Stebbins, Clarrissa Blandin, 1798-1890.

Clarrissa Blandin was born June 1, 1798 in Brookline, Vermont. On June 28, 1815 she married Rufus Stebbins (1789-1863) in Brookline. She died September 27, 1890 in Brookline.

Five of their children settled in Minnesota. Thomas Warren Stebbins (1816-1902) came to Minnesota in 1857 with his wife Esther and son Alonzo, and began farming in Winona County. In 1868 he moved to Rochester and worked as a carpenter. He remained there until his death in 1902. Adin William Stebbins (1823-1896) married Cornelia L. Bellows in 1851 and later settled (1864) in Utica, Minnesota, where he had a farm. Later he worked as a painter and operated (1865) a photography shop in St. Charles. He died in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Sarah Grey Stebbins (1824-1882) married Jesse Fletcher Butterfield in 1855, settled in Olmsted County, and died in Marion, Minnesota. Jonas Blandin Stebbins (1827-1897) married Maria Jayne Randall in 1861 and settled on a farm near Utica, Minnesota. Jothan Webster Stebbins (1841-1932) married Harriet (Hattie) Page in 1870. He was a Methodist minister and served various congregations in Olmsted, Houston, Fillmore, and Goodhue counties in southeastern Minnesota. He died in Northfield, Minnesota in 1932.

Biographical information taken from the papers and from Stebbins Genealogy (1904) pages 613-619; from the Book of Minnesotans (1907); from Minnesota Biographies Minnesota Historical Society, (1912); from History of Winona County (1883), page 936; from History of Olmsted County, Minnesota by Joseph A. Leonard, (1910), page 312; from the Minneapolis Journal, April 22, 1932, page. 9; and from the Rochester Post and Record, April 21, 1902.

From the guide to the Stebbins family letters., 1841-1896, 1940., (Minnesota Historical Society)