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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA
A Record of Settlement,
Organization, Progress and Achievement
VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING
COMPANY 1912
Digitized for Microsoft Corporation
by the Internet Archive in 2008. From New York Public Library.
May
be used for non-commercial, personal, research, or education purposes, or any
fair use.
May not be indexed in a commercial
service.
Transcribed and donated
by Vance Tigges & Kathy Weaver.
JOHN P. STEVENS
*page 13*
One
of those who have long been identified with the agricultural interests of
Carroll county is John P. Stevens, who was born in Bureau county, Illinois, on
the 18th of August, 1855. He is of English extraction, his father, Robert E.
Stevens, having been born in Cambridgeshire, England, as was his grandfather,
S. F. Stevens.
John
P. Stevens came to Richland township when a lad of thirteen years, and here he
has ever since resided, devoting his attention to farming. He and his family
continue to make their home on the farm, in the operation of which he engaged
for many years. Mr. Stevens is now living practically retired, having turned
over the cultivation of the land to his son.
On
the 26th of June, 1877, Mr. Stevens established a home by his marriage to Miss Mary
J. Willey, of Pleasant Valley, and they became the parents of three children,
one of whom, Guernard DeLos, passed away on the 24th of September, 1903, being
laid to rest in the cemetery at Glidden. The other two are Malcolm Erie and
Hazel Emily, both of whom are at home with their parents. Mrs. Stevens is also
of English extraction in the paternal line, her father, Edwin Willey, having
been born in the mother country, but her mother, Sarah McDonald, was born in
southern Illinois and her grandmother in Parish, Kentucky.
Mr.. Stevens has met with success in his farming and owns one of the good homesteads of Richland township, where he and his family are held in high esteem.
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