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STEVENSON 84 STEWAET made his home. He published: "An In- land Voyage" (1878); "Edinburgh: Pic- turesque Notes" (1878) ; "Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes" (1879) ; "Vir- ginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers" (1881); "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" (1882) ; "New Arabian Nights" (1882) ; "Treasure Island" (1883) ; "The Silverado Squatters" (1883) ; "The Dynamiter: More New Arabian Nights" (1885), with Mrs. Stevenson; "A Child's Garden of Verse" (1885) ; "Prince Otto" (1885) ; "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886); "Kidnapped" (1886) ; "Underwoods" (1887) ; "The Merry Men and Other Tales" (1887) ; "Memories and Portraits" (1887) ; "The Black Arrow" (1888) ; "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889) ; "Ballads" (1891) ; "The Wrecker" (1891-1892); "A Foot- Note to History: Eight Years of Trou- ble in Samoa" (1892) ; "David Balfour" (1893) ; "Island Nights' Entertain- ments" (1893) ; "The Ebb Tide" (1894) ; "Weir of Hermiston" and "St. Ives" (1895-1896), the last two left not quite complete. He died in Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, Dec. 3, 1894. STEVENSON, SABA YORKE, (Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson), an American archaeologist, born at Paris, France, in 1847. She was educated in Paris until 1862, and later lived in Mexico, marry- ing Cornelius Stevenson of Philadelphia, in 1870. The University of Pennsylva- nia bestowed upon her the honorary de- gree of Sc. D., the first honorary degree ever conferred by this institution on a woman. In 1897 she was secretary of the American Exploration Society, and in 1904 president of the department of archaeology. University of Pennsylvania. From 1894 to 1901 she was a trustee, and since 1908 curator, of the Philadelphia Museums; and from 1899 to 1903 pres- ident of the Pennsylvania branch of the Archaeological Institute of America. She took an active part in the civic affairs of Philadelphia, being at various times an officer of the Civic Club, and since 1914 its honorary president. In 1909 she was president of the Pennsylvania Equal Suffrage Society. In 1897 she went to Rome on a special mission for the department of archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1898 to Egypt for the American Exploration Society. During the World War she was the chairman of various relief com- mittees in Philadelphia, and was made by the French Government Officier d'ln- struction Publique. She wrote, besides many articles on Egyptian archaeology and other topics: "Maximilian in Mexi- co." In 1908 she became literary editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger." STEVENS POINT, a city and county- seat of Portage co.. Wis. ; on the Wiscon- sin river, and on the Wisconsin Central, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, and the Green Bay and Western railroads; 63 miles W. of Appleton. It contains gas and electric lights, National and State banks, State Normal School, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large lumbering trade, especially in pine. Here are shops of the Wiscon- sin Central railroad, and numerous foun- dries, flour, planing, saw, and shingle mills. STEWARD, in the original sense, one who looked after the domestic animals and gave them their food; hence, one who provides for his master's table, and, generally, one who superintends house- hold affairs for another. A person em- ployed on a large estate or establish- ment, or in a family of consequence and wealth, to manage the domestic affairs, superintend the other servants, collect rents, keep the accounts, etc. An officer in a college who provides food for the students and superintends the affairs of the kitchen. An official on a vessel, whose duty it is to distribute provisions to the officers and men. In passenger ships, a man who superintends the dis- tribution of provisions and liquors, waits at table, etc. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, the recording steward of a congregation of Methodists. STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY, an American merchant; born near Bel- fast, Ireland, Oct. 12, 1803; came to the United States in 1823 and engaged in teaching. In 1825 he began, in New York City, a dry-goods business which gradually expanded into one of the larg- est mercantile concerns in the world. He was a donor of large sums of money to various charitable institutions, and was active in many philanthropic un- dertakings. He died in New York, April 10, 1876, and was buried in St. Mark's churchyard, from which his remains were stolen on Nov. 7, 1878. It was afterward stated that the remains had been recovered and deposited in the mausoleum of the Cathedral of the In- carnation, erected by Mrs. Stewart in memory of her husband at Garden City, Long Island. STEWART, CHARLES, an American naval officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa.«  July 28, 1778; entered the navy in 1798 as lieutenant of the frigate "United States," in which capacity he was em- ployed in the West Indies against French privateers. As commander of the brig "Siren" he participated in the naval op-