The Life and Times of John Dickinson, 1732-1808, Volume 3
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History of the United States Sanitary Commission: Being the General Report of Its Work During the War of the Rebellion - Primary Source Edition
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Memorial Of The Great Central Fair For The U. S. Sanitary Commission, Held At Philadelphia, June 1864
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Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Vol. XIII: The Life and Times of John Dickinson
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Addresses and ceremonies at the New Year's festival to the freedmen, on Arlington Heights: and statistics and statements of the educational condition ... in the southern states, and other facts.
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Charles Janeway Stille was an American educator and historian. He was a president of to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for eight years.
Background
Charles was born on September 23, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to John and Maria (Wagner) Stille. His father was a descendent of Oloff Stille, one of the Swedish settlers on the Delaware, who, arriving in 1641, established a home near Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Passyunk. His descendants were successful merchants in Philadelphia. Stille's mother was descended from the Rev. Tobias Wagner of Reading, Pennsylvania, member of a Lutheran family in Werttemberg, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1742.
Education
Charles prepared for Yale College at a school conducted by the Rev. Dr. Steele at Abington, Pennsylvania, and the Edge Hill School near Princeton, New Jersey. He entered Yale in 1835, and upon graduation in 1839 delivered a valedictory oration, The Social Spirit (1839), which showed the ideals and ethical standards that were to characterize his life and writings.
Career
After studying in the office of Joseph Reed Ingersoll, he was admitted to the bar. His interests led him, however, rather to develop his taste for history and literature, in pursuance of which he visited Europe repeatedly.
During the Civil War he published a pamphlet entitled How a Free People Conduct a Long War (1862), drawing a comparison between the current conflict and the long struggle of Great Britain against the French Revolution and Napoleon; unusually free from harshness, it was pervaded with enlightened patriotism, and half a million copies of it were distributed.
He was asked to serve as a member of the United States Sanitary Commission and as corresponding secretary of its Executive Committee, and had much to do with the success of the great "Sanitary Fair" held in Philadelphia in 1864, at which $1, 000, 000 was raised for the work of the Commission.
After the war he published History of the United States Sanitary Commission (1866). These activities taught him, he said, "to look upon important public questions in a large and liberal way" and thus prepared him for the responsibilities that soon came to him. Without having had previous experience in teaching, he was appointed in 1866 to the professorship of English literature and belles-lettres in the University of Pennsylvania.
When he assumed his duties, the course of study in the college was substantially that of a century before, and the only gift of money the institution had received in over eighty years was one of $5, 000.
With characteristic zeal Stille began at once to advocate the establishment of elective courses of study, which in 1867 were introduced into the upper classes of the college.
In 1868 he became the tenth provost of the University of Pennsylvania. His inaugural address, The Claims of Liberal Culture in Philadelphia (1868), presented the needs of the University as the center of the higher education of the community. The twelve years of his administration proved his unusual qualities as an educational leader and a practical executive. It was not easy to find support for his projects in the self-perpetuating Board of Trustees, long established in set grooves of action, yet he succeeded in obtaining their approval for marked changes.
He aroused the interest of the community, enlisted the cordial cooperation of the faculty, and won the devoted affection of the students. New departments - of science (1872), music (1877), and dentistry (1878) - were created. Through the Provost's persistent efforts the city was induced in 1870 to sell on reasonable terms ten acres of land in West Philadelphia, where adequate facilities could be provided for the expansion of the University.
There the cornerstone of College Hall, the first of the new buildings, was laid on June 15, 1871. The following year the city made a grant of five and a half acres for the erection of University Hospital, which was opened in 1874. Untiring in his efforts to put the University upon a sound financial basis, Stille fell short of his high aim, but nevertheless he did obtain, among other gifts, the endowment of the Towne Scientific School, the John Welsh Chair, and the Bloomfield Moore scholarships for women, as well as a sum to found the Tobias Wagner Library.
A notable means adopted for bringing the University into closer relationship with the city was the establishment of scholarships for graduates of the Philadelphia public schools. The extraordinary progress begun in his administration initiated the great expansion that was to continue under his immediate successors.
Stille resigned the provostship in 1880 disagreeing with the board of trustees, he contended that the Provost should be a member of the board, that powers of discipline over students should be vested in the faculty, and that a great, united effort should be made to put the University finances on a stable basis.
In 1881 he retired also from the John Welsh professorship, of which he was the first incumbent, and thereafter devoted himself to historical studies.
On his second visit to Sweden, in 1888, he discovered the whereabouts of the records of the Swedish colonists on the Delaware. Abstracts of these, in translation, he afterwards presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of which he was president for eight years.
The Gloria Dei Church of Philadelphia, founded by Swedish Lutherans, deeply interested him and became the beneficiary of one-third of his residuary estate.
Stille's death occurred in 1899 at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Achievements
During Charles Janeway Stillé's twelve years as the tenth provost of the University of Pennsylvania, he brought in about $2, 000, 000 in donations to the University of Pennsylvania, allowing for various academic chairs throughout the University, scholarships for women and graduates of Philadelphia public high schools and for endowments for, among other things, the Towne Scientific School.
Stillé also wrote two pamphlets; the more famous of the two, How a Free People Conduct a Long War, was modeled off the British strategy for fighting against Napoleon in the early nineteenth century. How a Free People Conduct a Long War was so popular that about five hundred thousand copies of it were made during the Civil War. In addition to a number of pamphlets, he published Studies in Mediaeval History (1882); The Life and Times of John Dickinson (1891); and Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line in the Continental Army (1893).
