MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Karin Lange
klange@nque.com
August 28, 2000
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Andreas History of the State of NE, pub 1882 


Otoe co, NE: THOMAS B. STEVENSON, attorney, came to Nebraska City April
2,
1863. He was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., July 28, 1835, and lived
there
four years; then moved to Canada until he was seventeen, and afterward
lived
in Green and Miami counties, Ohio. He enlisted August, 1864, in company
A.,
Second Nebraska Battalion, and was captain of that company, serving six
months. He commenced practice in the spring of 1865. In 1868 he was a
delegate to the Chicago Republican convention, and was elected to the
State
Senate in 1869-70. He has served five terms in succession as Mayor of
Nebraska City. He was married at Sidney, Iowa, March, 1858, to Anna C.
Nisewhander, a native of Tazewell, Va. They have five children; Olla;
Thomas; John; Nellie, and Harry. Three died. Mr. Stevenson and Judge
Mason
were partners from the fall of 1863 to June 1867.