Education
He was educated in Brockville and taught school briefly.
He was educated in Brockville and taught school briefly.
Born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Stevenson"s family moved to New York State (likely to the Albany, New York area and finally to Upper Canada. Steveson worked in various trades before entering politics:
flour mill operator
foundry owner
axe shopkeeper
brush factory owner
lumberman
shipping company owner
Stevenson also served as a justice of the peace and as reeve for Napanee. From 1863 to 1865, he was warden for Lennox and Addington County.
After his defeat in 1871 by John Thomas Grange, he ran for the Lennox seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1872 as an independent, losing to Richard John Cartwright, formerly a Conservative, now a Liberal.
In 1878, he campaigned on behalf of Cartwright. Stevenson died in Napanee, Ontario in 1884.