex County. Mr. Stone was elected the first city treasurer and collector of taxes of Charlestown (which was incor- porated a city in 1847), which office he held eight years, until the close of 1854. The first two years the office was a trying one : he followed an easy- dispositioned town treasurer and collector, who took no pains to enforce the prompt payment of the taxes assessed. Being a systematic and prompt business man, he proceeded in an energetic manner to collect the back taxes committed to him, and all others when they were due ; many solid business men, who had been benefited by the former collec- tor's indulgence, protested, but, finding Mr. Stone in earnest, paid. One large railroad corporation repeatedly refused to pay its taxes ; one afternoon, as an important train was about to leave the station, he attached the engine just before it was coupled to the train ; the result was that a check for the amount due, with the costs, was handed to him; then the train was allowed to depart. After a few such in- stances taxes were paid with reasonable promptness. In the fall of 1855 Mr. Stone was elected treasurer of the county of Middlesex, and this position he held for thirty years, until Jan. 1, 1886, when he clined a reelection. At the county convention which nominated his successor, resolutions of appre- ciation of his character and services were passed. " His long term of service," it was resolved, " is the best evidence that he has performed those duties to the satisfaction of the people, regardless of party, and that he has their confidence and esteem. We congratulate him upon his long and honorable career in so prominent and responsible a position in which he has always shown himself a courteous gentle- man, an able financier, and a clear-headed business man." In 1854 the Charlestown Savings Bank was incorporated, with his brother Phineas Stone as president, and himself as trustee and treasurer. Upon the death of his brother, in 1891, he suc- ceeded to the presidency. It has proved one of the most prosperous and successful banks in the Com- monwealth. For more than ten years he, as treas- urer, with the assistance of the president, performed
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all the labor of the bank without any compensation to either. In 1861, when the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company was incorporated and or- ganized, he was chosen one of its directors, and soon succeeded to the presidency, which position he now holds. In 1863 he was elected director of the Monument Bank, and on the death of Hon. James , O. Curtis was elected its président. He was one of the original shareholders of the Mystic River Company, a large landed corporation, and for more than twenty years was its clerk and treasurer. In the several positions held by him as treasurer, he has administered the duties with signal ability, allow- ing no waste of the public funds, and no moneys to be paid out except duly approved by the proper boards or officers, and in strict conformity to law. His attention to business, great executive ability, and physical endurance, enabled him to work sixteen hours a day, and to perform all the duties in the several offices that he has held at the same time ; and during the thirty years as treasurer of the county, he never employed a clerk or assistant. With all his cares and close application to business, he has been ever ready to hear and give judicious advice, and to aid the poor and unfortunate to over- come their difficulties and troubles. He was gen- erous, and gave freely to relieve the wants of the distressed poor, dispensing his charities mainly in person. In politics he was formerly a Democrat, voting for Franklin Pierce; then he became a Re- publican and voted for John C. Fremont, and he has continued in that party ever since. When the Civil War broke out he was one of the first to come to the support of the government. Before provision for the soldiers enlisted had been made, he was one of the twenty-one persons who paid the expense of fitting out the first three companies from Charles- town to go to Washington to defend the capital. Exempt from draft by reason of age, he sent the first representative recruit from Charlestown at his own expense, also sent a colored recruit, and contrib- uted hundreds of dollars during the war for military purposes. Early in life he joined the Free Masons, and is now prominent in the order ; he is treasurer of two masonic organizations. Mr. Stone remained a single man until after he was fifty years of age. Then he was married to Miss Sarah E. Mills. They live . in the town of Everett, to which they moved from Charlestown in 1872. Until late years Mr. Stone has not taken an active part in town affairs, though a liberal contributor to all matters of public interest. In 1888 he was made a member of a committee appointed to consider the question of sewerage, and was chosen its chairman. In March, 1889, this com-
mittee presented an able report, drafted by Mr. Stone ; and a commission of five, of which he was chairman, was established to carry out its recom- mendations. Mr. Stone was elected one of the road commissioners of the town of Everett for three years, the first and only office he has ever held.
