Bradford Newcomb Stevens (January 3, 1813 - November 10, 1885) was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born in Boscawen, New Hampshire

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, Stevens attended schools in New Hampshire

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 and at Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

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, Canada

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, and graduated from Dartmouth College

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, Hanover, New Hampshire

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, in 1835. He taught school six years in Hopkinsville, Kentucky

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, and New York City

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. He moved to Bureau County, Illinois

Bureau County, Illinois

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, in 1846, where he engaged in mercantile and agricultural

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 pursuits, and also worked as county surveyor

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. He served as mayor of Tiskilwa, Illinois

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Stevens was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-second

42nd United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873). He resumed mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He died in Tiskilwa, Illinois

Tiskilwa, Illinois

Tiskilwa is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 787 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area....

, November 10, 1885. He was interred in Mount Bloom Cemetery.