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tract of land in Bureau County and in 1860 turned his whole attention to its improve- ment. He has 4,000 acres in one general farm, twelve miles northwest of Princeton, and it is now devoted principally to stock- raising. Mr. Stevens has been thoroughly identified with all local interests such as the Princeton public schools, high school, etc. He was one of the first to move in organizing the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad Com- pany, of which he was a Director for several years. He also had a contract on the Chi- cago, Burlington · & Quincy Road. While Chairman of the Board of Supervisors he attended to the building of the jail and the purchasing of the County Farm. Mr. Stev- ens was one of the first to advocate the use of gravel for the building of the roads in and about Princeton and also supervised the drainage of the city. He was elected its first Mayor in March, 1884. Justus Stevens was married June 9, 1842, to Lurena McConihe, daughter of John McConihe, of Merrimack, N. H. They had eight children. Five reached maturity: Mandana, married to James W. Templeton, Postmaster at Princeton; Fauny Harper, Darlene and Blanche Newcomb. Their only son, Justus Massillon Stevens, was born December 30, 1846. He was educated at Racine College, Wisconsin. He was mar- ried to Mary Louisa Knox, daughter of Judge S. M. Knox, of Princeton, November 9, 1883, in London, England. J. M. Stevens entered into partnership with his father in 1872, and is general manager of the farm and business.
B. N. STEVENS, Tiskilwa, was born Jan- uary 3, 1813, in Boscawen, now Webster, N. H. His early life was spent in his native town, where he attended the com- mon schools and also the academy, after attending the academy at Hopkinton. He was a student at the "La Petite Seminary" of Montreal one year, and then entered Dart- mouth College, where he graduated in 1835. He then established the "Pestolozzian Insti- tute," named in honor of the Swiss teacher, in Hopkinsville, Ky. After three years of active work in the institute he returned to his old home in New Hampshire, where he was married September 26, 1839, in the town of Lebanon, to Lydia P. Alden, who was born October 22, 1811, in Lebanon, N. H.
She is a direct descendant of John Alden, who came to America in the "May Flower." Her parents, Ziba and Sybil (Allen) Alden, were also natives of New Hampshire. They were the parents of six children, of whom only four reached maturity, viz .: Phineas, Lydia P., Horace and Mrs. Delia Smith. Of these only the latter and Mrs. Stevens are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have two sons living, viz .: Alden N. and Charles M. Stevens. After Mr. Stevens was married he went to New York City, where he taught select school for a period of three years. In Sep- tember, 1843, he came to Bureau County, Ill., which he had visited in 1836. He formed a partnership with his father, John Stevens, and his brother Justus, and afterward Calvin Stevens also. The firm was known as J. Ste- vens & Sons, and did a large mercantile busi- ness in Princeton aud Indiantown, now Tis- kilwa, to which he removed his family in 1845. In 1848 the firm was changed to Ste- vens & Sons, who did business after this in Tiskilwa. In 1857 Calvin Stevens bought out the store, and our subject engaged in milling, farming and the lumber business. In 1877 he formed a partnership with John H. Welsh, and opened the Tiskilwa Bank. His two sons are equally interested in the bank and also the real estate, which consists of many valuable farms and town property. Mr. Stevens also established a store in Buda, and one in Tiskilwa, which he continued for a number of years, but finally sold out. At present Mr. Stevens is practically retired from active life. He lived nearly four years in Chi- cago, but now resides at his home in Tiskilwa. Religiously he and his wife are connected with the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Stevens has been an active man in his time in Bureau County. He is the only Democratic Con- gressman ever elected from this county (see General History) and was elected Supervisor of his township when it was Republican, and held that office for nine years.
