Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

W. W. STEVENS, attorney at law,. Joliet;. was born in Oxford Co., Maine, July 14, 
1832; when he was but two years of age, his parents removed to Dover, thence to 
Sullivan Co., N. H., where he made his home until 1855. He received an academic 
education at the Andover Academy, N. H., where he graduated in July, 1854; the 
following year he came to Will Co., and engaged in teaching, soon afterward 
settling in Joliet, where he studied law in the office of Parks & Elwood; he was 
admitted to the bar in March, 1859, and has continued the practice of his 
profession ever since; he formerly did an extensive insurance business, having 
the largest agency in the city; but in 1873, he disposed of that branch of his 
business to A. A. Osgood; he was elected City Attorney in 1863, and has been 
several times re-elected to the same office; he has, also, served three years 
on the Board of School Inspectors. He was married Sept. 6, 1859, to Miss Althea 
H. HAWLEY, daughter of Oscar L. Hawley, one of the earliest settlers of Will 
Co., and has seven children.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.