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 5 So STEVENS. STEVENS. Dr. Stevens has been twice married: first in Gilford, X. H., January i, 1852, to Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Zebedee and Lucy (Potter) Morrill, who died in 1873. April 16, 1874, he was married, in Boxford, Mass., to Lydia Helen, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Batchelder) Gould. He has no children. He is a member of Mutual Relief Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 83, of Haverhill, and has filled almost every office, both in the lodge and encampment branch of the order. For several years he was president of the Haverhill Odd Fellows' Hall Associa- tion. He became a member of Merrimac Masonic Lodge in 1855, and in that, too, has filled almost every office, from steward to master. He was a charter member of the Pentucket Chapter, Haverhill Council, and Haverhill Commandery ; he was first master of Haverhill Council, and an of- ficer in all of them almost continuously from their organization in 1878. For eight years he was recording officer of the four bodies and received the degrees of the A. & A. Rite to the 33d degree in Bos- tun in 1S64. He is president of the Boxford Natural History Society, and was for three years a member of the school committee in Hanipstead, X. H., also for the same length of time in Haverhill, and for eight years in Boxford, which is his present residence. For two years, 1S64 and '67, Dr. Stevens was a representative from Haverhill to the General Court, and was appointed coroner by Governor Claflin, which office he held till the same was abolished. For two years he was chairman of the Haver- hill Republican town committee. For a year he had charge of the " Haverhill Gazette," establishing the " Daily," when the ill health of his aged father obliged him to abandon further interest in the undertaking, and his own health at present prohibits him from taking such active parts in his profession as he is well adapted to fill. STEVENS, HOMER BEMIS, son of Washington and Ruth Simons (Bemis) Stevens, was born in Xorwich (now Hunt- ington), Hampshire county, September 9, i8 3 S- He was educated in the public schools, at Williston Seminary, where he fitted for college, 1852 and '53, and at Williams College, from which he was graduated with high honors in the class of 1857. Choosing the profession of law, he pur- sued his legal studies in Westfiekl, and began law practice in Boston, in 1S59. He subsequently removed to AVestfield, and from i860 to '85 was associated in practice with the Hon. E. B. Gillett, one of the leading lights of the profession in western Massachusetts. In 1886 he was appointed judge of the district court of western Hampden, which position he still holds. Mr. Stevens was married in Huntington, April 10, 1 86 1, to Mariette, daughter of Moses and Juvenelia (Curtis) Hannum. They have an adopted child : Bella Horton Stevens. STEVENS, James Trimble, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth A. Stevens, was born in Braintree, Norfolk county, June 20, 1835. His education was principally gained from the district schools of Brain- tree and the Hollis Institute, an academy of high standing at that time. He began life as a practical workman with the old firm of Randall & Co., tack manufacturers. JAMES T. STEVENS. He continued steadily at this employment for ten years, when the civil war turned aside for a time the current of his life. He went to the front as 1st lieutenant, company C, 4th regiment, Massachusetts militia. The company having served out its term, he returned to Braintree, and again left for the seat of war, captain of company I, 42d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers.