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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Rev. Andrew Stevens

The Rev. Andrew Stevens , who was the first Presbyterian minister in Wallacetown, was born in 1811 in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied for the ministry of the Free. Church of Scotland. For some years after his ordination, he had charge of the parish of Bonhill, Dumbartonshire. Mr Stevens afterwards went to Canada, where he was in charge of the church at Paris, in the western district. Having returned to Scotland, he was stationed at West Calder, fifteen miles from Edinburgh, for a few years, and came to Port Chalmers in the ship “Cariboo,” in 1865. He was appointed shortly afterwards to the charge of Wallacetown, where he was engaged in active work for twenty years, but retired about five years before his death, which occurred in January, 1892. Mr Stevens married Miss Campbell, of New Brunswick, who died in 1887, leaving six sons and four daughters, all of whom are living.