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or hospitals. In the wake of the dreadful war soon followed sor- row, sickness, desolation and death. Though these terrible days can never be forgotten, we are thankful to an over-ruling provi- dence for a re-united country, and for the belief that the ties of kinship and friendship are perhaps stronger for having been so rudely sundered for a time." On the death of her father, Mrs. Stevenson came to Illinois and lived at Chenoa with her sister, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, whose 4 LETITIA GREEN STEVENSON husband was at that time a prominent citizen and farmer. She remained there until her wedding, on Dec. 20, 1866, to Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson, then a rising young lawyer of Metamora, the county seat of Woodford county. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson lived for the first year of their mar- ried life at Metamora, and then Mr. Stevenson, having formed a law partnership with his cousin, James S. Ewing, removed to Bloomington and began that career of professional life which was to be marked with distinction. A considerable number of the years of Mrs. Stevenson's life were spent in Washington, while her husband was occupying posi- tions of political responsibility, as an executive in the postoffice department and as vice-president. She also traveled abroad with him when he went to Europe as a member of the monetary com- mission. In these years, however, she always returned to her home city whenever the opportunity offered, and neither emi- nence nor widened responsibilities could remove from her affec- tions the ties which bound her to Bloomington.