Bracken-Scott County KyArchives Biographies.....Stevenson, Milton August 17 1814 - unknown
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Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin
JUDGE MILTON STEVENSON, Attorney at Law; Georgetown; is the son of Reuben 
Stevenson, a native of Maryland, who was born in 1787, and died at Georgetown, 
Ky., in 1823; he was a saddler by trade; during the war of 1812 he served in
Matson's Company of Col. Johnson's regiment. The subject of this sketch was
born in Germantown, Bracken Co., Ky., Aug 17, 1814, and when but three
months old came with his parents to Georgetown, Scott Co., Ky., where he
has since resided; he was educated in the Rittenhouse Academy, which
afterward became the preparatory department of Georgetown College. At
thirteen years of age he left school and learned the saddling trade with
his uncle, Job Stevenson, who carried on an extensive business, employing
over twenty workmen. At his uncle's old stand he carried on business,
working twelve hands. At this occupation he continued from 1834 to 1853,
after which he engaged in the dry goods business for about five years; he
was elected Police Judge of Georgetown in 1851, serving four years during
which period he studied law, and in 1858, was admitted to the bar at
Georgetown, where he has since continued to practice; before the war he was
Assessor of the county, and afterward was Assistant Revenue Assessor; he
was a Henry Clay Whig, and was a member of the Emancipation Party, which
held a convention at Frankfort, in 1848, and he canvassed the county as
candidate for the Legislature on that issue in 1848 to 1849. When the war
came on he was a Union man, and is now a consistent Republican; during the
war he was School Commissioner of Scott County, and acted as County
Attorney from 1661 to 1865; he earned for himself his possessions, and has
ever been an energetic, earnest worker in whatever occupation he has
engaged in. He married Miss Griffith, Scott County, in 1849, and his family
embraces three sons and one daughter. 



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