Stedman, Edmund Clarence

born in 1833, contributed many poems to the New York Tribune after 1859. He was war correspondent of the New York World from 1861 to 1863. Since 1865 he has been a stock-broker in New York. He wrote ‘‘The Diamond Wedding,” ** How Old John Brown took Harper’s Ferry,” ‘‘ Alice of Mon mouth,”’ ** Poets of America,” “ Gettysburg,’’ and edited a ‘‘ Library of American Literature.”