The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . bountiful far beyond his means, and quicklymoved by any appeal to his sympathies. He hadwarm attachments, loving his friends with almostwomanly tenderness. Those critics who class
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . bountiful far beyond his means, and quicklymoved by any appeal to his sympathies. He hadwarm attachments, loving his friends with almostwomanly tenderness. Those critics who class himwith the ordinary politician, whose only idea of aplatform is a net to catch votes, mistake him utterly;still he was a politician and not a reformer. He didnot inculcate principles to be executed in the future;he organized men to execute principles alreadyadopted by sufficient numbers to justify the hopethat they could be reduced to action. He was a har-vester, not a seed-sower. Few men are seed-sowers,and such as are, we account to be prophets and notpoliticians. He was a prophet, but only in the fore-casting of political results. Having lived down theundeserved obloquy that clouded his earlier life, hedied, understood and honored, Nov. 22, 1884. Hisbiography was interestingly written by himself andhis grandson, and was published by Houghton,Mifflin & Co. (Boston) in 1884. 14 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. Cy~^..^.^jt/^-zj-djLtIau^..^^ STEARNS, Onslow, governor of New Hamp-shire, was born at Bellerica, Middlesex county, Mass.,Aug. 30, 1810, the son of John Stearns, and grand-son of Isaac-Stearns, both i^rosperous farmers. On-slow worked on the farm, and attended the districtschools and academy until 1837, when he moved toBoston, and accepted a situation asclerk in the house of Howe & Hol-brook. In 1830 he joined his broth-er, John O. Stearns, in Virginia,and was engaged in the engineer-ing department of construction ofthe Chesapeake and Ohio canal. In1833 he formed a partnership
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