| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Stevenson, Kenyon Family |
| Title: | Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection Photographs |
| Dates: | 1860-1950 |
| Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract: | Kenyon Stevenson, Sr. (1895-1957) was born in Union Township, Boone County, Indiana. He married (Bertha) Louise Hervey (1896-1996), with whom he had four children. Members of the Stevenson family have played significant roles in the early history of the United States, as well as in the twentieth century. The collection consists of 191 images. There are 184 black and white prints and seven negatives. |
| PG Number | PG 516 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Kenyon Stevenson (1895-1957) was the son of Charles Astor Stevenson and Viola Lane, both of Union Township, Boone County, Indiana. Stevenson was born on May 31, 1895, in Union Township, Boone County, Indiana. He was one of three children. His siblings were Fayette Pearl Carr and Hazel Frances Acherman. He was a graduate of Lebanon High School, Lebanon, Indiana, in 1912.
Kenyon Stevenson was a Second Lieutenant with the 21st Field Artillery and Fifth Division, United States Army, during World War I. He saw action in France and in Luxembourg. On the front, his unit saw some of the heaviest fighting towards the end of the war. The unit was highly commended and Kenyon Stevenson was among those officers who were later awarded the Army of the Occupation of Germany Medal. He wrote two army unit histories, History of the Fifth Division and History of the 21st Field Artillery.
Upon his return stateside, Kenyon Stevenson attended Indiana University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1920. He was also a member of the Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity. After graduation he married Bertha Louise Hervey (1896-1996) on June 1, 1920.
Louise Hervey was born on March 2, 1896, in Logansport, Indiana. She was the daughter of David Francis Hervey and Jessie Amanda James, also both of Logansport, Indiana. She died on December 12, 1996. She graduated from Indiana University in 1918, and then did graduate work at the University of Chicago. During this time she participated in the suffragist movement. She briefly became a social worker in Illinois after her graduation. After their marriage, they removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Kenyon Stevenson began work with Armstrong Cork Company as a copywriter. By 1930, he was the director of advertising.
Three of the Stevenson's four children were born in Pennsylvania; Mildred Louise (b.1921), Kenyon Jr. (1924-1992), and James David (b. 1925). The fourth child, Frances Jane (b. 1933), was born in Ohio. As a result of the Great Depression, corporate downsizing and reorganization, Stevenson was forced to either accept a lower paying position or resign. He resigned in about February 1932. He soon found work as a sales manager for the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio. He lived in Akron for one year before finally moving to Hudson, Ohio, in 1933. He was a sales manager from 1933 until 1940 when he became an advertising executive for the Griswold-Echleman Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
From 1940 until his death on August 30, 1957, Kenyon Stevenson was a group leader and supervised a number of major accounts for Griswold-Echleman. He taught an advertising course at the Cleveland Advertising Club for five years. He was a member of that club, and also of the American Marketing Association, the National Industrial Advertisers Association, the Advertising Men's Post of the American Legion, Indiana Historical Society, Society of Indiana Planters, Hudson Historical Society, and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was a long time member of the Society of the Fifth Division (Red Diamond). Kenyon Stevenson served as the organization's national historian for many years, as well as serving a term as national president.
The Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection Photographs, ca. 1860s-ca. 1950s and undated, consist of 191 images. There are 184 black and white prints and seven negatives.
