Stevenson was raised in the city of Bloomington, Illinois ; his family was a member of Bloomington's upper class and lived in one of the city's well-to-do neighborhoods.

" Following memorial services at the United Nations General Assembly Hall ( on July 19, 1965 ), and in Washington, D. C .; Springfield, Illinois ; and Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was interred in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois.

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The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

Stevenson was born on the family farm in Christian County, Kentucky.

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Additionally, the novel " A Family Possessed " by L. W. Stevenson is based on poltergeist activity experienced by a rural family living in Coles County in the 1980s.

Gosse and Robert Louis Stevenson first met while teenagers, and after 1879, when Stevenson came to London on occasion, he would stay with Gosse and his family.

Milner Library administers the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield University Archives, which houses selected official records from university departments and organizations, faculty and student publications and local history materials including a collection from the Adlai Stevenson family.

Many family names are derived from Stephen: the most common are Stephens / Stevens and Stephenson / Stevenson ( others include Stephen, Stephan, Staphan, Stefan, Stevin and Stever ).

The family currently resides in Stevenson Ranch, California.

The boy was the prime breadwinner for the family ; so Stevenson offered the now-vacant position to Alexander Scott, the younger brother of the drowned worker, who accepted.

His father, Thomas Stevenson the famous engineer and lighthouse builder took his family to stay in various locations in the town.

George's death leaves behind her mother ( Cynthia Stevenson ) and the rest of her family at a point when her relationships with them were on shaky ground.

During the 15 or so days Stevenson spent on Butaritari the islanders were engaged in a drunken spree that threatened the safety of Stevenson and his family.

Mary Stevenson (" Stevie ") Crye is a young widow with two children struggling to take care of her family as a freelance writer.

His mother was Lily Stevenson Strang from the family of Robert Louis Stevenson.

He is Chairman of the international Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy housed at the family home near Libertyville, Illinois.

Stevenson is authot of The Black Book which records American history and his politics as his family knew it over five generations, starting with his great great grandfather Jesse Fell who was Abraham Lincoln's patron.

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On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.

Scientists who have worked in this area include Raymond Moody, Susan Blackmore, Charles Tart, William James, Ian Stevenson, Michael Persinger and Pim van Lommel among others.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life.

Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life.

Even though Stevenson had twice been the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and retained a loyal following of liberals, his two landslide defeats to Republican Dwight Eisenhower led most party leaders and delegates to search for a " fresh face " who could win a national election.

Stevenson's failure to publicly launch his candidacy until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson — despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — was unable to break their allegiance to JFK.

Along with Stevenson was photographer William Henry Jackson who took the first photographs of the Teton Range.

He had five children by his first wife — Richard ( 1889 – 1968 ), Mair ( 1890 – 1907, who died during an appendectomy ), Olwen ( 1892 – 1990 ), Gwilym ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Megan ( 1902 – 1966 ) — and possibly one child by Stevenson, a girl named Jennifer ( 1929 – 2012 ).

They had three sons: Adlai Stevenson III, who would become a U. S. Senator ; Borden Stevenson, and John Fell Stevenson.

In 1949, Governor Stevenson testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to defend Alger Hiss, a former high ranking State Department official who was later found to be a Soviet spy.

Stevenson, who had agreed to design a bronze monument similar to that of Bernard Partidge, representing two allied soldiers: the Frenchman Poilu and the Englishman Tommy.

McLean Stevenson, who had done so once in September 1978 and twice near the end of the second year of this version, appeared in nearly all of Season Three ( 1981 – 1982 ) and became a regular from the eleventh taped week through the end of the run.

Well-known bylines who were laid off included Neil Milbert, Stevenson Swanson, Lisa Anderson, Phil Marty, Charles Storch, Courtney Flynn and Deborah Horan.

Hunnicutt, along with co-series ' lead, Harry Morgan, who replaced McLean Stevenson, also at the end of the third season.

" He also said of his mentor about joining the cast, replacing the unhappy McLean Stevenson, who left after 3 seasons of playing Lt.

After three seasons, Rogers grew weary of the Trapper character being treated as more of a sidekick than an equal to Hawkeye, and decided to leave the show ( as had McLean Stevenson, who had played Lt.

* The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum, in Stevenson, offers information about the geologic and human past in the Columbia River Gorge.

* Camp Arrowhead is located in the Gorge near Stevenson, Washington.

Stevenson is home to the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, which focuses on several tribes that were once located near the Columbia River.