John Stevenson

STEVENSON, DONOVAN

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Date: 5/24/2004 at 22:23:34

John Stevenson was born in Pennsylvania, on the 23d day of September, 1787. He learned the trade of mill-wright. In 1814, he married Miss Sarah Donovan, a native of Baltimore, born March 19, 1795. In about 1820, he removed with his family to Ohio, and settled in Knox county, where he erected a flouring mill, and run the same until February, 1857, when he traded his mill property for 400 acres of land in Butler county, Iowa. He therefore came west, and resided in Jackson township until his death, which took place July 11, 1876. His wife died April 12, 1879. They reared a family of ten children, but only two survive – Josiah and Maria. Mr. Stevenson was an elder in the Presbyterian church for about sixty years. He was evenly tempered, and one of those straightforward men who are always highly respected.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 608