Lorenzo STEVENS
- BIRTH: 12 April 1814, Winthrop, Kennebec Co., ME, USA
- DEATH: 8 January 1888, Montfort, Grant Co., WI, USA
Father: Thomas STEVENS
Mother: Anna FOSTER
Family 1: Eliza Anne SYLVESTER
- MARRIAGE: 12 April 1842
- CHILDREN:
- Gustavus A. STEVENS
- Elvira STEVENS
- Albina STEVENS
- Thomas STEVENS
- Henry Leigh STEVENS
- Ernestine STEVENS
- Lucy H. STEVENS
- Clara Augusta STEVENS
- Gustavus STEVENS
- Foster Whitney STEVENS
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Notes
Updated September 17, 2011. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) 1850 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: District 5, Page 12; September 19, 1850.
Lorenzo STEVENS (listed as "Stephens") is head of household, married to Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS. He is 36 years old, a farmer, born in Maine. Children in the household include Gustavus, Elvira, Albina and Thomas W. Stephens.
(2) 1860 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 70; July 6, 1860.
Lorenzo STEVENS is head of household, married to Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS. He is 46 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $590, and was born in Maine. Children in the household are Gustavus, Elvira, Albina,Tho P., Henry Leigh, Ernestine and Lucy H. STEVENS. The households of Caleb SYLVESER -- listed as "Charles" (Lorenzo's father-in-law), Caleb Baker (brother-in-law by marriage), and Eben W. SYLVESTER (brother-in-law) are all found on the same page of the Census record.
(3) 1870 United States Census Wisconsin, Iowa Co., the Town of Mifflin, Mifflin Post Office: Page 33; August 12, 1870.
Lorenzo STEVENS (listed as "Stephens") is head of household, married to Eliza [SYLVESTER] STEVENS. He is 56 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $7,400 and personal estate valued at $6,500, and was born in Maine. He is eligible to vote. Children in the household are Payne L., Henry S., Ernestine, Lucy, Clara, Gustavus and Foster. The households of John B. SYLVESTER (Lorenzo's uncle by marriage), Eben SYLVESTER (brother-in-law) and Albert SAMPSON (cousin by marriage) are all found on the same page of the Census record.
(4) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Eden, Iowa Co., WI. Family History Library Film 1255429, NA Film Number T9-1429, Page 202B.
Lorenzo STEVENS is 66 years old and born in Maine, as are his parents. He is head of household, a farmer, and married to Eliza (SYLVESTER) STEVENS. The children listed in the household are: Lucy, Carrie, Gustavus and Foster.
(5) Schafer, Joseph,. The Wisconsin Lead Region. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1932 via Ancestry.com
Lorenzo STEVENS is listed as an early pioneer farmer in the Wisconsin lead region, born in Maine, along with Caleb SYLVESTER, Abel W. SYLVESTER, and John B. SYLVESTER.
"The distinction of this group of farms proves that the prairie was coming into its own as a choice farming district. And it is testimony to the holding power of lands like these that forty years later the 40 farmers of 1860 were represented by at least half that number of their descendants, occupying the identical lands."
(6) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p. 2.
(7) U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 via Ancestry.com
- Name: Lorenzo STEVENS
- SAR Membership: 84496
- Birth Date: 12 Apr 1814
- Death Date: 9 Jan 1888
- Death Place: Montfort, Wisconsin
- Father: Thomas STEVENS
- Mother: Anna FOSTER
- Spouse: Eliza Ann SYLVESTER
- Children: Elvira Eliza STEVENS
(8) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 481880 (issued 1961) and record 516166 (issued 1966).