STOUGHTON, Edwin Wallace (sto-ton), lawyer, born in Springfield, Vermont, 1 May, 1818; died in New York city, 7 January, 1882. He came to New York city when he was eighteen years old, and there studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1840 he became connected with important eases, including some famous patent trials, notably those of Charles Goodyear. He was engaged in the case of Ross Winans against the Erie railway company, and was counsel for the latter in the receiver cases in the United States courts in 1868. Mr. Stoughton was retained by William M. Tweed at the beginning of his legal troubles, though he took no active part in the defence; and he conducted the suit of the stockholders in the Emma mine litigation. During the administration of President Grant he published an elaborate letter in which he defended on constitutional grounds the president's use of the army in Louisiana. He was one of the party that, after the election of 1876, went to New Orleans to observe tile action of the returning board, and was a warm defender of Rutherford B. Hayes's title to the office of president, which he supported by argument as one of the counsel before tile Electoral commission. In October, 1877, he was appointed minister to Russia by President Hayes, and remained there until May, 1879, when he returned to the United States. The climate of St. Petersburg did not agree with him, and the seeds of disease that he contracted there finally caused his death. As a young man he attracted some attention by his contributions to " Hunt's Merchants' Magazine," but they were afterward discontinued He gave $15,000 to Dartmouth to found a museum of pathological anatomy, --His nephew, Edwin Henry, soldier, born in Springfield, Vermont, 28 June, 1838 ; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 25 December, 1868, was graduated at the United States military academy in 1859, and assigned to the 6th infantry. During 1859-'60 he served in garrison at Fort Columbus, New York, and on scouting duty in the western territories, but he resigned on 4 March, 1861, from the regular army. In September he was commissioned colonel of the 4th Vermont volunteers, and with his regiment joined the Army of the Potomac. He served during the peninsular campaign, and was engaged in the siege of Yorktown, the action at Lee's Mill, the battles of Williamsburg and Savage Station, and the operations before Richmond. His services gained for him promotion to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers on 5 November, 1862, and he was assigned to the command of the 2d Vermont brigade, covering the defences of Washington. While stationed at Fairfax Court-House, Virginia, he was captured by General John S. Mosby on 8 March, 1863, but, after confinement for several weeks in Libby prison, he was released. His commission had expired by constitutional limitations four days before his capture. General Stoughton then resigned from the army and entered on the practice of law in New York city, but failing health compelled his removal to Boston, where he died.