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STORER


to ascend Ciizaba, April, 1890. He was appointed conservator of the ornithological section of the Academy in 1891, and assistant curator of the museum of the Academy in 1892. He was an associate of the American Ornithologists' union, 1885-91, and fellow from 1893; cliairman of the committee on protection of birds, 1898-1901; member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; corresponding member of the Bio- logical society of Washington, D.C.; member of the Delaware Valley Ornithological club, and president, 1891-2, and editor of its Proceedings from 1891. He is the author of: Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and Neiv Jersey (1894); American Animals, with William Everett Cram (1902), and many articles, mainly on birds, mammals and reptiles in scientific societies, among which the following appeared separately: Bii'ds collected in Yucatan and Southern Mexico (1890); Birds col- lected on the West Greenland Expedition of 1S91 (1892); The Moulting of Birds (1896); Birdsand Mammals of the Mcllhenny Alaskan Expedition (1900); AStudyofthe Type Specimens of Birds in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia, icith a brief History of the Collection (1899).

STONEMAN, Qeorge, soldier, and governor of California, was born in Busti, Chautauqua county, N.Y., Aug. 8, 1822. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, and brevetted 2d lieutenant, 1st dragoons, July 1, 1846, and served in the war with Mexico, 1846-48, as acting assistant-quartermaster of the Mormon battalion, 1846-47. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, July 12, 1847; served on frontier duty, 1848-54; was promoted 1st lieutenant, July 25, 1854; captain, 2d cavalrj', March .3, 1855; was on garrison and frontier duty in Missouri and Texas, 1855-61; was stationed at the cavalry school for practice at Carlisle, Pa., in 1861, and took part in the defence of Washington, May-June, 1861, having been promoted major of 1st cavalry, May 9, 1861. He commanded the cavalry advance across Long Bridge at the capture of Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861; was promoted brigadier-general, U.S.V., Aug. 13, 1861; was chief of cavalry. Army of the Potomac, 1861-63; taking part in the Vir- ginia Peninsular campaign; the siege of York- town; the action at Williamsburg and the movement toward Richmond, Va., in which he commanded the advance guard. May 7-30, 1862, and participated in the skirmishes at Slatersville, Wliite House, New Bridge and Mechanicsville. He took part in the cavalry operations of the seven days' battles during the change of base to the James river, June 26-July 2, 1862; was pro- moted major-general, U.S.V., Nov. 29, 1862, and commanded the 1st division, 8d army corps. Army of the Potomac, in the Rappahannock


campaign, and was brevetted colonel, Dec. 13, 1862, for gallant services at the battle of Fred- ericksburg, Va. He commanded the cavalry corps on the raid toward Richmond, Va., April- May, 1863; was chief of the cavalry bureau, Washington, D.C, 1863-64; commanded the 23d army cops, January-April, 1864, and was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel, 3d cavalry, March 30,

1864. He commanded the cavalry corps, depart- ment of the Ohio, April-July, 1864, taking part in the Atlanta campaign, May-July, 1864, and was captured at Clinton, Ga., and held as prisoner of war, July-October, 1864. He was placed in temporary command of the department of the Ohio in November, 1864; commanded the raid into southwestern Virginia, 1864-65, and com- manded the district of East Tennessee, February- March, 1865. He was in command of an expedi- tion from Knoxville, Tenn., to Asheville, N.C.; and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier- general, U.S.A., for gallant services at the capture of Charlotte, N.C, and major-general for services in the field. He was placed in com- mand of the department of Tennessee in June,

1865, and of the department of the Cumberland in June, 1866, and of the district of the Cumberland in August, 1866. He was promoted colonel, 21st infantry, July 28, 1866, and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866. He com- manded the district of Petersburg, Dec. 17, 1866, to August 16, 1871, when lie was retired from the army. He removed to California, and was elected governor of the state on the Democratic ticket in 1883, serving till 1887. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 5. 1894.

STORER, Bellamy, diplomat, was born in Cincinnati, Oliio. Aug. 28, 1847; son of Bellamy and Elizabeth (Drinker) Storer; grandson of Woodbury and Margaret (Boyd) Storer, and of Joseph and Louisa (Bartow) Drinker. His father (1798- 1875), a native of Portland, Maine, was a member of the 24th congress; a presiden- tial elector on the Clay and Freling- huysen ticket in 1844; judge of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853-71; and received from Bow- doin college the hon- orary degrees A.M., 1821, LL.D., 1874, and the latter de- gree also from Kenyon college, Ohio, in 1857. Bellamy Storer, the son, was graduated from Harvard college, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, and from


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