. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ Passing the ex-amination successfully, he w^as ordered to report forduty on the United States steamer State of Georgia,and remained on her till the end of the war. On returning to civil life, he entered the whole-sale drug house of A. F. Hazard & Co., with whomhe remained about three 3^ears. In 1870 he succeededthem in business, in partnership with Lewis U. Bean,the firm name being Bean & Stevenson. The busi-ness thus purchased had been established in 1822,. HOWARD A. STEVENSON, 237 and was the oldest and perhaps the best
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ Passing the ex-amination successfully, he w^as ordered to report forduty on the United States steamer State of Georgia,and remained on her till the end of the war. On returning to civil life, he entered the whole-sale drug house of A. F. Hazard & Co., with whomhe remained about three 3^ears. In 1870 he succeededthem in business, in partnership with Lewis U. Bean,the firm name being Bean & Stevenson. The busi-ness thus purchased had been established in 1822,. HOWARD A. STEVENSON, 237 and was the oldest and perhaps the best of its kindin the cit3^ The location of the new firm was at 113Arch Street. In 1873 Bean & Stevenson bonght ontthe stock of the long-established firm of Wetherill &Brother, wholesale drug dealers, at 47 and 49 NorthSecond Street, and removed to that locality. Weth-erill & Brother had been principally engaged in theSouth American trade, and their business, added tothat previously possessed b}^ the firm, gave it themost important drug trade in the cit}^ During thisperiod ]\Ir. Stevenson had become a member and director of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange, in whoseaffairs he took an active interest. In 1878 he retiredfrom mercantile life, and became connected with thestreet railway S3stem, a connection which still con-tinues. Having purchased an interest in the Green &Coates Streets Passenger Railway Company, he waselected a Director of that corporation in January,1879, and in July of that 3ear was made its Pr
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