He was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania on April 2, 1838 of Scottish lineage. He served as director of the El Paso Fair.
STEPHENSON, Henry and Mary Meyers (1811-1874) Henry was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1806 and died in Greene Twp. on August 29, 1881. He and Mary came by steamer to Spring Bay in 1852 and settled on the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 20, which he had purchased from the Joliet, Illinois land speculator, George Cassaday, on June 9, 1852.
STEPHENSON, J. F. He was the first Constable of Greene Twp. in 1855 with J. F. Mohr the other.
STOCK, John-Came from Germany in 1856 and afterward became a footwear dealer in El Paso. He built the first brick residence at 498 West Jefferson St. He was the father of Theodore Stock.
STITT, Samuel Settled in Linn Twp. in 1856 with his widowed mother, Hannah Cooper Stitt. He then returned to their former Ohio home and married Mary A. Pickerell, December 20, 1860. He moved into Palestine Twp. in 1865, settling on 120 acres in Section 11.
STOCKWELL, Alanson V. A physician and surgeon in El Paso in 1859. Originally from Vermont, he served in the Civil War.
STOCKWELL, Benajah and Adeline He became the first official station agent in Panola for the Illinois Central, opened in early 1854. He was promoted until he became the General Freight Agent of the Illinois Central System. He owned the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 27 in Panola Twp. which he sold August 2, 1854.
STOCKWELL, Lucius and Malinda They were early El Pasoans. They purchased Lots 1-2 in Block 30 from Wathen on September 23, 1859.
STONE, Eugene Came to Kappa in 1859 and became a merchant. He was probably associated with Ira C. Stone.
STONE, Ira C. He was born in Vermont on August 15, 1810 and died in Kappa, 1911 one of our few Centenarians. He settled in Kappa in 1859 and became a merchant retiring in 1875. He ran the Kappa post office in connection with his store from 1860 to 1875.
STONEBRAKER, Dr. A. S. An early El Paso physician in 1865 who specialized in a remedy he called "Stonebraker's liniments."
STONEBRAKER, John M. and Mary B. John was born in Maryland on August 6, 1834 and died February 25, 1887. He and Mary owned a farm in Panola Twp. and specialized in blooded Duroc Jersey hogs.
STOUT, Amasa and Susannah The first to settle in the Greene Twp. area, arriving in Section 19 in 1828 according to Radford, whose father bought their farm in the NW 1/4 the next month after they patented it on June 13, 1836. Apparently they had been "squatters" from 1828 to 1836. They lived the first winter of 1828-9 in a three-sided rail pen with corn fodder heaped high around it. It has been said it got too crowded in the neighborhood for the Stouts after the McCord and Patrick and a few other families arrived, so they moved away, leaving on July 14, 1836. Their 1828 crop of corn was the earliest grown in eastern Woodford County, although the Phillips brothers may have grown corn in Kansas Twp. that year too. (Also see Gershom Harvey.)
STRATHMAN, August and Anna E. Balbach (1833-1887) August was born in Prussia on July 2, 1833, and died here in 1888. He came to Illinois in 1851 and to El Paso early in 1858, to run a hotel located where the El Paso Theatre now stands at Front and Cherry Streets. He established a furniture and undertaking business in 1864, moving his business to Wathens west side
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