STEVENS
STEVENS
guage. and also sent on special commissions to
the great libraries of the continent. He was a
fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, IS.IO-SG; a
member of the committee for promoting the
Caxton exhibition, 1877. and of the Librarians'
association, 1877-86. He became a famous bibliog-
rapher, and his catalogues and bibliographical
writings include: Catalogue of my EngJis.h Li-
brary (1853); .4 Catalogue Raisonue of English
Jiibks (18'i4); Catalogue of a Library of WorJxS
relating to America (1854); Amei^'rari Bibliog-
rapher (1854); Catalogue of American Books in
the Library of the British Museum (1857); Analyt-
ical Index to Colonial Documents of New Jersey
in the State Paper Offices of England (1858);
C ttalogne of American Maps in the British
Museum (1859); Catalogue of Canadian Books in
the British Museum (1859); Catalogue of Mexican
and other Sjiaiiish- American and West Lidian
BcKjks in the British Museum (1859); Bibliotheca
Americana (1861); Historical Nuggets (1862);
Tlie Humboldt Library (I860); Historical and
Geographical Notes on the Earliest Discovenes in
America (1869); Bibliotheca Historica (1870);
Schedule of 2000 American Historical Nuggets
(1870); Sebastian Cabot-John Cabot-0 (1870);
Bibliotheca Gcographica et Historica (1872);
American Books icith Tails to 'Em (1873); Bibles
in the Caxton Exhibition (1878); Histoi-y of the
Oxford Caxton Memorial Bible (1878); Photo-
Bibliography (1878); Historical Collections (1881-
86); Who Spoils our New English Books (1885);
Recollections of James Lenox (1886), and many
essays, unpublished, notably a supplement to
"Life of Panizzi " by Louis Fagan. He also
edited "The Dawn of British Trade to the East
Indies (1886). He died in South Hampstead,
England. Feb. 28. IS'^6.
STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls, soldier, was born in Andover, Mass., March 25, 1818; son of Isaac and Hannah (Cummings) Stevens; grandson of Jona- tlian and Susannah (Bragg) Stevens, and a de- scendant of John Stevens, one of the founders of Andover. 1610, who came from Cavesham. Oxford county, England, in 1638. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1839, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant and assigned to the corps of engineers. He served as assistant en- gineer of the construction of Fort Adams, New- port, R.I., 1839-41; of the repairs of Fairhaven battery. New Be<lford Harbor, Mass.; was pro- moted 1st lieutenant. July 1. 1840; was married, Sept. 8, 1841, to Margaret Lyman, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Lyman) Hazard of New- port, R.I. He directed the repairs of the de- fenses of Portsmouth Harbor, N.H., 1842-46; and was superintending engineer iu the construction of Fort Knox. Penobscot river, Maine, 1843-46. He was adjutant of engineers at the siege of Vera
Cruz. Mexico, in the battles of Cerro fJordo. Con-
treras.Churubusco, Molino del Rev. Cluipultepec,
and in the assault and capture of the city of
Mexico, where he was severely wounded. He was
brevetted captain, Aug. 20, 1847, for Contreras
and Clmrubusco, and major, Sept. 13, 1847, for
Cliapultepec. He was engaged as superintending
engineer at Fort Knox. Maine. Portsmouth, N.H.,
and at Forts Pulaski and Jackson. Ga.; was in
charge of tiie coast survey office, Washington,
D.C.. 1849-53; a member of the commission for
improving the James and Appomattox rivers,
Va.. and Cape Fear river, N.C., in 1853. He re-
signed from the army. ]VIarch 16, 1853, to accept
the governorship of Washington Territory and
charge of the exploration of the northern route
for the Pacific railroad. He surveyed a belt of
the country 200 miles wide, from St. Paul, Minn.,
to Puget Sound, and demonstrated the practica-
bility of that route and the navigability for
steamboats of the upper Columbia and Missouri.
He was the first governor of Washington Terri-
tory, 1853-57; and superintendent of Indian affairs
and commissioner to make treaties witii over
30.000 Indians of the extreme northwest. He
extinguished the Indian title to 150,000 square
miles of territory, and instituted a beneficent
policy for civilizing these tribes, who in 1903 were
living under his treaties, and had made consider-
able progress in civilized habits. He also made a
treat}' with the warlike and hostile Blackfeet in
October, 1855, and between them and the hunting
tribes of Washington and Oregon, crossing the
Rocky Mountains twice on this service. The dis-
affected Indians of these territories, having
broken out in war against the whites while he
was absent on this expedition, he forced his way
across the Rocky Mountains in midwinter, called
out the entire male population of his territory as
volunteers, and waged so vigorous a campaign
against the hostiles that before the close of 1856
they were subdued. He arrested certain white
men, former employees of the Hudson Bay com-
pany, suspected of aiding the hostiles, and when
Chief-Justice Edward Lander issued a writ of
habeas corpus for their release, proclaimed mar-
tial law over Pierce and Thurston counties, ar-
rested the chief justice and held him a prisoner un-
til the close of the war. He resigned as governor
in August, 1857, and was delegate from Washing-
ton Territory in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-
61. In congress he vindicated his course as gov-
ernor, caused his Indian treaties to be ratified, and
the scrip he had issued to pay the expenses of the
war to be assumed by the government. In the
presidential contest of 1860 he was chairman of
the Democratic national executive committee and
conducted the canvass for the Breckinridge and
Lane ticket. But when the southern leaders de-
