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Author: Hartford Republican Newspaper

HARTFORD REPUBLICAN
FEBRUARY 19, 1892

                                SEPTIMUS TAYLOR STEVENS


	The subject of this sketch was born near Cromwell, this county, 
Jan. 31, 1855.  His father,  Blackstone Stevens, was a highly respected 
citizen, in moderate circumstances, who died when our hero was quite young.  
His mother, Hannah Taylor Stevens, came of a good family, and when her husband 
died she had to struggle hard assisted by her two noble boys, of whom the 
oldest was Septimus, and of course on him fell the greater responsibility.  But 
his mother never looked to him in vain; he was always ready, always honest, 
always industrious.  The spring, summer and autumn brought the planting, 
tending and gathering of the crop, and winter his attendance on the country 
school.  He very early manifested more than ordinary ability as a student and 
soon developed a strong love for books, thus the years of youth were passed.
	When he arrived at the age of young manhood he found himself endowed 
with strong mind and muscle.  He determined to educate himself, and by his own 
hard labor, after helping to provide for his mother, he accumulated means 
sufficient to enable him to attend the Rockfield School, Warren county, in 
1875, and the Auburn High School, Warren county, in 1876-77.  Here he again 
distinguished himself as a student.  He paid much attention to the development 
of his splendid physique by taking part in gymnastics, in which he became quite 
proficient.  After having thoroughly prepared himself, Mr. Stevens began 
teaching in the established common schools where he soon gained an enviable 
reputation as an able and efficient teacher.
	Mr. Stevens sought and won the hand of Miss Laura Taylor, daughter of 
H. B. Taylor , Sr. of Beaver Dam.  Miss Taylor was a beautiful and accomplished 
young lady, and the happy union took place February 27, 1879.  To them have 
been born five children:  Claude A,. aged 12 years, Chester D., aged 10, 
E. Cecil, aged 8, Winona C, aged one year and eight months, and a child that 
died in infancy.  Mr. Stevens continued teaching in the fall and winter until 
1887, since which time he has devoted his whole attention to farming, in which, 
as in teaching, he has been very successful.  He has a good farm in a high 
state of cultivation, plenty of stock and farming implements and is, in short, 
one of the nicest farmers in the Southern part of the county.  
	Mr. Stevens is a Republican and a Baptist.  In August, 1890, he was 
elected Justice of the Peace for Cromwell Magisterial District, and as an 
officer is painstaking, accurate and conscientious.  His sterling qualities of 
head and heart, his great and unalterable honesty make him an example worthy of 
the imitation of the earnest, energetic boys of the county.



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