BIO: A. P. STEPHENS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 520.
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  A. P. STEPHENS, a representative business man of Houtzdale, Pa., well know in 
the retail lumber trade, has been a resident of this borough since 1886.  He was 
born June 6, 1850, at Port Matilda, in Worth Township, Center County, Pa., and 
is a son of Samuel and Susan (Gill) Stephens.
  Samuel Stephens was a son of John Stephens, who moved from Center County to 
Ohio previously to his death.  Samuel Stephens mainly followed lumbering and 
spent his entire life in the neighborhood of Port Matilda.  He married Susan 
Gill, a daughter of John and Mary (Rowles) Gill, who at one time lived in 
Clearfield County.  She also died at Port Matilda.  They had a family of six 
children, namely:  Annie, who is the wife of H. H. Osman, of Port Matilda; 
Abednego Pitman; John, who lives at Port Matilda; Marietta, who is the wife of 
Bion Williams, of Curtain, Center County; Minnie, who is the wife of Alvin 
Price, of Port Matilda; and David R., who resides at Altoona.
  A. P. Stephens attended school irregularly in his boyhood on account of the 
long distance he had to walk for his instruction, and was little more than a boy 
when he started to work in the woods.  He has been concerned in lumbering ever 
since.  For eighteen years he operated a portable saw mill in eighteen different 
places, partly in Clearfield, Center and Cambria Counties, but for the past six 
years he has confined himself to retailing lumber at Houtzdale.  Recently he has 
associated his son-in-law, John Mills, with him as a partner, and the firm style 
at present is A. P. Stephens & Co.
  Mr. Stephens was married first in 1871, to Miss Sarah Woodring, a daughter of 
Peter Woodring, of Center County, and they had one daughter, Nora M., who is the 
wife of John Mills.  Mrs. Stephens died in 1878, and her burial was at Port 
Matilda.  Mr. Stephens was married second to Miss Lizzie Melcher, of West 
Township, Center County, who died in 1904, and was interred in the Mt. Pleasant 
Cemetery.  Mr. Stephens attends the Presbyterian church.  He is a Republican in 
politics but is inclined to be independent.  He is identified with the Masonic 
lodge at Osceola Mills.