1848-1880

Adoniram Judson Stevens

Baptist Pastor     Canada          NS/NB

When James Stevens was 44 and his wife Grace was 42, they had a son in South Rawdon, Nova Scotia, Canada, and named him Adoniram Judson Stevens. This lad graduated in 1875 from Acadia College, NS, and became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Kentville, Kings County, NS, 1875-76.

Adoniram Judson Stevens married Mary Lovett on September 11, 1878, when he was 29 years old. He served for two years (1878-80) as minister at the Baptist Church in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, before his untimely death at age 31 on 15 March 1880.[1]

The following Baptist and Congregationalist ministers have been reared in King’s County, or have had an immediate King’s County ancestry:  Adoniram Judson Davidson….  Adoniram Judson Stevens….[2]  While in Canada we should mention that Historical Record Lists of 1883 identifies Adoniram Judson Denton as a professor at a high school in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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[1] Adoniram Judson Stevens, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/?name=Adoniram+Judson_Stevens&event=_canada_3243&birth=1848&name_x=1_1

[2] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King’s County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land (Salem, MA: Salem Press Company, 1910, p. 320.

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