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Stevenson, Mary, 1902-1998

 Person

Biographical Note

Mary Pasco Conrad Stevenson was born on July 5, 1902 in Harrisonburg, VA the daughter of George Newton and Emily Pasco Conrad. She attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH 1922-1923 and graduated from Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, VA with an A.B. in 1924. She received her degree in library science from Columbia Library School in New York, NY circa 1925-1926. On August 22, 1929 she married James A. Stevenson. They had two children: Emily Pasco and James Conrad. Stevenson was assistant librarian at the Chatham Square Branch, New York Public Library 1926-1927. She became assistant librarian at the Clemson College Library in 1927 and was acting librarian in 1931. Stevenson was head of the cataloging department 1933-1938, 1944-1945, and 1949-1968 before becoming special collections librarian in 1968. She also taught library science in the summers of 1928 and 1939. Stevenson retired in 1968 and became a writer, illustrator, and researcher for non-profit organizations. She was a charter member and director of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in Pendleton Area. Stevenson was a member of the Society of American Archivists, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Genealogical Association, the American Association for State and Local History, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the South Carolina Historical Society. She died on October 22, 1998 in Anderson, SC. SOURCE http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/a/s/Robert-L-Pasco/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1468.html Social Security Death Index: http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=mary+pasco&gsln=stevenson&msbdy=1902&catBucket=rstp&uidh=fh5&_83004003-n_xcl=m&mssng0=james&mssns0=stevenson&pcat=34&h=59989767&recoff=11+12&db=ssdi&indiv=1&ml_rpos=48

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Mary Stevenson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates: 1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988

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