ALDEN N. STEVENS was born Septem- ber 25, 1846, in Tiskilwa. He received his education in Knox College and Davenport, Iowa. He has made farming his occupation, and is managing the real estate interest of the Stevens family in Tiskilwa. He was mar- ried December 23, 1871, in McLean, Tomp-
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kins Co., N. Y., to Miss Romelia C. Lyon, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. Her parents, Otis and Ziporah (Thomas) Lyon, are de- ceased. They were natives of New York and reared three children, viz .: Mrs. Imogene E. LeFevre, Mrs. R. C. Stevens and Mrs. Julia Kinney, deceased. Mrs. Stevens is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is the mother of Bradford Newcomb Stevens, who was born February 4, 1879.
CHARLES M. STEVENS was born Feb- ruary 6, 1848, in Tiskilwa. He was educated at Ann Arbor, Knox College and Racine Col- lege. He is now a banker in Tiskilwa. He was married September 6, 1876, to Rosalie Balch, who was born September 6, 1855, in Lebanon, N. H. She is a daughter of Al- fred and Elizabeth (Cora) Balch, natives of New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have three children, viz .: Arline A., born May 10, 1880; John A., born October 26, 1882; and Charles H., born November 29, 1883. Polit- ically Mr. Stevens, like his father and brother, is a Democrat. He has been School Trustee ever since he attained his majority.
ELBRIDGE STEVENS, Buda, was born January 10, 1825, in Canterbury, N. H. He is the youngest son of Moses and Mary (Stevens) Stevens. Moses Stevens was born July 29, 1796. He was married January 4, 1820, to Mary Stevens, who was born Octo- ber 19, 1798. In early life he learned the clothier's trade, and in later years the tan- ner's, but most of his life was spent in farm- ing. In 1836 he removed from the old home at Canterbury, N. H., to Bureau County, III., and settled in Concord Township. When coming here he had but little property, but through his industry he was successful in ac- cumulating a competency. He died Febru- ary 22, 1864. His widow survived him till June 28, 1870. They were the parents of two sons: David and Elbridge. David Stevens was about two years the senior of his brother, and followed various occupations during life, first as a farmer in this county, in the hotel business in Sheffield, Ill., in bus- iness in Chicago, and during the war was a well-known cotton speculator at Memphis, Tenn. He died at Boone, Iowa, at which time he was in the insurance business. He had one son, who is also deceased. El-
bridge Stevens came to this county with his parents in 1836, and since that time he has made Concord Township his home. His early life was full of the hardships such as youth is subject to in a new country, and for thirty years he never had gone out of the State, but worked hard all the time. Their market for grain or produce was Chicago, and he would haul loads there and return with lumber, etc. His last trip that way he sold the wheat for 55 cents per bushel, and during the trip suf- fered with fever and ague, and to make mat- ters worse, one of his horses died before get- ting home. He was married April 10, 1849, to Phebe Schoettler, who was born April 30, 1827. She is the daughter of Christian and Eliza (Summer) Schoettler. The father was born in Gifflitz, Germany, September 28, 1768, and the mother was born in Dammers- field, Germany, May 9, 1785. They were married in 1812. He died February 23, 1832, but she March 2, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. El- bridge Stevens are the parents of the follow- ing named children: Mary L., born March 28, 1850, married to Charles Holmes August 29, 1876; Arthur F., born January 18, 1852, died August 24, 1866; Flora E., born Sep- tember 11, 1853, died October 3, 1853; David M., born February 4, 1857; George, born February 14, 1858, married to Allie Burr, August 12, 1878; Sylvester, born August 16, 1862, died September 6, 1862, and Emma, born January 31, 1869. The grand- parents of Elbridge Stevens were Simon and Elizabeth (Boynton) Stevens. He was born March 12, 1754, and died June 19, 1825. She was born November 10, 1754, and died February 9, 1846. They resided at Hamp- sted, N. H., and were the parents of twelve children.
