This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stevens Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0lJBAIB/3815 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 952. TOWN OF BLOOMINGTON REV. G. D. STEVENS, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Bloomington. Born in Oxford Co., Me., in 1838, where he received an academic education; came West in 1864, and located in Richland Center, where he was Principal of the high school for six years. Ordained in the spring of 1871, and moved to Bloomington in 1872, where he has preached ever since; has also had charge of the Baptist Church of Cassville for five years. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]