George Washington Stevens

Place: Andover

Born: 1834

Death: 1897

Biography:

George Washington Stevens (October 1, 1834 – September 30, 1897) was an American civil engineer and architect practicing in Manchester, New Hampshire, during the nineteenth century. Stevens was born in Andover, Massachusetts, to Phinehas Stevens (1800-1864). Phinehas Stevens was a millwright and built the New Mills of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1841, among other mills in New England. Stevens is first listed in the Manchester directories in 1866, as a civil engineer. By 1879 he was also noted in the directories as an architect, though he was employed as an architect as early as the late 1860s. He lived in Manchester for about forty years, for eighteen of which he was employed as chief civil engineer for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. In 1892 Stevens left Manchester to join Lockwood, Greene & Company as superintendent of construction for their southern mills. He remained in this position for five years, living in the South. Stevens died in Cordova, Alabama, on September 30, 1897.