Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . his second wife having been Frances Wardale McAllister, a daugh-ter of a well known merchant of Philadelphia, John McAllister. Of the children of William and Frances Wardale (McAllister)Stevenson, John McAllister Stevenson (i), born October 22, 1818, wasgraduated from Union College, class of 1839, took up the study oflaw, and was admitted to the bar, but devoted his time largely to themanagement of his fathers and his own personal estate. Originallyan old line Whig he assisted in the form
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . his second wife having been Frances Wardale McAllister, a daugh-ter of a well known merchant of Philadelphia, John McAllister. Of the children of William and Frances Wardale (McAllister)Stevenson, John McAllister Stevenson (i), born October 22, 1818, wasgraduated from Union College, class of 1839, took up the study oflaw, and was admitted to the bar, but devoted his time largely to themanagement of his fathers and his own personal estate. Originallyan old line Whig he assisted in the formation of the Republican party,and remained stalwart in his devotion to its principles, and contributingtO the extent of his ability to its success throughout the remainder ofhis life. He died September 8, 1872. Of his children, Holland New-ton Stevenson is Commodore (retired). United States navy; Jean H.(Stevenson) March, is the widow of Daniel March, Jr., late of Win-chester, Massachusetts; Frances Wardale Stevenson married Charles , and died in October, 1904; Sarah Mary Stevenson married De-. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 253 Witt Bruce, of Pittsfield, and died December i, 1905; \\illiam ChipmanStevenson is associated with his brother, the immediate subject of thissketch, in the fire insurance business at Pittsfield; EHza A. is thewidow of the late John P. Lane; Edward P. Stevenson is a residentof Lee, Massachusetts, and treasurer of the Mountain Mill Paper Com-pany, East Lee; and McLaren Stevenson, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Mrs. Seraph Huldah (Newton) Stevenson, born in Marlboro, Ver-mont, August 6, 1823, and now a resident of Pittsfield, is a daughterof Ephraim Holland and Huldah (Chipman) Newton, and a lineal de-scendant in the maternal line of John Howland, one of the PilgrimFathers, and a signer of the Mayflower compact. Among her ancestorsin the maternal line, also, was Thomas Chipman. who lived in Shef-field. Berkshire county, during the Revolutionary war, and served inthe
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