. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . reso-lutions of 1864, and vigorously denounced the sus-pension of the privilege of the writ of habeas cor-pus by the Confederate congress. He also servedin the army, and attained the rank of colonel. Hecontinued his activity in politics during the re-construction period, and prior to the presidentialcanvass of 1872 publicly spoke in favor of the se-lection of a purely Democratic ticket instead ofadopting the candidacy of Horace Greeley. STEPHENS, Ann Sophia, author, Derby,Conn., in 1813; d. in Newport. R, I., 20 Aug.,1886. Her maiden name w
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . reso-lutions of 1864, and vigorously denounced the sus-pension of the privilege of the writ of habeas cor-pus by the Confederate congress. He also servedin the army, and attained the rank of colonel. Hecontinued his activity in politics during the re-construction period, and prior to the presidentialcanvass of 1872 publicly spoke in favor of the se-lection of a purely Democratic ticket instead ofadopting the candidacy of Horace Greeley. STEPHENS, Ann Sophia, author, Derby,Conn., in 1813; d. in Newport. R, I., 20 Aug.,1886. Her maiden name was Winterbotham. Shemarried Edward Stephens in 1831, and shortly af-terward settled in Portland, Me. She founded the Portland Magazine in 1835, and continued toedit it till 1837. In 1836 she issued a collection ofwritings by natives or residents of Portland, whichshe entitled The Portland Sketch-Book. Mean-while her writings were beginning to be known,and when her husband received an appointment inthe New York custom-house in 1837 she made that. city her residence. She edited The Ladies Com-panion for four years, wrote for Grahams Maga-zine and Petersons Magazine, and was forsome time associate editor of these founded The Ladies World in 1843 and The Illustrated New Monthly in 1846, and wasduring her lifea frequent con-tributor to va-rious other pe-riodicals. Shealso wrote sev-eral poems, oneof which, ThePolish Boy, haslong been a fa-vorite for recita-tion in principalshort storieswere Mary Der-went, forwhichshe obtained aprize of $400, Malvia Gray, The Patch-work Quilt,and A Story of Western Life. In 1850 shemade a tour through Europe and the East. Onher return she published her first long novel, Fashion and Famine (New York, 1854), whichis the best known, if not the best, of her France three different translations of it werepublished. Although Mrs. Stephens belonged tothe intense school of novelists, her attention tominute details and he
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