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| Name |
Caroline Brown [1, 2] |
| Born |
21 Oct 1810 |
Plattsburgh, NY  [2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I2763 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Father |
George Frederick Brown, b. 4 Oct 1783, Charlestown, NH , d. 26 Sep 1859, Two Rivers Twp., Manitowoc Co., WI (Age 75 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Anna Bemis, b. 18 May 1786, Springfield, VT , d. 5 Aug 1864, Two Rivers Twp., Manitowoc Co., WI (Age 78 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
9 Apr 1806 |
Springfield, VT [3, 4, 5] |
| Family ID |
F113 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Thomas Burns, b. 1804, Ballaglaghin, co. Longford, Ireland |
| Married |
19 Feb 1832 |
Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts [6] |
| Notes |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family ID |
F1370 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Had daughter b. in Lowell, Mass
[The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994, 1927, v81, p461]
Memoirs
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth (Burns) Stephenson, of Milwaukee, Wis., a Pilgrim Tercentenary member since 1919, was born at Lowell, Mass., 18 February 1854, the daughter of Thomas and Caroline (Brown) Burns, and died at Milwaukee 11 July 1925.
Her father was born in the parish of Ballaglaghin, co. Longford, Ireland, in 1804; and her mother was born at Plattsburgh, N. Y., 21 October 1810, the daughter of George Frederick and Annie (Bemis) Brown.
At the age of sixteen, after having received the usual schooling of a small town, supplemented by one year at an academy, she began to earn her own living as a school-teacher, her first school being a country school in a "sugar bush" in northern Wisconsin, where pines and hemlocks were scattered thickly among the sugar maples. For twelve years she taught in the public schools, and attained the principalship of a grade school at Green Bay, Wis. Her own education was rounded out by her experience as a teacher and by travel, reading, and association with cultured friends.
She was married 16 April 1884 to Hon. Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, Wis., then a member of Congress from Wisconsin, who was born near Fredericton, York Co., N. B., 18 June 1829, and died 15 March 1918, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Watson) Stephenson. Mr. Stephenson received a common-school education, went to Bangor, Mr., in 1840, and a year later was taken to Wisconsin. There he worked on a farm, and in 1845 moved to Milwaukee. He was engaged in the lumber trade, and owned a schooner, which he sailed between Milwaukee and Escanaba, Mich. He was one of the pioneers in the lumber business in Wisconsin, eventually acquiring a large fortune, and was ranked first among the "lumber kings" of that State. In 1858 he moved to Marinette, Wis., acquired control of the North Ludington Lumber Company, was chief owner of the Stephenson Company and a director in the Stephenson National Bank, and was influential in the building of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. He was a member of the lower branch of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1866 and 1868, and, as a Republican, represented the Ninth District of Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives in the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses(1883-1889). After spending eighteen more years in private life, in the care of his business interests, he was elected a United States Senator from Wisconsin in 1907, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John Coit Spooner, and wad reelected for the full term of six years extending from 1909-1915.
After her marriage, Mrs. Stephenson spent every congressional season for fourteen consecutive years in the city of Washington, where, by her own testimony, she "gained a breadth of vision and knowledge of men and events that no college could have furnished." As late as 1922 she was a resident of Marinette, but her last years were spent in Milwaukee.
Senator and Mrs. Stephenson had one son, Grant Thomas Stephenson, who was born in 1886. Her granddaughter, Irene Clara Stephenson of Milwaukee, has succeeded her in her Pilgrim Tercentenary membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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- [S125] DAR Lineage Book, 26342.
- [S365] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin; Roll: 1418; Family History Film: 1255418; Page: 140C; Enumeration District: 009; Image: .
Record for Thomas Burnes
- [S232] Springfield VT Town records.
- [S118] Charlestown, NH Town Records.
George Brown of Charlestown to Anna Bemis of Springfield 4/9/1806
- [S21] "History of Charlestown, NH" Sanderson, 1876.
- [S555] Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Database online.
Record for Caroline B. Brown
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