Stevens, Isaac Collins, a minister of the ISfeih- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Fulton County, Pa., Feb. 15,1833, and was educated at Cassville Sem- inary. He was converted in his eighteenth year; was licensed to preach Aug. 6, 1855, and in 1857 was received on trial in the Baltimore Conference. He remained with this conference until its division, when he became a member of the East Baltimore Conference, and so re- mained until the formation of the Central Pennsylva- nia Conference. He died Nov. 29, 1869. See Minutes of Ammal Conferences, 1870, p. 54.
Stevens, Jacob, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Epping, N. H., in J 809, and was converted in early life. He joined the New Hampshire Conference in 1835, and labored actively until (in 1848) he took a superannuated relation. This relation was changed in 1868 to effective, and he was stationed at Fremont, retaining his home in Epping, where he died in 1869. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1869, p. 104.
Stevens, Jedediah D-wight, a Congregational minister, was born at Hamilton, N. Y., March 25, 1798. His early life was spent on the farm. After receiving a preparatory education, he commenced the study of theology with the Rev. Samuel J. Mills. He was mis- sionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign ISIissions to the Stockbridge Indians from 1829 to 1835, and also to the Dakota Indians from 1835 to 18.39. He was ordained an evangelist at Cortlandville, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1837. From 1841 to 1844 he was acting pastor of the Church at Prairie du Chien, Wis. In June, 1844, he was installed pastor of the Platteville Church, Wis. He resigned this charge, and in 1846 was an evangelist in (irant Comity, and in Lafayette County from 1847 to 1850 ; (Jrecne Comity from 1850 to 18.54; was acting jiastor at F^lkhorn one year; Lafay- ette from 1855 to 18.59; Waterford from 18.59 to 1862: Caldwell's Prairie from 1862 to 1864; Owen, III., from 1864 to 1866; AVaiisaii. Wis., in 1867, his last field of labor. He died at Bdoit. iMarch 29, 1877. (W. P. S.)
Stevens, Joseph B., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Brooklield, Conn., Aug. 3, 1801. He was educated at Bowdoin College, studied theology in Ban- gor, Me., was licensed by the Congregational Associa- tion of Maine, and labored as a home missionary for two years in the state at large, when he was ordained over
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the Second Congregational Church, Falmouth. Me., in 1H2G. In 1834: he removed to the South, to improve liis health, and subsequently taught and preached at Urunswick, Ga., for two years antl a half; at Darien two years ; pastor of the Smyrna and Betliany cluirches, Newton County; supplied a church near (irifKn one year, and Pachitta Cluirch tive years. lie died May 9, 1800. Mr. Stevens was a good scholar and an earnest, jiractical preacher. See Wihou, J'rt-sb. JJint, Aliiumuc, 18(51, p. 107.
Stevens, Solomon, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Cavendish, Vt., Sept. 5, 1795. He graduated at Middlebury College, Vt., in 1821 ; studied theology at Auburn, N. Y. ; was licensed and ordained by the Cayu- ga Presbytery about the year 1824. He labored for fifteen years in different places in Tompkins and (ien- esee counties, N. Y., where his labors were blessed with several revivals of religion. In 1840 he went to Ohio, spent some time in Cuyahoga and Huron counties, and was installed at Newton Falls. Trumbull Co., in 1843; in 1850 he removed to Michigan, labored in several places in that state, and was installed pastor of the Church in Somerset, Hillsdale Co.; in 1859 he returned to Ohio, and preached for his former charge at Newton Falls until his death, June 7, 1861. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1862, p. 197.
Stevens, Thomas, a Congregational minister, was born at Plaintield, Conn., in 1723. He was ordained over the Plainfleld (Separate) Church in 1746. In 1755 he went as chaplain to the array, contracted a disease, and returned to die at his father's house, Nov. 15, 1755. He is reported to have been a clear and powerful preach- er. Little is recorded of his life. See Cong. Q,uarterly, 1860, p. 376.
Stevens, 'William (1), a lay theologian, was bom in the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, England, March 2, 1732. He was engaged in the hosiery business, but de- voted much of his time to study, obtaining an intimate knowledge of the French language, and also a consid- erable acquaintance with the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He was well versed in the writings of the Church fathers, and quite familiar with all the orthodox writers of mod- ern times. Such was the esteem in which he was held as a theologian that Dr. Douglass, bishop of Salisbury, said of him, " Here is a man who, though not a bishop, yet would have been thought worthy of that character in the first and purest ages of the Christian Church." He died in London, Feb. 6, 1807. He wrote, A n Essay on the Nature and Constitution of the Christian Church, wherein are set forth the Form, of its Government, the Extent of its Potvers, and the Limits of our Obedience (anonymous, 1773) : — Cursory Observations on an Ad- dress to the Clergy, etc., by Mr. Wollaston : — Discourse on the English Constitution (Vll^) -. — Strictures on a Sermon entitled The Principles of the Revolution Vindi- cated, by R. Watson {1776):— The Revolution Vindicated, etc., an answer to the Rev. R. Watson's accession sermori (1776):— -4 New and Faithful Translation of Letters