William M. Stephenson and Hannah B. Foster

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Husband William M. Stephenson ¹

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           Born: 1808 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1861 - ? Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Stephenson (Abt 1772-      ) 2
         Mother: Jane Mortimer (      -      ) 2

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• Note: This may be the same person as : William Mortimer Stevenson, LL.B..

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Wife Hannah B. Foster ¹

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         Father: Samuel Blair Foster (1774-1831) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Donnell (1785-1829) 4 5 6

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Children

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1 M S. B. Stephenson ³

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2 M John M. Stephenson ³

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General Notes: Husband - William M. Stephenson

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He received a good classical education from a well-known and successful educator, Rev. John Gamble. He first studied medicine, then theology, but finally entered the law office of John J. Pearson. After having served a term as register and recorder, and having been admitted to the bar in 1836, he married a daughter of one of the prominent attorneys of the county. His natural talents, combined with his studious habits and purity of life, placed him among the leaders of the bar in Mercer and the adjoining counties, where he continued to practice until his death. In politics he was an outspoken abolitionist, and his house was one of the stations on the "Underground Railroad." He was in 1857 the originator of the Mercer County Dispatch, to represent the antislavery element of the new Republican party, he furnishing the money to four young men (one of them his son, S. B. Stephenson), and William F. Clark, Sr., the latter being the political editor. The Union school building of Mercer is a monument to his labors, being built by him in the face of the most determined opposition, and even at the end of a lawsuit. [HMC 1888, 261]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 252, 261.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 261.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 262.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 326.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 392.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 252.

7 —, Proceedings of the Celebration of the First Centennial of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: The Venango County Bar Association, 1905), Pg 59.