William Henry "Henry" Stevens (1839-1916)

STEVENS, GILMORE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/24/2022 at 21:57:45

From Nevada Representative August 15, 1916 (page 2)

OBITUARY

W. H. STEVENS

The death is reported of W. H. Stevens, better known in the olden days as Henry Stevens, as having occurred August 11 at Albion, Michigan. His age must have been more than eighty years, and the advice of his death came from his son, J. Frank Stevens, son-in-law of William Gilmore of this city and now a member of the Michigan house of representatives. He says that his father had no sickness but that the machine had simply worn out.

Mr. Stevens was a prominent resident of Grant township when we first began to know about Story county more than forty years ago, and he removed from the county, we think to Michigan, back in the '90s, or something like twenty years ago. He was a man of marked ability and wide information, and he lived on the extreme north side of Grant township, his farm being mostly in Milford. He was toward the west side of the township and habitually went to Ames for his marketing and mail, so that in the days when the politics of the county was almost wholly a scrap between Nevada and Ames and when Grant township was a battle ground he was one of the men who used generally to try to get the delegation for the Ames candidates. Ames reciprocated and very nearly nominated him a couple of times for sheriff. He never quite landed the nomination but he was habitually in the game and was recognized and capable factor in the county. So much has happened in the years since his removal that he had passed from the thought of the most those who knew him here and was of course unknown to the most of the present population; but the old-timers will remember him most kindly and will note his death with sincere regret.