Background
Ewing, James Stevenson was born on July 19, 1835 in McLean County, Illinois, United States. Son of John W. and Maria M. (Stevenson) Ewing.
Ewing, James Stevenson was born on July 19, 1835 in McLean County, Illinois, United States. Son of John W. and Maria M. (Stevenson) Ewing.
Educated Illinois Wesleyan College. Graduate Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1858. Read law in office of John C. Bullitt, Philadelphia.
Admitted to bar, 1859, and entered practice at Bloomington, with Adlai East. Stevenson, as Stevenson & Ewing. United States minister to Belgium, 1893-1897.
Married Katherine Spencer, June 28, 1866.