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A Sermon Preached By The Late Isaac Stephenson, Of Manchester: Preached At The Friends' Meeting House, Bishopsgate-Street, London (1831)
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A Sermon Preached At The Friends' Meeting House, Bishopsgate-Street, London, Dec. 1828
Isaac Stephenson
Published for the editor by E. Fry, 1831
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Favored by circumstance, I covered wider fields than most of them. From the time I fell under the eye of my mother's cousin, Christopher Murray, at Murray Castle, Spring Hill, New Brunswick, when I was four years old, it was my good fortune to attract the attention and enjoy the confidence of many men. I came to the West as a member of the household of Jefferson Sinclair, the greatest practical lumberman of his time; was associated in business with William B. Ogden, at one time mayor of Chicago, also one of the towering figures of his day; and numbered among my friends Samuel J. Tilden and a host of other men of large affairs - lawyers, railroad builders, bankers, manufacturers who set the seal of their energy upon the broadening destiny of the country, - pioneers, no less, of their kind.
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Isaac Stephenson was an American pioneer lumberman, politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin as both a United States Representative and a United States Senator.
Background
Isaac was born on June 18, 1829 in Maugerville, New Brunswick, United States, son of Isaac Stephenson, of Scotch-Irish descent, and Elizabeth (Watson), who was born in London. His younger brother, Samuel Merritt Stephenson, served as a U. S. Representative from Michigan.
Career
Isaac went to Milwaukee at the age of sixteen, already competent to cruise for timber and to manage gangs of workmen in the woods. He worked at odd jobs in eastern Wisconsin, made a farm at Janesville, filed claims in the Escanaba country, Michigan, contracted for the moving of logs up the lake, and acquired an interest in steamers on Lake Michigan.
He settled at Marinette, Wisconsin, in 1858 as a member of the firm of N. Ludington & Company, and thereafter he was connected with every operation in the Menominee River valley. His fortune grew with each phase of the industry in wood and wood manufacture. He turned out railroad ties, broom handles, pails, and other wooden articles from his factories at Peshtigo, as well as sawlogs and lumber for the Chicago and Milwaukee markets. The profits from his industry were turned into banks, mining companies, and railroads.
On October 8, 1871, forest fires wiped away his factory town of Peshtigo, and the way in which he met this disaster established his reputation as the strong man of his community. Already he had held local office, and had twice been a member of the Wisconsin Assembly (1866, 1868). Three times, in 1882, 1884, and 1886, he was sent to Congress; but since his party was in the minority, he had little chance to shine as a legislator. He watched local appropriations and took care of private pension bills, but Senator Philetus Sawyer of Wisconsin was the more striking figure. Stephenson declined renomination in 1888, and for a decade devoted himself to his large private interests.
In 1899 he coveted the seat of John L. Mitchell in the Senate, but was mortified when the regular Republican manager, guided as Sawyer wished, bestowed it upon Joseph V. Quarles. Now, for the first time, Stephenson said, he realized "the power and devious ways of the 'machine' ". His feeling that he had been betrayed led him to join forces with the rebellious half-breeds and to finance the campaign of Robert M. La Follette for governor in 1900. The Milwaukee Free Press (1901) was launched with his money in their behalf. He would have been pleased to take his reward when Quarles retired in 1905, but La Follette himself then chose to go to the Senate.
When John C. Spooner resigned in 1907, Stephenson announced his candidacy at once, and was elected with less help from Senator La Follette than he expected. In 1908, seeking reelection, he disbursed more than $107, 000 in the primary campaign, and before the legislature was ready to ballot for senator he was under fire. The progessive associates of La Follette, with John J. Blaine in the lead, attacked his use of money; while one of the stalwart leaders, E. L. Philipp, complained that "through the agency of the primary the state of Wisconsin offers its rich old men an opportunity to buy the senatorship as sort of a floral tribute to themselves".
Stephenson was nevertheless elected after a fight drawn out from January 27 until March 4, 1909. The next legislature sent a resolution to Washington, June 26, 1911, challenging his right to sit; but the Senate declined to unseat him, Mar. 27, 1912, after a debate in which Elihu Root characterized the case against Stephenson as "an extreme of fantastical whimsicality".
At the close of his term he retired to Marinette, where he died.