Burton E Stevenson

Affairs of State (Esprios Classics) Burton E Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio on 9 November 1872, and attended Princeton University 1890-1893. He married Elizabeth Shepard Butler (1869-1960) in 1895. He died 13 May 1962 and was buried in Chillicothe, Ohio. While at Princeton, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune.[ He was city editor for the Chillicothe Daily News (1894-1898), and worked for the Daily Advertiser (1898-1899). Stevenson became director of the Chillicothe public library in 1899 and held that position for 58 years.