Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Benjamin STEVENS, butcher, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Joliet; born in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England, 
Oct. 16,1824, where he learned and followed the slaughtering busines until he came to America, 
in 1854, and settled in Joliet the same year and engaged in the slaughtering business, which 
business he has since followed; Mr. STEVENS has slaughtered nearly all the meat used in 
Joliet for nearly twenty years. He married, July 18, 1857, Miss Elizabeth BOSSOM she was born 
in Oxford, England, June 23, 1831 ; she came, with her parents, to America in 1854. Mr. 
STEVENS has about thirty acres of land one mile south of Joliet. They have one child living 
- Ann, born Oct. 3, 1858.