Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

J.B. STEVENSON, grain and lumber merchant, Virginia, Cass Co.;
was born July 11, 1847, at Little Indian, Princeton Precinct.  He
is the sixth of the family of William and Frances (Berry)
Stevenson, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this work. 
Joseph B., after attending the schools of his district, took a
course of study at the then Cumberland Presbyterian College at
Virginia.  He married, April 17, 1870, Miss Dora Vandemeter,
daughter of Fentonville Vandemeter, then a farmer of Cass County,
now a resident of Springfield.  Mrs. Stevenson was born April 11,
1849, in Cass County.  Mr. and Mrs. Vandemeter are both natives
of Kentucky, and came to Illinois at an early date.  They raised
a family of ten children, and Mrs. S. was the seventh child.  Mr.
and Mrs. Stevenson have one child, Mary F.  Mr. S. has been
associated in business with Mr. C. W. Savage, since the fall of
1880, and is also a partner with his father in the grain trade,
at Little Indian.

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