Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Stevens, John Cyprian January 9, 1876 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 853 - 854
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     JOHN CYPRIAN STEVENS is senior member of the firm of Stevens & Koon, 
consulting engineers of Portland. with offices in the Spalding building. He 
was born at Moline, Kansas, January 9, 1876, his parents being Charles F. and 
Esther M. (Kilgore) Stevens, the former born at Paris, Maine, in 1841, and the 
latter in Illinois in 1844. He was a young man of twenty-nine years when in 
1905 the degree of B. S. C. E. was conferred upon him by the University of 
Nebraska, from which institution he also received the degree of C. E. in 1928. 
Renown has come to him as the inventor of the hydrometric instruments known as 
Stevens' Continuous Water Stage Recorders, used to automatically record the 
stages of water in lakes, rivers, mountain streams, reservoirs, irrigating 
ditches, canals, sewers, mill-races and in drainage work. These have been 
manufactured for the past sixteen years by Leupold-Volpel Company, makers of 
scientific instruments in Portland. Mr. Stevens was formerly district engineer 
of the United States Geological Survey and is now well known as a consulting 
engineer, with offices in Portland. His military record covers service in the 
Spanish-American war in the Philippines during 1898 and 1899 as a member of 
the Fifty-first Iowa Volunteer Infantry.

     On the 15th of June, 1905, at Lincoln, Nebraska, Mr. Stevens was married 
to Nancy Camming and they are the parents of two daughters and a son, namely: 
Jane C., twenty-two years of age, who became the wife of R. E. Cowles in 1927; 
Martha E., who is twenty years of age; and Robert John, a youth of sixteen.

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