THOMAS J. STEVENS, deceased, was born August 12, 1801, in Canterbury, N. H., and died June 14, 1878, in Buda, Ill. He was the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Stevens, of Canterbury, N. H. Mr. Stevens was reared on a farm and was educated in his na- tive town, and was there married to Miss Elizabeth Smith, who died in Buda, Ill., March 22, 1853. She was the mother of five children now living: Mrs. Lurana Fifield, Mrs. Mary Dow, Joseph, Mrs. Emeline Wilk- inson and Frank; also the following de-
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· ceased : John, Mrs. Caroline Dean, Mrs. Sarah J. Cobb, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dow. In 1854 Mr. Stevens was married in Concord, N. H., to Mrs. Eliza Simpson, a native of Epsom, N. H., and a daughter of Simon and Hannah (Babb) Grant. Both died in Epsom. John Grant, the grandfather of Mrs. Stevens, was born in Portsmouth, N. H .; he was of Scotch descent and died in Epsom, N. H. Mrs. Stevens' mother was a native of Portsmouth, N. H., but died at Epsom in 1847, at the age of seventy-three years. She was the mother of eight chil- dren. Mrs. Stevens' first husband, Mr. James Simpson, was a native of Philadel- phia, Penn., and was born February 16, 1812, and died May 27, 1853. By this hus- band she is the mother of the following named children: Mrs. Mary F. Jameson, John, George E., and James (deceased). In 1861 John Simpson enlisted in Company K, Fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served for about eighteen months, when he was honorably discharged because of in- juries received. He had participated in the battles of Shiloh, Lookout Mountain, etc. He is now a resident of California, where he is engaged in railroad business. George E. Simpson is General Superintendent of the telegraph lines from Milwaukee to St. Paul. Immediately after her marriage to Mr. Stev- ens, she came with her husband to Buda, Ill., where he was engaged in farming. Mr. Stevens was a sober, industrious man, and accumulated a good property, but Mrs. Ste- vens has acted well her part in building up their competency; she being an industrious, frugal wife, ever willing to add to the accu- mulated property the proceeds of her industry. In 1878 she removed to Princeton, where she now resides, and is an active member of the Congregational Church.
A. N. STEVENSON, Lamoille, is a son of George and Elizabeth (Hayes) Stevenson. George Stevenson was born March 1, 1808, in Brooke County, W. Va. He was a tanner by occupation in Ohio for thirteen years. In October, 1848, he came to this county, and lived one year near Dover. The next year he bought 170 acres, on Section 30, in Lamoille Township, where he now owns 260 acres. He is a son of Thomas and Sarah
(Ramsey) Stevenson, who died in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They came from West Vir- ginia and settled in Jefferson County, Ohio, where they farmed and reared a family of eight children, viz. : George, Samuel, John, Thomas, Mrs. Amy Hayes (deceased), Mrs. Nancy Overholt, Aaron L., and Mrs. Hulda Shull. Mrs. Elizabeth (Hayes) Stevenson was born February 6, 1813, in Jefferson County, Ohio. She is the mother of the fol- lowing children: Mrs. Sarah J. Garten, Mrs. Mary A. Mutchmore, Martha M. (deceased), and Albert N. Stevenson, who was born August 4, 1851. He is farming the home farm. He was married here March 20, 1879, to Susan Mallonee, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio. She is a daughter of Lewis and Sarah A. (Ewers) Mallonee, and is the mother of two children, viz .: E. Darlene, born March 10, 1880, and Alma M., born March 31, 1884.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, Neponset, was born July 28, 1817, in Hannibal, Oswego Co., N. Y. His father, Wm. Stevenson, Sr., was born in 1794, in Washington County, N. Y., shortly after his parents landed in America. He died March, 1883. The grandparents of our subject, Samuel and Margaret (Jimmeson) Stevenson, were natives of Ireland, and as far as known their ancestors were Protest- ants. She was of Scotch descent. They died in Washington County, N. Y. The mother of our subject, Marilla Dunton, sup- posed to be of Puritan descent, was a native of Dorset, Vt. She died in 1850, in Hannibal, N. Y. She was the mother of eight children, viz .: William, Nancy, George; Mary and Sarah are twins; Clarissa, Samuel and Ma- villa. Our subject was educated in the com- mon and select schools of his native town. In 1851 he came to Marshall County, Ill., where he farmed thirteen years, and then moved onto a farm of eighty acres in Nepon- set Township, Bureau Co., Ill., where he at present resides. As a farmer, Mr. Steven- son has been very successful, and been ena- bled to assist his children. Mr. Stevenson was married twice; the first time July 4, 1843, in Sterling, N. Y., to Ellen E. Van- petten, who was born October 15, 1815, in Albany County, N. Y. She died April 18, 1881. Her parents were Peter and Lydia
