BIOGRAPHIES:  Martin W. Stephenson, Maple Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Martin W. Stephenson, prominent agriculturist and owner of the Apiary Home
Farm, Section 30, west, Maple Grove Township, was born in Chicago, Ill., March
26, 1877, the son of Christian E. and Lena (Neilson) Stephenson. He came to
this county with his parents in 1880, and here attended the district schools.
In 1912 he formed a partnership with his brother, Charles, and bought a 
quarter section in Prairie Farm Township. In 1902 he purchased his present
place, consisting of 80 acres in Section 30, Maple Grove Township, on which he
himself erected the buildings. In 1918 he purchased 80 acres in Section 25,
Arland Township, making in all 160 acres, of which 60 are under cultivation,
the rest being in timber and pasture and here carries on general farming and
dairying. Since early youth Mr. Stephenson has been interested in bees and for
many years he kept from fifty to sixty colonies, thus giving his farm its
present name. He is a man of unusually wide reading and has kept well abreast
of the times especially along his own line of endeavor. He assisted in
organizing the Hillsdale Western Co-operative Telephone Company and was its
president until 1917. He has also been active in the Four Town cheese factory
of which he is now vice president. In addition to his other duties, Mr.
Stephenson is manager of the farm owned by his brother Charles, who now lives
in Two Harbors, Minn. Mr. Stephenson was married Nov. 23, 1914, to Mary L.
Grub, daughter of Phillip and Dorothy (Klipp) Grub, natives of Pennsylvania,
who are now farming in Sauk County, Wis. In the Grub family there are four
children: William, Mary L., Ida and Fredrick (deceased). Mr. and Mrs.
Stephenson have four children: Dorothy C., Born Dec. 25, 1915; Elizabeth H.,
born June 22, 1917; Marjorie I., born June 13, 1919, and Martin W. Jr., born
April 29, 1921.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 575-576.