This collection is of value to researchers seeking illustrative materials of forty-four families, some of which correspond with those found in MS 4847 Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection. The families which are represented in this photograph collection are as follows: Andrews, Bacon, Bealle, Blossom, Bretzman, Buckles, Budd, Carney, Carroll, Cox, Dooley, Everett, Fitzgerald, Franson, Gregory, Griffith, Griswold, Hardman, Hawkins, Hollinger, Hotton, Ireland, Judkett, Lane, Lewis, Matthews, Morley, Namm, Ong, Poole, Rose, Skeels, Smith, Stephenson/ Stevenson, Stodghill, Takmauh, Teeter, Terbush, Thomas, Tomlinson, Tongen, Tracey, and Tull. The collection is also of value to researchers seeking illustrative materials showing subjects and views of wartime Mainz, France and the Rhine River in Europe; Brandon, Portage and Rio, Wisconsin, ca.1900s-1910s; the Potomac River near Westernport, Maryland; the Washington Monument and the United States Capitol Building in the 1940s. In addition, it will be of interest to historians of the Society of the Fifth Division, Red Diamonds seeking illustrative materials regarding past members and officers of the Society. It is also of interest to genealogists seeking illustrative materials showing the ancestral homesteads and cemeteries of the Carroll family, the Dooley family, the Finney family, the James-Poland family, the Lane family, the Shelton family, the Stevenson family and the Stodghill family.
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Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 4847 Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 516 Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
These photographs were removed from MS 4847 Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection. Gift of James David Stevenson in 1990.
Processed by Richard B. Robertson in 2001.
Series I: Genealogical Photographs ca. 1860s-1955 undated |
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Carroll Family ca. 1860-ca. 1910 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Individual portraits and gallery prints ca. 1860-ca. 1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Individual portraits, including Carroll, Cordelia ca. 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, Dorcas ca. 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, Hannah ca. 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, James ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, Mrs. James ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, Lewis ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Carroll, Squire William of Burns, New York ca. 1860 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Matthews, Ann Hotton ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Thomas, Mrs. Ann Carroll 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Gould, Mrs. Charles, individual portraits, including Carney, Charles, blacksmith, Portage, Wisconsin ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Carney, George J., engine inspector, Friendship, Wisconsin ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Carney, George W. ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Carney, Homer, barber, Fresno, California ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Carney, Wesly G., butter maker, Brandon, Wisconsin ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Gregory, Susan ca. 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Rose, Percy ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Tongen, Edna, Rio, Wisconsin ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Tongen, H.R., Republican candidate for County Clerk, Rio, Wisconsin ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Unidentified subject ca. 1868 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Gould, Mrs. Charles, group portraits, including Budd, John Carroll, and his wife, Lorena ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Budd, Pearl and Carney, G. W., Rio, Wisconsin ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Carney, George, and daughter, Mrs. Knight, teacher ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Carney, George D. and family ca. 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Carney, Homer D. and daughter, Fresno, California ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Rebecca and Susan [last name unknown], Fresno, California ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Unidentified subjects ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Gould, Mrs. Charles, subject, Rio Depot, Rio, Wisconsin ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Gregory, Bert, individual portraits, including Gregory, John P.; and Gregory, Mrs. John P. ca. 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Gregory, Bert photographs, group portraits, including Tull, Dr. Edward and his wife, Mrs. Tull, Martha Gregory, Fairland, Indiana ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Gregory, Mr. Bert, group portraits, including Tull, Dr. Edward and his wife, Mrs. Tull, Martha Gregory, Fairland, Indiana ca. 