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STORY 109 STOVALL STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE, an American sculptor, son of Judge Joseph ; born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 19, 1819; was graduated at Harvard in 1838; was ad- mitted to the bar and practiced five years; went to Rome to study art and made Italy his home. Among his sculp- tures are: a statue of Edward Everett (in the Boston Public Garden) ; and one of Prescott at Bunker Hill; "Cleopatra"| 'Semiramis"; "Judith"; "Jerusalem"; "Medea"; "The Sybil"; etc.; and busts of Judge Story, Lowell, Bryant, etc. He published: "Nature and Art: A Poem" WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (1844) ; "Poems" (1847) ; "Life and Let- ters of Joseph Story" (1851) ; "Poems" (1856) ; "The American Question" (1862) ; "Roba di Roma" (1862) ; "Graf- fiti d'ltalia" (1868); "A Roman Law- yer in Jerusalem" (1870); "Nero: An Historical Play" (1875); "Stephania: A Tragedy" (1875) ; "Vallombrosa" (1881) ; "He and She" (1883) ; "Poems" (1885-1886) ; "Fiametta" (1886) ; "Con- versations in a Studio" (1890) ; "Excur- sions in Art and Letters" (1891) ; "A Poet's Portfolio" (1894). He died in Vallombrosa, near Florence, Italy, Oct, 7, 1895. STOTESBURY, EDWARD TOWN- SEND, an American financier, born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1849. He was edu- cated at Friends' Central School, Phila- delphia, and after having acquired some mercantile experience, he became con- nected with the Philadelphia banking house of Drexel and Company, becoming a partner in 1882 and later the head of the concern as well as a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company. He was the chairman of the board of di- H rectors of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company and an officer or di- rector of many railroad companies and corporations. He was greatly interested in the breeding of thoroughbred horses, was a patron of arts and an owner of an extensive and valuable collection of paintings, sculptures, etc. He also sup- ported for many years grand opera en- terprises in Philadelphia. In 1904 he was treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Campaign Fund for Roosevelt and 1908 for Taft. STOUR, a river of England 47 miles long, flowing E. along the Suffolk and Essex boundary to the North Sea at Harwich. STOURBRIDGE (stur'brij), a market town of Worcestershire, England, on the Stour, at the border of Sl;affordshire and the Black Country; 4V2 miles S. by W. of Dudley and 12 W. by S. of Birming- ham. The famous fireclay named for this town is said to have been discovered about 1555 by wandering glassmakers from Lorraine. Stourbridge has glass, earthenware, and firebrick works, be- sides manufactories of iron nails, chains, leather,, etc. It has a grammar school (at which Samuel Johnson passed a year), a corn exchange, county court, mechanics' institute, etc. STOVAINE, trade name for the hydro- chloride of dimethylamino-amyl benzoate. It is a synthetic drug used as a substi- tute for cocaine as a local anaesthetic. It is claimed that it is less toxic than STOVE, in former times, a room or place artificially heated, such as a bath, a hot-house, etc. In modern usage, an apparatus in Avhich a fire is made for the purpose of warming a room or house, or for cook- ing, or for other purposes. They are gen- erally made of iron, sometimes of brick or tiles, or slabs of stone, and are of various forms, according to the heating medium used. On the continent of Eu- rope stoves are generally of earthen- ware, and are frequently constructed mainly of tiles. STOVALL, PLEASANT ALEXAN- DER, an American editor and diplomat, born at Augusta, Ga., in 1857. He was educated at the University of Georgia and became editor of the Athens "Geor- gian," the Augusta "Chronicle," and the Savannah "Press," of which latter paper he was also proprietor. From 1902 to 1906 and again from 1912 to 1913 he was a member of the Georgia House of eye — Vol. IX