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Title: The Stevens genealogy, embracing branches of the family descended from Puritan ancestry, New England families not traceable to Puritan ancestry, and miscellaneous branches wherever found, together with an extended account of the line of descent from 1650 to the present time of the author
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Barney, Elvira (Stevens), Mrs., 1832-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Stevens family
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Skelton publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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em and I thanked Himand them, also. Thus she was able to earn means to pay her shipfare of $80.00 for which she had given her note. She remained threeyears in Upper California. ()ne summer she raised three thousandchickens. In the winter of 1856, she taught in a district school in SanFernardino, California. In the spring of 1857, she returned to Salt Lake Cit\-. riding sevenhundred miles on horseback. When she arrived at her destination, sheresumed school teaching in i85(;. During that year she assisted in theamputation of the arm of a dear friend, Irene Pomeroy. .In 1863 sh3traveled east to visit her kindred and rode sixteen days in an overlandstage. In 1864 she went to Wheaton College, 111. and returned homeafter two year^ absence. Irom 1855 to 1864 she had taught school inten different places, generally four terms a year; had, during these years,taken four homeless children into her care until other ways opened forthem, in 1873, she ado))te(l a bain l)o\, whom she schooled and fc)r
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m lUOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LINE OF DK. EL\IRA STEVENS T.ARNEV. 269 whom she provided, for eleven years. In this year she commencedwriting- u)) her genalog-jcal record issuing- the fallowing. CIRCULAR LETTER. To aitx person zcho iiihc-ifs the family munc of STEIEXS: 1. The undersigned has for a long time been endeavoring to col-lect all the information attainable of the Stevens Family, primarily withtite design of completing the history of her own branch of the family.In doing this, she has become possessed of a great mass of facts con-cerning the history and genealogy of the family in general, which are ofindirect personal interest, and which much more nearly concern othersof the name than herself. Hence, she will be able to give informationlo others concerning their own lines, when the work becomes completed. 2. Months and years have already been spent in the search, and incopying from difiterent genealogical works, wdiere those of the name oiStevens have married those of other names; and

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