Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Stevens, E B 1850 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

E. B. Stevens, farmer, P. O. Dwight, moved to Goodfarm Township April 22, 
1850, having been there and purchased land the year previous. The place which 
Mr. Stevens had bought had a log cabin on it, 12x16 feet, into which seven 
people moved. Mr. John Henry and family had moved there at the same time. Mr. 
Stevens had bought a Mexican land warrant, for which he paid $120, which was 
at the rate of $1 per acre, as he received 120 acres. He also bought forty 
acres of a settler who had entered it. Mr. Stevens came to this county from 
Kalamazoo County, Mich., and his was the ninth family to settle in this 
township. The first school in the township was in session when he moved in. It 
was in a log house, with puncheon floors, etc., and was situated on Mazon 
Creek. The first crop of wheat and oats which Mr. Stevens raised could not be 
threshed until a machine came from Wilmington, a distance of eighteen miles, 
and what bread they had in the meantime was made from grated corn. His farm 
now consists of 270 acres. He is the son of Levi Stevens, a native of Vermont, 
who moved from Vermont to New York, afterward to Pennsylvania, and finally to 
Michigan, where he died. Mr. E. B. Stevens, our subject, is a native of 
Vermont, and was married, in February, 1850, to Miss Betsy A. Cullen, a native 
of Canada, but whose parents were from the old country--her father from 
Ireland and her mother from London, England. Mrs. Stevens died December 26, 
1866. Her mother, Mrs. Cullen, lived to be ninety-one years old. Mr. Stevens 
has three children by his first wife, living--Charlie, Darwin and Eddie. Mr. 
Stevens married the second time, to Mrs. Fannie (Lewis) Trowe, in the fall of 
1867. They have one little girl living, named Fannie Luella. Mr. and Mrs. 
Stevens are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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