BIO: Blair STEVENS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 711.
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  BLAIR STEVENS, who has business interests at different points in Clearfield 
county, Pa., is postmaster at Kerrmoor and proprietor of a general store here 
which is conducted under the style of Blair Stevens, merchant.  He was born near 
Warrior's Mark, Huntingdon county, Pa., February 3, 1851, and is a son of Capt. 
Henry and Susanna (Beck) Stevens.
  Capt. Henry Stevens, who was captain of Co. E, 45th Pa. Vol. Inf., in the 
Civil war, had been a veteran of the Mexican war and was widely known.  Both he 
and wife died in Half Moon township, Center county, Pa.  They were parents of 
eleven children.
  Blair Stevens was educated in the public schools and at a select school in 
Center county, which was conducted under the supervision of the Society of 
Friends.  Before he engaged to any extent in business in his native state, he 
traveled through the West and visited Kansas and Texas as well as other 
sections.  He then followed farming in Center county for a time and then moved 
to Clearfield county for a time and located at Bigler, where he became 
postmaster and conducted a store until he came to Kerrmoor.  Here he bought the 
Kerrmoor Supply Company and business was at first carried on under the name of 
F. P. Stevens & Bro., later as Watts & Company, when the present proprietor 
became sole owner and since then has operated under his own name.  He is 
interested also in the McCartney Supply Company, at McCartney, Pa.  Mr. Stevens 
is a stockholder in the Lumber City Telephone Company and the Ferguson Township 
and La Jose Telephone Company.  In politics he is a Republican and has served as 
school director and for ten years was tax collector.
  On August 24, 1882, Mr. Stevens was married to Miss Mary Waite, who was born 
in Center county, Pa., November 5, 1858, and is a daughter of Henry and Anna 
(Eyer) Waite, and they have two children, Lawrence and Anna.  Lawrence Stevens 
is a resident of Wilkinsburg, Pa.  He married Elsie McCreery, a daughter of 
Robert McCreery, and they have one daughter, Mary Jane.  Anna is a trained nurse 
and is connected with the Allegheny General Hospital in North Pittsburg.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Stevens are members of the Presbyterian church.