Kenton County, KY - Bios:  Stephens, H. P.
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H. P. STEPHENS 3129, Kenton Co. 

Surname: Stephens, Clinton, Wilson, Spillman, Mills, Culbertson, Jones, Gardner, Shaw

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887, Kenton Co.

H. P. STEPHENS, county school superintendent of Kenton County, and an attorney of Independence, 
was born December 20, 1844, in Kenton County. His father, Joseph Stephens, was born in Fairfax 
County, Va., in 1790. He was a farmer, and was brought to Bourbon County, Ky., by his father 
in 1795. He was married in 1815 to Miss Mary, a daughter of John and Mary (Clinton) Wilson, 
the former a native of England, the latter of Virginia. John Wilson served in Col. William 
Washington's regiment in the seven years of the American Revolution. To this marriage were born
eleven children: John W., Minerva (Spillman), Mason T., J. H., Statira (Mills), Caroline 
(Culbertson), Alfred, B. F., Harriet (Jones), Thomas B. and H. P. Joseph Stephens was a man in 
moderate circumstances, serving in the war of 1812, and dying in February, 1861, a member of the 
Baptist Church. He had removed from Bourbon County to Kenton County in 1800, where he died. 
William Stephens, grandfather of H. P. Stephens, was a native Virginian, emigrating from Virginia 
to Bourbon County, in 1795. He had married Miss Elizabeth Gardener in Virginia, and they were 
the parents of eleven children, ten of whom were sons. He served throughout the Revolution as a 
private, and died in Kenton County. The Stephens family is of English origin, with probably a 
slight tinge of German. H. P. Stephens attended the schools of Kenton County and a select school 
of Covington. He began the study of law in 1864, under Judge Shaw, and was admitted to the bar, 
after having attended the law school at Albany, N. Y., in 1867. He taught during eight years in 
the schools of Kenton County, but entered regularly in 1875 into law, and has continued since. 
He was a deputy clerk in the county clerk's office about eight months before arriving at his 
majority. In 1886 he was elected superintendent of the county schools of Kenton County, and is a 
Republican in politics.