G.W.
STEVENSON, farmer, post-office Grove City, is a son of Charles and Ann
(Miller) Stevenson. Richard Stevenson, the grandfather of our subject,
was a native of Ireland, immigrated to America some time previous to
1788 and settled in Franklin County, Penn., where the father of G. W.
was born, and in 1800 they moved into this county and located in that
part of Wolf Creek Township which is now Liberty. His family consisted
of two sons and three daughters, all of whom are dead. The father of
subject was born in 1790, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He
afterward moved to this township and settled on a tract of land on
which our subject now lives. He died there in 1851 and his wife in
1882. Five of their children still live, and are William J., of New
Castle, Lawrence County; Charles M., of North Liberty; Nancy B., Mrs.
William Winchester, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Mary M., Mrs. Joseph Gregg, of
this township, and our subject, who was born in Liberty Township in
1829, and moved into this township with his parents, where he learned
the carpenter’s trade, which he followed for several years. In 1880 he
was married to Lucina, daughter of William George, of Liberty Township.
She died in 1885, leaving no children. The present wife of subject was
Maggie, a daughter of John Mechlin, of Butler County. Mr. Stevenson has
held the office of school director, and he and wife are members of the
Centre Presbyterian Church of this township.
History of Mercer County, 1888, page 1037
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