Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Stevens, Mark W. 1849 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HON. MARK W. STEVENS is the Secretary of the Board of World's Fair Managers for
Michigan, to which position he was appointed July 29, 1891, by Gov. Winans. This
work occupies much of his time, as he has to be present at every meeting of the
Board, and it involves much extra work. He was born in Argentine Township,
Genesee County, April 1, 1849, and is a son of Bimsley and Mary J. (Faulkner)
Stevens. The father was one of the early settlers of this county, who was born
in 1823, came to the State in 1837, and died in 1886. He came on foot and alone
from Detroit to this part of the State, and put up one night near Brighton,
Livingston County, at the farm of Gov. Bingham, for whom he worked for two
years. From there he went to Shiawassee County, where he married Miss Faulkner,
and early in his married life came to this county. As he was a miller by
occupation, he found work in the Byron Mill, then owned by Dennis & Kelsey.

  The father of our subject bought a farm in Argentine Township, and remained a
farmer there until his death in January, 1886. He left a family of a wife, our
subject, and one daughter. Frances, now the wife of Timothy Wilkinson. For ten
years the father was Town Clerk, and was Justice of the Peace at the time of his
death. He was in early life a member of the Christian Church, but as that body
disorganized in his neighborhood, he attended and supported neighboring churches.

  Mark W. Stevens studied at the High Schools of Byron and Fenton, and began
teaching at the age of twenty, and finally became the principal for two years of
the Linden schools, after which he acted as traveling salesman for a commercial
house at Detroit, and was afterward five years on the road, selling wagons and
carriages for Joseph Beach, of Linden, his father-in-law. He had been reading
law more or less for several years, and was admitted to the bar in Flint in
1881. In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland, United States Indian
Agent for Michigan, with headquarters at Flint, and held the office until June,
30, 1889. During that time he had charge of all the Indians in Michigan with
whom the Government had treaty relations, about eight thousand in number. At the
same time he continued his law practice at Flint, and since he gave up that
office, he has devoted his whole attention to law.

  Mr. Stevens is often seen as a delegate at State Democratic conventions, and
is an ardent supporter of the principles of that party, and is one of the
influental Democrats of Michigan. During different campaigns he has stumped the
State for the success of his party, and is one of the most effective speakers
therein. He married Miss Mary L. Beach, of Linden, this county, on the 31st of
August, 1874, and they have one son, Fred, who is now in the schools of Flint.
Mrs. Stevens was born in Leslie, Ingham County, and is a daughter of Joseph
Beach, a well-known manufacturer of Linden.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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