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Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. (Mercer Co).

DR. ANDREW TRIBBLE STEPHENSON was born February 23, 1821. His father, Joseph H. Stephenson, born in Orange County, Va., November 6i, 1771, was a contractor, came to Madison County, Ky., prior to the year 1800, and purchased five small farms. He was married December 23, 1806, to Miss Mary Tribble, a daughter of Rev. Andrew Tribble, one of the pioneer Baptist ministers of Kentucky. To their marriage were born twelve children, ten of whom lived to be grown, Paulina, Albert G., John C. (a veteran of the Mexican war), Sarah J. (wife of Thompson Arnold), Frances (wife of Thomas Bogie), Dr. Andrew T., Mary Ann (wife of J. K. Wilson), Martha M. (wife of Charles Cosby), Peter T. and Dr. Joe Thomas, all of whom are now dead, except Andrew T. and Mary Ann. Joseph Stephenson served in three campaigns against the Indians of Indiana, but always had an aversion to political life. He owned i600 acres of land in Madison County, and a number of slaves, and departed this life in 1837. Mrs. Stephenson, who during the early part of her life was a member of the Baptist Church, and later of the Christian Church, departed this life in 1872, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Thomas Stephenson, grandfather of Dr. Stephenson, was of English descent; he married a Miss Hawkins and acquired considerable property, consisting of land and slaves. He enlisted in the southern division of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary war, and when his term of enlistment expired, returned home, when the day afterward Col. Tarleton, during his raid in Virginia, stopped to forage on him. The Colonel soon recognized in him an American soldier, when he gave the order “put that man under guard,” whereupon Thomas Stephenson was put in chains. In his old age Thomas Stephenson was removed to Madison County by his son Joseph, and is buried there. He was the father of a very large family, among whom were James, Joseph, John, Nathan, Nicholas, Thomas, Catherine (Patton, Slaven), Betsy and Nancy (Long). Joseph H. Stephenson was a third cousin to Hon. Andrew Stephenson, the Speaker of Congress, and father of Hon. Owing to a schoolmaster’s teaching he changed the spelling of his name from “v” in Stephenson to “ph.” Dr. Stephenson was educated in the common schools of his native county of Madison, and began the study of medicine in 1845. In 1846-47 he attended his first course of lectures at Transylvania University at Lexington, Kky., graduating at the Medical School of Ohio in Cincinnati in 1848, attending in 1852 the hospitals and schools in Philadelphia and New York. He formed in 1847 a partnership with Dr. Pearce in Lancaster, Ky., which they continued two years, doing a large practice; then removed to Madison County; there he continued the practice until 1860, where he retired. On April 22, 1852, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Ann Smith, daughter of Benjamin and Judith (Smith) Smith of Madison County. Dr. and Mrs. Stephenson are the parents of five children: Mattie, Mary, William W., Julia (wife of Charles M. Kurts of New York City), and Elizabeth, all living. Dr. Stephenson, in 1860, removed to Washington County and bought 700 acres of land. By the war he lost twelve valuable slaves, and sold out in 1864 and removed to Mercer County, buying a farm of 452 acres. He has carried on agriculture and engaged part of the time in banking since, but at present is engaged only in the former. Dr. and Mrs. Stephenson and their children are members of the Christian Church; his son, W. W. Stephenson, is an attorney at the bar of Harrodsburg.