De Wayne Stebbins

De Wayne Stebbins (April 5, 1835 – June 12, 1901) was an American newspaper publisher, banker, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate for the last seven years of his life, representing the northeast corner of the state. He also served one term in the State Assembly. During the American Civil War, he served as a Union Navy officer.

Biography

De Wayne Stebbins was born in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, in 1835, and came to the Wisconsin Territory with his parents in the fall of that same year, settling in what is now Racine, Wisconsin. He was educated there in the common schools and resided there until 1852, when he went east to attend the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He left the school in 1855 without graduating and returned to Wisconsin to accept a job with the American Fur Company. In 1856, he moved to the town of Ahnapee in Kewaunee County, in the region that later became the city of Algoma. but returned for another attempt two years later and won election to the 26th Wisconsin Legislature. He was re-elected in 1898. Stebbins was well liked by his fellow legislators, and treated as an elder statesman. At the close of the 1901 session of the Legislature, his colleagues presented him with a gold-headed ebony cane.

Personal life and legacy De Wayne Stebbins was one of at least seven children born to Amaziah Stebbins and his wife Amanda ( Anderson).

Stebbins married the widow Frances Newell ( Elliott) at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1862. They had no children.

Electoral history Wisconsin Assembly (1870)

Wisconsin Assembly (1872)

Wisconsin Senate (1894, 1898)