JOHN O. STEVENS
John O. Stevens was born in Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, May 22, 1841. His father, Sanford P. Stevens was born, lived and died on the old homestead of his father, November 11, 1883, aged ninety-two years. Mrs. Almida Stevens, his mother, died November 11, 1853. In August, of 1862, John O. Stevens, enlisted in the Nineteenth Connecticut Volunteers, but was discharged on account of physical disability before the regiment reached the scene of action. The following fall he came to Iowa and lived in Davenport and vicinity until 1869. He then went to Poweshiek county, where he engaged in farming. In 1874 he visited Cass county and purchased the farm he now owns and occupies. It is located in section 16, of Bear Grove, and was then unimproved. It contains eighty acres. He returned to his native county in 1877, and was there married, February 14, to Mary Spaulding, a native of Norfolk, Connecticut. They have no children.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 720.
