Harry Robert Stevens (1914- ) received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1946. During his career he was an assistant, associate and full professor of United States history at the University of Cincinnati, Michigan State University, and Duke University, respectively. In 1976, he became an emeritus professor at Ohio University. His specialty is nineteenth century political, intellectual and frontier America. Many of his published scholarly articles appear in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. Other published works include A Study of Notable Ohioans (1937), Six twenty: Margaretta Hunt and the Baker-Hunt foundation (1942), Early Jackson Party in Ohio (1957).
From the guide to the Harry Stevens Papers, 1960s-1980s Gift through Herman H. Goldstine. (Ms Coll 99), 1960-1989, (American Philosophical Society)
