Stephens, Frank M.

STEPHENS, PAYNEM

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 7/9/2019 at 06:54:32

BIOGRAPHY ~ FRANK M. STEVENS
Garden Grove, Iowa
1872 - 1960

Iowa Official Register, 1933 - 1934
Biographies ~ State Senators, General Assembly 45

FRANK M. STEVENS, GARDEN GROVE. - Senator from the fifth district, consisting of Decatur, Ringgold and Union counties, was born on a farm near Salem, Illinois, May 14, 1872. He went to Chicago at the age of fifteen, an orphan, and became superintendent of Empire Warehouses, Inc., of Chicago, at the age of 26. Married Evelyn M. Payne and has three daughters, Martha, Helen and Evelyn. Moved to Iowa and entered the mercantile business at Florida in 1903. Moved to Garden Grove, Decatur county, in 1920 and continued in mercantile business there. Member of Methodist church. Serving first term in the legislature. A democrat.

NOTE: Frank died in 1960. Evelyn M. Stevens was born in 1869 and died in 1958. They were interrred at Garden Grove Cemetery, Garden Grove, Iowa.

Transcription by Debbie Clough Gerischer Bare67deb@aol.com March 31, 2005