John Stephens Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 922-923

JOHN STEPHENS, farmer; was born in the Parish of Peyrdinzabuloe, Cornwall, 
England. Nov. 11, 1797. He came to Platteville, Wis., in 1841, and took up a 
farm near town, now within the city limits. His twin brother, Michael, came over 
the next year with all the other brothers but one, and his brothers-in-law and 
their families, fifty-two persons in all, and all settled in the vicinity of 
Platteville. AL the Stephens brothers were married in the same parish church in 
England, and now, all the sisters and sisters-in-law are buried side-by-side in 
the cemetery at Platteville. John Stephens was married Jan. 22. 1826, to Miss 
Catharine Repper; she died at Platteville; they have had seven children - Ann, 
now Mrs. William Laughton; Catherine, who died in 1864; Elizabeth, now Mrs. H. 
H. Jacobs; Thomas, living in Placerville, Cal.; Jane, now Mrs. Walsh, also in 
California; John R., living at Yankton, Dak.; Mary L., now Mrs. Hockett.  Mr. 
Stephens had a stroke of paralysis in 1879, since which, he has not been able to 
attend actively to business, and his daughter, Mrs. Jacobs, has moved back to 
the old homestead, where hi lives with her.  Mr. Stephens has been a member of 
the Town Board of Platteville several terms, and has held other town offices.