When Charles Henry Stephenson was born on 4 January 1862, in Staunton, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, his father, Joseph Addison Stephenson, was 29 and his mother, Anna Eliza Caldwell, was 27. He married Margaret Rogers on 11 January 1887, in Patoka, Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Carlyle, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 7 October 1934, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Carlyle, Clinton, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In 1875 the voters of the county of Madison adopted the township system of county government.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen . Compare Stevenson 1.
English (Durham): variant of Stevenson .
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