BIO: Frank W. Stevens; New York State
surname: Stevens

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Frank W. Stevens of Jamestown, Chairman of the Public Service Commission
of the Second District, was born in Leon, Cattaraugus county, in 1847, and
when appointed a Public Service Commissioner was one of the leading lawyers of
Western New York. He was educated in common schools and in the Randolph
Academy. He then studied law in the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the
practice of law in 1872. In 1876 he became Assistant District Attorney of
Cattaraugus county and held the position until 1883. He was a member of the
Board of Education of Jamestown from 1891 to 1897, and when appointed Public
Service Commissioner was again a member of the Board. He also, at the time of
his appointment as a Public Service Commissioner was one of the members of the
Board of Water Commissioners of Jamestown. He went before a committee of the
State Bar Association and prosecuted charges against Justice Warren B. Hooker
of the Supreme Court, and later appeared before the Legislature in relation to
the same charges.