Stewart, Henry Greene, a Bajitist minister, was born at Clarendon, Yt., April 12, 1812. and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1839. He spent two years in theological study at the Newton In- stitution, and then was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church at Cimilierland Hill, 1!. I., where he remained nine years (1841-50). After having been pastor of the Baptist Church in Seekonk, Mass., two years, he entered the service of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and was one of its agents for eight years (I852-G0). He was pastor of the Warwick, K. I., Church two years, and then, for two years, was an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau ; for three years, the missionary of the Rhode Island State Convention ; and for one year Indian agent in the emplov of the United States government. He died in Nevada, July 27, 1871, (J, C. S.)
SteTwart, Isaac Ingersoll, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born near Absecom, N. J., Aug. 4, 1806. When twelve years of age he re- moved to Illinois, and three years later joined the Church. He was licensed to preach in 1836, and in the same year entered the Illinois Conference. In 1857 he took a supernumerary relation; in 1858 he became ef- fective; in 1862 supernumerary. In 18(i3 he was ap- pointed chaplain to the United States Hospital, Keo- kuk, la., where he died, Aug. 15, 1864. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1864, p, 178.
Stewart, John (1), the apostle to the Wyandots, was a mulatto, with a mixture of Indian blood, and was born of free parents in Virginia. While yet a youth he removed to Ohio, where he was converted, and joined the Methodist Church. In 1814 he felt it to be his duty to yireach, and to journey towards the Nortii-west with that object in view. Acting upon this iin])ression, he travelled until he came to the Wyandot Reservation at Upper Sandusky. Here he labored with considera- ble success, and in February, 1817, the revival broke out afresh. Stewart continued to work among them until the Wyandot nation became Christianized. In 1819 the Ohio C'onference took charge of the mission, and Stewart labored with tlie white preachers till his death, in 1860, See Zion's Herald, Jan. 16, 1861.
SteT?yart, John (2), a minister of the IMethodist Ejiiscopal Church, was born in Sussex County, N. J., in 1795, went to Ohio in 1803, and joined the Church in 1815, He was received on trial in the Ohio Conference in 1817, and worked effectively within its bounds for forty vears. He retired in 1858, and siient the remain- der ot^his life in Illinois among his children. He died iSIarch 1(1, 1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 187(>, p. 132.
Stew^art, Kenian Spencer, a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church, Soutli, was born in Craven County, N. C, June 9, 18 18, and joined the Church in 186(). He received his license to preach in 1873, and was the same year admitted to the Memphis Conference, but was innnediately transferred to the St, Louis Con-
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fcrence. His health was, however, permanently im- paireti, and he liied at the residence of liis lallitr, Kutherlord Station, Ciibson Co., Tenii., Aui^. 3, US75. Siee Miiiiilfs of A imual Con/eretices of the M. E. Church, iSouth, 1875, p. -lii.
Stewart, Thoraas G., a Methodist Episcopal n)ini>ter. was linrii in New Jersey in ITIH). received on trial in the rhiladel|iliia Conference in l«aO, and tilled the followinj; ai)pointinents: in 1830, Pemberton Cir- cuit; in 1831, Herijen Neck Mission; in 1832-33, Free- hold Circuit: in 1834-35, Tiickerton ; in 183(5, Cross- wicks; in 1837-38, New Egypt; in 1839-40, Cumber- land; in 1841-42. Salem; in 1843-44, Sweedsborough ; in 1845-40, Moorestown. He died Jan. 24, 1848. In his ministerial work he was persevering, bold, and firm, and distinguishe<l for a noble ambition of winning souls. .See Miimtirs oj'Aunnal Confcrenceg, iv, 217,
Sthenelaus, a Dardan warrior in the siege of Troy. He was the son of Ith.-vmenes, and was slain by Patro- clus (Homer, //. xvi, 58G).
StheuSld, the name of two persons in Grecian mythciliigy — (1) a daughter of Danaus (Apollod. ii, 1, 5) ; (2) a daughter of Acastus, who became the wife of Mentetius, and by him the mother of the heroic Patro- clus (ibid, iii, 12." 8).
SthenSlus, a name which occurs repeatedly in Grecian mythology. 1. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, one of the Epigoni, and a famous hero. He partici- pated in the Trojan war (Apollod. iii, 7, 2; Homer, II. ii, 564). 2. The father of Cometes and lover of ^Egia- lia, the beautiful wife of Diomede. He overcame the chastity of the otherwise virtuous woman by the aid of Venus herself, and eventually expelled the hero from his king<lom (Apollod. i. 8i; ; Ovid, I his, 350 ; Homer, //. v, 412 s<).). 3. .\ son of Perseus and Andromeda, who became the father of Eurystheus, the deadly foe of Her- cules. He was slain by Hyllus, the son of Hercules (Homer, //. xix, 116; Apollod. ii, 4, 5, etc. ; Uy gin. Fab. 244). 4. A son of Actor and companion of Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons (Apollon. IJhod. ii, 911). 5. A son of .\ndrogeos and grandson of Jlinos, who with his brother Alc;«us was taken away from Paros by Hercules, in punishment for the hostile sur- prise in which his followers suffered harm at the hands of the sons of Minos (Apollod. ii, 5, 9, etc.).