in Los Angeles. Children:
437. ELEANOR, b. Oct. 22, 1865.
438. PARK SARGENT, b. Feb. 1, 1870; accidentally killed April 23,
1886.
O. S. Frambes d. Jan. 13, 1906.
Sarah Elizabeth Frambes d. Aug. 12, 1906.
HAMILTON WILLIAM STEPHENS, (175), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born
in Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1839; graduate of the
University of the Pacific of 1865; reversed the order of his given names
to avoid confusion with his father's initials; became book-keeper for
the Santa Clara Valley Mill & Leather Company, with which firm he has
been, excepting four years, since 1867; married Sept. 27, 1869, Georgia
Anna Harlow; she was born May 26, 1849: was County Recorder and
Ex-Officio Auditor of Santa Clara County 1879-82; resides near San Jose,
California. Children:
439. ADELLA MAY, b. June 16, 1872; m. Chas. Wooster, July, 1902.
440. ELEANOR, b. Jan. 27, 1876; m. Dr. Francis Williams, May 26,
1903
441. ROY HAMILTON, b. Feb. 20, 1880.
442. GEORGE LENOX, b. Oct. 19, 1881.
COLUMBUS CECIL STEPHENS, (176), son of W. H. Stephens, (41), was born in
Hardin, Shelby County, Ohio; changed his name, dropping the Christopher
and adding the Cecil, in honor of his mother's family; accompanied his
parents to California in 1857; he returned to Ohio in 1859, via Panama
and New York, and entered the Delaware College; in 1861 he came overland
to California a second time, this time being alone most of the way and
afoot, walking over 1500 miles in seven weeks, and rejoining his
father's family at Ione, Amador County, Cal., graduated from the
University of the Pacific as Santa Clara in 1865; taught school two
years; admitted to practice law in the third district of California Jan.
15, 1867; married first Dec. 31, 1867, Flora Belle Williams, at Pine
Grove, Esmeralda County, Nevada, second daughter of Thomas Williams and
his wife Mary Blasdel, sister of Ex-Governor H. G. Blasdel, of Nevada.
She was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, Dec. 23, 1846, and died at San
Jose, Calif., July 14, 1881. He practiced law in San Jose from 1867
until May, 1881, when he moved to Tucson, Arizona. Was admitted to the
Supreme Court of California July 11, 1870; June 6, 1873, was admitted to
the United States District Court; July 12, to the United States Circuit
Court; May 20, 1881, to the Arizona District Court; Feb. 13, 1882, to
the Arizona Supreme Court; ---- 888, to the United States C
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