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(Bullock) Vanpetten; the former of Holland- ish descent, the latter of English. Both died in New York State. Mrs. Ellen E. Stevenson was the mother of five children, viz .: Mrs. Lydia Malaney, Eliza E., Mrs. Margaret Blake, William J. and George H. Our sub- ject's present wife, Mrs. Ruby Vanpetten, nee Ruby Emery, is the mother of seven children now living, by her first husband, Matthew B. Vanpetten. The names of the children are Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Emery, John B., Matthew B., Mrs. Mary Traxler, Edwin and Bina. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson are active members of the church. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he has been a member of the Congrega- tional Church since his boyhood. Politically Mr. Stevenson is a Republican. As the even. ing twilight of life gathers around him he can take a retrospective view of life, be sat- isfied and quietly and peacefully await the result in the future.
JAMES B. STEWART, Buda, was born in Venango County, Penn., February 5, 1818. He is the son of Elijah and Lydia (Reynolds) Stewart. Elijah Stewart was born in Ches- ter County, Penn., June 14, 1783. He em- igrated to Venango County, Penn., in 1802. By trade he was a tanner, and he and his brother built a tannery in Venango County soon after settling there. and he continued the business until his death, which occurred August 14, 1847. His wife, Lydia (Reynolds) Stewart, was born in England, and was the daughter of William Reynolds, who settled in Venango County in 1797, and was the first settler in Cherry Tree Township. Mrs. Stew- art was born August 23, 1786, and died April 19, 1864. She was the mother of twelve children, nine of whom grew to maturity; however, only five now survive. James B. Stewart's early life was spent on the farm and in the tan-yard. October 30, 1866, he was united in marriage to Miss Hannah J. Sweet, who was born in Richland County, Ohio, and is the daughter of Curtis Sweet, who died in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the Congregational Church. In politics he is Republican. In 1867 Mr. Stew- art came to Buda, Ill., from Venango County, Penn., aud to him Buda owes much, for through his enterprise much was done to bene-
fit the village. His first business was that of building the Buda Flouring Mills in 1869. The mill was overhauled in 1882, and the latest improvements in machinery added. In February, 1884, it was partially destroyed by fire, since which time the machinery has been removed to Rushville, Ill. Mr. Stewart was also one of the originators of the Buda Man- ufacturing Company, and for some years has been buying and shipping grain from this station.
DAVID C. STICKEL, Manlius, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, March 29, 1831. His father, Thomas Stickel, was a native of Ohio, and his mother, Phebe (Spangler) Stickel, of Maryland. In 1842 they removed to Wyandot County, Ohio, and in 1855 to Ill- inois, where the father died November 21, 1866. The mother is still living, and makes Bureau County her home. Of their family of ten children, six are yet living; two reside in this county, David C. and Mrs. Eliza Mowry, of Wyanet. David C. Stickel came to Bureau County March 31, 1854. For three years he worked at his trade of carpentering, and then began farming, settling on Section 25, Manlius Township. At that time there were no improvements whatever, and he built the first five houses in Section 25, Manlius Township. He has given most of his time to farming, and owns 120 acres of land. Mr. Stickel was married in Bureau County, No- vember 16, 1856, to Rebecca White, born in Harrison County, Ohio, January 13, 1839. She is a daughter of James White (see sketch of J. P. White). Mr. and Mrs. Stickel are the parents of eight children, viz .: Laura Emma, born July 15, 1858, wife of A. G. Wark, of Adair County, Iowa; Tribby J., born December 2, 1859, a farmer in Manlius Township, married to Mary R. Scott; James T., born May 14, 1862; Tephrona, born No- vember 11, 1863; Philinda, born August 2, 1865; Clara, born November 8, 1869; Ida T., born September 11, 1872; Frank E., born July 24, 1881. Politically Mr. Stickel is identified with the Republican party, and takes an active part in local matters, and has held various offices. He is a member of the United Brethren Church.
