This collection is made up of ten items, mostly correspondence, written by or about Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1914) and Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965).
Visual material includes one press photograph by Ed Walston of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and one woodblock print of Adlai E. Stevenson II by Jacob Steinhardt.
Please see the box and folder listing below for more details about each item in the collection.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson was born on October 23, 1835, in Christian County, Kentucky, to John Turner Stevenson (1808-1857) and Eliza Ann (Ewing) Stevenson (1809-1889). He ran a legal practice in Metamora, Illinois, served as a United States congressman, first assistant postmaster general, and vice president under President Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897. Stevenson married Letitia Green (1843-1913) in 1866 and they had four children: Lewis (1868-1929), Mary (1872-1895), Julia (1874-1966), and Letitia (1876-1970). Adlai E. Stevenson died on June 14, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California, to Lewis Green Stevenson (1868-1929) and Helen Louise (Davis) Stevenson (1869-1935). He was the grandson of Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965). Stevenson married Ellen Borden (1907-1972) in 1928 and they had three sons: Adlai Ewing III (b. 1930), Borden (b. 1932), and John Fell (b. 1936). He served as governor of Illinois, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and was a two-time presidential candidate. Stevenson died on July 14, 1965, in London, England, and is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington, Illinois.
