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Stevens, Aaron Fletcher

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Derry, N. H. In 1849 he was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature; was reelected, and served five years as a state solicitor. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as major in the first New Hampshire infantry, and for his gallantry was brevetted a brigadier-general. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. He died May 10, 1887, in Nashua, N. H.