Stevens, Welby

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Welby Stevens and his family owned a single story Bungalow up through the 1950s. Stevens was Mayor of Springfield in 1912 & 1913 and cast the deciding votes allowing Springfield to remain a "wet" town.

Eugene Daily Guard, August 17, 1911

Welby Stevens Now Mayor of Springfield

Guad Special Service.

Springfield, Or. Aug. 17- The city council has appointed W. Crson a member of the common council to fill the place of Welby Stevens who has been appointed as temporary Mayor to fill the unexpired term of Hon. W.M. Sutton who has resigned to go to Eastern Oregon where he will teach school.

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The prosperity in Springfield regardless of the mill fire is characterized by the fact that six new houses have been erected in the new addition since the destruction of the mill. This is in the Douglas gardens.

Daily Eugene Guard, January 23, 1912

Daily Eugene Guard (1912), January 23 newspaper clip.

Obituary

Welby Stevens, 73, former Lane County assessor, died Wednesday morning at his home in Springfield, following illness of several months.

He was a native of Lane county, a member of a pioneer family of the area. He was born January 6, 1872, on the Stevens donation land claim, the son of James A. and Emily Stevens. His grandfather, William Stevens, came from Missouri to settle here in 1847, crossing the McKenzie river of Christmas day of that year. The original homesite was where teh state game farm is located and part of the original grant still remains in the family after 98 years.

Stevens was mong the early students of the University of Oregon. He was married in 1898 toIda Goodale of Coburg, who bore a son and daughter. She died in 1916. He was married a second time in 1927, to Mrs. Grace Roberts of Springfield, who survives.

Mr. Stevens was active in community affairs, serving as mayor of Springfield from 1912 until 1920. He was president of the Commercial State bank in Springfield from 1924 until its closure in 1932. He had held the office of assessor for 10 years, from 1935 until 1945.

He is survived by his wife; his daughter, Mrs. Larry F. Clemenson, two grandchildren, PFC Ida Mast in the women's army corps stationed at Midlands, Tex. and Lawrence Moore, seaman 2-c, at Bainbridge, Md.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Phil Bartholomew Mortuary in Sprinfield. Rev. Claude O'Brien of- [ended]

Mayors of Springfield

Albert S. Walker (1885-1886) • S.I. Lee (1887) • Albert S. Walker (1888) • Simon Tuttle (1888-1889) • T.O. Maxwell (1889) • Albert S. Walker (1889-1890) • Albert Wheeler (1890-1892) • L. Gilstrap (1892-1893) • Albert Wheeler (1893) • J H Van Schoich (1893-1894) • Albert Wheeler (1894-1895) • Eugene C Martin (1896-1899) • John B. Innis (1900-1902) • H.A. Skeels (1902-1903) • R.A. Jayne (1903-1907) • Mark M. Peery (1907-1909) • W.M. Sutton (1909-1911) • Welby Stevens (1911-1913) • Charles L. Scott (1913-1915) • Elmer E. Morrison (1915-20) • Charles F. Eggiman (1921-1924) • George G. Bushman (1925-1929) • Charles O. Wilson (1929) • Wilfrid P. Tyson (1930-1934) • Ernest H. Turner (1934-1935) • W.A. Taylor (few minutes, November 27, 1935) • Ed Waltman (1935-1936) • William H. Pollard (1936-1940) • Charles Chandler (1940-1945) • Claude T. Gerlach (1945-1949) • B.P. Larson (1949-1953) • Edward C. Harms, Jr. (1953-1961) • B.J. Rogers (1961-1965) • David L. Scofield (1965-1967) • John E. McCulley (1967-1970) • William Morrissette • Maureen Maine • Sid Leiken