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STEVENS, Charles Ellis, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 5 July, 1853. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale, was graduated in 1875 at Berkeley divinity-school, Middletown, Connecticut, spent one year in study in Europe, and was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1877. He became rector of a church in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1878 secretary of an auxiliary of the board of missions of his denomination. For several years he was associate editor of the "Living Church." The degree of Ph. D. was given to him by Wooster university. He became an examining chaplain of the diocese of Long Island in 1886, and in 1887 was made archdeacon of Brooklyn. He is a member of the Royal geographical society of London and of the Society of antiquaries of Edinburgh, among other learned societies, and in 1888 received the degree of LL. D. from Wooster university, and that of D. C. L. from King's college, Nova Scotia. Dr. Stevens has published occasional pamphlets and frequent articles in the press, and has in preparation (1888) the " History and Development of the Constitutional Law of England and the United States."
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