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STEVENSON STEVENSON and short stories, as well as a large number of articles on literary, musical, and historical topics. STEVENSON, EDWARD LUTHER, an American educator, born at Rozetta, Illinois, in 1860. He was educated at Franklin (Ind.) College, Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Jena, Halle, and Heidelberg. From 1881 to 1887 he was principal of high schools and superintendent of schools in Illinois; from 1891 to 1911, professor of history, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; from 1910 to 1917 secretary of the Hispanic Society of America, of which society he became acting director in 1915. He also lectured on historical geography, history, and cartographical subjects at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, University of California, and numerous other scientific and educational institutions. He was a member of several domestic and foreign historical and geographical societies, and published: "Maps Illustrating Discovery and Early Exploration in America, 1502-1530" (1903-1906) ; "Charter of Queens College (now Rutgers) of 1772" (1907) ; "Hondius World Map of 1611" (1907); "The Marine World Chart of Nicolo de Canerio" (1908) ; "Early Spanish Cartography of the New World" (1909) ; "Atlas of Portolan Charts" (1911) ; "Portolan Charts, Their Origin and Characteristics" (1911) ; "The Genoese World Map, 1457" (1912) ; "Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise" (1913); "Willem Janszoon Blaeu, His Life and Work with Fac- simile of His Large World Map of 1605" (1914) ; "Portolan Atlas 'Conte de Ottoma Freducci, 1537'" (1915); "Fac- similes of Portolan Charts" (1917) ; "Terrestrial and Celestial Globes" (1917). STEVENSON, (JOSEPH) ROSS, an American theologian, born at Ligonier, Pa., in 1866. He graduated from Wash- ington and Jefferson College in 1886 and from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1889'. After taking post-graduate studies in Berlin, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1890, and served as pastor for several years in Sedalia, Mo. From 1894 to 1897 he was adjutant professor of ecclesiastical his- tory at McCormick Theological Sem- inary, and full professor from 1897 to 1902. In the latter year he became pas- tor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York City, serving until 1909. From that year till 1914 he was pastor of the Brown Memorial Church, in Baltimore. In 1914 he was elected president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. During the World War he was a member o£ the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and of the War Work Council. He served in France with the Y. M. C. A. and with the Army Educational Com- mission in 1918-19. STEVENSON, ROBERT, a Scotch en- gineer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, June 8, 1772. His father died during his in- fancy; and his mother having (1786) married Thomas Smith, the first en- gineer of the Lighthouse Board, young Stevenson was led to the study of en- gineering. In 1796 he succeeded his stepfather as engineer and inspector of lighthouses; and during his 47 years* tenure of that office he planned and con- structed 23 lighthouses round the Scotch coasts, employing the catoptric system of illumination, and his valuable inven- tion of "intermittent" and "flashing" lights. The most remarkable of these erections was that on the Bell Rock. Stevenson was also in great request as a consulting engineer in the matter of roads, bridges, harbors, canals, and rail- ways. He wrote four volumes of pro- fessional printed reports, a large work on the Bell Rock lighthouse, some ar- ticles in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and in the "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia." He died in Edinburgh July 12, 1850. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR, a British author; son of Thomas Stevenson; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1850; educated at the University of Edinburgh, was intended for his father's profession, but studied ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON law; in 1873 went abroad for his health; wrote for periodicals till 1878, when his first book appeared; visited California in 1879; spent the winter of 1887-1888 in the Adirondacks; cruised in the Pa- cific; bought a tract of land ("Vailima" or "Five Streams") in Samoa, where ho