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See also:STEPHENS, See also:JOHN See also:LLOYD (1805–1852) , See also:American traveller, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:November 1805, at See also:Shrewsbury, New See also:Jersey. Having been admitted to the See also:bar, he practised for about eight years in New See also:York See also:City. In 1834, the See also:state of his See also:health rendering it advisable that he should travel, he visited See also:Europe, and for two years made a tour through many countries of that See also:Continent, extending his travels to See also:Egypt and See also:Syria. On his return to New York he published in 1837 (under the name of " See also:George " Stephens) Incidents of Travel in Egypt, See also:Arabia Petraea, and the See also:Holy See also:Land. This See also:work was followed next See also:year by the publication of Incidents of Travel in See also:Greece, See also:Turkey, See also:Russia and See also:Poland. In 1839 Stephens arranged with See also:Frederick Catherwood of See also:London, who had accompanied him on some of his travels, and illustrated the above-mentioned publications, to make an exploration in Central See also:America, with a view to discovering and examining the antiquities said to exist there. Stephens, meantime, was appointed to a See also:mission to Central America. The See also:joint travels of Stephens and Catherwood occupied some eight months in 1839 and 1840. As the result of these researches Stephens published in 1841 Incidents of Travels in Central America, See also:Chiapas and See also:Yucatan. In the autumn of 1841 the two travellers made a second exploration of Yucatan, and a work followed in 1843—Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. This work describes the most extensive travels executed till that date by a stranger in the See also:peninsula, and, as the author claims, " contains See also:account of visits to See also:forty-four ruined cities or places in which remains or vestiges of See also:ancient populations were found." It enjoyed a wide popularity, and Stephens was urged to See also:prose-cute his researches of American antiquities in See also:Peru, but was disinclined to so distant an expedition. He became a director of the newly-formed American Ocean See also:Steam See also:Navigation See also:Company, which established the first American See also:line of transatlantic steamships. He visited See also:Panama to reconnoitre the ground with a view to the construction of a railway across the See also:isthmus, and, first as See also:vice-See also:president and then as president of the Panama Railway Company, spent the greater See also:part of two years in superintending the project. His health was, however, under-See also:mined by exposure to the See also:climate of Central America, and he died at New York on the loth of See also:October 1852.
End of Article: STEPHENS, JOHN LLOYD (1805–1852)
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