Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Stephenson, Cornelius 1829 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  CORNELIUS STEPHENSON, farmer and stock dealer, P. O. Robinson, was born
November 20, 1829, in Butler County, Ohio. He was raised in that county. He was
married, in that county, July 8, 1855, to Miss Mary Hulse, daughter of Joseph
Hulse. In 1857, he removed to Crawford County, Ill., and purchased a farm of 160
acres in Section 4, Robinson Township. He improved it and built buildings, and
has an excellent orchard; to this he has added 312, mostly under cultivation.
Raises an immense amount of wheat, oats and corn-wheat principally; keeps a
large amount of stock. He has, for the last three years, produced an average of
800 bushels. He has a family of four children, three sons and one daughter, as
follows: Mrs. Emma Wakefield, wife of Andrew Wakefield; Joseph C.; Benjamin F.;
Cornelius H. Subject is a Democrat. His (subject's) father, Benjamin Stephenson,
was born in New Jersey. Removed with his parents, at the age of four years, to
Ohio-Butler County -where he remained till his death, which occurred in 1873
(June) aged about sixty-seven years. He followed the profession of farming, and
became quite wealthy. He owned, at one time, about four hundred acres of land.
He was married, in Butler County, to Miss Theodosia Lowe, by whom he had twelve
children, of whom nine survive him. He was also a Democrat.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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