James Campbell Stevenson and Nancy J. Young

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Husband James Campbell Stevenson ¹

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           Born: 20 Sep 1838 - Plain Grove Twp, Mercer (later Lawrence) Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Stevenson (1809-1887) 1
         Mother: Eliza Ann Deniston (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: Abt 1865

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Wife Nancy J. Young ¹

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Children

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1 F Henrietta E. Stevenson ¹

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         Spouse: Prof. W. A. H. Hobbs (      -      ) 1

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2 F Laura M. Stevenson ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Campbell Stevenson

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Reared on the home farm until eighteen years of age and given only such advantages as then were afforded in the country schools, he became a successful teacher himself. When the Civil War was precipitated, however, he closed his school in April, 1861, and offered his services as a soldier, but was taken sick before he was mustered into the army. On August 28, 1861, he again enlisted, entering Company E, One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers, contracting for three years or during the war, re-enlisting December 31, 1863, and in the same company he served until his honorable discharge on July 24, 1865, at that time having the rank of second sergeant.
In 1863, during the Mississippi campaign, Mr. Stevenson suffered from sunstroke and on May 12, 1864, he was seriously wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, and in addition to these injuries he entirely lost the sense of hearing in one ear.
Shortly after his return from the army, Mr. Stevenson was married.
He was a member of Encampment No. 1, Union Veteran Legion, and a charter member of Post 100, Grand Army of the Republic, and Mrs. Stevenson was one of the organizers of Meade Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic.
About the time of his marriage, Mr. Stevenson purchased a small farm in Plain Grove Township, Lawrence County, and devoted his time to its cultivation during the summers and to teaching school during the winters. He, in the meantime, took an active interest in politics as a member of the Republican party, and in 1874 he was elected Register and Recorder of the county and moved to New Castle. He served in that office for three years, and in 1884 was elected City Comptroller, in which office he served for six years. In 1896 he was appointed Deputy Register and Recorder, and served continuously for twelve years.
Mr. Stevenson probably did more to honor and perpetuate the memory of the soldiers of the Civil War in this section than any other individual. For nearly forty years, while serving as secretary of the Society of the One Hundredth Regiment (Roundheads) he took great interest in acquiring information and statistics that might be used in a future history of that band of gallant men.
He was the prime mover in the Lawrence County Soldiers' Association and the Lawrence County Monument Association, and served as secretary of both. In 1877 he compiled a very complete roster of the soldiers enlisting from Lawrence County, which was published in the Lawrence County History.
He also furnished historical matter to the press, not only for local but papers of national circulation.
From 1888 to 1893 he published The Volunteer, a soldiers' monthly, devoted to perpetuating the memory of the soldiers of the War of the Rebellion, which found a welcome in many homes.
Mr. Stevenson was a lover of books and possessed a large library-probably more war books than could have been found in any other library in the county. He is also a student of other history, and was a firm believer that the Anglo-Saxon race is "Lost Israel," and that England the "Company of Nations" and America "The Great People" represent the tribes of Ephraim and Manassah, who are eventually to rule the whole earth.
Like all his ancestors, Mr. Stevenson and his family were Presbyterians, he being a member of the Central Presbyterian Church of New Castle.

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General Notes: Wife - Nancy J. Young

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from Allegheny Co, PA

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 612.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 613.