Doctor Walter Augustus Stevens

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Dr. Walter A. Stevens Dead
Pioneer Chicago Dentist and Thirty-third Degree Mason Expires When 77 Years Old.
Dr. Walter Augustus Stevens, who had practiced dentistry in Chicago more than forty years, died yesterday at his residence, 2631 Wabash Avenue. He was born in Honeoye, N.Y., April 19, 1830, and was graduated from the high school at Palmyra, NY, and the Genesee Wesleyans Seminary, Lima NY. The facility of Rush Medical college gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine Feb. 15, 1887. When 27 years old he went to eastern Missouri, establishing himself as a civil engineer. He served as postmaster at Bird's Point under President Buchanan. He came to Chicago in 1861, and Sept 2, 1862, he married Elnora V. Richards of Lenox, Mass. Dr. Stevens was thirty-third degree Mason, and a founder and charter member of the Mariam family, which later became the Order of the Eastern Star. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Genevieve I., and a son, Dr. Wirt A. Stevens. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow in the asylum of Apollo commandery, 78 Monroe Street.
(Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, April 16, 1907)

Family/Spouse: Elnora V. Richards. Elnora was born in 1838; died in 1930; was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wirt married Edith M. Briggs on 21 Sep 1918 in Cook County, Illinois. Edith (daughter of Jedediah Chauncy Briggs and Mary A. Beardsley) was born on 13 Sep 1875 in Honeoye, Ontario County, New York; died on 14 May 1945 in Greenwich, Washington County, New York; was cremated in Lakeview Cemetery, Honeoye, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]