Silas Stevenson, M.D. and Sarah E. Robison

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Husband Silas Stevenson, M.D. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 18 Feb 1845 - Mahoning Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Father: Silas Stevenson (1808-1894) 2 4 5
         Mother: Sarah Cracraft (Abt 1809-1854) 2 5 6

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       Marriage: 7 Jun 1870 7

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Wife Sarah E. Robison ⁷

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            AKA: Sarah E. Robinson 3 8
           Born:  - near Edenburg, Lawrence Co, PA
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         Father: Andrew Robison (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Mary Wallace (1809-      ) 3 9 10

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Children

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1 F Myrtle Stewart ⁸

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           Born: 
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         Status: Foster Child

         Spouse: Robert A. White (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Silas Stevenson, M.D.

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He spent a large part of his boyhood attending school. On his nineteenth birthday he was sworn into the United States service as a member of Company K, One Hundredth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the close of the Civil War, seeing a large amount of danger and hardship. He took part in the following battles which marked 1864 as a memorable year in that great struggle: the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North Ann River, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Fort Steadman. On July 16, 1864, he was wounded near Petersburg by a sharpshooter, and on March 25, 1865, at Fort Steadman, he was struck on the head by a piece of exploding shell. The first injury confined him to the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, for some time and on May 15, 1865, he was finally discharged from the Satterlee Hospital, in the same city.
Following his recovery, in the autumn of 1865, he entered the Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, where he was graduated March 4, 1868. On April 15 following, he located at New Bedford, where he engaged in continuous practice until 1891, and during the period covered between 1872 and 1884, he served as postmaster of that place. In 1891 he removed to Ellwood City.
In 1884 he was first elected a member of the State Legislature, and in 1886 was re-elected, serving as representative from Lawrence County. In 1889 he was made a member of the Pension Board at New Castle and served as a member of this body until at least 1908, with the exception of the last four years of President Cleveland's administration. Dr. Stevenson was president of the first School Board and of the first council of Ellwood, and for five terms or more was a member of the Ellwood Borough council. He was always active in all matters concerning the welfare of the public, wherever his home was, and could justly be considered one of the most representative citizens of Lawrence County.

On his arrival in Ellwood City in October, 1891, he invested his money in local real estate, and exhibited a spirit of active interest in city affairs. He served as school director, president of the school board, and president of the council, having been one of the first councilmen. In 1893-94 he built a very handsome brick block, 26x72 feet in dimensions on the ground, and three stories high; the first floor was occupied by Chamber & Co. as a grocery store; the second floor was used for offices and for tenements; and the entire third floor was divided off into apartments for tenement purposes. He also had constructed after his own elaborate plans and specifications an elegant residence on the corner of Seventh Street and Park Avenue, and he also put up the edifice on Lawrence Avenue, where he had his physician's office, a structure 18x32 feet, two stories high, and containing one store and two tenements. The doctor also owned some desirable building lots about the town.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 170.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 822.

3 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 107.

4 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 170, 347.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1003.

6 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 171.

7 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 823.

8 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 172.

9 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 113.

10 John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Wallace Family (New York: Self-published, 1902), Pg 11.