Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of John E. STEVENSON

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Pg 328

BIO: John E. Stevenson, Ohio Co., WV

	John E. Stevenson.  Though he had worked himself up to the responsibilities 
of a superintendent in the Monessen plant of the American Sheet & Tin Plate 
Company, John E. Stevenson resigned, changed his destination as a business 
man and as member of the firm Mitchell & Stevenson has developed a highly 
successful business as investment brokers.
	Mr. Stevenson was born at West Newton in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 
October 9, 1882.  His father, Thomas C. Stevenson, was born at West Newton 
in 1859.  While there he entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad Company was transferred to Connelsville, Pennsylvania, and in 1890 
came to Wheeling as freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio.  Three years 
later he resigned from the railroad, and for two years was sales manager of 
the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company.  He left that business to become 
superintendent for the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company at Wheeling, later 
was promoted to district manager and 1905 became district manager at 
Pittsburgh.  Thomas c. Stevenson in 1907 retired from business and has since 
lived at Wheeling.  He is a Mason, a member of the First Presbyterian Church 
at Wheeling, and votes as an independent.  He married Mary Elliott, who was 
born at Newark, Ohio, in 1855.  John E. is the oldest of their three 
children.  Mary Louise is the wife of Charles D. Towar, a salesman at 
Wheeling, and Elizabeth Plummer is the wife of Henry G. Stifel, a member of 
the manufacturing firm of J. L. Stifel and Sons at Wheeling.
	John E. Stevenson acquired his early education in the public schools of 
wheeling and in Linsly Institute.  After a course in the Moise Commercial 
College at Wheeling in 1898 he became a traveling salesman for the Bloch 
Brothers Tobacco Company.  He was on the road two years for this firm and 
then entered the local plant offices of the American Sheet & Tin Plate 
Company as a clerk.  His abilities gained him rapid promotion, and he was 
general superintendent when he resigned in 1907 to engage in business for 
himself.  He organized the firm of Mitchell & Stevenson, investment brokers, 
in 1913.  They have made many prominent connections with the financial 
interests and enjoy a high standing in the financial world.  Their offices 
are at 57 Twelfth Street.
	Mr. Stevenson is a director in the Marland Oil Company of Delaware, the 
Maryland Refining Company, and the Mack Manufacturing Company of Wheeling.  
He is a republican, is a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, is a 
Knight Templar Mason with local affiliations in Monessen Lodge No. 638 at 
Monessen, Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Wheeling 
Country Club and Fort Henry club.  December 8, 1914, at Wheeling he married 
Miss Laura Stifel, daughter of L. C. and Elizabeth (Stamm) Stifel.  Her 
parents both died in Wheeling.  Her father was for many years actively 
connected with J. F. Stifel & Sons, calico printers.  Mrs. Stevenson is a 
graduate of the Penn College for Women.  They have one daughter, Henryett, 
born October 25, 1917.