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G.
W. Stevenson
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biography
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G.W. STEVENSON,
farmer, post-office Grove City, is a son of Charles and Ann (Miller)
Stevenson. Richard Stevenson, the grandfather of our subject, was a
native of Ireland, immigrated to America some time previous to 1788 and
settled in Franklin County, Penn., where the father of G. W. was born,
and in 1800 they moved into this county and located in that part of Wolf
Creek Township which is now Liberty. His family consisted of two sons
and three daughters, all of whom are dead. The father of subject was
born in 1790, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He afterward moved
to this township and settled on a tract of land on which our subject now
lives. He died there in 1851 and his wife in 1882. Five of their
children still live, and are William J., of New Castle, Lawrence County;
Charles M., of North Liberty; Nancy B., Mrs. William Winchester, Grand
Rapids, Mich.; Mary M., Mrs. Joseph Gregg, of this township, and our
subject, who was born in Liberty Township in 1829, and moved into this
township with his parents, where he learned the carpenter’s trade,
which he followed for several years. In 1880 he was married to Lucina,
daughter of William George, of Liberty Township. She died in 1885,
leaving no children. The present wife of subject was Maggie, a daughter
of John Mechlin, of Butler County. Mr. Stevenson has held the office of
school director, and he and wife are members of the Centre Presbyterian
Church of this township.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1037
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