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

I. D. STEVENS, secretary Solar Stove Works, Joliet; was born in Joliet, Will Co., Ill., in 
1851; he enjoyed the advantages of the public schools of his native town, gaining thereby a 
good common- school education; in 1863, he entered the employ of John VIRGIL, now of Chicago, 
as clerk in his confectionery store; here he remained two years; he next clerked one year 
for W. R. RAMSDELL, in his grocery store; in 1868, he and his brother W. D., purchased the 
lumber-yard of Otis HARDY, and conducted the business two years; he next entered the employ 
of the U. S. Express Co., and labored for it about two and one-half years; he then engaged 
as clerk for the Solar Stove Works, and at the death of the late William N. MOORE, the 
founder of the establishment, Mr. STEVENS was chosen Secretary, a position he still holds; 
these Works employ some 40 men, turning out annually 3,000 cook-stoves, 40,000 pieces of 
hollow-ware, consuming 3,000 tons of the best pig-iron in their production. Mr. Stevens 
was married in 1872, to Kate FLACK, a native of Aurora, Kane Co., Ill.; has two children 
- Mortimer and Jennie.