Letitia Stevenson

Letitia Green Stevenson was the wife of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I who served in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland.

Letitia Green was born on January 8, 1843. She was the daughter of Presbyterian Reverend Lewis W. Green , who was the head of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Mary Peachy Fry, a descendant of Joshua Fry. She was educated at the Walnut Hill Female Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and a school near Gramercy Park in New York City. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, she returned to Lexington. After her father died the next year, Green moved with her mother north to Chenoa, Illinois, where her sister Julia lived. There, she met and was courted by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, a graduate of Centre. The pair wed at Julias house on December 22, 1866.

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