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Gregory, Mr. Frank, individual portraits, including Gregory, Benjamin M., Indianapolis, Indiana ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | James, Huntsville, Alabama ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Myra, wife of Benjamin M., Indianapolis Indiana ca. 1880 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Nancy L. ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Griswold, Carney, individual portraits, including Carney, James B., Chicago, Illinois; Carney, Morgan, Danville, New York; and Carney, Marion ca. 1900 ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Griswold, Mr. Carney, group portraits, unknown subjects ca. 1905-ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Griswold, Mr. Carney, subject, unknown homesteads ca. 1905-ca. 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Morley family, individual portraits, including Morley, Ambrose; Morly, Mrs. Ambrose; Morley, Jane Carroll ca. 1860 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Morley family, individual portraits, including Morley, William S., Galien, Michigan ca. 1870s-1880s | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Perkins, Mr. Walter, individual portraits, including Gregory, Mrs. (Emma) William Louis and Gregory, William Louis ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Smith, Mrs. A.E., individual portrait, Smith, Dr. A.E. Smith ca. 1905-1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Smith, Mr. J. Haskins, subjects, including J. Haskins Smith homestead in Delaware; and Sidwell's Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ca. 1910 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Smith, Ms. Maud, individual portraits, including Tull, Mrs. Lorena, Zionsville, Indiana; Tull, John W., Zionsville, Indiana ca. 1860-1870 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Smith, Mrs. Nettie Bacon, individual and group portraits, including Smith, Mrs. Nettie Bacon and Terbush, Linda Carroll Bacon ca. 1880-1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Smith, Mrs. Nettie Bacon, group portraits, including Carroll, James and Willet; and Terbush, Linda Carroll Bacon and daughter ca. 1860-1870 | |||||||||
Dooley Family ca. 1940s |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Subject, unknown; and Moses Dooley tombstone, died April 10, 1850 ca. 1940s | |||||||||
Everett Family 1863-1952 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Individual portraits, including Everett, Edward Simpson, University of Michigan faculty 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Individual portraits, including Martin, Elizabeth Everett (1813-1905) undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Individual portraits, including Tomlinson, Elizabeth Everett, Ohio 1863 | |||||||||
Finney Family 1940 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Subjects, including old stone house of Robert and Dorthea Finney, built ca.1730, New London, Pennsylvania; Old Finney graveyard, New London, Pennsylvania; Robert and Dorthea Finney's gravestones, New London, Pennsylvania; and Church building erected on former estate of William and Jean (Stephenson) Finney, New London, Pennsylvania 1940 | |||||||||
Gregory Family ca. 1860 ca. 1885 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Individual portraits, including Gregory, Stephen Stevens ca. 1860 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Individual portraits, including Judkett, Rachael Gregory ca. 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Individual portraits, including Patton, Naomi Gregory Andrews ca. 1860 | |||||||||
James Family ca. 1880-1905 |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Group portrait, Ong, Shepherd and his wife, Skeels, Rebecca ca. 1880 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Subjects, including genealogical notes on reverse of photographs; James-Poland family old stone house, Westernport, Maryland ca. 1902-1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Subjects, including genealogical notes on reverse of photographs; James-Poland homestead fireplace, Westernport, Maryland ca. 1902-1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Subjects, including genealogical notes on reverse of photographs; Old stone milk house, James-Poland homestead and Anna [last name not known], Westernport, Maryland ca. 1902-1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Subjects, including genealogical notes on reverse of photographs; Potomac River, Railroad tracks and Anna [last name not known] ca. 1902-1905 | |||||||||
Lane Family ca. 1880-1955 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Individual portraits, including Lane, Eldo B. Jr., Pueblo, Colorado ca. 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Individual portraits, including, Lane, Emma, Emporia, Kansas ca. 1880-1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Individual portraits, including, Lane, Fannie, Emporia, Kansas ca. 1880-1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Individual portraits, including, Lane, Dr. Thomas Hayden, Lebanon, Indiana; and Lane, Mrs. Thomas Hayden, Lebanon, Indiana ca. 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Group portraits, including Geary, Ina S. and family; son, James 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Group portraits, including Lane, Eldo and his wife, Caroline, Pueblo, Colorado ca. 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Subjects, William (1781-1803) and Ann (died August 18, 1834.) Lane gravestones undated | |||||||||