ALVAH STILES, Bureau, was born in Greene County, Ohio, February 21, 1831. He
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is the son of Abram and Sarah (Martin) Stiles, both natives of New York State, but who moved to Ohio in childhood, where they were married and lived until 1852, when they settled in this county. Abram Stiles was born January 1, 1806, and is still living in this county. His wife was born in 1808 and died in February, 1882. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom reached maturity, viz .: Alvah; Urana Rey- nolds, of Washington Territory; Lucretia Piorce, of Bureau Township; Druzilla Clay- ton, of Walnut Township; Minerva Marsh, of Iowa; Elzina Phillips, of Walnut Town- ship; Henry Stiles, of Iowa; Ellen Epperson, of Walnut Township. Alvah Stiles was reared in Logan County, Ohio, his parents having moved there when he was two years old. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools; many days of his young life were spent in the woods clearing and making rails. In the spring of 1854 he came to Bureau County, though he had been through the county prospecting in 1851 and 1852. He has since made this his home, with the exception of eighteen months in Kan- sas iu 1859 and 1860. He was married in Lo- gan County, Ohio, October 31, 1853, to Elvira Darrin. She was born in New York August 9, 1835, youngest daughter of Abel and Millison (Vermilya) Darrin. The father was a native of Massachusetts and the mother of New York; both died in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stiles have seven children, viz. : Miner- va E., born February 9, 1855, wife of David Wallace of Bureau Township; Amanda A., born April 20, 1861, wife of Frank Wallace of Manlius Township; Sanford Marion, born April 27, 1864; Laura V., born May 4, 1867; Etta Florence, born December 11, 1869; George A., born March 29, 1873; Jesse F., born May 18, 1877. Mr. Stiles came to this county with little property, and has been suc- cessful, mostly through the growing of hogs for market. One year he sold 118 head of his own raising, which averaged 418 pounds. His farm in Sections 13 and 14 contains 286 acres, and 200 acres in Manlius Township. In politics he is a Democrat.
JUDGE GEORGE W. STIPP, Princeton. From a recently published biographical work, we obtain the following sketch. One
of the most eminent men on the circuit bench in Illinois is George W. Stipp, who is self- educated and self-made in the true sense of the terms. He began and ended his school days in a log-schoolhouse in Champaign County, Ohio, where he was born March 2, 1818. His father was Peter Stipp, a farmer in early life, later a school teacher and preacher, he belonging to the so-called New Light denomination. He was born in Vir- ginia and was a soldier in the second war with England. He married Elizabeth Har- rison, a native of Kentucky. Mr. Stipp commenced reading law at Bellefontaine, Ohio, with William Lawrence; came to Can- ton, this State, in 1845, before finishing his legal studies; went into the Mexican war in 1846 as First Lieutenant Company K, Fourth Illinois Infantry, Col. E. D. Baker Com- mander; returned to Bellefontaine the next year and resumed his studies; finished them at the Cincinnati Law School. He returned to Canton, Ill., March, 1848, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Mason County, this State, in May of that year, Hon. Richard Yates being one of his examiners. Mr. Stipp practiced law a few years at Lewiston, Ful- ton County, being at one time partner of Hon. Lewis W. Ross, since a member of Congress. In the autumn of 1853 Mr. Stipp settled in Princeton, Ill., and soon took a high position at the Bureau County bar. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the county in 1857, and held that office between one and two years. In September, 1861, he went into the army as Captain, Company B, Yates' Sharp- shooters, afterward Sixty-fourth Illinois In- fantry, and served till December, 1862, when ha resigned on account of ill health. He came out as Major of the regiment. Mr. Stipp has a judicial turn of mind, and it be- came evident some years ago that he had, in a marked degree, the qualities which fitted him for a jurist, and in June, 1879, he was elected Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, an office he yet fills with much credit to the bench, and great satisfaction to the public. He has profound legal attainments, seems to be equally well versed in criminal and civil law, has no disposition to reward friends or punish enemies, if he has any, and hence is unbiased by prejudice, impartial, cool,
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self-poised and emphatically a just judge. In politics he was originally a Whig; voted for Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, and has since affiliated with the Demo- cratic party. Judge Stipp was married May 29, 1849, to Miss Louisa C. Wolf, of West Liberty, Ohio, and they have ten children, four of whom, two sons and two daughters, are married.
