Bio of Stearns, R. E.  (b.) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Stearns, R. E. (page 974), city recorder and justice of the peace, was
elected to these offices in the spring of 1880, and is now serving his
second term in each. He is a native of Canada, removed early to the State
of New York with his father's family, and was in mercantile business there
prior to coming to this city in 1856. Here he took up the trade of
stonemason and followed it nearly twenty-five years, until his election to
the offices above cited. In September, 1850, he was married in Franklin
county, New York, to Miss M. M. Townsend, still living. They have two
children, Ernest E., born August 25, 1859, and Charles, born July 22,
1873. (Ernest Stearn's biography shows he was born August 26, 1860)
War of Rebellion (Civil War)