Shelburne Family ca. 1950s |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Individual portrait, Fitzgerald, William ca. 1950s | |||||||||
Shelton Family 1948 |
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| 1 | 29 | Williams, Cecil, subject, John Shelton (1792-1864) homestead, built ca.1812, Centerpoint, Gallia County, Ohio 1948 | |||||||||
Skeels Family ca. 1931 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Individual portrait, Skeels, Chipman, Chicago, Illinois ca. 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Gallery print including individual and group portraits, also including index to persons photographed (Original housed in Oversize Folder 1, Oversize Materials) undated | |||||||||
Stevenson Family ca. 1860-ca. 1950 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Individual portraits, including Bretzman, Carl Jr., ca.1920s; Buckles, Jay, Illinois, ca.1890-ca.1900; Buckles, Roy, U.S.S. Buffalo, California, 1908; Goy, Ora Samuel, Lincoln, Illinois, ca.1890; Griffith, Humphrey, ca.1865; Griffith, Jane Stephenson, ca.1865; Hardman, O. Clyde, Salt Lake City, Utah, ca.1950; Stephenson, Albert, Kansas City, Missouri, ca.1880; Stephenson, Leonidas, ca.1890; Stephenson, Margaret Marie, New Orleans, Louisiana ca.1931 and ca.1934; and Unidentified individual portraits, ca.1860-ca.1950 ca. 1860-ca. 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Group portraits, including Ireland, William and family, Chetopa, Kansas, ca.1880-ca.1890; Stephenson, Anna and Mary, ca.1860; Stephenson, Dr. J.C. with daughter, Margaret Marie, ca.1931; Stephenson, Dr. and Mrs. J.C. with Margaret Marie, September 1931; Stephenson, Roy and family, ca.1910; Stephenson, Roy and Henry, ca.1910; Stevenson, George Emmett with school pupils of School Number 7, 1906; Tracey, Roy and family, Portland, Oregon, June 20, 1909; Tracey, Roy and Blanche, 'Old Missouri Hotel,' ca. 1910; and Unidentified individuals, ca.1870-1945 ca. 1860-1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Society of the Fifth Division, individual portraits, including Colonel Paul O. Franson, Major Benjamin Namm of Brooklyn, New York, and unidentified subject ca. 1930s-1940s | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Society of the Fifth Division, group portraits, including Blossom, Miss Dorothy and Poole, Malcolm of Alexandria, Virginia, USO show, Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Cox, Lieutenant Colonel Burns C. of Atlanta, Georgia and Hollinger, Sergeant Theron C. of Battle Creek, Michigan, 5th Infantry Division, Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Takmauh, Domenik of Boston, Massachusetts, and Hollinger, Sergeant Theron C. of Battle Creek, Michigan 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Society of the Fifth Division, Southern California Camp, "Otto, Events, and Thompson" ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Subject, Stevenson farm, Indiana ca. 1910s-ca. 1920s | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Subject, Melrose, Scotland, including Stevenson gravestones and Melrose Abbey undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Subject, war zone army camp in Europe undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Subject, war zone, Mainz and the Rhine River, showing damage by bombing undated | |||||||||
Stodghill Family ca. 1910s 1952 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Individual portraits, Stodghill, Nan, and Stodghill, Irene ca. 1910s | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Group portraits, Stodghill family 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Group portraits, Hawkins, Thomas, Stodghill, Bessie ca. 1910s | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Subjects, including Nichols Farm, Mount Eden, Kentucky undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Subjects, including tombstones of Thomas Stodghill, born May 1788 in Virginia, August 30, 1857 and Nancy Shelburne Stodghill, born in Virginia, died September 4, 1857 undated | |||||||||
Tomlinson Family ca. 1910s |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Individual portrait, Bealle, Thomas P. ca. 1910s | |||||||||
Series II: Negatives ca. 1940s-ca. 1950s undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Individual portrait, child and homestead, unidentified ca. 1940s-ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Group portrait, children and homestead, unidentified ca. 1940s-ca. 1950s | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Subject, Sidwell's Cemetery, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Subjects, including man in cemetery ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Subjects, including tombstone of Moses Dooley, died April 10, 1850 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Views, including Washington D.C., Washington Monument ca. 1940s | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Views, including United States Capitol Building ca. 1940s | |||||||||
Series III: Oversize Materials undated |
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