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 STEVENS. STEVENS. 579 is a member of the Northampton Grand Army post, and a member of the " old " Congregational church — a cautious, en- terprising man, thoroughly interested in reforms, and active in all questions of pub- lic improvement. On the 20th of January, 1878, at Leeds, ■Mr. Stevens married Annetta M., daughter of William F. and Maria E. (Jackson) Quigley. Their children are : Grace Mil- dred and Mabel Annetta Stevens. STEVENS, Charles Godfrey, son of Godfrey and Hannah (Pool) Stevens, was born in Claremont, Sullivan county, N. H., September 16, 1821. His early education was obtained in the common schools and the high school of Claremont, supplemented by attendance at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. Later, he was a student of Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Conn., studying also at Dartmouth College ; he then spent a short time at the law school, Harvard University. He began the practice of law at Clare- mont, N. H. The year 1845 found him practicing law in Boston, but in 1S46 he removed to Clinton, where he has since remained in the practice of his profession. Mr. Stevens was married in Bellows Falls, Vt., September 29, 1846, to Laura A., daughter of Eli and Hepzibcth Floyd Russell. Of this union were three chil- dren : Edward G., Charles R. (deceased), and Ellen K. Stevens. Mr. Stevens was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention in 1853, and state senator in 1862 and '63. He was for many years senior warden in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Clinton; a director in sev- eral insurance companies ; secretary and solicitor of the Clinton Savings Bank (since 1851); was judge of 2d district court of eastern Worcester from its establishment until his resignation in 18S0, and a member of the school board of Lancaster and Clin- ton for many years. He is president of the First National Bank of Clinton. He took an active part in the division 'it Lancaster, as chairman of the residents of Clinton seeking a division, and has filled the office of moderator at the annual town meetings for nearly every year since the incorporation of the town in 1850. He organized the public schools of Clinton, preparing rules and regulations for graded schools. He was largely instrumental in the estab- lishment of a Mechanics' Institute; was its first librarian, and aided in transferring its property to the Bigelow Library Associa- tion, and from the association to the town — its five thousand volumes forming the nucleus for a free public library, now con- taining nearly fifteen thousand volumes. STEVENS, FRANCIS H., son of Moses and Maria (Stearns) Stevens, was born in Boxborough, Middlesex county, June 11, 1839, and received his early education in the common schools of his native town. He began active life in farming and the milk business, and subsequently was senior partner in the firm of F. H. Stevens & Son, excursionists, from which he retired in 1888 to carry on the farm, and engage in the insurance business and real estate. During the war he served in the 26th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, from 1861 to '65, and was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Ames in 1887. He is commander of the Isaac Davis Post, No. 138, G. A. R., has been chairman of the board of selectmen for the last live years, and town treasurer for the last four years, besides holding various other town offices. On the 13th of April, 1864, Mr. Stevens was married, at Harvard, to Frances A., daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Taylor) Mead. Their only child is Eugene C. Stevens. His present residence is at Stow. STEVENS, FRANCIS JEWETT, son of John Sherburne and Lucy (Jewett) Stev- ens, was born on the 20th of June, 1S24, at Gilford, Belknap county, N. H. His early education was accomplished at home. When nine years old he was sent to a private school taught by the late Dudley Leavitt, the originator of " Leav- itt's Almanac ; " then he attended a dis- trict school, and afterward the Pembroke and Gilford academies, until his majority. When twenty-one years old he went to Schenectady, N. Y., and was for several months clerk in a book store. He then entered the office of the late Dr. John Lacy, where he learned the art of dentis- try, and began the study of medicine, which he completed in the office of the late Dr. G. W. Garland, at Meredith Bridge, N. H. (now Laconia). He at- tended lectures and graduated at the Al- bany Medical College in the class of 185 1, and began the practice of medicine in Hampstead, N. H., where he remained for four years, removing to Haverhill, Mass., in 1855, where, until 1878, he combined the professions of medicine and dentistry in active practice, since which time he has added the care of a farm to his profession.