born in Wayne County, New York, August 9, 1827,
and removed with his father to Ohio in 1835. He entered Yale College
in 1848, where he remained eighteen months. He then went to California
and spent two years in the mining business. In 1852 he commenced
studying law, and was soon after elected District Attorney for the
County of Nevada. In 1854 he was appointed to perform the duties of
Attorney General of California, and subsequently practiced law in
Nevada City and Downieville. In 1860 he removed to that part of Utah
territory which is now Nevada, and served in the Territorial
Legislature of the following year. He was a member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1863. He was soon after elected a United
States Senator from the new State of Nevada for the term ending in
1869.--28, 100, 107, 202, 275, 427, 435, 454, 456, 459, 530.

THOMAS N. STILWELL was born in Butler County, Ohio, August 29, 1830.
He was educated at Miami University and Farmer's College. He studied
law, and, removing to Indiana in 1852, he was admitted to the bar, and
practiced until 1855, when he engaged in banking. In 1856 he was a
Representative in the Indiana Legislature. He raised a regiment of
volunteers for the war, and served some time as Quartermaster. In 1864
he was elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress, and was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by John P. C.
Shanks. He was appointed by President Johnson United States Minister
to Venezuela.--564.

_JOHN P. STOCKTON_ was born in Princeton, New Jersey, August 2, 1825.
His father and grandfather were United States Senators, and his
great-grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. He graduated at Princeton College in 1843, and, having
studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849. He was appointed by the
Legislature of New Jersey to revise the laws of the State. As reporter
in chancery, he published three volumes of Reports, which bear his
name. In 1858 he was appointed by President Buchanan Minister Resident
to Rome. In 1865 he appeared in Congress as a Senator from New Jersey.
The question of his right to the seat underwent long discussion, and
at length was decided against him on the 27th of March, 1866.--568.

WILLIAM B. STOKES was born in Chatham County, North Carolina,
September 9, 1814. His father was killed by an accident while
emigrating to Tennessee in 1818. He enjoyed but few advantages of
early education, and devoted himself to