Jefferson Stow
Jefferson Pickman Stow (4 September 1830 – 4 May 1908), was a newspaper editor and magistrate in South Australia.
Stow was born at Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England, the second son of the Rev. Thomas Quentin Stow[1] and his wife Elizabeth, née Eppes.[2] Jefferson Stow came to South Australia with his parents and brothers ( Randolph Isham Stow and Augustine Stow) in 1837.[1] After engaging in farming pursuits, he went to the Victorian diggings in 1856, and to the Northern Territory in 1864. In the following year he formed one of a party of seven who sailed from Adam Bay in the Northern Territory to Champion Bay in Western Australia in a small ship's boat named the Forlorn Hope.[1] An account of this expedition was published by Stow, who in 1876 was appointed editor of The South Australian Advertiser in succession to Mr. Harcus.[1]
Stow was the author of "South Australia: its History, Productions and Natural Resources," compiled at the request of the South Australian government for circulation at the Calcutta International Exhibition (1883), and published that year.[1] It is a well written and concise manual, and has had an extensive circulation in Australia, England and India. Stow was appointed a magistrate in 1884, and in 1886 Commissioner of Insolvency, and Special and Stipendiary Magistrate at Mount Gambier, South Australia[1] and later at Port Pirie.[2] Stow retired in 1904; he died on 4 May 1908 at North Adelaide, survived by his wife, two sons and five daughters.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mennell, Philip (1892). "
Stow, Jefferson Pickman". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource - 1 2 3 Ross, D. Bruce. "Stow, Jefferson Pickman (1830–1908)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 21 September 2013.