My Genealogy Hound

P. H. STEVENSON, wool-buyer and farmer, post office Moon, was born on the old homestead in Moon township, April 4, 1823, a son of John and Nancy (Hooper) Stevenson, members of the Presbyterian Church. The former built the first mill at Moon, in 1836, and at his death, in 1854, at the age of seventy-two years, he and his sons owned and operated four steam grist-and saw-mills. He was also a large landowner, was justice of the peace for over forty years, and was also postmaster a number of years. He and his wife had six sons and three daughters: Jane, married to Samuel Scott; Sarah, married to James Montgomery; Samuel, married to Maria Linton; John, married to Jane Ewing; Elizabeth never married; Philip H.; Levi, married to Jane Scott; Andrew, married to Maria Roberts, and Alexander, married to Angeline Finley. Philip H. learned the miller’s trade which he followed until 1851, when he opened the first general store in Moon township, at Moon; five years later he sold out. He has since engaged in buying and shipping wool and looking after his farms. He has been twice married; first to Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of James and Hannah (Strouse) Morgan, and to them was born one child, now deceased. Mrs. Stevenson died in June 1853, and in March, 1855, Mr. Stevenson married Elizabeth McCormick, a native of Moon township, a daughter of John D. and Nancy (Meeks) McCormick. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have two sons — Charles L., attending school, and William J. H., at home — and one daughter, Emma L., wife of J. H. Hamilton, farmer and sheep breeder in Washington county, Pa. Mr. Stevenson has been twice nominated by the democrats for the state legislature. He was one of the Greeley electors, and was a delegate to the convention of 1888 at St. Louis. He has held the office of justice of the peace for eleven years and that of school director eighteen years. He and family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Stevenson’s grandfather, John Stevenson, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, was born in Ireland, married Sarah Nye in Scotland, and settled on Mingo creek, Washington county, Pa. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Stevenson were P. H. and Mary (Hill) Hooper, Presbyterians, who came from Scotland and settled at Cross Roads, Washington county, Pa. Mr. Hooper was a tanner and farmer, and one of the first settlers in Washington county; also one of the first settlers in Moon township. He took up six hundred acres of land here, then sent for an old friend, who had come from Scotland, and sold him 160 acres, so as to have him for a neighbor.