Rev. James H. Stevenson B.A. B.D. Ph.D. was born in 1860 in Peterborough Cty. He entered the ministry in 1883 and was subsequently stationed at Thessalon, Algoma, and at Fort Wiliam Ontario. In 1890 he graduated from the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal being with the Rev. W. Howitt, the first to receive the degree of B.D. from that institution. In 1891 he married Evelyn, daughter of Rev. Dr. Sutherland of Toronto.
1898 – Rev. James H. Stevenson (Meth) educationist, was born in Peterborough County, Ontario in 1860. He was educated at the Collegiate Institute there, where he obtained a second class certificate, and he taught school for some time.
He entered the ministry, 1883, and was subsequently stationed at Thessalon, Algoma, and at Fort William, Ontario, following which he graduated from McGill University B.A. with honours in Greek, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Hebrew in 1889.
In 1890 he graduated from the Wesleyan Theology College, Montreal receiving the degree of B.D. and being with the Rev. W. Howitt the first to receive the degree of B.D. from that institution.
After preaching in the Toronto Conference for three years, he was elected to the chair of Semitic Languages at Vanderbilt University, Nashville where he has been since 1893. (Ph. D. 1897)
He has studied at the Chicago University for one year, pursuing advanced course in Hebrew and Assyrian and other Semitic languages. Of the Assyrian language he has made a special study and the summer of 1896 was spent by him in the British Museum, copying and making a study of Assyrian and Babylonian contract tablets, having Phoenican “dockets” for a book shortly to appear.
He married in 1891, Evelyn, daughter of Rev. Dr. Sutherland in Toronto – Living Nashville, Tenn., USA
…from The Canadian Men and Women of the Time – A Hand-book of Canadian Biography 1898
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1890-1893 Toronto,
Attended the 1891 Guelph Conference held at Berlin (Kitchener) Ontario
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