Percival King Stevenson and Grace King

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Husband Percival King Stevenson ¹

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           Born: 27 Sep 1870 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: John M. Stevenson (      -1870) 1
         Mother: Kate Leslie (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 30 Nov 1907 1

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   Other Spouse: Cora Loretta Brandon (      -      ) 1 - 19 Nov 1892 1

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Wife Grace King ¹

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         Father: George King (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Lottie Truesdale (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Percival King Stevenson

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He pursued his initial studies in the schools of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and was subsequently a student at Cornell University. Having a thirst for commercial pursuits, he went west to seek opportunity. In Chicago he was employed five years as a mail clerk, after which he spent a like period as general salesman for Marshall Field & Company. With adventurous spirit, he proceeded farther west, and engaged extensively in mining operations in Nevada, Idaho and Washington, with considerable success. He was now able further to gratify his wanderlust, and he traveled extensively through Australia and the Orient. Returning to his native land, he engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia until the entrance of the United States in the operations of the first World War. Joining the service, he became a contractor at the head of Sanitation, housing and night police at Camp Humphries, Virginia. In time he was transferred to the Camp Supply Base at Norfolk, Virginia, where he remained until the Armistice. He then engaged in road construction in western Pennsylvania some four years. In 1922 he was offered a position in New Castle, Pennsylvania, as Executive Commissioner of the Board of Trade, which he accepted. Naturally, he was a member of the Board of Trade, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Organization of Commercial Secretaries and the National Organization of Commercial Secretaries, the New Castle High School Athletic Association, and Rotary and Field clubs. He was fraternally associated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Stevenson was eligible to the Sons of the American Revolution through the Rev. William Foster (his father's grandmother's father). He was also entitled to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati through his ancestor General Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island, and to the Loyal Legion through his father's services as an officer in the Civil War.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 392.