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James was born on December 24, 1840 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States.
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James was born on December 24, 1840 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States.
He was educated in private schools.
Coming into contact with the engineering corps of the government at sixteen, Stevenson engaged in explorations in the Northwest and afterwards became a member of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories under Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. With Dr. Hayden he explored the Missouri, Columbia, and Snake rivers to their sources. Inclination, training, and character made him an efficient aid in the conduct of the expeditions, and this meant much on the early wild frontiers.
On the survey of 1872 he climbed the Great Teton, the first white man known to have reached the ancient Indian altar on its summit. Though he interrupted the work of exploration to join the Union army in 1861 and saw service in the 13th New York Volunteers, in 1866 he resumed the ethnological studies he had begun in previous years.
He continued with these on the passing of the survey to the directorship of Major John Wesley Powell, and at the inception of the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879 he engaged in research for it in the Southwest, where explorations were carried on among the Pueblo Indians and the remains of their former settlements.
He died on July 25, 1888 in New York City.
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He was a man above medium height, meager of frame, with brown hair and beard. Besides, he was a man of action, irked by writing. Stevenson belonged to the type of American who prefers the freedom and adventure of the wilds to the life of cities. Though he displayed the reserve and reticence of the frontiersman, his speech was as pointed as it was brief, and in action usually secured him what he wanted, a quality that made him invaluable to his department.
On April 18, 1872, he married Matilda Coxe Evans of Washington, who became his associate in the Southwestern work. He was survived by his wife.