Mendocino County Biographies

Isaiah Stevens

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Oldest child of Nathaniel and Mollie Stevens, was born in 
Windham, Cumberland county, Maine, November 27, 1809. He resided at his 
birthplace till twenty-one years of age, during which time he received a common 
school education. In 1830 he went to Providence, Rhode Island, and attended 
school one year; he then returned to Maine. He was married to Mary V. Hall, 
March 25, 1836, who was born in Norway, Oxford county, Maine, April 21, 1816. 
She died July 3, 1859, and by her he had six children, one son and five 
daughters, four of whom are now living: Stephen G., born December 4, 1844; 
Rachel F., born September 14, 1846; Emily E., born April 5, 1849; Mary R., born 
April 14, 1856. He married his present wife, Rebecca S. Coombs, December 6, 
1860, in Hallowell, Kennebec county, Maine, who was born in Whitefield, Lincoln 
county, Maine, April 8, 1830. He continued to live in Maine till 1864, when he 
left Kennebec county for California and took passage on the steamer, June 23d, 
at New York for Aspinwall, and arrived in San Francisco on the steamer 
Constitution July 18th. He came immediately to Mendocino county and located on 
his present estate at Little River in 1865, and has continued to reside there 
ever since. In 1865 he was appointed postmaster of the Little River post-office, 
an office he has continually held since that date.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 555, 556