Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-11
CAREER OF w. j. STILLMAN.
His Work as n War Correspondent
In Crete.

The late William ]. Stillman, at one
time consul at Rome, was born in
Schenectady, N. Y, June /, 1898, and
was graduated from Union college in
1913. He at once began the study of
landscape painting under Frederick E.
| Church, and a year later paid his first
visit to Europe, says the New York
Times. There he became intimate with
Ruskin and the members Of the pre-
%raphaelite brotherhood. From 1851 to
1859 he was a regular contributor to
the Academy of Design, of which he
( was elected an associate in 1854.
Becoming interested in the Hunga-
rian cause through the eloquence Of
kossuth, Mr.. Stillman accepted in 1852
from the patriot a mission to Vienna
to recover the crown jewels which the
latter had secreted. The mission was
unsuccessful.
Mr.. Stillman studied in the school of
WON in Paris. and in 1896, when he re-
turned. he founded, with John Durand,
the art journal Inc Crayon. He cOn-
Quoted it in New York city for two
years. He was abroad again in 1850,
making Il summer tour with Mr.. Rus
kin in Switzerland. In 1861 he vas
appointed United States consul at
Rome, and in 1856 was transferred TO
Crete. where he witnessed and became
the historian OF the unsuccessful risin:
in that island. His lahNrS to alleviate
the suifcrin"s mf the victims of the in
surrecs ion We're said to have made hiri
obnoxious to the Turkish government
and bis retirement followed. His OWEN
life was often in peril. and his al
ventures and experiences were told in
his ~Cretan Instruction. His safety
was attributed to the fact that he was
correspondent of the London Times, to
whose columns he contributed many
articles on Turkish misrule.
In 1869. being out of service, he
brought out 4 volume of photographs
of the -Acropolis at Athens, the views
being taken by himself. His services
as correspondent enabled him to write
a history of the revolt in Herzegovina
that preceded the great Kusso-T Turkish
war of 1871 IT'S. In 1886 he became the
correspondent sof the London Times i'm
Rome. and WAS able to prosecute with
success his studies in Greek archa-
olegy IN Greece. Melos, Sicily and else
where.
The Autobiography Of a Journalist"
published in the spring, attracted much
attention, its purpose, as expressed by
him. being ITO give a human document
of Puritan family life and tie deM4-
opm,ent "0f n mind from the aachaac
severity of New England Puritantzn
to q complete freedom of thought by Il
purely evolutionary process, wtthest
revolt or reyulsion.".
Mr. Stillman told the story OF his
cumming away from home as the result
af 8 logging which broke two peaa'
tree switches to stumps and was Iad-
miniStered fer the sin of bathing with
out Hermisaiem. With SO OF 81 Of Ills
own earnings, he and another Toy fed
nrSt to Albany, then to New York, and
then returned, the second boy being
h0raesick and young Stillman lacking
tfe strength to go on alone.
Mr.. Stillman wa a devoted nntural
list. especially fond of the study Of
squirrels. He wrote many letters de-
Tending them against the aspersions of
farmers who looked upon squirrels as
pests. His BILLY and Hans" is a story
~ two OF his own squirrel pets.