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WILLIAM RICHARDS STEPHENS, physician, Wilkinsburg, was born in Armstrong county Pa., December 17, 1858. His grandfather, Paul Stephens, came from England to this state about 1840, and at once contracted to construct the Spruce creek and other tunnels on the Pennsylvania railroad. He commanded a Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war, as did also his stepson, L. R Davis, and died in 1879, aged eighty-six years. His son, William Paul Stephens, born in Cornwall, England, married Sarah A Williams, of Swansea, Wales. He was identified with the Brady’s Bend Iron-works, in which he lost his capital, and is now engaged in iron and steel manufacturing at Bellaire, Ohio. When eight years old our subject went with his parents to Alliance, Ohio, where he attended the public schools, and also took a course at the Iron City Commercial College. When eighteen he entered a drugstore, where he remained eleven years, and read medicine under the allopathic school. In 1886 he graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, and at once began the practice of homeopathic medicine in Wilkinsburg, where he has been successful. In 1887 he built his present residence and office on Wood street. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Mystic Chain and I. O. H.; politically he is a republican. September 29, 1881, he married Angie, daughter of Cyrus Riley, of Johnstown. Mrs. Stephens was of German descent, and died in September, 1883, leaving two children, Ida Angie and Claude. The latter died eight months after his mother that period representing his age. The doctor was again married, August 28, 1888 to Laura G. O’Rourke, a lady of Irish-German parentage, and born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1861.