GEORGE W. STONE, Princeton, was born October 22, 1830, in Worcester County, Mass. His father, Independence Stone, was born April 6, 1809, in Worcester County, Mass., and yet resides in Lamoille, Bureau Co., Ill., to which he came in 1857. He was a farmer by occupation. The grandfather of George W. Stone was Daniel Stone, a native of Mas- sachusetts, where he died. He was born January, 1766, and died September 27, 1829. He married Ann Gibson, who was born March, 1770; she died April, 1856, in Massachusetts, the State of her nativity. She was the mother of thirteen children, viz .: Daniel, Jr., who died in infancy; Daniel, Jr., 2d; Jonathan, Ann B., John, Eliza, Jonas, Lydia, Thomas, Independence, George Z., Liberty and Han- nah. Of these Jonas resides in Westboro, Mass., Independence in Lamoille, Ill., and Liberty in Buda, Bureau Co., Ill. The mother of our subject was Mary (Coy) Stone, who was born August 3, 1810, in Belchertown, Mass. She died in 1864 in Princeton. She was the mother of three children, viz. : Mrs. Augusta Hannover, of Lamoille; George W., our subject, and Mrs. Caroline Robinson, of De Witt, Iowa. Our subject was educated in Massachusetts and is a self-made man. In early life he was engaged in the mercantile business in the East. In 1852 he went to California by water via the Isthmus of Pan- ama. He was delayed by different causes, and it took him five months to reach his des- tination. His labors in the gold mines were successful, and after a sojourn of three years he embarked for home on the steamer Golden Age, which foundered off the coast of Pana- ma. The passengers were all safely landed on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, from which they were rescued by the steamer John L. Stevens. Mr. Stone only remained home a few months, and then came West, arriving in Princeton in August, 1855. Here he fol-
lowed the mercantile business for a number of years. In 1868 he was appointed United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, which position he filled for four years. In 1872 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Bureau County, serving one term of four years. Since then he has farmed and dealt extensively in land both here and in the West, owning land in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, to which he makes frequent trips. Mr. Stone has been married twice. His first wife was Ann M. Wadham, a native of Massachusetts; she died in Princeton; she was the mother of Mary Stone, who was born January 19, 1860. His present wife's maiden name was Miss Jen- nie E. Elliott, a daughter of John and Mary (Hughes) Elliott. Mrs. Jennie E. Stone is the mother of two daughters, viz .: Maude H. was born November 25, 1862, and Cora B. was born September 6, 1864. Mrs. Stone and the two oldest children are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Stone has always taken a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the wel- fare of the people and has filled a number of offices and given general satisfaction. He is much interested in all agricultural matters, and has been Secretary of the Bureau County Agricultural Society for a number of years. He has also been Vice-President of the State Agricultural Board for this District. In po- litical matters Mr. Stone has been identified with the Republican party. He is a member of Temple Commandery Knights Templar, No. 20.
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