A.E.B. Stephens, Congressman

STEPHENS, Ambrose Everett Burnside, (1862 - 1927)

STEPHENS, Ambrose Everett Burnside, a Representative from Ohio; born in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 3, 1862; attended the public schools and Chickering's Institute of Cincinnati; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in Cincinnati; captain in the Ohio National Guard 1901-1903 and colonel in 1910 and 1911; clerk of the Hamilton County Courts 1911-1917; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Commander-in-Chief 1915 / 1916, elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death; had been reelected to the Seventieth Congress; died in North Bend, Ohio, February 12, 1927; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery, Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio.

S. Kyle Stephens and his wife, Minerva Stephens, had three children: Hallie Erminie Stephens, born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, May 13, 1860, former superintendent of the North Bend schools, and an accomplished musician; A. E. B. Stephens (the only son), born June 3, 1862, in Crosby township, Hamilton county (a successful teacher in Hamilton and Butler counties. In 1891 he was elected mayor of Cleves, Ohio, and left the school room to accept the position of deputy treasurer of Hamilton county. He was president of the Miami Township B. and L. Company, a prominent member of the Sons of Veterans, a Mason and a K. of P.); and Maud Kyle, born in Cincinnati, May 27, 1864. These children were educated at the Cincinnati schools, A. E. B. finishing at the Chickering Academy. A. E. B. Stephens and his sister, Maud Kyle, only son and youngest daughter of S. Kyle and Minerva Stephens, married, respectively, Mary Carlin and James B. Carlin, eldest daughter and second son of Capt. James Carlin, of Cleves, Hamilton Co., Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. A. E. B. Stephens were born four children: James Kyle, Maude. Leslie M. (who died at the age of fourteen months), and Corinne.

Stephens Rd. in Elizabethtown, Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio is named after Mr. Stephens.

There is a plaque dedicated in Mr. Stephens memory located at the Village of North Bend municipal building.