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Stephenson, Samuel M

agriculturist, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born in 1831 in New Brunswick. He was chairman of the board of supervisors of Menominee county for several years; was a representative in the Michigan state legislature in 1877-78, and a member of the senate in 1879-80 and 1885- 86. He was elected to the fifty-first, fiftysecond, and fifty-third congresses and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

STEPHENSON, WILLIAM WORTH, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 24, 1857, in Madison county, N. Y. He received a thorough education in the Daughters college, Kentucky university and the Bethany college of West Virginia, from which latter institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. In 1879-80 he was principal of the Harrodsburg academy. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar; reand has given his chief attention to the practice of law, and is now one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Harrodsburg. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Kentucky state legislature; elected in 1891 and served in the long session of 1891-93 as a member of the judiciary and other committees. In 1893 he was elected to the state senate and served in the sessions of 1894, 1896 and 1897, and took an active part in the deliberations of those assemblies. In 1896 he was a delegate to the convention of national democrats at Indianapolis; and has always taken a deep interest in political affairs.