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STOTHARD his learning, talents, and public positions. A life of him by his son, William W. Story, was published at Boston in 1851 (2 vols. 8vo). There is also a collection of his "Miscella- neous Writings" (8vo, 1852). His decisions as a circuit court judge are contained in 13 vols. 8vo, being the reports of Gallison, Ma- son, Sumner, and Story. His judgments in the supreme court of the United States may be found in the reports of Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard, from 1811 to 1845. II. William Wetmore, an American sculptor and au- thor, son of the preceding, born in Salem, Feb. 12, 1819. He graduated at Harvard college in 1838, and was admitted to the bar in Boston. In 1844 he published a "Treatise on the Law of Contracts," and in 1847 a "Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property." He also published three volumes of "Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit " (1847). In 1847 he published a small volume of poems ; in 1851 a life of his father (2 vols. 8vo) ; and in 1856 a second volume of poems. Among "lis subsequent publications are : " Roba di Ro- or Walks and Talks about Rome " (2 vols., mdon, 1862; New York, 1864; new ed., 1875); "Proportions of the Human Figure" j ; " Graffiti d'ltalia " (Edinburgh, 186$) ; A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem " (1870) ; and Nero, an Historical Play" (1875). Since 1848 Mr. Story has resided in Rome, devoting limself to sculpture, for which he early showed strong inclination. Among his works are a itting statue of his father, in marble, in the lapel at Mt. Auburn; statues of George Pea- )ody, Josiah Quincy, and Edward Everett; ists of James Russell Lowell and Theodore 'arker; and many ideal works of great merit, long which are a "Shepherd Boy," "Little " Riding-Hood," "Sappho," "Cleopatra," 'Jerusalem" (an allegorical female figure rep- resenting the desolation of the city after the destruction of the temple), a " Sibyl," and " Semiramis." The last is owned in New York. STOTBARD, Thomas, an English painter, born in London, Aug. 17, 1755, died there, April 27, 1834. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a designer of patterns, then became a designer for illustrated books, and studied painting at the royal academy, of which he was elected a member in 1794 and librarian in 1812. He is known by his contributions to "Boydell's Shakespeare," his " Canterbury Pilgrims," the "Flitch of Bacon," the Wellington shield, and his illustrations of Rogers's "Poems" and "Italy." The number of his designs is esti- mated at 5,000, of which 3,000 have been en- graved. His son CHAELES ALFRED (1786- 1821), draughtsman to the society of antiqua- ries, published a work on the "Monumental Effigies of Great Britain" (13 parts, fol., 1811- '23), in which he was assisted by his wife, afterward Mrs. Bray, and his brother-in-law A. G. Kempe. The former wrote his life and that of his father. (See BEAT, ANNA ELIZA.) STOWE 407 STOVE. See WARMING AND VENTILATION. STOW, Baron, an American clergyman, born in Croydon, N. H., June 16, 1801, died in Bos- ton, Dec. 27, 1869. He graduated at Columbian college, D. C., in 1825, and in 1825-'27 edited the "Columbian Star." On Oct. 24, 1827, he was ordained pastor of a Baptist church in Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1832 became pastor of the Baldwin place Baptist church in Bos- ton, and in 1848 of the Rowe street church. He was recording secretary of the board of the general missionary convention from 1838 to 1846. He published "Memoir of Harriet Dow" (1832); "History of the English Bap- tist Mission to India " (1835) ; " History of the Danish Mission on the Coast of Coromandel " (1837) ; " Daily Manna for Christian Pilgrims " (1842); "The Whole Family in Heaven and Earth" (1845); "Question Book of Christian Doctrine" (1848); "The Psalmist," with the Rev. S. F. Smith (1849); "Christian Broth- erhood" (1859); and "First Things, or De- velopment of Church Life" (1859). His life has been written by R. H. Neale (Boston, 1870). STOW, John, an English antiquary, born in London in 1525, died April 5, 1605. He was bred a tailor, but from 1560 devoted himself to the study of the antiquities of English history. He made an extensive collection of papers, many of them Catholic records, which occa- sioned suspicion, and he was cited before an ecclesiastical commission on charges preferred by his own brother, but was acquitted. His works are : a " Suminarie of Englysh Chron- icles" (12mo, 1561); "Annales, or a Generall Chronicle of England" (4to, 1580); "A Sur- vey of London " (4to, 1598 ; continued by John Strype, 2 vols., 1720 ; new eds., 1842 and 1846) ; and "The Successions of the History of Eng- land, from the Beginning of Edward VI. to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth" (1638). STOWE. I. Calvin Ellis, an American clergy- man, born at Natick, Mass., April 6, 1802. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1824, and at Andover theological seminary in 1828, and in 1828-'30 was assistant professor at Andover. In 1830 he became professor of languages in Dartmouth college, and in 1833 of Biblical literature in Lane theological seminary, Cin- cinnati. In May, 1836, he visited Europe to examine, in behalf of the state of Ohio, the public school system of the German states, and published "Elementary Education in Eu- rope," which was distributed in every district of Ohio by the legislature. He also published reports on the "Education of Immigrants," on "The Course of Instruction in the Primary Schools of Prussia," and on "Elementary In- struction in Prussia." In 1850 he became di- vinity professor at Bowdoin college, and in 1852 professor of sacred literature in Andover theological seminary." He resigned this office in 1864, and has since resided in Hartford, Conn. His remaining works are : a "History of the Hebrew Commonwealth," translated from the German of Jahn (Andover, 1828 ; 2