Edwin Stevens

STEVENS

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 20:05:13

Edwin Stevens

Edwin Stevens settled in the county in the spring of 1857. He located on the farm now owned by L. and G. Gullickson at the grove. After farming for a few years, he sold out to the present proprietors, and embarked in business at Mason City. This venture not proving satisfactory, he moved again on to a farm, this time settling in Fertile township. Here his stay was not long, for restless feeling soon depressed him, and he emigrated to the territory of Washington, whose far off shore are laved by the broad waters of the Pacific. On the 28th of February, 1879, at Samish, Whatcom county, that territory, Mr. Stevens departed from this life, for a brighter and better country. He was a good business man, a man who made both friends and enemies, of a quick, impulsive and generous disposition, It is said that there was nothing half-way about him, and his friendship once formed was lasting. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.803