Biography of F. H. Stevens
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Stevens, F. H., M. D., was born in New Haven, Conn., where he received his education. He studied medicine at
Crown Point, N. Y., and was graduated from Castleton Medical College, Vt., and from the medical department of the
University of Vermont. Dr. Stevens practiced medicine in Newark, N. J., for many years and in 1884 went to Lake
George for his health, where he remained six years; during all of this time he was coroner of Warren county, N.
Y., and health officer of the town of Caldwell. He then came to Saratoga Springs in 1891. Dr. Stevens is a member
of the Vermont State Medical Association; the Addison County Medical Society; Essex County Medical Society, of
which he and Dr. J. S. Murray were the founders; of the Newark (N. J.) Medical Society; and the Newark Academy
of Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Union Medical Association of Albany, Rensselaer, Saiatoga, Washington
and Warren counties and was vice-president of the Warren County Medical Society. Dr. Stevens married Amelia A.
Potter, daughter of Judge Joel F. Potter of Essex county, N. Y., and they have three children; the youngest, Fannie,
married Joel W. Arnett of Chicago, Ill. Dr. Stevens's parents were Rev. C. C. Stevens and Lucinda Hoadley Stevens.
His maternal grandfather fought as a patriot all through the Revolutionary war and died from exposure during the
military expedition through the wilderness to Canada.
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