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C. E. Stephens, one of the best-known business men of Little Rock, and junior member of the large machinery manufactory of D. R. Wing & Co., is a native of New York State. Mr. Stephens has been acquainted with the duties and workings of machinery since his youth, having learned the wood-working and machinist’s trade when quite young, in the city of St. Louis. He was afterward employed by various railroad companies, in different parts of the South, his last headquarters in that line being at Selma, Ala. In 1873 he came to Little Rock, being twenty-seven years of age at the time, and for the following two years was connected with the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad. He then became associated with Mr. D. R. Wing, in the machinery and repair work line, which business has steadily grown under their able supervision, until it has reached its present proportions, Mr. Stephens having full charge of the office and trade. He is a thorough business man, shrewd, an able manager, and very popular in commercial circles.