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John
Stevens
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biography
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John Stevens,
farmer and carpenter, post-office Sharpsville, Penn., son of John and
Hannah (Madox) Stevens, was born in 1824, in Pymatuning Township, Mercer
Co., Penn. The father of our subject was a native of Crawford County,
Penn., and about 1813 removed to Mercer County, and settled in
Pymatuning, on the line of Hickory Township, about two miles southeast
of Clarksville. He was a carpenter and farmer. His family consisted of
nine children: Mary A., Lewis M., Elizabeth, John, Jesse, William V.,
Hannah, Caroline and Angeline. Our subject was reared in Pymatuning
Township, learned the carpenter's trade, and was engaged in that
business for three years after serving his time. He then engaged in
farming and followed it for thirty years. In 1884 he purchased his
present place on the Sharpsville and Mercer road, in Hickory Township,
and is engaged in the carpenter business in connection with farming. He
was married in 1847 to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Berton Bust, of
Pymatuning Township, and by this marriage they have seven children:
Armelda J., wife of A. K. Mattocks, of Pymatuning Township; William H.,
James W., Mary, wife of John Blaney, of Hickory Township; John W.,
Maggie M., Nannie L. Mr. Stevens has been a member of the Clarksville
Methodist Church for forty years.
History
of Mercer Co. PA 1888 p.875
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