STONE, ARTHUR KINGSBURG, was born in Boston Dec. 13, 1861. He was educated in Framingham and at Harvard College, graduating A.B. in 1883. He received the degrees of A.M. and M.D. in 1888. After serving a year and a half in the Massachusetts General Hospital he went abroad, and there further studied his profession in Vienna, Berlin, and Stras- burg. Returning to Boston in 1889, he at once began private practice, and has since continued here. He is also surgeon to the Boston Dispensary. He has contributed several noteworthy articles to medical papers. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society. £ Dr. Stone is not married.
STONE, JAMES S., son of Albert and Sally B. ( Kim- ball) Stone, was born in Grafton, Mass., July 4, 1816. He was educated in the common schools and in Phillips (Andover) Academy. He began business life in the boot and shoe trade in Albon, Ill., when twenty-one years of age. In 1845 he returned East, and in Boston entered business on his own account. Subsequently he became a partner in the house of Fay, Jones, & Stone, and Fay & Stone. In 1875 he retired from active business, and has since been interested in real estate and building. He was married on June 13, 1838, to Miss Mary I. Phinney, of Falmouth, Mass .; they have three children : Albert, born in Albon, Ill., May 20, 1843, married Anna H. Putnam ; Ellen Augusta, born in Boston, Aug. 9, 1846, died Sept. 26, 1850; Edwin Palmer Stone, born in Medford, Mass., Sept. 3, 1853, mar- ried Clara O. Leland.
STONE, JONATHAN, seventh son of Phineas and Hannah (Jones) Stone, was born in Weare, N.H., April 29, 1823. He was for many years engaged in the granary and provision business in Charles- town ; and built, owned, and let houses and stores. He was a member of the common council in 1872, and was elected mayor of Charlestown in 1873, - the last mayor of the city, as it was annexed to Boston on Jan. 1, 1874. He was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Rebecca Andrews, daughter of Abraham and Caroline D. Andrews, and a native of New Hampshire ; and his second was Mary I .. Andrews, sister of his first wife. He has had three
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children : one daughter, Sarah Lizzie, and one son, John Henry, by his first wife, and one daughter, Carrie Louisa, by his second wife. He built a fine residence in Revere, Mass., on land formerly owned by Dr. Tuckerman, on the high ground west from the corner of Broadway and Aladdin streets, to which he moved in June, 1876.
. STONE, PHINEAS, son of Silas Stone, was born in that part of Harvard, Mass., now known as Box- boro'. About the year 1803 he moved to Weare, N.H., and establishing himself at Oil Mill Village, built an oil mill, manufactured linseed oil, and also kept a country store. In 1808 he was married to Hannah Jones, a native of Londonderry, N.H., born April 27, 1783. She kept a school at Weare (Oil Mill Village) for several years. They had a family of eight children, one daughter and seven sons, all of whom were born at Weare, N.H., namely : Sarah Stone, Phineas J., Silas, Josiah, Amos, Jasper, Joseph, and Jonathan. All lived to mature age except Josiah, who died when an infant. In 1824 Phineas Stone removed with his family to Charlestown, Mass. There he kept a grocery store. He died in Charlestown, Jan. 9, 1852, aged seventy- six years, and was buried in the tomb which he had built the year before in Boxboro', his native town. His widow survived him fifteen years. She died in Charlestown, Dec. 17, 1867, aged eighty-four years seven months and twenty days, and was also buried in the tomb at Boxboro'. He was captain of a company of New Hampshire detached militia of the First Regiment, under Lieut .- Col. N. Fisk, in the War of 1812. He went from Weare on or about Sept. 12, 1814, did actual service at Portsmouth, N.H., and was honorably discharged. He was drafted at Goffstown for three months, continued as captain for some time, and was subsequently chosen colonel of the regiment. The daughter, Sarah, married Seth W. Lewis, of Claremont, N.H. She died in Charlestown, April 27, 1872, aged sixty- three years. Her husband, Seth W. Lewis, died July 1, 1872, aged sixty-six years.
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