Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Stephens, Francis E. 1880 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FRANCIS E. STEPHENS, D. D. S.

    Dr. Francis Euceives Stephens, who is engaged in the practice of dentistry
in Indiana Harbor, was born in Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, on the 29th
of June, 1880, and is a representative of an old English family that for several
generations resided in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. His father, his
grandfather and his great-grandfather all bore the name of John Stephens. The
last named was connected with the tin industry in Lydney, his native town, and
there died at the age of ninety-two years, while his wife, Mrs. Hannah Stephens,
departed this life at the age of seventy-four years. Their family of three sons
and four daughters included John Stephens, 2d, who spent his entire life in
Lydney, where he worked as a hammersmith. He married Charlotte Hawkens of that
town, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hawkens, who were also natives of Lydney
and died at the ages of eighty-nine and forty-two years, respectively. Mr.
Hawkens was a shipping contractor who loaded and unloaded vessels in the canal
and at the dock, and in his family were two children, a son and daughter, the
latter Mrs. Stephens. John Stephens, 2d, died in 1899, and his wife in March,
1902. Their only son, John Stephens, 3d, is the father of Dr. Stephens. He was
born in Lydney, December 2, 1844, was reared and educated there and throughout
his entire life has been connected with the iron industry. Coming to this
country, he was employed in various places, and winning promotions from time to
time. He is now superintendent of the Inland Steel Company of Indiana Harbor,
employing almost a thousand men. A detailed account of his life and work is
given on another page of this volume.

    Dr. Stephens, one of his ten children, acquired his early education in the
public schools of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and later attended the Muncie high
school. When he had completed his more specifically literary education he
entered upon preparation for a professional career as a student in the Indiana
Dental College, of Indianapolis, and was graduated with the class of 1903. Thus
well equipped for his chosen calling he came to Indiana Harbor, opened his
office, and has in the months which have since intervened secured a good
patronage, which is constantly increasing.

    Dr. Stephens was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church and
is one of the members at Indiana Harbor. He belongs to the Delta Sigma Delta, a
dental fraternity, and he exercises his right of franchise in support of the men
and measures of the Republican party.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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